I’m leaving in 20 min to fly to LA to spend 3 weeks driving up and down the Baja California peninsula with my husband. I will write again if I can but if I can’t, I wish you the best while I take this pause…

[tweetmeme] Last week I attended a 3-day coaching training program at Integral Coaching Canada. I’d never had any coaching training before and I felt it was important for my Self and my business to have my foundations built in a school of knowledge.

There are many coaching schools in Canada, and throughout the world, but when I learned there was a coaching school based on Ken Wilbur’s Integral Theory AND run by the Integral Institute, AND that it was in Canada, AND 4 hours away in Ottawa, I knew it was the place for me.

Integral Theory encompasses and expands on the Cultural Creative wordview. It is a holistic model, “a theory of everything” that outlines and explains the perspectives or lens through which every human sees and understands the world.

[tweetmeme] I’m writing my first book. It’s about my experiences and learning letting my customers determine the price they pay for my work.

I’ve been pricing this way for over a year and a half. I’ve been thinking about writing this book for over a year and three-quarters. I’ve been writing it for over six months.

It’s painful. I’m procrastinating.

I’ve barely written anything, and what I did write, I’m not feeling good about.

Every day, I ask myself, will you write some of it today? Each day, I don’t.

I haven’t since July.

God gave us fingers–Ma says, “Use your fork.”
God gave us voices–Ma says, “Don’t scream.”
Ma says eat broccoli, cereal and carrots.
But God gave us tasteys for maple ice cream.

God gave us fingers–Ma says, “Use your hanky.”

[tweetmeme]I don’t need to be so serious about it.

Play.

It’s exciting to fool around.

Making love isn’t about making a baby.

It’s about the sensuality of the process.

The play of ideas.

Striving for some Thing more, some Thing different,

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Me, as a creative being.

I can’t pinpoint where or when I made the decision,

but at some point I decided – THAT part of me – the very soul of me, is

safer being hidden and ignored.

If I don’t share it, I can never be hurt or disappointed by it.

It can never be held up as no good,

and I will never know I am no-talent.

If I don’t recognize it, I can be sure to stay in a place where no one else does either.

I wonder why I don’t just…

shut up and stop worrying?

I know everything will work out, I know I am on My Path. I can feel it, I can feel Him.

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photo credit: rachel_titiriga

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I’m celebrating Elastic Mind’s birthday, except I just discovered it was yesterday…

I just wrote this article thinking today was Elastic Mind’s special day and while adding a hyperlink, I discovered it was actually yesterday. I’m celebrating today regardless.

I wasn’t sure if 2 years in business was an anniversary or a birthday. I like birthday for Elastic Mind. I feel like I carried and birthed this bad boy.

Opportunities are an outcome of Innerpreneurship — Innerpreneurship is not an outcome of opportunities.

Two years ago today yesterday I published Are You An Innerpreneur? and, in my mind, I officially launched my business. A month earlier, I had left my corporate marketing job with only my passion as security.