We are clearly on a theme this week and that is a strong reminder and encouragement to take responsibility for our reality.  Plan our lives and, more importantly, act on those plans.  Decide what to do and actually do it.  Learn from it and try again until we start seeing the results of what we want unfolding.  Make the choice to do what we want and follow through with it until we are so capable of following our instincts that we no longer seek outside validation or permission.  We simply know who we are and we embrace that and live according to our purpose.  While researching some business opportunities I came across a quote from Sam Rossi: “Everything happens because of us.  We have average experiences because we are average people.  Like a record player, we will never hear different music if we keep playing the same records.  The version we are being is a collection of the habitual things we say and do.  That’s why life feels the same every day.” 

I understood the laws of vibration and energy and frequency even if I wasn’t very careful or consistent with my own, but, if I’m honest, I never understood it in terms of that type of story.  Ironic considering I talk about the stories we tell ourselves all the time.  It’s funny how sometimes we need to hear things in just a slightly different way for it to click.  The universe can only respond to what we put out, whether vibrationally or with action—and it can only believe what we feel and what we act on.  There is no right or wrong when it comes to creating our reality—it merely needs to be authentic and aligned with who we are.  And in order for it to work, it also needs to be aligned with what we say we want.  I used the example before that if we want to go to Bali and buy a ticket to Florida, we aren’t going to get where we want to go.  We can want and feel something with all of our souls but until we follow through on it, we will be right where we are.  If we play the same song over and over again, just like if we tell ourselves the same story, we will only ever hear and do the same things.  The rut will become deep and grooved and harder to get out of.  That doesn’t mean we can’t do it, but the effort changes.

If something doesn’t feel right then we have to change it.  I spent last evening with some friends and neighbors and I learned something new specifically related to this concept of making decisions in our lives: we are who we are and we can have a lot more fun if we simply embrace and accept that.  We get a lot further by being aligned and taking actions on who we are than we do trying to be something else.  Perfection is irrelevant and boring.  It can look pretty, sure, but you spend more time trying to keep pretty whole rather than making it functional.  We don’t need to destroy the pretty thing—we need to destroy the box it comes in so it can do what it is meant to do.  Change the record.  Decide to take a new action.  Decide to feel another way.  Decide to honor who we are and what we love and be honest about it.  See what magic unfolds when we act on the plans we make rather than talking about it.  We are the only ones responsible for what happens in our lives so if we don’t like what is happening, ask what we are telling ourselves and what we are choosing to allow.  Then choose differently.