The Cutest Pic Inspired Me!
Something I love to do in January is get dates on the calendar for things I desire to manifest in the coming year, especially fun weekend getaways and trips with my girlfriends and other things of this nature.
With so many schedules to juggle, nailing down dates in January really helps ensure these things happen!
Last week we nailed down dates for a weekend getaway in April and a fun gathering I want to host…
The backstory:
I’ve had a couple bottles of fancy champagne I’ve been saving for an intentional moment, for over a year.
I knew I wanted to share them with a handful of my closest friends, but I didn’t have a full vision for how I wanted that to look until my mom and I were browsing through an antique store a few weeks ago and I landed on this picture that inspired a fuller vision!
When I saw the picture, inspiration started to flow around how I’d like the party to look and feel.
Little details started to drop into place formulating a cute, dainty, garden like party vision…and I knew …
Your Primary Purpose Is Love
When I focus on my intention to be loving no matter what arises (an often, but not always, daily practice of getting centered and set for the day), it automatically brings to the surface incidents of being outside of this intention.
This is a good thing and not something to feel bad about.
Feeling bad about it only keeps you from looking (and the unconscious pattern continuing)…
..but an openness and willingness to look at the ways in which we fall outside of this intention are necessary to continually clear a path for love to move through us…
…where the ultimate soul goal is for love to flow without interval.
I don’t hold the bar to “be loving not matter what arises” and expect to be perfect.
Instead, I hold the intention with a readiness, openness and willingness to notice, own/take responsibility for and transform the places I’m out of alignment with this intention.
This process keeps me returning to and recommitting myself to my intention to be loving no matter what arises, while also continuously scanning for what needs to be looked at and addressed.
When I address what …
I Wore My “Hot Pants” To The Coffee Shop!
I decided to carry last year’s word of the year – Elevate – into 2024 since I didn’t really hit my stride with elevating my personal style until a few months ago. Plus, it’s a great word to apply to all areas of life, year after year.
That’s how I found myself wearing my “hot pants” to the coffee shop on a Sunday, with no other plans to go anywhere else!For a long time, I just threw on jeans, a shirt and black canvas shoes in the winter and flip flops in the summer to head to the coffee shop (and makeup…I’m an everyday makeup girlie, always have been). I looked nice but I wasn’t very accessorized or styled. I wasn’t elevated. There’s nothing wrong with this. It worked for me for years and years without thinking twice about it. But last year I decided I wanted to play around with stepping it up a bit. And so I have. And on Sunday that meant putting my “hot pants” in the rotation and wearing the same Freebird boots I wore in my photoshoot (another thing that sat in it’s box until “the right occasion” came along). (This story is first about being intentional with my word of the …