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17

May

Eezy Living: Now You Can Do More

You’ve done a lot, and now you can do more. Good things happen when you keep going.

If you stop now, you could lose valuable momentum. While you’re already making some progress, keep going.

The things you’ve done will enable you to do much more. Keep going, and build achievements on top of achievements.

If your efforts have resulted in failure, adjust those efforts and continue making them. If your efforts have resulted in success, expand on those efforts and work yourself toward even greater success.

There’s always more you can do, so do it. You’re capable of making an even bigger positive difference, so make it.

Persistence pays off, so make it pay for you. Now is when you can keep on going, and make life better than it’s ever been.

16

May

Eezy Living: Improved Attitude

No matter how good and positive your attitude may be, you can improve it. And when you improve your attitude, your attitude improves you.

To improve your attitude, you don’t have to deny reality. When you improve your attitude, it doesn’t mean things will be perfect.

What it means is that you’ll be more positive, more effective, and more solidly focused on the best possibilities. What it means is that you’ll live and act from a position of strength.

With an improved attitude, you can still clearly see all the problems. Yet instead of living in fear of them, you’ll choose to be bigger than those problems.

Right now, there’s a certain way you feel about life, and a certain way you expect life to be. Just think of what could happen if you made the choice to raise those expectations.

Whether you have a great attitude or a lousy one, decide today to improve it. For where your attitude goes, your life will quickly follow.

15

May

Eezy Living: Take The Time To Live

Life is so much more than just getting by. Take the time to truly and richly live.

It’s great to observe what happens in the world. It’s infinitely better to play an active, contributing role.

Sure, the easiest and most comfortable thing to do is to stay within the confines of your habitual routine. However, this is a new day and you deserve to get some new adventures out of it.

Your life is unique and precious, so live each moment with that in mind. Fill the day with meaningful substance, and fill the world with your own special joy.

Venture out, jump in, and be a part of this great and fascinating universe in which you find yourself. A very special part of your life, this day, is here right now, so fill it with all the goodness you can, right now.

Remind yourself how good you have it, and of how very much better it can be. On this day, in this place, as you are, with what you have, let go of the fears, worries and doubts, and richly, joyfully live.

14

May

Eezy Living: Okay With What Is

When you find it difficult to move forward, that’s okay. Allow it to be what it is, and allow yourself to do what you can.

When you feel disappointed, let it be okay. Feel the disappointment, and then you can choose to let it go and to move beyond it.

Don’t waste your energy denying what has happened or getting yourself upset about it. Instead, put your energy to positive use by finding, and working to fulfill, the best possibilities.

There’s no good reason to spend a lot of time complaining about what got you into a difficult situation. That merely keeps you stuck where you are.

The first step in moving forward is to stop looking backwards. Stop wishing that things had been different and start working to make things a whole lot better.

Be okay with what is, and be positive and creative in making good things from it. Remind yourself that each situation is a starting point from which you can work to create meaningful value.

13

May

Eezy Living: True Caring

Caring is more than a thought. True caring is a way of life.

When you care enough to learn, to commit, to discipline yourself, to make the effort and to do it right, you achieve excellence. When you care enough to desire the best for all of life, you experience life in a beautiful, joyful and fulfilling way.

The more you care about what you do, the better you become at doing it. The more you care about all that is, the more positive value you find in every situation.

If you don’t really, truly care about what you’re doing, you’re wasting precious moments of your life. When you do care, and act on what you care about, every day brings new, valuable opportunities.

Caring is not the easiest or most convenient choice, and can in fact be extremely difficult. Yet caring is the best choice, because it gives rich meaning to your life and to your efforts.

Live each day, approach every encounter and perform each task with real, authentic caring. Truly care about the way you live, and the way you live will bring great value and fulfillment.

10

May

Eezy Living: Yours To Choose

Achievement doesn’t care about what credentials you have or don’t have. It doesn’t care about your physical appearance or what groups you belong to.

