May 11, 2007: Simple Abundance: The Inner Journey
Quote of the Week
“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Simple Abundance: The Inner Journey
by Sarah Ban Breathnach
Today I want you to become aware that you already possess all the inner wisdom, strength, and creativity needed to make your dreams come true. This is hard for most of us to realize because the source of this unlimited personal power is buried so deeply beneath the bills, the car pool, the deadlines, the business trip, and the dirty laundry that we have difficulty accessing it in our daily lives. When we can’t access our inner resources, we come to the flawed conclusion that happiness and fulfillment come only from external events. That’s because external events usually bring with them some sort of change. And so, we’ve learned to rely on circumstances outside ourselves for forward or backward momentum as we hurtle through. But we don’t have to do that any longer. We can learn to be the catalysts for our own change.
Sarah Ban Breathnach, from Simple Abundance. Excerpted from the Heron Dance E-Newsletter
Coaching Call to Action
This week spend some time looking at yourself. Get quiet and acknowledge all of your strengths and skills and how you show up each day. Then, if there is a change you want to make to improve yourself so that it will really make a difference for you, take time to just consider that change this week. Get clear on what that change would be. Spend some time envisioning that you have already made that change. Take at least 3 actions from the place of already having made that change. What happened? How did that feel? Was it easy? Hard? Spend some quiet time journaling about your results and learnings.
Ideas and Information
May 13, 2007
Moms, Happy Mother’s Day!
Mother’s Day is a time of commemoration and celebration for Mom. It is a time of breakfast in bed, family gatherings, and crayon scribbled “I Love You”s. And to remember and say thank you for the advice we heard as kids. . .
- Always change your underwear; you never know when you’ll have an accident.
- Don’t make that face or it’ll freeze in that position.
- Be careful or you’ll put your eye out.
- What if everyone jumped off a cliff? Would you do it, too?
- You have enough dirt behind those ears to grow potatoes!
- Close that door! Were you born in a barn?
- If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all.
- Don’t put that in your mouth; you don’t know where it’s been!
Thanks Mom and I love you!
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