Have Faith.

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Have faith
Faith can move a mountain…

If you are a frequent reader of my blog then you have heard me talk about how “everything happens for a reason” and to “trust the Big Picture“, and this week I’ve been amply reminded of why both of these are my life motto’s.

See when you unquestionably believe both of those statements, then you are at a place of peace. Even when you are being tested and fear starts to creep in, you can rely on your faith to get you through those moments of doubt and mental corrosion.

I’m not saying I haven’t had a few of those thoughts this past week. This has been the most trying week maybe ever for me. It was a time of total uncertainty. My three children and I were at the mercy of the American Red Cross, essentially homeless waiting to see what the verdict would be, see if we could go home or not. As a parent it has been terrifying I’m not going to lie.

The past month I’ve seen much of what I worked the past three years for, come tumbling down. It was a dedicated effort to kill those voices in my head that told me I failed. That all the work I’ve done was for nothing, that I’m no better off now than I was then. Those voices could of destroyed me this week if I gave them the room. It was difficult not to listen to their argument and go with their verdict. But I just am not willing to do it. Not willing to buy what their selling, I know better now.There was that small part of me that thought, I can’t do this again. I can’t start from scratch and rebuild my life yet again. I’m tired. I want to sit on the floor. I don’t want to get up. I want a self-induced pity party. So I allowed myself that emotion twice this past week. But that was it.

I know how important thoughts and emotions can be, I didn’t want to dwell on those thoughts and emotions. However I’m human like everyone else, and to top it off I’m a chick! Of course I would have an emotional reaction! To deny myself of that, would be harboring those thoughts and allowing them to eventually take up more mind-share then just having the melt down and moving on.
So I made a conscious decision, to stop thinking and verbalizing the “worst case scenario”. I decided I would only focus on the “best case” and in my heart of hearts I KNEW UNQUESTIONABLY that the best case would be THE case. That’s what the Law of Attraction has given me, that’s its present to me. That instead of letting fear convince me that the worst case is “always my luck” I’ve learned, that thinking is straight bullshit.
It took about an hour after that for me to get the text, that the house would be fixed (this coming week no less!) and that yes, we can go home! A few minutes later in my email in box was an offer-letter for a great position, that I know will be just what my family and I need to get back on our feet quickly and happily.
The moral of this story is this…if you thought The Secret or The Law of Attraction was a load of crap, I hope that you watched my week long struggle and can see that the advice I give comes from a place of KNOWING that this works. It works EVERY TIME for ever situation if you TRUST it and gain control of your thoughts and emotions.
Keep your eye on the prize, whatever that is for you.
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Remember that whatever you’re going through at this moment that…

#1. This too shall pass.
#2. Everything happens for a reason, be patient but know that it will reveal it’s self in time.
#3. You can control your thoughts and emotions in ANY situation.
So don’t be your own worst enemy, take a deep breath and rely on what you KNOW. That you will attract into your life what is right for you. It might not be what you want in the moment, but if you trust it to deliver your Big Picture then know those hard times, are like an Earthquake rearranging everything, shaking out the bad and making room for new construction.
You (and I) are gonna be okay.

Sarah Centrella is the author of the book Hustle Believe Receive which teaches you how to apply the #HBRMethod to change your life and live your dream.

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“Thankful” By Oprah

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Oprah's advice on how to get grateful.

*this was posted to my FB fan page…and was just want I needed to hear today to recharge my faith batteries, thanks  Oprah

Oprah's advice on how to get grateful. “I live in the space of thankfulness – and I have been rewarded a million times over for it. I started out giving thanks for small things, and the more thankful I became, the more my bounty increased.

That’s because what you focus on expands, and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it. Opportunities, relationships, even money flowed my way when I learned to be grateful no matter what happened in my life.

“Say thank you!” Those words from my friend and mentor Maya Angelou turned my life around. One day about ten years ago, I was sitting in my bathroom with the door closed and the toilet lid down, booing and a hooing on the phone so uncontrollably that I was incoherent.

“Stop it! Stop it right now and say thank you!” Maya chided. “But, you don’t understand,” I sobbed.

To this day, I can’t remember what it was that had me so far gone, which only proves the point Maya was trying to make. “I do understand,” she told me. “I want to hear you say it now. Out loud.”

“Thank you.” Tentatively, I repeated it: “Thank you – but what am I saying ‘thank you’ for?”

“You’re saying thank you,” Maya said, “because your faith is so strong that you don’t doubt that whatever the problem, you’ll get through it.

You’re saying thank you because you know that even in the eye of the storm, God has put a rainbow in the clouds.

You’re saying thank you because you know there’s no problem created that can compare to the Creator of all things.

“Say thank you!”

So I did – and still do. Only now I do it every day. I kept a gratitude journal, as Sarah Ban Breathnach suggests in Simple Abundance, list at least five things that I’m grateful for.

