DISQUS

Elizabeth · 1 year ago

Trust myself and act. I know what is good for my soul but I'm often afraid to act on it because I'm worried about the impact it will have on others. It must be the Nurture side taking over the Constructive side. The key is to center the soul so that I can truly nurture. That takes courage.

Chantal · 1 year ago

Focus, focus, focus. I love being creative and the creative process itself but it can keep me spinning. For now, I've picked 3 things to focus on and I can keep my creativity fresh when I need to by moving from one to the other keeping it more circular and contained.

Mini · 1 year ago

That I need to set my ego aside. "It's really not about me!"

Everytime I find myself scattered, in a panic or wanting to please someone or worried about a task I have on my list I stop myself and repeat, "It's really not about me!"

I realized that at the heart of my feelings is my "ego" - I call my ego "Sabby" (for sabotage). Everytime i let "Sabby" take over -I loose the real - 'authentic' me.

I look back on the lesson that keeps appearing and I keep having to learn - it is to "Trust, Belive and Recieve" without involving my ego. "It's really not about me!"
Cheers!
Mini

Leanne · 1 year ago

Be open. The teacher has a tendency to appear when we feel we're not ready and in the unlikeliest of manners. Always be open and accepting to the message or lesson. This is when we experience our greatest growth and the most amazing things happen.

MelissaM · 1 year ago

My body is a temple. When I honour my body (eating well, hydrating, stretching, breathing, sweating) the puzzle pieces in all other areas of life seem to fall in to place. Everything connected. Everything in its right place.

Patsy Duggan · 1 year ago

My lesson is always listen and don't interupt. Even I just get tooo excited.

Pam · 1 year ago

Respecting my Timetable! I take on too many things that can be handled by my business partners or staff and then my day is spent doing my workload and others leaving me exhausted and sometimes bitter. I also sometimes slip into the "martyr role" which I hate!! I don't have to always be available to please someone. So I will try to take care of my responsiblities and release control and allow others to step up and complete duties.

liz · 1 year ago

be honest.

Laurel · 1 year ago

That I am the only expert on my own life, as scary as that fact is.

Xai Vicente Charles · 1 year ago

Like Carrie, I need to stop and slow down. I worry too much and am preoccupied with what I need to do next. Perhaps I need to concentrate on the things that are in this moment and time and find peace within it.

Kelley Burrus · 1 year ago

I simply miss Friday Focus.

Emily · 1 year ago

Stop worrying!

Ellen · 1 year ago

I am on my own path, and exactly where I need to be right now.

JoeM · 1 year ago

Live in the moment! Stop worrying about the future, what might happen tomorrow. Tomorrow isn't here yet. Live in the moment! If you knew there wouldn't be a tomorrow - what is it that you would most want to be doing right now?

Krystl · 1 year ago

Don't procrastinate. Do it when you think of it! Donald Trump has a great quote - "What are you pretending not to see?" All those little tasks that get swept under the rug really add up. And they trip you when you aren't looking.

Lisa D. · 1 year ago

Let it go.
I internalize daily happenings to understand and 'own' my feelings, which is helpful to learn and grown. If I obsess though, I stew and rehash until it becomes unhealthy. It's in the past - learn and move on.

Lisa D. · 1 year ago

I love this. So true.

Emily Cline · 1 year ago

This is MY LIFE. Which means: speaking up, doing what I want and what I believe in, taking time to enjoy the moment of now, being incredibly (sometimes painfully) sensitive, and not taking things personally. MY LIFE.

Mary · 1 year ago

Ego has it's role, but learning when it gets in the way is key. As a parent, that lesson is often a challenge (lots of practice!) and I think I'll try out that mantra . "It's really not about me...it's really not about me..."

Sheri · 1 year ago

Do the next simplest, right thing. Even if that is just to take a breath. And then another. When I feel blocked or stuck, there is always one small right step that invites me, so I look for and do that. The fact that what's next can be small means I have permission to keep it simple. And easy...as in Cultivated Ease!

Beth C. · 1 year ago

That it is better to be present and participating than it is to be perfectly prepared and put together.

Ellen · 1 year ago

oooooh...good one

Ngonzi Truth Crushshon · 1 year ago

Enjoy the moment! I'm the queen of multitasking and can maneuver 4 or more events in one day. But even though I can, should I? Am I really enjoying the moment? I feel I have to be there to support friends' bdays and family graduations.....so I really can't savor the moment as much as I'd like. But I am making memories that will last forever and sometimes enjoying the moment gets replaced with cultivating longlasting relationships!

Romana Mirza · 1 year ago

Listen then respond. But, you know what, I think, I hope it will not repeat itself any more. I went to a beautiful spiritual pilgrimage in December and my interface with the world seems to have changed. I like the new 'listen and respond' me, it's a much better reflection of Graceful in my SS: Constructive Graceful.

sharon smith-swan · 1 year ago

what a great challenge to have - being sooo excited about life - go girl

kerrymac · 1 year ago

A lesson I try and repeat daily is to...soften my heart. Life is busy, I can get snappy. I need to remind myself to relax and look at the big picture. See things from the other person's perspective, be compassionate, be loving and patient. Take the time to "feel" and be in the moment. I am so glad you brought up A New Earth...I think my friends are so tired of me preaching about it...
(I love Eckhart, I want him to sit in my rocking chair and sip tea and be here for me 24/7, emitting his gentleness and wisdom. I wonder if he could do that here if he could find peace in my little white house with running and legos, stinky boys, a deaf dog, a grumpy cat and a sneaky rat.) That was a segment from a post I did called "Oprah & Me"...I am eternally grateful to her for passing along so many life altering books and lessons over the years. www.snickerdoodles.typepad.com

Romana Mirza · 1 year ago

Beth, this is a perfect comment to accompany my blog posting on Entrepreneurship at http://tinyurl.com/3fjwtz Thank you for sharing it with us.

