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!
Yes you! Why not you? What if you don’t?
Call to mind all those whose writings, ideas, bold actions have touched you:
I bet the ideas that had an impact on you had been shared by many others. But, you “got it”, it resonated for you when it came from that particular person.
What if they had refused to give it?
The holiday season is upon us. While not everyone celebrates Christmas or Hanukkah or Kwanzaa, all of us are bombarded with the sights and sounds and shopping frenzy this time of year in addition to holiday parties with friends and coworkers.
Today, I would like to invite you into a practice around how you show up – regardless of your religious tradition:
Not presents, though there may be many – but presence – the qualities you bring to your relationships. Continue reading “Opening Your Presence”
Become aware of your hands. Are they tense or relaxed? Closed in a fist or soft? Are they gripping tightly or open to receive? If our hands are a metaphor for our lives, then the fist, the gripping, could point to:
Alternatively, soft and open, “palms up” hands could invite: Continue reading “A message from your hands”
… and possibly maybe and later.
Huh?
I’ve spent much of my life practicing codependency:
“I don’t know, whatever YOU want”
in response to just about any request for my preferences – simple things like, “Where should we go for dinner?” or “What would you like to watch on television?”
I’ve also realized another form codependency takes: Continue reading “Yes, No, Counter Offer …”
What virtues fill your resume? While you may not have used the term, virtues, you know the likes of the answer: efficient, detail oriented, creative, great problem solver, powerful leader, visionary, quick learner. Depending on the job you desire, you carefully craft a resume which highlights the qualities you possess which are a great fit. You list accomplishments to prove it.
Recently, I heard a message from David Brooks in the New York Times (The Moral Bucket List) where he pointed out the obvious: Continue reading “Resume “virtues” and more!”