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New Post: Day 3 onto Day 4 – 30 Day Challenge

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imageDo you believe in Fate?  Well just as I finished writing this post I hear this on NPR. I’m compelled to share it with you because knowledge is power when it comes to making changes in how we eat.  Healthy Doesn’t Mean Expensive

I’m starting with a big whopping picture of my dinner from last night. Why? Because I haven’t slowed down to make myself a dinner such as this in a long time and it is worthy of celebration. I am taking myself from a hurried healthy eater to a conscious healthy eater.  This means cooking and growing my own foods, being creative with herbs and seasonings as well as presentation and where I eat my food.

When one lives alone or even just two of you it is easy to slip out of the habit of eating consciously. Often times we are too tired and we just eat whatever we can. Granted I keep a pretty clean junk food free home yet that doesn’t matter, one can manage to eat an unbalanced meal in a variety of ways and pay for it later in stress diseases and so much more.

So last night I slowed down and cooked. No it isn’t fancy, complicated or unique.  I used organic jasmine rice from Trader Joes, organic frozen green beans, organic Kale and celery. Tossed in a sprinkling of grass-fed, free range hamburger – sprinkled some sesame seeds on top and it was yum good.  I would have loved to top it off with something the color red, perhaps a tomato or beets but I didn’t have it in my pantry.  Not to worry – it still digested phenomenally well and to top it off a friend of mine came by and we got to share it together.

Yesterday was interesting: I was supposed to meet-up with someone in the morning and I do believe I wrote about it here, yet she didn’t show up.  So I sat at Starbucks in the early hour of the morning when I would normally be doing something else and pondered the experience.

My time has become more valuable to me lately. In the past I would have dismissed it and talked myself into making do with the situation, excused her and excused my value in the process.  You see each of us don’t have an infinite amount of time and our time is precious. Understandably things can come up, emergencies, and I’ve had my fair share of misses; I’ve forgotten a date, which makes me feel bad because I always intended to honor everyone’s time and value (though never my own).  So I sat for 20 minutes and waited and left.  It felt good to reclaim my time, value, worth in such a way that I don’t excuse it anymore. Plus, how we show up in one thing is how we show up in everything. Yes, when I was more laissez-faire about time I truly didn’t carry out a lot.  Neither did I feel very engaged in life. It’s all a never-ending, teeter-totter balance experience, but I’m learning to be clear on time, scheduling and showing up in life.

This 30-Day Challenge is Proving Enlightening in Many Ways!

Last night I accomplished a 20 minute walk. Didn’t have the energy for Jungle Gym strength work but we shall see what shows up today.  In fact I might do 10 minutes of strength right after I post this.  I love fitting exercise into my day in a less than regimented way.

Meeting strangers: Wow this is proving a challenge yet I’m still going to do this.  Perhaps this weekend when I go to the elephant exhibit at the zoo I will have my stranger meeting marathon.  Pictures will follow - video if I can figure it out. Perhaps I need to cultivate the elephant hand shake.

So what are my Thursday intentions?

20 minutes exercise – play – strength – laughter (building abdominal strength with laughter)

Today – at work – I’m going to be conscious of my snacks – what I eat while I fiddle  (actually I’m also practicing giving 1000% at work so I can move out of and further into the work that I truly love) away my time at work. Still using this food pyramid as my inspiration:

Intend to meet 2 new people – let’s see what shows up and notice any resistance so that I can release the beliefs holding me back.   Again – my hand shake has been practiced.

Spiritual: After this I will spend 20 minutes in contemplation, prayer, meditation and watch the latest Story Water’s video. Those always set me on the right path.

Wishing you all a Breathe New Life Into Your Day – Your Life – Inspired Thursday!

What could you change in 30 Days? Outlook, perceptions, limitations, obstacles…..

Broken Life Landing Into Love and Grace Filled Living

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Well Into 2012 and I’m Being Revived Big Time – Hello Me

Since January 1st 2012, deciding to take a Leap and sign-up for a 12 week power coaching session, my life has been on hyper drive, and I’m having all sorts of life revival experiences.  I’m not talking about walking out the door and a ray of light beams me across the country or anything sudden like that.  I’m talking about that delicious, inner emerging into outer, growth that takes place on a deeper level than ever before. I’ve had moments such as what I am describing, they usually take place in a 10 year cycle, but this one is a humdinger.  Is it because I’m nearing 50? Well, I’d like to think so but I know it is that and so many other things.

