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A Personal Story- How my Faith was tested…

By Stacie Campanelli · Comments (1)

Tuesday, January 31st, 2012

Great Tuesday Morning

There is a famous Scripture in the Bible that says if you have the faith as small as that of a grain of mustard, that you can move mountains. I know this to be true for myself, my clients, friends and family. The tricky part is in the trust. Faith as a mustard seed, means holding onto the desired outcome, the highest and most purest desire and surrendering the how to your Higher Power/God.

Last year with great pain in my heart, I decided to allow my 14 year old son Zack to go live with his father in Ohio. His dad had moved the year prior and my Lil’ Dude was having a really hard time with it. His grades went way down in school, along with his behavior, attitude and respect at home. I fought it (and him) with my ego strong in the lead for an entire year. I couldn’t let go of my need to “be” mom, which at the time I thought meant that Zack needed to be under my roof or I wasn’t doing my job. How silly of me right?

Once I removed ego and finally let go of my hold, something amazing happened. I had to get so clear with what I wanted. I mean the highest & purest desire for my son, his father, my other 4 children and myself. I had to get a vision of what I truly valued in my family. My ultimate desire and intention is harmony.

I wasn’t honoring this by refusing to see what was at the time, in the best and greatest interest of my family and more importantly, my Lil’ Dude. My pride became my driving force and when that happens, there can be no harmony. I finally conceded that Zachary needed his father. Simple as that. He missed him so, and I had to realize that this is not about me, this is about my teenage son needing the hand and guidance of his father. I could still be mom, do my ‘job’ and love my boy enough to let him go, so we both could grow.

With a leap of faith, which felt like I was walking sometimes with rocks in my shoes, I agreed to the move. I had never been away from any of my children for any extended lengths of time and it was most definitely a challenge for me. I had to continuously remind myself that, this is not about me, I am safe, Zack is safe and I am doing this because I love my son and want what’s best for him. Then once I was clear on why I was doing it, the pain lessened. I gave it up to God and trusted that my family is Divinely guided and protected at all times. No matter where we all are. I created my vision, my intent and gave thanks that my son would come home when he was ready and I would believe that it is the greatest good and highest intention for my family to be in harmony.

Holidays were a little tough, and other family celebrations were bittersweet. I will say this though: Thank God for Skype and Facebook

Watching my boy’s transformation over this past year has been a delight in itself. I could see that I had made the best decision for him. My guy loves his father. I love that. He deserves to have his dad a part of his daily life. He also loves me. It wasn’t about who the better parent was. It was about letting my son have his journey, meeting his need for guidance and connection. I think the hardest part for me as a single mom is letting go of how I think things are suppose to look with my 5 kids.

The sweet of life is truly in the surrender. I choose to believe that as they are all going in different directions and growing through their own lives, everything is exactly as it should be. They are safe, protected, healthy and happy. As am I. We all get to have our journey’s. That’s where my focus remains now. I trust and give thanks that my family is in harmony and the how is none of my business

The happy ending when we do this?

Things just seem to magically fall into place.

My son is on his way home from Ohio as I write to you this morning

For good. He’s moving home. He will be here after my LexieGirl gets home from school today. How cool is that? His father has decided to move back to Las Vegas. Imagine that

I am sure you can imagine the joy that is filling my heart. When things got a little challenging for me this past year, I would draw on my love for my son, and my faith in my vision and my Source. I knew I would again, breathe my Lil’ Dude in.

When you are having a challenge with letting something go. Something you seem to want so very bad. Ask yourself this question. What is the greatest, highest and purest intention with this? What do I ultimately want? Build your faith around that vision. Then trust and surrender the outcome to your Source. We don’t really have control anyway. What we have control over is our own emotions, feelings and thoughts. Get in touch with the heart of the matter and create an attachment to your ultimate desire. Be it harmony, peace, love, compassion or joy. That you can hold onto. The rest is the details, and as the saying goes, God is in the details.

