How did I get here?

How did I get here? I thought myself here. I made choices to get here.
This morning I'm thinking about the craziness of going to East Asia. Where they cane people for not following the rules. Which means you really need to know your rules. Everyone says it sounds cool to go to Borneo, that I'm so lucky. I'm learning that I also have to be brave.
Then I started thinking about belief systems. If you have never been to Borneo, and you want to go, what do you do? Change your belief that you can't go. Start really truly thinking about how good it would feel to go, and what would have to happen in order for you to go.
Go to the American Airlines website and book the flight. Except it's not that simple, is it? It's never that simple. That's what you do, but it's never that easy.
I am a firm believer in positive daily affirmations. I believe in changing my life by changing my thoughts, because that's the equipment for the factory where decisions are made. Affirmations are magical, and transformational. In the last few days I made up some new affirmations that are really powerful. They are so amazing that I hesitate to share them, they are very personal. One is: I can have success and joy unspeakably great. There are others like that. I have special protection against harm and evil temptation.
Not like the old ones, which I'm still keeping, but I'm not sure where they all are. The old ones were things like Today is a good day. It's good to be me. Which are good, but now I have ones that really make me pause as I say them. The new ones are a whole new level of magnificent. I would almost say they are sacred.
But I don't believe them all. I just want to believe them all. I see how things have changed and the progress I've made from working on the older ones. I believe in the magic. I've seen it work. I even hesitate with these new affirmations, they are so bold! So then I thought, let's take baby steps. What if I really did believe those things? As I a writer I am always asking: What would that really look like?
A belief system governs our thoughts, which governs our choices. And we get to choose that too, don't we? I can choose the affirmations to form my beliefs. That's the point of it, right? To correct the inner critic to work for our own good. Since the only thing holding us back from the life of our dreams is our own thoughts. Isn't it? The life of my dreams involves certain requirements, after all. Self-love. God love. Love towards others. Humility. Tolerance. Forgiveness. Hope. Not getting thrown in jail, those kinds of things.
The more I have time to read and think about this self-talk and self-love stuff, the more Aha! moments come. Why shouldn't my affirmations be so incredible that they make me a little nervous?? I'm done thinking inside the box. There is a lot more room outside of the box. I'm ready to get a bit uncomfortable in order to grow. Face some uncertains, with the certainty that I can handle it.
I found Pura Vida in Costa Rica. What will I discover in Borneo? The plot thickens in my Book of Life.



I sure hope to be able to see one of these monkeys when we get there. I will probably laugh so hard I will startle it to death. I should work on silent laughter skills. That will give me something to do while waiting at the airport.