Are You Following the Crowd or Your Heart?

How often do you find yourself doing something, thinking to yourself 'I hate having to do this'?! We all do it all the time, and most of us feel like there's no choice in the matter. No matter how much you may hate your job, if you don't do it, you don't get paid, and you can't make a living. This is the way many people end up 'suffering in silence', spending their whole lives doing things they hate, simply because of this 'have to' mentality. Is there a way out? What's the solution?

When talking about doing what you love, most people respond by saying, "Well, I wish I could make a living doing what I love, but if I did that, how would I pay the bills? I can't take such a risk." There will naturally be an element of risk. I mean, there's no guarantee that you will start making a living doing your dream job right away, but there are certainly ways of reducing that risk, and making the transition from your current life to your dream life as smooth as possible.

Before making that transition though, it's important that you have a big enough reason to do so. If you don't have something that you're really passionate about, you won't be willing to go after it. But if you do, you'll find yourself making up all kinds of excuses to avoid doing it. Then you'll find yourself at the end of your life, thinking about how your life could have been different if only you had pursued your dreams...

If anything is holding you back, any excuses or inconveniences, then just think of this way: This is MY LIFE. I've spent 'x' number of years doing what I have to. I don't know how much longer I have before my time is over. Am I willing to accept the fact of spending the remainder of my life doing what I have to? Am I happy to live my life like this? When I retire, will I be satisfied with what I've accomplished over the years? Will I ever be proud of what I've done in this world?

If you find it difficult to say yes to the last three questions, then you are not following your passion, you are not living your dreams, you are not doing what you love to do, and you are not living a meaningful and purposeful life.

The big question you need to ask yourself now is: Am I ready to do what I love? Am I ready to truly live a life filled with a sense of true satisfaction and purpose, no matter what it takes, no matter how much effort I have to put in, no matter how long I might have to work on it?

Or are you happy just to be a 'nobody', just another one from the crowd?

The choice is yours. It's your life. My philosophy is: If I can't spend my life living my dreams, there's no point in spending it in any other way.

Make that first move and don't look back. Ever.

DREA MER is an observer and researcher on the hidden meanings of life. He is constantly looking for ways to get the most out of life, and assists others in reaching their full potential. You can find ideas, tips and advice that could transform your life forever by visiting DREA MER's blog: http://transform-yourlife.blogspot.com

To Get in Synch With What You Really Want - Clarify Goals

Reality creation is what you do, you are doing right now. If you can answer "what do I really want" with certainty, you are on your way to empower yourself with focused intention. Improvement in your personal growth and personal esteem will follow. Once in synch with your true passion and life direction, you will begin manifesting your miracle.

To clarify your goals, can you imagine what would you feel like when your miracle manifests? You transmit that feeling vibration, emotionally. You have a conscious creation in mind, so pretend you have reached that goal right now. What exactly is the feeling of it?

You could call this wizardry training, or a form of prayer. You focus and re-focus on your 'good outcome' feeling, and dwell on it and breathe it into the trillions of cells that you walk around in, and fill them up with it.

Every cell has a transmitter so don't miss one! (You have to stay light with this because it sure doesn't work when you get serious.)

Sometimes just paying attention to goals or a new reality creation magnifies the things you don't like in your current situation. You find yourself ruminating 'How exactly did I get here?' 'What went wrong?'

What you don't want is the open doorway towards what you DO want. So you start where you are, right here, right now. "THIS" (fill in the blank) is what I don't want. What I want is THIS (fill in the page, underline, underline, circle). You don't have to have the guru-standard bliss about it. You might even write with a flash of resentment or anger. Whew! You said it, did you get a l little relief?

In practicing self improvement, the more you can clarify goals, the more deeply you can get in touch with the fulfilled feeling of your desired outcome. Wouldn't your life change direction if that feeling became the most dominant, or default feeling in your experience? Every day, or on most days? The external circumstances of life may not change immediately, yet trust in the outcome, it will be aligned with you.

Focused attention, or contemplation of your goals and the accompanying feelings, is enhanced by your clarity. Spend time with yourself every day. Invest in your present. Give five minutes of dwelling in the feeling of being an empowered and selective creator in your life and in our world. If some idea attached to your plans doesn't feel quite right, ask yourself again "what do I really want?" You might want to re-clarify some aspect of your goals.

Even if your job seems unrelated to your real passion in life, or you get emotionally waylaid by persons around you, any time, any moment, you can pause and grab some quiet. Stop and gaze out a window at treetops. Peek at the wallet photos of your kids.

You repeatedly set forth your deliberately selected emotion, which is the vibration of a frequency that you want reflected back to you.

You are already on your way to manifest a miracle by acting to clarify your goals and remain in synch with what you want.

Change your life - learn how to improve your use of the Law of Attraction, and Manifest A Miracle to change your life direction.

A Temporary Hiatus

As you may have noticed, our posts aren't regular these past few weeks. My laptop's power cord decided to die on me, so I'm basically offline until my new cord arrives - hopefully by the end of this week. April's experiencing a few technical difficulties as well. We'll hopefully be back up and running within the next week or so. Thanks for sticking with us!

In the mean time, why don't you talk to us? Tell us about your favorite cooking experience you've had. Did you attend a fun cooking class in school? Did you have a memorable childhood, cooking a lot with Mom or Grandma? Do you and your spouse cook often together, or did you have a fun date night where you made a delicious meal together?

Granola Bars

My kids LOVE granola bars. They go through them so fast it was starting to get really expensive so I started looking for recipes to make them. I tried one and didn't really like it much. Then I tried another and I am in love with it. They are sooooooo delicious. If I know we have some, I'm craving them. And you can do anything with them too.

Granola Bars
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4 c uncooked oats (not instant)
1 c. packed brown sugar
1 tsp vanilla
½ tsp ground cinnamon (I just dump some in… we love cinnamon)
½ c. dried fruit (raisins, apples, apricots, cranberries, anything)
½ c. shredded coconut
1 c chopped nuts (we leave them out)
¾ c. melted butter or margarine
½ c. honey



Combine all ingredients in a large mixing bowl.

Mix well, with greased hands, (I use a wooden spoon) and

press into well greased 15 ½ x 10 ½ jelly roll pan. Bake at 450 for 8-10 minutes until light golden brown.

Cool thoroughly and cut into bars. Store in airtight container.

**April’s notes**
- spray your measuring cup before you measure the honey, then it slides right out
- I spray my hands with cooking spray before pressing into pan… it’s still sticky.
- our favorite is to chop dried apricots and apples (baking isle at walmart) and mix them in for the fruit.

- I put the pans into the fridge after they’re mostly cool. It makes the bars very easy to cut without them falling apart.
- I also store them in the fridge. They crumble very easily at room temperature. They’re delicious chilled and hold their shape.