Watching the news, reading a newspaper, listening to the radio, browsing your favorite social media—these things should be entertaining but wind up causing us to be stressed, to feel anger, even to feel hate. Susan noticed this within herself and in the world around at large. “Every day I see…
Category: Personal Development
I Can Learn From This
We’ve been talking this month about learning from our experiences—no matter how scary or troubling. Susan had first hand experience with this while she was writing Embracing Uncertainty. Here is her account: I was sitting at my computer when, all of a sudden, the vision through my right eye became…
Learning to Always Learn
As we talked about in April’s newsletter article, in Embracing Uncertainty, Susan recommends that we always choose to learn from our experiences by choosing to value every experience—good or bad—as an opportunity for discovery. In chapter 5 of the book, she wrote about the “I Can Learn From This” exercise.…
Knowing vs. Understanding
This month we’re talking about taking our time on the path to spiritual growth. When we seek only to accomplish, we are not giving ourselves the time to assimilate spiritual lessons into our selves. We can’t truly be in touch with our spirit if we only seek to check off…
Setting Relationship Goals like New Year’s Goals
Now that we are well into 2018, we hope you are still going strong on meeting the goals you set for yourself for this year. People may scoff at resolution and goal-making, but making a commitment to yourself can go a long way to helping you be your best. Keeping…
Affirmations Can Help Us “Act As If”
Susan was such a champion of affirmations. “I can handle it,” “It’s all happening perfectly,” and so many others to help us conquer our fears. Another affirmation, which appears in Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway, is “I know that I count and I act as if I do.”…
A Useful Way to Pretend
Embodying the change that you want to make in your life is a much more proactive way to meet your New Year’s goals, as we talked about in this month’s newsletter article. Here is an example Susan used to explain exactly how it can work. In college, Megan developed a…
Creating Holiday Blessings With Patience
In Life is Huge!, Susan offers six tips for creating your own holiday blessings. But there is one tip not on the list that underlies each of those lessons—PATIENCE. Each of the six tips begins and ends with patience—with others and especially yourself. It’s easy to get on the blame…
Another Holiday Lesson
This month, we’re talking about Susan’s lessons for creating our own holiday blessings. The following is another Holiday lesson she wrote about in Life Is Huge!: Stop trying to change other people. You may want everyone in your life to follow your perfect “script,” for the holidays, not theirs. As…
Susan’s Guided Visualization
One of the best tools we can use to get in touch with our anger and fear is visualizing. In Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway, Susan gave an example of a guided visualization she used on her audio The Art of Fearbusting. She recommended that you record yourself…