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Tag: #inspiration

  • Daily Spark: No Ms. Fix-it!

    Imagine my surprise when, reading about holding space for myself and others, one of the things to do was “refraining from fix-it mode”. Ok, what?  No more Ms. Fix-it?

  • Daily Spark: Skipping the Shoulds

    I have a part that is always telling me what I “should” do.  Especially after I’ve already done something else. I am trying today to notice the messages I give myself around “should” and try to reframe it, to skip the “shoulds”.

  • Daily Spark: Whatever Arises

    The spiritual teacher Matt Kahn said “Whatever arises, love that”. Four simple words, “whatever happens, love that”.  So very simple, but oh, so very hard.

  • Live Uniquely

    As I walk through a botanical garden today, I am reminded of all the ways there are to grow. As Jim Rohn says, “Lifestyle is the art of discovering ways to live uniquely.”

  • Daily Spark: The Best of It

    I have really identified with the words of Abraham (Esther Hicks) “The key to regaining your wonderful feeling of personal empowerment and control is to decide, right now, no matter how good or how bad you are feeling, that you are going to do your best to make the best of it.”

  • Daily Spark: Not About Solutions

    Cheryl Strayed said, “Compassion isn’t about solutions. It’s about giving all the love that you’ve got.

  • Daily Spark: The Fruits of my Legacy

    Today on my birthday, I want to be like the loquat tree in my yard . . . bursting with energy, fulfilling my purpose, and full of the fruits of my labor and my legacy.

  • Daily Spark: Live in the Sunshine

    One of my favorite quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson goes “Live in the sunshine, swim in the sea, drink the wild air.”

  • Daily Spark: Try Something New

    Mike Dooley said, “It’s always easier to try something new than to wonder what might have been.”  I want to hold onto that thought.  I want to squeeze every last drop of juice from the fruit that is life before I go.

  • Daily Spark: Celebrate Good Times

    Today was a good day, a joyful day.  After five weeks of health challenges with life and death struggles, my partner made it home from the hospital.  I feel a bit like singing Kool and the Gang’s song, you all know it: “Celebrate good times, come on!”