Saturday, January 3, 2009

Happy New Year

Happy New Year to all!
I am so excited about the coming year. The past year has been all about change and this new year will be about embracing and capitalizing on those changes.
Everything in my life has finally settled down, just in time for the new year. In addition to looking forward to being a grandma in March, I have a new job, a new home, several new friends (in addition to all of my wonderful existing friends), endless possibilities and excitement to see it all coming together.

We are all in a great position to make a difference in the world that we all inhabit. Change is all around us and we should all be a part of determining the direction in which the changes head. In the coming year, I see many things happening that will make a difference in the way you and I see things. We will re-evaluate our place in society and learn that, though we are only a single person, our affect on those around us is profound. We must choose to help others, extend a smile, or a helping hand when someone needs it. Offering a hug, or small gesture to someone that could use some support, is more important now than ever.

The stress of a failing economy is all around us. Our leaders, friends, and the people in our communities need our support and love. America will endure, not because of where it is, but because of who lives here. The people of this great country, big and small, are the reason that it is the most envied country in the world. We have the most wealth, the ability to feed our hungry and heal our sick, the desire to help each other in times of need and to band together as family when tragedy strikes. We must all remember that it is community that holds us together. Neighbors helping neighbors, friends helping friends, family helping family. Love and respect for others and self is what is most needed in the coming year. Let's not judge others for what they have or do not have. Let's share with those who need it, and love those who don't know love.

Our actions over these next few months will definitely affect the next many years. Let us try every day - to make it the best day possible. Let go of the past, focus on today, look forward to tomorrow. If each of us uses our hearts, and decides to make every day the best day it can be, we will have more to look forward to tomorrow.

I wish you the best new year ever. I wish you love, happiness, joy and abundance. I also wish you the ability to accept these things as they are offered to you. Remember a gift is only a gift if you receive it. If you push it away you can not enjoy all of the wonderful things it brings you.
Be grateful and gracious, and accept your blessings because they are for you, and you only.

Much love,
Annette

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

A new day, a new President, new hope!

Good Morning all. I havent blogged lately, since I finished my book I have been very busy with the new move and all the stuff with it. I felt compelled to write today due to all of the buzz over the presidential election.

Whether you voted for the winner of the election or not, really doesn't matter. What matters now is that the person who did win needs your support and prayers. All we can do at this point is hope that our new president has the heart and soul to hang in there and make some good changes for our country as a whole. Lets all unite and think positive thoughts so that we get positive results. As you know the only way to promote and expect a positive outcome is to do just that, be positive and expect a good outcome!

So lets all band together and think good thoughts, expect the best and look forward to the next 4 years. If you are unhappy with the way things are going, get involved! Get involved in a positive manner, such as learning more about state and local government. Join local groups and help promote a positive attitude about the changes that are coming. Ultimately as I have said already find a way to have a positive impact on your community!

Much love!
Annette

PS the link to my e book is this http://www.advertiseonanything.com/e-book.htm

Sunday, June 8, 2008

It's funny that the obstacles that we face daily are sometimes things that we think we have no trouble with! God has a way of reminding us who we are and forcing us to "check in" with ourselves occasionally.
Have you ever noticed just when you think you have it all figured out, something comes up that challenges that very idea? I think it's because we are not supposed to get "too comfortable" where we are at because we are supposed to continue to grow and learn. If we get too comfortable, or too righteous we are reminded that we are not as safe in those ideas as we thought we were.
It's good for us to remember that we are all here to learn and help each other learn. AND... sometimes the way we learn is by experiencing something that is not exactly fun for us. It is the way we learn, unfortunately. Sometimes we must get un-comfortable in order for the lessons to stick.
So the next time something happens that pushes your buttons. ..... ask yourself what about this is upsetting me? Why does it matter so much? Is it my ideals or morals that are being challenged ? Is it my ego?
Maybe it's to help you realize something about yourself, or to put you in a position where you can help someone else with your experience.

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Life....PMS, Health

Man what a week already and its only Tuesday. I haven't been sleeping, so I am tired and crabby, and I feel like I have had three weeks of PMS this month! I started taking some herbal things that are supposed to straighten out your hormones and man if this is straight I must have been really bent! lol

I have more issues with my hormones than anyone I know. BUT I also know that most women who have hormone issues don't even know its hormones they just think they are insane! Been there done that, you may not be as crazy as you think.

I really didnt have a reason for posting today other than I consider it to be great therapy for me. AND since I feel like I want to choke the living daylights out of the next person I see, hey therapy is a good idea. I wish I knew why my hormones were like this, I have tried everything to straighten them out and it seems to just make matters worse. What's worse is they tell me to hang in here and it will get better.... when ??? When will it get better? When I am in jail for murder??? HAHA!!!!! Honestly I would never harm another person, but I hate feeling this way. I guess I will stop taking those herbal straightener outers because if I get any more bent out of shape I don't even know if I can be around any people. AND I NEED SOME SLEEP!
For the sake of it all! I hope this goes away soon!

