Hi Megan, Sounds like you got the job.

Hi Sue, Staying mindful in the midst of change is difficult. Just giving yourself daily doses of compassion.

Hi Stacey, Wow, a memoir. That is exciting. It’s completely different than a blog. Just keep plugging.

Hi Katie, Business growing at warp speed is awesome. Delivering a ton of value is the key.

The Fun: um…I might be interviewed for the New Yorker for the Levity project? That feels fun….and exciting as TLP gets aoff the ground with our events.

The Beautiful: Driving to meet a friend for coffee in the enxt town over, driving rain, some fog, and passing over bridges with ocean views and lighthouses glowing. I love Maine in all seasons.

Yahoooooooo…..this is brilliant I love the hard the fun and the beautiful

Hard: I’m trying to write a memoir – very new to me and getting my head around the structure has been challenging.

Fun: I became a Big Sister again a few months ago and today we’re going out for breakfast – it’s always fun to spend time with my “little”

Beautiful – every day I get two feet on the ground is a beautiful day.

Aha–now we know what that cartoon character you posted the other day was doing with the hammer: He was trying to chip away at the post-holiday low energy wall that caught up with you! It’s always tough to go back to a full work week after a really long weekend.

In answer to your question to your readers about preferred learning style, I find it really depends on what I’m learning. I do best with a combination of visual, auditory and kinesthetic and often the remembered learning cross-pollinates– for lack of a better description. For example, dancing is very obviously kinesthetic, yet once I’ve learned the choreography, if I hear the piece of music I can see the choreography in my mind’s eye and I can sense it in my muscles. On the subject of music, yes Bach does indeed have some beautiful pieces–I like the Goldberg variations. I find the type of music I listen to really depends on the mood/energy level I want to experience.

Anyway here’s my hard, fun and beautiful update for the week.

Hard: Staying mindful about not getting caught up in ruminating around the uncertainties and transitions going on right now. It’s easy to start getting sucked in, bogged down and overwhelmed by the anxieties and unhelpful thinking and a real challenge to climb out once mired. I’m getting better at being able to acknowledge this stuff without getting caught up in it then returning my attention toward more helpful lines of thinking and feeling, but it definitely takes practice and compassion.

Fun: Going to a wonderful birthday celebration for my spiritual teacher on Wednesday night. It was so much fun to be part of that celebration and to catch up with some of my friends in that community. Also, I love the “challenge” of seeing how my poetic muse will translate the appreciation and respect I feel onto the page as a birthday poem.

Beautiful: Quite in addition to being a shining example of living his purpose and being in integrity, my teacher Jeffrey has an amazing capacity to awaken and nurture the creative passions and expressiveness in his students. I’ve seen and heard people’s creativity and talents really blossom over the years–often just because they have been provided with the encouragement and a safe space in which to do so. It was really beautiful and amazing to hear and see how other students had also incorporated their creativity into their gifts and expressions of appreciation.

On that note, I shall sign off and wish everyone a great weekend and many opportunities to express creativity in a multitude of ways.

For me, I like to learn in a few different ways. I can hear something and be moved by it, but I have to back it up with reading about it, as well. But I can’t do two things at once, so handouts never served me well with a speaker. I’d start reading ahead and not listening to the speaker as he/she did their thing. I like visuals, though, but only as support for the written or spoken word.

Hard: I was in a slumpy mood on Sunday. Bah! And I felt it from my head to my toes. Yikes, I don’t appreciate those moods.

Fun: An interview I went on yesterday. WOW! I laughed so many times, it was fabulous, and the president of the company commented on how nice my laugh was. It was just a really good time talking with that man for an hour and a half. All interviews should be THAT good.

Beautiful: The bond of soul-sisterhood. I have some of the best female friends a girl could ask for — some close, and some far away, but today I realized just how beautiful that bond of sisterhood is. Nothing can break us apart, and we’re rocks for each other when needed.

Well here is my favorite part of the week – your Hard, Fun and Beautiful Edition

Glad to hear you had nice holidays! As for me, well no holidays here in Canada for us at this time of year, so here is how this week went:

HARD: Thinking how I could restructure my time to fit in writing an e-book. In one way I have all the time in the world and yet writing and web activities seem to chew it all up very quickly.

FUN: Going to yoga this week for the first time, and the kind that you do in the heat of a sauna. Oh it was so much fun, can’t wait for next time!

BEAUTIFUL: Lance @ The Jungle of Life’s post on Beauty – it was one of those moments and things that makes me realize how much beauty there really is in people in the world!