Welcome to Tuesday Tips, a weekly handbook on ways to feel good as a conscious creator. This week’s focus is on letting go of the things that are holding you back, while taking the time to deliberately raise your vibration. We are like radio tuners projecting a signal, and we have the power to switch to any station we like. Crank your mood up to 11 and you’ll hear your favorite song begin to play!

1. Say FUCK IT.
If you are experiencing the same contrast over and over, or just can’t seem to shake a particular concern or negative thought, just let it go. It is so empowering to allow yourself to stop holding onto that one thing that makes you feel bad. When you let it go, it will clear itself right up. Fuck it! We’re here to have fun!

2. Give up.
The only action you can take to get what you want is giving in. Let go of the desire. Feel good even though you don’t have it. Quit trying to crawl back up the water slide and enjoy the ride! As soon as you start having fun, you’ll see what you wanted was right in front of you all along.

3. Let go.
Every time you notice something you don’t want, let it go. Count, breathe, or write–anything you can do to stop thinking and drop the thought. Say to yourself, “I can do it. I can do it. I can feel good no matter what.” You can drop a thought just as easily as you picked it up.

4. Breathe better in your sleep.
Kelly and I have started listening to the universal breathing room while we sleep and it has totally transformed us! I have amazing conceptual dreams illustrating the flow of life. Kelly says her sleep is actually calm now. Try it!

5. Use that magick wand!
Did you make a magick wand yet? If you did, here are further instructions: make a wish, then believe it will come true when you forget about it. You have to be having so much fun you forget about what you wished for.

6. Look past what is.
This is the key to manifesting what you want. Let yourself stop thinking about what is for 10 seconds. Then start telling your new story. The Life Story worksheet can help you focus on your new story quickly and easily.

7. Don’t care about what anyone thinks.
This goes for you too! You are not a victim of your thoughts. Any time you feel a resistant thought, or catch yourself caring about what someone else thinks of you, reply with a hearty “I DON’T CARE!”

8. If you know what you don’t want, think about what you do want.
If you are experiencing contrast that makes you know exactly what you don’t want, all you have to do is take one second to imagine what you’d prefer instead. Feel fat? Say to yourself, “I love it when I feel good in my body.” Feel uninspired? Say “I love it when I want to work on my projects.” Then find another way to feel good (basically, distract yourself), and before you know it, you’ll have what you want.

9. Read the Flower of Life books.
Watch the video below, and if you’re intrigued, read the books mentioned in the video notes. It’s weird, it’s super out there, but it resonated with me to the core.

10. Suck it up and do the work to feel good.
Your mood is your work. Your mood is the only thing that matters. Sometimes I go for days without focusing too much, thinking I’ve mastered the art of feeling good. But it’s not something you achieve; it’s a practice. You have to stay after it, every day. Write, meditate, count, breathe, nap, exercise, play, lifestream, or do worksheets. Just stay after those high vibrations and make them your home. Such cool things are happening there!

11. Appreciate your reality to appreciate yourself.
Sometimes it’s hard to focus on things we like about ourselves. But if you consciously find things to appreciate about your reality, you’ll end up finding more to like about yourself. Since your reality is a reflection of you, anything you choose to expand externally will be expanded within as well. Turn it into a game: find one thing to appreciate about everything you see. “I like your shirt. Nice stroller. Great hair. Pretty smile.”

12. Remember love really does conquer all!
Choose to love and not care about anything else, and everything will work out perfectly.

13. Be an inspiration.
Lorra Fae wrote an absolutely stellar post about choosing to better oneself for the good of others. If you feel like you have no purpose, this will give you one. “Your purpose, now, is to transform for the good of everyone, not just you.”

14. Stay in the Now.
Here’s how: don’t think, don’t speak, and don’t act, unless you’re divinely inspired. It takes some practice, but you’ll know it when you’re there.

15. Show up for practice.
Kelly and I like to think of conscious creation as a pro sport, like we’re playing in the NBA. Basketball players practice for 2.5 hours a day, and they have a ton of games. Directing your thoughts and intentionally raising your mood (i.e., vibration) is the practice, preparing you for all the exciting games you want to play–relationships, travel, work, etc. Put in the practice time to play your best.