Hitting Rock Bottom

Post coaching session last week I hit the all time humdinger of lows. Yep – I was low. It showed up when I was at work and all I wanted to do was go home, curl up in my comfy bed and go within. All day I felt weighed down with something indefinable; a feeling that left me in a mood of despair.  Yes, you get it by now, I was down in the dumps. Yet, I was aware that this was more than a mood swing rather this was a result of the shift that is taking place within me.

Slowly, as I stayed with every last feeling, what it is revealed itself.  The feelings were now able to be named. Let me introduce you to: Fear, Lack, Limitation, Worry, Worthlessness, Shame and so many of their siblings I can’t even count.  In the midst of all those feelings I felt void of anything representing the heart, love and lightness. I was reminded to release in a specific way and in doing so the curtains started to part, light started to shine in and even in this most raw and barren place I felt growth; something was beginning to bloom. I might even say some passion for life was returning. In fact I truly understood that the true I was beginning to reveal itself in a most authentic way.

This passion came about not because I put a positive spin on the situation, neither did I try to eat myself out of the emotional discomfort (yes I discovered I apparently have done that). Instead I allowed the shadow feelings to be expressed and released with grace.  I now have greater appreciation for the phrase “forgive them for they know not what they do”. When we are blanketed by inauthentic beliefs and conditioning we can’t see clearly, we can’t feel ‘compassion’ and ‘non-judgment’; we think we do but we don’t.

My friend Gretchen Wirges (Project Lifesize) explains it best in the video below:

It’s about breathing through the thoughts that we are less than, wounded, broken, lacking, limited and instead discovering that we are not any of those things.  Underneath and around those beliefs are who we are but we have to be okay to have those beliefs in the first place. Why? Because they are there – they are the beliefs we use to experience the opposite of who we are.  As my friend begins to say in the video (my words not hers) we can instead use those beliefs to ignite our passion for life, sculpt a new authentic you, emerge unstuck and more alive.  We don’t have to believe and live the rules of those outdated beliefs. We are not broken or in need of fixing we just have to wake-up and become aware of that.

As I revive and thrive into this new life, what feels like a rebirth of sorts, I am seeing all sorts of reminders, touchstones that bring me back to my truth.  For example this image of a boulder I saw on Facebook; I have felt this in my life for a long time and now I see the boulder gracefully rolled aside revealing a new path.

In the process I am falling in love with my life, my self, my body, my being.  For a long time I didn’t know where I wanted to live, to settle, so here I am living out my life in the desert southwest.  Yet, as I removed the veils I see that I enjoy it here, that overall I’m happy and lo and behold I drive by a neighborhood that I fall in love with.  It has the “new me” written all over it.  I couldn’t see it before.

I want to say it’s simple but in truth it has taken and will take a lot more stretching of myself.  I look forward to bringing the gifts of my work and my experiences to the women who desire to emerge out of the veils and into her most authentic, love herself deeply, life as art, life.

YOU ARE: Radiant – Beautiful and Prosperous! YOU ARE ALL THAT!

In Love and Grace~Lynne

2012 Release and Ready to Fly

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The first week of 2012 is getting off with a grand start. Well – a start – sputter – start but it feels grand.  I am participating in a power group coaching session and the insights I’m having are hitting daily. Most important insight is I gotta Step Up! Step Up my joy mojo, passion mojo, connection with life mojo and truly I don’t have time to dally in the forays of my emotional story.  Yes – I don’t deny there are times when I feel run down with the dramas of life. My emotions will take me on a ride and I allowed that to happen for a few days in this new year.  Thanks to some powerful coaching questions I saw how so much I lost being stuck in what I don’t want to create. How it keeps me further from the juicy good stuff.  It is a distraction when I am spending more time creating what I no longer desire. Best advice I received – release – feel it to release it.

I don’t know if it’s a culmination of insights, a brief chat with a friend who I see stepping out in 2012 and I feel like I’m hiding my talents. I do know this breakthrough had alot to do with me stop ”creating” instead I sit with what my life is like right now – feel what I am creating daily. Pretty powerful stuff.

2012 – Get Unstuck and Breakthrough – 12 Weeks – $144.00 ($12.00 per week).

More to come as the pot this idea is simmering in is about to overflow.

