APN38 - Your Angel’s Advocate

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Your Angel's Advocate we all know about the Devil's advocate, but what about the angel's advocate? From my vantage point, it sure looks like our angels are underemployed. Of course, it's important to prepare for what can go wrong, but what about spending more time looking at all the things that can go right in our lives? Methinks it's time to put our angels to work. So imagine your little angel taking its rightful place above your right shoulder. Is it a he or a she? Name, tattoos or other distinguishing features? You got a good image? Nice. Now, like all good angels, your angel likes to work hard. So ask that little guy or gal of yours if everything went incredibly splendidly right, what would my life look like? And write it down. The more details the better. And remember, your angel loves to imagine all the things that can go right with a creative project or business or relationship or any and everything else in your life. So put him to work. Yo. P.S. this isn't just another woo woo self Development exercise. Psychologists call exercises like this a best Selves diary and they've been scientifically proven to help our optimism, which as we now know, is a key variable to our overall well being. So give it a shot if you're feeling it. PPS I start pretty much every creative project with a little Angel's advocate journaling and love to do it if I'm ever feeling a bit stuck.

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