Posts belonging to Category 'success'

am i stirred up, or am i wanting to stir things up?

There are times in one’s life, or I should perhaps say, MY life, that I get an itch to sHaKe ThInGs uP a bit….  to spend a day, a week, a month stewing on all that I’ve done, and really ask myself–am I still headed in the direction my heart longs to go?  Some might [...]

what I learned from tuning in…

I’m just now coming back from a two week offline painting/dreaming/savoring retreat as a jumpstart to the summer…  days of laying in the hammock with my doogle, writing in my journal, cooking and experimenting with food, gardening, spontaneous bicycle rides, and painting galore showed me the way back to my heart….  Here are some things [...]

Lay down your burden…

To you who are boiling many pots at once, juggling countless balls and fiery batons, trying to stay afloat, filling enough plates to feed an entire army of dreamers…. (You know who you are)… Take a breath. You have choices. You can learn to discover comfort in the discomfort, to take the overwhelm out of [...]

Take Up Space

I’m a work in progress. I’m learning how to stop defining myself by the rights and wrongs of anyone other than myself…. my parents, my coach, my bestest friend in the world, the latest trends in O magazine. I’m learning how to withdraw from blaming those who “know better” for telling me what to do [...]

How to be Delightfully Delusional: a creative manifesto of sorts

Being creative means FLYING BY THE SEAT OF YOUR PANTS. It means not knowing where you’re headed or how on earth you’ll get to where you hope to wind up; making up the rules and drawing the map as you go; honoring your gut instincts and being insanely impulsive; getting lost from time to time; [...]