Achievement doesn’t care how many times you’ve failed in the past. It doesn’t care about the mistakes you’ve made.

Achievement doesn’t care that you’ve said you’re going to do it a dozen or a hundred or a thousand times in the past and then failed each time to do so. Achievement is yours to have right now if you choose to work for it right now.

The past is over and doesn’t play a role in what you can do next. Your present situation does not have the power to hold you back unless you allow it.

Achievement is yours when you make the commitment to create it. Achievement is yours when you choose to set a truly meaningful and compelling goal in front of yourself and then do the work to reach it.

Achievement is yours to choose, no matter what. Choose achievement now, and get busy adding real richness to life.

09

May

Eezy Living: Inside & Out

What happens on the outside matters. Yet the way you choose to be on the inside, matters much, much more.

Outside factors do indeed make life challenging. Yet the inside factors are what allow those challenges on the outside to hold you back, or enable them to push you forward.

You can change the outside world for the better. To do so, you must continually keep a positive orientation on the inside.

What you think about life determines what you’re able to do with your life. The way you feel about life sets the stage for the way you actually live the moments of each day.

Sure, it might go against your intuition to be up when the world seems to be pulling you down. However, you most certainly can do it, and when you do, you can quickly change things for the better.

Make it your intention to be strong, positive, purposeful, compassionate, curious and creative on the inside. And you cannot help but make a significant and beautiful difference in the world around you.

08

May

Eezy Living: Be Good With Now

Right now, you have life and the time to live it. Fill that time, right now, with your very best attitude, your most sincere gratitude and your most effective actions.

Be good with now, and now will be very good with you. Be amazed and inspired at the value of what is, and that value will be yours to use for good and meaningful purposes.

You don’t have to waste your energy wishing for things to be different. You can do great and wonderful things with what actually, already is.

Be good with now, and see the possibilities. Be good with now, and transform life’s ever-present abundance into real fulfillment.

Replace worry with wonder, and with an eagerness to fully immerse yourself in the unmatched experience of being right where you are. Replace fear with love for the outstanding possibilities that are yours here and now.

Let go of the illusion that happiness is being withheld from you because you don’t have this thing or that. Open your eyes, open your whole being, and allow the immeasurable goodness that is yours to live, right now.

07

May

Eezy Living: The Most Fun

Those who get the most done are those who have the most fun. Those who work at the highest level of effectiveness are those who genuinely enjoy what they’re doing.

Having fun doesn’t mean being useless or irresponsible or lacking in focus. Having fun means having a positive, playful, curious and enthusiastic attitude about whatever you’re doing.

If you must get it done, then get it done while having fun. Put fun into it, and you’ll get much more out of it.

Fighting against yourself, against the effort, and against the situation does not achieve anything of value. Instead, allow yourself to enjoy the experience.

As long as you’re doing it anyway, make it fun. Truly enjoy and treasure your work, your life, your responsibilities and your circumstances, and make the very best of them.

There are countless ways to have fun when you make the choice to do it. So go ahead, have a whole lot of real, genuine fun, and you’ll get a whole lot more done.

06

May

Eezy Living: Into The Resistance

When outside resistance is pushing against you, what’s the best direction to go? Without question, the best direction is straight toward the resistance, because you’ll also be headed straight toward your goal.

The faster you’re going in the direction you have chosen to go, the more resistance you’ll encounter. Stick your hand out the car window when you’re driving at freeway speed, and you’ll feel a whole lot more resistance than you will when sitting still.

The challenges and setbacks will push against you, and yet they also confirm that you’re making meaningful effort and progress. Keep making that effort, heading into the resistance, and you’ll soon make it through.

Don’t resist the resistance or turn and run from it. Face the resistance, fully focused on your goal, and step by step, inch by inch, day by day, move positively forward.

When you’re encountering great resistance, you have the opportunity to create great value. With a solid and steady commitment, you can do whatever must be done.

