Welcome to a brand new week in which to create at your very highest potential! Every day is a blank canvas, a new opportunity to paint your life with the colours of your dreams. As we embark on this new week, let’s take to heart the inspiring words of our teacher for the week, Iyanla Vanzant.
She’s an American inspirational speaker, lawyer, spiritual teacher, author, life coach, and television personality. Her life is filled with a wealth of experience from which she draws, along with the teachings that she was a student to along the way.
Vanzant was born on September 13, 1953, in the back of a taxi in Brooklyn, New York. Her mother died when she was two years old after which she was raised by relatives. Her first husband was physically abusive and she left him in 1980, taking her three children.
I’m sure that you’ll enjoy her wisdom this week as much as I do.
Here’s a thought to get your week started:
“Every day is your day if you claim it. If you wait for somebody else to make it for you, you’re going to be disappointed.” – Iyanla Vanzant
“Each day, focus your attention on what you want. Each day, take one step that will bring you closer to it. ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE! The key is to identify it, claim it for yourself, and believe that you are worthy to have it.” – Iyanla Vanzant
“Instead of running from what you don’t want, walk with commitment toward what you desire. Focus on where you are going rather than being obsessed with where you have been.” – Iyanla Vanzant
“If you should encounter angry or unkind actions today, take a deep breath, reach deep within and greet that lack of love, with love.” – Iyanla Vanzant
We can create from a place of fear, or we can create from a place of freedom. We can create by running away from what we don’t want, or we can create by stepping boldly towards what it is that we do want. When fear is your biggest motivator then you’re always creating while looking over your shoulder, and the best you can ever do is become the best version of your scared self.
Start every day this week by choosing who you are putting in the driver’s seat. Will your fears be doing the driving or your soul?
You can choose to create from a place of freedom by looking into the week ahead and asking yourself:
- What opportunities are available to me this week?
- What possibilities can I recognize this week?
- What does this week make available to me?
As you step into every day this week, take Iyanla Vanzant’s advice and claim each day as yours. Each day, focus on what you are creating. And each day walk with commitment towards the life you deserve.
– pierre –
Today’s LIVE meditation is: Jumpstart the week.