Today You Can Make A Difference By Being Conscious

Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.

Consciously Make A Difference Today

Today you can decide to make a difference. You can start by controlling your thoughts. A person is the product of his thoughts. You can decide to be happy and hopeful, by having thoughts that are happy and hopeful. You can refuse to be victimized by your circumstances, or let petty inconveniences such as stoplights, long lines, and traffic jams rule your emotional state. You can choose to avoid negativism and gossip, and make optimism your companion, and victory your hallmark. Today you can choose to make a difference.

You can start today being grateful for the twenty-four hours that are before you. Time is a precious commodity. Just refuse to allow what little time you have to be contaminated by self-pity, anxiety, or boredom. Choose to face this day with the joy of a child and the courage of a giant, and enjoy each minute as though it is your last. When tomorrow comes, today will be gone forever. While it is here, use it for loving and giving. Today you have the chance to make a difference.

Today, you can choose to not let past failures haunt you. Even though your life may be scarred with mistakes, refuse to rummage through your trash heap of failures. You can admit them, learn from them, and correct them. And then press on Victoriously. No failure is fatal. It’s OK to stumble…you can always get back up. It’s OK to fail…you can always rise again. Today you can make a difference.

Spend time with those you love. Your spouse, your children, your family, and the people who have made your moments a little richer. A man can own the world but be poor for the lack of love. A man can own nothing and yet be wealthy in relationships. Today, spend at least five minutes with the significant people in your world. Five quality minutes of talking or hugging or thanking or listening. Five undiluted minutes with your mate, children, and friends, can make an infinite difference in the quality of your relationship with them.

Today you can choose to make a difference.

A part of living consciously includes finding out what you are passionate about and doing that, not as a job but as a form of giving back to the universe that provides for you everyday. I love people who give back everyday, people like David Wood who is an entrepreneur who works from home and loves to Empower Others and asks questions and causes people to shake the very foundational principles that hold their world together. He wrote a post I think you will find very entertaining called “If making money in your business isn’t EASY, you ain’t doing it right…“

I would love to hear your comments about this post and how you are making a difference in your life and the universe everyday.