If your energy feels scattered and your direction is unclear, it is definitely time to reflect on your values.  Hint: If they are colorful and lively, you are on the right track.

Soul Blossoming

The soul needs love as urgently as the body needs air.  In the warmth of love, the soul can be itself.  All the possibilities of your human destiny are asleep in your soul.  You are here to realize and honor these possibilities.  When love comes into your life, unrecognized dimensions of your destiny awaken and blossom and grow.

 –John O’Donohue– Anam Cara page 9

May I seek only to love.

May I love myself completely and nurture my soul.

May I cherish all the love in my heart and may this love awaken and unfold my unique destiny.

Today, I commit to expanding love, welcoming love and nurturing the experience of love, fiercely.

May I be a cultivator of love in people, places and activities.

May my work be an offering of gratitude, the love in my heart overflowing into the world nourishing the blossoming of souls.

Happy Birthday to me and Happy Indian New Year!

Jeaneen recognizing a new chord

Relax into the video below which asks some powerful questions….

• What happens when you get to where you believe you should be?
• How do you recognize opportunities and step forward into creating a “what’s next’ from that opportunity?
• Might everything start with the relationship between you and a somebody or something?
• Might you have the opportunity to recognize this and to create your own story?
• What story is out there waiting to be told?
• Are you courageous enough to live with the not knowing?
• How naked are you prepared to be?

Registration is still open (and there is a space left for you) for my annual mid year private “Renew, Re-focus and Re-engage” sessions.  (FYI, The photo of me above was taken just before one of these uniquely customized sessions.) Together we will recognize the opportunities that are there for you to co-create into right now.

Bursting with Vibrancy

This is the summer of discipline for yours truly.  I know it doesn’t sound all that exciting, at first blush.  I am focusing on amplifying my energy and radiance, encouraging more vibrancy to flow through.   This means disciplining my mind, senses and focus.  I’m letting go of my attachment to the pleasurable and engaging only in what will be most beneficial.

As far as my schedule and pace, I’m doing what peak performers do, pulsing my energy in 1.5 hour increments with periods of renewal in between vs working non stop until I drop.  Operating at a more optimal energy level has me make stronger choices and increases my ability to take a stand for what is needed in each moment.  Now that’s leadership!

Discipline strengthens our ability to naturally feel bliss, in fact, it is said that it creates a fountain of nectar.  Isn’t that beautiful?   Discipline creates bliss that is not dependent upon activity, attachment or passion.  Happiness that can only happen when I get what I want has an inevitable sorrow attached to it.  Bliss that blossoms out of discipline on the other hand is clothed in deep contentment.

What sort of discipline do you choose to call forth in yourself this summer?  How will the energy you are creating within support your ability to enliven your vision and goals?   Just asking.

If the idea of discipline has you inspired, yet deep down you know that left to your own devices NOTHING will change, I have good news!  Registration is still open (and yes you can sign up right now,) for one of my annual mid year “Renew, Re-focus and Re-engage” sessions.  Together we will get you tracking toward manifesting your deepest wisdom.

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Sun setting behind the New Seattle Ferris Wheel

I am returning with fresh energy after a brief hiatus.  My step father, who was 101 years old, passed away on May 6.   We were close in every way.  I had the extraordinary experience of being with him during the last days of his life.  Here are the 10 things I have learned about life looking through the eyes of this time.

1. Love is really all that matters in the end.
2. We will be remembered for our virtues and our impact on others (not necessarily how much money or stuff we have left.)
3. It’s all very mysterious and silent.   Where do we go in the end?
4. I am courageous and capable of WAY more than I thought I was.  The Energy within can meet any challenge.  I trust that Energy completely and draw my confidence from there.  (You can too.)
5. There are amazing people all around who show up fully (and without hesitation) in moments of intense need.  These people are not necessarily who you expect (or hope) they will be.  When you are called to step forward, step forward with a big YES.  There is not necessarily a back up.
6. Loss and birth are intertwined.  “The Universe says that loss demands birth and two are lovers.”  Deena Metzger.  
7. Seeing death at close range, gets us committed to LIVE  life fully and passionately.
8. Focus on the goal and savor each moment.
9. We really don’t have that much time to dink around doing what doesn’t resonate.
10. Playing a ukulele can make you smile no matter what is going on.

Inspired to “Refresh” your bold leadership AND your life?  Registration just opened for Renew, Refocus, Re-engage mid year coaching sessions.  Times a wasting and there is no better way to get yourself reconnected and moving forward with a fresh energy.   Guaranteed, for certain!

