Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still. ~ Chinese Proverbs

“We dont manifest what we want, we manifest who we are”. ~ Unknown.

Here is a great article on Limiting beliefs from Steve Pavlina – Personal growth expert:

Limiting beliefs can seriously hold us back in life. But most of the time such beliefs are invisible to us. They control some of our thoughts and behaviour behind the scenes, enough to curtail our results in some area of life. For example, if you have the belief that rejection is a bad thing, you’ll avoid approaching new people, and you’ll miss out on many wonderful social connections and opportunities to realize your goals and potential.

Re-building Your Belief System

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To weed out your Belief system and rebuild it to actually leverage it as a manifesting tool you will need to:

1. Identify and remove the Limiting Beliefs that hold you back.
2. Choose and adopt new Empowering Belief system that fully supports and compliments the action you will take to achieve the results you are looking for.

This is a process so be patient with your self and just do your best every day knowing that each day you are closer to having a strong foundation for manifesting the life you want. It is just as important to choose your new believe system structure as it is to quit the old way of thinking that holds you back. Start with affirmations and just being aware of how and why you take action in life. This reveals the current belief system very accurately. And then just tweak.

5 Empowering Beliefs to Practice This Year

Here are my favorite 5 Affirmation/Beliefs that are a foundation for how I approach challenges and choose my mentality to live my life.

1. Things always work out for me.

So many times we expect this to be complicated, to struggle or to fail…what if we start expecting the opposite. And don’r worry if someone sais you are unrealistic. Reality has as many forms, just as the perception we choose to crete it.

2. I am open to receive.

Eliminate pride and unreasonable independence in your life. There is independence and than there is Pride fed by fears. We are here to help and support each other. That’s how we crete the most amazing things in life. Our ability to receive is an expression of self love and our understanding that life should be the opposite of a struggle.

3. I am willing to change. I expect good things.

I just came across this wonderful idea : Expect a miracle after a breakfast. I absolutely love it. Most of the time we are expecting to work for everything we get in life. We earn things and we start putting brakes on the natural flow of Abundance in our life that is actually our Birth right. What if we get something before we actually start our work day? No work, no effort required, just an opportunity to practice allowing of Our Natural Abundant State of Being.

4. I am in the right place, at the right time, doing the right thing.

This is what’s called being present and having no regrets. It is such a light and powerful energy that attracts the best in life. Accepting our circumstances removes any guit, frustration and anger that may be standing in a way of you receiving all the goodness that Law of Attraction would have easily delivered otherwise.

5. Today I decide to live in a universe that is supportive and friendly.

Our universe is as supportive as we allow it to be. At the end of the day, it only mirrors our attitudes and focus. If you are doubtful of people, cranky, don’t trust anyone, expect things to go wrong… start tweeking your mentality towards more trusting attitude.

Here are some Affirmations that can help you to shift your energy: I trust the process of life. If that is a real stretch, you can use variations like : Today I am open to learn to trust life. I am willing to learn how to trust the univesre I live in. Release the struggle and let the good people and good experiences in.

You can practive just 1 of these above beliefs over a week or a month and then move onto another. Let this year to be the year when things get simple and easy.

Happy manifesting!

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If you’re worried about something, turn that worry into a prayer by asking for divine assistance with whatever is troubling you. Doreen Virtue.

Do you believe in Angels? I always liked fairytales and the idea that there is someone watching over me. These days I see Angels as representation of my core belief, which is: ” I live in a friendly and supportive  universe”.

I remember, years ago I find a quote from one of my favorite people of all times – Albert Einstein. Here it is:

“The most important decision we make (every day) is whether we believe we live in a friendly or hostile universe.” Albert Einstein

These days we are being trained to always watch our back, to be careful and trust no-one to make sure we dont get hurt or miss-treated…and all of this just perpetuates the manifestation of a hostile universe (as we are focused on it in this way). On the top if it, if we trust no-one, we get the same in return.

Developing the Habits of Trust with Your Angels

Embracing the idea of Angels can be the first step to shifting our mentality of Doubt to the one of Trust, Kindness and Expecting the people around you to ” be on your team”. It takes way less energy to trust than it does to doubt. Try it, you ‘ll feel your energy levels raising immediately and most of all, little miracles will start manifesting on daily basis.

Morning Routine: Open Your Self to be Supported

I love acknowledging my Angels the first thing in the morning (especially on the busy days) and asking them to help me with specific tasks to be more productive. This way I can manifest my day from an energy of TRUST and BEING TAKEN CARE OF. It’s the most pleasant, easy and productive way to go through my day, I find.

Try it. Do a little meditation in the morning to get centered, which means JUST BRATHE  for a few minutes, and then call on your Angels. Tell them about your day, what you want to accomplish and ask for any help that they can offer. Leave it up to them to deliver whats the most beneficial for you. Let me know how this new habit changed your day and leave a comment below. I would love to hear about it.

Here is a short video of Dorren Virtue talkes about her 15 favorite Archangels you can call on to receive protection, miraculous healings, and amazing guidance from these beloved heavenly beings.

