Gratitude: Begin your day with thoughts and feelings of gratitude. It is very important to start each day with the feeling of gratitude and appreciation. Close your eyes and think of the things that YOU are grateful. Begin to think and feel appreciation and gratitude for the gift of life and health.
As YOU go through your day, find as many reasons as YOU can to be to grateful.
Forgiveness: Begin today with the thoughts of forgiveness. It is important to start your new day with positive thoughts and with forgiveness. To create balance in your life, your must begin to leave yesterday fully in the past where it belongs. Start each day with forgiving yourself for all hurtful words, actions, activities or behaviors. Today, find one thing to forgive yourself for. Today, continue to practice letting go of things, events and individuals from your past.
Begin to practice forgiveness everyday.
What YOU do have is today, yesterday is gone and tomorrow is not promised. Begin to live each moment of your life, fully in the present.
Quiet Reflection: Sit quietly and feel the feelings of gratitude and forgiveness. Feel gratitude for your life, your sight, your hearing, your heart, your lungs and for waking with a sound mind.
Think and feel the feelings of forgivness. Begin to feel the feeling of peacefulness and of letting go. Allow this feeling to move throughout your body. While YOU are releasing, begin to breathe, long, slow breaths.
Practice quiet reflection for a few moments today and each day.
It is important to think positive thoughts each day, because your thoughts create your reality.
Personal Development: Review the Empowerment Pledge
Today, commit to learning the first and second lines:
I will work on myself,
I will work on my issues, concerns, hurts and pains.
Make a commitment to reviewing the personal pledge daily.
Reviewing the pledge daily will help YOU to consistently focus on, work on and develop YOU.
Personal Development Goal: Today, practice putting thought energy, and effort into developing your ability to forgive.
Keep this thought in your mind as YOU go through your day today.
I AM Statements: Review your list of I AM Statements. Today, continue to direct your time, attention and thoughts toward the thing(s) that YOU know YOU need towork on and change.
I AM Working on myself, I AM Peaceful, I AM Kind, I AM Disciplined, I AM Focused, I AM Healthy, I AM Positive, I AM Great, I AM Special, I AM Unique, I AM Forgiving, I AM Loving, I AM Trusting, I AM Beautiful and I AM A Gift.
Feel free to utilize this list, add to it or create your own.
Review: Today, monitor your thoughts, feelings, moods and emotions. Think and feel as if YOU have already accomplished your goal. Make the thoughts and feelings of success and accomplishment a part of YOU. Carry this positive thought/feeling with YOU throughout your day. Reflect on all of the unique, talents and gifts that YOU possess. Make I AM Trusting, your dominant thought/feeling for today. Remind yourself to think and feel thoughts of Trust all day today.
The Way YOU Feel: Direct your thoughts toward your feelings, moods and emotions. Discover what YOU feeling while YOU are feeling it. If YOU experience a shift in your feelings, mood or emotion, quickly acknowledge that YOU are feeling the feeling, mood or emotion. Utilize your ability to control your mood, by redirecting yourself with positive peaceful thoughts. Begin to practice monitoring and controlling your feelings, moods and emotions throughout the day.
Make the way YOU feel important today and everyday. Mood is defined as:
- A temporary state of mind or feeling.
Today's Activity: Today, practice forgiveness. Direct your thoughts toward finding forgiveness within. Select a behavior from the past that YOU would like to forgive yourself for. Find a time and space where YOU can sit quietly alone. Begin to relax by breathing slowly and deeply. Whenever you are ready, lovingly and gently ask yourself for forgivness. Complete this exercise with thoughts of loving yourself more, do this by repeating the thought "I love myself." Repeat this thought as much as YOU can today.
Quiet Time: Take a few moments for quiet time today. Allow yourself to experience some form of quiet, calm silence. Create a space where there is no noise and YOU can just relax. Today, think thoughts of peacefulness and tranquility. Take a few long deep breaths, let them out slowly and just relax!
Focus: Today, focus on what YOU are feeling. Focus your attention on controlling and directing the way YOU feel. Continue to focus your thoughts and feelings on positive things. Focus on loving and caring for yourself more. Focus on thoughts and feelings of gratitude and forgiveness.
Focus on today, each day, everyday, one day at at time.