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Simplicity … again: the Choice!

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I suspect, like me, your day is filled with activities and interactions that were planned in the past. You chose them “then” yet here you are. Given the option, you might not have chosen them today!

The first and most important choice you make each day is this:

Will I follow through on today’s plan?

Sometimes, we need to respond NO. Perhaps illness or an urgent matter calls to us. Maybe we really need to change life direction and today’s plan no longer fits. If you are here with NO today, then make it a firm and powerful NO and set a new trajectory.

If, however, you responded YES, then make it a firm and powerful YES!

Whatever plan you are following, you have a second choice to make each and every day: How will I execute the day’s plan?

What energy will I bring to today’s moments?
With what spirit will I fulfill today’s commitments?
What will have me arrive at the pillow tonight
feeling fulfilled, grateful, whole, happy?

The Choice is Clear!

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Life’s Simple Pleasures

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I selected an inspiration card at random this morning. The Universe SO responded to my desire for clear direction. I needed only to read the very first question though I did take in a few:

What is the power in simple?
What stuns you into silence?
What would delicate feel like?

I read those questions and then looked out the window. Of course there was a hummingbird on the feeder! Nature’s delicate expression which always stuns me into silence, into awe.

Life’s simple pleasures are ever-present if we pause to notice, if we are willing to take them in.

Where do you over-complicate?
What simple pleasures await?

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What map are you following?

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Have you thought about your life map lately? You know the one: it has clear directions which guide your choices day to day on the road to a happy, healthy, fulfilling life.

You don’t have such a map? You just roll with the punches, let life push you around, or perhaps just go through the motions of living?

Oh! You have a map and, truth be told, it is actually very limiting so that you “succeed” and make no mistakes along the way.

Not that? Maybe you are following a map very carefully – but it isn’t your map.

Most likely, you are somewhere on the continuum between no structure and over-control or self-responsible and giving all your power away. And perhaps you are at a different point depending on which aspect of life (work, primary relationship, self-care …) you are thinking about.

Today I’d like to invite you into a few simple questions around any area of life that is chaotic, unhealthy or even just too comfortable.

Who is in the driver’s seat?
If nothing changes, where are you going?
What do you want to discover?
What shifts will insure that you DO?

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Land of the Free

Here in the United States, a celebration of our nation’s freedom is around the corner. I’ve paused often lately to remember and appreciate how free I really am. It is a gift to have been born into the “home of the free” and for me, into the white middle-class, a gift I don’t want to take for granted.

Yet, there is another type of freedom – or bondage – that human beings inflict on themselves. How free are you to live in integrity, to feel your feelings, to expand into your fullest and finest self-expression? How free do you believe you are? How free do you allow yourself to be? And, how, by your attitude, words and actions, do you free or imprison others? Do you allow your loved ones, your friends and colleagues, to be themselves? Do you treat others with respect and free them in your mind to be who they are? For a few additional questions around freedom and imprisonment, check out:

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Act Natural

Summer officially ends in a few days but Fall activities have likely picked up. Perhaps you’ve begun to feel harried, overly busy, behind the eight ball. Perhaps the gift of summer, the freedom, joy, play, lightness, ease, spaciousness, are already a thing of the past.

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So I wonder, before any more time passes,

How might a summertime mindset support you now?

Click on the collage for more questions to spark ideas!