Coaching – Empowerment – Movement – Juicy Soul Stirring Activities

Yes – this is what I’m seeing happen.  That and some other good stuff. I’m not going to wait till I have it all figured out. That has been what has caused me to hold back. Not interested – I’m going to take my hands off the tightrope and reach out to the next one coming at me – I’m going to trust and have faith that even if I fall there is a net. I know this net well and it always  holds me.

Have you let your hands go? Are you willing to trust?  What’s holding you back? Is this  giving you what you truly want? Can you let it go and get moving?

Be in Gratitude and Thankful for the Beauty All Around You!

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This week we are focusing on beauty. I’m a little slow in posting it here but on our Facebook page: Women Having a Life Revival I started the focus. What does it mean to focus on beauty and why should we?  To me it’s about stepping outside of the drama and the everyday onslaught of negative messages to look for simple beauty.  In doing so we raise our energy vibration, we amplify appreciation, we connect with the source.  If you are engaged in applying “the law of attraction” or you have created a dream board, or you simply want to accelerate change in  your life: Focus on Beauty and raise your energy  - feel how beauty feels and start asking for more of the good feelings beauty brings.  You will see your life change – you will feel your life change. 

WhImageere ever you are on this holiday, whomever isn’t with you, you can for a moment, focus on the beauty you see and your heart will feel relief and the stress levels will diminish.

A 40+ Woman’s Perspective on Debt Crises

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Had to post this mini blog topic since the timing

couldn’t be more perfect for a fresh perspective.

Unless you live under a rock you have heard some rumblings about a supposed Debt Crises. I’m not saying there isn’t one or is and this certainly isn’t a post designed to deeply discuss the crazy, perfect, circus that is unfolding in front of our eyes.

What I will talk about here is how we don’t have to get caught up in the foray of fear, isolation and desperation and we don’t have to just push it aside and try to positive think our way out of it. Instead we are being given a wonderful gift to open up and see how our beliefs have created an environment of lack and limitation; to the point that people are wondering how they are going to survive if this debt crises isn’t solved. Believe me, I think about this with regards to my Father’s social security check which he depends on.

Even though I can slip into the fear thinking pretty fast – think about it – all the time we hear Crises… Crises .. Crises how do we not feed the fear emotion. This is a good time to limit our information load for sure.

This is also a sensational time to “wake-up” to the illusion we have created and ask ourselves “what belief would we have to have to be experiencing this?” What belief – a belief of lack, limitation, fear, loss of control. If you are like me, I’ve spent quite some time over the past 10 years releasing those same types of beliefs as I open up to abundance. We’ve watched the “Secret”, did our Vision Boards, etc. Yet here we are living in a nation fueled by lack and limitation. What a gift we’ve been given for sure.

So as you sip your morning beverage, eat your evening meal, or take a walk, take a moment to reflect and open up the beliefs that have dropped each of us in this situation. Open those beliefs to your heart – feel the feeling of the moment – letting go of the story and be with the feelings. Feel the underlying power that gets set free  when the belief is exposed. Love and appreciation are unlimited and ever-expanding. Let’s shift our money
power to it’s origin of “appreciation”. Monies only purpose is to show ever-expanding “appreciation”.

ACTION: When you buy something, pay a bill, send a feeling of appreciation along with it!

Let’s turn Debt Crises to one that is devoid of story and let’s appreciate the gift this is giving us. If only for a moment, a moment can change the world.

UPDATE:  I finished and posted this blog on Sunday morning, afterwards I headed to Sunday Services lo and behold the topic was on abundance, fighting against what is, and other relevant things.  I thought I’d post some poignant observations that will add to the post.

Vow to never life in scarcity. Stop fretting and start living.  Get out of ourselves and serve the needs of others. You and I create miracles-we are the miracle makers. Finally: Offer ourselves to a broken world and respond to suffering with love. 

Let’s change the dialogue of fear, lack and limitation.  I know at my age I am done with living a life immersed in drama. I am making a commitment to ask, how can I serve?  I don’t have a lot but I do believe that with what I have I can make a difference. Can you? What have you done to serve and make someones life a little easier? When we give – the more we give of ourselves the more we receive in return.

How Loving The Now Will Change The Now

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I choose to write each post on this blog with as much honesty as I can muster and not make myself too vulnerable – sometimes I don’t want to press that publish button.