CS (Composed Lovely) · 1 year ago

Listen more than I talk. Enough said!

Guylaine · 1 year ago

Trust Divine Direction. Be open to it and try not to ignore repetitive signs that the universe is sending to steer you in one direction or an another. Although I have always insisted on being in the pilot seat of my life, I've learned (in more than one occasion) that there is a part of destiny which is not under my control... as if there were some experiences I was meant to go through to grow and to advance... For example, I was offered a very interesting professional challenge abroad which I refused a first time for no good reason. The same offer (same job, same country) was made to me again almost one year later (as the client asked that the person who had filled the position be replaced) and I refused again, and again for no good reason ... I was in a bad personal relationship that second time around, although unaware of it and unwilling to let go of it. Four months later, when the position was offered to me for the third time (since the second person who had filled it had just been in an accident and also had to be replaced), it suddenly dawned on me that I was supposed to be the one filling that position...and finaly accepted it... after that, everything that had seemed like a mountain just weeks before (selling my car, my house...etc...) was worked out almost magicaly and two months later I was in a new job, in a new country, in a new house with my two kids (just in time for the start of the school year) and almost two years later I've never regretted that decision...

Angela Ehrig · 1 year ago

Have courage to share your heart with your romantic partner and be proud to be who you are. Being a very adaptive Gemini and with my lovers a female pleaser I have a tendency to censor myself rather than be courageous and be my passionate self.

GWALLY · 1 year ago

I do too!

lisaohhh · 1 year ago

allow life to be easy.

Heather Allard · 1 year ago

I have everything I need.

Kerri · 1 year ago

It's possible that I can be happy with a man, but a man will not make me happy.

Stephanie · 1 year ago

Listen to the discerning voice in my head. I get caught up in other people's opinions of me. I am learning to let go of that, and hoping to learn how to overcome/overlook the consequences that come by choosing to let go of people in my life.

Susie Hutchinson · 1 year ago

Which one! The biggest one for me is to deal with things as they come up.

Tamara · 1 year ago

I have no idea what the lesson is ... thus I continue to stumble -searching for the Light in this space-time continuum I do not understand. Trust anyway, love anyway, fail anyway, succeed anyway, laugh anyway, search anyway, sleep anyway, eat anyway, exercise anyway, breathe and be ???

bene · 1 year ago

Speak up and assume your God given place on this earth! It is i difficult task for me, as I have always been the nice girl. The one that accepts everything with a smile, and happily agrees with being trampled on. It is hard, but I am learning. One great lesson for me, has been that the people who trample on you, are insecure and probably jealous as well. Slowly i learn to walk away or distance myself from their behaviour. Another great idea is to voice your anger, hit a pillow and let out some steam.

Carly · 1 year ago

Listen to myself. So often I ignore my inner voice and then immediately regret it because, surprise surprise, it was right. I've been focusing on it and getting better, though!

anactoria · 1 year ago

Pay Attention.

If I pay attention, I'm compassionate, diligent, creative, and I don't get migraines. I'm happy.

When I don't pay attention, well, it's like eating junk food versus a good meal. I still function, but it's not as healthy. For me or those around me. Nothing flows. I'm not happy. No one is.

Except my cats. They like it when I don't Pay Attention and end up sleeping in when I shouldn't. ^_^

Connie · 1 year ago

Care even more, give even more, love even more.

Anne-Marie · 1 year ago

Be patient and let go.

Stephanie · 1 year ago

Be present. Spend more time in nature. Clean more often. Love more.

Bee · 1 year ago

I read this question this morning, and haven't been able to concentrate on anything else since then. It's exactly the right question at the right time. I can't describe what it is in two words - I've been trying to do what I think I'm supposed to do, what is "right", while trying to submerge doing what is right for me, and what my manifest destiny is.

Carrie McCarthy · 1 year ago

Patsy is the definition of joy!!

love,
Carrie

Caitlin · 1 year ago

You can't control the universe!

Focus on what you can change, let go of the things you can't (other people, circumstances). I always get into trouble when I try to be master of the universe, because usually that goes hand in hand with not mastering myself, and my own life.

Cindy · 1 year ago

fight your fear...jump in with both feet. (they say you teach what you need to learn...no kidding!)
hugs
c

Denise · 1 year ago

Create space. When I'm too busy with life, moving too fast from one thing to another nothing new arrives. I find myself thinking I can do more to create more, vs. just being. Remembering to take time to create the space always gives me great joy. I feel my body, get reintroduced to old friends, notice a flower, feel the sand in between my toes, or pay attention to my breath.

Janet · 1 year ago

Ask more questions. Man, my shyness prevents me from asking all the questions I should --- unless it's on behalf of someone else. I'm good as a mother bear for everyone else but me.

I need to learn to ask questions for taking care of my own needs.

Stacey · 1 year ago

Don't be afraid of who you are and don't allow others to define you.

LaKecia · 1 year ago

Patience. That is a virtue that I do not own but I need to. I get so frustrated with people and things around me so easily. It is a daily task for me to make myself be patient and know that everything works on God's time, not mine. Speaking of time....I am the worst procrastinator and I really don't want to be. I know what happens everytime so I need to do better.

Deborah · 1 year ago

Me too! I never seem to have the time to do the things I want and to be with the people I want most to be with. I fill my time with obligations - all in the name of earning a living - get bitter and resentful and disconnected from others and exhausted. Must simplify life and revel in the present. Drop the activities that I don't like. Thank you Xia Vicente for providing my ah ha moment!