As I was reading through this book I came across an excerpt by Catherine Newton, Create a Magical Life: Tap into Your Soul’s Intention of Abundance. It is about trusting yourself when your proverbial castle is crumbling. When it seems that everything in life is falling apart you must trust in yourself and your actions that things happen for a reason and the right path and destiny will show itself.

This really spoke to me, as it is what I am currently going through in my own life. Each day when I feel that surely things couldn’t get any worse…it somehow seems to. Normally an optimist by nature, it can be hard sometimes not to let despair overtake my looking into the situation for the positive. Or, how this one more challenge can make me a stronger person.

I came across a quote once somewhere by Mother Teresa that said “God only gives us what we can handle. I just wish he didn’t trust me so much.” It’s true. Much like what Catherine said about trusting yourself and who you are, we are all capable of great success if we perservere. We can all achieve anything we dream of but it’s not always going to be easy. We have to keep the faith and our trust in ourselves during those tough times because not to will cause us to lose traction on the road to our successes. It is not easy but the victory of achieving our goals will be that much sweeter as we reflect of what we overcame.

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So, this week I had this great idea, well I thought it was great at the time, to cut back on my caffeine intake. You see I typically drink a pot of coffee in the morning just to get me going and then several ice tea’s during the day. Then at night wine to relax me (but that’s a post all in itself). I began to realize that I was having trouble sleeping and figured it was due to one of three things. My high stress level, sleeping with my Blackberry and feeling compelled to see what emails came across at 3am, or way to much caffeine. Since caffeine seemed to be the easiest to cut out I decided to go with that first. But now after three days of headaches and being bitchy to everyone, I am not so sure it was such a great idea.

That leaves me in a bit of a quandary. I have made three days of headway on cutting back (not out) the caffeine and I would hate to give up all this great progress. But I am tired of feeling, well, tired and crabby. When will this end? When will this vicious drug be out of my system? How can this be legal and marijuana’s not (okay I know the answer to that one-just trying to be funny)?

So, I ask you all to support me today in my fight against caffeine by going cold turkey – no caffeine – for an entire day.

Together we can do it (I sure hope so at least)!
Laina