Today I will let go of my need for approval and my need to be liked. Instead, I will choose to like and approve of myself. The people who count (including me) will respect me when I'm true to who I really am. Melody Beattie More Quotes by Melody Beattie More Quotes From Melody Beattie Live your life from your heart. Share from your heart. And your story will touch and heal people's souls. Melody Beattie wisdom inspirational life I know when to say no and when to say yes. I take responsibility for my choices. The victim? She went somewhere else. The only one who can truly victimize me is myself, and 99 percent of the time I choose to do that no more. But I need to continue to remember the key principles: boundaries, letting go, forgiveness after feeling my feelings—not before, self-expression, loving others but loving myself, too. Melody Beattie keys responsibility letting-go All endings are inexorably tied to new beginnings. That's the Melody Beattie best-is-yet-to-come new-beginnings journey Speak your truth. Melody Beattie letting-go love-you heart Gratitude isn't a tool to manipulate the universe or God. It's a way to acknowledge our faith that everything happens for a reason even if we don't know what that reason is. ~Melody Beattie, 52 Weeks of Conscious Contact, pg. 34. Melody Beattie everything-happens-for-a-reason gratitude tools Make New Year's goals. Dig within, and discover what you would like to have happen in your life this year. This helps you do your part. It is an affirmation that you're interested in fully living life in the year to come. Melody Beattie live-life new-year years I pray for faith that my future will be good if I live today well, and in peace. I will remember that staying in the present is the best thing I can do for my future. I will focus on what’s happening now instead of what’s going to happen tomorrow. Melody Beattie live-for-today focus tomorrow When we're surrounded by things that look impossible, making a simple choice to do something that's possible is a powerful thing to do. Melody Beattie powerful choices simple Today I will refuse to jump into the middle of others' affairs, issues, and relationships. I will trust others to work out their own problems, including the ideas and feelings they want to communicate to each other. Melody Beattie issues work-out ideas Going home means getting comfortable being who you are and who your soul really wants to be. There is no strain with that. The strain and tension come when we're not being who our soul wants to be and we're someplace where our soul doesn't feel at home. Melody Beattie sadness home life We need to set goals for ourselves. Start today...if you don't have any goals, make your first goal getting some goals. You probably won't start living happily ever after, but you may start living happily, purposefully, and with gratitude...Goals are gratitude in action. They give us the opportunity to build on what we already have. While achieving goals can be a lengthy process, we can learn to be grateful for each stage in the process of setting and meeting goals. Melody Beattie gratitude grateful happiness Gratitude helps us stop trying to control outcomes. It is the key that unlocks positive energy in our life. It is the alchemy that turns problems into blessings, and the unexpected into gifts. Melody Beattie gratitude keys blessing Today I will learn to reject shame. Shame is an overwhelming sense that who I am isn't good enough. I realize that I am good enough, and that my imperfections are part of being human. I let go of shame. Melody Beattie imperfection who-i-am letting-go Goals give us direction. They put a powerful force into play on a universal, conscious, and subconscious level. Goals give our life direction. Melody Beattie powerful goal play Waiting time is not wasted time. Something is being worked out - in us, in someone else, in the Universe. Melody Beattie wasted-time universe waiting We are more than our problems. Even if our problem is our own behavior, the problem is not who we are-it's what we did. It's okay to have problems. It's okay to talk about problems-at appropriate times, and with safe people. It's okay to solve problems. And we're okay, even when we have, or someone we love has a problem. We don't have to forfeit our personal power or our self-esteem. We have solved exactly the problems we've needed to solve to become who we are. Melody Beattie self-esteem safe people I trust so much in the power of the heart and the soul; I know that the answer to what we need to do next is in our own hearts. All we have to do is listen, then take that one step further and trust what we hear. We will be taught what we need to learn. Melody Beattie soul heart needs Wants and needs are closely connected. And all our needs, even the ones we're not completely aware of yet, will be met. Be grateful that God knows more about what we need than we do. Sometimes when we pray, we get what we want. Sometimes we get what we need. Accept both answers-the yes's and the something else's-with heartfelt gratitude. Then look around and see what your lesson and gift is. Melody Beattie gratitude grateful prayer Today, I will let go. I will stop trying to control everything. I will stop trying to make myself be and do better, and I will let myself be. Melody Beattie letting-go trying today If that person doesn't want to be in your life, just let him or her leave. Melody Beattie persons want letting-go
