trust the process

The First and the Last: Always the Most Challenging.

The First and the Last: Always the Most Challenging.
Downtown, Plymouth, WI

Good Monday Morning. Friends, (err, I see it is really afternoon as I glance at my computer clock!)

Just an update as to why I’ve not posted much lately to my blog. I’ve been working on updating my manuscript, Wisdom Found in the Pause – Joie’s Gift with the edits made by my editor.

And this morning I was oh, so close! But then my mouse died.  I’d rather do my edits with a mouse and as much as I could have let this deter me, I didn’t. I wanted it done, and by-golly, I did it. Happy dance here!

Then I ran to Wal-mart and bought a new mouse. He’s sweet and cute… and best of all, he will keep me to the task of finishing this book.  Thank you, dear, little gray and black mouse called Logitech.

It felt good to walk away from the screen and I’d hoped the right words would find me for the last sentence of my book as I drove the eight miles to town – the ones that will make me feel like it is complete.

But I’m stuck again. My challenge in writing any book is usually the first line, and especially the last…. I want to leave the best overall feeling and impression that I can. So it’s one I’m marinating in right now – working and re-working it – until I feel that magical “aha!” that is it – of which hasn’t occurred yet – and I’m hoping it comes soon.  But goodness knows I must remind myself once again to TRUST THE PROCESS -which means sometimes you have to distract yourself momentarily which I’m doing right now by writing this post.

All I have yet to do then is write the Afterward and back to my editor it goes for a final proofread. I’ve given myself a deadline to have the Afterward written by the end of Wednesday. Because then, my friends, I will be immersing myself in a birthday celebration. Thursday lunch with my mom, Saturday movie and pizza with my Prince Charming (my friend Miss Marie calls John this all the time!), then sleepover on my birthday, on Monday at my birthday buddy, Victoria’s house (yup, we share the same birthday!), shopping and lunch with her the next day, and Friday I wrap up my week long celebration with lunch with my dad.

So see why I set this deadline?  I’m feeling oh-so ready to not only whoop up in celebration of my impending 53rd year on this planet but to also celebrate another milestone in my life with this book almost complete.

Okay, back to marinating in words!  Stay tuned….

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Trust the Process

Trust the Process

One thing I share and stress when I teach my SoulCollage(r) workshops is to “trust the process.”

This was something that was talked about often when I went for my facilitator training in November 2014. It resonates with me on many levels.

We can so often get caught up in the idea of how something should or shouldn’t be done– often times buying into what one guru or another says. I’m not saying the gurus are wrong and that they don’t have a place — because they do.  But I think it’s just that we’ve forgotten a gift we all have – and that is to trust our own process – no matter what it is you do or who you are.

I know for me, I find myself gravitating more and more to this space of what feels right for me in several different areas of my life.

I want my life to flow in alignment of what feels right in my heart and body. I want to be in a place of trusting even more what my inner voice tells me.

And when I pay attention to my first thoughts or how my body reacts to certain things, I’m learning to be in more awareness of it and trust it.

And they say you teach what you also most need to learn, so it’s why I wanted a reminder of trusting my own process and to also encourage this in others that attend my workshops.

So when I came across an idea, similar to the painting I did above, I knew I wanted this as a reminder not only to myself but to those that attend my workshops in my Joyful Pause Studio.

How much struggle and disappointments I wonder we would avoid if we learned to tune in much more to our own process.

So I share these thoughts with you today, and my new painting, as a sweet reminder that listening to your heart is one of the wisest things you can do to live a life full of meaning that is exactly right for you.

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Summer Sun and Fun and Trusting the Process

Summer Sun and Fun and Trusting the Process
Smart Gidget taking cover from the sun.

July. My favorite month of the year! And ah, yes, I must confess—it perhaps just might have something to do with the fact it is the month of my birthday, too.

But this month always seems to call out to my soul to kick back somewhat, let go of so many “to-dos” and savor the glory of being more.

As I walked into town the other morning, Gidget rolling along in the stroller, I felt like I was floating on clouds— and I found myself feeling so grateful for this small town I live in.

I thought about how we plan to leave here someday when we reach closer to our mid-60s – head for somewhere that is warmer all year long.

And my heart ached for just a moment at the thought. I don’t know if I can leave here. This place I’ve called home for almost 30-years.

But life has a way of working out I just as quickly reminded myself. No need to feel bittersweet or rush ahead in my mind to unknowns.

Time will move along and before I know it, everything will fall into place just as it is meant to be.

My job for now….to let life unfold and trust the process.