Manifest: Light

Musing…

"People are like stained glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within." ~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Our light within is inborn; that divine spark shines through our earthly body. Our creative expression is colored by our individuality. Kindling our creative fire strengthens the manifestation of our true self.  Manifesting our light brings beauty to our world.

Kate’s Turn:

Winter’s light is so different than summer light. Without the intensity, it has more of a candle-like glow, a soft yellow against the slate-blue skies of winter.  It seems as though the contrast of predominant darkness in the winter season makes the filtered light even more beautiful, even though it is the same sun. I’m in the business of light – I help people kindle their spirit so that they shine in their true self.  And ironically, the challenges, the “darkness” of life’s journey, seem to bring out the essence, the beauty of their spirit – strengthening their inner light both guides their way, and adds their unique beauty to the world. This business of light has been with me throughout my life. I have always loved the stars, aurora borealis, prismatic light through crystals and snowflakes, sun diamonds on bodies of water, the changing light of the seasons, etc. It’s the light I try to capture in my watercolor paintings, and it is the light of one’s spirit that I love to see shine.

Get Fired Up:

Light some candles, sit in the sunlight, smile – kindle your light within and offer the beauty of your true colors!

One of my meditation teachers offers this closure to all her meditations: “Allow yourself to smile. And notice the sunshine that radiates from you when you smile. Allow your smile to send the sunshine of your being throughout your entire body and environment.” ~ Jeddah Mali

Manifest: Feedback

Musing…

“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” – Helen Keller

Guidance goes a long way, sometimes goes full circle. Sometimes the message you get is what you need to hear; sometimes you are too close to your activity, your work, your art, your writing, your endeavor, to know if it’s reaching its desired effect.  

Charise’s Turn:

I’ve never been a proponent of holding yoga postures; my teacher taught from a perspective that in the age we are living in we are already under a lot of pressure. We need to unwind, flow, tap into the underlying energy principles that support physical exertion. Now that I’m teaching in workplace environments where people are mostly sedentary and besieged by email communication, my students want to exert themselves. They need to break through a certain numbing effect of our technological lifestyle. I was asked to bring more intensity to our yoga practice. I could have decided that this is not my way, or the best way, but I took it as a message to push the practice into a more co-creative direction with my students. I am now getting more specific requests to address their needs – “hip openers that don’t tax the knees”, “ something to help alleviate pain in the IT band”.  We’ve developed more variations, new combinations, taken a little more time to do or repeat a sequence, without compromising the integrity of the SynergyYoga approach. Feedback is bringing forward a coaching style of teaching where I’m teaching with them rather than to them; and it's more fun and fulfilling all the way around!

Get Fired Up:

Ask for feedback; find out what is working and what can be enhanced or tweaked about your creative work or endeavor.  Feedback feeds you!

Act: Keep Moving

original art by Kate Kroska

Musing… 

"The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. 

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. 

You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work and risk, and by not quite knowing what you are doing." ~ Alan Alda

Dedication to the skills and disciplines necessary to accomplish your dream fleshes out the vision you have. A dreamer has a vision; an artist completes a work. It starts with intention; it is carried by grit.  Mastery is made in increments, not in leaps. Keep moving forward into the unknown, creating form for your vision.

Kate’s Turn:  

This lesson was brought to me while I was biking one day on a new trail. I stopped to check the trail map, as the terrain looked like it simply looped back. The map, of course, was sketchy, and the terrain wasn’t telling; I even asked a pedestrian for clarification, but got no certainty about how to proceed.  The uncharted wilderness was ahead. I could sit there, go back the way I came, or risk simply moving forward. So I decided to just bike straight ahead, even if all signs brought uncertainty, and sure enough, just around the bend, the path opened up. My movement forward (on faith or simple investigation of what lies ahead) gave me the information needed to proceed in full commitment once again. Another experience of this is driving at night – you only move forward as far as the headlights make clear; you continue in trust that the way makes itself known as needed – it simply requires that you keep moving in increments to light up the next step.

Finding our way takes faith in ourselves and commitment to our goals, along with steady, consistent action, especially if the signs are not clear. Just keep movin’ – stay in the flow – and the way will continue to show itself to you.