16. Raise your vibration easily, effortlessly, literally.
You can use your breath to take a hot air balloon ride up the emotional scale. Just breathe and say to yourself, “Breathe in and raise your vibration. Breathe out and release your resistance.” Repeat until you can actually feel your mood rising. Things will begin to look very different from your new perspective.

Enjoy the rest of your week! I love you, you’re doing great! Keep up the good work!

Tuesday Tips is a weekly collection of ways to feel good. There are infinite ways to feel good, you just have to find the ones that work for you. You can do it by taking action, directing your thoughts, practicing specific emotions, or just allowing yourself to be. This week’s edition includes lots of inspirational quotes and ways to play your life to the next horizon of success. Time to level up!

1. Count, or lifestream.
I lifestream to consciously create my reality. I choose the thoughts I want to be true, write them down and savor them, and then I stop thinking and start counting. I no longer find myself thinking contradictory thoughts to my new story, and now I’m always living my new story. It rules.

2. Manually restart your creative flow.
Just like meditating every day or taking the garbage out every day, if you make yourself do 15 minutes of a creative activity every day, you’ll get in the flow of creating. I used to wait around to be inspired to create (e.g., worksheets, art, articles) and always felt a little sick at how little I felt like creating. Now Kelly and I make it a point to work on our projects a little bit every day and we’ve been creating our best work every night for over a week. Wee!

3. Keep your patterns sustainable.
Once you get in that creative flow, you’ll be tempted to stay up late milking your fresh inspiration. But if you stick to your bedtime and save some for tomorrow, you won’t burn out and you’ll always have a reason to feel excited when you get up.

4. Have a writing costume.
Rings, tiaras, special jewelry—find something that holds power and keep it on your desk, wearing it only when you write. If it makes you feel good to wear it, it will bring you good fortune.

5. Let music raise your vibration.
I dreamt that I was wearing an iPod, dancing and flying on a big hill. I waltzed into my home and thought “listening to music on headphones should be a Tuesday Tip!” Seems obvious, but maybe, like me, you could use the reminder!

6. Listen to the Dawn and Drew Show.
Oh man, I listened to several episodes of my favorite audio podcast last Friday at work, and I swear it made me funnier just laughing along with them. Dawn and Drew have been doing their hilarious podcast about every-day adventures since 2004 and it’s piss-your-pants funny. Start with the eps that are just Dawn and Drew (like #984, #983 & #100), they’re the best!

7. Sensationalize your lifestream.
If your thoughts create, and all you have to do to live the life you want is to think you already do, then why not GO BIG?! Tell it like you want it! Admit you’re already a pop star! Admit you’re already a millionaire! Admit you’re the best hula hooper in the nation! Only you can make these things real!

8. Write a rap song about your wealth.
Just start talking about your abundance and you’ll see evidence instantly. Talk about how much money you have, talk about all the delicious things you buy with it, make it all up, just start talking about it. As Abraham says, “You will notice that those who speak most of prosperity, have it.”

9. Trust.
Really the only feeling you ever need, trust is the feeling of knowing life will take care of you. You can use your universal trust fund to pay for things, just trust life will foot the bill. You can walk tightropes and fallen trees, just trust life will keep you balanced. It’s easy to trust if you don’t take anything too seriously! You just have to not care if life doesn’t do exactly what you want. Trust that whatever happens is exactly the solution you need.

10. Keep your mood high with lifestreaming.
My lifestream output directly correlates with my mood. When I stream, I feel good. When I don’t, I’m blocking the flow! Find your outlet, whether it’s lifestreaming or journaling or whatever, and let that flow through you, all day every day. If you’re not directing your constant creative flow, what is?

11. Appreciate!

If all you did was just look for things to appreciate you would live a joyous, spectacular life. If there was nothing else that you ever came to understand other than just look for things to appreciate, it’s the only tool you would ever need to predominantly hook you up with who you really are. That’s all you’d need.
~ Abraham

12. Never feel bad for spending the money you have.

If a man has an apartment stacked to the ceiling with newspapers we call him crazy. If a woman has a trailer house full of cats we call her nuts. But when people pathologically hoard so much cash that they impoverish the entire nation, we put them on the cover of Fortune magazine and pretend that they are role models. ~ B. Lester

13. Identify as your experience.
Can you see how everything you experience is a reflection of your vibration? It’s easy to feel like you are one with everything when you see that your mood and thoughts are puppeteering everything you see. Zoom out and watch your life like a movie, and you can see the elaborate, beautiful connections. Look for them and poof! There they are.