Archangels 101 by Doreen Virtue

What do you think about the idea of Angels?

Brigitte Bardot: Makeup/ Hair/ Fashion Tips

In my previous article about the French actress and  Fashion Icon – Brigitte Bardo, I gave you some tips on how to crete an extraordinary life – BB style. She was truly a mesmerizing person and an inspiration to many artists and young women over the last few decades. Her look definitely remains timeless. I have to admit too, that I love her style and the very feminine, sexy look she created for her self. I think that to be a woman is to celebrate it every day in any way possible. I call that tapping into Your Inner Goddess. It’s fun and it’s very EMPOWERING. Here are some resources, if you would like to bring some BB inspirations into your own life and your personal style. Enjoy! Image source: discothequeconfusion.blogspot.com

Brigitte Bardot Style Trademarks:

In her prime time, Brigitte Bardo was known for :

• Her smoky eyes and nude pouty lips
• Her blond “Bedroom” hair and her BIG updo hairstyles. She was the queen of tousled hairstyles.
• Little mini-dresses and elegant, simple and girlie style.
• Her Sex Appeal on and off screen.
• As a model, she was famous for her 20 inches waist.
• When she was a child, she had buck teeth and had to wear braces. When the buck teeth were corrected, she had a gap between her front teeth. She smiled a lot anyway.

Here are some amazing videos/tutorials on how to re-crete BB’s look. The first one is from Anna Saccone: http://www.annasaccone.com

Brigitte Bardot Tutorial: Makeup/Hair

Brigitte Bardot Beauty Secrets

Here are some detailed Instructions on Backcombing/Teasing to create Brigitte Bardo  Hair-styles. Source : highlightsmobile.blogspot.com

“Quit apologizing for your greatness. If people can’t handle your light… Hand them a pair of shades.” Lisa Nichols

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Here is a great article I found on this fun and fashionable Blog (see the link above) on how to Let Your Self Shine. Check it out! You ‘ll be glad you did (SMILE).

Here are 7 step to Let your Self Shine .

Tap into Your Inner Goddess Following BB’s Example

Considering Brigitte Bardot’s success and exciting, fun lifestyle she managed to create for her self, we can lear a lot from this girl. And if you are thinking that if she was not so good looking it would be a different story, I agree but physical beauty is not at all enough to create an extraordinary life. You also have to have:

• The guts to step into the spotlight.
• Focus to not get caught up in the expectations of others.
• And confidence to keep believing that you deserve all that good stuf.
• Most of all, you can’t feel guilty that others have a boring, many times limited life. We are all equally powerful creators of our own reality, but not everyone embraces the full responsibility that comes with that idea. Do you?

How to Create an Extraordinary Life

I this article, I would like to share few tips with you on how to go from ordinary to powerful and confidant. Who wouldn’t like to have an extraordinary life, right? So lets see what we can learn from this extraordinary girl. Scroll down to see the Brigitte Bardot inspired tips to “Living Large”.

Brigitte Bardot has created an amazing life for her self. She was not only known for her success as fashion model, an actress and a singer, but  also for her out of proportions love affairs. Decades later she still has a way to amuse us. Bridget Bardot was the first foreign-language star to attain international fame and success.The French bombshell is the most known now as a animal rights activist.

I’m a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all and became a bohemian. ~BB

Brigitte Bardot’s Childhood

Bridget was born on September 28, 1934, in Paris, France (of course, right!). As a daughter of a wealthy industrialist , she had a childhood surrounded by grannies and nannies, happy and carefree. I guess thats where her on screen child like, almost naive personality comes from. Than the war began and things have changed. Bridget as a child was troublesome and use to considered herself ugly, unlike her younger sister Marie-Jeanne, which everyone loved. She also suffered from a squint. Not what you would expect looking at the photographs of a beautiful and confidant girl in this article.

The Dream of Becoming a Ballerina

At twelve years old, Bridget entered the ballet school. That’s when she found something to be passionate about. Two hours of classes at the bench was very tiring, but she dreamed of become a ballerina. Soon she left school and began taking lessons from a Russian dancer Boris Knyazev, but eventually drop out. Being tall limited her carrer as a ballet dancer. Quite early in her life, she was noticed by a professional photographer and was offered modelling contracts. By 1950, she was featured on most Elle magazine covers and attained the image of a cover-girl.

That’s when BB was born as we know her today.

BB Sexy Revolution

In 1952, Bardot made her movie debut in the Le Trou Normand Series, a series of comedy flicks directed by Jean Boyer. After appearing in 16 films, she became world-famous due to her role in her then-husband Roger Vadim’s controversial film And God Created Woman.In 1955, she appeared in Warner Brothers’ production, Helen of Troy. The studio was quite impressed by her role and offered her a seven-year contract, but, surprisingly, she refused. Brigitte Bardot returned to France to work on her acting career there and her popularity made her France’s top sex symbol by 1957.

Bridget Bardot starred in Et Dieu Crea la Femme which made her an international film star. Reportably in the United States alone, she earned a whopping four million dollars. Imagine, what kind of money it was at that time?

