The Anne Report, Our Attention Tends to Guide Our Creation in Life, shows how what we focus on, we tend to create. The Main article, No Goals, No Promises, No Plans, reminds us that sometimes not doing is more important than doing. The Healthy Living article, New Year's Declaration, provides Anne's intentions for the new year. The Anne Talk, Have You Had Your Susan Boyle Moment Today?, invites you to step out and show the world your innate greatness. The Featured Product This Month highlights Anne's fifth book, The Living Book. Click to read What is EZosophy? Click to join Anne's Abundance Affirmations. Click for Shareables From Anne.

The EZ Mantra: "Everything can be EZ or at least EZier." -- Anne Sermons Gillis

Living EZosophy, January 1, 2019
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Our Attention Tends to Guide Our Creation in Life

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We are in South Carolina for New Year's Day. Having four-year-old twin boys around is like living in the middle of a circus and train station. Grandpoppy and I thunder around the house with the boys, holding Dusty Crophopper planes midair. Dusty was a race plane before he was a firefighter, so we live the life of racing planes several times a day. We let them win, but it's getting to be a tougher life as they age. We used to have foot races, then car races; now we have plane races. The boys are influenced by the shows they watch. They have seen two movies about planes and one about trains. They watch the same few movies over and over. They are now train and Dusty Crophopper plane fanatics. They recently started an educational series with dinosaurs as the teachers. Life is now about planes, trains, and dinosaurs. They watched Nemo and Dory movies, so fish are a very common topic. We took them to the pet store today to see the fish. They even had clown fish, Nemo look-a-likes, at the store. They love to watch the fish tank with relaxing music on YouTube. We identify all the fish that swim by.

Seeing how influenced they are by movies and the books they read, reminds me of how much I am influenced by the things that surround me. I rarely watch a news video; I read my news, because I know how impressionable the brain is. The brain is like the body. When we feed the body junk food, the body breaks down. When we feed the brain junk information, our thoughts and emotions start breaking down. While climate catastrophes abound and the stock market flips around, feeding my brain with information on either, on a regular basis, almost guarantees that I turn into a fearful cynic. I prefer to stay informed at a superficial level and, though I can never claim expert status on anything, this approach makes my life much EZier.

News is only valuable when we put it in context. It is the number one stimuli and fuel for ego driven drama. The EZosophy philosophy asks us to be discriminating about the news and what we feed our minds because we are like little four-year-old sponges. Our lives deserve optimism and humor, not a continuous feed of apocalyptic information. Join me this year as an EZosophist, because when you do, everything will be EZier and EZier.

Anne

  Main Article

No Goals, No Promises, No Plans

This title might startle you if you are on the road to success. Everyone knows that getting ahead requires perseverance and planning. Business bangs goal setting into our heads. Yet, there are other matters of the soul and heart that require more of an un-doing than a doing. While others plan for the New Year, maybe you prefer not being on the goal standard. Make your cause a BE cause. Don't be a goal digger. Being here now is the greatest show on earth. Even though goals serve their purpose, it is possible to live in an area that doesn't require getting things accomplished in order to be okay. The okayness appears first, then the doing follows. When our doing flows from a natural inner knowing, life flows easily and doesn't require the traditional methods to bring forth accomplishment. I refer to this as EZosophy – the art of easy or at least EZier living. When we experience ourselves directly, as we are, then regardless of whether the toast burns or our toe is broken, we come from the support of life rather than from the interference of the mind.

Can we stop making plans aimed at fixing or bettering ourselves? How about plans to be present, listen, relax, stop pushing, and allowing things to be just as they are. This is the no-plan plan. No need to sit in a heap and do nothing. Can we stop seeking betterment and trying to fix ourselves and our lives? Struggle is caused from making the way things are in the present not okay. We can do things without struggle, make a to do list that supports us rather than strangles us, and give up the never ending shout of the ego that we are not enough and we don't do enough.

