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I've always been a people watcher.  As a young girl, I openly looked at everyone I came in contact with, wondering who was the happiest?  It was a little disheartening during my exploration to uncover that it seemed that almost everyone had a significant amount of unhappiness and troubles in life.  I guess I wanted to live a fairy tale.  Some people, however, had a great time with life, even through its challenges. I noticed that those who were overall most happiest usually had a sense of humor about their experience.  They weren't richer, more beautiful, or better off.  They were just happy with what was and were strong in rolling with it.  Everyone goes through hard times. Being truly happy is not by getting somewhere or accomplishing something.  It is a part of who you are .  It is your character, your essential being, the fabric of you.  Children are often born with a knowing of it, but many of us lose touch with this understand...

“…And the greatest of all these is love.” ~Corinthians You could explore and study love for your whole lifetime and still never fully understand it. You may only catch a glimpse of its fascinating possibilities. Love is one of those expansive eternal forces - far beyond our senses’ ordinary perception. It is something many dream of, imagine about, and wait for. Some say love is the essence of all there is and that love is the answer. Some say love hurts or it doesn’t even exist. Some prophets say that there is only love or fear at the root of everything - and that love is the only truth. We all have different versions and understandings of love - which evolve throughout our lifetime. They may range from a feeling for a soul mate to one about a favorite shirt. Love can be a sweet nickname or a feared word. Some express it with tenderness, others with strength. Some say I love you to everyone. Some reserve it only for “the one”. Others never say it at all. It can be as simple a...

This is one of the articles/lessons that I most appreciate.  Thought I'd revive it and take it to another level =) They say you become most like the five people you are closest to. We are truly impacted by everyone we come in contact with. Each one makes an impression somewhat, with various intensities depending on either our closeness to them or the levels of our charges on them (positive attraction or negative rejection). Either way, a simple interaction can leave us forever impacted. Whether we are conscious of it or not (most of us are too busy to pay attention), as we engage with others, our energy  is sparked in various ways. The people we spend the most time with have a great deal of influence on us and our growth.   Those we surround ourselves with are who we are becoming alike.  Are the five people you are closest to in your life pulling you up to higher levels of yourself?  Or are they bringing you down/holding you back?  Would it be...

We all have the regular areas of our self that we work on while developing, such as: Education/learning Having fun in our experience Sharing time with family and friends Etc. However, what is your Prime Life Project ? A Prime Life Project is the greatest goal of your life, your overall purpose, or the one thing you most want to accomplish and share with the world. We often come up with ideas about what we want to do with our life, get comfortable with these ideas, and become stagnant.   Take the time out to reconnect with what you want to do and see if anything new is rising within you.   Find out what it is you're doing with your life, again .  This question really can't be asked too often.  It's something we should reconnect with regularly so that we don't settle with outdated dreams.  As we grow, we have the capacity for greater visions - and we should expand them every so often. So take a day, or more, to revamp your greatest aspirations. ...

About two weeks ago I wrote a post on The Power of Holding a Grand Vision .   Since then, I've been opening to and refining what I see as my greatest vision.  I have made beautiful vision boards in the past, but as I look at them now, I realize they were very unspecific.  I'd have key words such as: beautiful, free, abundant, follow your heart, etc.  I didn't have any details of what those would be for me.  I really wanted to get an exact picture to hold in my mind and to walk towards in my daily life.  So here it is.  Version 1 of my refined grand vision.  I will most likely update and edit this each year around the spring time in alignment with my goals processes.  These things really help fuel me and keep me motivated through all of the hard work that I do.  Being : Enjoying each day with love (without fear), having a BLAST (lots of fun), naturally driven to grown and be in service and present with others.  Awareness of...