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• CK 01:20:43 pm on July 30, 2009 | 0 | # |
  Tags: +Intention, De-Clutter, DoingWhatYouLove, Imagine, Manifest, Practice IDEAS, Relax, Think IT, Visualize

  I toss the weeds over the fence and smell the agitated basil and mint come to life!  Yum.  Dinner is next.

  A few thoughts from weeding the herb garden (something I love and find very refreshing):

  MY INTENTION:  Do something I enjoy outside.  Take in the afternoon sun.  Make room for the basil to capture more light.  And as in everything, look for reasons to appreciate my life and feel good.

  APPLICATION TO LIFE:  In what areas of my life would I like more room for change, for growth, for freedom, for new possibilities?  What thoughts would I like to stop thinking?  I am always observing my thoughts and moving from weeds toward what I want.  Always, looking to tend more positive affirmations/statements/desires.  Sure weeds come up, but I’m in the habit now of catching them and refocusing.  Someday I’ll be so good at this that I’ll be totally unimpressed with the weeds.  For now, I might simply say, “I want something new and refreshing to come into this part of my life.”  Then cultivate the expectation of it.

  Then there’s that clutter piling up around and in my living and work spaces.  I might want to feel the ahhhh of creating room, even before I have the idea of what I want to fill in!  I did this with my closet when I first started practicing Law of Attraction a few years ago.  I wanted to attract the possibility of having new clothes and feel refreshed by the organization and ease of using my closet everyday.

  PRACTICE IDEA:  Maybe you feel inspired to de-clutter an area of your life, or simply take a few minutes and imagine/visualize being in a beautiful simple refreshing place.  Make it juicy!  Afterward, reflect on your visualization.  What came to mind?  Are you inspired to take any action as a result?  Simply feeling refreshed or relaxed is it!

  KEY:  Notice the mental weeds as they crop up, but spend most of your time planting, cultivating, expecting, and feeling good about what it is that you are wanting to grow!

  

   

• CK 01:23:51 pm on July 2, 2009 | 0 | # |
  Tags: Rock Your Walk, Energize, Imagine, Career, MonkeyMIND

  Photo:  Industrious Blur/NYC/iPhone/Coyote Karrick

  Some ideas to bring more joy and energy into your day and what’s innovative at the office.  The June issue of Fortune Small Business shares some of the happenings in business for better life-work integration and satisfaction.

  “…Intimate workplaces, cutting-edge benefits and creative input…that’s exactly what the companies profiled offer.  At Daxko, an Alabama software firm, employees keep stress levels down by playing Rock Band on a  52-inch office television.  Maya Design, a creative consulting agency blurs the line between work and life by allowing staffers to bring their babies to the office.  After one year at Colorado’s New Belgium Brewing, employees receive a free bike to lower their carbon footprint.  They also get  shares in the company, giving them a voice – and a stake…”

  (Fortune Small Business Special Report Meet The New Boss, June 2009)

  ENGAGE:  Imagine your life on the job a little more “outside the box.”  What might make your work day more balanced?  More fun?  Energizing?  What comes to mind?  What does it feel like to start dreaming about ways to improve your experience?  If you immediately come into contact with pessimism/skepticism/inner-critic that is telling you something about your expectations.  Have you given up on being “happy” at work?

  Change can happen first with you – who knows your co-workers and bosses may follow.  But remember whose “job” it is to improve your state of well-being and happiness.  Here are some simple ideas – TRY IT IN YOUR DAY:

  • Take a five minute walk.  Use it as a meditation or what I call “Rock Your Walk” (I walk to specific music and intend to feel and notice a specific quality in myself – strength, flexibility, self-appreciation, energy, etc.).   Note:  I see so many people (including myself) attached to their phone – so I’ve started walks without phones, without dogs, without music, without needing to get anything done, just a simple walk to feel my joy a little more.
  • Breathe.  Come up with a creative reminder to take a deep breath before meetings, before picking up the phone, before answering requests, and throughout the day.
  • Lean back in your chair with your eyes closed and visualize something that brings you joy for a full minute.  To stay focused for a whole minute (set a timer).  The monkey mind can be distracting so focus in your visualization on as many pleasing details as possible.
  • Invert your posture!  Yes – stand on your head, or more simply and less attention getting – do a “downward dog” pose or stretch toward your toes over your chair.  Let the blood flow in new directions and feel more energized.
  • Make a list of creative ways to fuel your mood during your work day and keep it at hand to remind you.

  LINK:  Great Places To Work Institute based in San Francisco.  See what’s happening outside the “box” on the work scene.

   

• CK 02:26:36 pm on June 24, 2009 | 0 | # |
  Tags: Manifest, Inspiration, Visualize, Imagine, DoingWhatYouLove, Career, True Stories, Naysayers, Inner-Critic

  I’ve been thinking some more about Dr. Abreu  (see my last post).  You can learn more about him and the prize awarded to him at TED Ideas Worth Spreading, a website I love!

