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Is Your Dream Worth the Fight?

Today’s tidbit is inspired by two beautiful quotations:

“We fear to trust our wings. We plume and feather them, but dare not throw our weight upon them. We cling too often to the perch.” ~~ Charles B. Newcomb

“Let me fall. Let me climb. There’s a moment where fear and dream must collide.” ~~ Lyrics from Let Me Fall
collaboration between Josh Groban and Cirque du Soleil


Imagine the young bird never letting its fear of leaving the nest collide with the dream of flight. That young one will die of starvation in the nest!

I’ve heard that a dream which does not invoke some fear isn’t big enough. Dreams are meant to excite, to challenge, to take us out of our comfort zones and risk leaving the nest. In order to manifest these dreams, we must invite fear into a face-to-face with our dreams.

What big dream are you dreaming?
What do you feel when you invite the fullness of your dream to face fear?

Is your dream worth the fight?

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Remember Your Vision

Sometimes, I wake up and my emotional well-being is missing. I forget who I am and what I’m about. I lose site of my big “V” vision.

Sometimes, I transfer control of my day to my emotional non-well-being. [Guess what happens?]

Sometimes, I don’t. Lately I’ve been practicing:

  1. notice my emotional state
  2. remember my Vision, Purpose, Intention
  3. let my emotions flow if needed, clear my emotional space
  4. return to my Vision and discern what today’s “next step” is

Then I live into my Vision by taking today’s step. I ask you:

What “V”ision are you moving toward now?
What emotion will you take out of the driver’s seat?

 

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Inspiration from …

… me! All right, this one is a bit off the beaten path but I am called to share. These last two days, I have been directed to open the book I wrote last year, What’s Alive In Me Now? Time for the journey of your life! 

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I have read several chapters and found myself inspired and grounded and recommitted to what I am called to do in this lifetime.

Why am telling you this?

Because we all need inspiration and it can come from many places –sometimes, from deep within. Whether you, like me, are a writer, or one who journals or draws, you have likely created from deep inspiration at times. The Universe was working through you to add richness to our world. Just maybe, you are meant to return to these creations now and receive their message again – at a new and expanded level for yourself.

Today, consider letting yourself be inspired. Don’t be shy! Check into your own creations! And, if you haven’t already, check into mine. You’ll find the book that I penned at this link:

What’s Alive In Me Now? Time for the journey of your life! 

along with some sample chapters.

To inspired living – now!

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Beyond refusal …

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Bring to mind a situation, relationship, belief that both challenges you and that you are ready to experience shift around.  

Got it?  Now:

 

  • What would you like to see?
  • What stops you from seeing it?
  • What possible solutions do you see?
  • Which do you refuse to speak aloud?
  • What next?
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Lessons from trees

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Ever appreciative of nature, today when I let my gaze focus softly on the fall color around me I became very aware of the many lessons to be learned from trees. Now, I am aware that this is NOT a new topic. In fact, when I reached the end of my journaling about trees, I recalled one of my favorite books, Shel Silverstein’s The Giving Tree:

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If you are not familiar with this one, please check it out. It is one of the most precious gifts I think I’ve given.

That said, today’s version of tree exploration landed in a very different place than did The Giving Tree. As I let my awareness focus on the tree and all the ways I might align my life with that of the beautiful deciduous trees I so love, I discovered that sometimes a tree is just a tree, being a tree. Yet sometimes:

  • it is an umbrella giving protection from the rain or the sun
  • it is sustenance as the leaves it drops decompose and nourish the soil or its sap, nuts and berries provide food for animal and human
  • it is beauty – majestic, tall, strong
  • it grows, expands its reach each year with tender, small, vulnerable branches which, over time, grow stronger
  • it needs to let go, needs pruning, that what remains has room to blossom
  • it suffers greatly from the elements
  • it needs the help of mankind or other trees for support
  • it cycles annually through rich and visible outer manifestation and the outwardly barren yet inwardly alive winter hibernation

I am SO like that tree! Sometimes, I get to be just me being me. At other times I am helper or helped — beauty or barren — expressive or inward focused.

What season is your tree navigating now?