Talkin’ About a Revolution

Today is the day to free your mind.

Let go of the ‘need to do’ and ‘should have dones’.

Stand in the present and truly exist as your most real self.

Become so absolutely free, you rebel, you!

 

Order it Up: Sense of Self

This post was originally posted on The Manifestation Station via the beautiful Jennifer Pastiloff.  #gratitude

Coffee is short, Enjoy your Life.

Remember the movie, You’ve Got Mail with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan?  It is a classic.  Don’t you just love the Fall leaves, Central Park and the all to suggestive plot of a feel-good Romantic Comedy?  Me, too.

The film follows the story of two people who stumble upon one another in an AOL chatroom, remember those?  There is this one scene in the movie when Tom Hanks’ character, Joe Fox is emailing Kathleen Kelly (Meg Ryan) about ordering his drink at Starbucks.  He speaks about the people that stand there flabbergasted with all the choices and completely unsure.  ‘Short, tall?  Lite, Dark?  Caff, decaf?  Low fat, non-fat?  He notes that people who do not know what they are doing or who they are, for only 2.95 can make six decisions at one time and get not just a cup of coffee, but an absolute defining sense of self’.  (You’ve Got Mail, 1998).

This is my absolute favorite part of the flick because I think it speaks so beautifully to our lives.  When you know what you want, you can declare it and then get out of your own way and allow the Universe to serve you.  Be it your specific coffee of choice or your future.

The mind begins to wander and I envision a large framed chalkboard with word choices like:

lover, courageous, powerful, enough, successful, homeowner, happy, flexible, business owner, confident, athletic, motivated, of service, complete, Mother, Father, charity, marathon runner, vacation, yoga retreat attendee…

This imaginary board hangs over a beautiful imaginary wooden counter with inspiring quotes carved into its surface and there is somehow never, ever a line.  People step up to the counter and declare their order from the chalkboard to no one behind the counter, yet everyone in the World.

Today, I would step up to the counter with courage and confidence and say:

”I will have grateful and fulfilled as a business owner serving the World through goal coaching clients in the Mountains and leading workshops via a traveling Airstream, Inc. trailer.  Thank you so much.”

And then, I would step down and rock my life with patience, love and compassion, trusting that my order has been heard, while at the same time committing that my actions will support the audacious endeavor.

Now, your turn.

Step up to the counter and declare what you really want in your big, amazing life.  Own it.  Live it.  Hell, you can yell it.  Then, move over, commit and know your order has been heard, written down and is being creatively crafted just at the right
time.

You will be served.

gentle reminder:

What Do You Do?

I am in the midst of creating business cards that are really life cards.

So, not necessarily my 9am-5pm business life on a card, but the “what I am up to with my big, amazing life” card.

That way, when we meet one evening at a party and you shake my hand and ask the question that we always ask to keep the conversation alive and engaging, “Nice to meet you.  (pause)  So, what do you do?”

I can hand you a life card and say, “Oh me?  I am the Mad Hatter“.

Here is how the back of the card I hand you will read:

Boom.

I cannot wait to meet you!  What will your big, amazing life card read?

Expect Less, Be More

I have often pondered if expectations are the ultimate killer of possibility.

If you are busy expecting a certain experience or outcome, have you then ruined any and all opportunity of one great moment that might unexpectedly occur because you were too busy with a preconceived notion of what should be?

How about I dare you to be free?  Tomorrow, wake up in the morning and realize your breath.  Then perhaps take in the sunshine, thunderstorm and/or rollercoaster that is your day.  Be open to what is to come without any pre-made created reality.  Expect less, be more.

Let’s see what happens.

Let’s see what happens when anything is possible.

I See You, Mom

My Mom and I were talking last week about life, love and goals in all that was the Mother/Daughter conversation between two crazy women who love more and cry more than any humans should in one conversation/moment/instance.

Little did my Mother know, upon hanging up the phone, she had just given me the most beautiful gift.

Via phone:

I say to her, “Mom, who inspires you?  Surround yourself with people who lift you up.”

My Mother begins to choke up, sniffle and her voice always goes higher due to rushed emotions and she responded, “well, (pause), you inspire me.”

As I smile through tears that she cannot see over the phone, I say, “oh Mom, thank you.  Thank you.”

She sees me.

And what a truly powerful and amazing feeling to be seen, heard and radically loved by the woman who taught me all things are possible, the woman who taught me how to be a woman, the woman who really is my biggest fan, my Mom.

So, what I want to say to you, Mom and all the amazing Mothers in the World, “I see you.  You inspire me every moment.  You gave us life, your life and our breath, and thus, we all can inspire one another.  And what a beautiful World we live in, thanks to you, Mom.  Thanks to you all, the Mothers.”

You have truly rocked the Universe!

Happiest Mother’s Day.

 

Possibility.

What does it mean to be possible?

How do we live in possibility?

Can we absolutely always be dwelling in possibility?

Words that appear in my mind as I dwell on the term:

open…courageous…to be in wander…trust…choice…connected-ness…always a chance…present…faith…love…potential…heart(space)…the Ocean…questionable…perhaps unrealistic…stars…the Little Dipper…vulnerable…scary…radical…opportunity…magic markers…create…brainstorming…available options to consider…power…powerful…miracles…the Universe…beautiful…anything and everything is…glowing lagoons…books shelves…books…Sequoia trees….Mountain peaks…you…

Oh.

Right.

Possibility lives in you.

And in me.

Define possibility for you and let it live within you.

Always.