You’re probably experiencing the tumultuous energy in the world today. There isn’t a single person who isn’t affected. There’s a lot of humanity out there. Everyone at varying frequencies and at various points along their own path. That means everyone is dealing with the events and corresponding energy differently. You may be struggling mightily or perhaps you’re able to see the bigger picture. Either way your heart, skills, and unique gifts are needed. At least one person or many, need your light. You are already assisting humanity and are doing so in small and large ways every day. Can you see this? Can you grow it and take it to new heights?
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Marrying Your Spirituality with Action
Allowing your own experience requires confidence, letting go of caring what others may think, and instead be a stand for the light you practice so hard to bring to your life experience. “We’re all in this together” is, in part, about being there for others. “We’re all connected” is more than a woo-woo phrase. Let’s do our part to honor our connectedness. To no longer stand by while injustice, inequities, abuse, and corruption exist. If you believe injustice, inequities, abuse, and corruption are not personally affecting you, they are affecting someone. And it’s that someone that you don’t personally know but are still connected to. So in a sense, it is harming you personally as well. When you look the other way and trust that it will all work out, you know in your heart that something is not working now for someone, somewhere.
What your part in this is, is for you to discover. You may discover your passion and voice and realize that standing for peace and love means taking beneficial action. And how that shows up for you is as individual as you are. You get to decide.
I’m not suggesting upping your game on social media. This isn’t about getting people to agree with you. It’s about becoming who you know you really are and sharing your authentic self.
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How I realized how good present moment living feels. We don’t need to go on a travel adventure to live more fully in the present moment. Our life is an adventure and offers us the gift of a present moment.
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Balance isn’t a perfect mix of work, play, health, and well-being. Balance and even success to me mean joy. Joy can show up as working or playing a lot or anything in between. There’s no right way or wrong way to go about it. There’s just whatever feels best.
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How do you know, exactly, when you are being spiritual and when you are not? What makes for a spiritual moment?
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How exciting! I’ve never been on the radio before. My first radio interview was quite an experience. The more I stretch myself out of my comfort zone the more fun and interesting experiences I have. It also taught me to let go of trying to be perfect. First of all, that’s impossible. And, second, it would mean watering myself down for fear of saying something stupid. And then why show up at all? When I’m more genuinely me that’s when people tend to connect.
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What I’m feeling when I attend those formal learning women’s networking meetings. I walk away feeling “I could be more” and that’s not how I want to feel.
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I had to learn that I couldn’t get my spiritual mojo from others. I learned that spiritual growth comes from within myself. From my own experiences. But it took a brief meeting with someone to understand it’s not the woo-woo that counts. It’s how our lives feel.
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Finding the right people at the right time is a gift. I love connecting with people to support each other and share our experiences. Life is so much sweeter when we connect with each other as ourselves.
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Feelings are awesome! Our feelings are our barometer of what’s working and not working for us. When we listen to our feelings we’re tapping into our intuition. Our feelings speak to us. They’re teaching what’s working and not working so well for us. We can take appropriate action based on how we feel. What a great system.
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On the one hand, we’re all different from each other. Each person is wonderfully unique. However, we all share a common experience and that’s the experience of life. Everyone has their ups and downs. But on our uniquely individual paths perhaps we can remember to collaborate and cooperate with each other. Perhaps we can learn to be less judgmental. What’s that quote? “You can’t have compassion for someone you wish were different.”
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Do you ever shrink from speaking up for your opinions? It’s almost comical how I hold back from being myself for fear of offending someone. Even in a business relationship where two people benefit from an honest dialog I find myself holding back. Here’s how listening to myself on a conference call illustrated just how much I put up a phony facade. Yuck! No more! It’s much healthier and more respectful to the other person to be our honest selves. Like me. Don’t like me. At least I’ll be genuine and you’ll like or dislike the real me.
Continue readingMore TagHabits That Create The Best Possibilities
A sampling of ideas and tips you can practice every day. These are my ideas that work for me and I encourage you to find your own practices.
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It’s not possible to make a mistake in our lifetime. It may feel like it but what we’re experiencing is growth. We take a step, sometimes we stumble, sometimes it’s a great challenge. But we’re evolving our soul no matter what. We’re in a dance with our experiences and with our self.
