Tidbits of Wisdom to inspire your unique life journey – Jeanne Loehnis, Songs For Your Spirit, LLC
Life regularly presents opportunities for learning, growing, expanding! Here you’ll find ideas, stories and inspiration from my life. As you read, be sure to consider the unique and amazing life that is yours. Only then, discern if this tidbit is for you!
It is December 1st. A new month. A new day. A new array of opportunities in front of me. A new breath unlike any other ever received into my body.
And the words from Leadership echo in my mind. I hear “Begin again.”
And in this space of freshness, colored lights, and morning calm, these words come as if from the Universe itself. I hear:
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When the butterflies in your gut are flying around madly and you're tempted to turn and walk away from the choice, opportunity, or challenge that awaits you, try on this perspective:
And if I’m not stretching,
I’m contracting and shrinking.
Where are your butterflies leading you?
Is safe, calm, small, and dying really what you want?
Come fly with me!
Ah, a day for giving thanks! What a wonderful reason to pause. In our zest for more or better, we can too often forget to notice and appreciate what is. We focus on the missing, the wrong, the unsatisfactory. Yet, imagine moving through the moments of your days aware of and grateful for all of life's blessings, seeing what is as a place of abundance. Then, with an attitude of gratitude, joy, and possibility, noticing how it could be even more wonderful!
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One of the major themes during my recent leadership development training was “leading with heart” as opposed to intellect. I found the poem below in my journaling notes.
I've just picked this book off the shelf again, Claiming Your Place At The Fire. Written by Richard J. Leider and David A. Shapiro, it is subtitled, Living the second half of your life on purpose.
I share this with you today because I found it a very powerful read. Perhaps you've heard the quote, “… the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.” Erich Fromm wrote that and this:
Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. (thank you, Wikipedia!)
Are you at that point where life is “working” – you have a job, a home, the family is grown – life is “good”? If so, what a blessing!
And, are you ready for what's next? What does “retirement” mean to you? What is it that you are now marvelously prepared to become, to give birth to in the world?