Mary's Journal

Years ago one of my teachers said five words that have stayed with me forever. He said, “Your choices shape your life.”

We all know that our choices shape our life. But he said we forget to remember the power of that knowledge.

Your choices shape your life. You are the artist. Your life is the canvas. Intention is your paintbrush. You are the artist. Your life is the canvas. Your intention is the paintbrush.

Today as we pick up that which will authorize our life, that which will create the color, the fabric, the hue, the shape of our lives, let us remember that the point of power is in our intention. Intention is our paintbrush.

With Love and Light,

Mary

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I heard a great quote that I’d like to share with you.

“There is a vast difference between management and leadership. In management you get people to do things. In leadership you help people become someone.” 

I was thinking about how that’s true for ourselves as well. We can be self-managing and get things done or we can be self-leading and help ourselves become all we are possible of becoming.

Today have a day in leading yourself in positive directions.

To Your Leadership,

Mary

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When you get in harmony with the Law of Giving, there is a good that makes itself available and known to us that cannot be contained.

No matter how big a container we bring, it is always bigger. We are dealing with the Infinite and we cannot contain the good that is seeking us.

Good measure, pressed down, shaken together and overflowing…is real.

You Are A Gift Unto This World,

Mary

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Have you ever felt disappointed because something you thought was going to happen didn’t happen?

Maybe it turned out that either the plan got changed or it wasn’t going to happen the way you thought and you go.

That disappointment feeling was happening to me once, and I thought to myself, “you know I just need to fix my “wanter” here.”

As soon as I said “I need to fix my ‘wanter’” I felt empowered and liberated.

I thought, “You know what? This isn’t my first choice but I could still turn this situation into something wonderful.”

Today I encourage you to practice moving from disappointment to empowerment. Know that you can fix your “wanter” any time you choose to.

Wanting You To Live Full Out,

Mary

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A friend of mine died a while back. As I was sitting at his deathbed holding his hand we were talking about a life and a life well-lived; his life.

I reminded him of something that I absolutely believe is true - that each one of us is here to learn how to love and how to love well. I reminded him that he had done a really good job, for he really had.

When is learning to love done? When does that learning occur? It occurs every single day. Not just at the end of our life.

Today is a day where you and I can focus on what matters most in this entire lifetime. This is a day where you and I can learn and increase our learning in how to love and how to love well.

With Love,

Mary

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In my Life Mastery course we were working with the idea that we could each create an ideal day every morning.

We can wake up and just send our thoughts across the day to what we’d really like to create that day.

So one morning I asked my husband Joe what his ideal week would be.

My mind had been busy thinking about everything that had to get done but he said, “Oh my ideal week would be that we would laugh a lot, that we would have deep connections with everyone that’s important to us” and he went on from there.

I liked this response. He put more importance on connections than on his to-do list.

You know we each get to choose whatever it is that matters most to us. So what is your ideal week? You can choose it. You can create it.

To Your Highest Ideal,

Mary

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When my husband Joe’s oldest daughter Jennifer was about three years old, they were riding in the car together on a rainy, foggy day. Joe said to his daughter, “Gosh, I am sorry it’s not sunny today. It’s such a miserable day.”

 She replied by saying, “Oh no. No.” Then she thought for a moment and said, “On a day like today it makes you look at things up close.”

What a great concept, to look at things up close. So often we are busy looking at the big picture of where we want to go and we forget to really notice what’s up close–the gifts, the wonder, the beauty that are right up close to us right now.

Today let’s have a day of continuing to open our hearts by looking and presencing and appreciating what’s up close.

Many Blessings,

Mary

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Today I am just reminded how powerful our friends are and how much our lives are different because of our friends.

We saw the play Wicked and there’s a line in the play where the main character says ‘I have been changed for good because I knew you. Because I knew you, I have been changed for good.’

Today I invite you to think of a friend in your life who has changed your life for the better. Pick up the phone and make at least one phone call today to a friend. Say, ‘Because you have been my friend I am different and my life is better.’ 

Your friend,

Mary

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I was speaking in Kansas City once when a gentleman handed me a book that he had written. This book really touched my heart. His name is Douglas Mclachlan and I wanted to share with you one little paragraph from his book.

He writes, “It became clear to me during a conversation with my son that we each need to become our own philosopher. We need to know what makes us tick. We need to know why we behave the way we do. We need to know what our passion is. The only way you can achieve that honorable goal is by thinking. Thinking! Thinking will allow you to arrive at your own solutions and your own conclusions, not just handed down ideas or handed down ways of being; your own. When you have done that, you can call yourself a philosopher.”

The name of his book is, The Back Porch Philosopher.

Today, I would invite each one of us to spend a little bit of time in our favorite chair doing some really good thinking. It’s one of God’s gifts you know?

To Your Best Thinking,

Mary

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Isaac Newton once said if two angels were sent down from heaven, one to conduct an empire and the other to sweep the streets, they would feel no inclination to change employment. An angel would know that no matter what the task at hand, each moment holds an opportunity to bring light, to bring joy, to deepen our understanding and to expand our life.

The smallest moments in life can be food for our spiritual quest. For example, if you are waiting in a slow moving line at the DMV, you can use that time to just notice all the people around you. You can witness how you feel when you start to get cranky or see whether you can change that irritation into a happy moment. You can get to know a neighbor in line or you can just stand savoring a peaceful moment and take a deep breath. Every single moment can be food–even the smallest moments–food for our spiritual growth.

Savor the moment,

Mary

P.S.  If you’d like to become a certified Life Mastery Consultant and build a business coaching other people into the life they want to live click here: http://marymorrissey.com/courses-and-coaching/life-mastery-consultants

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