I am dropping the following words into my consciousness this week – to create a lens that illuminates all that I observe, think, and do. I’m excited to see where this leads.

Permission – “to afford the opportunity for … allow to do”

Practice – “repeated performance or systematic exercise to improve a skill”

Perception – “immediate or intuitive recognition or appreciation or understanding”

Personal – “of the nature of an individual rational being”

Perfect – “exactly fitting the need in a certain situation or for a certain purpose”

I always think of my week as “beginning” on Sunday. So, my week of “p lenses” starts with … PERMISSION, because we should all be encouraged to give OURSELVES permission for any number of things in our lives, right? This simple act is often the key to blasting any obstacle blocking what we truly desire. When was the last time you seriously granted YOURSELF permission for something? And believed it to be TRUE? I find it to be empowering – and an action I consciously repeat whenever the need arises!

So, I now give myself PERMISSION to be: happy. I also grant myself permission to be rich, successful, calm, organized, and patient. I am allowed to be kind, observant, forgiving, compassionate, and tolerant! And the week has just begun!

My next word is PRACTICE. I learned an exercise years ago when a group of us practiced looking for evidence of KINDNESS throughout a week. The next week we added into the mix our own personal character trait (one I wanted to expand upon – one which, of course, I already possessed – or I wouldn’t be able to observe it in others). So… my next word was (and still is)… PRACTICE! Looking for it in others caused it to appear – and it still does. I am most especially happy when it settles itself into my own daily actions.

All this observing, witnessing, experiencing, and pondering has a distinct way of altering my PERCEPTIONS. I love the phrase, “Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at change.” Yes … they … do.

Which, ultimately, I have come to take PERSONALLY. Owning it, breathing it, and internalizing the changes that are occurring. Building on these experiences, I am creating the future. All of it, consciously and deliberately. Culminating with the thoughts, observations, and actions being absolutely PERFECT – as defined above, “exactly fitting the need in a certain situation or for a certain purpose”. I am creating MY perfect life. You can too. What might your simple words be?

Enjoy the journey. It’s all perfect.

Deb