Productivity

Measuring productivity by how I feel about things is often inaccurate.

I might have gotten a lot done some days, but because I didn’t value it, I gave myself a low evaluation.

I am learning to trust a different kind of evaluation.

One that measures how much I love myself.

Do I still love myself at the end of the day?

Then it was a productive day.

When I work on the projects that are valuable to me, it is a productive day.

When I have to talk myself into working on projects or coerce myself in some way, even though I don’t consider it productive, nonetheless, the work got done.

When I realize that is the way I am approaching the work, I do not feel so required to do it any more.  

I realize I am a master at getting myself to do things I don’t want to do.

I will now spend my time on those things that are important to me and which I value.

I will keep myself in a state of productivity which I value.

© 2013 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

When (and Where) Do You See Success?

Do you see it after the fact?

Or do you see it as you make progress toward your goal?

Without the motivating force of convinced success, you probably will not get there.

I know I have been motivated to work on all the little details of my product development, years of research, acquisition of computer skills, and be led to marketing at the right time and place for my audience and clientele.

I can taste and feel the success.

I am doing my part, so I know the Universe is doing its part.

It is bringing me into conscious awareness of who I am, my purpose, and how to execute my engagement with the world.

I see my success here and now.

© 2013 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

A New Perspective

What if I was hired by someone to type up their ideas?

How would I value them?

What would be my attitude toward my boss?

Well, I am my boss.

And I am hiring myself to type up my ideas.

Now, I know how to value myself.

© 2013 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

How I See It

What I see is a world full of people who enjoy being with each other.

Where we all want for each other what we want for ourselves.

Individualities exist, although class distinctions do not.

People are not struggling to expand the empires of others.

Individuals are not expanding their empires at the expense of others.

All have found fulfilling work and they love what it does for their sense of community and contributing to the economy of the world.

Of course, I am defining economy more in the terms of Gross National Happiness rather than the old, tired practice of Gross National Product.

Since we want to take into consideration all the factors of production, let’s count the renewable resource of happiness among them.

How can we contribute to the renewal of happiness?

Start with the little elements that are in control in our little segment of our world.

Let it trickle upward.

And upward.

And upward.

Let it renew the atmosphere around our leaders, so that they too, want to expand the happiness of all those within their lives, thoughts and jurisdictions.

What is the new way of thinking about happiness so that it is available to everyone?

What are the ways that laws can be applied to include good for everyone within their reach?

How can we express our joy at the unlimited resources that happiness brings into our lives and the lives of others when we do this?

We can celebrate with more and more people as our renewable resource of happiness expands to include all of them, all of us.

© 2013 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

Remaining True

You have a vision.

You have discovered it.

It is your true direction.

You have been gaining the skills and knowledge to carry it out.

Continue in your path.

Do not short-change yourself.

If you do get distracted, come back.

You will do it.

You are doing it.

© 2013 Kathryn Hardage

Manifestation vs. Earnings

An idea manifests itself.

It attracts what it needs in order to be manifested.

We receive an idea which we love so much, we are motivated until we bring it into form.

When we are hired to help bring someone else’s idea into form, we earn our wages.

We each have our gifts.

We may not recognize them yet.

We may recognize them, but have put barriers in front of them.

Which way do you want to live and work?

Bringing forth something you love enough to overcome all the obstacles?

Or working for someone else who pays you to help them bring forth their idea?

In which way are you more valuable?

In which way are you most valuable to yourself?

In which way will you most benefit society as a whole?

In which way will you most benefit yourself?

Why, on earth, are you here?

© 2013 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com

Infinity is Dancing

Infinity is dancing through me.

I seem to know the steps.

I feel my whole new world inside me coming out.

This one is over.

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When I hear bad news and realize how it makes me feel, I look for a way to feel better.

I have been learning from so many wonderful inspirational writers how to look within for whatever I need.

So, to feel better, I look within.

I am trusting this experience more and more.

We are on a search for better living space.

As we acknowledge that our needs have changed since raising seven children, we are considering different possibilities.

When we consider the typical ones, I find they do not make me feel happy.

So we started considering ideas that are farther outside typical ones.

We are looking at different neighborhoods in different parts of town.

We are looking at renting, buying, sharing.

We are looking for space for my husband’s woodshop.

We are having a blast!

We are making room for a place that will make us feel good in our changing circumstances.

That feels like a much better criteria than our previous view.

I like the idea that a place should feel good and make me happy.

© 2013 Kathryn Hardage

www.InspiredPractices.com