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Drawing my Dreams into Reality

Last November I had the great good fortune of attending TEDxRainier here in Seattle.  I’ve just launched a very cool 30 day project inspired by Patti Dobrowolski’s talk.  First, I created the drawing you see above that depicts my current reality and my desired new reality.  Next, I committed to 30 days of 3 bold steps per day creatively inspired by both the left and right side of my brain. (The drawings are what make this possible.)  I’m in my second week and all I can say is WOW!!!  Below is a video of the talk that started it all AND links to FREE blank printable template maps. Check it out only if you are really, no kidding, in the mood to dream up a Desired New Reality!  Thank You Patti!

If this talk has you yearning for change, I’m here.   I have room for 2 new private coaching clients in April.  Are you ready?  If yes, contact me to schedule a Complimentary Coaching Consultation.

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Your Song Shines Through

Meditation on the Stories Our Lives are Telling  (3 minute audio)

What if it really doesn’t matter what you do?

What if all that really matters is how you do whatever you do?

What would you do?

How would you do it?

How do you make love to the world?

What is the story your life is telling?

From Oriah Mountain Dreamer’s The Dance   pp 152-153

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Building Belief

We are what we repeatedly do.  Excellence then is not an act but a habit.  -Aristotle

I’ve been fascinated lately with the power of our habits.  We all have them. The subconscious rituals we perform routinely without thinking.   Transformational change hinges on our ability to recognize and shift our habits.  Here’s the key linkage.  Habits can’t shift without belief.  Belief is only built co-actively, with others.   I’ve been reading a just released book:  The Power of Habit:  Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg  Here are some thought-provoking excerpts:

How do habits change?  We know that a habit cannot be eradicated–it must, instead be replaced.  And we know that habits are most malleable when the Golden Rule of habit change is applied:  If we keep the same cue and the same reward, a new routine can be inserted.  But that’s not enough.  For a habit to stay changed, people must believe change is possible.  And most often, that belief only emerges with the help of a group.

Belief is essential, and it grows out of a communal experience, even if that community is only as large as two people.

 from Chapter 3:  The Golden Rule of Habit Change-Why Transformation Occurs

Another reason, of many, why investing in private coaching yields such strong return.  You can’t create sustainable change simply by reading a book. You can’t create sustainable change by knowing what you need to do.  There is transformative power in the accountability and connection orchestrated by a well-trained coach.  The coaching relationship builds belief.  This shifts your habits. Don’t waste another day circling around in your own head hoping you will figure things out.  Time’s a wastin’!

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Mai & Jeaneen. An oldie but goodie.

I’ve been focusing lately on unhooking from trying.  The endless trying, which is a distorted version of pure self effort,  has a dark underbelly of expectation.  As in, ” If I try hard, I deserve to (fill in the blank.)”  To be truly happy, we need to get over feeling we deserve something because of our hard work, and embrace being willing to claim what we are deserving of simply because we are human beings, naturally worthy of grace.  In her book, The Dance, Oriah Mountain Dreamer talks about this… I love what she’s got to say–

To dance is to move gracefully.  To live our soul’s longing is to be willing to live grace-filled moments.  Grace is the opportunity to be happy that we do not earn.  That’s what makes it grace.  But if we are old-time sink-or swimmers, if we believe that our basic nature is in need of fundamental renovation, the unearned gifts of grace make us nervous.  They stir feelings of guilt and fears about potential envy; they heighten our sense of unworthiness and enmesh us in a sense of obligation to work harder at being the people we feel we should be.  If we are not in some essential way a manifestation of the Divine that bestows grace, grace can feel like yet another burden.

To dance, to move gracefully, to receive the grace-filled moments every day, we have to know that we are worthy not because of our hard work or suffering or our eagerness to be other than we are; we are worthy by our very nature–the same nature that creates and sustains all that is.  When we know this we are able to answer the question “Are you willing to be happy?” with a quiet but confident, “Yes”.

–Oriah Mountain Dreamer, The Dance, pp 76-77

Are you willing to dance?

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From Coach Mai Vu's Reinvention circle

Spring is here!  I am oh so ready to move out of the cold grey rain into fresh green blossoming energy!  What I’m noticing is that the grey has become my comfort zone.  Yipes!   This is how we humans are wired.  We get comfortably content, fearful of challenging what is, even if “what is” is not bringing fulfillment.   So, today I offer a step by step prescription to move out of being comfortably stuck.

Step 1:  Know the boundaries of your comfort zone.  Understand your comfortable abode and the energetic costs of staying there.

Step 2:  Enlist the support of some carefully selected folk to call you out of your comfortable place. (I’ll call this your Entourage.)

Step 3:  Look deep within, listen and envision what’s next.  Tell your Entourage what you are up to.

Step 4:  Get moving: Act, Experiment, Do.

Step 5:  Celebrate the miracles.  Articulate what you are learning.

Step 6:  Repeat the above.

Here’s a visualization I created to support you in Step 3.  Click Here to download New Abode Visualization

Have fun and let me know how it goes!

One last question:  What supports you in moving out of your comfort zone?

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