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Here is a video on confidence.  Here are my favorite take-aways:

- Confidence is a feeling – it can conquer fears.  What would it be like if you won $10 million dollars?  Would you confidence increase?  Would it enable you to give more to people? If so, try to go out today and pretend you have that $10 million.

Here is a video from Byron Katie discussing our need for money.

Some highlights include:

What happens when you ask yourself you need more money, and you don’t have it?  You feel stressed, fear, frustrated.  Notice how you tense up.

No one has more money than they have.

There are two ways to live your life: 1) Be stressed out or 2) Do not have stress.

You can say…I do not need more money.   Why is this true?  It is because you are living okay right now.

Imagine being evicted and now sitting on your neighbors lawn.  You no longer have a car.  Now, you can ask do you need more money at this moment?  You are still okay sitting on the lawn.  The sky is blue.  You can be grateful that you no longer have to pay the mortgage.  Would you notice the flowers, the sky, the ground around you before?

With or without money, we should be happy and have peace.  Peace does not change whether you have money or not.   What is real?  Katie Byron says that our belief system that we need money is not real.  It is all about our attitudes.

GRATITUDE… I have been on twitter and facebook today and there are so many people sharing their gratitude for the people in their lives and the life that they are leading.

Gratitude is the first place to start when you want to shift something; to be grateful for where you are at — in this moment. While some many have more materially and others less, this is not what defines us. I do believe in abundance for all. For me the greatest thing to be grateful for is my free will and the right to choose the life that I want FOR ME: for myself, my family, my friends and more — all the relationships I have in my life. I know that as I learn to unconditionally love and honour me, this is mirrored in all my relationships: personal, professional, financial, health and wellness, abundance and more.

I recently had a discussion with a new friend, Vivek, and he is originally from India, from a family with very little. His path has been blessed and he was able to leave, have his education paid for from someone he has never met (done anonymously), was able to do his MBA and now he is ready to give back.

We debated about the fact that 2% (I say 1%) of the world’s population controls all the finances while the other 98/99% do not. He wants to focus shifting the paradigms of the 2%. I say it is both – The 1% need to realize that they no longer need to hoard their abundance, especially financial, and that there is enough for all. The 99% of the population need to realize that they are deserving in receiving this abundance. We all deserve food on our “table”, clean healthy water to drink and a “roof” over our head.

It still begins with gratitude…. there is so much to be grateful for — find that and cherish it. Then let us all work together, brother and sister and empower one another to be our greatest self. As we begin to find peace within, we will change the world, one person at a time.

Enjoy today!

All my love,

Sandra

I was finishing up my workshop on Empowerment Tools that can be used and brought into every day life when the young woman next to me turned to her friend and said, “hey, what can you see me doing with the rest of my life?”. She then said, if she cannot find a job she will go back to school for nursing and if she cannot find a job in Toronto, Canada she will consider going to the US.

I wanted to reach over and just grab her — HOW DARE YOU GIVE AWAY THE GREATEST GIFT WE HAVE – FREE WILL TO CHOOSE – TO BE WHO WE WANT. Talk about giving away your power.

This is YOUR life and YOU NEED TO FIND WHAT FEELS RIGHT FOR YOU. You can be the main participant in your life or an observor. Which one do you choose??

Some food for thought.

All my best,

Sandra

WHAT  HAPPENS IN  HEAVEN
This  is one of the nicest e-mails I have seen and is  so true:

I dreamt that I went to Heaven and an  angel was showing me around. We walked  side-by-side inside a large workroom filled with  angels.. My angel guide stopped in front of the first section and said,   ’This is the Receiving Section. Here, all  petitions to God said in prayer are received. ‘

I looked around in this area, and it was  terribly busy with so many angels sorting out  petitions written on voluminous paper sheets and  scraps from people all over the world.

Then we moved on down a long corridor  until we reached the second section.
The  angel then said to me, ‘ This is the Packaging  and Delivery Section. Here, the graces and  blessings the people asked for are processed and  delivered to the living persons who asked for  them. ‘ I noticed again how busy it was there.  There were many angels working hard at that  station, since so many blessings had been  requested and were being packaged for delivery  to Earth.

Finally at the farthest end of  the long corridor we stopped at the door of a  very small station. To my great surprise, only  one angel was seated there, idly doing nothing.   ’This is the Acknowledgment Section,’ my  angel friend quietly admitted to me. He seemed  embarrassed.  ’How is it that there is no  work going on here?’ I asked.

‘So sad,’  the angel sighed. ‘After people receive the  blessings that they asked for, very few send  back acknowledgments.’

‘How does one  acknowledge God’s blessings? ‘ I asked.

‘Simple,’ the angel answered. Just say,  ’ Thank you, Lord. ‘

‘What blessings  should they acknowledge? ‘ I asked.

