Mindset
Life According to Plan?
So, last nights movie was The Adjustment Bureau with Matt Damon. I had no idea what it was about, but I figured I couldn’t go wrong with Matt Damon right? Turns out it’s about an affair between a politician and a ballerina affected by mysterious forces keeping them apart. A romantic tale of “you and me against the world,” and in this case the world is the hands of fate; Destiny. Two lovers apparently not meant to be together, it doesn’t fit the plan. The “hands of fate” in this case is a team of fedora wearing men; the Adjustment Bureau, whose attempts to keep them in line and make sure they stay on their chosen path proves...
Read MoreAre You A Bouncing Ball? … Checking In On You!
I have had several people recently tell me in their own unique ways that they felt something like a bouncing ball in life. Trying to juggle work, school, health and family responsibilities can be overwhelming, leaving someone to feel out of balance, disconnected and unfocused. Many of us can get caught up in busy and active lives. We start treading water and just surviving rather than making purposeful choices and actions with ourselves and others. This can be slippery slope in any relationship. I think it’s important to take a quick assessment every few months – check in on your priorities and values and what’s important to you right now. Have you...
Read MorePersonal Development Clichés
You are not who you are because of or despite of someone else. You are who you are because you choose it either consciously or unconsciously.
Read MorePlaying full out!
This is a video of the great Maya Plisetskaya dancing the dying Swan. She is 61 here. You see her dancing like this at 61 and you think to yourself: “There’s a woman who plays full out! Who is living life to the fullest! Squeezing the juice out of life!” You are probably imagining her activity filled days, her rehearsals and the rigorous training she still has to undergo to keep her body and her skills at a high performance level. This is someone who clearly pushes her own limits! But here are her own words as she describes working for the first time with Roland Petit, on the production of La Rose Malade: Roland himself rehearsed with me, not trusting the coach....
Read MoreOf Eagles and Mer-people
What do you think of dreams? That they are messages from the unconscious, that they are the result of the mind processing the days events, that they are prophetic or that they have no meaning at all, and are just nonsense? A dream I had two nights in a row this week left me with a feeling of the numinosity of dreams and their meanings, and made me recall another magic dream from years ago. I dreamt that my husband was looking for a house in the city for us to rent. The first one was okay, very ordinary and nothing to rave about. The second house was a huge Victorian terrace, with high ceilings and furnished. The furniture was very large, very expensive and inside the...
Read MoreStuck Part 2 – PULL!!
So Mini You has you on living on auto pilot eh…. You cannot change the things you want in your life? Well, congratulations! Huh??? Congratulations? Yes!! Congratulations! Why? Well, because at least you know what you want to change! You are aware that there is stuff you need to do. In order to know that there is work to be done you first need to realize that you are not where you want to be. So, this means that you know where you want to be. So you know where you are (A) you know where you want to be (B) and now all you have to know is how to close the gap. Most people are not even aware of B or A and they never will be. But you are, so congratulations! The good...
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