A CHRISTMAS REMINDER

     Today is Christmas and as we spend time with our families and enjoy our gifts, let us keep in mind what Christmas is all about. Christmas is not really about the gifts that we recieve or the best parties of the season or even the great places we can visit. I believe Christmas is about how much we can give of ourselves, how much we can enjoy and be thankful that we can be with our families and how far we can go in planning how well we're going to do the following year to make our lives and the lives of our loved ones a better one.

      Just yesterday I had to be reminded of what Christmas is really about. Even though my holidays were always filled with joy, laughter, family and many, many presents, I was missing out on a important meaning of this season. Every year I planned for yet a better Christmas to an almost perfect one with much to drink, eat and much more presents. To my surprise, every year got a little less abundant and less happier.I wasn't in the Christmas spirit as I always was, I didn't want to visit family anymore,  I even came to the point that in the past few years, I've found myself struggling to buy my children gifts for the holidays.

        All that have read my other posts know that this past year has been a transformational one for me. I have known so many new things that I never thought would ever evolve in my persona. As these holidays approached, I was stressing the fact that I didnt know how I was going to come up with money to buy my children the gifts that they deserve; realize how many times we find ourselves doubting our own strengths and forgetting that we are children of the most high God and nothing is impossible if we truly believe that everything in life is possible. And as I thought about the negativity of things, I subconsciously started fighting with my conscious and prayed and reassured myself that something great was happen even if I didnt have any money to buy gifts and that my children will understand. Amazingly, both things happened!

         I woke up early yesterday morning, got some choirs done, went to pick up my son who was coming home for the holidays from college at the Orient point ferry, came home and cooked enough food to feed an army and by the time it was 2pm, I had everything I had planned done. 

         Miraculously, my husband came home about 2:30 pm with great news. He was given a bonus from his job that enabled us to buy gifts for all my 5 children including my 3 grand daughters, one of my husband's friend and my daughters' friend which I consider like my own.

         Observe how I too, still am not fully aware on what the true meaning of Christmas is, well I do know but I think I need to be reminded so I can instill that truth in my thoughts and beliefs. As I sat with Emma on my lap (my youngest grand daughter) and helped her unwrap her gifts, I recieved a text. Anthony Robbins tweeted "The best present of any Christmas is the gift of being with those you love! Hope you are sharing that gift today!" And surely and much blessed, I was. Writing this gives me goose bumps.

          I didnt realize that giving the gift to my children that I am always there for them is the best gift ever. I would not know what I would have done on Christmas days had I not had my mom around to cook for us or just be there in a warm and loving enviroment and I'm sure my children feel the same. I'm sure that my children will give up any gift if they had to choose them over me. Thankyou God, for making my life completely family happy!

         Even though next Christmas is another year away, let us continue to believe in the true meaning of Christmas. As we are reminded that Christ was born on this day, let us be born again too, not in religious ways if you chose not to but in ways to make our lives more fullfilled.  Let's make our lives more whole, more peaceful, enabling us to live our passions, live our most highest potential. Let us go on a journey in which we will commit ourselves that when the ending of next year comes, we can look back and truly say, "I've made a change in my life for the better and I have made a difference in a person's life or people's lives." Wouldn't that be a great satisfaction and achievement?!!


            I believe that if we can make a difference in  person's life, we are unconsciously making ours much better in ways that we've always dreamed of. I am committing myself that for next Thanksgiving, I will volunteer in a soup kitchen or anything similar to help feed the less fortunate. Next Christmas, instead of buying gifts and cooking for my family, I will invite less fortunate families to my home and cook for them and buy them gifts. I've already told my children about my plans and they are happy to help my plans become a success.

           Please feel free to to share any plans to make our world a better one. See you soon in a more fullfilled, abundant and different world.
                        
                      Marilu Nunez

         

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING THANKFUL

                          Why should I be thankful?


      That was a question I asked myself so many times but didn't think it was important as long as I got what I wanted from the people who surround me and I did what was right. My children were taken care of and I tried to implement the strict rules my parents implemented on me. My house was clean and always decorated beautifully for every occasion and every holiday and my husband's only worry was to go to work because I made sure he did not have to worry about paying bills, or cooking, or having to worry about looking in the closet and not finding clean clothes for the next day of work because I made sure that everything was done accordingly.


