Let it go

Good day my friends.  I’ve been reading lately about the power of positive thinking and how the opposite creates such unnecessary drama in our lives.  All the stress we create begins with one negative thought. One pin prick in the back of our mind that went unchecked, then more thoughts came and more, until stress manifested.  The effect is stress, but the cause was negative thinking, and it all began with one little negative thought, one small crack in the pavement of your mind. No matter what you might have manifested, you can change it…with one small positive thought and then another. Your positive thinking will be infectious and it will spread like wildfire to all those you surround yourself with. Let that negative shit go like a balloon – it will drift away, slowly disappearing into the sky until it’s gone.  Be kind. Be inspired. Love hard…always.

The world is a better place with you in it

Good morning folks and Happy Friday!  I hope everyone’s week was a good one and that it’s off to a great start today. Haven’t really written in a while and feel it’s time to start back up again. Over the last several months, I’ve been focused on drawing, painting and hand lettering. It’s something I’ve grown to love and never really thought I could do until I decided to dive in.  The same could be said about the relationships with my family, friends and the people I love and care about the most…I dove in and focused to make it a priority in my life. Paulo Coelho writes: “When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”  Focus on what & who you love and give it everything you got. You won’t regret it. I read somewhere that the most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.  Follow it.  The world is a better place with you in it.  Peace. Love Hard. Always.

Declutter your life and make way for freedom

I recently moved...again.  And, as a friend told me, getting to move rather than having to move put into perspective the next chapter...but, what a pain in the ass it can be sometimes. You know what I mean.   Pack, unpack, organize, re-organize...trying to figure out where my "stuff" is going to go in the "new" place when I had finally figured out how it fit in my current place.  With the help of some amazing friends I got all my stuff moved and had the opportunity to look over the landscape of boxes and begin the process of what to do with it all.  Then it occurred to me.  How much time was I going to spend trying to figure out where all this crap was going to go?  Then deeper still, how did I accumulate so much shit?  Over the last couple of years I've been purging the things I thought I needed and realized it was just stuff, occupying valuable space and taking up too much time in my mind to figure where it was going to go...I was held captive by possessions that if I hadn't had, I probably wouldn't miss.  I'm sure at some point when I acquired said objects I thought to myself I "NEED" this. It completes me.  I am happy to have it and feel whole. Ha!  Now, not so much.  So the purging started.  I realized I didn't need the extra remote for the TV in case the one I have breaks.  I realized I didn't need various text books from college sitting on a shelf (although it's fun from a nostalgic point of view to hold on to).  I didn't need all those extra coffee mugs!  I decided to put these things into a box and labeled it with the date I put them in their coffin of sorts with the note on the outside "If not opened by this day 12 months from now - it's not going to be missed - TOSS or DONATE!".  If they resurrected themselves a year from now then It was meant to be a part of my world.  Otherwise - see ya!  And with that, I felt free!  Free of the clutter...free of the anchor holding me down to try and figure out where it had to go.  With less "stuff", we are free!  We are not pre-occupied by it.  We are not worried that it will get lost or break creating sadness. Our minds can relax and be happy.  When I chose to de-clutter my life, and keep in mind I am in no way finished, I spend my time with my loved ones, painting, writing, creating...resting.  I have gained the freedom of time because I am not spending it on the stuff I don't need.  Good luck on your de-cluttering journey :)  Peace. Love. Always.

Balance

How many times do we lay in bed at the end of the day, staring up at the ceiling and stress out over all the things we didn’t accomplish today.  Tossing and turning, creating mental notes of what to do tomorrow for what we didn’t get done today only to discover that what we don’t get done the next day gets pushed out even further and so on, and so on…ugh. So how do we stop this cycle?  How do we find balance to manage all of it?  The daily grind, kids, taxiing people all over town, social lives, relationships?  I believe it all starts with your heart.  If we close our eyes and reflect on all the good things we’ve accomplished, not just today, but everyday… the lives we impact daily, we will find that our hearts guided us on the correct path towards balance.  When you believe in your heart, you will always find a way to make the schedules, the relationships, careers, creative pursuits, whatever it is work out.  The moment you let go and stop caring about what didn’t get done and start caring about what you did is the moment you are truly free and live with balance in your life.  Dream Big.  Love hard.  Discover your world.