This is awesome:
(If you can’t see the video click here.)
No is just yes with a little bit of conquerable challenge.
#AskAndYouShallReceive #SpeakUp #RejectionLessons
First stop. Always. For my favorite:
Mocha shake. Work. Beach.
This is how I live simple and do more of what I love.
What are you working for?
#LessStuffMoreFreedomHappyLife #Travel #TodayIsTheDay
Good food and time with good people are my key to a good life! (Those, and not having a bunch of crap in my space I don’t need or use:)
Here’s what we business brainstorm Monday noshed on today, lunching in the sunshine:
If you haven’t been to Zio yet, I highly suggest you make your way there to dine in deliciousness sometime soon.
What do you eat?
#Feast #Collaboration #Community
Where will you go?
#BlueHighways #Adventure #WhatIf
I’m away from home base and having what I consider a most incredibly gluttonous amazing perfect day; porch, sun, palm trees close enough to touch, laptop, book, work, and quiet. For a girl like me who doesn’t allow herself nearly as much “me” time she needs, yet does a great job teaching others how to take it, and take it often, I’m in heaven right now.
Let me just go ahead and call myself out here again. Just trying to keep all of us on our toes, baby:)
I’m visiting someone who’s stuck at work longer than he cares to be today, but that stuck is a good thing in this case because it means I get the best of all worlds…a me fiesta, coupled with good bits of fun company at lunch and later tonight. (Win, win!) I just got scooped up for lunch and we went to one of those fascinating dive joints that I’m always on the search for. You know, the place that’s just the perfect amount of grimy and always filled to the max with locals, and blue collar friendly everyone?
Did I mention I ordered the small veggie “round” sandwich? Mmmm…
My favorite part of our visit was the sign on the door as we walked in:
Oh travel, new spots, and good food, you are my besties!
How are you taking care of yourself today?
#AlwaysLookingUp #EverydayAdventure #LifeUnstuck
*(You know what would be extra special and awesome? If you scrolled to the bottom page of this website and subscribed to my blog posts, so you can get them in your email inbox, that’s what. You know what else would be awesome? Ice cream for dinner. You can have it all! YAHTZEE! Treats left and right. Fantastic.)*
Before getting on an airplane yesterday morning:
…to a destination with warm sun and palm trees (yahoo!), and before knowing I’d be giving not one, but two free lap dances to that person in the middle seat who refused to actually get up and out for just a quick second so I could make it to my coveted window spot, I bought this book:
I’ve been eagerly waiting for this read. Jen Sincero is hilarious and I love her no bs writing style. Her last book made it to a favorites list that I posted about here back in the fall of 2015. I’ve managed to crank through a good amount of pages over the past 24 hours even though I’m still slightly disturbed about Middle Seat Molly not getting out of the way for me yesterday in flight. (You know what I’m talking about; Oh, ok. You’re not going to stand up, weirdo? Great. Awesome. Let me just desperately suck my whole body in as I best attempt to not touch any of my parts with your parts because there’s a whopping three inches to move in row 26. Thanks. I appreciate it. I hope you feel fabulous right now.)
Anyways.
My sweet little fine point Sharpie pen is off to the races:
I dig this book just as much as Jen’s last one. I recommend picking it up. Once again I’m slightly pissed at myself for not writing nearly as much as I want to, because I’m reading far too much lately I feel like I could’ve written myself.
Lessons for today?
1.) What the eff are you waiting for, again? (Yeah. That’s to both of us.)
2.) Take care of yourself before you attempt to take care of anyone else.
3.) If you have the middle seat, don’t act like there’s ever enough space for another human to scootch by. Get yo lazy ass up and let the people pass in peace.
HAPPY FRIDAY!
#LifeOnTheBlueLollipopRoad #TodayIsTheDay #ChangeIsGood
By “chase” I mean I walked out of a long day of being packed inside on a major downsizing project, saw this amazing looking sky, and drove toward it for a bit like an excited kid on a treasure hunt. What’s that they say about never losing your sense of wonder?
Always looking up…that’s how I stay unstuck.
Where do you find your magic?
#LessStuffMoreFreedomHappyLife #LifeOnTheBlueLollipopRoad #Sunset
I have a new client who’s stuck. He’s completely capable, experienced, smart, kind, aware, etc., but something hasn’t quite clicked for him for his next phase. It’s all good, it happens, and usually a few times in a life span, reminding us that it’s time to pivot. I have full faith in what he will do, so I challenged him to set a goal with a completion date of April 25th. Then I threw myself in the mix of the challenge. If you’re going to ask someone else to do something, you should put your own money where your mouth is, right?
I had an epic sleep last night (yes, I know that word is incredibly overused, but it fits here, so?) which is pretty rare for me. I woke up feeling like a million bucks. As I got dressed for my run, I set a pretty big tall order kind of intention for my day. (Don’t roll your eyes! That stuff works, people!) Let’s just say there was a little extra pep in my step and I ran like the wind. (Ok, now this is getting really cheesy.)