My friend, Judy, died several years ago. Her passing was sudden. I loved her with a passion and she loved me. We used to joke that she was my one disciple. I was a teacher for her, but, as another friend mentioned, the teacher learns more than the student. I met Judy when she attended a series of lectures I gave on relationships. She told me that she was excited about attending the class. Her husband, who's now deceased, said, "Oh, that's great; that will be really good for us." "Us?" Judy replied. "You can't go." And he didn't. She came to listen, but more importantly she wanted me to be her friend. I didn't know this at the time, but her friend Shirley told me, "I remember when she met you. She told me she wanted you as a friend. I remember when she was courting you." Judy never told me that she picked me out. She told me often I was the most important person she met in her life. "I don't know what would have happened to me if I had not met you." I would kid with her by saying I was going to take excellent care of her because it is rare to get that kind of support and unconditional love. You can see why I loved her! She was genuine; she thought I was an answer to prayer. If I blundered, she acted like Melanie Wilkes (in Gone With the Wind). She overlooked it or lifted me up. She never thought badly of me.

One of Judy's concerns was that she never found her purpose or lived her passion. I told her all that hogwash tends to lead to longing. "Passion, purpose - watch that: it can be a real trap. Obviously that's not happening. Give up the longing, the regret. You are enough," I told her, "and your gift is not giving a product or legacy of words. You are the gift. Your life is the work. You don't need a plan to set out to be who you already are. Who you are touches so many." She was okay with that idea. She began to relax and appreciate that her life did have value. Of course, I supported this truth many times over the ten plus years we were friends, but as the years passed, she believed it more and more. She stopped seeking to be a better person and evolved as she accepted herself as she was.

I wish she could have been at her memorial service. The room was packed. We even had to add chairs. Person after person addressed the crowd, recalling how much she meant to them. Shirley, her friend, stood to speak. "I heard Judy talk about Anne all the time – Anne, Anne, Anne, but all that Anne was to Judy, Judy was to me. She was my teacher, my guide, my dear friend." And Shirley was not the only one that considered Judy their mentor. Judy was the compassionate sage that held everyone's hand.

When I think about plans and goals and feel any urgency, emergency, or a pull to perform, I think of Judy. She didn't work for many years, due to crippling arthritis and chronic pain. Life was on her schedule. She might wear her pajamas all day. She called herself a geezer, and we laughed about what we called "geezering." "What you been doing today?" "Oh, just geezering."

Life is paradoxical, and setting goals may be just what you need, but if you push yourself, if you are always too scheduled, if you are missing the sweetness, you may just need to geezer a little more this year. You may need to un-do more than you do, and get off the goal standard. When you get rushed, just put too much on your plate, or indulge in the idea that you are worthless, or if you luxuriate in guilt, it is high time to call off the drama-based self indictment and let yourself off the hook. Think of Judy: she did, and so can you. You can be a geezer, whether you are young or old. No one expects anything from an "ole (or young) geezer." Happy geezering, and Happy New Year.

Anne

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  Healthy Living

New Year's Declaration

It is customary to make resolutions or goals for the new year. It's a good idea, as long as our goals are not points of pressure. We don't want to use intentions or goals to set us up for failure and self-criticism. I like to write a statement that inspires me rather than one that motivates me. Here's my New Year's Declaration.

This is a new year, a new beginning. It is a fresh opportunity. I open each moment as if it were a personal and glorious present. I fill the infinite now with awareness and being. I exist as the presence of wisdom and as a messenger of truth. I lay down my past and walk in the still waters of my present peace. Because I exist as living love, I understand the nature of my mistakes and daily correct them, without sinking into shame or blame.

I live in harmony and recognize life's brilliant light shining on all lives, situations, and circumstances. Abundance and prosperity are alive in me and those surrounding me. My heart rests in boundless love. I see life as good and hear life's music around me.

I care for, relax, and restore my body. All sense of urgency and emergency recede in the luminescence of Being. I am fully alive and present to life, fulfillment, and contentment. I am intuitively guided as to what to do, what to say, and who to see. With Infinite Intelligence leading the way, I am free to be happier and my life is EZier every day. That's why I can say, "Happy New Year" with more confidence than ever. I see all the good I declare for myself extending to my human family, and all forms of life on planet earth, and I put these thoughts into cosmic law. And it is so.

Anne

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