Not everyone is going to understand your dream or your choice to make that dream a reality. Everything is possible and sure it helps if your friends and family support you but you need to understand their support may not always appear the way you want or even need it to.
I'm a cheerleader. I don't just tell people what they want to hear but I see limitless potential in everyone's dreams and the practical applications available to manifest those dreams. I'm there for those I love and those of you I don't even know yet because I truly believe everything is possible. Not everyone will support you in the way that I do but that doesn't mean they don't support you.
Celebrating accomplishments both big and small are all steps in the direction towards manifesting your dreams. After all, a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step... you have to remember that good things come to those that wait, have faith rather than hope and continue to work towards your dreams.
Some people will worry about your stepping into the unknown. They will want you to be secure both physically and financially (another physicality.) Take that for what it is - show and express your gratitude for them to care enough about you to worry and keep moving towards your dream.
Dare to live the life you imagined because nothing in this life is guaranteed no matter how "safe" you play it so you might as well be able to look back and say "I was happy, I lived my dream." Each of us is born with a gift to share, we are all valuable to the great design of life and the people we share that gift with. Abundance is yours with each day you share that gift and peace when you look back on that day.
Living your dream is the single most important thing you can do for yourself and others. Lead by example. So many people are afraid to take a risk to find the pure joy that comes from accomplishing your dreams.
I hear all the time, "Well I don't know that I really like my job but I am lucky to have one." UGH! Really? It's so sad to me when people adopt that attitude because they are letting fear take over. How will they look back on their life when their time is done? I can't imagine looking at 30+ years in a job you don't like without thinking about how much time I wasted not being happy or doing the things I dreamed and loved.
Fear should never decide anything in your life. Living your dream brings joy and we all deserve a little of that but only we can gift that to ourselves.
So how do you make peace with the people in our life that aren't as encouraging as you hoped? Find the cheerleaders in your life and sound your dreams off them and then share what you have accomplished with the others in your life that care enough to worry about you. Every accomplishment will help relieve some of those worries they hold and maybe you will even inspire them to put their fears aside and dream a little more and take the risk to move towards their own dreams.
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Discover your treasure!
"It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure."
-Joseph Campbell
My daughter came home from school the other day and had a rough day, she cried "Mom, why was today so bad?" My response, "Well honey if all days were good you wouldn't appreciate them so much, it's like sweet and sour chicken (one of her favorite's)you wouldn't taste how sweet it is without some of the sour."
A lot of people wonder why things just seem to go wrong so often or why they can't "get a break" or how much longer they have to struggle to get to where they want to be. Understand that this is a part of the process. You have to continue having faith and working towards your goals and dreams and when you stumble don't get mad, try to learn from it. We will all get there and the only delays are those we need to learn from in order to appreciate accomplishing our goals and dreams when we have them.
Sometimes the lesson to learn is to be happy in the NOW. When you have lost everything you think was important in your life stop and take a look at what you have... even if it is just you then you are blessed. You are important, you are special, you are worth more than any material thing you can have.... You are constant and if you refuse to give up on yourself then you will never fail in anything.
Each lesson you learn prepares you to accept the abundance that is yours. Open yourself to the lessons, ask for them, ask what you are to learn from them while in their throes. Allow the abyss to become a portal to bring you to where you are supposed to be.
Being honest with yourself in your discovery will allow you to find the greatest treasure of all... YOU! The good things and bad things we do (no one is perfect) create the many facets of ourselves and as any jeweler will tell you the more facets you have the more brilliantly you will shine! Make peace with all of who you are and don't break yourself into a million pieces over regrets - larger gems are much more valuable.
-Joseph Campbell
My daughter came home from school the other day and had a rough day, she cried "Mom, why was today so bad?" My response, "Well honey if all days were good you wouldn't appreciate them so much, it's like sweet and sour chicken (one of her favorite's)you wouldn't taste how sweet it is without some of the sour."
A lot of people wonder why things just seem to go wrong so often or why they can't "get a break" or how much longer they have to struggle to get to where they want to be. Understand that this is a part of the process. You have to continue having faith and working towards your goals and dreams and when you stumble don't get mad, try to learn from it. We will all get there and the only delays are those we need to learn from in order to appreciate accomplishing our goals and dreams when we have them.
Sometimes the lesson to learn is to be happy in the NOW. When you have lost everything you think was important in your life stop and take a look at what you have... even if it is just you then you are blessed. You are important, you are special, you are worth more than any material thing you can have.... You are constant and if you refuse to give up on yourself then you will never fail in anything.
Each lesson you learn prepares you to accept the abundance that is yours. Open yourself to the lessons, ask for them, ask what you are to learn from them while in their throes. Allow the abyss to become a portal to bring you to where you are supposed to be.
Being honest with yourself in your discovery will allow you to find the greatest treasure of all... YOU! The good things and bad things we do (no one is perfect) create the many facets of ourselves and as any jeweler will tell you the more facets you have the more brilliantly you will shine! Make peace with all of who you are and don't break yourself into a million pieces over regrets - larger gems are much more valuable.
Monday, March 15, 2010
Who Are You?
I watched the new Alice In Wonderland movie over the weekend and it has just stuck with me... So many ideas coming from this new production of a classic. The story has always had moments from within it that pop into my consciousness at some seemingly odd moments in my life - always teaching me something.
