The Anne Report brings you up to date on Anne’s latest activities. The Main Article, Life’s Purpose, provides Anne’s personal insights into her life’s purpose. In the Anne Talk, Three Things That Make Life EZier EZosophy, Anne spotlights 3 tips for an EZier life. Click to see Anne’s Art. In the Dr. Money Talk, The Most Important Prosperity Idea You Ever Will Hear, Anne recommends a simple idea that will alter your prosperity self-talk when consistently applied. Click to see the Quotes. The Featured Product This Month highlights Anne’s fourth book, Words Make a Difference. Click to learn about EZosophy. Click to learn about Anne’s Abundance Affirmations. Click for Shareables From Anne. Click to learn about Anne’s Schedule. Click to Schedule Anne. Click to learn about Anne’s Services.

Anne’s 8 Word Miracle Mantra: “Everything can be EZ or at least EZier.  Anne Sermons Gillis

Living EZosophy, December 8, 2020
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The Anne Report

Dear ,

It always hits me by surprise. It hits my heart, and it hits my guts. I just received an e-mail that a high school classmate passed away this morning. I have not seen him for ten years, and I did not even know he was sick, but the news took my breath away anyway. Another friend has incurable cancer and he just came down with COVID. These things happen more frequently the older I get, but my reaction is not, “When people are older, these things happen.” My reaction is more of grief and sorrow. Sometimes I wonder how we can be so resilient, yet I see friends who have been through loss and sorrow, pick up their lives and move forward.

My life is good. Though I have had a few knocks, I feel as if I have been passed over, as far as heartache and tragedy. Wow, I think it is like childbirth. People say if women could remember the pain of childbirth, they would stop procreating, but the memory of pain eventually fades away. Then they have another one. That is the way it is with my hurts. I can think of times when things were intense and painful, but it is like they were dreams that are now far away. I love the scripture that says, “I will restore the years the locusts have eaten.” Because as far as I am concerned, it is one of the Bible’s best promises.

 
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The book writing is coming along nicely. Our grands spent the night here, with Jim and me, for the first time without their mom. It was a bit dicey, with proclamations of “I miss my mom,” but we managed through and had a wonderful time. That is it for the Anne Report.

  Main Article

Life’s Purpose

When I was in my mid 20’s, I started playing tennis. I had never played sports. I believed sports were a guy thing, yet there I was, day after day, practicing, taking lessons, and playing the game. I read Tim Gallwey’s book, Inner Tennis, drank in every word, and called on the essence of tennis masters to help me. I pretended I was a great tennis master. It worked, and I moved easily on the courts.

I played for about 15 years. The experience caused me to radically reinvent my self-image. It was not an overnight reinvention. It took months and even years to break the sex-role scripting I had learned. I continued to develop my skills, and eventually I could fix my lawn mower, scale cliffs, and scuba dive. I could even travel a foreign country alone and paint a house.

I was raised in the 1950’s and was expected to be a secretary, a teacher, or a homemaker. I did not like the first two choices, so I majored in Home Economics. If I was going to become a wife and mother, I would learn to do it well. Cooking sounded like more fun than typing and teaching sounded like a prison sentence. I had been to school all my life. Why would I want to go back?

Harnessing my physical power was a singular step in helping move me out of my assigned role. Eventually I succeeded in the business world and thought, “So this is what runs guys. This? No. This is empty. Yikes! I’ve been duped. The guys are duped too. They are in another kind of trap – the success trap.” I thought the problem with my life was that as a woman I was trained to aim low in the world, so I figured out how to aim high. When I found myself working on Christmas eve, I knew I had gone too far.

This is when I had another one of those multitudinous dark nights of the soul. The bottom sucks, but the top sucks too. Now what will I do? When I looked for what was missing in my life, I looked in the wrong places. Getting my body fit, trying a new relationship, and succeeding were only time fillers. I was lost. The good news is that I was such a high achiever, that I got lost fast. I might have spent years bouncing from relationships, to career, to body. While those things are ingredients in a life well-lived, they are secondary to life’s purpose.

What is life’s purpose? What did I learn? Life’s purpose is:

• To discover who I am. This involves dismantling the me I thought I was, the me I was told I was, and the me I tried to be.

• To live in each moment, free from attachment and judgment.

• To develop kindness and compassion toward others.

• To have fun. I don’t have to be a jokester, but if life contains no pleasure, there’s no treasure. The spirit of life is the Spirit of Joy.

• To get past my personal agenda and to serve humanity. (This can only happen after one discovers and works with the shadow side of service, which is codependency.)

• To remove the blocks to the awareness of Love’s presence.

You now have the spiritual wisdom I have developed in my 72 years on earth. I wish I could live in wisdom all the time. Sometimes I am a master, but at other times I freak out like a frightened child. The trick is to be authentically with myself, without lambasting myself for my flighty emotions and to not hide what is going on with me from with my friends and loved ones. I have learned not to paint a smile on my face when I am hurting and not to cater to trite sayings that positive thinking throws my way. I have learned to climb the mountain and nurse my toes. Who wants to reach the top of the mountain with sore feet? It is much better to stop in the middle of the mountain and head down than to forge on when it hurts me. I do not have to prove things anymore.

The mystical and practical must hold hands while we live on earth. The miracle and the mundane are cousins. The perfected image of life I wanted does not exist. It’s freeing to know that. I can fall, get up, make mistakes, and still live an amazing life. When we realize that there is no situation or problem that can stand in the way of living brilliant lives, then everything gets EZ or at least EZier. Blessings!

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  Featured Product This Month

“Books are waiting to be written. Thus, it was my privilege to bring this book to the world. It brought with it such grace and love. Words Make a Difference sparkles with aliveness and blessing and delivers the perfect information under perfect timing. We are called not only to heal ourselves and those around us, we are destined to hold a vision for the world. This book commands us to be architects of a brave new future and lights a path for us to follow.” Anne Sermons Gillis

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  What is EZosophy?

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  Anne Talk

Three Things That Make Life EZier EZosophy

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Today's Anne Talk is Three Things That Make Life EZier EZosophy. Anne spotlights 3 tips for an EZier life. Time: 5:44

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  Dr. Money Talk

The Most Important Prosperity Idea You Ever Will Hear

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In the Dr. Money Talk, The Most Important Prosperity Idea You Ever Will Hear, Anne recommends a simple idea that will alter your prosperity self-talk when consistently applied. 5:02

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This group is a place to post uplifting affirmations and thoughts about prosperity and abundant living. Let’s create a right relationship with money so that we feel comfortable about money. Let’s use money as it’s meant to be used, and not as a way to accumulate power or to fill a void. We don’t need money to buy more stuff. We need it to create a world that works for everyone. We want to cast off old beliefs of lack and reclaim our natural state of abundance. Anne, AKA Dr. Money, posts a nightly goodnight video for the prosperity team, and everyone who watches those videos becomes a part of the prosperity team.

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