I wanted to give a shout out to Jessica Larsen who nominated me for a Versatile Blogger award.
Such a kind and lovely thing to do — to just let someone know, that you appreciate their work, their words, their time writing. It really touched me something fierce. It’s taken me a few days to get to this part of it — so please forgive me. But, when you have a moment, please visit her lovely site: https://www.jessicaelarsen.com/ — and yes, please follow her! She’s fun, and writes about everything with a special gist on romance. A very lovely site and an avid writer/blogger.
Let me also add this: I know a lot of us take so much time to write and share our thoughts, pictures, moments — and I do visit a lot of sites that I follow on a regular basis. I don’t always comment. I don’t know how so many of you so easily write blog posts daily — I’m so jealous! But some times I just read and don’t comment because I never feel I have enough time to really say what I want to say. Maybe I’m thinking too much on it? Not sure. Sometimes, I just think “Eeh, they’ll get how much I loved this by the pressing like.”
I want to be better about commenting more often. I know for me, when people take the time to comment and share their thoughts on my blog posts, it just brightens my day so much. Especially if it’s been a full day in solitary WORK WRITING mode — having this interaction is a blessing, even if people disagree or have a different point of view — so thank you for those that always take the time.
Well, check out Jessica’s blog when you have a sec, follow her and, as always, thanks for stopping by and have a sweet day!
In the past two weeks I found myself catching up, in one way or another, with old friends/acquaintances. Some are old work-related contacts, others friends from long ago — with one contact it was as if no time had passed on by at all – we just picked up where we left off. With another “friend” I remembered instantaneously WHY I stopped talking to that particular person within 5 minutes! Oy!
Of course, this promoted me to look at old pics. As it always happens, I ended up going down a rabbit hole of pics and found a few… my last marathon 2004 for example…
I think I want to run the LA Marathon next year. WHAT? This is what I get for looking at old pics! Oh no…
I couldn’t sleep all night thinking about it. I’ve completed three full marathons — but they were in San Diego — and the LA Marathon has been on my mind for a long time. Of course, if I was real serious, I’d try to qualify for the Boston Marathon, since it’s my hometown. But, uhem, baby steps… I’m shocked I’m thinking about this at all!
I’m hesitant because in 2017 I participated in a Tough Mudder with my fabulous work-out group and nearly died! Look at my face in this pic — it kinda says it all — this is ME trying to get over a wall:
Below is a great pic BEFORE we hit the track of mud. We didn’t take a group pic after, but actually, we were all pretty happy and it was a great time — but the scars, scratches, bruising… it was weeks of recovery for me. Just not my kinda thing, but glad I tried it! Again, crossed off my bucket list FOREVER!
Granted, running and doing an obstacle course are very different things, but running 26.2 miles is still RUNNING 26.2 miles. Unfortunately, nowadays, I call a “long run” any time I run to the beach and that’s just a mere 6 miles at best — and only if I actually run back! Ugghh. But… there’s something in me that thinks I can do this again. I should do this!
It’s funny. I have so many things on my Bucket List. I crossed this one off three times already and yet, I still feel like it’s not finished yet. What is wrong with me?
I’m positive I’ll NEVER do a Tough Mudder again. It’s just not my thing. But for some reason I’m itching to finish another marathon. Maybe I’m posting this so someone will talk me out of it? I hope so.
You have at least 4 months to talk me out of it. I’ll have to start heavily training by then. The next LA Marathon is March 8th, 2020. I just tried to register but it’s not open yet… is that a sign NOT do it? Hmmmm.
I’ll thank you in advance for talking me out of it. Maybe you have another thrill seeking, accomplishing, kinda crazy thing I can do instead? Lay it on me. I’d love to hear what’s on your bucket list…
I know – I was talking to a friend yesterday and we had a whole conversation about writers block and she didn’t believe me AT ALL.
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But the truth of the matter is, long, long ago I used to have the same experience as a dancer where I would keep making the same mistake over and over and over again.
And I had this amazing coach (and instructor) who would just tell me, “You know what? Enough. Just stop! You need to just sit down!” And so I would do that. I would be forced to just sit down and do something else.
I would go take a walk around the track. Or I would go sit on my knapsack – or whatever. The point is that I learned early on that when you get stuck – when you get into a place where you can’t do what you need to do as a dancer, then you need to stop and do something else – because you’re just repeating the same mistake over and over again.
And I think in a lot of ways I’ve incorporated that into my life as a writer – and just in my life in general.
