Choose Your Own Adventure, Anything Goes

Remember those books back in the day called: Choose Your Own Adventure?

My favorite CYOA Book was about a girl dragon slayer. She would slowly and stealthy enter the mouth of the cave with he sword in hand… and the book would instruct me that is was MY choice…would she continue to walk into the darkness sure to find the dragon, or would she get second thoughts exit the cave and wait until morning. With those books you could take a leap and do the dangerous thing, or you could play it safe. I know with the CYOA I would always take the boldest most daring option. I mean, if I get to choose I’m Going For It!

Well for 2011 I want to live that way too and I’m giving you permission to live the same way. You just have to give YOU permission. People stay in jobs they are Miserable with, People stay in relationships just to play it safe but not because they are happy, people put their dreams on the backburner everyday because they feel they are not experts, good enough, are comfy playing small etc. etc. etc. I know because I do/and have done all of these things.

We can start the movement together. 2011:Choose Your Own Adventure, Anything Goes!

If you’ve always wanted to learn the guitar! Buy one, find one second hand and get to it. It doesn’t matter if you’re an Accountant with 5 kids and “guitar player” doesn’t really fit your profile. We’re getting out of our boxes in 2011 and living like our lives are out of a storybook. Why? Because in the same way the dragon slayer could have left the cave (and postponed living in her purpose) you too can Always go back to living the safe way you know how. That’s not a challenge (nor is it an adventure!)

That business plan you’re been sitting on Implement it! (why do I care? Cause I’m sure it’s a great idea and will make people’s lives better! See it’s really a selfish reason ☺)

Want to volunteer and travel the world?(That’s what I wanted and it’s happening now!) Apply for a program, pack up and just go, go go…

Whatever you want to do, big or seemingly “small” (cause moving towards your dream is never a small step) Just Go For It! Life is for the living!

Want to know how? This month I’ll be talking about techniques I have used in the past and will be using to prep for this coming New Year and continuing throughout the year! So stay tuned and start Living Out Loud and Choose Your Own Adventure!

Ferocious Fabulous Fro

I Love You, You

Sometimes
I realize
I am my own best friend

When I have more emails from myself, than anyone else....

People Got To Be FREE

People Got To Be Free- Young Rascals

All the world over, so easy to see
People everywhere just wanna be free
Listen, please listen, that's the way it should be
Peace in the valley, people got to be free
You should see, what a lovely, lovely world this would be
If everyone learned to live together
It seems to me such an easy, easy thing this would be
Why can't you and me learn to love one another
All the world over, so easy to see
People everywhere just wanna be free
I can't understand it, so simple to me
People everywhere just got to be free
Ah, ah, yeah . . . ah, ah, yeah
If there's a man who is down and needs a helping hand
All it takes is you to understand and to see him through
Seems to me, we got to solve it individually
And I'll do unto you what you do to me
There'll be shoutin' from the mountains on out to sea
(out to the sea)
No two ways about it, people have to be free
(they got to be free)
Ask me my opinion, my opinion will be
(ah-ha)
It's a natural situation for a man to be free
Oh, what a feelin's just come over me
Enough to move a mountain, make a blind man see
Everybody's dancin', come on, let's go see
Peace in the valley, now they want to be free!

Fabulously from the Lou!

Josephine Baker

Just Let Go...and Write...

National Novel Writing Month!

I'm putting this for Manifestation Monday's because I feel it's an exercise in letting go. I always tell myself "I'm not a writer" but at the same time I like blogging and book ideas always pop into my head. However, when it comes to the writing game, I am still playing small. I'm pretty low key with this blog even. I don't publicize it, I don't market it on Facebook. I just quietly write and say...whoever is supposed to see it will see it (shaking my head at myself). Then when book ideas pop in my head I say to myself "are you kidding?". Spellcheck has ruined my spelling, is my grammar perfect? I don't think so. Editing? Am I serious? But yet it's something that I have always wanted to do.

Well the lovely folks at National Novel Writing Month or as it's affectionately referred to as NaNoWriMo, give you permisison to write "Thirty Days and Thirty Nights of Literary Abandon!"

The idea is that starting November 1st until November 30th you would contribute to your "novel" everyday resulting in 50,000. Now that comes out to writing approximately 1,667 words a day. However, somedays you may contribute more than other days. The only real goal is that on November 30th you have 50,000 words.

So here's to letting go and getting your write on!