Concrete to Grass: How Green Spaces Unlock Our Inner Magic
When did we stop appreciating the expansiveness of parks and other areas of green spaces?
I’ve been asked a lot lately: what are my dreams? What is it I want to experience?
So many things ping pong around in my head.
I just read this headline and remembered one I’ve held for a long while:
As developers pave over Charlotte, a local farm gets $1.4M boost to grow dramatically
It reminded me of a desire: to be able to buy LAND with no buildings on it to save it from being paved over. We need the trees. We need empty expansive spaces to run and feel delight and freedom. We just need to not have more buildings with climate controlled environments and no sunshine.
Whenever I take my grandson outside, especially to a park, he runs and runs and runs. Sometimes he’ll turn back and wait for me to catch up — and when I’m close enough, he starts up again.
And I find myself wondering: when did we stop appreciating the expansiveness of these spaces? WHY do we have to...
Unlocking Your Quintessential Self: The Path to Authentic Power
Mary Jane.
Not the shoes, but the woman who owned the small business where I’d been hired to help in an assistant role.
Mary Jane liked things done one way, and one way only.
Her way or it was wrong.
Never mind that the result is the same. She was a sock, shoe, sock, shoe sort of person. Those that are sock, sock, shoe, shoe — well, that’s just wrong.
The entire conference table was set up for a project. She showed me how to do it (her way).
It didn’t work in my brain; in fact, I found it illogical.
So I did it my way.
As a micro manager, she came in to hover… and I got busted! I had to switch back to her way.
But then I switched back.
This environment was oppressive.
It’s an environment I did not and do not thrive in.
This experience was at a time in my life when I was pushing my way out of my cocoon — and Mary Jane kept shoving me back in to cook a bit longer to her liking. Trouble was I was ready to emerge… And I was finding...
Decisions That Define Us: 5 Keys to Aligned Choices
I didn’t know it, but the decision I made would change my life.
I saw the announcement about an event in a state I loved and I didn’t hesitate or give it a second thought. I said yes, clicked through and invested.
No second thoughts. No excuses. No what ifs or yeah buts.
This is the ease of making choices from a place of Knowing.
The event was like Going Home. It was so right I found myself wondering why I had diverged from this path? Yet I didn’t even ask myself this question in this manner. It was still cloudy, but my contentment was familiar and I relished it.
The result of the decision ultimately created a very real struggle — and many questions surfaced:
What does this mean (to me)?
What do I DO about it?
If I do go back, (change my mind) what will people think?
I honored this struggle and gave myself 3 months (!) before I could actually accept it inside my body.
Here are five tips for making any decisions, particularly difficult ones;
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Turn Your Bloopers Into Your Greatest Blessings
In a traditional job when we make a mistake, you know what will happen. Wrists slapped, maybe called out in front of others around a boardroom table, perhaps even fired. (When I worked for a huge international company for a department President, he loved to send me to the principals office: the HR dude. And that was after he yelled at me. It was a joke, and the two of us (HR guy) would just sit and talk… At least I wasn’t decorating a desk for those moments.)
But with comedy the error is proudly showcased and shown over and over again. They are known as “bloopers.”
Wow. What a reframe.
What if you took your small or massive errors and failures and reframed them?You’ll always find the blessings when you take time to look for them inside the “failure.”
What if you take the lessons and leverage them in a unique, powerful, unconventional way?
Years ago I attended a Young Living convention and we could...
An Embodied Jewish Priestess is a Quintessential Woman
I met a Quintessential Woman last week. She is an embodied Jewish Priestess who exudes joy, grace, mirth. She lives and breathes her faith without pretentiousness. Her faith is her life; her life is her faith. She carries out her best practices without any show or need for attention. In fact, if I didn’t know what she was doing softly in the background, it would not be obvious she was doing anything. I believe most people didn’t even notice her actions.
I even heard her daughter ask her ‘mama, would you bless me?”
I didn’t even have time to ask her what that meant? Is it a daily practice for a Jewish Mama Priestess to bless her children?
How utterly delightful. And holy.
The world needs more women like this.
There were other women there who were the exact opposite — forcing their faith on the group as a whole. At the very least it was inappropriate. At the most …. well, I have lots of...
Momentum Begins Now Not Later
Many of us slide through the month of December. It’s easy to do that, thinking “I’ll start next year.”
The thing is if we plan a bit, dream a bit more and start now we hit January 1 with a bit of momentum.
Momentum at the beginning of the year will help you reach your desires sooner.
Are you ready?
What went well this year?
What did you accomplish that you are super proud of?
Where did you slack and now regret?
What gaps did you expose that you need to fill?
What are you fed up with that you are resolved to remedy in 2023?
On a scale of 1-5, with 5 being excellent, rate:
Your health:
Your wealth
Your family life
Your relationship with yourself
Your relationship with Spirit
Your fitness
Your happiness
Rate yourself on any thing I may have missed but you feel is important
If you’re ready to work with someone who can help collapse the time it takes to achieve your goals, I’m ready if you are. From a more premium choice of a Quintessential VIP...
𝗕𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗯𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵
I’m sure you’ve heard that expression.
Some breakdowns are massive. Obvious. Ridiculously painful. And usually feel never-ending.
Some, however, are almost unrecognizable. If we are not tuned in, in fact, we may miss it altogether and “just” chalk it up to a bad day.
Some breakdowns feel like you’re standing in the middle of the room looking at your life as it is piled around you — a heap of junk that’s all broken apart and ugly.
Some breakdowns feel like ugh, I am too lazy to give a damn about anything today.
Whichever breakdown it is, it can be comforting to know your breakthrough is soooo close! You can’t push, pull, prod your way there faster. You have to go through the tunnel first.
Did you know that as the butterfly struggles to break free from the cocoon, that if you helped and opened it up just a bit for her, she would die? Her struggle is part of her breakthrough.
The same holds true for you.
Someone can lovingly...
Quintessential Woman Mystery
𝗜’𝘃𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗤𝘂𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗪𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗻, 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗼𝗱𝗱𝗲𝘀𝘀.
I’ve found She requires space. She requires respect. She requires time — not necessarily hours and hours, but time as in I’m not in a hurry to have Her come for a visit.
After spending a good year dancing with Her, it’s time for me to include YOU.
𝘈𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘦𝘦𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘏𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶?
If yes, then listen up and say 𝙔𝙚𝙨, 𝙄 𝙖𝙢 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙮.
I am ready to play with the mysteriousness of Her.
I am ready to meet this aspect of myself — and believe me, if you are remotely ready, She’s been playing and teasing. Perhaps you’ve just not recognized it as such.
Let’s do this. And let’s do this together!
𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗹 I will be hosting a free event for you to Meet Her.
Fire Within - The Quintessential Woman
