Follow Your Bliss

"When you focus on what's missing, it's hard to see what's there." - Emily P. Freeman Have you read the book, The Next Right Thing, by Emily P. Freeman? I was looking through book reviews on Amazon in hopes to find a book that would help me with making a decision about something I am confused about. Have you ever been so focused on a career goal (for so long) that it is possible you either 1) lost who you are in the process or 2) started to wonder if maybe your goals need to adjust and accommodate to your current life circumstances? Well.... I will say that Emily's perspectives are helping me eliminate the fogginess I have pertaining to career aspirations, but more importantly, it is also helping me ease the guilt of feeling confused. She's helping me feel okay about telling myself, "Maybe you just don't have the same career goals anymore, and there is nothing wrong with that." I am discovering that sometimes we think we are lea...

Oh how I missed the crisp October nights… Is it weird that I love to hear the sound of crickets chirping in the night as I have the window cracked open ?   I feel like it has been so long since the last time I got to sit in my bed before 8:00pm. Although I love my days, I’ll still always love the nights were I can just sit on my bed, in my pj’s, with my laptop on my lap. I might add the night is topped with a nice little glass of Cupcake Pinot Nior.   I know it’s nothing fancy, but it’s still good! Have you tried it? It’s great if your on a budget! It’s also nice that my dogs are calm, laying down in their doggy beds and with me in my room. I got to thinking this evening how much I missed the days where I felt I could just “write.”   You know, write without a specific purpose or because I have drafted or brainstorm ideas to make sure there is a constant flow of materials. Tonight is the night where I just get to write the way I origina...

“If prayer is you talking to God, then intuition is God talking to you.”  –Dr. Wayne Dyer Some may call it intuition ...some may call it gut instinct , or even the whisper , but whatever terms you use to describe it - it's always right .

"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Up until recently, I never thought I would consider dating someone who has a child.  Not that its bad in anyway, but I have always heard such negative stories, and at the time it seemed so much easier to just keep away from it all together... However, despite all the drama everyone says comes with dating someone who has a child, I was actually looking forward to accommodating my life in a way that a  single person wouldn't have to; I was excited for the new experience - all of course, while staying within the boundaries of not trying to take the place of "mom." I wanted this little person to teach me so much more about life because I knew they could.  I also hoped I could have contributed (when requested) to make things easier for this person... maybe to inspire, encourage, and love.  Nevertheless, this must be one of the awesome things about little people: They're a type of special  that bring a new life that's too great to describe. In a way, I almost fel...

Do you remember the days when liking someone was just enough?  For some, it didn't matter how they treated you, what kind of attention the gave or didn't give to you, whether or not they had goals, who their friends were, how they got along with their family, if they were reliable, responsible, and whether or not they would make a good father... or mother. When I was in high school, I chose the boys who were cute because they gave me "butterflies"; up into my mid-twenty's I chose the guys who had a nice face, muscular body, and who knew how to have fun because they gave me excitement...and you know what that got me? A LOT of good pictures LOL! J/K :-) No...but seriously, I was shallow, but then again can we really help who we are attracted to and how they make us feel?  Nevertheless, I found that its not about choosing the guy because of who he is, how he is, or how "excited" he makes you feel - its about choosing for you . As the years go by, we s...

The soul never thinks without a picture. ~  Aristotle  

I remember the year I heard one of those eye-opening quotes - to me, it was simply... the truth, and isn't that all we ever want to know? It was 2008 when I read the following quote by Dale Carnegie: " Two men looked out from prison bars, one saw the mud, the other saw stars.” I couldn't have read these words at a better time, and to this day, I have to remind myself that we're never defeated by what life throws our way, we're defeated by our very own thoughts.  The funny thing is, we hold the key to them both. If there's something we can all relate to, its coming across an event that didn't come out the way we had hoped - something we wanted, yet it became something we lost.  Perspective says you can choose to be defeated by an unfavorable situation, or you can choose to be empowered by it. Whatever it is that happens in our life that didn't turn out in our favor is opportunity in disguise.  Instead of disappointment taking over you - you us...

Its been a year since I started training for my first competition, and even though I may have "lost" in the competition, I've come to learn that I have won much more in many different ways... One of the most difficult parts of training was saying no to all of my favorite sweet foods.  Specifically chocolate chip cookies. To deny something you know you want, something you know you love, and something you know you can easily have - as it lays right in front of you and having to say "no," is somewhat a realization of how efficacious will power truly is once you have made the decision you will only say yes to what you need because you know its going to get you exactly where you want to be; the reason for saying no to certain foods (in my case cookies) is knowing the facts...the facts about knowing what I was putting in my body and how it was only going to take me further away from my goals. Sometimes knowing the facts, for lack of better words, sucks...because ...

"You don't know what's on the inside, until you put a demand on your potential." ~ Joel Osteen

Its probably pointless to state the obvious:  We all have strengths.  We all have weaknesses.  Unfortunately, I am more confident in declaring my weaknesses then I am in declaring my strengths; however, at least I allow myself to be vulnerable by admitting to them both. At times my mind get so warped around a a situation - it causes me to loose sleep.  Does this ever happen to you too?  Where your mind re-plays whatever "life event" has changed...in a less then favorable way? Thankfully, I've come to accept this "weakness" and even though I come to realize it will probably never go away, I have learned, it is treatable .  This is where the decision of who you choose to keep in your life is critical. I'm not a doctor so I could be wrong, but I'd like to view weaknesses similar to how one would view  arthritis .  There may never be a cure, but with the right treatment it is in fact controlable - preventable from getting worse. I'm a belie...

For the longest time, I believed I had this type of "fault" where I always wanted to see how trustworthy some people are, but life has brought to my attention that it was never my fault it was my intuition .  Like all classic scenarios, I  failed to listen to my intuition... because for one reason or another I was hopeful that maybe - just maybe I would be wrong...wanting so badly for it to turn out the way I wanted. This is when I realized , " when your heart wants what is not available to you, your always looking in the wrong direction ."  When I want what is not for me - it won't work, and it certainty won't make me better. Knowing something positive isn't going to come from something/someone who is leaving you feeling suspicious should be intellectually obvious, but for some people (like me) it doesn't become obvious until it you feel it internally. I can't speak for everyone, but all I know is those who keep bringing out something ...

I've learned... Your never too old to break the cycle...

"What you put up with, you end up with."

Had I not been lost, I would have never discovered who I am.

I've learned...   Its not about what you did wrong, its about discovering what you posses to make things right.

"You cant do anything about the past, but you can do something about right now." ~Joel Osteen

"Every adversity, every failure, every heartbreak, carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit." -Napoleon Hill

Ever since I was younger I never really been the type to day dream, talk, or plan out my future wedding.  Although I always looked at wedding dresses and wanted the most gorgeous, glamorous gowns just for show, I never really thought about actually getting married.  I never really cared, but perhaps maybe because the relationships I seen were not worth dreaming of...and when your young, what your around is all you know... During and after high school my mind was set on one thing; I knew I wanted to be in LA and that's where I was going.  My most exciting days was when I first moved to LA.  For the first time in my life I was getting what I always dreamt of when I was a little girl.  I got to be in TV shows, movies, magazines, attend award shows, meet my favorite celebrities - everything was a first, and everything was amazing...and never once did I choose to "de-moralize" myself in the process. Then the day came where I met someone who made me believe in al...

"All intimacy is rare - that's what makes it precious." ~ Amy Bloom http://www.oprah.com/omagazine/Os-Words-That-Matter-Inspirational-Quotes#ixzz2hzfrh1kI