14. Literally look for the flow.
Look for evidence your reality is visually playful. You can access the same visual games and delights that you can with psychedelics on your very own, just by asking for them and looking for them. When I was a kid I was obsessed with anything shiny, sparkly, or prismatic. I carried the love through adulthood but forgot why. The glimmers, the sparkles, the shines—that’s life playing with your eyes. It catches your eye when you think a positive thought. The universe loves to play with you visually. What do you think it did before you thought in words? Life is playing the most beautiful game right in front of your eyes, if you have the eyes to see it.

15. Change, by not trying to change.
Gretchen Rubin came up with this particular gem, and she is spot on. As long as you’re trying to change yourself, you’re resisting what is. Accept who you are. Accept what you like. Accept your body and your place in life. You’re here for a reason. Every moment ever created lead up to who you are right now! It can be no other way! Let yourself be at peace with who you are, and the path to the person you want to be will light up before you. Abraham has a great perspective on this too:

The reason you want every single thing that you want, is because you think you will feel really good when you get there. But, if you don’t feel really good on your way to there, you can’t get there. You have to be satisfied with what-is while you’re reaching for more.

16. Keep up the good work.
Your mood is your only work. Keep at it! You’re doing so great, and life is so, so grateful to you for taking the chance at being alive and expanding the universe. Be light, be brave, be playful, smile and keep going! You’ve come so far! We all love you so much!

Tuesday Tips is a weekly handbook on going with the flow. The more we practice listening to what life tells us, the more fun it gets to be alive. We all have access to the flow 24/7, and these tips are just ways to remember we already hold the keys to any door we want to open. Be easy on yourself and life will be easy on you.

1. Have a bedtime.
I’ve always known it was important to go to sleep and wake up at the same time every day, but I resisted it like a petulant child every single night of my adult life. My sleep habits have always felt like total chaos. It is with great relief that I admit, yet again, that my dad was right. A consistent sleep schedule adds a calming rhythm to daily life.

2. Make life design patterns.
On the same note as a consistent sleep schedule, try keeping life-maintenance activities in a pattern. When you decide that you’re going to do something regularly, you don’t have to think about it, and therefore you resist less. Do the grocery shopping the same day every week. Make your lunch at the same time. Go to the car wash every Sunday. Automating basic life tasks makes them feel like flow instead of work.

3. Tell the version you want.
This applies to everything. It doesn’t matter whether you believe your story or not, only that you practice telling it. Your mind is so easy to trick! The more you say things are the way you want them to be, the more evidence you’ll find that it’s true. Listen to your thoughts and words for times when you are clearly saying “Why is it the way I don’t want it to be?” and just decide to think differently.

4. Take care of your physical needs.
Life design is only fun when you’re healthy and rested. Sleep 8 hours a night. Eat what you know is right. Exercise 5 days a week. Have plenty of orgasms. Drink lots of water. Until we stop believing these things are important, we just have to accept them and move on. (Thanks for this one, Jen!)

5. Follow Chalene!
Chalene Johnson is the creator of Turbo Kickboxing (my FAVORITE workout), and she lives the healthy lifestyle she promotes. (Not to mention, she’s a self-made millionaire and hot as hell.) Her Twitter and Instagram are mega-inspiring and it’s fun to watch someone practicing what they preach.

6. Just stop doing that one thing that keeps you out of the vortex.
For me it’s eating too much before bed. Just stop. Give it up. You can just drop it from your life, right now. One of my favorite Carlos Castaneda quotes always helps me believe in my power to do this: “People hardly ever realize that we can cut anything from our lives, any time, just like that. For example, smoking and drinking are nothing. Nothing at all if we want to drop them. Only one thing is indispensable for anything we do; the spirit. One can’t do without the spirit.” Read Adrienne’s take on action and the law of attraction for more inspiration.

7. Decide you’re winning.
Betty gave me my favorite mantra of the week: “I’m winning!” It helps me focus on success instead of failure.

8. Think of one thing to compliment about every person you see.
When you criticize others, you criticize yourself. Make the choice to compliment others, and you’ll find those same qualities within.