Anyway, after run snapshot, the power of Diggidy:
(Ask me about this old nickname sometime if you want a good story.)
I’m convinced if EVERYTHING you wear/have/own/do in your life actually has some kind of meaning, things just feel better and flow better. This includes ratty old running clothes from a gazillion years ago like this jersey from my 2004 marathon in Phoenix.
This life ain’t easy as we have established many times here. As much as it’s up to us as individuals to kick our own asses each day to make things happen, shouldn’t we perhaps stick on this team in training, together?
This is #1, K! 9 more to go for me by 2 weeks from today. Hope you’re cranking on your end!
#CarpeDiem #TodayIsTheDay #GetIt
Hey girl, hey! (Lynn, that opening is dedicated to you.) I’m HERE!
Whew. How do you peeps with fido’s and kiddos do it? I have no pets and no little nuggets to run after and my days still fly by like the Blue Angels in an Airshow.
Lately I’ve been at auditions for Dancing with the Stars, HELPING MY CLIENTS GET RID OF ALL THE CRAP IN THEIR LIVES THAT’S KEEPING THEM STUCK, and pretending that I’m a Barker’s Beauty at black tie gala events:
(Ok, only two of those are true. Did I mention I scored my dress for ten bucks? #LessSpendingMoreFreedomHappyLife, baby!)
Behind the scenes I’m always up to something when I disappear from here for more than a few days, so as usual, I appreciate your patience, your support, and you following along. If you continue to stay tuned, I promise to give a shout out thank you and I love you style in my book of life. The big kahuna is coming!
Happy Thursday.
#DanceTheNightAway #Celebrate #TodayIsTheDay
I’ve always been known as the “energetic” one. That “Boy if you could bottle that energy and sell it, you’d be a millionaire!” gal. That friend that “we just can’t keep up with.” I don’t feel like a freak of nature, but sometimes I have to remind myself that in fact I’m not, when I hear the constant barrage of:
“I’d love to hang out, but I know you can stay up all night.”
“Good lord, where did you come from? How do you have all that energy?!”
“I’m sure YOU don’t need sleep, but I do.”
Can’t a girl just be herself? It’s tough not to get a little insulted over here, when these “compliments” are regularly hurled at me. I have some very disappointing news:
I don’t stay up all night, I’m from a tiny town in Vermont, not space, I cannot explain how I have the energy I do (Mom, can you tell the people?), I actually need sleep like you, and no, I’m not a unicorn, Ewok, or other worldly being. I have shitty days. For instance, the other day I cried during a meeting with my accountant at Panera (yes, as in Panera Bread, in public), and it had nothing to do with finding out I’m not a billionaire. I already knew that and I don’t care. If you really want to know where the tears came from call me, (804.339.6514) I’ll share anything.
In an effort to solve the energy mystery right here, right now, after much reflection, I have come up this:
I CHOOSE TO CELEBRATE, PEOPLE. I AM JUST FREAKING CELEBRATING THAT I AM ALIVE.
Put that in your I’d rather stay miserable and quiet about it pipe and smoke it.
We’ve all been beaten into a life happens pulp. Do we need to recap on that again? So what do we do about it? Stay in the drone zone, or wrap our wounds with whatever we’ve got left, own and accept our crap, and drag our asses out of bed everyday in the never ending search for those few last tiny beautiful things that are left?
I refuse to wait for a weekend or big event to wear my sassy shoes:
(This photo was taken on a Tuesday after stopping into my friends office to have coffee. I think that’s all I got dressed for that day.)
…I don’t say no to invitations to road trip to beautiful places with good friends:
…I don’t save treats for only special occasions:
…I always play like a kid and jump for joy at sunset:
…and while things are often better shared with good company, (and oh my do I love a lot of humans!) If it’s 86 degrees on a random Tuesday in March like this week, I’m not afraid to sit outside at a picnic table to enjoy an after work beer in the warm and sunshine, alone:
I don’t have too much energy. I JUST ALLOW MYSELF TO BE ALIVE BECAUSE I AM, and I fully plan to continue celebrating the bleep out of this life while I have it.
I’ve never asked anyone to be like me and I would never dare. You do you, dudes and gals, quiet, loud, whatever you are…I accept all of you! You’re always invited to my party over here, but if this sparkly blue lollipop is “too much” for you, please walk on. I’m only interested in those fellow tribe members who might roll their eyes or shake and scratch their heads a little, but simultaneously are thrilled about getting smothered in glittery, energetic, life-celebrating love as we run down this steep, wondrous, rocky road together.
I’m off to my Friday morning dance party. I’ll see you and Beyonce in the soul train line…
#ShineBright #TodayIsTheDay #LessMiseryMoreLaughsHappyLife
*(This post is dedicated to everyone in my tribe (I LOVE YOU GUYS, you know who you are, but particularly Maria, Brandy, Leslie, Katie, Sam, Joe, and Grapa. I will forever be inspired to keep smiling and dancing because of you.)*