Living Up to Your Standards

Hello Fairy Friends!

I hope all is well with all of you in my absence!

Today we have the card Raising Your Standards. The card's meaning is: "Don't settle for less than your dreams. Once you make the commitment to manifest an improved situation, the Universe will find a way to deliver it to you."

This is an interesting card. The guide book suggests that deep down we know the life we want to live and we keep selling ourselves short with our negative "I can't...", "I don't deserve...", and "It will never happen." I have a saying in my house, "If your think it's gonna suck...it's gonna suck!"

I guess it is all about our level of expectation. Our standards. Do we expect the most out of ourselves or are we expecting to fail? Or do we cop to the attitude that others don't give us their personal best so why should we?

This is a fine line to walk on because are we striving to our personal best, our highest standards for ourselves or others? The answer should be ourselves. Hands down. (Even though I forget myself..often!) And also, do we have high standards because we want to be boastful about it or just because that is the way we live our lives? Told you it was a fine line. lol

Our lives are interesting things to navigate. We can do it naturally, if we would just allow ourselves. Our hearts know what to do. But somehow we let that little gremlin, our ego take over and suddenly it is all for naught. Our lives then go in two different directions. Either we become bitchy (for the lack of a better word) and competitive and end up burning ourselves out trying to navigate the rough waters. Or we just give, convincing ourselves that we will never be good enough for anything and at some point we just stop trying.

I think we forget that either version mentioned above is not life. Life should be down the middle. Down the middle doesn't mean the it is the perfect straight path, because we would not learn our lessons that way. But down the middle means that we steer through our journey with the confidence that any obstacles can and will be handled with the grace and dexterity of the persons that we are. We know what we can achieve and we do. This emanates from us onto others, giving them the confidence to do the same thing in their lives.

We essentially become mentors, guides for each other. We show each other that life, a successful, prosperous life can be lived without all the turmoil.

I think that we all forget what we could have, what we should have. The glorious life of our dreams!

So think about, pray about and leave your heart open. Everything is right there ahead and we don't have to sacrifice our very selves to have it all. We just have to live up to our standards!

Today's affirmation is "I deserve and expect the best in life. I hold high standards for myself."

Have a wonderful day, sprinkled with fairy dust!

5 Reasons for Forgiveness

Good Morning Fairy World Inhabitors!

Ahhh...another beautiful morning in our lovely fairy world. It is Sunday, a time for a little extra rest for some, did you get yours?

The snow is through here with a hair over the 4" mark. Even though I do not care for winter anymore at this point, the untouched parts of my yard are quite scenic.

This morning's quiet time led me to pick a whopper of a card! Whom Do You Need to Forgive? This particular card has the message of "As you release old anger or resentment, you will find that your wishes will come true". Whopper indeed.

So to tackle today's topic, I will give you 5 reasons for forgiveness.

1. Holding a grudge is one of the most crippling things you can do. It sucks the life out of you. There is an old saying "If you hold a grudge you should dig 2 graves, one for the person and one for yourself".
2. The person that you are hold the grudge against might not be aware or if they are, they are past it. They aren't losing sleep or raising their blood pressure over it..just you.
3. Life is energy and the grudge blocks that energy. Can you feel it?
   
4. In the big picture of things, someone might have a grudge against you and you are past it or oblivious of it. You forgiving your grudge on someone else will cause a chain reaction of others forgiving theirs. TA-DA! No resentments!
5. It is just a calmer, more serene life to live.

The guide book also suggest that we forgive ourselves. That is a whopper too! Are you holding something in that you did and just cannot get past? Well my friend, right here, right now, LET IT GO! Seriously, can you change the initial action? NO. Can you change to immediate outcome of said action? NO. Can you change to long range outcome of the initial action? Yes, actually you can. If you cannot forgive yourself for something you carry this guilt with you. This will eat you alive, not being able to function guilt that just radiates off you like light in a mirror. How do you go on having healthy relationships if your past guilt is blinding everyone (metaphorically)?

Two other foods for thought.

First, the book suggest to stop judging others. We all make judgments that others would not. Like driving, someone brakes right in front of you. We shouldn't call them the choice name, instead we should quickly acknowledge that the made a decision to do something that you would not. Plain and simple, all done.

Second food for thought stop playing the victim! (As suggested by the guide book). Stop verbally trying to get more mileage out of what so and so said or did, how they wronged you. First take a good look to see what your part was in the whole situation. This goes back to the judging others thing. Were your ears tuned to hear what you thought you wanted to hear, good or bad, and not actually what is being said? And if it were true that the person has really wronged you, write it off and let it go...right there...right then, because it only grows.

Fairies are serene creatures that live a pure life and love nature. They encounter things they do not like, like littering and they encourage you to clean it up. They don't wage a battle against everyone for one person who litters. Let's learn from the fairies.

This was another day that the info just flowed out of my fingers. My hope is that I can apply my own advice on a full time basis!

Enjoy your day in our Fairy World!