I am a wellness/life coach who is stepping into her most limitless life. I’m not there yet – I don’t know if any of us will ever be there – I believe it is possible to live and create life separate from our conditioned beliefs. I do know that everyday is abundant in opportunities for me to truly release myself  from living by those false beliefs. I made a commitment and every day I see results. I’m not able to tell you I built a million dollar business or anything like that. I can tell you that my life is blossoming at almost 50 and it is a most magnificent ride.  Living our life by design (we did design this one) is exciting for me. I do not dismiss the experiences I have had and what I have to offer you. This is powerful stuff I am working with and believe me when I say – I have what it takes to coach you. What allows me to say this? I am living it – living life head on and waking up to how to change and shift the life that I live. I know – by experience – it works.

How Choosing to Live In the Desert is The

Perfect Creation to Replenish 

As I was driving to get my car emissions testing done (getting an early start to avoid the heat of the day), I had ample opportunity to experience the very things that are talked about in the books I am reading. I’ve referred to one of them in the earlier post and now I just finished Arnold Patent’s Money. Today is July 1st, a day after my auto renewal was due. I had completely forgotten about it and of course didn’t budget for it. Here I am smack dab with the life I have created for myself. I have a car with inadequate ac and live in an environment that feels like it is parched and barely hanging on. Never enough rain, etc. It is absolute perfection.

My life has mimicked the desert. I have limited the flow of abundance in almost all areas of my life. I always seem to have just enough – but – not so much. How have I done that? By crafting beliefs that are designed to keep me from experiencing what I and others call the pure expression of God, source, oneness, spirit, etc. I have beliefs that definitely support lack and limitation. Now I’m sitting with this knowing and wondering what do I do with that. What occurred to me while driving is Love – loving it all – love it for its perfection in getting me to just this point in my life.

When I apply what Arnold Patent talks about and view my life as a movie, I see the characters involved; how they are created to support my beliefs. If I fight them, judge them, get angry with them, I then believe that it all is real and then I am stuck re-creating the same thing over and over. I am fighting with myself.  I proclaim enough – I don’t want to play in that way. The other way isn’t bad, I just like how this new way to play feels. I choose to give love – express love for it all. It truly feels so much better. It does – go ahead – try it.

On my way back from the emission testing (yes-car passed). I was watching the images that were showing up before me. I saw the sign with the worried character, wondering how to pay bills – the complete opposite of the abundance we are and yes that was me. No sooner than I saw that sign– a juggler on stilts showed up. I know – crazy – crazy fun – what a wonderful gift to show that when I started to see the joy and humor in life a visual served to confirm this. What dawned on me and why I want to write about this is, I am starting to feel replenished. Yes, just like in the movie Under the Tuscan Sun when the water faucet in the wall began to drip water.  I feel soul hydrated – dare I say abundant.

“The universe is designed as a mutual support system based on the system that we are one” Arnold Patent

“Abundance is our natural state; the way to attract it is to appreciate what we have” Arnold Patent

This all may sound a bit crazy. If you’ve read any of Arnold Patent’s work – it won’t. Suffice to say – I’m done with viewing myself as the victim of what I created and I’m done with fighting with the world. Choosing to see love – joy and beauty in all creations involves some stretching and no it doesn’t require a piece of Pilate’s equipment, it’s that deep soul stretching I’m talking about. Through this true loving what is – we then begin to move more and more into the best life we can feel.

Enjoy Your Beautiful – designed by you day!

Dream Stealing Assassins Hurt Everyone – Enough!

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I just read a powerful/insightful article and I am moved to tears. I write this just a few seconds post tear flood so I hope it makes sense. In the article, I was reminded about what we lose when the shadow sides of others attack expressions of love and authentic living. We witness this shadow side assault around us everyday when we watch reality TV and judge one person better than another, talk shows that are one step away from tabloid gossip; when we engage in negative talk about another person or about ourselves. This shadow side when expressed does nothing more than attempt to hinder and harness the pure expression of love and the most beautiful creators that we are. We are taught to hold back our light, to suppress our true expression. We think we aren’t yet everyday when we are choosing what it is we want to do with our lives, how we want to do it, what we wear, we are coming up against internal memories, beliefs, judgments that impact what we decide to do.

We get this from early on; it’s often reinforced in school, among our peers and in our homes. When someone throws up a wall to a dream, or dumps there issues onto you as you express what it is you vision for your life, they are throwing their shadow side at you. They are resisting something within them and they attack it. With the right circle of support around us we can usually keep on shining but it is difficult, very difficult and unless we release the emotional pain (sometimes just through awareness) it caused it can go on to impact our lives down the road.

