The new realities of Covid-19 are waking us all up with anxieties about how our lives will change.  Some of us will be dealing with sick loved ones or even a personal illness, while others will be dealing with distance learning for their kids and trying to manage jobs or build businesses at the same time.  Still, others will be cancelling travel or losing businesses or jobs and trying to figure out how to cope and what comes next.

One thing is for sure...none of this is going to be easy.

But the upside is...that there might never be a better time to make the big changes in your life that you've been craving.  Resiliency is a key marker of success for anyone building a business on a dream.  Some of us possess it and some of us don't.  If you don't, use this as a time to build it.  If you do, amplify it.  A key component of resiliency is being able to see possibility everywhere, even in the midst of fear.  One thing that might help build your resilience is to figure out ways you can pivot your life to fully take full advantage of the new normal.  What are some ways you can mold your life to become a seamless partner to your new reality?  

Some ideas:

• Challenge yourself to design an enviable home office using nothing, but what you already have
• Take this time to develop a mindfulness practice and up level your emotional health
• Learn how to cook so you can finally start eating those healthy meals you've been dying to try
• Give yourself in service to others...know how to sew?  Make masks for front line workers!  Resourceful?  Reach out to your personal community and see if anyone needs anything or what is keeping them up at night and then find solutions for them or information that might ease their minds.
• Have an elderly neighbor?  Offer to order their groceries on line for them or pick them up personally if you feel comfortable.

There are many ways you can find to take your mind off of things, to build your resilience and start living the new normal.

First and foremost though, be safe!


Photo by Matt Walshon Unsplash

We're only slightly into 2017.  If you're like me, your "holidaze" is hopefully wearing off by now and you're ready to take on a new year.  :-)  
You may or may not have written resolutions.  
You may or may not have chosen your "word" for the year.
No judgement whether you have or have not.  

What you can do, though, no matter where you are right now is determine to live within your own brilliance.  
To let all of your colors show.  
To be who you really are, unapologetically.

How it works?

Simple!

• Set the intent before you go to bed tonight.
• Sleep on it.
• Wake up tomorrow and resolve to do at least one thing exactly how you would like to do it and with your own YOUniqueness infused into it.  
• Analyze the experience.
• Gain from the positive and learn from the negative.
• Resolve to do it again.  And again.  And AGAIN...only bigger.

See?  Simple.  

Every journey towards doing your own thing in your own way starts with the determination to be who you really are and do what you really want.  No easy task in a world that is constantly asking you to fit into pre-determined boundaries and do things the way they've always been done.  If you want to break past those confines, it going to take practice and patience, intention and tenacity.

But...you'll love it.

I recently finished the book Wild by Cheryl Strayed and was incredibly moved by it.  The brutal honesty, the visceral descriptions of emotion, the amazing challenge she put herself through in an attempt to eradicate her demons.  

One of my fave quotes from the book is as follows:

“It was my life—like all lives, mysterious and irrevocable and sacred. So very close, so very present, so very belonging to me.  How wild it was, to let it be.” 

To me this really means we must own our own lives no matter how wonderful, painful, messed up, glorious or not.  warts and all.  And know that it IS sacred.  And that it belongs only to us, no matter what it seems like.  There is such power in this.  


When pursuing your dreams, deciding on a course of accepting yourself and your life as it is and using all of your many talents and everything that has brought you 
here...
to this moment...
in this time...
in the place...
to its fullest potential, has this AMAZING ability to empower you to great heights.

Is this your year?  I hope so.  I'm here if you need me.

prompt:  answer this -- what makes you, Y-O-U?  Be as specific as possible.  And share with us here.  :-)


**photo courtesy Aundre Larrow, Snapwire, under Creative Commons

COMING SOON!!!