I had lunch last week with a woman who I haven’t seen in almost six years. In all of our catching up, I told her about my emergency open heart surgery, the growth of Spark the Heart, the new Mac training videos, and she was in awe of how much I have bloomed. “It’s because I quit smoking pot,” I told her. She knew I had smoked and...
Read More10 Steps from Brainstorm to Brilliance
Have you ever taken on a big project or a new creative endeavor and, after hours, days, weeks of working, you think you’re finished? And then someone offers you a suggestion to make it even better? Do you settle for “good enough” or do you step back, take a breath and say, YES, I want it to be Great! As you may know, for the past few...
Read MoreDoes Lipstick Scare You?
In yoga, students are encouraged to go to their soft edge–to stretch deep enough where you feel the stretch but not so deep that you hurt yourself. It is at this soft edge that the muscles release and then you can breathe in and stretch just a little bit further. In life, as we shift and change, we push up against a lot of soft edges. It is where our...
Read MoreA Million Dollars…What Are You Waiting For?
How many times have you thought, if only I could win the lottery…if only I were rich…oh, how my life would be different… Really? If you had a million dollars, what would you do? Quit your job? Then what? Lie on the beach all day? Then what? Go on a cruise? Then what? Give money to your favorite charity? Then what? Buy some cars, a new...
Read MoreGrateful = Great + Full
Gratitude is the single easiest way to shift your life. “Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity. It turns problems into gifts, failure into success, the unexpected into perfect timing and mistakes into important events. Gratitude makes...
Read MoreFrom Fallow Fields to Flower Fields: Part 2
A few weeks ago, I wrote about letting go and having faith that something new will grow. This week I realized that letting go is also about mindsets. Letting go of a desired outcome, letting go of the one way, the only way I see something working out. This week I learned that, when I am able to release my strong hold on a particular scenario, space opens...
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