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There are only ten months left until the end of the year. What am I waiting for?

Here in British Columbia Canada the days are getting longer and the grass is starting to grow. In fact there will actually be people out in about two weeks cutting the stuff. I'm sure there must be a help group around for these people.

For a country that is seen in some parts of the world as natives living in Igloos, we have been golfing all year round, except for a couple of days of snow. We are so blessed to be living in a very high energy vortex.

It's February and once again I am waiting for change, like "spring," to happen before I make my first move. In fact I haven't even planned my first move yet. These thoughts inspired this months 'Roy Bits,' printed below. So as I mentioned in last months newsletter, I am going to make things happen this year.

I have seven ebooks on the market that are selling very well on the internet. I printed my first paper volume and sent it into an editor. She has taken five months and nothing has happened. I gave her till the middle of February to finish it or I will get someone else. Her procrastination suited me well for a time. I thought I would have it out for last Christmas but to my relief it didn't happen. Printing the book just means a whole lot of world marketing it and I don't look forward to that. Lots of dead ends, misleading information, experts telling me what to do etc, etc. Really I was hoping it would just go away. The book is important for me and the info will have benefit for others. So I'm going to fire my editor if it's not ready.

Getting out of the comfort zone is not easy for some of us who like to be comfortable. I know I always feel good when I have accomplished something, so often I don't finish it so I don't have to feel good and move onto something else. Starting over is the scary part.

Well enough of that, I did say that I would keep you informed on my progress this year. I trust that yours is going the same way as it was last year. You are not alone.

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Well it's February already and only ten more months left to the end of the year. What have you done so far this year to change the circumstances of your life? If nothing, then you will have a clear understanding of why your life is the way it is today, and why it will be the same way in December.

What is it that we wait for when it comes time to make personal choices to better ourselves. For many who find themselves in this position, I believe they wait for others to initiate the changes. Most of us are afraid to make changes when it involves others, for fear of hurting them, so we do nothing.

I believe also that we are convinced that we have to make huge changes or radical changes immediately in order to be successful. I know this to be unfounded. Small steps make for the most meaningful changes in our lives and has the least impact on others at the same time. When others are involved in your lifestyle change it is important to let the people involved know that you will be making them and what your ultimate goals are and within what time frame this will all happen. This display of caring allows others to make their own choices with less impact on mutual relationships.

The time for change is now, not in March, but now while it is on your mind and in your best interest to start your plan. Very few of us spend any amount of time planning our personal future. We plan our own lives around those of others and we try to fit in. Personal success comes when we think about ourselves first. If we have nothing, then there is nothing to give. Although we have been raised to believe that we must give to others first, it is the backwards way of doing it. It is a model for failure, and it is observable, because that is what most of us having been doing all our lives. When you think of yourself first, you will eventually have something to give away. Your happiness will bring happiness to others. Being compassionate with yourself first will give you compassion for others. Understanding yourself first, will bring understanding of others and so forth.

But nothing will happen until you start to do something. God is not going to be there for you. That which created you gave you the power to create. He/she also gave you to power to do nothing. Praying will not get you what you want, it may at best help you focus your thoughts. Meditating on your future will not bring it to you, because the future is always in front of you. It is what you do now, this moment that will change the rest of your life. Listen to what the voice inside you is saying. Give it some attention and ask "why not?" Do something, anything but think about it. The climb of a thousand steps starts with the first one. Don't wait until April to take that first step, there are only eight more months until the end of the year. And when it gets to September and you still haven't do anything you can always put it off till the first of the year.

I can predict exactly what is going to happen in your life for the next ten months simply by what you do in the next few minutes. Life is about action, movement. Of course you can always say in the month of your death that you had a successful life of procrastination. All of us will die, but it is how we made the trip and how we feel about it that makes the difference.

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LOVING YOURSELF UNCONDITIONALLY

By: Kalandar Dominique Wirz

Most religions teach us altruism and to love your neighbor like yourself.

Have you ever wondered, whether your neighbor would actually like that?

Because, frankly speaking, how much do YOU love yourself?

Of course we all love ourselves. Easy! We love ourselves in those times when things go well, when we do the right things, when we act gracefully, when we are likable and can feel proud of ourselves.
But what about the other times? When you make a fool out of yourself? When you act like an idiot? When you fail or, even worse, behave in an ugly way? When you feel ashamed and stupid and not proud of yourself one bit?
Do you still love yourself then? Or do you abandon yourself in shame and guilt?
In other words: Is your love for your self conditional or unconditional?

It's an important question. It's the question that makes all the difference in your life!

YOU! Fundamentally you are good. Your innermost core, that which is you, is divine.
And chances are that you try your very best to express that and you try to live up to your divine potential (you probably wouldn't be reading this otherwise).
Chances also are, that you are not 100 % successful in living up to your divine potential.
And chances are, that this is exactly when you regularly abandon yourself and stop loving yourself.

How does that feel, when you stop loving your self?

Imagine a little child, innocent, vulnerable, open. And that little child has a friend. A big one, bigger and stronger and much more powerful than the child itself. And the little child loves and trusts that big friend absolutely.
But every time the child does something wrong, maybe something it doesn't even know is wrong, the big friend just goes and abandons the little kid. Just doesn't love it anymore.
The child would probably just stand there, alone and utterly confused and hurt and it's self esteem would be completely undermined.

And because the child trusts and loves the big friend, and because the big friend seems so much more powerful than the child, at some point the child would side with the big friend and abandon itself.
Does that sound familiar to you? Is that what happened to you as a kid? Then the chances are, that you are still doing exactly this: abandoning yourself and stop loving yourself every time you do wrong. And maybe even when you don't do anything wrong, because by now your self esteem has suffered so much, that you just in general don't trust your self any more.

Having grown up you are now both: The child and the big friend. And as that child you deserve unconditional love. You always have and you always will. It is the single most important thing you need to grow, become beautiful and flower into your full divine self. And the one person who needs to give you that unconditional love is YOU.

How is change possible, how can you be fulfilled, when the very closest friend you have, YOU, walks away from you. And if YOU don't take care of that frightened, abandoned little child in you, who else will?

Now I'm not saying you are always likable. That's conditional. You might be a real shit sometimes. Then you might not be likable.

But you are always lovable. Unconditionally.

You might also not always find it easy to love yourself. And you might ever so often completely forget to love yourself.

But the one thing you can decide right now, is to be WILLING to always love yourself unconditionally.

If you decide that, then whenever you realize you are abandoning yourself, you can come back to loving yourself.

It doesn't mean you approve of everything you do. In fact, loving yourself unconditionally is what gives you the possibility to disapprove of your acts because you no longer need to identify with your acts. That makes it the most powerful tool to help you take responsibility for your mistakes and change.

So if there is ONE thing you want to do for your self: Make a pact with yourself. Make a conscious decision: To be willing to always love yourself unconditionally. That is enough to change your life.

Kalandar Dominique Wirz is a Life Coach, specializing in working with people who embark on a spiritual path.
He believes that life should be beautiful and love is what we are here for.
If you would like to meet Kalandar or work with him you can contact him at

bewhoyouare@bigfoot.com

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