When something isn’t working, I stop doing it. I try to do something else. And then I come back to it.
I also think because I learned this at such a young age, I don’t see “writers block” as a negative thing.
I see it as a way in which my body tells me that I need a rest. That I need a break. Just like as a dancer, I would keep making the same mistake over and over again – and then I’d realize that the reason why I was making a mistake over and over again was because I was tired. I was exhausted.
Well when you write it’s not any different. We get exhausted. Our mind gets exhausted. We may not readily see that, or experience it, but the way in which I view that moment in time when I’m writing and I can’t really stop thinking about other things — or I can’t seem to keep myself focused, I see that as my body trying to tell me that I need a break. And so, I’ll go listen to music, or I’ll go take a run, or I’ll just go watch television for a bit and then I’ll come back to it.
And sometimes it’ll be 5 minutes later and sometimes it might be a day later. But what I don’t do is beat myself up for needing a break. And I definitely don’t call it a “block” — I don’t call it a “writer’s block” — I just call it a time for me to take a break.
I think if we see that as a positive — as resting period – as an ability to kind of rejuvenate – it becomes a much quicker thing to notice Number 1, and a much quicker thing to get through Number 2. Which means you can then get back to work! Usually with fresher eyes and a rested soul. And with much more enthusiasm to get back to your creativity — instead of beating yourself up for having “Writer’s Block”.
So, I just wanted to share that. I would love to hear how other people deal with this writer’s block phenomenon….
Thank you so much for stopping by — I appreciate it so much — and I hope you have a sweet day.
So, if you’ve decided to tell your story, how do you go about doing it?
How do you go about writing, or sculpting or filming or whatever it is you’re going to do – to write your story — How do you go about doing that?
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Well, the truth is – there is no right or wrong way to do things. But I will say this – especially as a writer – I always think about when I danced. I was an amazing dancer. It’s something I was born with as a kid. And I loved to dance. I was passionate about it.
I can remember people who would come up to me and try to copy me. And they would always look the most awkward and the weirdest — because they were trying to copy something that I was doing. They were complimenting me — they were saying, “oh you’re such a great dancer I want to be just like you.”
So that was a very flattering thing — but they always looked out of place – out of sorts.
The people that looked the best, the people that I always admired, were the people that got up and danced any way. They did it their own way. It didn’t matter if they were in rhythm or if they were out-of-sorts, or if they were just doing these strange and interesting hand movements and their feet were all awkward — I always loved this ability to be an individual. And to be dynamic. And willing to just do it your own way. They will always the happiest dancers, the best dancers and everyone was paying attention to them.
That’s what I think the creative process is like.
That’s why I think — whatever it is you choose to do to tell your story — however you choose to do that is going to be right if you do it from your own inner place of joy and happiness.
Now that doesn’t mean there isn’t some technique involved. It doesn’t mean there aren’t some better ways to do things – but you know, that’s what an editor is for. When it comes to writing…when I started writing, I just wrote and I let it all come out. And then I let the story mold itself. And I figured out ways to thread things through so that the story would have “connection”. But at the end of the day I still had somebody else read it. I had an editor go through it — and that person goes in and looks at it and says, “Hey you know what? This is a great idea…” or “This works here and here, but this doesn’t make sense…”.
So don’t worry about all that stuff afterwards.
Just sit down and sculpt whatever you’re going to sculpt. Do it however you going to do it. All that other stuff will come through. All the other possibilities to kind of refine it and touch it up or fix it — so that your voice can be heard the way in which you intend. We’ll get there — you’ll get there after you have that base part. Because I have to tell you, all those people that danced the way that they wanted to dance they were feeling the music! They were in joy! They were happiness! And afterwards, they were the people I wanted to talk to. They were the people I wanted to learn from. And it has nothing to do with dancing, and everything with being an individual and being unique and being strong and having courage. And to me, that’s what the creative process is. It’s all about us finding that inner strength, that inner courage, that inner love, that inner joy — and sharing it with the world.
Because at the end of the day, I feel like that’s what we’re here to do. To share the best parts of who we are with everyone and hopefully along the way that will help someone else too!
As always, thanks for stopping by. Have a sweet day and I’ll be back again soon.
One of the questions that I keep being asked when I share that I just published my first book is… people’s excitement or wish that they could also write their story.
I want to talk a little bit about how I went about writing my story in the hopes that maybe it might motivate other people. Or let you realize that it’s actually something that can happen and that it’s not that hard.
