Finding My Passion

The new year has just started and with it a fresh beginning. A time to reflect on the past year and to look ahead and make new intentions for this year.
Making intentions always excites me because I see them as something that will come true.

Some other intentions I have for the new year are:

* To be healthier

When I was younger I did gymnastics and I always felt great. Most of my thirties I loved to go out dancing. (I am 38 now) I have not done much dancing however in the past two years because my health has been weird. Dancing is a great way to tone and burn calories, as well as have fun and feel alive! I love to dance and will incorparate that into my life this year. I am doing E.F.T. to help with health issues which are surprisingly going away within days after two years of hanging around which is so cool. I got where I was breathless going up stairs and now after three days of E.F.T. I can go upstairs almost running and not get breathless.

* To exercise more
* To be more creative
* To move into a home with a bathtub



The last one might seem like a strange intention but last year when we moved, I moved from a home with a great master bath to a house with no tub in the master bedroom and I miss the rejuvenation and meditation of a warm bath. Baths are an important part of nurturing oneself. They can be both cleansing and healing.


(This is me in the bathtub I left behind this year. My youngest daughter took this picture of me for fun (for her) one day before we moved.)

This brings me to another intention.

* Be good to myself. Treat myself kindly. Be generous to myself.

I believe when we are good to ourselves we will be good to others. When we are not good to ourselves we are not good to others either. There are exceptions to this rule, but on the whole it tends to go this way.

Squidoo goals

* Be a squid angel
* Make over 100 lenses
* Get accepted to the 100 club
* Be more active in squidU
* Make more money with squidoo
* Have more lenses in the top 2000
* Do as well as Janet21 does at squidoo

~ I have created over 100 lenses and am currently working on being accepted into the 100 club
~ I have been walking alot more than I did before
~ I am making more money with squidoo now than the past 6 months
~ I am more active in Squid U
~ I have become more creative
~ I became an angel (November 2009)
~ I became a mentor (November 2009)
~ I am currently doing a session of Rocket moms as well

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

This poem I wrote which is the title for my book Jewels of Awe is a perfect way to describe how I have been feeling lately.

(Clicking on the poem wil take you to my website)