        But one day I realized that my life was an everyday routine and there was no excitement in my life, so I decided to listen to what my heart always told me; that there has got to be another and better way. That I needed to stop, smell the sweet smell of flowers and be thankful for what I had. There was no way I was going to get different results in my life if I continued to do the same things everyday that had gotten me to the life that I was presently living.


        What a fool I was not to realize the wonderful gifts that God had given me! How naive was I not to notice the special people that surrounded me and made such a diffence in my life! I was letting time pass by without noticing the great things my children did because I was too busy trying to implement what was right. I was too busy trying to make my home look perfect when what I should have been doing was to be appreciative that I had a home, that there were many out there that were sleeping in alleyways and were out there in the cold while I had a beautiful home with a great family and a comfortable, warm bed to sleep in. I was too blind to see that there were children out there who went to bed with nothing to eat when thankfully mine never went without it and I was also a very self centered person when I thought that my husband's job was only to please me. I constantly brushed him away every time he would buy me flowers telling him he should have done something better with the money like pay some bills. I criticized every gift he gave me complaining it was not what I wanted and then I wondered why he stopped doing these nice things for me!


I realized I needed to do more for my children than  just take care of them physically. I needed to do more for myself than  just clean my house every time I thought I needed to do something productive. I needed to have a husband, not just someone who I thought of as the one who payed me to clean up after him, to cook for him,to have clean clothes for him every time he needed it and to serve him so he can satisfy his sexual needs because in my eyes, it wasn't for me to enjoy, I just put it upon myself to think that it was only my responsibility as his wife.


          Then I realized the importance of being thankful. I learned that I have to be thankful for even the smallest things, the things we think are meaningless but turn out to be the things that make our lives complete. I realized how wonderful my kids were and after I became thankful for having them in my life, they became even more extraordinary than they were in the past. After I became thankful for the food we had on the table every night, I began to give to charities to help the needy.  Just the other day, I started making dinner for us. I noticed that I had run out of oil, didn't have the condiments that I wanted to complete the meal and noticed all we had to drink was water. At the moment I got kind of upset but not a minute passed when I realized how ungrateful I was being. I started thinking about the less fortunate ones and my whole outlook on the situation changed. I began to ask God for his forgiveness, thanked him for what we had and everything looked and felt different now. We happened to have a great dinner and was very thankful that we had it.


        I also became aware of the wonderful person God has sent me as a husband. I realized that I should be thankful for having him in my life and that I have to accept him for what he is and the wonderful things he does, not for what I wanted him to be and want him to do. Just last night, I became very ill and had to be rushed to the hospital, no big thing but a small case of pancreatitis. I observed how he was so tired, my husband works two jobs but that didn't stop him from pampering me and making sure I was comfortable. He tucked me under the blankets, he kissed my forehead, he held my hand, he even put his coat over me so I could keep warm even if that meant that he'd be cold. How can I not be thankful for all these things?Now my husband and I live a caring, affecionate and loving life because I learned to be thankful.


         We have to all learn to give thanks to God, to the universe or to whatever your beliefs are, but we have to learn to give thanks. Being thankful opens up the doors to many fulfillment in our lives. After I learned to be thankful, my life has been more happier, more peaceful and much richer in all aspects, even financially. We have to realize that the more we are thankful, the more we learn to give and the more we learn to give, the more abundance we receive, automatically. I even learned to be thankful for the business that I'm in. I'm thankful that even though I'm not on the level where I want to be, I know that the opportunity is like no other and that slowly, but surely, I will achieve the richness God has in store for me.


          Amazingly, after being thankful, I have also attracted many wonderful and amazing friends who have guided me, helped me and have nurtured me in ways that would only happen to a person who is so thankful for life and everything in it.  

               Yisel Tejada is a energetic, extremely pleasant and very beautiful young lady who has made it her business to excel in life. She is a great example to everyone of all ages. She sends out a message to us that everything is possible when you have a positive, motivated attitude and believe in yourself. She has been an inspiration to me and I'm thankful for it. 


