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Making it a point to seek out moments of joy is one of the best ways to find them.
Lives we love don’t design themselves - we need to be active participants in calling them forth and piecing them together. If there is something about your life that you don’t love, you can change it or change the way you think about it. Either way, the power lies squarely in your hands. I had a tough day yesterday.
An unexpected, unsettling exchange with someone I had considered a friend took the wind out of my sails and triggered a whole emotional avalanche, showing me I clearly have a lot of healing left to do. I wish I’d been able to say, “Oh, I see, good luck with that,” and go about my day. You know, let their issue just be their issue. But I didn’t do that. Look What's Been Published! It happened a bit earlier than expected. I was aiming for early May, but on the morning of April 22, I hopped onto Amazon to create my Author Profile, a task my publisher had given me, and boom!
There she was, in all her "Available Now" glory. After a quick back-and-forth with my publisher, who said it was likely a self-correcting glitch that would revert to "pre-order" status soon, I decided to roll with it. We all know I'm a sucker for signs from the Universe, and this felt like a big one for a few different reasons. I'm a big fan of making a Vision Board to start a new year. I find it sets a fresh tone and helps to shake off any residual negativity from the past twelve months.
I made my very first one in 2006, the year I lived in Hawaii. I'd been collaging as a creative outlet since childhood but hadn't thought to focus the craft in an intentional way around manifesting my desires until the dots were connected for me on a rare cloudy day in Kona, when I accepted an invitation to cut up magazines and glue the findings haphazardly onto a piece of poster board with four other women, only one of whom I knew, and she only vaguely. This is my board from that year: |
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