I was sharing this thought with a friend recently: What would the world be like if John F. Kennedy, John Lennon, Martin Luther King hadn’t been assassinated? I truly wonder about this. So, leaving out the conspiracy theories in this discussion, I do know that each person that assassinated these light bearers were revealing their shadow side. They were shutting down the light that they couldn’t bare witness to and to some extent, every day, many of us are emotionally assassinated by the same light stealers. We get ripped off when these people do this. We watch it on the news as we judge people for indiscretions that make us the slightest bit uncomfortable. We have done it, I have done it. I have expressed my shadow side more than I care to acknowledge and yet I do. I don’t want to do it anymore. It hurts, it hurts all of us.

We are all needed, on this earth to express why we are here. It isn’t about getting by, floating along, taking a safe haven in societies accepted way of doing life. I leave you with this: Do what it takes to get you to live your true life expression. If  your true life has been buried for so long under a pile of emotional garbage, get a support team to help you dig through and find the truth to who you are. Be honest with yourself – present moment – day by day, moment by moment. We have to do this – the urgency is upon us. We didn’t come down on this earth to be good servants to the corporate wheel and then get old and medicate ourselves till we die. I’m sorry – I don’t believe it. It’s not easy and at almost 50 I am still having layers of understanding revealed to me. It makes me cry, stamp my feet, get angry and LOVE even more. I don’t know the answers but I do know that we can’t keep hiding any longer. If you aren’t happy with what you see around you it’s because you aren’t living in awareness, you are living a life of emotional baggage. You aren’t living authentic to who you are and what you are capable of.

UPDATE:  A friend just pointed out to me that I have been talking about this subject a lot over the past few months. When I look back I realize I have been. She wondered if I were too attached to this subject and maybe I was feeling a victim of it?  I enjoy the question and truth be told there have been times when I slip into victim mode. Easy to do – yet I realize that I am creating this experience for myself to discern who I am and what I am about.  On a bigger scale – the light bearers of a grander size (MLK, John Lennon, Gandhi, John Kennedy) I believe came into this world and suffered the fate that they did to perhaps, wake us up to what the shadow side is capable of. What we lose when we snuff out lights or judge possibilities that extend beyond our beliefs.  We can only be victims if we allow it to take our lives over. It isn’t easy  I’m not saying it is but with the right support and awareness we don’t have to become victims. Society doesn’t have to – we can spot it and stop it. Best thing to do is to not give up on living your most authentic life. You only need to LIKE YOU! You don’t need anyone else and when you realize this you will be released to live your authentic moment to moment life.

Women Travel Solo – Empowered

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LIFESTYLE POST:  Starting the last year of my 40’s, I am embracing my love for travel.  I have so many reasons why I like it and I will share more about that later. Unlike my 20’s and 30’s when I mostly travelled solo, I find myself enjoying, more and more, travel that includes friends, some close and some new.  It’s a pleasure and it is enriching to share my experience with others.  I still love to head off on an adventure on my own.  Travelling solo gives me time to self-reflect without interruption, to do the things that I enjoy, and to indulge myself in little luxuries.  It truly is a rich and nourishing experience; some might say selfish which is perfectly fine with me.  Travelling solo doesn’t have to be overseas, or even in another state, it can be in your own city.

I have found that no matter where you are women travelling solo does require extra care when it comes to safety.

Here are a few Safety tips I found on the blog site http://lifestylescribe.wordpress.com/2008/02/14/safety-tips-for-women-travelling-solo

1. Travel when the sun’s up – it is safer to travel when the sun is up and more people are on the streets. There are more places that are best to see during the day.

2. Dress appropriately and properly – this hold true when you’re going to a conservative place and people practice a conservative lifestyle. When in Rome, do what the Romans do, right? Besides, you don’t want to draw negative attention because of what you wear.

3. Always stuff a flashlight in your backpack - this is for when you have night adventures. Also, never forget to bring extra batteries.

4. Let someone close to you know your itinerary – your family and friends are the most convenient people to leave your whereabouts if something comes up.

5. Do research of the place and avoid promiscuous places – don’t need to stress this one.

6. Know when to tag along other women travelers – there’s safety in groups.

7. Appear and feel confident – this is your best offense and defense. If you feel that you’re somewhat lost, then don’t appear too helpless but be brave enough to ask for directions.

“The most important thing is to be prepared on the road. Empower yourself with the tools to protect yourself and the knowledge of the places you’ll be going to by yourself.”

