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Was pondering a discussion I had with a client about being guided from the heart, believing in ourselves, and recognizing our gifts. These excerpts from How to Find the Work You Love by Laurence Boldt sum it up:

Love gives us the courage to believe in humanity and in ourselves. The word courage means, literally, “with heart.” It takes great heart—great courage—to believe in humanity in the face of what sometimes seem like overwhelming problems.

It takes courage to affirm that the possible world that many of us have experienced in glimpses, moments of imagination or spiritual insight, is more than an idle fantasy. It takes the courage to say, like Martin Luther King, Jr., “I have a dream”—to affirm against all evidence to the contrary that one day, we shall overcome our fear, doubt, hatred, violence and pettiness.It takes courage to commit yourself to building bridges between the world that could be and the world that is—the courage to say that you believe the world will one day be a better place and that today you are ready to do your part to make it so.

There is nothing wrong with putting some of our cherished dreams and goals on the shelf to support another goal’s accomplishment. It is making sure that they do not remain on the shelf!

To keep your dreams alive, make time each week (preferably the same time and day) to nourish them with your loving attention. (Whatever you focus your attention on grows.) This can be done through Visualization: seeing your dream as a manifest reality, Affirmation: Declaring with clear positive statements what you want to be, do, or have. The important thing is to check in with yourself and make sure you are listening to your dreams, and giving them voice. It does not even have to be that much time - a good 10 minutes devoted to reflection can go a long way in keeping the inspiration flowing!

In the end, it all comes down to making sure we honor the inspirations that come to us by giving them tangible form where others can be moved, touched, and uplifted by them!

Hello All,

Just home from watching an amazing film: Man on Wire, the 2008 documentary film directed by James Marsh that chronicles Philippe Petit’s 1974 high-wire walk between the Twin Towers of New York’s World Trade Center.

For those coaching clients who have worked with the Creative Empowerment process you will enjoy seeing the Manifestation Formula in full swing, as Philippe moves from Vision to accomplishment. For those who have worked with the Career Empowerment process, you will see the Hero’s Journey, where Philippe, as Parsifal, faces the darkness of the unknown with only a blazing dream he can not shake as he harnesses the powers of the four archetypes — support cast at his side — in following the call of his inner Hero beckoning him from deep within to do it - and he must.

And we are no different. We must in order to live fully answer the call of our inner Hero and make happen what it beckons us to do. Whether you are wanting to create a life’s work or to achieve goals and dreams in other life areas, this film will inspire. Remember, the most important and first step is to have the courage to be aware of what you REALLY WANT, then the courage to take action.