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Don’t get me wrong, publishing a book is a difficult process and the landscape is changing so much — so the business end of it is a little bit difficult. But writing your story is the first part. And everyone has a story to tell! How you go about sharing that story is kind of what I’m here to talk about.
A few years back I was overwhelmed with the success I had noticed in my life. And I took a moment and decided to write a letter to all those that helped basically raised me after my mom passed away.
If you know any part of my story, I’ve never known who my father is, so there were a lot of people involved in helping me get through. That’s what “CANELA” is all about actually.
So I started writing these letters basically to say thank you and in the first letter that I wrote which was to “Jackson”, which is in the book, I explained a very specific period or moment where I realized he had “saved” me.
And I decided to post that one letter on a previous website I had — and the comments, and the reaction — was just overwhelming and incredible. And people started saying, “…you should write a book…”.
So I took the 12 other letters that I was starting to write – the ideas that I had — and because I wasn’t actually in touch with everyone readily, I just kept writing the letters and I put it aside.
Then I put them in chronological order when I was done. And then I wove a thread through the entire “chapters” – through the entire story – trying to kind of combine them together.
I asked myself: who would I be sharing this story with if I wanted to tell someone who all these people were?
And then it became a manuscript.
And that’s how the creative process – for me – started and ended.
I then had a manuscript that I needed someone to also read and help me fill in the blanks of the things that I was missing — because I was so “in it” at the time. When you’re writing, when you’re creating sometimes you don’t see what other people can see…
So once I was done with the first part of it: which was just getting that story down and getting that thread through it all – I had a friend of mine, read it. And that helped me to construct other little pieces that needed to be put into the book, into the manuscript at that time.
The purpose of this post is to share with you that there is no right or wrong way to share your story or to tell your story. And there’s no reason for you not to start trying – even if you just sit down today and write one paragraph of what you think you might want to write about, that would be the beginning of the process.
Or write a letter to someone telling a certain part of a funny story about what happened to you when you were eleven or last week — it doesn’t matter — there is no rule how you choose to start writing, except that you have to start writing. Or maybe for you it’s painting, or maybe for you it’s recording something or sculpting something?
I wanted to write this post to kind of take away this idea that it is so hard and so difficult and that there was something different about how writers go about writing and how other people go about creating.
It is all about sitting down and deciding for yourself that your story should be told!
And so I hope you’ll share with me how you go about that or if you’re going to go about it — because I would love to learn more about how people go about sharing their story – how you go about the process of writing, or creating in any form, that you choose to do it. It inspires me!
As always, thanks for stopping by — have a sweet day.
I have been writing regularly since I was about 13 or 14 years old.
I remember how it started. I had been told by an authority figure – a teacher or a therapist – I can’t remember which one — that I needed to start writing every day. They were trying to force me to write about my feelings so I would deal with my mom’s passing because I wasn’t dealing with it at all. I was just rehearsing all the time.
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In a lot of ways it was bad that they were trying to force me to write because, as with anything, when you force a kid or actually an adult as well, to try to do something – the first thing you want to do is be defensive and not do it at all.
But what it did do, is exposed me to a possibility. And that possibility to get up every day and write in a journal – has been my saving grace.
Now I’m not an advocate of forcing people to write every day, or to do whatever it is I think works for me…
I do think being able to take time out for yourself every day is really important – especially in this world and in this time where everything seems so stressful. We have so much technology around us — and you know — I always kind of giggle at people who pay so much money to do yoga, and meditate — we’re actually paying for quiet and silent sometimes.
So, for me at 4:30 or 5 O’clock in the morning, I’m having my coffee and I have my sketchbook out and I hand write because that’s what I do. That’s how I start my day and I rarely ever missed that no matter what. Even if I’m traveling. I tend to like to “hand” write because I like the texture from the paper and a pen.
I have a kind-of system that every year around my birthday I shred all of those sketchbooks or documents or whatever I’ve been using. That’s just been something I’ve always done.
I think it’s harder for me to write on a computer in a “journal-entry” kind-of form. If I switch gears in my head and call it creative writing then I’m able to do it a little bit better. But it’s not the same thing. It’s not the same therapeutic kind-of process that I do every morning.
The reason why I shred journals every year is because sometimes when I sit back and read them – they are just horrendous, or bad, or just they’re kind-of gibberish. And there just kind of process…
Sometimes I’m working through problems, or anger things, or happy things that I never would want anyone to know about. And there is also that — there is the ability, and the want to make sure that it’s always private. It’s just for me. It’s not for anybody else unless I choose to share certain things about it – and I have in the past, taking pictures of my journal entries at times and posted up as a journal. You can find them here in my blog post – but that also takes a lot of work too because I have to go back and reread it and I’m very careful about how I’m writing it. Yeah it’s just a different mindset.