Much Love, with Faith & Harmony,

Stacie

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Face Your Mountains with Grace

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Monday, January 23rd, 2012

Happy Monday :)

How are you gliding through your January? Do you feel as though your making progress? Keeping it in perspective so the molehills don’t grow to the size of mountains? I’ve been busier than a bee building her nest getting ready for her honey

Lots of creations, co-creations, joint ventures, projects and of course the blessing of my book release scheduled in the next couple of months Today’s article is from one of my favorite authors, Paulo Coelho. If you haven’t read his brilliant book, The Alchemist, I highly recommend it! An easy read, and not lengthy at all. It’s all about the journey If you are finding that you’re facing giants, mountains or messes already this month as you’re preparing to Rise To Your Size, take heart. Be motivated by the movement you’re making. Step by step you are making strides. Give yourself some Grace and know you’ve got a surplus of support whenever you need it.

To Your Climb,

Stacie

Excerpted from “Like the Flowing River”: Thoughts and Reflections

Manual for Climbing Mountains

–by Paulo Coelho , Original Story, Dec 20, 2011 by Daily Good

A] Choose the mountain you want to climb: don’t pay attention to what other people say, such as “that one’s more beautiful” or “this one’s easier”. You’ll be spending lots of energy and enthusiasm to reach your objective, so you’re the only one responsible and you should be sure of what you’re doing.

B] Know how to get close to it: mountains are often seen from far off – beautiful, interesting, full of challenges. But what happens when we try to draw closer? Roads run all around them, flowers grow between you and your objective, what seemed so clear on the map is tough in real life. So try all the paths and all the tracks until eventually one day you’re standing in front of the top that you yearn to reach.

C] Learn from someone who has already been up there: no matter how unique you feel, there is always someone who has had the same dream before you and ended up leaving marks that can make your journey easier; places to hang the rope, trails, broken branches to make the walking easier. The climb is yours, so is the responsibility, but don’t forget that the experience of others can help a lot.

D] When seen up close, dangers are controllable: when you begin to climb the mountain of your dreams, pay attention to the surroundings. There are cliffs, of course. There are almost imperceptible cracks in the mountain rock. There are stones so polished by storms that they have become as slippery as ice. But if you know where you are placing each footstep, you will notice the traps and how to get around them.

E] The landscape changes, so enjoy it: of course, you have to have an objective in mind – to reach the top. But as you are going up, more things can be seen, and it’s no bother to stop now and again and enjoy the panorama around you. At every meter conquered, you can see a little further, so use this to discover things that you still had not noticed.

F] Respect your body: you can only climb a mountain if you give your body the attention it deserves. You have all the time that life grants you, as long as you walk without demanding what can’t be granted. If you go too fast you will grow tired and give up half way there. If you go too slow, night will fall and you will be lost. Enjoy the scenery, take delight in the cool spring water and the fruit that nature generously offers you, but keep on walking.

G] Respect your soul: don’t keep repeating “I’m going to make it”. Your soul already knows that, what it needs is to use the long journey to be able to grow, stretch along the horizon, touch the sky. An obsession does not help you at all to reach your objective, and even ends up taking the pleasure out of the climb. But pay attention: also, don’t keep saying “it’s harder than I thought”, because that will make you lose your inner strength.

H] Be prepared to climb one kilometer more: the way up to the top of the mountain is always longer than you think. Don’t fool yourself, the moment will arrive when what seemed so near is still very far. But since you were prepared to go beyond, this is not really a problem.

I] Be happy when you reach the top: cry, clap your hands, shout to the four winds that you did it, let the wind – the wind is always blowing up there – purify your mind, refresh your tired and sweaty feet, open your eyes, clean the dust from your heart. It feels so good, what was just a dream before, a distant vision, is now part of your life, you did it!

J] Make a promise: now that you have discovered a force that you were not even aware of, tell yourself that from now on you will use this force for the rest of your days. Preferably, also promise to discover another mountain, and set off on another adventure.

K] Tell your story: yes, tell your story! Give your example. Tell everyone that it’s possible, and other people will then have the courage to face their own mountains.

