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Best of ’09 is a series of posts inspired by Gwen Bell’s The Best of 09 Blog Challenge. It’s a challenge designed to help me write more and rediscover more grateful moments in my 2009! Hopefully, 31 posts in 31 days ;)
So I got a little behind, which is perfectly OK. I knew when I started this adventure it wouldn’t be perfect. Perfect isn’t the goal. Writing is. So here’s my Mashup of the last few days I’ve missed. Short and sweet.
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Best of ’09 is a series of posts inspired by Gwen Bell’s The Best of 09 Blog Challenge. It’s a challenge designed to help me write more and rediscover more grateful moments in my 2009! Hopefully, 31 posts in 31 days ;)
Word or phrase. A word that encapsulates your year.
2009 was Truthful.
This year I told myself the truth more often. I told others the truth more often. Which, if you know me, wouldn’t be a huge surprise. It’s easy to say some truths. But there are some truths we need to say that make our voices shake and our self-doubt run wild.
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Best of ’09 is a series of posts inspired by Gwen Bell’s The Best of 09 Blog Challenge. It’s a challenge designed to help me write more and rediscover more grateful moments in my 2009! Hopefully, 31 posts in 31 days ;)
Best packaging. Did your headphones come in a sweet case? See a bottle of tea in another country that stood off the shelves?
I’ve been hanging out on fellow challenger blogs reading about packaging.
Yawn.
I guess it’s just not a natural thing for me to consider the package of something. I guess in the end, it’s not the package I’m interested in.
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Best of ’09 is a series of posts inspired by Gwen Bell’s The Best of 09 Blog Challenge. It’s a challenge designed to help me write more and rediscover more grateful moments in my 2009! Hopefully, 31 posts in 31 days ;)
Challenge. Something that really made you grow this year. That made you go to your edge and then some. What made it the best challenge of the year for you?
Not too impossible to guess. That is, if you flatter me with your presence here at my blog. I wrote about it in a post called Rope Swings and Avalanches. Not too long ago actually. And I knew I’d probably be writing about it again.
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Best of ’09 is a series of posts inspired by Gwen Bell’s The Best of 09 Blog Challenge. It’s a challenge designed to help me write more and rediscover more grateful moments in my 2009! Hopefully, 31 posts in 31 days ;)
Did you have a night out with friends or a loved one that rocked your world? Who was there? What was the highlight of the night?
This prompt was challenging. It also landed on a Saturday. So curious to me, how the pace of life dramatically changes on the weekends.
Anyway, I asked my girlfriend Andrea, “What did we do?” She unknowingly also joined Gwen’s challenge when I did ::: grins :::
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Best of ’09 is a series of posts inspired by Gwen Bell’s The Best of 09 Blog Challenge. It’s a challenge designed to help me write more and rediscover more grateful moments in my 2009! Hopefully, 31 posts in 31 days ;)
Ok today’s is short and sweet. This topic’s idea didn’t spring to mind like the last two did. Which is ok.
Afterall, Gwen has given us a ton of freedom in this wonderful writing adventure called The Best of 09 Blog Challenge.
So I thought about what had impacted me over the year. In a way where I revisted it several times. And I wracked my brain… article, article, article. And nothing. Because well, I read a lot.
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“If we were REALLY being authentic, we’d admit it hurts like hell.”
In Naomi Dunford’s latest post, she talks about how we (try to) filter our authenticity through ‘only the feel good’ stuff (which isn’t real authenticity at all) and the high cost of being truly authentic when you’re ittybiz’in it.
That last line is what did it for me. I (have finally) found my permission. Not from Naomi but in her demonstration and willingness to take the risk of showing her pain.
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To create change on this beautiful planet of ours nothing will happen unless we change our idea of what it is to be a warrior. ~ @DelphicWave
Yesterday, I had a conversation with one of my favorite real-life warriors, Charlie Gilkey. Besides fighting for our American freedoms abroad, he’s a coach. And a friend.
I can always count on Charlie to help me with my own stucknesses, even when I’m not sure I AM stuck. Yesterday was different because I knew I was stuck and just sitting in it. I guess in a way, I was choosing to be with my stuckness and when he began poking at it softly, I wasn’t budging.
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I’m always talking about getting something on. As of late, Lisa Capehart is helping me get my wellness on.
Wellness Coaching is typically about hiring someone to help you get back onto the road of better health; personal trainer meets life coach.
Lisa explained to me in a BlogTalkRadio interview earlier this year that she was working on a more rounded approach and incorporating all aspects of health (not just physical, but the emotional, mental and spiritual well being components) into her wellness coaching program.
About 6 weeks ago, Lisa and I sat down and she began helping me hash out a picture of my version of ideal wellness. I wanted this time to be different.
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I’m afraid to write. I’m afraid to be me. I’m afraid to say what I really think… or you’ll go run and hide. All the little thoughts that boil up when I get ready to do something important.
Me and my random thoughts. Yet how random are they?
When I stop and look and listen, I see the thread of fear running through all of it.
A fear of being wrong. Wrong-shaped. Wrong smarts. Wrong for the job. Wrong for success.
Wrong for you. Whoever you might be in this moment.
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