Understand that any forward movement – even if there are small steps sometimes sideways or back – could be considered progress, when you’re learning new experiences. Take your skills of awareness, and put them to the test for any situations or happenings that are or could be, the results of synchronicity. These show you are connected to the Universe. The most inconsequential event, or seemingly insignificant person on even the periphery of your life may say or do something that sticks with you to change you some how – maybe not at that moment, but eventually. When you have asked or invited the Universe into your life – as I do with my affirmation asking for something to come into my life: “…for My Best & Highest Good & the Highest good of All” – synchronicity happens, even when not realized at the time.

Thus, any apparently mundane moment may contain a profound possibility of the future. Don’t wait for perfect conditions to be in place for your project or action, you may miss your moment. Simply do what you can do, when the time opens for it to be done. Changing your life often entails risk, or uncertainty of outcome. You may have to live on the edge concerning certain areas of your life. This may be regarding a job, money, relationships or even health, as to what your future seems. Life’s trials test us to stand firm, to become stronger against detractors, or nay sayers who will always be around. Big changes are usually full of challenges, and part of the process for growth. Don’t let set-backs tell you otherwise. Sometimes we truly do not know where the next step will take us, until we put that foot down upon the path.

Rarely is change not uncomfortable. And the more creative and liberating you are, the more uncomfortable for you and others around you. Progress does mean reducing your self-imposed limits, and expanding your comfort zone to explore the basic ‘unknowns.’ Don’t waste an opportunity because it didn’t have a sign on it, or it didn’t fit your supposed schedule. Profound awakenings come without invitations or announcements. Wake up, and really pay attention to learn who you are or can be, by doing what needs to be done. Never allow the limitations from the outside world, or what others may think stop you. Break those inner-bonds to become truly free, and keep moving forward past the glitches that threaten to derail you.

Always practice your mindfulness of deep breathing, positive affirmations to center you in any pressure situations. You can do this – Progress – with your good habits – tools implemented and practiced. Remember with everything you do, you have a choice:  unless it lights up your heart, or your intuition signals a go, don’t do it. With each breath commit to doing more of what you do want to do. There is a difference between being neutrally accepting of something, as opposed to being in a fear-based passive denial. Not everything in your life needs to ‘ring your bell,’ but you also don’t want to be pulled into something that has some negative base to it – obligation, blame, or guilt. Your changes should be created by taking proactive steps towards your own choices, while still aware of the bigger picture around you.

This sometimes involves looking deep at both your strengths and vulnerabilities. Again the journey within may require you to discover greater self-awareness, understanding and even forgiveness of past actions. We can only gain clarity when we are able to cut through what is holding us back. Your cultural norms, while sufficient for the ‘old you,’ may no longer be your Universal truth. You may need to sort through a lot to find out what is true for you. This may end up being an on-going process for your progress, as you grow in your understanding of yourSelf.

To progress in manifesting your dreams, you need to contemplate yourself surrounded by them – visualize them in detail so they will appear. This is expressing your full potential, which no one else can do for you – they are Your Dreams. It’s your life, which truly You are in charge of. Now that is Empowerment!

“Be the best at whatever you are. And when you do this, you’ve mastered the length of life.”  Martin Luther King