Looking to others for acceptance - and we ALL do this until we don’t - is a really effective way to limit our potential and possibilities. It works.
What labels are limiting your work?
Exploring what limits we put on our work is a simple way to start making changes. Just start talking to yourself about your work and watch the labels arise. All the small judgements and beliefs are all just mental constructs, or ideas that you USE to limit your potential. Notice them and choose one or two to experiment with.
Nature wastes no energy
Breathe: The Simple Guide To Better Health for Quilters, Artists and Creatives
I wrote this book for those who tend towards sedentary in their work - the artists, quilters, writers, photographers, painters, designers, videographers ... those who draw, dye, sew, stitch, come up with brilliant ideas to share with the world yet spend much of that time without much movement, enmeshed in the process of creation.
Setting Intentions 2019 - RECORDING
This call was part of our group program this year and was intended to help everyone get curious about how to create meaningful, specific intentions that would help them grow this year. It was really fun and I hope you get something valuable from it.
Can you transmute energy like a carrot seed?
Being present changes time and energy
GAME CHANGER: Here's WHY you limit your joy, success, contentment, intimacy, and fulfillment.
“Disease and dysfunction are not the WHY, but the WAY you limit your joy, success, contentment, intimacy, and fulfillment.”
When Jeff shared this a few years ago it was like a light went on… or more like a nuclear reactor of possibility exploded!
This kind of selfish changes the world.
We live in a culture that seems to vacillate between valuing service to others above self or greedily seeking self-gratification. But when we highly value our own personal sense of fulfillment we can have both – serve others at a higher level and create opportunities for material growth.
There is what I hear in the conversations I have with clients:
My empathy upgrade, homelessness and what changed.
THIS is how your communication directly affects your power
It takes less energy to be big & radiant … NOT more
Yes, it’s true! It takes less energy to be big – NOT more. This week someone expressed that they felt it would take a lot of energy to get from where they are, to feeling big and magnetizing like me … more energy than they could imagine generating. While I so appreciate that affirmation of who I am being, I have to debunk the idea that it requires a lot of energy to be this way.
Who you are being matters more than what you are doing or saying.
Who you are being ripples out effects constantly. So what you think and feel create your being. For example, if you are saying something about love but feeling fear in your body… what I “sense” from you its actually NOT love but a configuration closer to fear and misalignment. That is what you are rippling out.
Why am I talking about this? A simple experiment to gain back energy
Through numerous conversations with my wise other half, Jeff, I became aware of the multitude of ways that I was wasting my energy – energy and focus that could be used to create awesome things, share ideas or serve more people.
In a culture that highly values intellect and our expression of it, we often talk to prove our value,
Being kind is really a pathway to power
Your avoidance of conflict may cost you … literally.
"Women that I know don’t want to be the bad guy." Those were the words that a business owner recently shared with me while discussing conflict. I was sharing how I help clients to communicate more effectively and in how many ways it helps create more time and success in their lives. As we were talking, she shared that if she had been able to manage conversations better with a former employee that she would have saved $300,000 in a lawsuit.
But if I am completely me, they’ll think I’m unprofessional.
I spent an extraordinary amount of energy in my professional life “keeping it all together.” I had gathered the impression in my life that I couldn’t be “too” anything and still be accepted as a professional.
I couldn’t be too opinionated, too loud, too vibrant, too feminine, be too goofy, too playful, too emotional, make too many mistakes, ask too many questions, etc.