Are your relationships lively and loving? Do you feel excited and grateful to get to do the work you do? Do you feel creative and alive? Physically, are you feeling healthy and vibrant? If not – is there some reason that this is OK? What voice inside you is saying that this is enough? That’s …
Quick and easy, 3 minute video tool. Do you find affirmations a bit hard to swallow? Like: “If I believed that, I’d be doing it already!” right? While I do know affirmations can work, to me they feel a bit like hitting your inner mind with a two-by-four, to beat it into accepting something it …
What I wrote a couple of days ago about the power of pure positive feedback made me remember another related story I wanted to share with you, from another art class. When I was learning watercolors, I was part of a wonderful small group of women who were jumping in eagerly, even though much of …
The difference between fear and doubt. Contrary to popular thought, fear isn’t really what stops us from doing things we want to do. Fear is natural, a safety mechanism in nature that lets you know when to heighten your guard, pay closer attention, be aware. Give fear breath and it’s actually excitement – it’s …
We’ve all got them – those UNCONSCIOUS set points that determine
how fast we will allow ourselves to go, how much money we will allow ourselves to have,
how much we weigh, how successful and big we are willing to allow ourselves to be in our work. And those
are actually straightforward to change.
Would you like to let life be easier? Here’s my invitation for you: Close your eyes and see your story as just what it is. A story. Everybody’s got one. Picture holding it out in front of you, like a book, and let it be just your story – not you. It’s not you, of course. It’s just a story that at this moment you are calling your story. How lightly can you hold it? How easy can you let it be to put it down, and choose a story that works better?
I do not see the opposite of hopelessness as hope. I experience it as a deep, profound sense of knowing, in the company of which, hopelessness can not exist.
There are a lot of people out there who are sitting up, saying – life IS short!
These are the kinds of things I am hearing – do any of them sound familiar?
I’ve just had a major wake-up call, my best friend is loosing her battle with cancer…
or
I’ve just woken up to the fact that after 35 years I cannot blame the fact that my relationships are not working, on the other person…
Or
I am so tired of settling for less than the exciting, engaged life that I have always pictured!
Here’s the chorus: Done! We’re done with it!
How many times do we have to say that before we actually do something else?
What if there’s something inside of you, causing the results you are getting in life? And what if there’s something you can do about it? What would be thee best time to dig in, figure that out, and change it?
The biggest part of doing something challenging or scary is setting your mind to the fact that you ARE going to do it. NOW. The time has come. This is it. You know – all those thoughts of determination and conviction. How do you turn them from words in your head into a knowingness in your body? How do you gain the courage to start?