By Debra Smouse
If you were to peek at my personal emails, you’d see a common word come up: dirt.
Why have I been discussing dirt? Well, I’m not planning a vegetable garden. The discussion of dirt has been more metaphoric. As several of my mentors have said to me, “When you plant a seed, it isn’t a sprout that comes up first. The first thing that comes up is dirt.”
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Life will always throw us challenges. Some we will expect, most we won’t.
As humans we have a number of needs. Two of those needs include the need for certainty and the need for uncertainty.
Although the need for certainty brings about peace of mind, the need for uncertainty brings about the spark of life.
We desire the need to have certainty. It is something many of us long for, the guarantee that we will know what will come up next. We wish to know that everything will be fine, Read More→
The weather is finally beginning to change in Los Angeles and I have been so looking forward to it! Since I live up in the hills, when fall comes around, I get to wake up in the morning and see the fog covering the city with just a few of the tree tops peeking out… it makes me feel all snugly. As the seasons turn, I’m reminded that there is no getting around change. It’s the universal law. Seasons change, leaves change, people change and our lifestyles change. Hooray for that!
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When faced with the opportunity to try something new – what reaction do you have?
• Dread?
• Fear?
• Start making excuses?
• Run for the hills?
If you find that you get a sinking feeling in your stomach, your breath shortens, and you generally tighten up looking for ways to escape, that means you’re not very open to trying new things. (I know, tell me the obvious, right?) Well I point this out because unless you want to live in status quo land forever, you need to do things differently, BE-come more of who you are meant to be, and be willing to try new things. Read More→
We’ve all been in a conversation (with someone else or internally) where we say we will try to complete a task. We also know what the word try means. Trying is not doing. We try to find time for things we don’t want to do. More accurately in health, we try to do things we want to do, but don’t think we are able to do. We try to make it to places we don’t want to go and we try not end up doing things we don’t want to do. What happens when we try to do things? Well, often they don’t get done. Read More→
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