“A best friend is a person who you value above other friends in your life, someone you have fun with, someone you trust and someone in whom you confide.” Best friends see you at your worst and your best.

Have you ever thought about setting a goal for yourself and suddenly an hour later, you have several new goals you’d like to reach by tomorrow? Start small and don’t try to do them all at once.

The celebration was around what we dream for our own life. We are creating and writing our story every minute of every day whether we realize it or not. We wrote down how we wanted our life to look, including what we wanted, how we wanted to feel, our experiences, and relationships. A guide for us to use and live by.

The very first exercise, she lead was described as a character sketch. A personal journaling story while examining our own house. She continued to explain that the house represented our personality and our life. A character sketch of ourself from an observer’s perspective and getting to know ourselves in a more intimate way.

I was wrong! Flat-out, there ain’t nothing restorative about these yoga classes, wrong. They were filled with planks, downward dogs, high leg flow series, and twisty-pretzel-like moves while sitting on blocks. After class, my friend and I were excited about getting into the spa hot tub for a relaxing soak.

If you currently go to yoga or an exercise class, people usually have a specific spot they migrate toward each week. As I walked in the door and inquired which spot I could use, my yoga instructor ticked off the people in her head and it happened to be, my normal spot was usually empty. WOW…..”OK, it’s meant to be,” I announced.

The good news is you don’t just get one wish or three wishes, you get as many as you can dream, create, activate and nurture. Wishes don’t just happen, you need a vision and desire to manifest them. You can use prayer, thought, meditation, journaling, or creating a vision board to put your request out into the universe. Then take the necessary steps in making them come true.

At the beginning of a new year many people make goals and set intentions for the following 12 months, and until recently I hadn’t really thought about the difference between them. Goals are something to work towards. You see something in the future and you make a goal to work towards having it. It also implies you don’t have what you want yet which implies distance. Setting intentions is as if you already have something, and being receptive to allowing it to come.

I’m choosing my life story of 2020 to reflect my second perspective; one of purpose and growth. Moving forward and not looking back. Fighting the dark forces that try to pull me down. I’m standing up for the kindness, and light people are sharing, that’s part of a bigger love story. A love story that weaves into every corner of the world. You are a beautiful soul with a beautiful story.

The good news is we now have the advantage of experience and time. We’re learning how to navigate and adjust to a new normal.

The question to myself, you and the world at large is, “Are you ready for today?” If today is really all that matters, how do you want to show up? How do you want to show up for yourself and how do you want to show up for others if today was all you had? What a powerful thought.

It’s the judge within our being that beats us up and fills our head with negative thoughts, and bullies us into self-sabotaging our decisions and choices. She’s also a pro at making us feel inferior to others. A confident and smart women can go from ten to zero in an instant if you let the inner mean girl win.

What’s one action you can take before the end of the year that gets you closer to a dream? It can be a big ol’ leap or just a wee baby step. Just something to cause a spark; a spark you’ve been rolling around in that noggin of yours and are afraid to light. Now is the time! Be brave, be bold and say, “Yes” to you! Yes to your life!

Did you know that the Universe is always working on our behalf? It’s true! We often think we are alone on the journey doing all the heavy work, but the Universe is placing moments, people, opportunities or events in our path that changes the direction of the journey. These meaningful coincidences strung together are referred to as synchronicity.

In the first exercise we were asked to rest the critical part of our mind as well as block any sadness in childhood and look into the face of the child and see the beautiful, resilient and unchanging essence of our wise self. If we were unable to visualize a happy memory, we were to create a new positive visualization. The purpose of the exercise was in remembering who we are and to fall in love with ourselves again.

I’ll admit, I’ve been practicing gratitude on a regular basis for several years, but didn’t think it was anything out of the ordinary, when she told me just the opposite. Again …. WHAT? ME? She replied, “You.” OK, tell us more.

How often do you take the time to REALLY tune into your environment? I mean put everything aside and just listen to life? All the sights and sounds of life that normally get completely missed. Even though I’m constantly working on being in the here and now, it doesn’t always happen.

Last week I had quite the experience ….. several days of procrastination and fear. Fear of something that sounded rather ridiculous, albeit real. So ridiculous I’m rather embarrassed to bust myself out, but I’m guessing many can relate. Let me start at the beginning of my story which began a week ago, Tuesday.