Courageous Choices Can Change Your Life

Put your toes in the water of all that you are.  Taste the perfection of you, feel it, experience it. If you are not ready for a full meal yet, well then, start by taking little sips at a time.  Anticipate, use great courage to be in a place of discovery about yourself.  Have no value in holding on to fear and judgement, which closes the door to everything.  When you move past the negatives, you instantly give yourself the ability to go past anything that a moment ago was limiting you.  Move past the former inablility to see yourself as you truly are, which is courageous, strong, powerful, energized and beautiful in your self growth. No one can do this for you.  Nothing outside of you can do this for you.

A whole mind conceives and comes forward with brilliant ideas and seeks to act on those ideas.  A split mind does not conceive, it perceives - perception.  The power of qualification is the ability to say “this is what is going to happen in my life.”  People misqualify by worrying about an outcome or a present experience that may lead to a worse experience in the future.  We have to conscious of what is going on in our thoughts and feelings. People don’t realize how they handicap their experiences later in the day or the week.  We have the power to put things out there energetically. We qualify every day.  Worrying (destructive activity) compels the mind to make the feeling and emotional body move into fear. Use inner courage to keep you strong.

Have the ability to see beauty where no beauty seems to be.  There is a powerful part of you that knows the answer before the question is even asked. Tap into that power by taking control of your thoughts, feelings and actions. Paint your life with courage.  The world out there seems pretty scary, but remember, old systems are breaking down as new systems are moving into place.   Don’t let fear or the world control you any longer.  The old systems are breaking down because they don’t work for the good of the people, for the good of the whole planet mother earth.  Life intended us to live in peace, harmony, love, health, wholeness and wellbeing. Take the time to qualify your day and make powerful choices every morning when you rise and every night before sleep.  Move into a state of anticipation, expectation and knowingness.  Create joy and miracles in your own life and the lives of others.

Debra Oakland @ LivinginCourageOnline

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Debra Oakland’s E-Book - Living in Courage

I wanted to let you know my e-book is finished and up on the site for you to download. I would like to tell you how this book and website came about. I had decided to create a website around the word Courage. I built my first website in iWeb on my Mac. I realized very quickly that I knew practically nothing on the internet. I needed help and fast.

With the abundant help of our friend Lennie Appelquist, who is genius in online strategies. I suggest you go to my blogroll to find Lennie or go to Free Market Media and pick up his Wordpress Guide. Lennie has gone far beyond the call of duty, and knows how grateful I am. Living in Courage was created as a website on Wordpress, which is blog based, but is gaining popularity for website building. I did not know where to go from there, but knew I wanted to write.

A few months ago I was on a conference call listening to a man named David Riklin from Self Growth, the largest self improvement website on the internet. You will find me there listed under the expert section as the Courage Expert. David was talking about an e-book class he would be teaching for 8 weeks. I was intrigued, but had no intention of taking the class. My husband Cody had been in the other room and asked how the call was. I said it was good and sounded like a great way to learn more about writing e-books. I had been writing for years and stuffing it under the bed! We talked a bit and Cody said he thought I should take the course. He was very persistent, which surprised me. He walked me to the computer and signed me up. He asked if I could commit to something very foreign to me that would take a great deal of time and effort. I said a huge YES. The course was fantastic for me, and more work than I had anticipated. I disappeared for almost 3 months from regular life. I was trying to learn about blogs, social networking, branding, websites, navigating the internet, using my new Mac, SEO, studying internet gurus and their techniques, learning about writing, e-books, articles, editing, pdf and word doc files, you name it. Cody, along with my amazing friend Nicole McKinney were constant sources of encouragement. Since we all were involved in business projects at the same time, support for each other has been key. Cody is at 2media and Nicole is in Toronto Canada running very successful branding company for corporations - you can contact her at nicole.mckinney@sypatico.ca.

While taking David’s class, he strongly suggested we each join a master mind group. I love the group I joined, who will never know how much they helped me grow, as I knew nothing, zero, zip, when I joined. 10 of us from the master mind have just completed a group e-book “Guide to Home Based Business,” my chapter being the last in the book and on balance while working at home. You can download the free e-book at Guide to Home Based Business.

I have met some wonderful people. I and am now working on different projects with a few of them. In regards to my book, I started by writing articles and put some of them together for this short e-book. I used a wonderful editor Andrea Glass at WritersWay, who was very patient and fantastic to work with.

Chris Cade has been a constant source of inspiration who has helped me with my writing, along with some editing. You will find Chris Cade at Spiritual Stories and Parables, or in my blogroll.

There have been moments I wanted to pull my hair out with frustration at trying to learn so much in such a short period of time, and days of pure bliss and gratitude. I am so happy to be on this journey and it is just beginning. I will begin my next book, which will involve interviewing people around the world, writing, and learning many new skills. It took all the courage I could muster to get through leaving a 28 year career and following my inner guidance system as I took action each day. I know that I am being led perfectly each day in every action. I anticipate wonderful changes, movement and growth for this website. It has only been 3 months! Think what will happen in the next year. What an amazing time we live in. Many changes are occurring now that have been spoken of throughout history. I for one and excited to be participating in the great and many changes that are coming our way. This world will change, and as it does, I hope Living in Courage will be a place people can come for hope, courage, strength, honor, comfort, fun and information that will help heal the heart. Thank you for sharing this journey with me.

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