Listening To My Life

I'm listening

Still here? Wouldn't exactly blame you if you weren't. I've not been here myself for more than three months, and in the blogging world, that's pretty crappy.

Realizing how long it had been since I posted, sitting with it, and really listening to my life, I realized that I've moved beyond this blog. And that's really ok--the deep knowing is good, peaceful, and, right.

In fact, what's been happening is I've been reinventing (as mentioned here). My work--in fact my whole entire life--has become focused on one thing: love, and all the ways that it manifests itself. To that end, some things have powerfully shifted in my world--whether having to do with how I charge for my coaching services (love offerings), that my work is my way of loving others in a business context, that I'm writing my first book--about conscious marriage, or that I'm doing a lot of blogging and thinking about love. It's really why I'm here...in fact, the whole of why I'm here.

So it's no surprise that my new(est) blog, Love Lavishly is all about things I find in the world that are loving in some way. If you'd like to join that party, I'd welcome you. It's hosted on Tumblr, which is a new journey in, and of, itself.

Yep...after three years, it's time to close this particular blogging chapter in my life. Thank you, every single one of you, who has stopped by to visit, offer support, follow my weight-loss journey (currently down 140 lbs!), laugh or cry with me. You're precious, I love you, and I'm grateful. Beyond grateful, really.

I'll leave this up for a time; many of you have told me that you've shared parts of my journey with friends who have found something here helpful. I'd hate to take this away; if even one person benefits, letting it just be is a good idea.

And I'll leave you with this...if anything I've shared resonates at all with you, come find me, somewhere, anywhere.  I hope to see you.... :)

 

The last of the 30 Day Projects

 
December's theme is 31 Days of Wishes. I'm excited and happy to be doing it. And although bittersweet, I'm happy to have decided that this, my 14th month of 30 Day Projects, will be the last. 

If you've played along with any of the themes, I thank you for joining in and adding to the goodness. And if you haven't, there's still time to do wishes!

Wondering how they do it

In the six-ish weeks since I last posted, lots has happened in my world to cause it to turn pretty much upside down--at least professionally. Personally, things couldn't be more serene, and I'm loving that.

But professionally, it's all akimbo. That's not a bad thing, exactly...but it is, for lack of a better adjective, disruptive to my otherwise serene life.

I'm reinventing again--something I've done several times before. It's not scary, it's not even especially difficult. It's just a lot of work, with most of that work being internal and exploratory in nature.

As I've been thinking about what I want to do, "multifarious entrepreneur" seems apt, as I want to do a variety of things. But I don't think that's something people buy.

I don't for a moment wonder why people become "The ______ (fill in the blank with a noun) diva," or "queen." It's far easier to promote yourself if you have one thing on which to hang your hat.

And I guess that, for the most part, for the past 14 years I've been some version of that with regard to Virtual Assistance. But it's never been the whole of me. At the very least I've also written and coached. Sometimes I've consulted, too. And led retreats. And taught. And this past year, I did all of that plus interviews, 30 Day Projects, and another five or ten things.

And why? Because I'd become mind-numbingly bored and lazy if I hung my hat on one thing and put all of my time, energy, and focus in that.

I read their blogs, those queens and divas, and I honestly don't know how they talk about their one thing, all day, every day, for years and years without growing tired of it, or simply running out of things to say. I run out of things to say all the time.

So, yeah, I wonder how they do it. And I wonder if I'd do it if I could. I'm not so sure I would. Would you?