MaXIMIze - Bringing in the Harvest - Letting Go of Ghosts and Goblins

In order to move forward, we need to let go of the past - the ghosts in our lives. We may also need to let go of goblins - those things in our present that are inhibiting our ability to move forward. Goblins can be beliefs, habits, personal prose, and even people in our lives who are holding us back from living our best lives now.

This gets back to earlier posts on identifying roadblocks, assessing them, and working through them.

Cutting ties to these ghosts and goblins will help us with the seasonal cleaning we all need to do from time to time in order to recalibrate and get back into balance in all areas of our lives.

Fall is a great time for reflecting on this year's harvest, sweeping away the ghosts of the past, dealing with the goblins of the present, and planning for next year's harvest before we get wrapped up in the upcoming holiday season of thanksgiving and celebration.

So, shine your light to dispel the ghosts of the past and ward off the goblins of the present as you plan for the harvest of the future - the harvest of Living Your Best Life Now.

Next week starts a new month - one in which we enter the season of gratitude - and that will be our theme for the month. Some of the items we'll be discussing in future posts include Preparing for the Holidays, Share Thy Bounty, and Making a Board of Thanksgiving.

As always, if there is a specific topic you would like to see addressed in this blog that fits the theme of Living Your Best Life Now, please let me know.

Until next time, Namaste!

MaXIMIze - Bringing in the Harvest - What is Manifesting in Your Life Now?

Last week, we took a well-deserved break and went to Lassen National Park area for the weekend. Very little cell coverage and a nice, peaceful, beautiful respite from our day-to-day lives.

On to the post…

In order to plan for the future, you need to first analyze the past - what has worked, what actions are still resounding through your life now.

We've discussed the ripple effect in previous posts - the fact that what you sow today will reverberate into the future, much like the ripples a stone skipped across a pond makes that are still coming ashore long after the stone has sunk to the bottom.

So what is reverberating - manifesting - in your life right now? Can you trace that to actions, reactions or responses in the past - things you have sown either intentionally or unintentionally?

Think about it, journal about it, analyze it. Likely you will have at least one if not more "ah ha" moments as you connect the dots from past stones to present ripples.

Now - think about what you want to manifest in your life from now on - what do you need to sow now to manifest that in the future? What does that look like, feel like, taste like, smell like, sound like?

Finally - what have you sown in the past that has yet to come to fruition - what stones have you skipped across the pond whose ripples are still coming to the shore?

Lots to think on - next time we will discuss Letting Go of Ghosts and Goblins - until then, Namaste!

MaXIMIze - Harvest Time - What Have You Sown This Year?

For us here in the US and elsewhere in the Northern Hemisphere, this time of year is harvest time. So, what have you sown this year?

This week, my challenge to you is to create a manifestation board of what you have sown and what you feel your harvest will be. You can use pictures or words or anything else that holds meaning to you.

Take all the time you need to do this exercise.

If you've journaled during our time together, go back through your entries for inspiration and ideas. Once you've put together what you've sown and what you're likely to harvest, think about what you want to harvest in the future. What do you need to do, to sow, in order to have that harvest? Go ahead and either continue on your current manifestation board or start a new one for the new year.

A variation on the manifestation board is the manifestation book - you can either use a blank journal or a spiral notebook, or you can repurpose outdated books destined for the landfill. You can ask your local library for books to be discarded for this purpose.

Whatever variation you choose, make it yours - make it show you the path to living your best life now.

Next week, we'll look at what is manifesting in our lives now.

Until then, Namaste!