To my cherished reader,
Thank you for being you. You are such a gift. I am so very grateful for your love and support. May you give and receive so much love this holiday season.
I wish you a wonderfully joyful and peaceful end to 2012. May you be surrounded and cherished by the people you love.
ho ho ho love you love you love you,
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I’m excited to share my fourth creation in the nutshell series, clarifying my website strategy!
I’ve created this exercise to support you in clearly identifying why you are building your website and who it will serve.
The workbook is 31 pages and includes 15 probing questions to expanding your thinking on your web presence. Here’s a peek at what you’ll explore:
made with love for you,
Other workbooks currently in the nutshell series are exploring brand me, developing my communication strategy and defining my market niche. Each book focuses on a specific aspect of your marketing communications and provides guidance on discovering and designing sustainable strategies that are uniquely right for you and your business.
I’ve been thinking a lot lately on what it means to grow up. Perhaps this is because I am now in my early 30’s, and I feel this is a time in my life where I am learning to let go of childish behaviors, while still maintaining my childlike wonder.
This is my theory on what growing up is all about – learning to love, manage and keep your stuff in your box.
For me growing up is about learning to care for and love your box (your Self) and all the crazy beautiful stuff you find inside of it. It’s also about learning that you do not need, nor want, to take on other people’s stuff and put it into your box. That’s their stuff to care for and your box is already full with your stuff. Your box is enough.
Equally being responsible for your stuff also means learning to not take your stuff and try and put it into another person’s box. It is not theirs to deal with.
I see the beauty of growing up is in understanding that each of us is wholly responsible for our box and what we do with the stuff inside it. Love it, hate it, ignore it, it’s your choice and your responsibility.
To truly grow up is to learn to stand shoulder to shoulder in acceptance with another box and stay true to your own journey with your stuff while being supportive of theirs.
photo credit: Steven Snodgrass
They can just be blocks or they can be used as a resource to build from.
How do you see the building blocks in your life? Are they tools for your growth, or are they barriers?
You get to choose how you perceive and handle life’s conflicts, setbacks and challenges.
photo credit: stevendepolo
Everyone around me is a character.
I can experience the characters of my world in the same way I experience characters in fiction. I can care for them, perhaps even love them, but in the end, I can only be a watcher of their story. I am a viewer of their narrative, their plot line, and the archetypes they have chosen to embrace and act out.
The only character within my power is my own.
I do not have to allow anything or anyone outside of me to dictate my reality. I have a choice as to what character I play, and the type of story I reside in. I get to create this. In my story, I get to be in choice, deciding who I want to be and what I want to do, but like when I am watching TV or reading a book, the other characters that live in my story are not mine to control. I only get to decide what the hero does, I only get to decide what I do.
I am the hero of this story.
This means I do not need to be saved, nor do I need to save anyone else. For each and every character has the chance and the choice to be the hero of their story.
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