Now that I got that out of my system... lets see what can we talk about today?? I wonder how many people litterally think they are nuts, because of things like this and have no idea how or why they are having these crazed emotions? I bet more people than you would think. With all of the hormones and preservatives that we feed ourselves every day, our bodies can not operate correctly. Our cells do not reproduce as healthy cells, they are being fed junk and there-fore are being created poorly. Thats why we don't heal as fast as we used to.
Then if you add the mental part to it. We all have programs running that we don't even know are turned on... like no one likes me, or I am fat, or I am ugly. How do you think those thoughts affect how your cells reproduce? Lemme See... You are telling yourself everyday all day long that you are fat.... and guess what you arent getting any skinnier..... hmmmmm you think you are creating new cells that think they are fat?
What about the idea that no one loves you? If you are creating new cells every minute of every day and they are being told no body loves me ... you think they are healthy cells?
I bet if we changed our out looks on alot of things we would be much healthier humans.

Thats the challenge for this week. Think healthy, thin, beautiful and loved. Everytime something else comes in just say... thanks for sharing, but I am healthy, thin, beautiful and loved. Or whatever words you prefer to say as long as they are positive!
Lets see how that goes!

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Relationships.....

This blog was a response to a question from another person on a forum. BUT I liked what I wrote so I decided to post it here too!

When we meet someone that fits into our "idea" of perfect for us whether it be a friend or more we impose our own feelings and beliefs on to that person. All of our past experiences, and our constantly running programs affect how we see, hear, feel about this person. All of what they say is filtered through our own processes and the results are as much true as they are imagined.
For example when someone says they love you... those words have different meanings to each of us. Some people have a poor reaction, because love in the past has been a bad experience for them, some have an over the top amazing reaction because LOVE is the one thing in the world they want more than anything.
How can a word change the way you feel? It is because of the way YOU process that word.
How does an action like a hug or a kiss change the way you feel? It is because of the way you relate to those actions that make all the difference. If you want them to mean something they do. If you don't want them to mean anything then they don't.
I have had a very busy schedule and actually experienced some of the best and most amazing lessons I have ever learned. The most important thing I have learned is that this wonderful experience we call life is just that. "An Experience. " We can choose to live it, enjoy it, learn from it and experience all of the wonderful and frightfully sad things that happen or we can get stuck in one emotion and stay there for long periods of time. It was not meant to be that way. Feelings are meant to be released, Love and release it, be angry and release it.
Releasing an emotion doesn't mean to act it out, it means to experience it feel it for what it is, all of it good or bad. Then let it go.
The basic key to all relationships is learning how to relate to ourselves. Each experience is there for us to learn to understand our own selves better. We relate to others as best we can in that moment, and learn more about our own spirits as we do these things. This journey is not about how much we love, or hate others or how many disappointments or relationships we master. Our journey is to master our own feelings, emotions, understandings and experiences by living them every MOMENT. Releasing them every MOMENT.
If you think about it when you release Love it makes you feel more loved and happy. BUT when you release fear.... doesn't it make you feel relaxed, more happy even loved?
When you release Hate do you feel Loved?? SO if everything we experience and let go brings us a feeling of gratitude and love why hang on to fear or hate? Is it because when you release those feelings you will be able to feel love and you are afraid to feel love?
In my opinion we are really all having relationships with ourselves. We make people into what we want to be. What we feel we need, or desire. When they don't or can't fit into that mold that we have made then the relationship becomes strained. My challenge to everyone is to first have that relationship with yourself, FALL IN LOVE WITH YOURSELF and when you can relate with yourself then you will be able to relate to others and find less disappointment.
But don't give up, relate to others, take in all of the lessons that are sent your way. Learn from them and appreciate the people who have had the courage to bring them to you. You must get out there and EXPERIENCE LIFE. The good, and the bad and let it go.

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Good Bad or Indifferent?

Why do people beat them selves up over things they do, decisions they make and words they say? Why do we all believe that if we aren't perfect that we will go to hell.
How does that fit in with the God I know and love?

God is all knowing, all forgiving and all around us. If we make a decision it was because he gave us the choice and ability to make that decision. He doesn't see the choices we make as wrong, only as a choice. Each decision is followed by another choice and decision to make.

A dear friend of mine wrote a book called Surrender, Allow and Trust, her name is Ajanel.
This beautiful book explains that God only wants us to proceed with daily life and surrender to him. He experiences life through us, and our decisions. So if he is in each and everything we say and do, then how can we be wrong, or bad, or feel the need to punish ourselves?
All we need to do is make the next best decision, and have faith in the process. We dwell on things that have no meaning. We suffer for things that have long passed.