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Tags : Facing the Giants, Like the Flowing River, Paulo Coehlo, Stacie Campanelli, The Alchemist, The Climb

Happy New Year 2012! How To Now Rise To The Size Of Your Calling

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Saturday, January 7th, 2012

HAPPY NEW YEAR! Have you made any resolutions? Would you like to know ONE that will put all the other ones peacefully to rest so you can truly focus on the best? Care to guess what the one resolution is? Patience? Faith? Intention? Action? Courage? While all of these are wonderful attributes, and definitely add a critical element to our accomplishments, none of them are the one resolution that’s needed. The only arrow required to shoot straight to the center of all your targets is evolution. Resolve to evolve. That’s it. It’s that simple. Courageously resolve to evolve. When we are learning, we are growing, and when we are growing, we are moving towards our goals. So many of us aspire to do more, spend more time with family & loved ones, lose weight, travel, quit a nasty habit, start a relationship, end a relationship, or start some sort of self improvement program, but set ourselves up to fail before we even start.

Without a clear and concrete plan of action, we are merely making the normal and so outdated fluff & stuff resolutions. Does this ring a bell? “I’m going to really really lose weight this year. Really I am. I mean I know I said that last year, but, this year, well this year is different. It is. Really. I mean it. I’m not sure how much I’m going to lose, but it’s going to be a lot!” Then after a few weeks of running circles around the gym with no clear direction or plan….we choose out and fall back into our old habits and patterns. Sound familiar? Or ending a destructive relationship, learning a new skill to advance your career, etc. The desired outcomes may differ, but the principles are the same. When we are aiming for the center, we begin by pulling back on the bow. The farther back we pull the bow, the more focused we become, the more concise the impact when we let go. By pulling back, by courageously looking at ourselves and our goals through the eyes of truth, the more guaranteed we are to hit our marks.

2012 offers so many promises. So many opportunities for growth, love, relationships, health, career, whatever it is, as long as your chosen resolve is to evolve, your target becomes clear and attainable. Take a little time to step back from your fears. Quiet the cast of fictional characters playing re-runs in your mind. Become an observer for a few moments, and get clear with what matters for your evolution. The first and most crucial step is awakening to the truth. Not the watered down version of the truth. Not what others want to hear as the truth. Your truth. And trust yourself. Your higher self knows what lies you have been buying into up until now. What is it going to take for you to be happy? To truthfully be happy? To experience joy? To build & grow your financial landscape? To nurture your health for optimal performance? To pursue your life’s passion? To create a relationship so delicious that it makes Hollywood salivate for what you have? To live a life of excellence? To live a life of excellence we must choose to excel. To move through the lies in every area of our lives.

Are you finding that you are always busy doing, yet the results at the end of the day are anything but excellent? Do your days find you drained by nightfall? Is the chaos your swimming in beginning to feel as though you have cement shoes on? Where are you in respects to your emotional growth? Spiritual? Mental, and physical? This year is about renewing, restructuring, reviewing, rebuilding, results and rewards. Are you so busy bending over for others that you have no time for yourself? How exhausting is that? Are you fed up with being Mr./Ms. Fixit? Or molding yourself into the image that others want you to be? Time for your evolution. Time for breakthrough. It’s a new year. A New You. Get real so you can live a real life.

Write your top 10 values in life. Your personal virtues that you and those around you must live by. What are they? Get very clear with what matters to you. Take some quiet time to get in touch with your values. What makes up your value system? Once you have your top 10, choose 3. Choose the three that are your absolute deal breaking non-negotiables. Now you can create a solid action plan to achieve, obtain and move towards your goals. Apply these three to every situation, circumstance, life decision or choice you are about to make and you will begin to move towards your goals and begin building momentum for your desired results. The first step may be a little scary at first. This is totally understandable and will get easier with each honest step you take. Each time you speak from your truth, you will begin to walk with a greater sense of ease, of peace, of clarity and of grace. Confidence is built with movement. Honesty takes strength. The strength that comes from your truth.

Honesty also takes courage. The courage of knowing that you are safe speaking, walking and living from your integrity. Your values. Your target will become clear. Your choices, naturally, better. Conducive and supportive of your personal goals, dreams, hopes and desires. Those that have weighed you down, that which has kept you stuck, will instantaneously lighten up so you can let go. Let go so you can grow. Evolve. Your sights become fixed, arrow becomes locked in and SHAAAZAM!! BULLSEYE

If you are ready to make 2012 the year you truthfully and joyfully take yourself on, turn the heat up to a healthy notch, and let go of a life by default, creating instead a life that you design, I am accepting applications for a limited amount of new clients and projects and speaking engagements. For more information on my elite coaching programs, to set up a consult, or to inquire about my speaking schedule, please email me @ stacie@staciecampanelli.com

Here’s to creating a powerful year and making GREAT choices!

