“People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.”
Iris Murdoch, A Fairly Honorable Defeat
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
When work, commitment, and pleasure all become one and you reach that deep well where passion lives, nothing is impossible.
~François de La Rochefoucauld“Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events not of words. Trust movement.” –Alfred Adler
There’s all kinds of places you may get stuck in carrying a big creative project to successful completion. One of the hardest parts can be stay committed day in day out until the project gets done.
Commitment is not just saying yes to a project one day when you are inspired. It’s like a marathon. You never get to the finish line feeling good all the way… sometimes it’s just painful.
But the end result is worth it, and leaves you with a deep feeling of accomplishment and exhilaration.
Commitment to a project takes saying yes to a project day after day, whatever the challenges that come up. It’s that ironclad mindset that you are going to do whatever it takes to get there.
To do that you have to be so much in love with your project, that you are willing to go past your comfort zone, risk yourself, and risk failure. It means you have to work tirelessly to put you vision in action. It will require all your courage, patience and endurance.
In a culture that encourages instant gratification and where there are infinite avenues to distraction and diversion, it takes a lot to be committed to a project.
It involves you not just saying yes to the project but no to all the things that can veer you off course. Sometime that may mean saying no to things you normally might want to do, like staying longer at a party when you want to be fresh for your project in the morning.
Or for those of you, who are modern renaissance souls it might involve saying no to a lecture or teleclass on any one of the many topics that fascinate you. Or it may mean for a short while to put aside certain other creative interests to get your present project done.
Some questions to ask yourself when you are considering committing yourself to a big dream project are:
Does the project engage your passion, and give you enough sustained pleasure, that you are motivated to take action, even when the going gets tough?
What kinds of things might you need to do that would require all your capacity of persistence? All your qualities of courage?
What could easily get you off track and distracted from finishing?
What would you have to say yes to achieve this dream project? What would you have to say no to?
Answering these questions in the first phase of a project can help you assess whether you have the necessary commitment to bring your project’s vision to completion.
I just adore Meryl. No question about it!
Not only is she a fabulous actress, but she has a kind of radiance that shines forth that I find captivating, and a beautiful sense of humor. Enjoy this video that captures some of those qualities!
“People often say that ‘beauty is in the eye of the beholder,’ and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.”
Salma Hayek
I’ve been spending some time in the last months working with different clients around their issues with money, helping free them of their shame and guilt around money matters, as well as blocks to financial well being.
Finances have been also been a place of shame and guilt for me, and I’ve been working hard to fully face my own financial demons. Using energy techniques such as the healing codes, EFT and Z- point, I’ve been able to release a lot of my self-sabotaging beliefs in relation to money matters.
This video with Byron Katie, a wonderful, truly wise woman gives yet another tool to release the thoughts that you need more money to be happy, and that you don’t have enough money.
Take a few minutes to benefit from the experience she takes you through in this video, to question your beliefs about your money “reality”.
“Take altitude pills if you are coaching with Katie. She really gets her clients flying!”
“After returning home from Europe about 2 years ago, I had the post-traveling blues, feeling as if I had ‘nothing’ in my life. In my initial session with Catharine, she helped unlock that part of myself that was able to remember and embrace my gifts and reconnect with an earlier vision I had for my life… Her passion and support for birthing a new part of my life journey has been fundamental in my ability to move forward, and I am most grateful for all the rich gifts and new friends that have come into my life through my work and play with her. Catharine has an incredible passion for her coaching practice and her deep desire to see other people reach their fullest potential is truly an inspiration.”