Happy Thanksgiving.

The end of the year is fast approaching, and so are the seasonal cycles, rhythms, and timings. We are finalizing projects, ideas, and, sadly, some relationships. New Year's resolutions include changing lifestyles and partners.

Statistics show that breakups, divorces, and lifestyle changes are more likely to occur during the Christmas and New Year holidays. Maybe it's due to the stress, anxiety, worry, and fear factor people have dealt with throughout the year. I don't know.

This is the time to be grateful for our spouses, family, and friends. We live in troubled times, is a phrase often quoted. My question is, when have we not lived in times of change, challenges, and uncertainty? These are the conditions of life, and so too are the beauty, love, joy, and happiness we experience.

I am reminded daily of our power to "ACT as if." This is a thought process, the mindset to establish a lifestyle we prefer to enjoy.

This "acts as if" concept is similar to the power of prayer. Prayer is a statement of what already exists as our daily experience. It is not a ploy to ask God for what you feel is lacking in your life. It is a daily opportunity to demonstrate appreciation for all the blessings you enjoy.

To "act as if" is the mindset in which you believe you are who you desire to be. I use this mental exercise to attract people, situations, and circumstances I prefer to experience.

People have difficulty experiencing what they desire because they spend time remembering the past and worrying about the future. Neither of these time frames exists in the present moment you live.

Where you are right now, in this moment, is the only place you can die. So, why do you continually make references to the past and future? You can't exist there. Why not attract what you desire where you exist in your present?

If you can only die in the moment you exist, then you can only truly live in that moment as well. Yet, we take ourselves out of the present, where we exist, and expect everything we desire to find us. How can it be? 

Act as if you already have all that you desire. Act as if it is your present reality. Remember, when you imagine yourself as a changed person, someone different, you are different, a completely new version of yourself. Act upon that version with integrity; all the attitudes, mannerisms, and expressions will be present within this new version of you. Everything will fall in place naturally and create abundance effortlessly.

Remember, you are as powerful as you need to attract all the love, peace, joy, and happiness you desire because that is who you are: Love and Light.