IF YOU COULD GO BACK AND RELIVE IT, WOULD YOU CHOOSE TO CHANGE IT?

When you glance back over your shoulder at a moment in your past what does it look like to you now? What do you see across that remembered landscape? With all that youve lived since then, how much more thoughtfulness could you bring to those choices if they were yours to make today?

SANTA BARBARA, CA -- So often we spend our lives rethinking what we could have done differently in the past. In reality, the future is just a single second ahead of now. Putting a good idea or a new start off for even a single day allows you to stay stuck. If there is something you would like to change, something in your life you want to be different, seize onto that inspiration in that exact moment and begin the process of creating the change. Do not wait for tomorrow or next week. Begin the transformation in the moment of realization.

Your future begins in the very next second after now...and now...and now.

Your future keeps happening. Is it happening to you or because of you?"

In their new book, Javahouse Journals: Gatherings over a cup of coffee, Valli Keller and Brooke Leigh Sheldon explain in these excerpts, The complication is that when we put off positive change for another time we create a self-defeating cycle. Each time we make that resolution and then fail to take decisive action in the moment, pushing it to some ambiguous future time, we create the potential to stack on more failure" onto what can begin to weigh on us as a crushing mass that persistently diminishes us. Its an arc in a cycle out of which it becomes increasingly hard to break as the habit of making, breaking and failing to keep positive resolutions and commitments to ourselves becomes more and more ingrained and more and more self-destructive.

Seize this moment as the moment when you will teach yourself a new habit, the habit of taking action. Create a new habit, one of taking action to make your vision real. Develop the habit of creating concrete and realistic plans, of taking decisive action to accomplish the things that will make you leap out of bed in the morning and greet each day with the excitement you felt on the first day of summer as a child. You deserve nothing less than this in your lifetime. Its never too late." Maybe its the right time for a book like Javahouse Journals.

With Javahouse Journals: Gatherings over a cup of coffee, Keller and Sheldon provide you with a clear blueprint for creating the life you want. The only requirement is a willingness to look openly and honestly at the choices you make in each moment of your life. At any moment in time, your life is the sum total of those choices.

Javahouse Journals: Gatherings over a cup of coffee
ISBN 0595260020, 126 pages, December 2002
Available in all major bookstores and online book retailers.
911 interviews available at any time, night or day.
Contact: Valli Keller or Brooke Leigh Sheldon, (805) 348-1092