Live Your Life in Possibility

I just watched the coolest video, which of course, one of my brilliant friends suggested! It came from www.poptech.org. The speaker was Benjamin Zander, who was conductor of the Philharmonic Orchestra. 

He was speaking about 2 different worlds...one a fixed world where there is scarcity, competition, and people are looking for wealth and fame. The other is a world of possibility. A world of abundance. We have a choice of which world we live in. He illustrates this using a 15 year old cello player. This kid was not someone he knew, except to meet him while he was in town. This kid, who Zander thought was 17 years old, plays a piece. Zander then talks and "coaches" the kid...changing his frame of reference about how and why he practices and plays. Even I, with no musical ear at all, could see and hear the difference in his playing. It was amazing! Phenomenal. Brilliant.

This illustrated a few points. First of all, it's how I want to live my life. In possibility. Of what can happen...what will happen. Sounds a lot like the Law of Attraction, right? Second, Zander showed me that this is the kind of mother I want to be. I want to see all of the possibilities of/for my kids. And I want them to see them too. I already believe that they have the whole world at their feet. They truly can do anything they want to. 

Where Has All the Writing Gone?

So I have learned the first lesson of blogging...if you are going to have a blog, you have to update it! This has proven to be harder than I first thought. Just look at the last time I wrote. Pretty pathetic, I know. Like I have said before, I read a few other blogs and other people seem to have this life-altering/enhancing, big, "deep" stuff happening and this is not the case for me. Or I am not noticing or feeling like it is going on in my own life.

Here is my renewed effort to keep you updated...I will sign off on this post, but look for another one, coming soon. I promise!

New Year, New You?

Happy New Year, readers and friends!

I have always been into "new beginnings." If I am going to start an exercise program (ok, stop laughing, it's just an example), I like to start at the beginning of a new week or a new month. I think this is why I have always liked Mondays when I was teaching. Of course, I loved weekends, but Monday was like a fresh start.

Because I think like this, the new year is always a huge time of reflection for me. I have always had new year's resolutions...I haven't always kept all of them (has anyone?). I even went so far as to write them down...ok, if you haven't already figured it out, I'm a nerd! I'm not always proud of it, but it is what it is. So, now I actually have written proof of my successes and failures. It always gives me something to reflect on in the new year. I am not only a note-taker and data-collector, I also analyze everything (sometimes to death).

As the new year approaches, I start thinking about what my goals were for the previous year, did I meet those goals, and I start really contemplating my goals for the upcoming year. If I didn't meet a goal for the year, I don't beat myself up about it (picture that). As I have been learning, there is no failure, only feedback (thank you Alix and NLP Gods). It's not a failure, it's an opportunity to learn, change, and grow.

Usually I have a list of anywhere between 4 and 7 resolutions. They encompass every part of my life: improvements/changes I want to make in my physical, mental, spiritual, emotional life. This year I decided to try something a little different. Instead of a list, I have made one resolution that I think takes everything into account.

So, here it is...

Be Happy!

I think this applies to most things I want in my life. This revelation came to me after I started reading/learning about the Law of Attraction and getting involved as much as possible with http://www.expandingpossibility.com/. This has taken place over the last six months or so.

I don't want to say too much (oh, ok, stop laughing). I just want to see how this works out as a resolution. I will keep you posted on how this is going. I would also love to hear what you think about resolutions. If you want to share your resolutions, that would be awesome!