‘If  you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on  your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep  you are richer than 75% of this world. If you  have money in the bank, in your wallet, and  spare change in a dish, you are among the top 8%  of the world ’s wealthy.’

‘And if  you get this on your own computer, you are part  of the 1% in the world who has that opportunity.  ’

‘If you woke up this morning with more  health than illness … You are more blessed  than the many who will not even survive this  day.’

‘If you have never  experienced the fear in battle, the loneliness  of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the  pangs of starvation .. You are ahead of 700  million people in the world. ‘

‘If you  can attend a place of worship without the fear  of harassment, arrest, torture or death you are  envied by, and more blessed than, three billion  people in the world.. ‘

‘If your parents  are still alive and still married …you are  very rare. ‘

‘If you can hold your head  up and smile, you are not the norm,    you’re unique to all those in doubt and despair.  ’
Ok, what now? How can I start?

If  you can read this message, you just received a  double blessing in that someone was thinking of  you as very special and you are more blessed  than over two billion people in the world who  cannot read at all.
Have a good day,  count your blessings, and if you care to,  pass this along to remind everyone else how  blessed we all are.

ATTN: Acknowledge  Dept.
‘Thank you  Lord, for giving me the ability to share this  message and for giving me so many wonderful  people with whom to share it. ‘

If you  have read this far, and are thankful for all  that you have been blessed with, how can you  not share it with others????

This is an interesting movie about being grateful for whatever events happen.

Here are some of my favorite quotes are:

Any day I’m vertical is a good day….that’s what I always say

I give thanks for my health…

If you ask me, “How great are you?”  I’ll answer “GREAT,” because in saying so I make it so.  And I give thanks I can choose my attitude…

When life gives me dark clouds and rain, I appreciate the moisture that gives a soft curl to my hair

When life gives me sunshine, I gratefully turn my face up to feel its warmth on my cheeks

When life brings fog, I hug my sweater around me and give thanks for the cool shroud of mystery that makes the familiar seem different yet intriguing….

This recent performance by Daryl Markham on the X Factor TV Show was quite powerful.  He had missed the previous X Factor audition because he was the best man at his brother’s wedding.  Six months later, his brother died.  Despite all the odds stacked against him, he succeeded.  It is very easy to give up because of an unexpected setback, but Mr. Markham chose not to.

This article written by Dr. Julian Whitaker is about how sugar and honey could be better than regular antibiotics to treat wounds.  Apparently, both sugar and honey are also beneficial for burns as well.

Here are the steps, according to the website, to treat a wound:

Protocol for Treating Wounds With Sugar
Sugar or honey dressing may be used to treat any kind of open wound or burn. (We use sugar at the clinic because it’s less messy.) It will not work on abscesses or pustules that are covered with skin. Do not use on a bleeding wound as sugar promotes bleeding.

1)Unravel a 4″ x 4″ piece of gauze into a long strip and coat it with Vaseline. Place it around the outside edges of the wound, like a donut.
2)Cover the wound with 1/4-inch of sugar. (The Vaseline “donut” will keep it in place.)
3)Place a 4″ x 4″ sponge on top of the wound. Bandage it firmly but not too snugly with a cling dressing.
4)Change the dressing every one or two days. Remove, irrigate with water, saline, or hydrogen peroxide, pat dry, and repeat steps 1-3.

Check out this fantastic video of a 9 year old guitar prodigy… Check out the solo at around 3:50.

MY SON ASKED ME TO STEP IN, CALL THE MOTHER OF A BOY HE WAS HAVING ISSUES WITH… To be honest I really do not like to step in with my children as I am learning that we need to stop enabling and begin empowering our children even from a young age. That does not mean that you stop guiding, it just means that our children will have their own experiences and they will learn from them and gather their own awarenesses.

WHAT WAS I GOING TO SAY TO THIS WOMAN? When I did call I really sat down to think about how I was going to approach this without sounding like the typical interferring mother. What I love about this woman is that by profession she is a socail worker in the school board system and she gets it. I told her the situation as I knew it, I asked her what suggestions she had in handling this, I told her it may be because of my own son’s behaviour – I do not know. We left if that she will talk to her son and get back to me.

THE NEXT DAY… I get a call first thing in the morning and she tells me that she did speak to her son. We establish that the boys do have their own rules – whether they made sense to us or not – and that he did not realize that my son felt this way – excluded.

What I really loved about her is that she presented it by reversing the roles- how will you feel if… and the son admitted he will feel sad. It is such a pleasure to work with another human being in this fashion. There were lessons on both sides for I told my son that if he chooses to play than he must agree to the rules that everyone agrees to and second if he does have an issue than he needs to speak his truth and let others know.

This experience left me with such a great feeling that we are on the better path of humanity. We need to learn to collaborate and stop blaming and pointing fingers and fighting to be RIGHT. When we do the results are incredible.

All my love,

Sandra

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