(1) What have you learned so far?

I recently read Master Key Experience member Cheri Naslaund’s Press Release. It stated “happiness is an inside job. No one else is responsible for your happiness. Look inside to find it.”

As I reflect on this I came to the Epiphany that I have something greater to share with the world and deserve to live my best life. God didn’t intend for me to be miserable.

(2) What are you struggling with?

I’m still struggling with being organized, to track the various tasks we are responsible for but I’m close to nailing it. I feel much better than when I started.

(3) What was your favorite exercise?

I really enjoyed this week’s read — the color brain exercise.

(4) What was your favorite quote from the readings?

I took the following from Emerson’s essay on the “Law of Compensation”.

The good are befriended even by weakness and defect. As no man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him, so no man had ever a defect that was not somewhere made useful to him.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults. As no man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it, so no man has a thorough acquaintance with the hindrances or talents of men, until he has suffered from the one, and seen the triumph of the other over his own want of the same.

A great man is always willing to be little. . . . In general, every evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor. . . .so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Law of Compensation

(5) What new experiences are you having?

I’m realizing that there are some people I don’t want to talk to, mainly because I don’t want their negative energy in my space or I’m realizing we don’t have much in common.