Fall Down Seven Times Get Up Eight

Ah...please consider this an intermission.

Feel free to talk amongst yourselves!  LOL.

I am participating in a writing workshop for the weekend so I will return here on Monday. :)  Just wanted you to know what I am up to.

And you?

You must do the thing you are afraid of. I just did. You can too.

Being afraid so sucks!  There may be other words for it...but "sucks" works for me.

Being afraid can stop me in my tracks.  Makes me question everything and withdraw a bit. Lots of stuff seems to get tangled up.

At least that's how it works for me.  How does it work for you?

I just did something that I was afraid to do.  I had to make a phone call.  I had a whole scenario in my head on what would happen during the call.  You know what...none of it happened.  Not one thing.  The person I talked with was kind and helpful.  KIND and HELPFUL.

Could it have gone another way?  Well yes...it could have but it didn't. 

But the longer I put it off the bigger and darker the potential outcome became in my head.  And the outcome?...it was just fine thank you.

The lesson here is huge and one I appear to need to learn over and over again for some reason.

Here is what I know for sure...we can do the things we are afraid of.  We can. 

Over the next few days I will give us both some solid steps to make it easier.  My intention is to finally get the lesson. :) I am sure there are more lessons to be learnt...so I need to check this one off my list!

 See you tomorrow.

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen... and it's life lesson

I watched a delightful movie last night... Salmon Fishing in the Yemen. 

The basic story is that a visionary sheik believes in bringing the sport of salmon fishing to the desert.  He enlists the help of two people...who, in the beginning, really don't believe in the project to help him.  By the end they all believe and it's a testament to faith.

That's the life lesson.  Faith in your vision.

In your life you need to hold your vision.  You need to be the one who stands resolve in it.

No one should be expected to fight for it...to work for it harder than you do.  You need to embrace it.  To have it fill you up.  Only then can you withstand the naysayers who say it will never work.  Only then can you draw to you people who will support your vision and work with you to see it come alive.

But the vision starts with you...it must...always has been that way...always will.  As it should.

For more about this delightful movie go to  www.fishingintheyemen.com

Learning brings magic...

It also brings with it a sense of being tired!  :)

I am happy as a clam to be taking part in Ellen Violette's 3 Day Ebook Workshop.  It's a program designed to learn her system and write your ebook in a weekend.  Yikes!  Now that is exciting...

As exciting is the sheer delight in learning.  I love to learn.  I especially love it when you are immersed in a subject so much that it feels like the top of your head is opened and information just pours in.

That is how I am feeling.  After the download there is a bit of tiredness.

Then the magic happens. 

Dots are connected. 

Ideas take shape. 

Processes make sense. 

You get it.  And that is where the magic begins.   Ahhhhh.... :)

When the door opens...run through it quick like a bunny!

That's my plan..the door has opened and I am running through it quick like a bunny!

Who hasn't heard the expression...when one door closed another door opens? 

Many times I think we miss the open door!  I think that happens because we keep looking at the closed door with longing.  And usually many unanswered questions about why it slammed in our faces to begin with.

But it is closed and our staring does nothing...absolutely nothing to open it again.

How long we wait and ponder the closed door depends on who is doing the staring. Everyone's timeline is different. I think the time staring at the closed door has a lot to do with how much of a shock it was to have the door slammed in the first place. 

That's just my guess..or maybe my excuse for lingering so long at the last one to slam.

But slam it did and while I have been making process in moving on...I have been waiting for a new door to open that would lead me to my new adventure.  I have gone through a few side doors...but the big one has not appeared.

Not appeared until last week when I won a seat at a writing workshop. The workshop starts today and finishes next Tuesday.  I believe it is the "big door" I have been waiting for.

I am not hesitating. I am not second guessing.  I am not wondering why it opened now and not before. The universe's timing is always perfect...that much I know for sure.

The fact is the door has opened and I am running through it quick like a bunny. 

I am ready to embrace this experience with both arms wide open.  And I can do because someone already left the door wide open for me to walk through... and for that I am more grateful than I can express :) .

