Hello all!
I hope this day finds you enjoying Life on Life's terms. If you've lost your joy....no worries...here is MORE JOY for you!
Today it was snowing light and fluffy flakes. While I listened to people around me lament on winter I felt a serenity envelop me. I had posted on my facebook account the following two realizations:
When you change your attitude, abundance wraps its angel wings around you :-)
Angel wings of abundance wrap themselves about me and bless me because of my changed attitude.
One of my intentions this year and forevermore with Life on Life's terms is to remain positive. I welcome light into my world that had been dominated by my refusal to welcome positivity.
Today I was looking out the kitchen window watching the big fluffy snowflakes. I felt like I was flying on the snowflakes dreaming yet awake. Abundance truly did wrap its angel wings around me as I let myself drift with the ice crystals. Such a freeing feeling, that we all too frequently refuse to aknowledge or embrace.
Take time today to enjoy the beauty of winter rather than lamenting its cold embrace. Winter is a time of deep reflection. A time to recalibrate our lives and imagine the fabulousity that waits for each of us if we only peer inside our souls and welcome it like a newborn baby.
Love and Light to you. Namaste!
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Hello, my peeps! How are you today? I am well! Thank you for caring :-)
I am reading "Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy" by Sarah Ban Breathnach. Wonderful book! It contains daily readings dedicated to creating a life of abundance. So per one of her suggestions, I am writing a daily gratitude list of five items for which I am grateful. I love journaling and this is helping me through a particularly difficult period of my life. So, what am I grateful for today? I know you are as curious as a cat to know! sooooo....I am grateful today for :
1. Al-Anon's worldwide fellowship
2. Al-A-Pals
3. Garrison Keilor's radio shows about Lake Wobegone
4. The Chicken Man radio show
5. Laughter
The first two items help me lead a saner life. I am surrounded by a sea of alcoholics, you see. Some of you reading may even possess an awareness that you are an alcoholic, or have even moved further along your learning progress by accepting your disease, and better yet...you may be taking action to combat the disease of alcoholism. If you are...kudos! It's a major battle. Just so you know I became irritable and unreasonable without even knowing that it was because I am an adult child of an adult child of an alcoholic. Hmmm....interesting...but too much detail that right now I prefer not to dwell on. Non-productive to dwell on this subject too long.
I am reading "Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy" by Sarah Ban Breathnach. Wonderful book! It contains daily readings dedicated to creating a life of abundance. So per one of her suggestions, I am writing a daily gratitude list of five items for which I am grateful. I love journaling and this is helping me through a particularly difficult period of my life. So, what am I grateful for today? I know you are as curious as a cat to know! sooooo....I am grateful today for :
1. Al-Anon's worldwide fellowship
2. Al-A-Pals
3. Garrison Keilor's radio shows about Lake Wobegone
4. The Chicken Man radio show
5. Laughter
The first two items help me lead a saner life. I am surrounded by a sea of alcoholics, you see. Some of you reading may even possess an awareness that you are an alcoholic, or have even moved further along your learning progress by accepting your disease, and better yet...you may be taking action to combat the disease of alcoholism. If you are...kudos! It's a major battle. Just so you know I became irritable and unreasonable without even knowing that it was because I am an adult child of an adult child of an alcoholic. Hmmm....interesting...but too much detail that right now I prefer not to dwell on. Non-productive to dwell on this subject too long.
The last three items simply cause me to laugh and smile. This leads to serenity. Me gusto mucho, serenity! Such a fleeting feeling that I am working on harnessing more.
So, my daily gratitude list has so far granted me two very cool opportunities to experience serenity. I was faced with a transportation issue and was beginning to succumb to a two-year-old temper tantrum related to my circumstances when I remembered my gratitude list. A serene feeling attacked my face and a smile sprouted forth from my mouth and I was surprised. I was blessed to feel serene again regarding transportation when at an event three friends were willing to provide me transport to or from my home.
I am grateful today for the gifts that God has bestowed upon me and for the gifts that are yet to come. Namaste!
Love and Light to you! Have a FABULOUS day!
Monday, January 17, 2011
Well...shoulda woulda coulda...doing it different includes me accepting that my Life conditions are always temporary and that change is constant. I am never satisfied with what I have at the moment. I always want what other people have or seem to have. I want their house, or their clothes, or a body like theirs. Neeeeedy is how I have been described by a therapist and a partner and they are right. Sad to say and knowing the roots of this neediness seems not to matter to my brain...I keep on immersing myself in my neediness. Whining and driving everyone around me crazy whether they tell me so or not.
We all have lessons to learn. Yes, I know. Apparently God whacks me upside the head with a 2 x 4 embedded with rusty nails when I don't listen to the message He's lovingly trying to send. I am the doubting Thomas...refusing to Let Go and Let God and just keep the Faith! I say I am working on me, but am I?
Writing has always been cathartic for me. So, with all this bloggity blog bloggin goin' on in our techie cosmos, I figured, well, the other peeps can write a blog, why not me? I may bore you, confuse you, piss you off, whatever. Don't read it :-)
Read it!