My list includes small pleasures: the feel of Kentucky bluegrass under my feet (like damp silk); a walk in the woods with all nine of my dogs and my cocker spaniel, Sophie, trying to keep up; cooking fried green
tomatoes with Stedman and eating them while they’re hot; reading a good book and knowing another awaits.

My thank-you list also includes things too important to take for granted: an “okay” mammogram, friends who love me, 25 years at the same job (and loving it more than the first day I started), a chance to share my ision for a better life, staying centered, having financial security.

I won’t kid you, having money for all the things I want is a blessing. But as I look back over my journals, which I’ve kept since I was 15 years old, 99 per! cent of what brought me real joy had nothing to do with
money. (It had a lot to do with food, however.)

It’s not easy being grateful all the time. But it’s when you feel least thankful that you are most in need of what gratitude can give you:

PERSPECTIVE. Just knowing you have that daily list to complete allows you to look at your day differently, with an awareness of every sweet gesture and kind thought passed your way. When you learn to say thank you, you see the world anew.

And as Eckhart so eloquently stated: “If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is ‘Thank you, God’, that would suffice.”

 

 

Sarah Centrella is the author of the book Hustle Believe Receive which teaches you how to apply the #HBRMethod to change your life and live your dream.

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Living in a Hotel….

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Show Up.

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When your going through tough times, all you need is someone to stand up.

It’s funny how when your successful, happy and on top new people are drawn to you. They want to know what your secret is, they want to be around you. Then some of your old friends turn to silent haters. They pretend to be happy for you, but secretly they wait for the day, when you once again fall. They cant find it in themselves to truly support or be happy for your success.

But it’s even funnier to me how few people show up when you are in trouble. When you hit a rough patch, when they watch you struggle. Crickets.  All the ones who were so happy to know you last month scatter like cockroaches when the light goes on. No one wants to be associated with you, no one wants to look you in the eye. It’s like your body is covered in contagious poison that could be passed on through any type of contact. Everyone wants to pretend they aren’t rubber-necking watching your train wreck, yet they are glued silently. It’s interesting to me how few offer a helping hand, and those that do offer it quickly with a prayer that it wont be accepted. The rest just say “you can do this, your strong this is nothing to you”.

Let me tell you, this would be something to ANYONE. Yes I’ve had nine lives, and I do my best to land on my feet each time, and let me assure you I will again. But that doesn’t mean that each major set back doesn’t affect me the same way it would affect you. I am no different than any other parent out there who when faced with the real possibility of being homeless overnight, wouldn’t freak out. I AM freaking out, as any parent would be in my shoes.

When your going through tough times, all you need is someone to stand up.

That’s why I’m going to make this uncomfortable for you. I’m going to make you see this. It’s not fun and it’s not pretty. But being me, being real is all I know. I’ve said in every response to a blog question that I HAVE BEEN THERE, whatever the situation is/was. I can relate. So now you can watch me start from scratch again. I want you along for the ride, bumpy or not. We are in this together!

A month ago I was in my Manhattan two bedroom apartment suite, tonight I am in a shitty dive hotel provided by charity. I’m glad that in both instances I was SO grateful to have each. In one I was pinching myself, in awe that it could really be my life, a moment I was living.  In the other I’m so happy to have a roof over my head, and my children in bed next to me.  I’m proud of myself that when I first walked into that suite in NY, I took a video the way a little kid would. I was gitty and blow away to be there. I’m glad that I never took one second of it for granted. I’m glad that I lived in the moment. I’m just as grateful for this room tonight, the one provided to us by the Red Cross, as I was that night.

And if there is ONE THING I KNOW, it’s that I will get back on my feet and on top fast.  And like always it wont be from handouts or on the backs of others, it will be by my own true grit and determination. But I also KNOW that if I ever see someone struggling the way I have been this week that I will be the friend that steps up (like my girlfriend and sister did for us this weekend). I will be the one that doesn’t ask, “what can I do?” but not really mean it. I will be the one that just shows up, arms full, heart overflowing. I’ll be the one that shows up.

I wont turn a blind eye, I wont pretend I didn’t notice. I will be at your door with a home cooked meal or whatever it is I could imagine you might need. I did it once for a total stranger a few years ago, pulled up with an entire house full of stuff, literally thought of anything and everything she could possibly need. It was one of the happiest days of my life.

I guess it’s just disappointing to know that so few people in life are made with that inside them. I don’t want anything form anyone, that’s not at all what I’m saying. I’m simply saying that as a society we are all so numb to what we see others go through, we always just assume they are fine, when the truth of the mater is maybe they need you. They probably wont say so, they will probably tell you they are fine, but if you suspect otherwise then in my opinion it’s our job as a human race to just step up and do. Realizing that when someone is going through a difficult time they are probably not going to ask you for help, or even accept it when it’s first offered. So if your not sure what to do, but you want to do something (this is totally generic works for any situation I think), just show up. With anything a gas card, movie passes for kids, offer to babysit, idk there is a million things you can do to show support that don’t have to do with money. Maybe just call, check in. Let them know they are not alone.

