3. Remain in integrity throughout your experience. Keep your balance and focus on totality of your life, not simply on this experience. As you persist in a place of gratitude and honor, you will see that being in integrity is a natural, flowing, peaceful state when you partner with twists and turns in your life instead of viewing life from an adversarial perspective.

4. Steer clear of judgement in relationship to your landmark experience. Instead of seeing it as completely chaotic or wholly ridiculous or most magnificent growth episode ever in your entire life, simply allow it to be what it is for you in that particular moment. Over time, your perspective will ripen towards proper valuation. While you are in it, allow yourself to simply be in it without attachment, without evaluation, without analysis.

Jeff was hiking with his younger brothers and sisters as they came to a stream deep in woods. Looking to him for guidance, his sister Molly asked him, "Can we drink from here?"

Jeff surveyed scene, looking for a spot where there were plenty of stones for water to bubble over. "Grandpa used to tell me to look for rockiest spot: water is purest there." Kneeling down by water's edge, he cupped his hands and offered his sister a sip of cold, clear refreshment. The ripples and rapids made by rocks naturally purify water making taste crisper and cleaner.

Molly drank water Jeff offered with reckless abandon. She got down on her belly so she could peer into stream and drink directly from magical spot where rough hewn rocks made water run true, clear and refreshing.

Your landmark experience, with its jagged edges, unexpected drops and dips and turns will purify your life experience as well. When you follow simple steps outlined here, it will empower you to lead life you were meant to live. Take your time to look from a new perspective. Then take a long, slow drink. Remember your life. Live it with passion, today.

4. Upon taking action, she furthered her "Menu Approach" by making several significant contacts one after another. The momentum she created in doing so further energized her towards reaching her ultimate goal.

In doing so, Grace moved from a place of complacency to a place of power. Her power came from possibilities her goal represented, from intensity of her desire, from her own realization that passivity was getting her further from her vision and closer to despair daily. The more she sat inert in passivity, more she was buying into beliefs of her dream stealers. It was as if a collection of all negative people in her past were sitting on her shoulders telling her ways she could not POSSIBLY be who she was meant to be or do all that she desired to do.

Grace chose to use that intensity, that passion, to bring her closer to her goal. The end result is bound to be greater than she imagined, as she will reach not only her initial goal, she will also be propelled with more strength and sureness than she had possessed before her shift.

She took to heart Henry David Thoreau's words: "He is best sailor who can steer within fewest points of wind, and exact a motive power out of greatest obstacles." Where she had been stuck COULD have been an insurmountable obstacle. Grace shifted that obstacle into her own brand of power. She steered her way around and passed it, sailing clearly into her future.