Self-Management

Do you ever find yourself totally distracted? You are doing “it” but your mind is somewhere else? Beyond the fact that you are likely not as effective at “it” as you might be (no, there really is no such thing as multi-tasking!), you are also missing out on life itself, missing out on what is REALLY here in this moment. 

Here are a few ideas to help you be more present to your life, to practice self-management: Continue reading “Self-Management”

Speak to something you don’t know

Yes, that’s right. Tell me something you DON’T know! In those thousands of thoughts we think each day, in the words we speak which so often relay “what has happened”, what are we learning? How are we expanding?

If we allow it, life always invites us deeper and wider. Our lives go nowhere when filled with nothing but “the stories we tell ourselves”. Growth happens in each “Ah ha!” awareness, each message from our emotional body that we didn’t predict, from the words we utter that seem to come from outside ourselves.

So, today, consider pausing before you speak, before you recite “the story”. Breathe into the moment and wonder:

What don’t I know?

Then, speak to that.

Beyond Fear

“I couldn’t do that! It’s too scary.”
“Stand in front of a room full of people? I’d be so nervous! No way!”
“No, thank you. I’ve never done anything like that before. I’ll pass.”

Sound like something you might say? Is fear a major player in your decision making process? Are you missing out on life’s delicacies by letting your fear be front and center?

Maybe you don’t let yourself feel the fear. Perhaps these are more likely to be your words: Continue reading “Beyond Fear”

The Ten Percent T-Rap

'Tis time to tell the tale
of a tactic tried and true
toward trusting transformation
to the totally terrific you!

A tool to test the tired,
and torment mere tiny thoughts.
'Twill be tedious, even turbulent,
oh so taxing when 'tis fought.

The tabloids think it terrible,
and tycoons a torrential typhoon!
It’ll tackle and be tragic
if tit for tat’s your tune.

Yet you’ll tap dance once you taste
this tangy, tantalizing, trick.
Tell the tag team to take charge,
team together; to be quick!

Today 'tis time to start to
share your talent and your time.
Ten percent tenaciously tendered:
transform your spirit with your tithe!

By Jeanne Loehnis, 2007

Open

Open to what is, not to what I think should be.
Open to accept that we are different, you and me.
Open to the life we each receive from Spirit true.
Open to the miracle that God has made in you.

Open in my heart to see my talents, gifts each one.
Open in my heart to share them till the day is done.
Open in my heart to see your talents as they are.
Open in my heart to see your bright and shining star.

Open to God’s plan of Love for people everywhere.
Open to God’s plan that there is no need to compare.
Open to God’s plan that each fulfills a certain need.
Open to God’s plan that, as I do, so you I’ll feed.

Open to believe that we are each part of the whole.
Open to believe that we’re created of One soul.
Open to believe that we all share One sacred birth.
Open to believe that we, as One, now walk the Earth.

By Jeanne Loehnis, 2004