I have made the decision to surrender, allow and trust just as Ajanels book shows us to do. Surrender each moment, in every moment, and allow God to help me make those new decisions with me, and guide me. When he sends me something that causes me pain I will know that he will also send me something that gives me great joy. If I am stuck on the pain, and won't let it go, then how am I going to see the joy he is sending my way?????
We must release our pain, our fear, our suffering and our past. We must move forward in this life in order to receive all the gifts that are in store for us. Sometimes it is hard to let those things go. They become a part of us, part of our daily lives. When you allow fear or anger to run your life you are missing out on the beauty of life.
If you think you are not good enough, or not beautiful, or not worthy, then you will not be able to receive the gifts that are yours for the taking. So let go of the pain, worry, fear, hate, anger, self-pity and surrender those things to God. He wanted to feel that experience, to learn from it and he chose you to help him feel those things. He didn't intend for you to keep them, live on them, hold them as if they were your lifeline... they are not.
Peace, love, honor, respect, charity and gratitude are also for you to feel and experience.
Love can not live where hate is. Fear can not live where Love is, respect can not live where self-pity lives. In order to feel all of the emotions and feelings we are capable of we must release them and trade them off for something else.

How do I do this you ask?
Start with gratitude.
I feel gratitude for.....
That kid in Kindergarten that bit me and made me cry because I learned pain from him
My first boy/girl friend that broke my heart because it taught me that I lived through it
My puppy that ran away when I was small because I learned that I am not in charge
My boss who degraded me, because it made me realize that i am strong
My husband/wife that loved me because it proves I am lovable
My husband/wife who divorced me because I learned what it was like to lose someone dear

I could go on all day, but the bottom line is... Each experience you have prepares you for the next one. If you get stuck in that one experience and never let it go...... you may miss out on the best one!
We are not here to suffer, we are here to live. Living means good and bad may happen, but we must continue to press on. To live, Love, experience Joy and Pain. Without one the other is not as much of an experience.

I hope you experience it all. Remember when one thing moves on something else takes its place, you do not have the ability to know what it will be, so why choose to be stuck where you are when something amazing could be just around the corner.

What if you don't see it because you are not ready to let go of the pain, or fear from the last experience? It really doesn't matter when you let go, because something will be waiting for you. BUT why wait?

Sunday, May 25, 2008

Love is?

What if.... everything you ever thought you knew about love was proved to be wrong?
Many people have the ability to love and do a fantastic job of having long term relationships with other people, friends and spouses.
Others have issues with this because their idea of what love is can be skewed because of their beliefs, and past experiences. For Example... I used to jump in to relationships easily because I have a desire to be loved, and I was always in such a hurry to find love I accepted anything that LOOKED LIKE LOVE and adapted to it.

I have had people tell me that they got married after 3 months. I can see how they felt like they were in love at that point in a relationship, but I can't imagine how complex their relationship may have been when they really started to get to know each other better. I am sure there are some people that did this and are still very happy, but I can't imagine that it works all the time.

If you think about the way you love your family and friends for a minute. Your parents and your siblings for example. You love them unconditionally because they have been a part of your life for a long time, and you know them very well. Your friends too! In order to get to the point where you love your friends takes time.
Now compare those feelings to the people you HAVE FALLEN in love with. In the beginning its all hot, and exciting and euphoric. That is not the love part of the relationship. That is the Lust, and excitement of finding a new someone that you are feeling. Some people get so addicted to this feeling that when it wears off they think that something has changed and want to go find someone else to make them feel that way again. I have been that way in my past.
Even though I am totally aware that I am not perfect and I don't have all the answers, I think I have learned to recognize this pattern and avoid falling into that pattern.

I enjoy that fun part of the relationship very much, but it's not enough for me any more. I want the real thing, the whole enchilada. When I fall in love with someone I am looking for the long term, deep, love that comes with understanding and caring about someone, because of who they are and how they make you feel. This isn't the love that happens in the first part of a relationship, this is the love that settles in and sticks. It's a love that makes you feel safe and secure. Its the kind of love that makes you smile when your lover does something really silly and you just love them more because of who they are. Love like this takes time to grow. Sometimes it even sneaks up on you when you spend a lot of time with someone, and have no intentions of creating something and one day you wake up and think, I have feelings for this person. Its the kind of love that comes from really getting to know someone, and spending hours talking and relating and learning about yourself and the other person. Its a warm, and happy feeling, not a pulsating, emotional roller coaster like in the beginning of a new relationship.

Its also a kind of love that you can not achieve unless you truly love yourself. You can not understand other people and give them a part of you if you don't have the ability to love yourself. If you don't love yourself, or if your partner doesn't love them-self, your relationship will find issues like jealousy, fear, pettiness and selfishness.

So when you find yourself feeling overly excited take your time, wait it out see how it really progresses. AND when you start to feel the shift into the slower more relaxed love don't freak out. Weigh it out and see if its really what you have been looking for all along, and just didn't realize what the real and true love is or feels like.