As always, I just like to share these things. I would love to hear how you go about giving yourself time every day — that would be fantastic to know – how some people make sure they find time throughout the day to meditate, to think, to create or to just “BE”.
As always, I hope you have a sweet day. I appreciate you stopping by, and I’ll be back again real soon.
I walked down to the gas station so I could get a Lotto ticket and also to just get a little workout in.
I was sweaty and gross and as I was finalizing my lottery ticket (which I’m sure is going to win) when this young man came up to me and asked me if I was single.
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I was a little bit thrown. Good looking young man, very well dressed and he was buying gas or something.
I looked behind me to see if he was talking to somebody behind me and he said, “No, I’m asking you. Are you single?”
I still couldn’t answer him because I was in shock. He said, “I’d love to buy you a drink or maybe lunch or coffee…”. He was so elegant and quite fantastic actually.
But I just looked at him and I just said, “You know, I can’t do that — my boyfriend’s waiting for me at home but thank you. I appreciate it.” And I just pivoted and walked away.
I started thinking about how embarrassed I was that he asked me.
Also he probably was half my age? – Maybe not half my age, but it doesn’t matter – he was young enough to be my son. And although I was flattered by that, there’s a part of me that knows I have some very strict standards.
I feel a little bad that I lied to him, but I’d rather have lied to him, than have made him feel stupid or made him feel bad.
I am single.
I am single because I have had two great loves in my life and I was so disappointed when they ended that I think it’s been very difficult for me to even consider the possibility ever again.
It’s not that they ended badly or that they were horrible, it’s just that when you really do love someone and you care for them it’s really difficult to lose that friendship as well as the relationship.
I’m not sitting here pretending that I could have been friends with these people ever again after what happened between us, but it was so disappointing, and it hurt me so much that I think it’s really hard for me to ever even consider anything less than what I want now and what I deserve.
It’s almost as if having those relationships have now set the bar really high.
So, I am not going to spend any more time on “finding love”. Any more than I do on anything else in my life because I believe there is something very organic in relationships.
I don’t go looking for friendships. I don’t go looking for new girl-friends either to hang out with. They either happen or they don’t in all of the things that I do in my life. And I think that’s kind-of how the next step has to be for me.
I’m also not crazed about this idea that I have to be married. Or that I have to be in a relationship.
I do believe we are social beings. I do believe we are better with companions and friendships and partners and spouses. But, I also think we can be worse with those things too if it’s not the right fit.
So yeah, I’m single. But it’s a good thing, not a bad thing. It’s not preferred or something that I don’t like – it’s just where I’m at today.
In order for me to ever really consider ever dating someone again, he’s going to have to at least be in his 40’s – or at least turning 40 – and then all my other standards that I have.
I guess the reason why I’m sharing this post is because I wanted to say this:
I think it’s OK to have standards. I think it’s OK to want what you want!
What I don’t want is some of the relationships that some of my friends have. They are in so deep with children and mortgages and their businesses are tied in and they feel like they can’t breathe.
You know what? Right now I’m single and I can breathe. And I love it. And I don’t want that to change as much as I want to find someone that kind of fits into that puzzle pretty easily (if that makes any sense).
I just wanted to share that. I would love to hear your thoughts.
As always, have a sweet day. Thank you again for always stopping by — I appreciate it!
So, I just got back from this amazing workout and I want to try and capture how I’m feeling at the moment.
Three weeks ago I hurt myself trying to do all these new workout moves and just trying to up my game as an athlete (so funny that I’m calling myself an “athlete).
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I’ve been working-out since I was about 4 years old and working-out for me is like brushing my teeth — but I would never actually call myself an “athlete” except that I’m still exhausted at the moment.
Anyways, I was trying to up my game – and I hurt myself.
Instead of acknowledging that I was hurt, I just tried to push on through because I thought I was being weak, I thought I was finding an excuse and I thought it wasn’t trying hard enough.
It got so bad – I hurt my lower back – that I couldn’t even sleep. And so it started that Round-Robin thing – where you can’t sleep, so your body can’t heal itself, and you’re still in pain and you can’t sleep…
I mean it just kept going on and on and finally I had to call my doctor.
I hate doctors.