Brigitte Bardot was adored in America

She was so popular with the American audiences that Columbia, reportedly, offered her a $225,000 million triple-movie deal. During the 1960s Bardot appeared in Babette s’en va-t-en Guerre opposite Jacques Charrier, who she married later. She starred in Henri-Georges Clouzot’s La Verite, which rose to become France’s top moneymaker of the year. There was a popular claim that Bardot did more for the French international trade balance than the entire French car industry.

Bridget Bardot: Mr. Sun

Bridget Bardot’s music career was also very popular. I actually never knew this, so it was a bit of surprise to me but here is a video of her singing the cool little song named” Mr. Sun”.

In 1973, Bardot announced that she was retiring from acting at the age of 39 as “a way to get out elegantly”. During her career in show business Bardot starred in 47 films, performed in numerous musical shows, and recorded 80 songs.That’s what I call keeping busy and creative! She was also awarded the Légion d’honneur in 1985 but refused to receive it.

How to Live an Extraordinary Life

Brigitte Bardot style

You can most definitely see a few patterns/set attitudes in the way she would live her life. Here is what I see:

Charisma is an energy that we create and project intentionally and like anything else, this skill can be learned and practiced. To tap into your ” Extraordinary Self ” you can follow some BB rules:

1. Keep your childlike playfulness and dream a lot.

Brigitte was known for her daydreaming and openness to possibilities and new ideas. Remember, Your Creativity is your ticket to becoming extraordinary.

I am 30, but there are things about me that are still 15.

2. Follow Your Joy and Trust Your Intuition

Everything she did seamed so effortless and natural while having a powerful effect on her audience. BB was choosing the projects that felt exciting and fun to her and that greatly contributed to her success. She was constantly surprising her audience with new ideas and projects.When she wasn’t in on the idea, she was not to be convinced otherwise.

“I never do anything by chance”. Brigitte Bardot

3. Be open to be vulnerable. It’s the ultimate sign of confidence.

It’s not easy to put your self out there and wear your heart on your sleeve but that’s the only way to not have regrets.

“Do you have to have a reason for loving?” ~BB.

4. Expect things to always work out for you.

This is an attitude that can be developed over time if it is not very natural to you right now. Your mind is a muscle like any other. Exercise it and choose the thoughts that will have the ability to attract what you want.

5. Be Your Self, ignore trends and create a little mystery.

Don’t be predictable. Keep the people around you on their toes while having fun with it. We are all wonderfully unique and this quality should be honoured in all aspects of your life. It takes less energy to be free than to fit some label others gave you because they ” know you well” .

6. Adore Your Self and others will too.

Appreciating your self. It is our birth right. Claim it! Know your best assets and flaunt them girl! (Smile) The Law of Attraction says : “We don’t attract what we want, we attract who we are”. Approving of our selves is a big part of it. Treat your self the way you want other people to treat you. It works!

7. Be open to opportunities.

Brigitte Bardo was a model, an actor, a singer, a book author and a muze to many fashion designers. Who says you have to pick one thing only and stick to it (cos that’s what your parent’s what you to do…. sounds familiar?). Allow life to flow through you and be intuitive about the choices you make. You know when it’s going wrong. Trust your self and your ability to attract what’s best for you.

8. Speak your mind, while still being loveable.

She always did that. Whether it was her talking about marriage or fighting for the animal rights, she would not hold back. Respect your self, and trust your values and decisions. Yo know the best what will make you happy and what are you capable of. Don’t let other’s tell you what’s best for you. Get behind the wheel and pick your destinations. Enjoy the ride!

9. Smile a lot

BB’s flirtatious giggles are famous. She always had a reason to smile. It will keep your energy in the right place and attract other people that have the same attitude – happy people. That’s worth the effort, right?

10. Do what you love and dedicate Your Full Self to it.

Go big or go home, you could say. We as far as we reach. It’s boring to be safe all the time anyways. That’s why we love roller-coasters. Excitement comes from exploring your abilities and pushing your self even farther each time. Go for it! Don’t over-analyze what others will think about you. You can’t please everybody, neither is that your purpose. They’ ll get over it eventually. In a meanwhile, you managed to stay happy. That is important!

11. Be adventures and take risks.

This was BB’s trademark. It’s my favorite thing about her. It’s also a reason why people search for her photographs, videos…She still has a way to surprise people and it feels like an adventure to research about her life. Are you a risk taker? I don’t suggest you have to take your clothes off in public to make the point, but doing something others don’t expect you to do once in a while is enough to make sure you are never stop learning and growing as a person.

What Makes You and Your Life Extraordinary?

What was the last thing that you have done, you could call risky or daring? How many of these rules do you live by your self? Let me know. Leave a comment below and share the ways how you make your life extraordinary. Thank you for stopping by and HAVE AN EXTRAORDINARY DAY!

“Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.” ~ Joseph Cossman

You show the lights that stop me turn to stone
You shine It when I’m alone
And so I tell myself that I’ll be strong
And dreaming when they’re gone