 

Re-emerging via my Inner Athlete – It’s Never Too Late

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First of all I’m not an athlete – no Olympic aspirations for me.  I played tennis in High School and always enjoyed those sports. Yet, I never connected to the athlete mindset till later in life when I had to go through major challenges, including career and health. Now, I have a deeper appreciation for what it takes to be an athlete, in particular what the athlete does to achieve success via the mind and lifestyle.

Getting Into The Zone

We have all heard about the way athletes visualize  ”get into the zone”, before they even attempt hitting the slope, or stepping on the court.  They visualize succeeding, they see themselves achieving that hoop shot, or make a clean run on the downhill. This skill I began to cultivate when I started teaching group dance classes and used it when I was facing multiple surgeries.  With regards to the classes I taught  I was nervous because I had never done anything like it before. What I started to do – 2 days before each class – I saw myself teaching – I saw the exact number of people I needed to fulfill the energy I intended to create, with each song I saw myself guiding successfully all the way to the last number.  I didn’t do this every time  I taught but when I did it made a huge difference.  When I was facing the surgery prospect, I would, the night before the surgery, visualize myself coming out of each procedure receiving positive news.  I did, it wasn’t exactly what I wanted but it was good news every time.

Tour de Coach

Recently my interest in the athlete mind has been perked, I received an invitation to attend the Tour de Coach  workshop in Tucson. The workshop led by the same trainers who worked with Lance Armstrong, is sure to take any coach who participates to the next level. Though I wasn’t able to make it I vicariously (yes being a vicarious athlete pretty much works for me)  heard about the experience via a fellow coach who did take part.  She shared with me the following insight:

What if your 2011 was set up in periods, much like athletic training is. Your fall to early winter is launch/push/production time. Your winter- spring is content delivery, creating time. Your June is a taper down and your July-August are rest/dormant time. This insight from Andrea J. Lee and David Goldsmith at Tour de Coach

For the entrepreneurial re-emerging woman in particular – what if we set-up our creative cycles, work cycle, physical exercise schedules in this way? You see when I am managing 3 businesses, taking care of an aging parent, and setting goals for a healthy lifestyle, finding a better way to be productive is a priority these days otherwise I am sure to burnout.

Fall to Early Winter – Launch/Push/ Production: Time to get those new offerings on the table, finish the proposals, finish  recording   the video, etc.  Perhaps this is a time when you finish the crafting of your new jewelry line, aroma candles, whatever it is it is a time to bring it to the table, launch it on the web, share it with friends/family around the kitchen table.

Winter-Spring – Time to  fill in the content of what you have launched – infuse your work with renewed creativity. Take what you have done and add to it, be inspired.

June – Not a good time to launch anything rather start to taper down and ease into the summer.

July – August - Can you now take some time off? I hope so, this is the perfect time to play, vacation, see new sights. Let it all go – trust that it will be ready for you when you return.  Do the bare minimum to keep everything in order.  This is when having residual income is a wonderful thing to have.

I am definitely going to attempt to carry out this program- it may look a little blurry to start but I can certainly set it as a goal.

Let me know if you have any other ideas about how this could benefit your life, work.  I realize this might not fit those that work a job 8-5, yet I am sure you can find ways that this will fit into your life.  Let me know what you think.

The New Feminine Leader

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From groom dance to moon dance.

Image by Memotions via Flickr

“The natural inclination of the feminine is to lead by example, to be moved by the inner impulse of life itself; to give, to be, to love, to grow more.  Living from the heart to lead is an intrinsic feminine quality so needed now in the world.”

I extracted this piece from something I read by Barbara Marx Hubbard.  It made me pause.   I see a greater call all around me to live more and more from the heart and soul.  I just returned from  a business training led by two top women leaders in the organization and I am still blown away by their passionate, strong, transparent and heart-felt message.

I find myself reflecting back  to the day when I was taking business classes and growing my skills as a secretary/office manager. I attended many wonderful business trainings led by dynamic women but something seemed strange and stifled.  I know now what was missing, it was the  voice of the feminine.  These women were attempting to lead by a  male prescribed business/leadership model and well, frankly, that just didn’t work.

As I re-emerge I am answering the call to live and lead my life from the long forgotten yet now being revived feminine model of leadership! This isn’t always easy because everywhere the other model rears its head but I know, I truly know the truth of what we need to thrive!

Does the how do I do this voice come in? Perhaps you have spent so many years fitting in to the other model you feel you have lost touch with something very special and important. You are not alone!