Get Fired Up:  

What steps are required if you are going to accomplish your dreams? What small step can you take now that may give more light to the next step? Boldly go where no one has gone before…

Act: Fall

Musing…

“The most important thing in life is learning how to fall.” – Jeanette Walls, Half-Broke Horses

I’d add this phrase: “…and how to recover”. Fall and recovery is a technique that Doris Humphrey, a pioneer in modern dance, honed in her choreography. She championed the principle of falling and regaining your balance, going to the edge of an arc, the edge of a swing. You risk falling.

Charise’s Turn:

It wasn’t a part of the choreography, but in the performance of “Ghawazee”, a gypsy inspired dance, I slid to the floor. The setting was a benefit for Aid Afghanistan, an organization that supports schools for marginalized Afghans, particularly girls. How poignant that we of Ancient Rhythms Dance Company had the freedom to dance for those whose freedoms are curtailed. The gypsy dance is exuberant; its main purpose is liveliness, to bring the room alive. During rehearsals our artistic director encouraged us to let loose so that our movements didn’t appear too set or stylized. She didn't have in mind my slipping on one of the donated Afghan rugs that flanked our stage area. But when you find yourself slipping, there’s nothing to do but go with it -- which I did with exuberance, smiling all the way down and back into the dance. Feedback from the audience? "It was exciting!"..."Made the performance more accessible"..."Happened with such grace."   

Get Fired Up:

Be prepared to fall – the more risks you take, the more you step out of your comfort zone, the more confident you become, the bolder you are…you are bound to slip up. This is where grace, humility, courage, humor, spontaneity can show itself.

Design: Turning

Musing… 
"Plants grow new cells in spirals, such as this pattern of seeds in the beautiful sunflower.  The spiral happens naturally because each new cell is formed after a turn.  
New cell, then turn,  

then another cell, then turn, ..."   

www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/nature-golden-ratio-fibonacci.html  (permission granted by Rob Pierce)                                               

Once you have aligned with your passions, values and purpose, the design of your unfolding can happen naturally – and perfectly – as we see in nature all around us. We just have to keep moving, keep turning in our natural expansion. We are a part of nature – turn to allow for the expansion of your true nature.

Kate’s Turn:  
No design remains throughout its unfolding; it is better thought of as a template that makes allowance for all the changes and unknown opportunities that life offers us. I have had MANY turns in the growth of my coaching practice. Following my passions of creativity and well-being have given me a map, but the actual course that I’ve sailed has been navigated by negotiating the winds of change that I’ve encountered. When a part of the original design (like a “job”) hasn’t materialized, my turning to move more in the area of creativity has clarified my niche and opened me to expand in ways I hadn’t foreseen – and it’s a more perfect fit for my true nature. The trick is to keep turning – keep moving – for it’s easy to stop when meeting an obstacle, and hold onto the plan. When I trust that my nature holds the perfect design, I can have confidence to move, to remain open and curious, to explore other options that become opportunities.

Get Fired Up:   
Turning means letting go of where you stand now - where are you asked to turn in order to allow for your expansion? What part of your true nature desires to have room to unfold?

As my dancer friend once wisely told me, “When in doubt – twirl.” 

Design: Contemplate

motif for coachingmoves.com 

Musing…

“Take one step backward into the unknown.”
 – Adyashanti

All talk of moving forward -- toward your vision, toward what you want to accomplish – will now be interrupted. Offering a splendid interruption like a suspended motion, to allow you to be…in suspense.

Charise’s Turn:

We recently had ten “Days of Awe” that began with the Jewish New Year of Rosh Hashanah. According to Jerome Rosen, a coaching colleague, this is “10 days to be encouraged to see the aweness everywhere and to reflect on what has passed and to embrace the coming year.” Whether you follow this tradition or not, it offers inspiration. The first inspiration for me was hearing the word “aweness", which isn’t a dictionary word, but resonates with the feeling state of awe. I wanted to experience that feeling state, let it permeate. In the spirit of a coaching prompt, I gave myself an assignment to contemplate and write down one thing a day that awes me, for ten days.

Such an act of contemplation is not like going on a retreat; but in the midst of my daily routine I stayed keenly attuned to my surroundings, to what appeared, to my own attentiveness. I was giving importance to receptivity and to my inner engagement with the world. More yin for my yang, you could say. When you’re in this mode, it’s easy to be surprised. On the last day of the ten days, my web designer called to say, “your site is live!" .

