HILLs and Valleys: Study and Mastership

WORDS OF WISDOM! Please watch, absorb, then live it! I'm taking it back to basics and starting to LIVE all the of TRUTH I know to be true.

As they say "There is a world of difference between knowing what to do and actually doing it..."







Old video, old ideas, taking it to a new place...

"...have courage to follow your heart and intuition...."

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

- Steve Jobs

(quote via Blissed)
(Pic via EmilyMPhotography)

I Get Out

I Get Out - Lauryn Hill
(*Warning...may try to teleport your way to the Moon after listening/reading...*)

[Singing Chorus]
I get out, I get out of all your boxes
I get out, you can't hold me in these chains
I'll get out
Father free me from this bondage
Knowin' my condition
Is the reason I must change

[Verse 1]
Your stinkin' resolution
Is no type of solution
Preventin' me from freedom
Maintainin' your polution
I won't support your lie no more
I won't even try no more
If I have to die, oh Lord
That's how I choose to live
I won't be compromised no more
I can't be victimised no more
I just don't sympathize no more
Cuz now I understand
You just wanna use me
You say "love" then abuse me
You never thought you'd loose me
But how quickly we forget
That nothin' is for certain
You thought I'd stay here hurtin'
Your guilt trip's just not workin'
Repressin' me to death
Cuz now I'm choosin' life, yo
I take the sacrifice, yo
If everything must go, then go
That's how I choose to live

[Pause]

That's how I choose to live...
Hehehehe, awhh
No more compromises
I see past your diguises
Blindin' through mind control
Stealin' my eternal soul
Appealin' through material
To keep me as your slave

But I get out
Oh, I get out of all your boxes
I get out
Oh, you can't hold me in these chains
I'll get out
Oh, I want out of social bondage
Knowin' my condition
Oh, is the reason I must change


See, what you see is what you get
Oh, and you ain't seen nothin' yet
Oh, I don't care if you're upset
I could care less if you're upset
See it don't change the truth
And your hurt feeling's no excuse
To keep me in this box
Psychological locks
Repressin' true expression
Cementin' this repression
Promotin' mass deception
So that no one can be healed
I don't respect your system
I won't protect your system
When you talk I don't listen
Oh, let my Father's will be done


And just get out
Oh, just get out of all these bondage
Just get out
Oh, you can't hold me in these chains
Just get out
All these traditions killin' freedom
Knowin' my condition
Is the reason I must change


I've just accepted what you said
Keepin' me among the dead
The only way to know
Is to walk then learn and grow
But faith is not your speed
Oh, you've had everyone believed
That you're the sole authority
Just follow the majority
Afraid to face reality
The system is a joke
Oh, you'd be smart to save your soul
Oh, and escape this mind control
You spent your life in sacrifice
To a system for the dead
Oh, are you sure...
Where is the passion in this living
Are you sure it's God you servin'
Obligated to a system
Getting less then you're deserving
Who made up these schools, I say
Who made up these rules, I say
Animal conditioning
Oh, just to keep us as a slave

Oh, just get out
Of this social PURGATORY
Just get out
All these traditions are alive
Just get out
Superstition killing freedom
Knowin' my condition
Is the reason I must die
Just get out
Just get out
Just get out
Let's get out
Let's get out
Knowin' my condition
Is the reason I must die
Just get out

That’s So Yesterday

Now that we have kicked off a new year, people are inspired to reinvent themselves, do better, improve on things they didn’t like from the year before. The new year brings about new energy and the winds of change. However, have you ever found that when you are trying to improve or change something about yourself, you receive negative feedback from the people that surround you? A lot of times it’s your family or friends, the people closest to you.

They hold you to the “old” you. The You from the past. “Oh now you’re too good to eat meat?”, “You didn’t get up in the mornings and exercise before, why are you trying to do that now?, “You used to hate to read, trying to act smarter than you are or something?”. I had a friend that had lost weight in a healthy way by trading in her processed junk food habit for a whole foods way of eating. She had also started running in the morning and wow what a difference a year makes! When she was going home for the holidays to see her family that she hadn’t seen in a year she was all too excited to show off her new physique and healthy lifestyle. She came to my house in sad and discouraged state after seeing them and she told me that they had nothing but negative things to say to her. Instead of embracing and supporting her healthier lifestyle they accused her of forgetting where she came from and that she thought she was better than everyone else. Wow, talk about hurtful. It’s shocking coming from those that love you!