Actually, I don’t “hate” doctors but you know what I mean. I had to call and we had a conversation about what I had to do and basically he said, “You need to stop doing any physical activity whatsoever. I just want you to try to walk around the block if you can do that but no more working-out. You need to let your body heal.”
And I didn’t really answer him back at first because I was kind of stunned. And then he said, “Did you hear me? I said you have to let your body heal!” And he said it in kind of a “fatherly” way even though he’s younger than I am – but it’s been stuck in my head. Basically, my doctor had just yelled at me about not listening to my body.
So, I did what he told me to do. I did the icing, the Advil and I did very little “physicality” at all (my God I’m so tired I just had a crazy workout by the way).
But this isn’t about working-out. That’s not why I’m doing this video.
The reason why I’m doing this video is because I want to share this moment I had after leaving my trainer today and while I was in the car…
I think I don’t listen to myself when I’m in pain emotionally or mentally. I have a feeling a lot of us do that. Instead of listening to ourselves and acknowledging that somebody hurt us, or that work was painful today, or that something didn’t workout. I think a lot of us do what I do — which is just push it aside or ignore it – and just plowing on through anyway. It’s so much easier to push things aside than it is to deal with them.
And what I realized with the whole “back” [pain] thing is this: that when I can acknowledge that I’m in pain, when I can realize that it has nothing to do with weakness and it has nothing to do with not being a “strong” person, but has everything to do with actually being human – that YOU can get hurt sometimes. When you can acknowledge that you’re hurt, then you can go about finding the remedies: to heal thyself, to help thyself, to feel better.
It’s just something that I realized driving back. That I want to take away from the whole experience from the past 3 to 4 weeks of being in such pain and not being able to work-out.
I just wanted to share that with all of you.
Thank you again for stopping by. I appreciate it so much.
Have a sweet day and I’ll be back again soon for sure!
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It’s never too late to start a business, to dream, to write a book, to run a marathon… It’s never too late to start from where you are right now. I don’t even understand why we think that.
Again, I’m really going to be heavy on this whole idea of our own personal journey and the pathways we choose to walk are just more and more information and more and more education of ourselves, right? To be our best selves!
And so if at 50 or at 60 or at 70 – if that’s when you’re ready to do that thing you’ve always wanted to do, then that’s when you start!
I’m not trying to say age doesn’t matter. I think it does! But not a negative way.
I think it matters in a positive way.
I would not be able to do the things I’m doing right now if I didn’t have all of this experience and wisdom and “know how”.
I would never go back to my 20’s just try to do what I’m doing right now. There’s no way! I just didn’t have all the stuff I needed: the emotional growth and wisdom and I didn’t have the experience.
So yeah, if you want to start something today, don’t question it. If you were thinking about it that means you’re ready to start doing something. It means you’re in the process. The fact that you’re questioning it IS part of the process of telling you – YOU SHOULD!
Have a sweet day. Thanks for stopping by and I’ll be back again soon.
Carmen
PS. Yes, yes, I have a podcast — check out the podcast page for more information on how to follow!
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I heard a motivational speaker on someone’s news feed this morning. They were talking about how – if you want to have success – you have to leap. You have to get rid of all this fear and just leap.
I was so frustrated. I was so annoyed by it. I immediately started writing. Why is this bothering me so much? Clearly understand what he’s trying to say and it’s not that I completely disagree — I just have a different vision.
I also think it’s this weird concept that the only way you can find your true North or you can find “success” as he put it – is by somehow risking and possibly having loss. To me, there’s something so negative about that.
I think it also comes from a place of experience for me. More times than not in my life I have leaped and many times I have landed on my feet and felt success, but many times I have to say I have leaped, and I have fallen (and I have fallen hard) and gotten hurt. So, I’m not sure that’s the answer to success.
It’s probably good to define what success means though. So, clearly I think what he’s talking about is financial success. I’m not talking about financial success – however, I think financial success and any kind of abundance in our life is all kind of the same thing.
I don’t put that much value in material goods but we do have basic needs. We also need to take care of our families and we also like to have the things we like to have — we all have a standard of life we wish to have. So I’m not against financial success. But I think when you pursue financial success as your only goal, you’re cheating yourself.
I say this because my experience working with so many ultra wealthy people and knowing so many (I guess) ultra poor people — the one thing I know for sure is that money does not make you happy. And I know that’s a cliché, but that’s a true one.
If anything, I think wealthier people seem to be more miserable – because they had this idea that money would be able to solve all their woes. But I know that being poor is also not any better. So that’s all about financial and material-esque ideas.