9. Measure only your joy.
We are here for fun, not to grow or make progress. Those things come naturally with joy. Every time I find myself writing about how grateful I am for the progress I made in my work, I remember to think that I am much more grateful for the joy I felt while working.

10. Remember, nothing is serious.
Whenever shit seems serious and you feel stressed, remember this is all just for fun.

11. Practice the feeling of trust.
Sometimes when riding my bike in traffic, I have to go between the curb and cars in a teeny little area with no room for error. If I waver, I’ll crash. I’ve found that every time I do it, I feel this feeling in my head that I now recognize as flow, or trust. It’s the same feeling as riding a bike with no hands, or walking a tightrope, or jumping off a cliff. You just have to trust that you can do it, or you’ll hurt yourself. It’s the feeling of perfect balance. If you can find physical ways to practice this feeling (like on a bicycle), it gets way easier to feel it throughout your daily life.

12. Be your remembering self with your pets.
Pets are so easygoing and obedient that it can be easy to ignore them. This week I’m practicing listening to my kitties. Whenever they come up to me wanting to play, I listen. I stop doing what I’m doing, and I appreciate the time I have with them. Not only do I feel more deeply connected to them, but the interruptions always lead me to solutions I’ve been looking for.

13. Your power is in letting go.
Whenever I start worrying about a situation, and wondering what action I should take to fix it, I must remember that the easiest way to deal with things that bother me is to let them go. Ignoring them, and finding a way to feel good anyway is the fastest way to resolve contrast.

Tuesday Tips is a weekly roundup of ways to act, think, feel and be like the god(dess) you already are. Imagine that we’re all playing a game of life together and just now discovering our superpowers. How do you access your divinity?

1. Read The Fool’s Journey.
The story uses tarot cards as a metaphor for the journey through life. “Each major arcana card stands for a stage on that journey – an experience that a person must incorporate to realize his wholeness.” Where are you on your journey?

2. Ignore everything you don’t want.
Abraham says, “Anything you do to overcome or prevent, causes a spotlight on the very thing you are wanting to overcome and prevent.” Just pretend it’s the way you want it to be already. Anything else perpetuates what you don’t want.

3. Take up an abandoned hobby.
Think of all the things you wanted to be good at or liked to do, but gave up because you could never really be great at them. Ask yourself if thoughts like “I don’t know if I can do this” got in the way. With what you know now about managing thought and getting in the flow, could you be a great guitar player? Or programmer? Or athlete? Now that you have awareness of your thoughts, you can pwn anything you want. Just say “I don’t care” to the resistant thoughts that get in the way.

4. Find a mantra that works for you every day.
It’s a lot easier to manage my thoughts when I have a mantra to pivot away from negative thoughts. I usually have to find a new mantra every few days, but what’s working for me today is I don’t care, I’m in the Now.

5. Look at the people in your life as design projects.
You’re designing your version of their lives, so think whatever you want to think about them. Focus on the things you like about them. Decide what parts of them to amplify. They are characters in your story, so tell the story the way you want it to be.

6. Take time to write about your epiphanies and you’ll always find more.
When things click into place and you feel like you “get it” a little more, try writing about it. I used to think I wrote articles to attract an audience of readers, but now I know the point is only to appreciate what I learn, so I’m always attracting new lessons.

7. Appreciate exactly where you are, right now.
Those moments when you are getting what you want but you already want something else make up every moment of your life. You always have the choice in each moment to feel good because you’re getting what you wanted, or you can feel bad because you still want more. You will always want more. That’s the point of being alive. So instead of thinking “duh, of course I’m getting this right now, it makes sense, that’s great. But now I want something else,” try thinking “I’m getting what I wanted! Holy crap, this really works! Let me take a minute to enjoy having what I want, knowing that I deliberately created it and allowed it to flow into my life experience!”

8. Go to bed feeling good.
Every day, I groom my mood like a show pony. It’s a lot easier to maintain a consistent vibration when I pay attention to my mood all day, instead of getting lazy in the evening. If I go to bed feeling good, I wake up feeling good, allowing myself to feel better and better every day, instead of working to get out of a bad mood each morning.

9. Pretend you are god.
You know you are god, but sometimes it can be hard to remember. Imagine yourself as god stepping into your body. If god is animating your body, you have access to perfect health, ease of movement, and feats of unimaginable strength. Let god live through you and your body will thank you. If it helps, imagine the feeling of god stepping into you like a wave in the ocean pushing you towards shore.