And it’s not like change is easy. I’m trying to create a new schedule for myself, a workout plan, a healthy eating agenda a business layout etc. Holding myself accountable daily is hard enough, but then encountering one of these naysayers is enough to make anyone want to quit their schedule and say “you’re right, what’s the point, what you see is what you get, I’ll be the same today as I was yesterday”.

Please do me and yourself a favor and reach for the stars anyway! Do not let the negative voices (whether in real life or inside of your head) affect your progress and journey to self improvement. Yes, that’s who you were, but that’s not who you ARE, NOW. If last year you had no ambitions and lacked direction, that doesn’t have to be your current reality. You can choose a new start every moment of everyday. If you fall of the wagon, don’t say to yourself “yep, I knew it and my naysayers knew it too, I just can’t do this, I’m not capable” . We all have set backs, but it’s those who persevere that see results. There is a Japanese Proverb that says “Fall 7 times, get up 8” because that is the formula for success.

What I’ve started saying to myself, and maybe this will help you too, when the negative record player starts playing it’s age old tune in my head or when the negative people (or haters as some people refer to them as) start imposing their negative opinions on you, I say your response is “That was so Yesterday”. You don’t have to say it aloud, just to yourself to let yourself know that maybe you smoked yesterday, but today you are a non-smoker, maybe you used to gossip and that’s what your circle of friends are accustomed to, but “that was so yesterday” and today you don’t. Or maybe you’re a work–a-holic or a “yes” person, but today, you are taking time for You. When you start catching the heat from people, just smile to yourself and think “That was so Yesterday”. They do not define you. You define You and through prayer, meditation or whatever you use to connect to Your Inner Voice and Spirit you will get to know more about Who You Are.

Try this through your journey we call life and let me know if you have success with this!

Love, Light & Hugs

How'd You Do That? Manifest It!

Every generation has a limit to what it believes can be real. At one point we thought the world was flat, that it was impossible to fly or that putting a man on the moon was impossible.

The same thing can be said about how other people perceive you when you have a vision or a dream.

Not everyone will see it. Many will doubt it. In the beginning almost none will help make it happen.

But the magic lies in this: KNOWING, AFFIRMING and BELIEVING that your inner world creates your outer world. The thoughts and vision you are thinking about creating the life of your dreams, are the blueprints of your eventual success.
When you are inspired, don’t seek the approval of other people before you begin taking action. Just take action and produce results. You will learn from the action you take and if you take consistent and daily action eventually you will begin to show positive results.

When you show positive results, instead of other people saying, “Ah, that impossible”, they’ll start to ask you, “How’d you do that?”

- Mastin Kipp, The Daily Love, Daily Email - Nov. 5th, 2010


(Someone sent me this email, after I read it I signed up for the "Daily Love, Daily Email", you can too here if you would like to receive a daily love message)

Fabulously Eartha

Show'em how it's done!

Allowing the Flow in February

That is this Months Theme:

Ideas on how to live in the Flow:

Write a Daily Dream Script of Your Life. Everyday write down exactly what a day in the life of you would be like if you had all the money in the world, all the time in the world, access to whatever you wanted etc. Update it like a journal everyday and take inspired action as opportunities arise. *Bonus- look back at your February 2011 entries in February 2012 and see what has come to manifest itself!

Daily Gratitude list of Things you are thankful for. I always do this in my head, but in February I'm putting it down in writing. Join me won't you! There is something about the act of writing. You are physically forming the letters with your body (using a writing instrument of course) you are visually seeing what you are writing and you are thinking about the concepts you are writing. It's a fully creative moment that will surely manifest more of the things you are grateful for just by writing them down.

Come up with a Monthly Mantra. What will it be this month!? Living Full Out? Allowing My Light To Shine?, Allowing Creativity to Flow? All of those and more!? Great, figure out what it will be this month and meditate on it in the mornings, while in your car, while walking, before you go to sleep, let your Personal Mantra this month take you to the next level!

Exhibit Excellence in Your Current Situation. It's so easy to write your script of your dream life, and forget your present. So while you are creating your fabulous future, show up as a rock star right now in your current situation. So if you are at a job you don't like, studying something that doesn't interest you or are just eager for the next stage in life (cause it will be awesome..) try to focus on being the best You you can be Right Now, as nothing will shift your reality more. I've been so excited about things to come that I have forgotten about my current task at hand that I actually enjoy and it deserves my full energy and attention as well. So this month let's be present for the tasks at hand WHILE we create our dream lives as well.

Continue to Allow the Flow This February!!

I found my February Mantra!