Get Fired Up:

Being fired up is usually about expansion – moving outward, yang energy.

How about a quieter fire -- one that draws in, one that welcomes the world to pull up a chair to your hearth, to your creative spirit?  

Align: Internal Compass

Musing… 
"If the path that you are on does not feel good now, it will NOT feel good later. This is when you choose -- before you go down a path you do not want to go." – Malinda Dowsett, Lani Barna, authors of Change Your Conversation, Change Your Life

Having all your ducks in a row, and putting the external pieces together does take effort – and it happens with greater ease when all those choices have generated from the clarity of purpose you hold within. If you follow what inspires you, what you love, what makes you happy – if you find the right work in which you feel blessed, which gives you energy and ability to persist, even amidst obstacles, then you are aligning with your internal compass and all choices follow naturally.

Kate’s Turn:  
It has been said that the journey from the head to the heart is the longest. I’ve been making that trip often these days. As I build my coaching practice, as well as try to find employment to stabilize income, I hear myself say “I should apply for this job” even though my heart is not in it. And I feel somewhat a sense of relief when I get the letter saying they hired another person. I know I applied out of a sense of fear (finances) and chose to not listen to my heart. So I’m relieved when I didn’t get stuck in a track that is not a good fit for me.

On the other hand, I feel delighted to be collaborating on a session for the Midwest Coaching Conference, where I get to work in creativity – I feel happy, I have energy to take the effort needed to pull off such a presentation, and I’m inspired to be immersed in the creative process. I’m clear here about my internal compass – I am saying “Yes” to the desires of my heart. But I still have this other desire to have stable income, so I must feel my way to happiness, weighing the choices that I generate and the ones that  cross my path. I believe both are possible as I align with my internal compass and see where this path takes form.

Get Fired Up:  
Allow your mind to be still, and make the journey to your heart to ponder: What am I living for? What do I love? What makes me happy? Then pay attention to how you feel with every choice you make as you create your life. Feeling good will power your path.

Align: Ducks in a Row

Musing…

“Goals and contingencies… are important. But they exist in the future and the past, beyond the pale of the sensory realm. Practice, the path of mastery, exists only in the present. You can see it, hear it, smell it, feel it. “  
-- George Leonard, Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment

Charise’s Turn:

Going about setting up a business that ties together different endeavors is painstaking. There’s no quickness about it; it’s like fitting tiny pieces into a large scale puzzle. This is the arduous side of creativity -- laborious, exacting. Not about perfection -- perfection is perfectly useless! To be laborious and exacting and arduous is what work takes; and work is what you are doing in the moment, what you practice. 

I know there needs to be truth to what my business, "Coaching Moves", is saying or it won’t hold together -- all the puzzle pieces will fall apart. There needs to be balance of services offered or it’s uneven in presentation. There needs to be the best knowledge and skill I can possibly utilize or my clients/students are not getting their needs met. Getting my ducks in a row is about being up to date on all my credentialing, knowing what is relevant and important to my clientele, making sure I can follow through in my role as coach or teacher, getting all the spelling/grammar of presentational content correct (perfect spelling is useful!).  How you present your business matters -- work it! Sweat in your decisions; exult in your results.

Get Fired Up:

Practice what it is you want to accomplish – practice makes mastery.

(Throw away the idea that “practice makes perfect”.)

Keep practicing, work it!

Envision: Many Roads

Musing…           

True vocation is  “where your talents and the needs of the world cross”. -- Aristotle

Having a vision for your creative expression, for meaningful work, or a fulfilled life does not have to be some lofty nor laborious process. It absolutely is generated from your wellspring within- it’s a matter of paying attention and setting intention. Imagine a crossroads: your expression offered through your hands to others on the horizontal axis – what you love and are passionate about (heart) inspired by your imagination (mind) and spirit on the vertical axis. The possibilities and variations are infinite: thus this crossroad can lead to many roads. The world needs us all.

