There's a hole in that bucket!

So you've heard of a Bucket List right?-- Popular movie about a man who created a to do list of things to accomplish before he died. Well, one of my mentors, the co-founder of ViSalus, Nick Sarnicola inspired me to create a Live List. 100 Ways to enjoy the passions of life. At least that's the way I see it. When I started to create this list, at first it was tiny, just a few real big dreams that would take me years to accomplish. But a dream that goes unfulfilled for a long preiod of time, loses its glow and gets tarnished; and many times gets put on the shelf or even worse, develops a hole in the bucket and slips away.

So I expanded on my focus to be stuff that will bring laughter and joy as I live my life. Some of it as simple as giving someone a hug each day all the way to creating a purpose I can pass through to future generations.

And I get to live it and check it off every day. I get to LIVE the LIST!

Judy's Live List Item #27: Niagara Falls, Maid of the Mist CHECK.

At the End and On the Go Day 30 Meditation Experiment

Here it is, the end of the first IM Experiment with many lessons learned and some understood a little more deeply. Read some of my previous blogs for snatches of my learning. One of the biggest lessons was one I learned about meditation and how it applies to me. Although I am a grounded soul, I am not a still person. I am more like the morning glory in front of my garage, secure in the pot, but shoots moving with the breeze

Being silent and in the zone for 20 minutes was more than difficult for me. In fact I did all 20 minutes in one complete session one time. What I found worked for me and my very active life was to break up the meditation four times during the day. And I found that it was not meditating in the purest sense, but was still able to accomplish 75% of the statement which I created. I was able to concentrate and expand on my statement during quiet time and created some amazing processes for both my personal and professional life. For the next 30 Days (Yes, I'm doing it again!) I am redefining and further personalizing my goals to let my mind let it pop up during the day. Anyone that wants to join me for the next 30 days, just contact me through the blog, email, phone, google, smoke signals, mental telepathy or just meditate on it.....

Grace and Ease Day 17 Meditation Experiment

Today what popped for me during my Intentional Meditation was the phrase, grace and ease. Probably because yesterday it came up several times during the day. I start on a spiral of intensity as the day progresses which builds like a coil. It is actually my exuberance and passion for my message, but spills out into conversations with force and could be received as an overabundance of information, or in other words throwing up on someone. I know that is happening when I look at them in the eye and there is a glaze forming over their pupils. Or during a phone conversation, the other end of the line has been quiet for quite a long time and I have run out of air. So in my mind pops, grace and ease, and I think; If I was speaking that way right now, what would this conversation be like, and I start to breathe slowly and deeply. My focus shifts to what the person wants and needs not what I have to spring on them. I begin to listen and let them talk, with grace and ease.

Common Sense Day 13 Meditation Experiement

A good friend of mine recently reminded me that "Common Sense Isn't Common" and as I go through my day, it becomes more and more apparent to me it is true.  But it should also follow that by just thinking about something it should be unbelievable, that it will appear.  That's the stuff of magic. This process may not be magic, but if get the gist of what is going on with other members of this experiment, uncommon things may be happening that make no sense and the results that are being achieved are not common.  Stay tuned.  We are not halfway done.yet.

Who Wants More Today? Day 11 IM Experiment

Well if you are reading this post, The answer is obviously, ME.  We demand more in material things but it doesn't always happen.  At day 11 of the Meditation Experiment, it's about ten days more of regular commitment than I've done in a long time.  As a business owner, it is wonderful to be able to create my own schedule and add variety to my day.  And I do crave variety.  I am learning that to get more, there is a responsibility to create a regular time of quiet and peace in a full and hectic day. If nothing else it creates clarity, direction and the reminder to be the person who I know I am.

Money Has Wings Day 8 Meditation Experiment

Easy Come, Easy Go.  Money has never been important to me.  My passion is people and how I can be the catalyst to improve someones live with whatever is their definition of success.  I've always had 'enough'.  On day 8 of the IM Experiment, the money part of the statement is glaring out at me.  What if I create generational wealth and it is done by money flying to me like migrating flocks of birds, not so much for me or even my immediate family, but to eliminate hunger in my surrounding community and something even bigger. 
Today "enough money" became a limiting belief.  And I've decided to fly.

