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What Can You Be?

“Each and every moment of each and every day
the opportunity is mine to mold myself like clay
into the grandest version of the greatest vision I can be.
Yes, each and every moment is mine to be what I can be!” (*)

That means we choose. We notice what life is presenting and we choose how we will react or respond to it. We notice each thought and ask: Is this thought one I want to nourish? We notice each emotion and ask: What part of this needs to be felt and released? We pause to imagine what we want to create and then breathe into its completion: What does your imagination create?

What can you be this moment?

(*) Lyrics by Jeanne Loehnis based on words from Alan Cohen.

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Your Impact

No amount of intending, planning, leading and seeing our dreams to completion will EVER give us the full picture of our impact in this lifetime. No matter how many accolades, awards or expressions of gratitude we receive, these will never be the full picture.

Rather, each one of us, moment by moment, is having an impact on this world and the people in it well beyond our awareness. In ways we are oblivious, others are observing, learning, being touched. Furthermore, their actions are affected by our impact; our impact is expanding like a web that truly is out of our control.

In what ways do you WANT to impact the world you live in?
In what ways are you WAITING for acknowledgment before acting?
What message is your life sending now?

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Out on a Limb

“Why not go out on a limb? That’s where the fruit is.” Mark Twain 

How true! The excitement, the juice, the richness of life often requires us to reach outside of our comfort zone, risk, go where we have not gone before. What I especially like about Twain’s metaphor is that a limb rich with fruit remains connected to a strong trunk. It seems that climbing the tree of our life and risking the stretch for richness by “going out on a limb” asks us to:

  • tend to our trunk, our core, our foundation in order to remain grounded in the imbalance
  • choose limbs which can support our weight, paths to the fruit which have a good chance of holding us up 

What fruit are you reaching for?
What does your foundation need?
What path is yours to follow?

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Lesson from Oz

While there are many things to learn from The Wizard of Oz, I’d like to invite you into just one for today. Do you remember Miss Gulch, the bicycle riding, mean, old hag? She had every intention of confiscating Dorothy’s dog, Toto, and had the “rules of the law” to support her. This, of course, crushed Dorothy.

Now think about Dorothy’s dog, Toto. I see childlike energy and determination, ignoring the rules, and “going after life”! And Dorothy had every intention of keeping Toto close to her chest at all times.

What voice in you sounds like Miss Gulch?
What inner voice is that of Toto?
What power have you given to Miss Gulch?
How does your inner Toto energize you?
What helps you embrace, engage with, expand, and celebrate your inner Toto?

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Your Best You

Your powerful impact emerges when you allow your best, most authentic self to be expressed in ways which align with your deepest values. The world around you, the friends, colleagues, and family members with whom you interact daily, need your powerful impact, your best you to shine.

Your Best You

What is your difference?
What is yours to give?
What will encourage you to make it happen?
What is your best you?