The most obvious teaching is the caterpillar asking Alice, "Who are you?" I love how Alice isn't really quite sure... She is who she is yet she doesn't know the extent of who that is until the story has played out. Isn't that always the way? Hindsight is 20/20 and so many people look back on life wishing they had done something more when they were younger, had more energy or before their body started twinging every time they moved.
As the story progresses all of Alice's insecurities, she begins with quite a few, start melting away as she is morally disposed to conquer each fear that she would normally allow to overwhelm her. She learns about friendship and compassion which are forms of the greatest power of all - LOVE. Love conquers all things.
Alice doesn't think about her cowardice as she plunges ahead to save her friends. She thinks only of her friends. Her selflessness being cast aside for her moral values. Her thoughts of herself and self preservation replaced by compassion leads her to the self-discovery of who she is.
Doing something for others without worrying about what you will gain or lose brings about the greatest gains of all. A selfless act without concern for the end result (appreciation or recognition from others for how great you are) brings you closer to yourself so when you gaze at yourself in the looking glass you know you can beat all Jabberwockies that appear in your life. The knowledge of being able to accomplish anything, to overcome anything that may hold you back is the great gift of knowing who you are, capable of anything life throws at you and completely unafraid.
I am Alice.
The most obvious teaching is the caterpillar asking Alice, "Who are you?" I love how Alice isn't really quite sure... She is who she is yet she doesn't know the extent of who that is until the story has played out. Isn't that always the way? Hindsight is 20/20 and so many people look back on life wishing they had done something more when they were younger, had more energy or before their body started twinging every time they moved.
As the story progresses all of Alice's insecurities, she begins with quite a few, start melting away as she is morally disposed to conquer each fear that she would normally allow to overwhelm her. She learns about friendship and compassion which are forms of the greatest power of all - LOVE. Love conquers all things.
Alice doesn't think about her cowardice as she plunges ahead to save her friends. She thinks only of her friends. Her selflessness being cast aside for her moral values. Her thoughts of herself and self preservation replaced by compassion leads her to the self-discovery of who she is.
Doing something for others without worrying about what you will gain or lose brings about the greatest gains of all. A selfless act without concern for the end result (appreciation or recognition from others for how great you are) brings you closer to yourself so when you gaze at yourself in the looking glass you know you can beat all Jabberwockies that appear in your life. The knowledge of being able to accomplish anything, to overcome anything that may hold you back is the great gift of knowing who you are, capable of anything life throws at you and completely unafraid.
I am Alice.
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Pursue The Things That Make You Happy
My mother never thought of herself as an artist although she has always known she is creative and loves art. She did theater in her younger years, sang and played music throughout most of her life and in the past decade has designed and created websites and businesses. Whenever it came to doing something by hand she always asked me to do it. I used to love to draw and paint and create artistic pieces but not with the same passion she would request them of me. I would always tell her that she should do them, could do them but she would always reply, "No, I'm just not artistic like you are."
A couple years ago she decided to take an art class. She loves the process and learning (ever an inquisitive Virgoan mind) about different types of art, watercolors and pencils and oils and the styles. She reads biographies of painters and studies their work and then tries it out. She has become a woman obsessed. She dreams of being able to paint and create all day every day. Of course she still has her work which she does after morning meditation with her brushes and canvas, it has become a part of her spirit, brings her closer to spirit.
It took until the past year for her to admit she is very artistic. She even got up the nerve to submit her work into a National Arts Program Exhibit in her city. She did it for fun, to make a move towards showing her work - an insecurity many artists suffer from... "will people like it?" and of course, "is it really good?"
A couple of weeks later while on the phone with my mother helping her with her bookkeeping (way too many art supplies) and hearing her sigh about how she wishes she could just paint all day and not deal with Quickbooks she received an email.... She won Best In Show! She cried with joy, in fact did that first so fiercely that I was afraid something was wrong...
You see it is NEVER to late to live the dream you have for yourself. If there is something you have always been interested in but never thought yourself capable - DO IT ANYWAY! Take a course you could be great or it could just be the breadcrumbs Hansel and Gretel left you to find what you never imagined but always dreamed.
Need help discovering what that is? I am always available for consulting. Just leave a comment and Ask Glitter what it is you want to know!
To view my mothers art visit www.artforthesoulofit.com
A couple years ago she decided to take an art class. She loves the process and learning (ever an inquisitive Virgoan mind) about different types of art, watercolors and pencils and oils and the styles. She reads biographies of painters and studies their work and then tries it out. She has become a woman obsessed. She dreams of being able to paint and create all day every day. Of course she still has her work which she does after morning meditation with her brushes and canvas, it has become a part of her spirit, brings her closer to spirit.
It took until the past year for her to admit she is very artistic. She even got up the nerve to submit her work into a National Arts Program Exhibit in her city. She did it for fun, to make a move towards showing her work - an insecurity many artists suffer from... "will people like it?" and of course, "is it really good?"
A couple of weeks later while on the phone with my mother helping her with her bookkeeping (way too many art supplies) and hearing her sigh about how she wishes she could just paint all day and not deal with Quickbooks she received an email.... She won Best In Show! She cried with joy, in fact did that first so fiercely that I was afraid something was wrong...
You see it is NEVER to late to live the dream you have for yourself. If there is something you have always been interested in but never thought yourself capable - DO IT ANYWAY! Take a course you could be great or it could just be the breadcrumbs Hansel and Gretel left you to find what you never imagined but always dreamed.
Need help discovering what that is? I am always available for consulting. Just leave a comment and Ask Glitter what it is you want to know!
To view my mothers art visit www.artforthesoulofit.com
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