Ask. Receive. NOTICE.

OMG...I knew there was another step!  I just knew it...and I missed it again!

Here is the process we all know about...Ask and you will receive. I believe that.  Lots of us do.  But here is the part I was missing this week....NOTICE when you receive it.

Truly as I looked out my kitchen window this morning I realized I had received the answer to the question what I have been asking for ...praying for.  And it hit me like a ton of bricks...I RECEIVED it!  My answer arrived the other night in an email.  THE ANSWER to the question I have been praying about.

Here is my lesson learned...don't be so automatic...so focused in your asking that you can't see the answer that just arrived and is sitting at your feet.

I believe I am on someones "challenging child" list :)  No wonder why I have an army of guardian angels helping me work through this life...LOL!

 

You be the light today...and so will I.

I woke up to the news of the shootings in Colorado.  My sister texted me and asked me what was going on in the world?!

A question many of us will be asking today. Folks will try to find answers. As if searching for the answers will somehow make things better.  Answers do give people a framework to process things.  To make sense of the nonsensical.

Here is what I know for sure.  We need to be the light where ever we go today.  We need to bring positive energy into every arena we enter.  It is what we can do.

When the world seems out of control there is a stronger and stronger need for positive energy.  It is what we can do for ourselves and everyone around us.

So today when things feel dark ... be the light.

 

In the end it's always you.

Damn! 

There are days that I want "it" to be someone else's.  Truly there are days in my life as I am sure there are in yours that I want my decisions...every single one...to be up to someone else.  :)  Easy, nonresponsible...not accountable. ahhhhhhhhhh.

But as we know life is not like that...in the end it's always you.

You and I have to find our foothold.  The space we call ours.  We need to define it.  We need to be responsible for it.  We have to want it more than anyone can want it for us.  That's the way I believe it is suppose to work.

I had two different conversations yesterday with two different people about that.  Both were talking about people they have in their lives who cannot quite get it togther. Believe me I know how that feels...when everything feels just out of your grasp.

The real truth is that you and I need to do the work to make the reach for ourselves. 

Maybe it's a cosmic test to see how badly we want it.  I am not sure...what I do know is that in the end it's got to be me..and it has to be you. 

It's where the respsonsility for our lives rest...and where it should.

Obsessing VS Action Hmmmm...

One gets things done...the other doesn't.  Where are you putting your attention?

If I were being honest...and I will be...I have been obsessing a lot lately.  Obsessing about what the next step in my life could or would or should be.  By the way obsessing is defined as being preoccupied intensely. :)

If my future could be compared to a box...I have flipped it.  Tossed it in the air.  Spun in around.  Drop it. Examined every side of it. As if the box will magically open and I will be able to see the future clearly and get on with it. 

And how has that worked for me you may be asking?  Well it has occupied a good amount of my waking hours. Besides that...not much has changed!  LOL.  So I am switching to action.  One foot in front of the other.

I signed up for a class last night and applied for another job this morning. Ah the power of action!

Yahoo just appointed a new CEO who is being touted as a savior for the company.  I don't know about your life...but I am the CEO of mine.  I am not bringing in someone to take it over.  I just need to make the switch from obsessing to action.

And today I did just that.

If it's a fit it's a fit. If not...it's not.

Sounds simple doesn't it...if it's a fit it's a fit.  If it's not...it's not.  But how many of us really embrace that?

How many of us try to squeeze and squish ourselves and our very lives into that round hole when we really are a square peg?

Look at how many folks buy spanx!  LOL...millions of folks.  Some people go as far as wearing several spanx items at one time all with the idea of fitting in a smaller space (clothing) :)  More power to them if that's what they truly want...but I have to believe it has to feel constrictive at some point.

I, for one, like to breathe.  When something is a fit breathing comes easy.  Whether it's my work or my clothing.  When anything is not a fit...the opposite happens.  Breathing is harder and things feel like a struggle.

That tends to be a good "measuring stick" for me.  One I need to pay attention to.  What do you use?