On the other side of the resistance is the reward you seek. Get yourself through it, and get to the value you’ve chosen to create

03

May

Eezy Living: Positive Agenda

There’s much incompetence, injustice, negativity and outright evil in the world, but you don’t have to take it personally. Instead of letting it bring you down, let it inspire you to live at an even higher level.

It’s easy to get discouraged by difficulties and misfortune. Yet it is just as easy to become positively, purposefully determined when you make that choice.

There are all sorts of people who have all sorts of agendas. Your best choice is to live by your own, most positive and life-affirming agenda.

There’s no need to get into petty arguments about which way is best. Simply express your values and opinions by the way you live.

Adopt a positive agenda, and re-commit yourself to it each day. Let it guide your thoughts, feelings and actions, so you won’t be recklessly tossed around by the negativity of others.

Live with a positive agenda, not in order to feel superior but rather so you can give the best of yourself to all of life. Live with a positive agenda, and experience the fulfillment of a life that has sincere meaning and purpose.

02

May

Eezy Living: Give It A Shot

Instead of wondering whether or not you can do it, find out for sure. Give it a shot, and give it your best.

Rather than worrying about looking foolish, focus on being creative, productive and effective. Choose a plausible way forward, and then go for it.

You might succeed or you might fail. Either way, you’ll end up much better off then just doing nothing.

Value is built not by speculation or by wishing or wondering. Value is built by solid, committed action and persistence.

You have it in you to create much more great and meaningful value in this world. What a shame it would be to let that potential go unused.

So go ahead, let go of the complacency and leave the excuses behind. Give it a shot, and make it happen.

01

May

Eezy Living: Life Has Taught You

There is so very much that life has taught you. Now is when you can make good and valuable use of the lessons.

All the things you’ve done and experienced have given you great, practical, meaningful wisdom. Now you can live and act more wisely, and more effectively, than ever before.

Life has taught you well, yet it can often be frightening and uncomfortable to apply those lessons. Because if you truly pay heed to what life has taught, you’ll be compelled to move beyond what is comfortable and familiar.

Life has taught you that sticking with what doesn’t work just because it’s what you know, doesn’t work. Life has taught you that avoiding all risk ends up being the riskiest thing you can do.

It’s easy to make excuses and to avoid effort, but life has taught you that kind of approach doesn’t ever end very well. And life has taught you that when you do accept the risk, and take action, and live with integrity, there’s no limit to the great things you can accomplish.

Have the courage and the faith to step forward and live the way life has taught you. You know from experience what can make life great, so take the opportunity, right now, to put those valuable life lessons to good and meaningful use.

30

Apr

Eezy Living: Live What You Love

Live what you love, and love what you live. Anything less is a painful and frustrating waste of your precious time.

Don’t just be an image or a concept or an imitation. Be real, be authentic, pushed forward by rich, driving desires, dreams and goals.

Put all of your heart and your spirit into this day, into your work, into the big things and the little ones. Instead of complaining that you don’t have enough, celebrate the magnificent truth that you are enough.

You are enough, and there is no limit to how much joy you can send forth into each day. You are enough, and now is your opportunity to experience new and original fulfillment.

Live what you love, give the power of your attention and action to it, and you will come to love it even more. Love what you live, and each thing you do gives you a way to express real joy.

This task, this situation, this feeling, this moment is your priceless life. Love it unconditionally, live it fully, and experience it on the highest, most truthful and beautiful level.

26

Apr

Eezy Living: Most Positive Perspective

You can always choose your perspective. So choose to live with a positive, empowering one.

Instead of letting the bad news get you down, make your own good news. Instead of letting the difficulties hold you back, allow the possibilities to push you forward.

See the goodness, and make even more. See the opportunities, and transform them into valuable achievements.

Find beauty in even the most ordinary moments. Find true fulfillment by giving of the beauty that lives within you.

Put joy into every action. Add meaning and substance to every day.

Think, feel, act and live from the highest, most positive perspective. And experience the best that life can be.