Morning Meds, Day 6

Morning Meds

My Family's Video Accountability

Morning Meds, Day 5

A Review of My Clients

After each 12 week session I ask my clients for a review, both for marketing purposes and to learn. In fact, I've referred to my clients as my teachers several times and it's too true. I thought you might enjoy my reviews of them. Consider it My chocolate-covered thank you just in time for Valentine's Day.

MH-- my first client with traditional SMART goals, measurable and authentic. I learned from you. .. what I do actually works!!!

VH-- Having measurable goals is preferable, but what fun we had splashing around in the pool of learning figuring that out, laughing and rejoicing in our ignorance and seemingly pointless conversations, from which I always walked away happier than before the phone rang.

SD-- Now I know why we shout "Surprise!" at some parties. Unexpected moments are such a gift. .. like when you cried and I so didn't see it coming. Really, I could never see you coming. Keeping me off balance made me stronger and more limber.

MS--I know we're not done quite yet, but I want you to know you taught me how to listen. I thought I knew, but you taught me better. Very fitting because you yourself are an excellent listener.

SK-- You were the first one who saw in me what I see. Some of the most beautiful words in the universe right?  "I see you." Thank you.

DS-- What can I say? From you I've learned mercy because I've been where you've been. I've also learned real plutonic love between a man and a woman. Thank you for showing me that was possible.

Thank you all for reading my meds. May you concentrate more this week on who you are loving than who's loving you.

Morning Meds, Day 4

Upper Level ... "Stuff"

I was able to attach here my second favorite scene from Men In Black, since YouTube doesn't seem to have my first favorite, which took place, I believe, right before this one.  In it Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones' characters are riding in the elevator of headquarters for the first time, and Will Smith's character surmises astutely, "There's some upper level *!?/ going on here." That's probably my favorite movie line ever, depending on when you ask me, but at anytime it would be in my top 5.  There are things beyond the surface of this life, stuff you're not going to see unless you scratch the surface or dig a little.

And that's what the scene I have included is about. It's about how being a digger, separates you from people who want to believe that everything they need to know is served up to them conveniently, with dinner, on the 6 o'clock news.  Today I'm here to say, sometimes it is, and sometimes it isn't. Sometimes even the things that make the news aren't heavily publicized, so I'm giving some pub today to a company that I believe in and some info I think you need to know. With the movie clip everything would take you about 8 min. of your life to watch, and I respect every second.  Let me know if you'd like more information

...This message will self destruct in 5..4..3... (I always wanted to say that!)

Will Smith joins a network marketing company...JK!!

ABC Investigates Protandim

Morning Meds, Day 3

Congratulations...You're an author!

So guess what I found out last week Thursday? I'm writing a book...Yeah, seriously! Actually, I knew that, but I didn't know I was writing it now! But yep, I am. I've been taking notes for it for awhile but just this morning in fact, have started on the chapters, so here's the (first draft of the) introduction...thought you might enjoy it.
                                                               
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I consider self-knowledge, self-revelation and self-discovery to be among the most elegant of arts. I wholly agree with the maxim, "You can never get to where you're going, until you know where you are."

I intend to go somewhere...and, with your consent, take you with me! So where shall we go?

How about to a land flowing with milk and honey...a land of promises--grapes the size of golf balls and watermelons the size of car tires!!!

And why must we go together? Because of the giants the size of warring angels (Yeah, I think we'll bring them too!)
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Hey, it's a start, right? You don't like it? Go right your own book! No really, start today! We all have something to say ;0)

P.S. There's still time to sign up for my tele-conference starting Wed. Me and the crew (those who have signed up already) would love to have you!

Morning Meds, Day 2

Unlike the weather, seasons are determined by revelation. If you change your wisdom, you will change your life. And wisdom is quite different that information or intelligence, wisdom is its proper application. I was taught this by Mike Murdoch and now it’s being proven daily in my life and my client’s lives (where frankly, I can see it more clearly than in my own.)

So I saw this video yesterday (thanks Temwa Phiri), and it’s an awesome compilation of information that began a head-on collision with a fear that was uncovered by spending some time in visioning my future.  (Thanks LeeAnne Piano for challenging me to spend ten minutes a day picturing my intentions coming to pass). The funny thing about this fear, was that you’d think I’d be over this by now. I think I’ve been on the fast track in healing from my divorce (it’s only been since April), but when you’re just so glad that someone’s out of your life, there are things you don’t consider.