2nd Timothy 1:7

For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.


Hope this helps someone out there. Does anyone have a different mantra for Allowing the Flow in February?

This week's Inspirations

This week I have been asking for signs of what direction I should be taking and I feel like very poignant inspirations have been jumping out all over the place...just this week!

Raul: 7th Child out of 14 children. Lived in extreme poverty growing up with an abusive alcoholic father and a understandable exhausted mother. His mother told him education was his way out of that situation. Raul has been working since he was 6. First job as a "parking attendent" (the people that watch your car on the street so they don't get broken into in a dangerous neighborhood) and he went onto various jobs. No matter what the occupation, he always kept his vision in mind. He wanted to DJ as a teen. He entered the radio station as a janitor and left as the main DJ and Program Manager. He wanted to work for a NGO he entered in as some fix-it guy and came out as the Director...or the Region. ALL the time he is master these feats he is also attending school. Always. School during the day DJ at night, Work during the day, school at night and weekends. He is not the Director of the orphanage I am volunteering with and he is going to school to study law. He also happens to be a Life Coach which you know is after my own heart. Talking to him about his history, which he doesn't discuss much because, 1) it's painful 2) doesn't want to come off as bragging, I was inspired to get the fire back that I used to have.

I was always criticized for burning the candle at both ends, but MAN you get a lot of stuff accomplished when you do... Alright, what I used to do was NOT healthy, but I feel I have mellowed WAY out and now I know how to focus on what is important. I'm working on Getting up Early in the morning, because well...when you sleep until noon you get a lot less done for some reason... I aspire to do a lot of things so I need to go after them with the same hunger and tenacity that Raul did and still does to this day. Thanks for the swift Kick Raul!


My GodBrother Lincoln: I don't even know where to begin as this brother has been a beacon of light and love for a long time. He's a brother to me, a friend and a someone who's always shakes up that "you can do it if you put your mind to it" itch in me, just by living the way he lives. He's a an example of entrepreneurship and connectedness. He has a great Spirit and really I could go on and on.

Since we are talking this weeks inspirations I can say Just This week I drew inspiration from his new tumblr blog specifically his first real post here. You can keep up with his blog under the Sun Sprites, Rays and Beams section of this blog or you can subscribe to his blog directly.

Agent IAEBC: Teaching me by being a living example of love, affection, patience and consideration, just to name a few. Being vulnerable and sincere take strength too.

Sra Lola: I just got word yesterday that a project I was working on in Guayaquil with the Mujeres de Lucha and Sra Lola just went though and they got money to start constructing a community center that is going to house all of the small micro enterprises allowing them to be in the same buildling! "She does it again!" I thought to myself. Sra Lola is TRUE Visionary. When everyone around her is telling her she can't, it's impossible, how dare she even dream that big, this woman continues to have the Audacity of Hope :) I can watch "The Secret" all day, but Sra Lola has it down. She only focuses on the Goal and the End Result and perseveres through it all. This is not fluff. If you could see the poverty, the violence the dismay that surrounds her and the ladies daily it's enough to kill any spirit. They encounter more devastating setbacks in a day sometimes than we experience in a year. Honestly, I know because I've been there to see it. When I am next to her I feel like I know what someone felt standing next to Rosa Parks (and ya'll know I love me some Rosa Parks!! sooooo.biggest.compliment.EVER). I credit us all working countless hours on the grant proposals, researching and setting up meetings, but I know that none of this would have ever been accomplished had it not been for the unwavering faith and steadfast vision of Sra Lola. She is living proof. Anything is Possible.

Oh and this just in as I logged into my blog. I had two super uplifting comments!!
So shout out to Sunkiss (another trailblazer and light!) and Musicfan. Thank you So much for you words of encouragement. You have no idea how taking just a moment of your day to send sunshine my way helped to light my path!

Green Machine(s)

Green Smoothie Recipes I'm trying....


Green and Yellow
1 banana
2 cups chopped Chard
soy milk (of soy apply juice!)
1 tablespoon flax seeds

Sweet Pea
1 banana
1 cup grapes
6 oz tub vanilla yogurt
1/2 apple
1 1/2 cups fresh spinach leaves or Chard

Island Green Breeze
1 frozen banana
2 cups chopped kale
1 tablespoon flax seed meal (optional)
1 tablespoon coconut oil
1/4 cup milk
1/3 cup orange juice

Green Tease
2 cups Chard
2 cups frozen strawberries
1 banana
2 tablespoons honey
1/2 cup ice