Every now and then in the hustle and bustle of being the CEO, administrative assistant, CCP (chief creative person), and cook and bottle washer, you just have to stop the busy busy busy and take a breath!
Not because of overwhelm – this is entirely different.
This stopping is really to take a breath. Then another. Paying attention to that breath all the way in (take it into your belly…deep) and all the way out. Do it until you feel the expansion of your whole body – that place where you know you are bigger than you usually play.
Then take a minute to write down all the accomplishments of the past week or so, small and large. Here are some of my accomplishments:
- Exercised 40 minutes to an hour 4 days
- Joined artist friends on a day into Annapolis to scout shops and talk art (and politics and what we’re up to)
- Made 38 possibility tiles
- Wrote up my March class schedule and sent it out to the Calvert Artist’s Guild
- Mailed over 100 postcards out to shops that I work with and shops that I have contacted in the past year
- Added The Present Moment in Libertyville IL to my shops
- Got a reorder from Cobalt Fine Arts in Tubac, AZ
- Mailed an order to The Chinese Monkey in Decatur, AL
- Got an order in from The State of the Arts Gallery in Olympia, WA
- Wrote a guest post for Christine Kane on my word of the year: Extraordinary
- Was interviewed by blogger Charlotte Hamrick for her own blog and for the NOLAFemmes blog (NOLA = New Orleans)
I am not making a list of my challenges because, despite this nice affirmation I have on one of my tapes – “Challenges excite and inspire me” – I cannot quite get my conscious mind to buy into that around certain challenges…yet. So I”ll work with that a bit longer. Challenges simply mean that I am growing – later I will be glad for them; perhaps even excited and inspired!
Besides – this post isn’t about challenges, this post is about celebration.
So I light a candle, set my intention to enjoy and celebrate before I take off after the next ToDo, and put my attention to the fact that I have accomplished a good bit this week, that it has, in fact, been extraordinary, true to my word for the year, and I can relax and revel. Joy is a very strong emotion – you might just get addicted to it!
And I celebrate having help! I’ve found a great person who is working with me in the studio and another who is working with me on my shops. Much of the above is done with their help – and I get to sleep too!
Also, if you’ve never tried working with a coach, I highly recommend it! In fact, my own coach, Christine Kane, is giving a free teleseminar on January 20. Believe me when I tell you that you will get enough from this call to keep you busy on your own should you so choose (I didn’t, I signed up with her after I listened in because is she was giving that much info free I could only imagine what I’d get when I paid! Then I signed up in a higher level this year, because things started moving right along and I am now an affiliate with her as well) Check Christine out here.
What are you celebrating? Leave us a link or a comment!
Wylde Women’s Wisdom: We actually need some frustration, exasperation, doubt, self-criticism, desire, and rage. This kind of soul-feuding hurtles us spinning out of our bodies so we can’t ever squeeze back into our tiny, familiar selves. Our hurdles will stop us, enrage us, and engage us, until we summon a wild power from the bowels of the will we did not know we had. Then we can never again mask our magnificence, even to ourselve. Tama Kieves This Time I Dance
