How we do one thing, is how we do everything.

Think about your life for a moment. Although you play a variety of roles – parent, entrepreneur, employee, wife, athlete, friend – how you handle yourself in one area, is probably how you handle yourself in all areas. Your behavior and approach to life isn’t this fragmented operation, but rather an integrated whole experience. You can’t expect to thrive in one area yet be totally different in another area.

The more I learn about this topic, the more I know this is accurate.

This notion of poverty versus abundant consciousness is powerful and if you really are honest looking in your life mirror, it’s eye opening.

A good example would be your closet. Close your eyes and envision what lies behind that door. Are there items in there you never wear? They may be old, may not fit any longer or may have been gifts. Whatever the reason you are still holding on to them yet those things take up space. Empty space. Space that could be used for new items that fit you well and you feel great in.

Now shift that same thinking to relationships. Are their people in your life that no longer support you? Are they taking up empty space? Maybe you feel as though you need to continue the relationship because they have been in your life for a long time but they no longer align with your thinking but you continue to use your energy for them because you fear being alone, fear they will judge or talk negatively about you. Or you don’t open yourself to new relationships for fear of rejection.

How about a job that you don’t love but you settle because of fear of change?

The thread that runs through all of this is the same energy – poverty consciousness. When your mind is constantly being reminded that you are coming from a limited existence, guess what will appear for you? Limited energy, opportunity, and lack of all the things you desire.

When you are stuck in the past and don’t progress, you are unable to see all the new possibilities before you. When you are feeling like the victim, rather than taking responsibility for your life, you will never be able to succeed. If you begin a phrase with ‘I’m too ____” that usually means you are coming from a poverty consciousness because it’s limiting right off the bat.

Conversely, when you look at your life with an openness of skills and talents, and are open to constant learning, are open to new energy and a new way of being, you will evoke a life of new positive and progressive activity.

In 2016, I plan to focus more effort in the abundant consciousness mindset which includes getting rid of all the crap in my closet, garage, house. Bye bye stuff. I will continue to be work on being more deliberate with my time and the relationships I cultivate and the reasons for each. I will say yes to more things that scare me, I’ve never done, and interested in. As they say, if it’s not a ‘hell yes’ then it’s a no. No is a complete sentence.

Life is just like art. You explore, you course correct, you start again reapplying what you learned, and eventually you find a niche that works for you. But you can never get to that niche if you don’t explore in the first place.

Hand painted torn paper, acrylic, original @KFlynn, Dec 2015

New year = continued new energy = new abundant, joyful activity, people, experiences.

2016: The Year of Openness and Giving Up to Get

Ways to start small? Take 30 minutes each day to handle things you’ve been putting off. Clean out that junk drawer, clean out the pants section of your closet, research a new workout plan for the week and write it down, call someone and apologize or say hello and ask them how they are. Sign up for an Ironman in July 2016 and develop your plan. Take out your paint and explore on a canvas. Get outside and move your body. Put your phone down and look up at people and smile. Be open to the possibilities in front of you. Say yes more. Say no more. This is your life so get your hands dirty and live it for you. Be in communion with people. Be transparent how you feel. Stop being a nice-aholic. Nice-aholics never succeed because you never get what you truly need.

Old Ways Won’t Open New Doors

By focusing on connectiveness, I bet you’ll find a pattern emerge. Think whole enchilada. And on the topic of enchilada’s, here’s a favorite recipe that is the bombdiggity.