I actually think the real purpose of success in life: is learning how to walk through any situation you’re in. I don’t think the point of life is to have as much material wealth as possible or to have as much stuff as possible – I actually believe that you can have all those things but what’s more important, is learning how to get through certain parts of our life and come out on the other side.
The first part of this is to think of life as a path – a journey. Again another visual cliché, but this is how I have always envisioned my life. Walking along this pathway you’re going to encounter good times and bad times. And you’re going to encounter things that work and things that don’t work – and how you choose to go through those events in “our lives” is the ultimate meaning of success for me.
So yeah, I’m feeling a little down today but the way in which I choose to walk through it is: Do I dig the hole deeper? Or do I find a way to climb out of it and walk on through to the other side? I always choose to climb out of it as quickly as possible. And the more that you learn to deal with difficult things in your life in this manner the easier it is to get through things.
I also think we don’t put enough value in happy moments, in good times. I think a lot of us have an expectation that life is always supposed to be good and in bliss — but that’s not true, and that’s the confusion with material wealth. We think that people are always happy because they have everything they’ve ever wanted. But actually, life isn’t about being continuously joyful and continuously happy. If it was, you’d be in a mental institution – because no one can be continuously happy. And the only way to really understand true happiness and true joy is to understand sadness and bad times.
So life to me is kind of this equilibrium where we experience all of these things. And the real true purpose is for us to learn how to walk on through each moment that comes to us and figure out how to get through it.
As time moves on and as I get older, and as I have more and more experience, I realize that even when bad times are happening to me, I find it easier to get through those than I have in the past. With more time, comes some wisdom into how to deal with these things.
I’m also learning as I get older that I need to embrace the happy moments. I need to really pay attention to those times when things are good. And I think a lot of us kind of just expect life to always be good so we don’t really embrace happy times. We’re kind-of like, “Oh yeah that was great…” unless it’s something monumental — but even times that are content, even times that are just regular days that nothing happens, I’ve learned to really embrace and to really love and enjoy and find purpose in it.
So yeah, I don’t think that in order to have any amount of success you have to experience loss or be in a position of fear. I think it is true that if you’re afraid to do something, that you may want to think about why you’re so afraid of it and figure out a way to walk on through. But this idea of “leaping” and hoping you’ll fly and soar… it’s a possibility – and you could soar – that’s true. But you could just as easily fail. How do you stand back up when you fall that hard? How do you get back up, dust yourself off and walk on through anyway?
That’s the trick.
And every time you learn that, you realize that things are not scary to try because you’ve already failed before because you’ve already been there before. You know you can get yourself back up again and move on through.
Maybe there’s a few different concepts here that I’m talking about. But I think it’s important to define what success means to you. I think it’s also good to understand and visualize for yourself: what is your purpose in life? And the third thing I’d like to leave you with is this idea: how do you embrace the good times? Do you take enough time to really enjoy when things are great? And also, do you take enough time to embrace when things are just standard contentment. Just a regular day? And if you don’t, then let’s start focusing on that! I know that’s what helps me.
I know it helps me to focus my attention on the things that are good in my life and the things that I love to do like writing. Today, I just did all this writing on this and now I’m sharing it with people and I already feel better even though this morning I woke up feeling a little bit blue or sad or whatever you want to call it. I feel like I’ve gotten my energy back – and so again, how do we walk through those moments when we’re not feeling good – I think that’s the purpose of life. I think that’s the true success that everybody seeks. That’s the true wealth. Everything else, is just icing!
Anyway, thanks for stopping by. Have a sweet day and I’ll be back again soon.
I wanted to give a shout out to Jessica Larsen who nominated me for a Versatile Blogger award.
In the past two weeks I found myself catching up, in one way or another, with old friends/acquaintances. Some are old work-related contacts, others friends from long ago — with one contact it was as if no time had passed on by at all – we just picked up where we left off. With another “friend” I remembered instantaneously WHY I stopped talking to that particular person within 5 minutes! Oy!
you’re going to do – to write your story — How do you go about doing that?
amazing dancer. It’s something I was born with as a kid. And I loved to dance. I was passionate about it.
and so difficult and that there was something different about how writers go about writing and how other people go about creating.
It’s never too late to start a business, to dream, to write a book, to run a marathon… It’s never too late to start from where you are right now. I don’t even understand why we think that.
I heard a motivational speaker on someone’s news feed this morning. They were talking about how – if you want to have success – you have to leap. You have to get rid of all this fear and just leap.