Believe

You are a Badass Deck, by Jen Sincero - It's time to get mighty clear about what makes you happy and what makes you feel the most alive, and then create it instead of pretending you can't have it.

The cards in this deck were created from a book You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life.

By 70, is it possible to need clarification about what makes me feel the most alive? Of course, it is. I know some things. My relationship with my husband feels so good when we are on the same page.

I am so happy when my children are doing well and not struggling. It is great hearing about my grandchildren and spending time with them.

I enjoy writing and am now interested in publishing a book. I have self-published several books in the past 15 years. I began with memorial books and then made gift books and fundraising books. Then when my computer crashed, I lost many of them.

Losing them is my fault for not backing up my work. It is not enough to quit. I will retype from hard copies what I need to have for my consultant business. Retyping is a pain, but something to learn from. Life and writing will go on!

Act As If - If you want something badly, even if you don't have any evidence that it's possible for you to attain, believe it is anyway. Fake it until you make it. Tell yourself it's happening. Act like it's happening. Put yourself in situations where you will meet people who can make this happen. Stay wide open to opportunities that can lead you to your goal. Live, eat, sleep, and breathe your vision. See it, feel it, taste it, fall in love with it, believe it is already here. Jen Sincero

Act as if is an old lesson for me. I have been in a program of recovery and as part of that, I have often had to learn to act like I believe.

A woman told me that she had to get ready to believe that God would help to take the obsession and compulsion to drink away from her. She did ask and it worked. She didn't believe it would happen and once she acted as if it would work it worked.

So, after about 11 months of struggle staying sober, I asked to have the obsession and compulsion removed and it was! Food obsession and compulsion are what I switched to shortly after I stopped drinking.

After trying to go on a diet every day for months, and not making it past 10:30 every day, I asked to have the compulsion and obsession removed. And it was.

Now, it is time to use act as if in many more situations. I always say, "I am not a poet." I like to rhyme, but that doesn't mean I am not a poet. It means acting as if I am a poet. Faking it until I make it! Acting like it is happening. Thinking and acting like I am a poet!

Then there is I can't write fiction. I read recently that there are not many readers for fiction on Vocal. I don't know if that is true, but I always think I am not good at fiction as I don't get many comments when I put it out there usually only for a challenge.

Hello, if I am not writing fiction, will I get better? Probably not! So time to claim I am a writer and that includes fiction and poetry.

The only failure is quitting. Everything else is just gathering information. Jen Sincero

When I walked steadily for two weeks recently, I got a bad knee. Week one, 10 minutes a day, week two 15 minutes. Bad knee, swollen and aching. Hurting bad. Slowly better. I planned to move to 20 minutes in week 3. No week three.

My husband said, "When you have an injury the doctor will prescribe physical therapy, and they put you through exercise with them and prescribe exercises to do at home, right? So don't quit!"

I am starting over at 5-minute walks. Just gathering information. Not quitting.

Affirmations:

For today, I will walk 5 minutes.

For today and every day, I will go outside to greet the sunrise.

Today, I will eat healthily, dress becoming, and go to meet my sponsee.

I will send a message of love to my children.

I will finish the photo project I started two weeks ago to clear my table.

I will love all I come into contact with today!