What are my goals, intentions - and where are my heart openings?
(This post is inspired by Amanda Smith's Spark Within Me August Blog Challenge. <-- Click the link to participate with us now!)
Last August I drove across country with my daughter, Emma, to deliver her to Arcadia University in Glenside, Pennsylvania. I was nervous for many reasons, one being I hadn’t successfully driven across country before that and the last time I attempted such a feat we wound up with a blown transmission in South Dakota and had to fly back to California with our failure-flung tail between our legs.
(I found a post I wrote about this when preparing to write about my goals. I’ll link to it at the bottom of this post.)
Emma and I both complained incessantly about this trip we were being “forced” to take. We "had to" deliver a car to my daughter, Katherine, who attends Princeton Theological Seminary, forty five minutes from the Philadelphia area where Emma would also live during the school year.
What we didn’t realize in all our grumbling how fun our adventure would be once we just settled into each moment along the way.
Seriously? Did I know how much I would enjoy Oklahoma and did Emma know she would find her commitment to Vegetarianism at one of the most famous Steakhouses in Texas? Did we realize we would fall in love with Iowa and while we didn’t want to drive back and forth through Pittsburgh four times, we did enjoy the diner we visited and fetching her stuffed Penguin, Peter, was so much more important than the fear I felt driving through road construction during rush hour.
Yes. This is relevant to my August Goals for this year, truly.
Here’s how it works: I consistently aim to transform my “To-Do’s” to “Ta-Da’s” because if I don’t have fun – if I don’t enjoy what I’m doing, I am a lot less likely to do it.
I also know as a life coach and long time student/teacher/experiencer of personal development, I am the one who decides what may be seen as fun and what isn’t fun. This is what happened in our road trip last summer. Once we got over our whining, Emma and I had a blast.
I would repeat that trip (though with a different route) over and over again and in fact, I have a feeling I will!
So this August, my goals include:
- Editing and Publishing “Dear Autism Mom.”
- (Re)Launching my business (not saying the name until the website is born, which will probably be a soft opening in August/full opening in September) but it is going to be remarkable.
- Offering two of my products from the past (Camp Product for Writers and Writing Camp Intensive) in new, revised, better than ever editions.
- Sharing #5for5BrainDump on Wednesday bonus days – including a trial on Facebook Live – and watching as it transforms lives simply because I followed the path of synchronicity, love and passionate aligned action into more fun than I’ve had IN YEARS with my work.
- Walking Daily and not beating myself up if I miss. I want to add a Yoga pose daily as well, sometime in the earlier days of the month preferably.
I think that’s enough for now. I know that I will enjoy each process because I’ve said I will and I have created a tribe of delightful people to walk this path with me, so I won’t feel alone.
The story of what was is an engaging, transformative one and the story of what is and what is to be delights me in ways unfathomable. I am truly blessed.
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How to Be Ok with Being Afraid - Lessons from the Roadtrip (From August 2015) Ways to connect with me on social media are immediately below this "Tweet" which includes the Periscope Broadcast where I spoke right before I wrote this about transforming To-Do's to Ta-Da's. The content is savory and the people who show up who you will want to connect with as well are spectacular!
LIVE on #Periscope: 🎨 Transform To-Do's into Ta-Da's! 🌞 August #LifeCoaching #Goals #WarriorGoddesses https://t.co/AwCyYTC4kE
— Julie Jordan Scott (@juliejordanscot) August 2, 2016
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