Your Uncommon Life

We all have the potential to rise up above common and mediocre and be uncommon. We have the potential to use our talents, skills, gifts, and passion to make a difference and be a beneficial presence in this world. And in order to rise above being common, we may need to step out of our comfort zone and be willing to play big as God.

There may be people around you (or even inside your

head) that might say negative things about your skills, your past, your potential, or even your future. There may be people around you (or even inside you head) that try and convince you to play it safe, follow the rules, and accept your fate. Living an uncommon life means we must move beyond those negative ideas and walk through a spiritual doorway to our greater vision.

We must remember we are not bound to our problems; in fact, we are bound to our good. We are making tomorrow's dreams come true by the work we are doing today. Let's stand up and agree to be what we were created to be: a powerful creator,a person of possibilities, and someone living an uncommon life!

Remember, you are uncommonly good and uncommonly God!

Wisdom from Ernest Holmes
Prayer leads one to a place of mental acceptance but prayer without faith is ineffectual. Faith elevates the prayer to conviction, and acceptance. Where does God come in? God already is in and does not have to come from anywhere to anywhere. God is the entire process, both in our thought as individuals and in the universal as answering our individual thought.      ~ Can We Talk to God?

About Janet

Janet Kingsley, founder and spiritual leader of Center for Positive Living Sedona has been opening hearts and minds to infinite possibilities since 1998. Through articles, classes, and coaching she opens the heart, intrigues the mind, and feeds the spirit.

Janet is also a "Possibility Coach" and master energy healer. Focusing on helping people love their body, love themselves, and love their life, she is creating a movement and changing the world...one person at a time.

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There is a story of two construction workers who ate lunch together.  Every day one of them would open his lunch box and exclaim in disgust, "Peanut butter and jelly again!" Finally the other inquired, "Why don't you ask your wife to fix something else?" "Oh I'm not married," was the reply. "I make my own lunch."

And that is often how it is with us; we wantsomething new and fresh. We yearn to express our inner genius in ways that will be meaningful, but when it comes to actually making a change, we seem stuck with the familiar. One of the main reasons many of us are not living the life we love is the propensity we have for limiting ourselves.

The second reason is the fear we have of making a mistake. I was thinking about this the other day and wondering why making a mistake is such a big issue for so many of us. It isn't as if we haven't made mistakes in the past. And we are very likely to make mistakes in the future, and yet, we want to stay away from making any, even if it means forward movement. 

 

Somehow our mistakes reinforce the idea that we are not lovable, not worthy, or not good enough. It ties in with our beliefs that we are flawed or that there is something wrong with us. There are very few of us who look at the idea of making a mistake and simply another step on our journey or proof of living life fully. Let's rethink that idea and remember our mistakes do not define us.

  

Dare to dream and soar into your future. Dare to be a better person than you
have ever been. Push past limitations and past the voice within and watch what happens!

Wisdom from Ernest Holmes

Whatever the mistakes of yesterday may have been, today is a new creation.  Turning from the errors of the past and no longer carrying with us the sorrows and mistakes of yesterday, today we may enter into a new experience...We should refuse to carry the negations of yesterday into the positive atmosphere of today, for today the world is made new in our experience. 

      ~ Richer Living

About Janet

Janet Kingsley, founder and spiritual leader of Center for Positive Living Sedona has been opening hearts and minds to infinite possibilities since 1998. Through articles, classes, and coaching she opens the heart, intrigues the mind, and feeds the spirit.

Janet is also a "Possibility Coach" and master energy healer. Focusing on helping people love their body, love themselves, and love their life, she is creating a movement and changing the world...one person at a time.

Find out more at www.janetkingsley.com

Making the Road Better

Once upon a time, a king had a great highway built for the people who lived in his kingdom. After it was completed, but before it was opened to the public, the king decided to have a contest. He invited as many of his subjects as desired to participate. The challenge was to see who could travel the highway the best, and the winner was to receive a box of gold.

On the day of the contest, all the people came. Some

of them had fine chariots, some had fine clothing and fancy food to make the trip a luxurious journey. Some wore their sturdiest shoes and ran along the highway to show their skill. All day they traveled the highway, and each one, when he arrived at the end, complained to the king about a large pile of rocks and debris that had been left almost blocking the road at one point, and that got in their way and hindered their travel.

At the end of the day, a lone traveler crossed the finish line warily and walked over to the king. He was tired and dirty, but he addressed the king with great respect and handed him a small chest of gold. He said, "I stopped along the way to clear a pile of rocks and debris that was blocking the road. This chest of gold was under it all. Please have it returned to its rightful owner."

The king replied, "You are the rightful owner. You've earned this gold, for you won my contest. He who travels the road best is he who makes the road better for those who will follow."

How do we show up in this world and make the road better for those who follow? How do we show up as a beneficial presence? How do we remember that who we are makes a difference? What difference have we been wanting to make but have hesitated to begin?

What steps are right in front of you to take? What is yours to do? If you do your thing, then God can do Its thing, too.

Wisdom from Ernest Holmes

We should come to see that, as individuals, we have not really thought ourselves into limitation. What has happened is that the belief in limitation has operated through us, and our agreement with this belief has tended to vitalize it.

      ~ Living the Science of Mind

About Janet

Janet Kingsley, founder and spiritual leader of Center for Positive Living Sedona has been opening hearts and minds to infinite possibilities since 1998. Through articles, classes, and coaching she opens the heart, intrigues the mind, and feeds the spirit.

Janet is also a "Possibility Coach" and master energy healer. Focusing on helping people love their body, love themselves, and love their life, she is creating a movement and changing the world...one person at a time.

Find out more at www.janetkingsley.com

Stand Up and Make a Difference

We all stand for something. What do you stand for? Do you stand for love? Do you stand for authenticity? Do you stand for joy? Do you stand for freedom? Do you stand for abundance? Do you "live out loud" or do you settle for the status quo and take up residence in the comfort zone? How are you making a difference? How are you loving yourself?

My commitment this year is to help us remember theTruth of who we are on a daily basis, and that means we are God in form; totally lovable and worthwhile in every way. And yet, we don't necessarily identify ourselves with that idea. Instead, we tend to focus on our mistakes, our flaws, what we did wrong, what we failed to do, how we mis-spoke, or how someone hurt our feelings. 

So, if we want to stand for something and make a difference, we need to put down ideas that tell us we don't matter or that our mistakes have the power to keep us small.  Who we are makes a difference. We don't need to go in search of something greater; the greater is already who we are. We only need to be courageous enough to be ourselves. 

Loving yourself no matter what is the cornerstone to loving God and a really good foundation of making a difference.

Wisdom from Ernest Holmes

But it is only as you let go of the lesser that you can take hold of the greater, only as you drop confusion that you can entertain peace, only as you transcend doubt and fear that you can be lifted up to the hill tops of the inner Life. 

About Janet

Janet Kingsley, founder and spiritual leader of Center for Positive Living Sedona has been opening hearts and minds to infinite possibilities since 1998. Through articles, classes, and coaching she opens the heart, intrigues the mind, and feeds the spirit.

Find out more at www.janetkingsley.com