So often these days we’re working so hard to have the nicest house, the best car, the most stylish wardrobe, the designer handbag or shoes – to keep up with the Jonses. We’re all working to get more, do more, be more in today’s fast paced world.

But when you make the Choice and commitment to be happy you Reclaim your Being. You will notice a subtle shift in how you handle your everyday challenges. While at the same time your desire/drive to get more and inclination to strive for more will start to melt away.

That’s not to say that you will become an unmotivated and slothful individual. Just the opposite – it means that your drive for success and prosperity will be on a much higher plane. Instead of striving selfishly for material success, we’re looking and working to add to our universes scorecard. For when we give to the universe – the universe gives back with bounty and abundance.

So today give yourself permission to just be. When you want and strive less, you give yourself permission to just be. You take the pressure off yourself, feel more peaceful and feel less of a sense of struggle in your life. Peace will take on a heightened importance to you and you’ll realize that there is nothing outside of yourself that you need to actually be peaceful. It all rests within you.

By doing this you are actually awakening to a new power. You will be able to access your own happiness regardless of your present circumstances. You’ll all of a sudden realize that you’ve been postponing your own sense of fulfillment – waiting for things to work out when all along you had the power to make a change.

When I was in Australia in the midst of one of the countries worst financial collapses I had two choices – curl up in a ball and accept defeat or keep moving forward with a new attitude and outlook – determined to be happy and fulfilled no matter what.

You are now at the same crossroads. You now have the courage to consider something different in your life – do you take that leap of faith for the chance at happiness or do you stay in your current situation hoping for something to change.

The choice is up to you.