Hello!
I’m Gwen Marshall

Accepting yourself is a must if you are ever going to make a change.

You may have found yourself to be one gigantic rock formation and feel the only thing you can do is block the progress of the waves. Or, a pebble of sand too small to accomplish anything. Well, accept that fact.

When you accept yourself for whom you really are, it gives you balance and the ability to take the first step toward allowing yourself to make a change that you want to make.

Now that you have met yourself think of what you would like to become or what you would like to do. Put it on paper. Take a pen and paper and write a detailed description. It’s been said that nothing is properly thought out until it is written out.

Make a list of the stepping stones (minor goals) that must be taken to reach your main objective. Prioritize your list: put the lesser stone on bottom and the objective on top. Take one stone at a time to reach your goal.

When you establish your goal, don’t make it too easy and don’t make it impossible to reach.

Obstacles can present themselves in human or spiritual form, in fierce mannered opposition or mild mannered resistance.

But don’t be fooled. Any thing that presents itself as an opposition to accomplishing your goal is a direct threat to your goal. Opposition means ‘opposite’ and any obstacle challenges you and calls you out to a dual.

Identify your obsticles and meet them head on. Don’t try to side-step the issue.

After identifying your obstacles, you may have to step back some so you can see the whole picture. Obstacles can obscure your vision and make you think that there are too many problems to reach your objective.

Resources are the things, or people, that you can employ to help you reach your objective. But, you have to find them. So, take a step back, get out of the waves and have a look around.

When we say achieve, we don’t simply mean to write a list of things to do. To achieve a worthwhile goal envolves hard work, deep thinking, and detailed planning.

While achieving a goal, other roadblocks can present themselves. List and treat them as obsticles. You may have to take a detour, but don’t let them stop you from achieving your objective.

A reward gives you a sense of accomplishment.

We all need to feel like it was worth the effort. It’s the motivation that keeps us going.

Go ahead and reward yourself. You earned it.