What You Forgot You Knew by Amanda Huber

I picked up a book recently that has been decorating my bookshelf for several years. I thought I had never read it and being in need of a new book I picked it up and scanned the introduction. It was really good stuff! Why had I never read this book before? Then I noticed that several pages were dog-eared. I had read it. What's more, the quotes from the pages I had marked might be even more inspirational to me today than they were when I first read them.

Thought is creative.
The world is as you see it.
As you think, so you are.

The book is called Secrets about Life Every Woman Should Know by Barbara De Angelis, PhD. I can't believe I had ever forgotten about it, but I know why I found it again - right under my nose and in plain sight all this time. Because I needed to.

Paragraph after paragraph echo the thoughts and ideas that drive this website. Obviously it is one of the many books I have read and absorbed into my consciousness over the years.

Over the past few months I have been absorbed in the day to day activities of running a small business and have not been able to devote the inward attention I need to myself. Finding this book again was one in a string of events that made me realize I had gotten away from the very thing that keeps me the most centered and happy with my life.

Learn to refocus your mind
in the direction you want it to go.

Take notice of what is around you and be aware that the simplest actions and renewals may be an answer to something that has been eluding you. Pay attention to the little coincidences in your life that seem to create a theme. The things we need most are sometimes right in front of us. We have only to truly open our eyes to see them.