 Gloria and Paul Caraway have been amazing friends. These two wonderful people are there to help without asking for anything in return. I will never have enough money to ever repay them just for being there for me. 


Carlos and Cecy Marin, with their motivation and advice, have made my life such a better one that I will be forever thankful. Even though they're helping hundreds of people achieve their true potential in life, they always find the time for me, I'm am so thanful. 


John Razmus, a brillaint, 20 year old kid who I named "Website Magician" because of his expertise in doing magic with computer programs. He is helping me with setting up my personal website, something I have been trying to do for years. John, you're stuck with me for life and I know that soon I will be making enough money with that amazing website you're creating for me and you will be compensated greatly, I promise!! 


Last but not least, I want to mention someone who I also met not too long ago on Twitter. If you are ready to better your life in every way, then Chip Esajian is the man you have to connect with. In such little time, he was made a tremendous impact in my life that I can't explain. Thanks Chip for your great and positive energy, you are my daily motivation!




You see, this is the outcome that life brings us when we all become thankful. Life will start bringing you all you've desired and much more. Just to let you know that being thankful doesn't happen instantly like magic but when you decide to be thankful, the more you become a better person to make a difference in this world!

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FINDING MY TRUE POTENTIAL AND PURPOSE

      Have you ever felt like you deserved a bigger and more prestigous house than the one you live in now? Have you ever felt like you could have a better car than the one you drive or questioned your circle of friends? You never questioned their personality but have you questioned their mindset, their composure, their financial status?  Does and would that influence you?

      I have felt like that all my life, since I was a little girl. I felt like I deserved all greatness in this world and deep inside I knew I had the ability to do it, my only question was, "is it possible?"

      After years of questioning and many times doubting myself, there was always an unexplainable voice inside me reassuring me that everything was possibile and that I could do and achieve everything my heart desired but the negativity of the people that surrounded me always lead me back to my question, "is it possible?"

       Trusting my instincts, I began to search for answers elsewhere, somewhere where I thought I might find answers. I read the book The Secret; that was like putting a luminous light bulb on a lamp that had not been used for years. I started listening to Joel Osteen; filling my life with the spirituality I thought I could live without and then realized it was impossible to live my purpose without it.

 A few months later, I attended a personal empowerment session (Millionaire Mindset Mastery)with Carlos Marin which totally changed my life around. Carlos and his wife Cecy have guided me in a way that words can not explain the dedication from such empowering people. I came back from that seminar knowing I was now a new and improved person but came back starving for more fullfillment in my life.

         After this change, I decided to live my life searching to find, not the better part of me but the best in me. I have read books on Anthony Robbins, Joe Vitali, Robert Kayosaki and many others, too much to mention, all of this in a few months considering all my responsibilities of being a mom, grandmother and wife. I have been educating myself on many other things and to my surprise, passions have revealed themselves to me, passions I never knew belonged to me.

 I made a promise to myself; I will spoil myself for the first time in my life and give myself all that ME desires. I  had doubts about posting this blog thinking that people wouldnt like it, that it wasnt good enough or it wasn't going to lead me anywhere but I have to let go of my fears. I have to believe in myself and the gifts that God has given me.

       It's obvious I have lots of cleansing to do but I will not stop until my mind, body and spirit are as pure as the heart of a newborn child. I will not stop until I can open my arms  in front of the ocean and feel the warm breeze of nature in my face and be thankful for the abundant life God has given me. I will not stop until I can deeply and really feel that I am powerful beyond measures through his grace and I will not stop until I rejoice on all the good deeds I've done through my success.

This is the start of my journey to finding true happiness, true spirituality and true greatness in life. I am determined to find all the great things the universe has in store for me, it is time that I claim what belongs to me. Please allow me to be an inspiration and motivation in your life as I would greatly appreciate if you do the same with me. I would love to hear all your life's experiences as I know that will make my journey a much fullfiled and shorter one.

To our reinvention of ourselves,

Marilu Nunez

For Carlos Marin information go to:  

http://marilu.automaticriches.com/