take the BACK seat.

We are always so eager to jump in the driver seat. To step in and take over, take control. To make sure we know which direction we're going in and see every step along the way. We control the way the wheel turns, the temperature in the vehicle, the scenery we take in and the roads we travel. Our anxiety peaks when we cannot control the traffic or a misguided direction. We almost start to panic when that sense of control is lost - we get angry at others in their vehicles watching their every move and shouting at them when their moves do not align with our expectations.

Get out of the driver seat - haven't you realized by now that we are NOT in control of most things that happen in this life of ours. Take a back seat, roll down the window and take in the fresh air. Look around and ask that the music be turned up so that you can sing along with the tunes. Let the driving force of your vehicle be trust and faith in a greater power, knowing that you will get to where you need to be safe and sound.

Sit back, buckle up and enjoy the ride...take a back seat and know that you will get to your destination safe and sound.

Like water on a duck's back...

Have you ever seen water on a duck's back? No matter how submerged their bodies become, water seems to collect into droplets behind their necks and eventually rolls down their feathers back into the water. If you watch, their feathers always seem, or appear to be dry - if they were to soak up all of the water that they float along in, they might not float so much and eventually begin to sink.

Think of stress, anxiety, other people's opinions or the things they say as the water around us - then think of yourself as the duck. If we were to soak up and internalize everything negative that came across our path, we'd eventually start to drown, we'd sink and find it hard to breath, the water, rising above us in the form of all of these outside circumstances. It pulls us down, depresses us, holds us back, chocking and eventually drowning us - we are pulled DOWN by these things. We need to think of our body in the same way of our friends the duck, buoyant, and free, floating along letting everything just roll off our backs and in to the water.

Float along, let it roll off your back today and don't let anything soak in to weigh you down...Something becomes to much...use your wings and fly to another pond...

Put it out there -

What do you want to do in five years? What do you want to do in one year? What do you wish you had more of in your life? What do you wish you had less of? What do you want most? What do you want least? What will it look like? What will it feel like? Whatever, whenever, however IT is...keep putting it out there.

In order achieve or obtain what we want most in our lives, no matter what it is, we have to project those wishes into the universe. It may sound strange, but putting it out there really ensures something will come you way. The problem that most of us face is waiting, timing, wanting something at that very moment when it's not ready yet. The best thing we can do is visualize what we want most, put it into the university and wait. What we want most will come our way eventually and we will have the opportunity to enjoy.

Put it out there, believe in it, visualize, hope and pay....then wait.