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Q: I'm doing everything I know to do, but my mission's floundering and my finances are in the dumper. What am I doing wrong?

A: You're not doing anything wrong. In fact, you're doing everything exactly as you intended. The problem is, you are unclear as to what that intention is.

You have an aspiration to serve others, and a desire to do it while living a life that serves you as well. But what you do not realize is they take a backseat to your soul's desire to evolve through the experiences your reality is bringing.

While you're going about your efforts to create something new or better, take some time to appreciate what you've already created, especially the challenges. They are there to serve you. Look for what they offer. Speak with them. Listen to the answers you receive.

There are conditions within you used to create that reality. Perhaps the situations you find so painful will allow you to discover them. And best of all, what they are telling you about yourself and what's important to you.

Most of all, pay attention to the experiences you're receiving. Not the outer situations, but the way you're processing them inside. How are they making you feel? How are you responding to them? What other ways could you respond to them that might make them easier to deal with?

Use what reality is bringing you in a new way. Shift your perspectives. Try new approaches. Select new emotional and other patterns to deal with them.

Perhaps when you do, you will find they will happen less and less often, and you will begin to get more of what you say you really want.

Then again, do you really?