Kate’s Turn:  

Previously I wrote about using a vision board to capture the envisioning process. Another way to kindle the vibrations of imagination is using a journaling process with a Pray Rain Journal (Martha Beck, author and life coach). In her newsletter, Martha explains: “A Pray Rain Journal is basically a written vision board in the form of a small journal. Get yourself a very small empty notebook. Each day, write a page as if you were living your ideal life and are journaling about it. Use present tense and write about all the wonderful things that are happening and the ramifications of every event.”

This process has increased my visioning process, for each entry can have its own down-the-road outcome. It keeps my musing in passion and joy, while playing out many possible paths where that expression is received by my world. I enjoy writing, I love dreaming, and cultivating possibilities that are my ideal is a fun way to pay attention/set intention for future realities. My curiosity gets piqued to see where this road just might lead me.

Get Fired Up:   

How can your joy in offering your passion and talent contribute to your world around you? Step out on one of those roads………now step out again…………and again………and again. Have fun on the journey, and let what you love lead you forth.

Envision: Scope

Musing…

“Esse est Percepi”, “To be is to be perceived”
-- George Berkeley, 18^th century Anglo-Irish philosopher

We are often each other’s mirrors, unable to see ourselves in ways others see us.  

  

Charise’s Turn: 

A fortuitous turn of events has put me in direct contact with Dr. Alianna Maren, aka Alay’nya, the dancer/author of Unveiling: The Inner Journey. She blogged about my dance performance in May, I commented on her blog, she responded to my feedback, we became curious about each other’s published books and about our shared interests in dance, writing, reflection, and then met to exchange books to co-review for amazon. An ever-widening loop of interconnected parts that started with performer and audience – the movement that stirred her to write, the writing that stirred my response, the communication that stirred an interest in meeting, the meeting that stirred us to support each other’s endeavors, the support that bolsters our endeavors in reaching so many other people.

With her fresh perspective on what A Portable Identity is about, I am better able to see the essence of my work, how it applies to situations other than relocation, how turning points in life are thresholds similar to facing new frontiers overseas. To remove the context of relocation from the model of identity, in a sense “unveil” or "un-camouflage" the heart of the matter, is to see how A Portable Identity is relevant to many, and maybe to all of us at one time or another, when change calls us to dig deep within ourselves to understand and reinvent who we are.  Now I have a bigger scope for my message, a greater connection to my own material, and a way to deliver it to a larger community of people. 

Get Fired Up:

Get Feedback! Share your idea, your project, your work in progress, with someone else who can give you their perspective. Part of envisioning is having your vision seen.

Assess: Opening

Musing…  

“None of us can help the things life has done to us. They’re done before you realize it, and once they’re done they make you do other things until at last everything comes between you and what you’d like to be, and you’ve lost your true self forever.”
     -- Eugene O'Neill from Long Day's Journey into Night

In January, I wrote about freeing ourselves of any aspect that doesn’t reflect the truth of who we are. That clarity of purpose allows us to root ourselves in our being and blossom according to our intention to be who we are.

And yet, life happens. Choosing actions that sabotage this intention act like weeds in a garden-- starting small and spreading quickly, choking out the intended blossoming. This seems like a perfect time to reassess the choices we are making that are reflected in the garden we now are. Learning from our setbacks, and sticking to our meaningful purpose/vision can look like weeding and fertilizing so as to open the space that ensures the blooming which delights and gratifies.

Kate’s Turn:   

I have been busy weeding out the fears of public speaking so I have more opening to share my work.  In the past, this has choked my intention to reach more people through leading workshops, retreats and presentations.  I have revised my website; I am networking to make connections with folks who may benefit from my work. And now I’m choosing to focus on moving forward: speaking to the truth I carry so that this blossoming of mine can benefit others. When I defy my fears, I’m elated. Living out my purpose causes me to be happy, like a river of joy moving through me

 

“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you. A joy.”  -- Rumi

Each choice becomes either a “Yes” to my purpose, or a surrender to my fear. And each action strengthens a pattern, a habit that embodies in my character. I not only intend to blossom – I CHOOSE to blossom, weeding out my fears one at a time. 

Get Fired Up:

As you reassess your intentions to express who you are, what “weeding” needs to occur in order to allow more opening? What is needed for you to blossom more fully? How are you sowing your character in each choice you make?