If you see it, Is it real? Day 7 Meditation

I remembered today that the  last time I created an IM Statement was over a dozen years ago when I was a Mary Kay Director.  It was a novel idea to me so I created the "belief" that I drove a pink Cadillac.  I was driving a free car, but it wasn't  a Cadillac.  After a huge directors event, I went out into the parking lot, went up to my car and attempted to open the door to a beautiful brand new pink Cadillac!  My unconscious mind certainly manifested my vision, but because of circumstances, I left that company without getting that car.  Now it is a different company and a new car qualification..  That visualization appeared today during my meditation and fear set in.What if this meditation stuff is just a mind trick.  And even if I believe it, it won't become real. Then I realized that this time not only do I have an IM statement, it is loaded with feeling and I have included daily choices I make to have the outcome  really happen. This meditation stuff is powerful, it is creating past visions, internal turmoil, and new possibility.  So here is a picture of my new car.  I haven't walked up to it in a parking lot, but I am  actively making my calls to make it real.

How to Eat a Frog- Day 6 Meditation

It is said that if you do the hard stuff first, like eating a frog, everything else will be easy.  Well, how long does the 'hard' stuff last?  As I begin my day and want to start with my peaceful IM meditation, my mind wanders.  Twenty minutes is soooooo long first thing in the morning. I haven't yet  touched my chakras, or maybe my creativity can't be stymied at dawn.  Either I have to find a new time to meditate or I have to eat the frog differently. Yesterday I found that after a good solid 10 minutes of reading my IM statement, that I went on with my day and downloaded it onto my phone and reread it another 10 times between other things.  I'm not sure if this is right or wrong, but we'll see in  twenty four days.

I eat a FROG like an ELEPHANT!

Skinny Jeans Day 3 Meditation Experiement

One of the areas in my IM  meditation revolves around my personal health.  I am blessed in that I don't catch the flu or a cold when it goes around.  I have never broken a bone or been in a hospital except to give birth.  The only time I have had stitches is when I tried to use an electric hedge trimmer on my honeysuckle vine.  My hand got in the way of the blade as I was in one of those moods: I can do it myself, Thank You!

However my physical appearaance is not where I want it to be.  So if you would please visualize me in a pair of size 8 jeans by the end of the month, it would help me out.
That's the power of one plus many.
"I am nature's greatest miracle "- Og Mandino

Resolutions? Yuck!!

As I sat down to create my goals for the upcoming year, I began to think of resolutions and how 92 percent of them are abandoned by January 31st. So I knew what was needed was stronger than a resolution.  Previously when I created a goal and tried to use all of the smart techniques associated around 'intelligent" goal setting, I found that they actually did not fit into my life when the rubber hit the road.
Then it hit me. When I wanted to go on vacation, I didn't set a goal for the vacation; I set a plan. When I went on vacation to Hawaii, I had to figure out when I was going. how long I was staying, how I would get there and what I would see. And even before that I had to know where I wanted to go and what I wanted to experience more than anything else.
So instead this year why not make a plan for my life rather than a goal for my business. So it's simple really to make a plan.
Promise yourself in your heart, mind and soul that it is what you REALLY want to ACCOMPLISH.
Not what your boss says... Not what your manager says.... Not what your spouse or other friends say to try to convince you.
Listen in an active place everyday to yourself.  How are your plans forming? Actively take the proper steps in order of importance--- and don't rush it. Airline tickets can't be purchased for a trip before you know the date you are leaving.
And as your plan is developing, it's okay to make adjustments. That Hawaii trip may have to be postponed if a volcano erupts on the island.  It's not your fault if outside influences prevent your success. Delay is not denial.
Never give up on yourself. We all have amazing talents and gifts. Discover them. Utilize them, Celebrate them. Rely on them.
Don't be afraid to ask for guidance.  When you use a travel professional for a vacation it removes a lot of angst.
Plan your Work and Work your Plan.  Plan your life like you would a vacation.
You'll have a great time!
With a SMILE,                                                                                                                                      Judy