Don't just read it- LIVE IT!

In this day and age of social media, e-zines and enough self-help books to absorb the oil spill, it becomes incredibly easy to get tied up in reading about the life you want instead of LIVING IT. Of course, there is a great deal of knowledge to be gained by such experts and stories but at some point one has to TAKE ACTION!

If you don’t know where to start, that’s OK. The most difficult part in doing anything is usually just getting it off the ground. I have always found that once I put the intention out there that I am going to do or create “something”, I then start attracting the right people and things to make it happen. To this day this constantly amazes me! Trust me, there are still plenty of days I find myself spinning around the office with no clue as to what to do next or how I am going to get there. It is just as easy for me to get encapsulated in the reading and research. It is during those moments that I take time to re-focus and examine my plan.

A plan for me is simply a rough map of where I am going, what I want to accomplish and how I plan to do it. Like most maps, it does not include the major traffic jams, potholes and detours…but it does keep me focused on where I am going. Any destination without a map is a whole lot harder to get to. It is so important not to lose site of where it is you are heading. However, at some point you have to put down the map and drive. (I know enough metaphors) ☺

So put down the books, log-off your computer and start LIVING the life you want!

Thoughts+Action=RESULTS!

Shine ON!

Keri

A Princess I Shall Be....

When I was a little girl, around four years old, I remember laying next to my mom in her big king size bed talking about what I wanted to be when I grew up. I told her with such excitement that I wanted to be a princess! She paused and then looked at me with love and condolence, only the way a mother could, and responded, “Sweetie, the only way to become a princess is to marry a prince.” What!?! I said, I have to marry someone! I was seriously devastated, how could someone else control my dream? I remember crying in her arms as I took in the tragic realization that marrying a prince would be very difficult to do. Funny that I remember that day like it was yesterday.

In Portland we have one of the biggest Rose Festivals in the country. It is tradition that each high school within the city crown a “Rose Festival Princess” (now more politically called ambassadors) to represent the city in all the festival festivities, including the big Rose Festival Parade. I almost graduated from high school a year early but my mom convinced me to stay, telling me my senior year would be the best. (A little side note here, I actually loved high school (I know dork!) but all my friends were going to college in California and I wanted to go too.) That year I tried out to be on the Rose Festival Court and was crowned our schools “Princess.” It was such an honor because the student body were the ones who voted. I remember my mom coming up to me and she said, “I guess I was wrong, you didn’t have to marry a prince.” It was one of the most amazing experiences I have ever had!

I guess the moral of the story is, sometimes what we wish for does not happen the way we imagined it would. It make take another form but it will still happen if you take a risk and put yourself out there.

I think of this story when I am going through a rough patch. It helps me remember that you can not always control the timing of things but you can and should believe! Each day I wake up knowing that I am here for a reason and each day is another opportunity to wear the crown of my destiny. What is yours?

Shine ON!!!

Keri