I don't believe in New Year's Resolutions. To me, it is like pushing against the unwanted; which does nothing but bring it right back to you. Instead of resolutions I have a tradition of reading my favorite book (Life Cycles, by Christine DeLorey) to find out what the new year has in store for me.
I keep waiting for the year that will just be full of success, happiness and fun. So... apparently that year doesn't exist, it seems we just keep learning new things and we can have our success, happiness and fun; but we also have the bumps in the road, the lessons and the tests.
Last year was my abundant year, and boy was it ever! The journey I went on last year was unlike anything I have ever experienced! I wrapped up the first season of Feng Shui Your Way, started my second book, worked with incredible people and spent my time with my beautiful friends and family.
This year I get to tie up loose ends, look at the past, learn from it and let it go so that next year I can start something new. I find myself wondering if I will ever get to the place where I sit back on the porch and enjoy the view and then it hit me that I don't have to be sitting on the porch to enjoy the view, I have many different places to enjoy the view from... why limit myself to just the porch? Seems a little boring when I stop and think about it!
Here is to a year of enjoying the view no matter where you are! It is your creation so find the beauty in it and remember that if you don't like your view, you can always change it!
Happy 2008
Leigh
Monday, December 31, 2007
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Walking in the Rain
We just finished dinner, got the kitchen cleaned up and I was getting ready to sit down with the family to watch deal or no deal together. I had a few minutes, so I decided to take some mail up to the mailbox at the top of the street. When I went outside I noticed that it was drizzling, and I almost turned around and came back inside, but then I thought, why??
Our stained driveway is very slick in the rain, (well the polished diamonds are anyway) and that was the second thing that almost sent me back inside the warm, dry, comfortable home. But I decided to intend that I wouldn't slip and that I really needed this walk.
As I walked up the hill to the mailbox, the drizzle wasn't really bad, it actually felt nice. Then I put the mail in the box and turned around to come home and the drizzle picked up a bit, it could even be considered rain. I noticed that I put my head down, hunched my shoulders and felt very tense. Why??? I asked myself. So I lifted my head up, put my shoulders back and enjoyed the rain in my face. It made me consider of all the times I walk around with my head down, my shoulders hunched, feeling tense; what else am I missing out on?
So, right now today I am making an intention to walk around this beautiful place I get to live with my head up, my shoulders back and not feeling tense at all. Life is to beautiful to miss the rain in your face or anything else for that matter.
Have fun playing in the rain!
Leigh
Our stained driveway is very slick in the rain, (well the polished diamonds are anyway) and that was the second thing that almost sent me back inside the warm, dry, comfortable home. But I decided to intend that I wouldn't slip and that I really needed this walk.
As I walked up the hill to the mailbox, the drizzle wasn't really bad, it actually felt nice. Then I put the mail in the box and turned around to come home and the drizzle picked up a bit, it could even be considered rain. I noticed that I put my head down, hunched my shoulders and felt very tense. Why??? I asked myself. So I lifted my head up, put my shoulders back and enjoyed the rain in my face. It made me consider of all the times I walk around with my head down, my shoulders hunched, feeling tense; what else am I missing out on?
So, right now today I am making an intention to walk around this beautiful place I get to live with my head up, my shoulders back and not feeling tense at all. Life is to beautiful to miss the rain in your face or anything else for that matter.
Have fun playing in the rain!
Leigh
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
All we need is love.....
I believe that there are only two emotions; love and fear. With that knowledge, I wouldn't think that I would cross over into fear mode... oops!! (Fear can show up as anger, judgment, blame, guilt... all the nasty stuff that doesn't allow for growth or love)
Over the past few weeks I have a "friend" that I have been noticing all kinds of things about. One day I spoke them out loud (big mistake) and it is like these judgments took over. I was finding all kinds of things to be angry about, but not just with this person, I was finding fault with others. It is as if a switch had flipped and my world had changed; I didn't like it. I wasn't the happy bubbly me, I was a judge..... yuck.
Last night I received an email that I shouldn't have been included on. The sender was trying to humiliate a friend of mine about some volunteer work she was doing and instead of directing her concerns directly to my friend, she included about 8 others. My initial reaction was to send this woman an email telling her it was inappropriate to include all of us on it, but then I thought... "that isn't loving" what would love do? I wrote and re-wrote emails to this woman trying to sound loving... but none of them were. (I wasn't really feeling so loving towards this woman) Then the thought came to me to write my friend and tell her how much I appreciated all of her hard work... that felt loving. I ignored the email from that woman, and focused in on how much I appreciated the hard work of my friend.
So I made a choice to look at what love would do, look at how love would feel, and the switch flipped back. When I start seeing things that don't make me feel good, I look for the side of it that does make me feel good. It isn't easy all the time and sometimes I have to stop and think... "what would love do", fumble through and when I ask that question I always feel better and I seem to have better things show up, more loving things.
So next time you find yourself being angry or offended, why not ask "what would love do" and try that on, it really does feel good!
Love,
Leigh
Over the past few weeks I have a "friend" that I have been noticing all kinds of things about. One day I spoke them out loud (big mistake) and it is like these judgments took over. I was finding all kinds of things to be angry about, but not just with this person, I was finding fault with others. It is as if a switch had flipped and my world had changed; I didn't like it. I wasn't the happy bubbly me, I was a judge..... yuck.
Last night I received an email that I shouldn't have been included on. The sender was trying to humiliate a friend of mine about some volunteer work she was doing and instead of directing her concerns directly to my friend, she included about 8 others. My initial reaction was to send this woman an email telling her it was inappropriate to include all of us on it, but then I thought... "that isn't loving" what would love do? I wrote and re-wrote emails to this woman trying to sound loving... but none of them were. (I wasn't really feeling so loving towards this woman) Then the thought came to me to write my friend and tell her how much I appreciated all of her hard work... that felt loving. I ignored the email from that woman, and focused in on how much I appreciated the hard work of my friend.
So I made a choice to look at what love would do, look at how love would feel, and the switch flipped back. When I start seeing things that don't make me feel good, I look for the side of it that does make me feel good. It isn't easy all the time and sometimes I have to stop and think... "what would love do", fumble through and when I ask that question I always feel better and I seem to have better things show up, more loving things.
So next time you find yourself being angry or offended, why not ask "what would love do" and try that on, it really does feel good!
Love,
Leigh
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