Maybe we should all open our horizons a little and try to put ourselves in someone else’s shoes and just be selfless even for a minute.

I know that is the lesson I will walk away from this experience with. #1 the Red Cross kicks ass and I will support them for life #2. I’m going to be a doer, always.

“when times are hard you stand up” Show Goes On….

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Song: Show Goes On

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Don’t Count Me Out.

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Don’t count me out just yet.
Sarah Centrella and the Red Cross
Thank God for the Red Cross

Many of you know my story, know the road I have been on the last three years in an effort to rebuild my life. It’s been putting one foot in front of the other every single day, good days and bad. I’ve been able to grow and learn so much about myself. In the process I found hope and faith and learned to trust God and the Universe to deliver me out of difficult situations and to lead me in the direction that is the vision for my life.

I have had setbacks the past few years like everyone does. But with each one I try my damnedest to get back up, brush myself off and solider on. When it comes down to it, I have no choice. I am the sole provide for a family of 4 and there isn’t time in my world for self-pity or laziness.

I’m a fighter, a survivor. It’s what I know. It’s what I do.

However, this is a particularly scary time for me and my children. As I write this, I sit in a little dive roadside motel, that in all honesty I could not be more grateful for. I don’t mind its smell of cigarette smoke; it’s dried-out and broken pool outside the front door. It’s bad location or general rift-raft. No I’m grateful like never before that myself and my children are safe, and that they are sleeping soundly. Never before has the term “grateful for a roof over my head” meant so much.  I’m forever indebted to the American Red Cross for providing us this refuge for the next few days as we try to decide what our next move can be.

Three fire engines responded

Yesterday the in-home sprinkler system went off in my daughter’s room, instantly flooding all three levels of the home that we currently rent. By the time the fire department showed up with two engines and about a dozen firefighters, the damage was done. There was standing water on the 2nd floor (main living area), water pouring through any available outlet in the ceiling like an open faucet. Three inches of water covered the kitchen floor, three drains poured on our couch and dining room table, and slowly the destruction made its way to the bottom level (garage) where it settled.

Trying to turn off the sprinkler

I looked around the house, firefighters in every room, and just put my hands to my face and cried. When the Red Cross disaster relief workers came, and offered hugs I cried harder. When they offered stuffed animals for the kids, a room to stay in and a debit card, tears streamed down my face.

The damage is severe. Crew’s came almost immediately to begin gutting the house on each level. The timeline is unknown if we can return home, if at all. Certainly not for the foreseeable future.
This in its own right is unsettling enough for my children who ask about 1,000 questions a second about what will happen next. But as many of you might know I was suddenly and without reason let go of my job three weeks ago, and have been searching for its replacement since.
So as I sit here knowing what the reality of our situation is at this moment…. I can’t help but believe that something better will come along and that after all the work I have done to rebuild my life that I’m not back where I started in less than three short weeks.
I refuse to accept this as defeat.
I refuse to give up.
I will not lie down or throw in the towel.
I won’t let fear destroy me.
I won’t let my children fear.
I will teach them that in life, disasters happen. 
Sometimes life gets scary. 
Sometimes mama doesn’t have all the answers. Doesn’t know what to do.
But we still have faith. 
We can still believe everything will be alright.
Life can kick you in the teeth on a regular basis but when it does are you going to go toothless??? Umm NO that’s not a good look! Find dentures till you can get implants! Fake it till you make it. Start over if you have to. It sucks. There is no denying that this sucks ass right now. But there are so many people around the world in SOOOO much worse situations than mine that it makes me feel stupid to even be afraid at this moment. But when it comes down to it we are all human and each of us has our mountain to climb big or small, so all I can do is put on hiking boots, barrow a backpack and start climbing.
I’m so grateful to each of you for the support and love you have shown me the past few months, it has without question given me more hope; inspiration, and determination then I could have ever given you.  I love you all, thank you from the bottom of my heart.  And stay tuned…cuz this is NOT over, not by a long shot!!! We are just getting started. I want you along for this ride no matter how ugly it gets, because I want you to see first hand that even still, magic can happen and anything is possible.Other posts from living in the hotel:
Show Up
Good News Everything Happens for a Reason
Have Faith
Give me Bikram Yoga!

Standing water three stories down in a mater of minutes
Almost immediately the house was torn apart to try and prevent additional water damage
All of our stuff on the decks, soaking wet
By the next morning, this was our house. Unlivable.
Mira sitting on the bed her and I share in the Red Cross hotel
Our new home.

 


Sarah Centrella is the author of the book Hustle Believe Receive which teaches you how to apply the #HBRMethod to change your life and live your dream.

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My Personal Story

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Me telling my personal story the night before my house flooded.
 

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Sarah’s Video Tips: Fake It Till You Make It!

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Sarah’s Video Tips: Believe. But How??

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