10. If you crave sex, practice the feeling of “oneness”.
Why do I always want to have sex with everyone I like?! Because I want to feel connected to and in harmony with my reality. If I practice the feeling of being one with my experience, I feel harmony with my world without having to take physical action. Then the sex comes naturally.

11. Literally practice being in the Now.
My goal is to enjoy being alive right this second. All I have to do to accomplish that is stop thinking. My current working methods are to reply to each thought with I don’t care, I’m in the Now (this works because I know that the Now is perfect the way it is) and silent counting (it’s like measuring the seconds I’m in the Now).

12. See yourself how you want to be seen.
Envision the person you want to be and embody that person right now. Here’s my vision of hotness:

I am deeply tanned, toned, and in a bikini top with denim cutoffs. I have a leather pouch of essentials, with feathers and jewels adorning my body. My eyes are fiery, blue and brown and orange. I am smiling but look hungry, like I’m looking for something to devour in each moment. Like a hunter of joy. I am a warrior. I have Astrojax in my hands, and I can stop time with them. I am at the springs in late afternoon, engaged in the Now. Everything is just so funny. I am free. I am a spark. I reflect the light like a diamond. When you look away, you can see me flying out of the corner of your eye.

13. Know you are god.
You are infinitely powerful. You can have whatever you want. Step into the Now and claim your power.

Tuesday Tips is a weekly collection of ways to embrace the power of thought. Just the simple act of seeing life from a new perspective gives your mind new pathways for creation. The following suggestions can help you accomplish more with less work, think with less pain, feel with more purpose, and be at more peace.

1. Set up passive income streams.
When you forget about them, they’ll start making money. Some that have paid out big for me are digital downloads (which are easy to fulfill with EasyKiss), donations, Clips4Sale, affiliate products like Bluehost, Amazon Associates affiliate links, advertising on video sites like Blip, and publishing on Lulu.

2. Don’t fight.
It’s like putting a dent in a car. You can try to get the dent out, but you’ll always know it’s there.

3. Do it for fun, not to get it done!
If it isn’t fun to begin with, make it fun. If you can’t make it fun, don’t do it.

4. Know your upper limits so you can move past them.
In The Big Leap, Gay Hendricks tells us that there are four hidden barriers to greater success. They are: feeling fundamentally flawed, feeling disloyal and subsequently abandoned, fearing more success will bring more burden, and fear of outshining others. Any of these sound familiar? Then this book will really help.

5. Write a list of things that define you.
Then add to it all the things that you WANT to define you. Mix them in. Print it out. Bask in your greatness.

6. Remember how much you’ve already achieved.
Aurora has an awesome idea: when life gets you down, ask yourself, “Would twelve-year-old me think my life is awesome?” The answer’s generally yes.

7. Laugh off your “flaws”.
Also in The Big Leap, Gay Hendricks writes, “If you’re willing to adopt a playful attitude toward yourself and your shortcomings, you can make extraordinarily rapid progress.” The less serious you are about the things you don’t like about yourself, the faster they go away.

8. If you’re missing someone, pay more attention to yourself.
In the School of Life Design group, Katharine asks how to avoid feeling depressed when she misses her boyfriend.

9. If you think too much and can’t seem to stop, start training yourself into new thoughts.
When you’re hit with a mysterious depression, remember that you thought your way into that feeling, and you can think yourself out of it. More advice on dealing with depression in the group.

10. See everything in your life as a reflection of you.
If there is something you don’t like, it’s something you don’t like about yourself. If someone says hurtful things to you, you have been thinking hurtful thoughts about yourself. It’s scary to take responsibility for your reality, but much easier to navigate if you understand you are creating everything you experience.

11. When good things happen, say thank you and let them pass.
Just like negative experiences, there’s no need to dwell on the positive either. Because if you’re outside of the Now, thinking about the past, you’re blocking the things that want to get to you right Now. Allow the abundance to keep flowing.

12. Believe you’re in the right place at the right time.
The best advice on Twitter this week comes from Mia Astral: “You may not see it, but life gives you what you need exactly when you need it. Pushing for more, pushes away. Stay out of your way.”