Today's Mantra

SIMPLIFY, PRIORITIZE AND ORGANIZE

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Open Heart, Open Mind.

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Give it an honest effort.

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Simplicity. Peace. Integrity. Community. Equality.

(A Quaker SPICE mantra)

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Thoughts on Intention

from Lillian Benrubi, MSW

(Radical Self Love)

… Your “path has to be aligned with your intention.

We get lost sometimes, distracted by a road here and a road there. And that’s ok.

So today......what is your intention?  An exercise that worked for me years ago in a 7 month intensive program, with an accountability partner, was to set our intentions for the day, not only and sometimes not even in our actions, but in our “being”.  So it sounded like this......today my intention is to be patient, understanding, curious.....or today my intention is to be engaged, excited, and in humor....or today my intention is being grounded in myself, connected to myself, authentic.

The “intention” here is to set the tone, to feel the feeling of the "beingness" you are creating for the day, and to step into it.  It may last all day, it may last 2 minutes.  Just keep recreating the intention.  There were failures of course, but we just got up, wiped off the dirt and started over.  And whenever there was a pattern on not fulfilling on our intention, a block that prevented us from being in our intention, we reached out for coaching.  We arrived, closer and closer, each time, to the core of ourselves, to being in what we created, to the power of our ability to create whatever reality that resonated with us.

Don’t give up, don’t give in.....don’t even fight.....just believe in yourself enough to get up and start over, even if it means you need some extra minutes on the ground to care for the sores and bruises.....so that you can go on.”

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The Simple Writing Exercise Olympian Triathelete Gwen Jorgensen Uses To Succeed

"Every day I write down three things I do well and three things I can improve upon. Looking back at those three things I did well every day is something that can bring me confidence leading into a race." // This is a modified daily practice that is done with the The Five Minute Journal - https://www.facebook.com/FiveMinuteJournal