Continue readingMore TagAgainst the Odds – Me & The Bosun’s Chair
Sailing equals things happening. Someone has to go up to the top of the sailboat mast. Do you want to be the “hoister” or the “hoistee”? It’s a practice of trust and partnership and enduring sore thighs.
Continue readingMore TagCelebrating Our Beautiful Humanity
The way I see it is we have basically two choices in life. One, we can live smaller and safely mainstream ourselves until we’re a watered down version. Two, we can try new things and take action on our ideas to create our dreams. The second choice is a worthy life adventure. All it takes is one perfectly imperfect step at a time.
Continue readingMore TagAllowing the Petty Moments to Fade
Learning how to let go of insignificant moments that irk us is worth the practice. Who wants to be annoyed when a second ago they felt good? If you’re human you’re served plenty of practice at this.
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I love being organized and having a plan. To-do lists were my comfort zone. Efficiency my middle name. These days I’m allowing for what’s best rather than forcing things into place. The result is I am enjoying my life more because I’m allowing for what’s truly best for me to show up. Much better than what I think I want. Instead, I’m receiving what I most need.
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Honk if you don’t love parties. I don’t. I like them better than I used to but usually, I wish for a little scheduling conflict to show up so I can’t attend The Party. If it’s something I can’t get out of or have decided to push through my discomfort, I actually show up. There’s no telling how I might show up. I could be quiet, which is my old go-to. Or, I might talk a lot out of nervousness. When I used to drink socially I’d be sure to have one or two to get through the party. Sometimes I insert foot into mouth. Now that I’m more consciously intuitive I feel some people’s energy and that’s a whole new complication.
One of my life lessons and there are many, is to just be me and let go of concerning myself how others might process me. When that happens I find myself relaxing and actually enjoying the party. And if I’m not enjoying myself? I remind myself there’s nothing wrong with being an introvert and wishing I were home or on a woody path, or out on our sailboat for the night stargazing. I don’t have to apologize for what I like and don’t like. It’s time to stop feeling like I have to fit into what I feel society wants from me and instead just do whatever I want.
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One question that just annoys the heck out of me is “so what’s your story”? Said with an emphasis on the word YOUR. I mean how do you even begin to answer that? Please don’t tell me I need to create and be ready with a 30-second elevator speech for that.
The second most annoying question I’ve been asked is “what are your gifts”?
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Living intuitively sounds all woo-woo but it’s as simple as living with more self-awareness and from ourselves. The more we do this the more aware we become. We have our very own internal guidance system if we just listen to it. It will never steer us wrong. It doesn’t mean we won’t decide to take a different tact and wish we hadn’t. But we can get back on track faster by paying attention to what we’re being shown.
There’s a desperate desire for more love and peace in our world. But all it takes is deciding to be the vibe you wish to experience. Desire more love in the world? Be loving.
Continue readingMore Tag“Adventure is not outside man; it is within”
For too long I lived a life in the way I thought others would approve. I moved to New York City and began my career in advertising. It didn’t take too long to realize that career would never fulfill me. And yet I stayed. Eventually transitioning to marketing and ending my career after being employed by several internet companies. While living in New York City felt like an adventure, my life still felt flat. I had to learn that true adventure, for me, comes from within. Now I’m pursuing my own dreams and ideas and acting on them to bring them to reality. That’s adventure to me. Taking vacations and traveling is nice but becoming more me, emotionally and spiritually, is my true adventure. Creating what I’m excited about, fulfills me more. That’s me setting off for parts unknown. And I don’t need a plane ticket.
Continue readingMore TagStepping Up To Public Speaking
When I began looking into what my purposeful work might be, my intuitive guidance suggested I speak to small groups. What?! This to me was a huge stretch. They never steer me wrong so I did. I started to speak to meetups and I joined a Toastmaster’s group for practice. Everyone’s advice and pep talks around this fear are pretty much worthless. P.S. you are not helping by telling me how confident you are as a public speaker. Just sayin’. However, when I look at why I have this fear then I can work on limiting self-beliefs and start to kick them to the curb. In the meantime, imaging the audience naked just does not work. Nor does winging it.
Continue readingMore TagThoughts, Words and Choices Matter
Some of my greatest life lessons are around learning to speak up for myself. To speak my opinions and not make myself small. However, there’s also the lesson in learning when to let go and choose peace just by walking away. For now, I’m choosing to try to fix things. A good or less than good choice?
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