Today’s Show Up! Journal power words: I love the free-write portion of my journaling in the morning. The realizations sometimes come fast. And sometimes they knock me on the noggin and go, “Yeah, we’ve been trying to tell you this for the last 35 years.” The temptation to burn out rather than fade away can…
Today’s Show Up! Journal power words. Each of us is an artist. We don’t have to hold a paintbrush or a guitar to be one. We can create art in how we think, what we say, and what we do. As long as these things come from that passionate place inside each of us, that…
Today’s Show Up! Journal Power words. Sometimes, I feel like I am trying to ram down sturdy oak door with my head. And after a while, I have to realize that trying just gives me a headache. So, if I step away, if I regroup, if I stop trying to open this one door, how…
Today’s Show Up! Journal power words. Yikes! This one is tough for me. Most of my life I’ve had too many interests. I’ve pursued a diffuse array of passions. Only in the last year or so have I chosen a different path. I’ve chosen to narrow my focus until it is a laser. The more…
Sometimes, the best thing we can do is get out of our own way. When we get stuck, the paralysis kicks in, and we go nowhere. But, the second we ask ourselves what we might do if we weren’t wearing our own shoes but rather standing outside ourselves, the answer shows up and taps us…
Today’s Show Up! Journal power words from my morning free-write. Today it’s about having faith. What you decide will happen often does if you are willing to be dogged in its pursuit. It’s when you waffle, hesitate, or second-guess yourself that you get in trouble. Have faith but don’t be foolhardy. Your goal must have…
Today’s Show Up! Journal power words: this is what I wrote today. If you’re heading in the wrong direction, stop, close your eyes, and listen. The guidance is there. The path is there, but you need to listen for it, see it, and then embrace it. But that takes courage. It takes a lot of…
Today’s Show Up! Journal power words: The longer I live, the more I remind myself to move, the more balanced, strong, and flexible I am. We are meant to keep moving. That’s the only way things change. That’s the only way we achieve our dreams. I know some people out there say we have to…
Today’s Show Up! Journal power words: I believe that every emotion we experience is, at its heart, a form of energy (think electrical impulses in the brain). That energy can be used to fuel emotions (like fear, like jealousy, like bitterness), or it can be transformed. Energy in its pure state is just energy. It…
Today’s power words from my Show Up! Journal free-write. It’s physics. The more force we exert in any one direction the more vulnerable we become from other directions. So, it makes sense to not be rigid or too regimented in any aspect of our lives. Whether it is the way we think, the way we…