Category: Tidbits of Wisdom

Again today I feel called to share with you a beautiful opportunity. I have just started listening to the daily meditations which began August 15. Actually, I am using them to guide my meditation experience for these 21 days and am grateful. Whether you already meditate or have always put it off, consider gifting yourself with 20 minutes or less each day. Each has a short reading you can journal on before the meditation – or not!

The Summer Chopra Center 21-Day Meditation Challenge

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I just read an article that is a “must share” with each of you. Marcia Wieder, a professional dream coach, has written “12 Ways to Be a 21st Century Visionary, Leader & Coach”. Broken into 4 parts for CHOICE magazine on-line, her thoughts are powerful for coaches, leaders, and everyone who wants to have an impact in the world and make a difference.

• Part 1: Integrity, Uncertainty and Enlightenment
  
• Part 2: Getting Empty, Faith and Wisdom
  
• Part 3: Receptivity, Miracles and Being a Creator
  
• Part 4: The Silent Witness, Collaboration and The Dream Movement
  

Each of these short articles has journaling recommendations. I hope you find inspiration and courage to bring more of you and your light into the world!

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It feels like I've written lots about making choices, about handling life's options in ways which empower us. Yet, I need another lesson so here I am again!

This week was (over)filled with a variety of activities and possibilities. I am SO blessed, right? Well, I allowed the plethora of commitments to overwhelm me as the week wore on and I lost sight of the blessings and the fact that I not only “get to” but “must” choose. As I talked through the situation with my coach and reflected later, here are a few of the points I now know:

• There will always be more and I cannot do everything now
  
• When I lose ease, I lose Jeanne
  
• When I try to pack it all in, I am in a place of lack, believing that the opportunity will be gone forever
  

Lack is not a place I want to live in. Nor is (dis)ease. As a life coach and creative being, I have experienced first hand the power of magic when ease and openness meets opportunity and idea. Songs have fallen on the page in moments. “Ah ha's!” have filled my energetic being and transported me from stuck to flow in the blink of an eye.

And I know that no amount of time on this earth would be enough to meet every person, travel to every corner of the world, experiment with all forms of creativity, spirituality, exercise … You get the idea. As a human being, I must choose. And that means both “Yes!” and “No!”. And sometimes it means “Not now.”

So, today I looked for a question to guide me in my choice making. I needed a question that would result in yes, no, or not now. For me, what worked was:

What does “it” serve?
For me, the answers here can be that it serves my ego or my codependency. Yikes! Other answers include my core values, my desire to lead. Or perhaps it serves my need to have fun or build relationships. My inner being knows at this point whether the answer is a strong “Yes!” or a strong “No!”. If time permits an activity that isn't a strong “Yes!” (sometimes these are the only options we have time for), some other questions can help:

• Who does “it” serve?
  
• What level of tension or ease does it bring “it” raise?
  
• What if “it” never happened?
  
• What if “it” happened later?
  

What are the questions you use to guide your choice making? Share them here! I am open to learning and I suspect others are as well.

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It has been a week filled with the lesson:

Be Here Now
Be in this moment, be fully present. Now is where life happens. Now is the only place where I can make a difference. What I notice is:

The Universe takes care of me!
Sometimes, that care comes in the form of events I don't really want but which remind me that I am not present – and need to be.

I was on my way to volunteer at a treatment facility on Wednesday morning, aware that a major event had occurred the day before and the women were likely still experiencing emotional grief. What was needed was me, fully present, able to be with whatever showed up in my group. Now, the Universe had already supplied me with the idea to ask for help and bow out of an earlier commitment that felt like more than I could handle. I had and all was well. I was on my way believing I was present for the women.

Until, the flashing lights went on behind me.
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Okay. Here's the facts around the last half hour. I came here with an intention of creating a blog entry that would hold a meaningful message for you. And I wrote with relative ease. Then the software didn't respond to my commands as I intended and “Poof!” it was gone.

In information technology, this is most often the result of a PICNIC:

(P)roblem (I)n (C)hair (N)ot (I)n (C)omputer
In other words, I probably did something wrong as opposed to there being a “bug” in the blogging software.

In life, when we are told that we made the mistake, well sometimes, that isn't an easy nut to swallow. “My error? NOT!” And fuming persists and the blame game continues. Then what?

I blame you.
You blame me.
There is an answer
but I don't see.

Frustrated, angry.
I am blind.
Resolution hidden
from my mind.

Oh my! Where did that come from? Truthfully, it came from letting go of what I'd lost through the PICNIC. It came from not engaging in a blame game and storming away mad. It came from opening to resolution and moving forward, to “what is here now?” rather than dwelling on what is lost. And it came in about two minutes.

• Where are you blind?
  
• Where are you playing the blame game?
  
• What's the power in owning a “problem in chair”?
  

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