I teeter tottered back and forth on what to title this clever little internet space. It used to be named after my organic garden maintenance business...Venusia Gardens. Then I figured...no, maybe I would write about consulting after having taken a doctoral level course in Consultation. Hmmmm....so many ideas I have. Now how to incorporate them all to "Do It Different" and FINALLY make some friggin' money doing what I enjoy doing! If you ask me what I enjoy doing, you will recieve a litany of all my passions. I'm sure future posts will enlighten you, my valued reader :-)
I wish you much Love, Light, and JOY!
We all have lessons to learn. Yes, I know. Apparently God whacks me upside the head with a 2 x 4 embedded with rusty nails when I don't listen to the message He's lovingly trying to send. I am the doubting Thomas...refusing to Let Go and Let God and just keep the Faith! I say I am working on me, but am I?
Writing has always been cathartic for me. So, with all this bloggity blog bloggin goin' on in our techie cosmos, I figured, well, the other peeps can write a blog, why not me? I may bore you, confuse you, piss you off, whatever. Don't read it :-)
Read it!
I teeter tottered back and forth on what to title this clever little internet space. It used to be named after my organic garden maintenance business...Venusia Gardens. Then I figured...no, maybe I would write about consulting after having taken a doctoral level course in Consultation. Hmmmm....so many ideas I have. Now how to incorporate them all to "Do It Different" and FINALLY make some friggin' money doing what I enjoy doing! If you ask me what I enjoy doing, you will recieve a litany of all my passions. I'm sure future posts will enlighten you, my valued reader :-)
I wish you much Love, Light, and JOY!
Monday, November 15, 2010
What to do when you cannot find a job
WARNING! DANGER! WARNING! :-) Creatrix announcing a NEW and IMPROVED blog! You see...I am currently blessed with an abundance of time, now that God has decided to whack me immensely upside my head and scream in my head: "CHANGE!!! I have been telling you for months now that you are destined for larger and much more creative employment endeavors".
A fabulous counselor once informed me: "Do it different." Soooo, with THAT said...that is what I am embarking on...a mission to "Do it (everything) DIFFERENT" ;-) So, whilst I had imagined that in my last few months in Atlanta I would resume my garden maintenance business and pursue my art, I was sadly disappointed to learn that my efforts were in vain. The economy (I passionately dislike that word) deemed my skills inappropriate at the current time. I cried for several months, ranting at my Higher Power (whom I affectionately refer to as God) asking "WHY?" I still don't have the fluffy answer to that ubiquitous query. You will be the first to know when I do figure out the answer. I read another Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist "Advice http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/penelopes-guide-to-blogging/ at the intersection of work an life suggestions because I typed in a search of what to do when you cannot find a job.
After I terminated my teaching contract back in 2007 to get hired in a larger county I also embarked on a mission to earn my Master of Arts in School Counseling. I earned a 4.00! Never had a 4.00 in my life til then! I am very proud of that accomplishment! Upon graduation no career options yet existed in my field in the metro Atlanta area. I even scoured for English teacher positions...to no avail. I often wonder if I didn't look hard enough. But I am not allowed to should on myself, so at this learning juncture in my life I must propel forward. With the shattered economy every one and their cousin was looking to get into teaching. It got to the point where even having connections within the schools didn't even help (at least not me).
I know there is a rainbow, a silver lining, light at the end of this abysmally long tunnel, and that I am warmed by love, encouragement, and support of all my family and friends.
I am also writing a book about my life. Changed names and places, of course. So with my talent for writing, I have embarked on a new mission blogging about my career, writing, and whatever else I deem necessary. Perhaps it will assist you in figuring out your life mission, perhaps not.
Wishing you much success as you seek your mission in life. It does get better.
A fabulous counselor once informed me: "Do it different." Soooo, with THAT said...that is what I am embarking on...a mission to "Do it (everything) DIFFERENT" ;-) So, whilst I had imagined that in my last few months in Atlanta I would resume my garden maintenance business and pursue my art, I was sadly disappointed to learn that my efforts were in vain. The economy (I passionately dislike that word) deemed my skills inappropriate at the current time. I cried for several months, ranting at my Higher Power (whom I affectionately refer to as God) asking "WHY?" I still don't have the fluffy answer to that ubiquitous query. You will be the first to know when I do figure out the answer. I read another Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist "Advice http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/penelopes-guide-to-blogging/ at the intersection of work an life suggestions because I typed in a search of what to do when you cannot find a job.
After I terminated my teaching contract back in 2007 to get hired in a larger county I also embarked on a mission to earn my Master of Arts in School Counseling. I earned a 4.00! Never had a 4.00 in my life til then! I am very proud of that accomplishment! Upon graduation no career options yet existed in my field in the metro Atlanta area. I even scoured for English teacher positions...to no avail. I often wonder if I didn't look hard enough. But I am not allowed to should on myself, so at this learning juncture in my life I must propel forward. With the shattered economy every one and their cousin was looking to get into teaching. It got to the point where even having connections within the schools didn't even help (at least not me).
I know there is a rainbow, a silver lining, light at the end of this abysmally long tunnel, and that I am warmed by love, encouragement, and support of all my family and friends.
I am also writing a book about my life. Changed names and places, of course. So with my talent for writing, I have embarked on a new mission blogging about my career, writing, and whatever else I deem necessary. Perhaps it will assist you in figuring out your life mission, perhaps not.
Wishing you much success as you seek your mission in life. It does get better.
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