Magic words from Monroe

"I believe that everything happens for a reason, people change so you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together"

Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe was a gorgeous, lusty screen siren of the 40's and 50's and one can not deny her classic beauty. One thing I found fascinating about her was this quote. I found it randomly quite a while back and it inspired me so much that I was promted to buy the above screen print of the famous Monroe image.

What Munroe is telling us here is that change is inevitable and there is a lesson in everything that happens to us. I think her quote says enough without much further explanation. I hope it inspires you the way it did for me. I hope it makes you feel something. Most of all I hope that it gives you hope that no matter what goes wrong in life something better is always around the corner.

If your plans don't go the way you want them to, or your dreams are heading down a slightly different path, or you are falling out of love with the one you are with, or even falling in love with someone new when you don't think you are ready - it might not necessarily be a bad thing. Think about things that might be going wrong in your life and look at what you can learn, what you can thus appreciate all the more and perhaps even what you have to now look forward to!

TiLT - Things I Love Thursday

Okay look, I know it's Friday but I am only a day late in spreading my love into the universe...

Things I am loving this week =

<3 Best friends who still love you even if you let them down
<3 Giggling over psyche textbooks when you have serious sleep deprivation
<3 Good references
<3 Sour lollies I am going to eat at midnight in the middle of a park
<3 Michael Buble...mmmm now there is a man who knows what love is all about
<3 Being more motivated with my writing
<3 Long weekends that are fast approaching yippee!
<3 Knowing that "everything is going to be okay"
<3 My Doctor who makes me giggle and gives little waves while I'm still in the waiting room
<3 This quote from Marilyn that has been running through my head all week...but there will be more on this soon!

"...good things fall apart so better things can fall together..."
-Marilyn Monroe

SO now tell me what are you loving and appreciating this week?? Share it here with me or share it at the original TiLT source at http://www.galadarling.com/

The Greats - are you gonna be one?

I have a theory that you can not know what you want unless you know yourself; know yourself truly and purely and love every part of that. The thing is, I also believe that you can not know yourself very well if you don’t know what you want. I used to have a dream as a kid - not the normal kind of kid’s dreams of astronauts and doctors and teachers and Barbie - my dream was to be great.

As a kid when you are good at something they tell you to pursue it, like with sport or a hobby like dancing or karate or soccer. I was great at writing and so I pursued this. While most kids were off playing sports or dancing I was day dreaming, reading and writing and was off with the fairies, literally.

I thought I was an awesome writer, writing stories about great fairy princesses, mystery novels, monsters, aliens, heroes and romance. However there was one problem that I never anticipated. No matter how big you dreams are as a kid, no matter how great you think you may be, the real world will always come along and remind you of how insignificant you are. The innocent, naïve and ignorant bubble you lived in as a child, bursts as you grow older. You begin to realise that you might not be as great as you thought. Think of it like a pool.

The pool you swim in gets larger and larger and you find yourself drowning and in an effort to save yourself the hassle of beating the few hundred thousand million to the other side, you give up. You allow yourself to slide into average-ness.

You settle for less then what you want.
Less then what you dreamed.

The realisation and ignorance of this burst naivety is what separates the greats from everybody else. Many people let them selves drown to an underwater world where ignorance is bliss and they pretend that they are happy with everything they have. But the greats, the greats are different. They realise that the naïve bubble has burst and they give it all they have got till they get where they want to be. They know that to let go of their dream would be to let go of their lives and drown.

Everybody has it in them to be great. Everybody has that opportunity its just that only half of us realise that when you think its time to let go, it’s really time to get a floatation device and grip on all the much tighter.

I myself was once afraid to grab on to the floatation device. My dreams started to slide, the thoughts that everybody was so much better so much smarter, funnier, better writers - these thoughts came fast. I didn’t want to be trying so hard for the rest of my life. I didn’t want to paddle so hard that I found myself going around in circles. I was looking for a guarantee that was never going to show. And so without knowing what I wanted and only knowing what I didn’t want, I turned and took a long look back. I looked at how far I had come. I looked at where I was and what had brought me there. Then I took a look inside and realised I knew myself. I knew what kind of person I had become and I knew why. I knew what I liked what I believed in and who believed in me. The realisation that my bubble had burst and that I was drowning in the ocean no longer scared me.

To know where you are going you have to know where you came from and who you are. What is the point of getting to the other side when you realise you left your heart back at the beginning? And so with this knowledge I took a big grip on a floatation device, knowing in my heart that knowing myself and being just that would lead me to what I wanted, all I had to do was paddle calmly and wait.

They say patience is a virtue, I say it is a necessity. After a long battle of waiting comes the success, though you may have to put in an effort to get the type of success you are really after. However, once you succeed, once you reach the other side and become who you are and who you want to be, after you grab hold of your chance to be great and ride with it you realise that it was all worth it.