I’m opening myself up to love again and in this visioning I’m picturing being told things I’ve been told before and I’m thinking…hmm…the last person lied and I’m supposed to believe you because…and I get stuck. And I see now how people get stuck and don’t want to love again. So instead of applying this video to business, which I don’t need to do, or family or finances, which I don’t need to do, I applied it to love and trust.  Now that’s wisdom. And I feel icicles melting in my heart, and I’m getting ready to put on my spiritual bikini…because the sun’s coming out. A season is changing.

What do you need to apply message this to? Not sure? Watch it once, then…watch again.

Why Do We Fall

Morning Meds, Day 1

Morning Meds

The unspeakable

Jack Nicholson was right in A Few Good Men. .. there's stuff you just can't talk about openly. Sometimes, I just want to share my true heart about something, mostly because I've seen how my sharing and opening up has helped my coaching clients; but there are certain topics and experiences that don't bless people until you are on the other side of them. How do you hold those things in when you're a person that learns best by talking to others? And even if that's not you, how do you deal with the unspeakable, when others,  "Just can't handle the truth?"

In thinking about this idea this morning I knew that this is why the phrase "Try God" came into existence. This is where a Higher Power idea becomes very practical. In these situations where you can't work this out with another & you don't have the Wisdom even in your own spirit to solve it. In this morning meditation I remind you of a third option that I experienced in a Triune way--

Authority from God the Father
Execution from God the Son and
Follow through from God the Holy Spirit.

This concept came from my pastor at last night's New Year's Eve service, but they just encapsulated the experience of my heart this past year.

And Happy New Year From the corner of Felicity and Ta-Tanisha. .. May you turn many exciting corners yourself this year... And may we experience God in the way He desires to be known and in a way that we deeply need. 

2014

Intentionally Spectacular

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Transition-formation: The Journey from Actor/Coach to Life Coach in No Easy Steps

I received a BIG revelation during my run this morning with my ever-present Life Coach, the Holy Spirit. I’m so blessed by my new career. I feel like the writer who encourages single people, “One day you’ll meet someone and understand why it never worked out before.” This big leap into a profession, in which I stand with others in support of them reaching their goals, has given me more fulfillment than I could have anticipated.

But what’s up with the acting? As I said, this new career made it make sense as to why the old career never took off more. So my heart is leaving the profession. It’s more of a hardship to face my gigs. I no longer want to be a character. I want to be myself! Was I hiding in that career? Was it a part of my very deep battle with insecurity?

Then the answer came during my runner’s high. I remember watching TV, movies, plays—watching acting happen––and thinking, “I want to move people like that.” I want to be a part of that unique learning that can happen when we suspend our disbelief as an audience, create the fourth wall, and make-believe.

The only problem, and it’s a biggie, is that I sucked! By the time I realized that this was what I wanted to be good at, I was in high school––and insecurity was ravaging. I did have a lifeline, though: public speaking. Along with my drill-sergeant coach, Mrs. Hingst, I became quite good, consistently one of the top performers in speech team. But the acting world in high school I could not break in to.  We were a highly competitive school district with incredible actors like LaKeith Hoskins, Daveda Russell, and Jacques Smith (still acting today).  However, I was inspired, and I kept hanging around the theater. So, they made me assistant director and that’s where my “acting lessons” began, as I studied these gifted artists at every rehearsal, every performance.

I got better. I took an acting class in college, became a director (seemed a natural progression) and dared to cast myself in my senior thesis production. And this message I carried to my acting students in the last six years: “You don’t have to be ‘born with it.’ You can get it by sheer desire and study.” It was a message of hope, particularly to those who actually started with some skills. And in this business, 80 percent of my clients who wanted an acting career ended up working professionally.

So, how is it over? How is it I’m not even interested? It’s just incredible to me that I was able to draw into my story a journey, just because of interest. I thank God for giving me access to those talents that I’m not sure I was ever meant to possess. And it’s a cool message, to think you can be whoever you want to be. But may I humbly suggest that you never give up on who you were meant to be. God knew what He was doing when He made you.

In my life I now move people emotionally and, in their lives, to a greater possession of their authentic selves. This is what I always wanted to do.  I just hadn’t found it yet. But when this student was ready, the classroom was built around me.