“Sow a thought and you reap an act; Sow an act and you reap a habit; Sow a habit and you reap a character; Sow a character and you reap a destiny.” -- Samuel Smiles

Assess: Landing

Scene from "Crowning of the Woodland Queen" by
Ancient Rhythms Dance Company

Musing…

“Every true dancer has a peculiar arrest of movement, an intensity which animates his whole being. It may be called Spirit, or Dramatic Intensity, or Imagination.” – Martha Graham

Charise's Turn:

In January I wrote a blog entry titled “Assess: Lift Off”. After six months it’s time to assess again, to see where lifting off has led: additional yoga classes to teach, a lead role in a dance theatre production. One of my wings is soaring; the other – the one related to coaching, writing, consulting – is hanging. Maybe it’s stuck to my back…but really, all of me is soaring with yoga and dance at this time. Hmmm…assess…this is where a good coach could step in and ask me some helpful questions. Those out of the box questions like, “How can your coaching endeavors be carried by the momentum of your yoga/dance endeavors?” All of a sudden my stalled coaching endeavors have energy – borrowing energy from what is going so well for me. Aha! Now I have fuel to get going, excitement about where my question will lead...  

Get Fired Up:

Find your fuel that underlies what is going well and let it kickstart what seems to be lagging.
Ask yourself "how can I tap into whatever forward moving energy I have and direct it toward a project or endeavor I've left idle?"

Manifest: Blossom

Musing….

We must live in this world and be gardens
for the dreams that want to take root in it.

~ Robert Moss, Dreaming True ~

You’ve heard of the expression “Bloom where you are planted” – well, the time is now! Each blossom is unique to the dreamseeds planted and nurtured in your being – the world needs your color, fragrance and beauty as you blossom in endless expansion.

Kate’s Turn: 

As I begin to enjoy the color finally appearing in my backyard gardens, I notice how each plant has its own needs and timing to manifest its essence. Some require more sun than is available; some have already finished their blossom stage and others have not even produced their buds yet. This so accurately reflects my own dreamseed blossoming.

Paying attention to small successes is like tending the early growth of my dreamseeds. It’s way too easy to focus on what isn’t working, what I need to be doing better ( I’m referencing my Toastmasters speaking); these seem like the weeds that restrict the process. But paying attention to those teeny steps I take consistently makes me smile, and acts like sunshine, along with cultivating and watering, in nourishment of this growth process towards the inevitable blossom. My impatience to do this well NOW is like expecting a plant to blossom on demand – it needs more sun (warmth) and time (honoring) and nutrients (effort). And trust – knowing the blossom will manifest in its perfect timing. Honoring the entire cycle and not only the blossom places faith in our garden essence.

Get Fired Up:  

What positive changes do you notice that make you smile with sunshine on your dreamseeds? How can you trust and honor your garden essence to bloom and manifest?

Manifest: Message

Musing…

“Within light there is darkness, but do not try to understand that darkness; 
Within darkness there is light, but do not look for that light.
Light and darkness are a pair, like the foot before and the foot behind, in walking.” 

– from Sandokai, 8^th century poem by Shitou Xiqian

How many stories and fairy tales divide light and dark and do away with the dark character?  What if we tell a different story, what then?

Charise’s Turn:

In Karen McLane’s original fairy tale “The Crowning of the Woodland Queen”, performed on May 26 at Montgomery College Cultural Arts Center, I had the opportunity to play the Shadow Queen. The Shadow Queen uses her power to attempt to steal the crown that rightfully belongs to the Woodland Queen – a typical formula for such a tale. When her power fails, however, the Woodland Queen does not punish or banish her, she responds to her vulnerability. She dances with her, light and dark reflecting each other’s movements. A transformation.

“Ms. McLane's work may well be the progenitor of a new wave of storytelling. As it is, this work deserves widespread attention… as more and more people use the message of The Crowning to understand and heal their own lives.”  - Alianna J. Maren, PhD, author of Unveiling: The Inner Journey.

When I stepped into the lobby after the show to find friends, several people stopped me to thank me for my dancing. I’ve performed for many years, and to be congratulated is common, but to be thanked is unusual. Those who expressed thanks were visibly moved, at a loss for words. The message of the story hit home. And the import of dance theatre reached a zenith in the humble setting of a local community college.

Get Fired Up:

Hone your message, your intent, that sustains your endeavors and your aspirations. What is it that you want to say – what is the thread that runs through what you create? Your message is your foundation for what you manifest.