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It’s A Wonderful Life! Merry Christmas

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Saturday, December 24th, 2011

The true meaning of Christmas Spirit ♥ Community, Caring, Compassion, Kindness, family (blood AND beyond), and;

L*O*V*E

F*A*I*T*H

M*I*R*A*C*L*E*S

Merry Christmas from my heart and family to yours ♥

It’s a Wonderful Life:

Returning home, George bursts through his front door and finds the bank examiner and local sheriff. He greets them with a smile, assuming they are there to punish him for bankruptcy and serve him with a warrant for his arrest. He is delighted at the prospect: “Isn’t it wonderful? I’m going to jail!” He happily leaps up the stairs, accidentally yanking out, kissing and carefully replacing the railing post ball on the stairpost – for the third time. He chuckles to himself. At the top of the stairs, he blissfully embraces his children. Mary enters the house and runs into his arms on the stairs. He kisses her on the face again and again, asking if she is real Dragging him downstairs to stand in front of the Christmas tree, she tells him: “It’s a miracle.” Mary has brought his faithful friends, relatives, depositors and citizens of Bedford Falls to their home. They have all rallied with good will and Christmas spirit to support him and save him from going to jail. Almost everyone in Bedford Falls who was positively affected by his presence is there – Mr. Martini, Mr. Gower, Violet, Annie the cook, and all the people who participated in the bank run.

Incredulous, George silently says the name of each one as they come forward, relieved and thankful that they’re alive to him. Proving their faith in him for the life he had given them, the townspeople collect gifts of enough money from their private reserves and put them in a large basket. The money amounts to thousands of dollars – enough to save his business from Potter’s control. Billy excitedly pours out the donations onto the table. The man who had demanded all his money back during the bank scare comments: “What is this, uh, another run on the bank?” and then promptly puts his money down on the table.

A wire from London arrives from financially successful Sam Wainwright, offering an advance of $25,000 if George needs it for financial solvency – it includes greetings of Hee Haw and Merry Christmas. Janie plays Hark the Herald Angels Sing on the piano, and everyone joins in singing. Even the bank examiner contributes to the bulging pile of cash, and the sheriff tears up his arrest warrant. Flying through a snow storm, Harry arrives and offers a toast to George and the group, recognizing the real treasure of friends that George has (and wryly commenting on the money in the basket): “A toast…to my big brother, George. The richest man in town.”

The voices of people burst into communal song Auld Lang Syne fills the air. In a touching ending and the film’s most famous scene, while holding his daughter Zuzu in his arms, George glances down at the pile of money. His eye catches what is buried on the pile – Clarence’s copy of Tom Sawyer left for him as a gift. Zuzu opens it and they find an inscription written in it: Dear George, Remember no man is a failure who has friends. Thanks for the wings! Love Clarence. People who have real friends know the best there is in life, rather than reaching for rewards and yearnings elsewhere – real riches can be found in the treasures nearby.

Mary looks up at George and is told: “That’s a Christmas present from a very dear friend of mine.” Suddenly, a little bell on the Christmas tree begins to tinkle as it sways back and forth. Zuzu points to the bell, dutifully reciting what her teacher told her about the significance of a ringing bell: Zuzu: Look, Daddy. Teacher says, every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings. George (grinning): That’s right, that’s right. (He congratulates Clarence, looking upward and giving a wink.) Attaboy, Clarence.

Only George realizes the full significance of the bell ringing – it rings for Clarence who has earned his wings by succeeding with a tough assignment – and also for George’s awakening of consciousness through divine intervention in his experiences, enabling him to be freed from the confines of earthly pressures. He has found his own rewards and gifts – life, redemption, and freedom. The swelling sounds of Auld Lang Syne build to a crescendo in an affirmation of life.

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