Aside from all that jazz of what kind of greatness and success you were after whether is was family, happiness, career or love; aside from all that the realisation that your life is what it is because of what you made it, is the greatest success anyone could ever dream of.

TiLT - Things i Love Thursday!!

In the grand online tradition started a few years ago by the innovative blogger and international play girl Gala Darling at www.galadarling.com, I am bringing TiLT to my blog!!

What is TiLT?

TiLT is a list of things you are loving this week as a thank you to the universe - think of it as a warm fuzzy - a way to appreciate all that is going on in your life at this current moment.

So many of us focus on the negative side of life and the fact things are not going our way that we forget that it is much better to focus on the awesome things going on no matter how little (think strawberry jam on toast) or how large (got the job/promotion/payrise you were after) they are!

Here is a inconclusive list of things I am LOVING this week and feel free to leave a comment detailing yours. Sharing is caring after all!

<3 Slovakian accents and the way a certain man rolls the rrr's in my name every time he says it!
<3 Shoes - have a gorgeous pair of rocking heels on layby...check out 'Studworks' at www.betts.com.au
<3 New opportunities that appear instantaneously
<3 The Law of Attraction and the power it can create in your life
<3 Subway cookies YUMM!
<3 Spending time dreaming up scenes from my novel
<3 My green typewriter
<3 My freshly purchased tickets to Wil Anderson Wilosophy and the discovery of www.wilanderson.com.au
<3 Pink love heart post-it notes!
<3 My kitty cat Skittles wanting cuddles all the time now its winter

"It took us so long to realise that a purpose of human life,
no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved"
Kurt Vonnegut

Something better...

"To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did, and when God takes something from your grasp, He's not punishing you, but merely opening your hands to receive something better. Always remember that the will of God will never take you where the Grace of God will not protect you."

This quote was written as the signature at the bottom of a chain email I was sent. I usually dismiss these immediately as spam and they end up somewhere in the virtual trashcan land but for some reason I read this particular one through to the end. Although I ignored the email itself for the most part, I was drawn to this quote in tiny, grey, size 7 font at the bottom.

When things change in a way you think is unfair, perhaps it is only the universe letting you know that something better is coming.

Stay positive in times of trial.

Everything is always going to be okay. And that’s a truth if I ever knew one.

Manifest your dream reality

It has always been a belief of mine that we can manifest our reality with our imagination. If we always dream of something bigger or better than what we currently have the universe will always give us the opportunity to have these bigger and better things.

All you have to do is want something bad enough.

And I mean really, really want it.

The universe will always know if you are faking, or whether you don’t really believe in yourself or your capabilities. If you don’t really believe you could ever earn a million dollars there is no point in wanting it is there? Why would you waste your time wanting something you don’t really think you will ever be good enough?

This is where you need to change your thought patterns. You have to start to believe you can be a best selling author, that you are worth a six figure salary, that you will one day actually live in your dream home or meet that perfect someone. To start to believe things like this all you need to do is start telling yourself these things over and over. Repeat the affirmation over to yourself every day as you glance in the mirror on the way out the door.
I am worthy.
I am powerful.
I am not afraid of change.
I am worth more than I settle for.
The more frequently you repeat your affirmations, the easier it will be for you to start to believe in yourself and your ability to manifest your reality with your imagination.

Once you truly believe you are capable of something opportunities will pop up all over the place and all you have to do then is take advantage of them…I mean you already would have done the legwork so there is no point in sabotaging yourself at this stage.

Some people may tell you that this is just life, the way it’s meant to be. Some people may also think you are ungrateful to always be aiming for something bigger. But you are never going to reach the top while you’re dreaming of the bottom rung of the ladder. The ladder is infinite…just like your imagination. Start believing in your wildest dreams and the universe will do the rest!

Get ready to do something daring

How long have you had a crazy idea in your head and haven’t done anything about it?

How long have you wanted to go skydiving, paintball, overseas for a year, quit your job to do something you love, write a novel in your spare time?

Many of us think up these crazy ideas, but not a lot of us follow them through. There is always an excuse, or two or three. You have no money, or no time or aren’t ready or are too scared. Can you see the recurring theme in these excuses – they are all negative!!

If you want to do anything crazy or anything daring or take a risk in your life at all you first have to rid yourself of these negative excuses. They have only one purpose and that is to prevent you from ever achieving that crazy dream you secretly really wish to achieve. So get rid of them. Turn negatives into positives. Save up your money a dollar at a time. Take time off work. Stop worrying if you are ready or not because you don’t always know better.

I have for a really long time wanted to start writing my own blog. Exactly like the one you are reading now. However, instead of DOING it, I simply made the decision to do it without any actual follow through. It has taken me a while to build up to where I am at now but hey I have finally started as you can see. I took the plunge and here is the end result.

So what crazy, daring idea is in your head that you have spent too long doing nothing about??

Do something this instant to put that idea into motion and sooner then you know you will be looking back and thinking "thank god I finally did that!"

Life is short so get out there and get ready to do something daring!!