Act: Work

Musing…

Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working. -- Pablo Picasso

One of the most prolific artists of all time, Picasso produced around 13,500 paintings, even more drawings than that, 2,500 original prints, 1,000 different ceramics, and 700 sculptures in other media. Given that many of the prints and ceramics were released in an average of seventy-five editions (though the edition sizes varied widely), the total number of original Picasso works is over a quarter of a million.(lycos.co.uk)

To move forward on any creation, we must take action – any action – even if it is a baby step following a thought or hunch that beckons you. This action changes you, shifts the energy to lead you that very step closer to your results.  Picasso’s results certainly give him credibility in the above quotation to the working he remained faithful to.

Kate’s Turn:

My working these days entails being visible as I network in building my life coaching practice, and spending time in a creative flow to continue nurturing my creative output, both in watercolors and writing. When I remain faithful to these ventures, I get surprised often by a serendipitous encounter that offers me work sometime in the future (such as the presentation I was called upon to give last week). Or I’m inspired by an idea for writing that bubbles up as I am on my morning walk (one of these ideas was published last week in a local women’s publication). 

It seems as though I get stuck often, not sure what the next step is. But if I just act: scribble that thought; sketch that image; write that email to make contact – I stay in the flow, and it DOES lead me to the next step. And, eventually, to a result or outcome in the creation of my work.

Get Fired Up:

Instead of getting overwhelmed with the entirety of a project, try focusing on simply that one thing you can do next – just one baby step.

Just keep moving, acting, working – you’re among the Masters!

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. -- Thomas Edison

Act: Opportunity

"Freedom" sculpture by Zenos Frudakis

Musing…

“There’s a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”  -- Leonard Cohen

In a classroom on the lower level of the Holocaust Museum, we are doing yoga. There are no windows here, but natural light from the level above comes through frosted panes near the door. The light changes, moves, according to the weather, and that’s how we know we are part of the world outside.

Charise’s Turn:

While going full steam to build my website and move toward more private practice of both yoga/dance and coaching, I receive another request to bring yoga to the workplace. This time it’s the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, as part of a wellness program for the staff. Initially there are 14 people signed up, by the third week of classes, there are 21. This is where yoga is needed, desired, in the midst of the workday in this extraordinary location. This is community outreach, social work of sorts, benefitting the organization by benefitting the participants. Of course! A larger frame of reference, a greater impact.  “Om Shanti”, meaning peace, is what we say at the close of each class.

Get Fired Up:

While you are focusing on your endeavors, imagining what you are building or developing, be prepared for anything to happen!

There is a need, a desire, for your gifts, for your voice, for what you have to offer. Seek it out and also let it find you. 

Design: Harmony

Musing...

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.
Your playing small doesn’t serve the world.
When we let our own light shine,
we unconsciously give other people
permission to do the same. 
--Marianne Williamson

Our design for creative expression must be in harmony with ourself, for how can one live with regret?  We all know the feeling of a half-hearted attempt, not giving it our all, or even giving up. In these cases, fear has won out in keeping us small.  Our design calls us forward into our greatness; we design steps into a higher expression of ourself. And responding to that call with courage results in peace, knowing we are in harmony with our magnificence.

Kate’s Turn:

The  design that challenges me currently is public speaking. I am being called upon to present my ideas, teach and lead others in a large group format. I have avoided these invitations previously out of discomfort and fear, and then do not live with myself  in harmony, knowing I’ve chickened out. My suffering is a sign that I am playing too small. My pain is telling me I am not where I want to be. And the pain pushes until the vision pulls.

So I’ve joined Toastmasters, not to become a powerhouse speaker, but to be able to say “Yes” comfortably to opportunities and then to live in peace with myself; I am freer to step into more of who I am becoming. I recognize that the dissonance the fear causes dilutes my focused power in creative expression.  It isn’t about forcing myself to do this; it more about releasing what isn’t me – I’m letting go of an outdated version of myself. And designing a plan that is in harmony with my expanding self.

Get Fired Up:

Take a harmony read to identify any area you might be playing too small.

What is needed to let go of those restrictions in order to allow you to be in harmony with your expansive self? 

Turn disappointment into daring!