  A music teacher who started a program, small and unknown, in a Venezuelan  garage with no guarantees and very little financial support that has now become a worldwide inspiration.  His story brings me back to these ideas for living a meaningful life:

  • Following the thread of our passion leads us to places we can’t yet imagine! Predictions often just get in the way.
  • The trick is to make the journey the IT – as meaningful as any ending we’ve imagined.
  • Any time we are postponing our joy (discouraged, in the past or the future, or just “getting it done,” etc.) we can re-tune our focus to what’s positive in our current experience (the only time we are truly guaranteed to have).
  • The meaning of life is to live that which we love, and to find joy in the process of discovering more of what we love (knowing what we don’t want helps us know what is meaningful to us).  For example, you may say, “I don’t love what I’m doing now,” or “I don’t know what I want to do.”  You could also say, “I can be happy about this and that regardless of what I’m doing.” Or,  “Here’s what I know I love so far, and there’s more to come, it’s on it’s way, and I expect it will be great!”
  • Dr. Abreu didn’t have any guarantees of changing the world by teaching 11 students.  Following the thread of what we love, and being happy in the process, does lead us in the best way to be of service to humanity.
  • Trying to figure out all the hows of an idea ahead of time will only slow us down.  Dr. Abreu had an idea fueled by passion and faith that was beyond his knowing of “how” it would go.  I would say that it’s not “luck” made him successful it is believing.

  The most satisfactory experiences in my life are also based on strongly inspired ideas (often I can’t explain why – I just know it feels right), a willingness to leap, a lack of attention to “naysayers” (including my own inner-critic), and overwhelming faith and focus on the positive.  Lately, my scale of believing has been tested by a few naysayers who say, “Sure, but how?!” Or simply, “I don’t think you can.”  In the other great milestones of my life, the balance of the scale was tipped toward conviction, desire, faith, etc., much like Dr. Abreu.  The overridden part of the scale included the hows, what-ifs, and voices of doubt.  I know that my clarity is compromised when I consider what others are seeking for me or what would make others more comfortable.  Some of my best decisions have made some people feel quite uneasy.  So, it helps me to remember that it’s not my job to follow the thread that makes other people happiest.  This is why I’m so grateful to be practicing following my inner-compass, my thread of joy.

  Dr. Abreu’s story also reminds me that the joy in life is in the process of creating something, and not a fixed end result.  He didn’t say, “When I have 30,000 students then I will be happy.”  He was happy with 11 students and he was inspired to keep following the thread of possibility.

  The trick is to enjoy wherever we are a bit or a lot more, to keep turning toward what fuels the energy of possibility within us, and let go of needing to know the rest, because we know that the journey is the richness of our lives.

  Love & Peace on your adventures!

  Coyote

  PRACTICE IDEA:  Rather than looking at where you are “not,” dedicate  10 minutes a day for a week to this writing exercise:  1.  List 10 things you appreciate in your current place of possibility (your life right now).  2.  List 10 possibilities for tomorrow or a year or more from now that would be meaningful to you, delightful, surprising, satisfying, over-the-top fun!  Notice if your inner-voice is limiting what you write, cramping your imagination, or judging these things as possible or not.  If you have a lot of internal “naysaying” then you may want to work on freeing your life from the inner-critic too!

  “As you set out…ask that the way be long” (C. Cavafy), or short and sweet, or however it may be, but let the scale reside in the realm of your joy!

  

  Photo:  The Possibilities Are Delicious!/iPhone/Queens NY/Coyote Karrick

   

• CK 06:05:14 am on June 10, 2009 | 0 | # |
  Tags: Feel IT, Imagine, Meditate, Visualize

  Can you maintain your sense of center and well-being at that speed? Not the “right” speed, but the speed where you are connected to you (which feels good/you are at ease!). If you’re feeling pushed, rushed, or dragging along – you know you’re not keeping the pace that’s best for you.  Others may try to guide your speed, your inner-critic may try to guide your speed, but have you checked out what feels good to you?  Let this inner aspect of you determine your course of action and you will enjoy the ride.

  Still, slow, and warp speeds.

  Notice what pace is authentically yours today, play with it, experiment…

  

  Photo:  Your Ride/iPhone/Coyote Karrick

   

• CK 09:36:30 am on May 29, 2009 | 0 | # |
  Tags: Imagine, LOVE, Question

  This plate was glued back together, imagine the other options?  Throw it out, make something new like a mosaic table, dig a hole and put it in the back yard so it becomes someone’s archeology find…what else?

  It’s easy to get stuck thinking there is one “right” way to do something.  Says who? How does this type of “one way” thinking stifle our creativity?

  In life, practice doing that which feels good to you, not “right,” not what someone else says, not automatically what you’ve done before.

  There are so many options and imagine those we have yet to imagine!

  

  Photo:  Blue Plate/iPhone/Coyote Karrick

   

• CK 02:01:59 pm on May 22, 2009 | 0 | # |
  Tags: Manifest, Imagine

  An excerpt from Paul Hawken’s 2009 commencement address at the University of Portland:

  “There is invisible writing on the back of the diploma you will receive, and in case you didn’t bring lemon juice to decode it, I can tell you what it says:

  YOU ARE BRILLIANT, AND THE EARTH IS HIRING. The earth couldn’t afford to send any recruiters or limos to your school. It sent you rain, sunsets, ripe cherries, night blooming jasmine, and that unbelievably cute person you are dating. Take the hint. And here’s the deal: Forget that this task of planet-saving is not possible in the time required. Don’t be put off by people who know what is not possible. Do what needs to be done, and check to see if it was impossible only after you are done.”  Check out Daily Good for the full address.

  Imagine.  Imagine.  Imagine.  Heed caution less, naysayers even less, and your own desire to create more.

  

  Photo:  Pete Seeger’s 90th Birthday Bash at Madison Square Garden/iPhone/Coyote Karrick

  The Empire State Building has been called one of the Seven Wonders Of The Modern World and was the world’s tallest building for 40 years.

   

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