Gratitude Day 21 - Sticky Notes

My Ode to Sticky Notes

Dear Sticky Notes, dear sticky notes oh how you save my day....

I'm a list kind of girl. Lists for my day, lists for projects, list for shopping, road trips....the list goes on :-)

It wasn't until the inspiration, from the space work I was doing with my clients, that I started making sticky notes part of my lists.

In the Clean Language space work that I do, we write on sticky notes to place in different areas around the room to signify feelings or thoughts. As we work though the process we can move them around or toss them when they are complete. It's brilliant.

It worked so well I started integrating sticky notes into journals, lists and as a inner process tool for myself and my clients. You can move them around, regroup them and arrange them in any way.

And, it is so rewarding to complete a task and get to peel the sticky note and toss it with great satisfaction.   Yes! job done!

I am so grateful for these little sticky bits of paper that help me organize my life in the most creative ways.

xoxo...Becca

Gratitude Day 20 - Silver Linings

Every cloud has a silver lining ... 

This phrase has stuck with me through my life. One that makes me think of a cloud filled sky with the sun brilliantly shinning behind them... 

And me running off into the land of my daydreams.

Sure, clouds bring rain...

And the sun makes the silver lining...

And oh so much more!

Today as that phrase came to my mind, I started to think of what it would be like if we could just keep making the silver linings in our life bigger and bigger to the point that our clouds were just silver shining globes in the sky. 

I imagine that would be quite a sight. 

But then maybe it would be too bright. And so having a bit of cloud to give accent and contrast really actually creates more beauty.

And like a great metaphor, it inspired my thoughts towards day to day life. 

If everything was just perfect all the time, how would we measure perfect? Perfect would in some way just become the new normal.

The challenges in life help to create the contrast. 

It give us something to grow towards, create, make better... 

something to dream about...

I am so grateful for the silver linings in life. 

To find them everywhere, like blessing radiating and illuminating life in the most beautiful way.

Yes, I am grateful...

And I invite you to find your silver linings my friends... they truly are a sight to behold.

xoxo...Becca

Gratitude Day 19 - Philosophy

Philosophy  - The thought came to me today as I was pondering oh so many things....

"I am merely a philosopher of my own life experiences..."

Those tantalizing thoughts that open doors in the mind to new worlds of conscious awareness.

I am grateful for curious thoughts

I am grateful for questioning minds

I am grateful for expansion 

I am grateful for new knowledge

& I am grateful for the gift of language to create the clever witty platform to carry these doorways through the ages.

Gratitude Day 17 - The Body

I have nothing but respect and love for this amazing vessel that I get to call home....my body. 

I am forever in awe with how intricate and advanced it its. This micro of the cosmos that holds worlds within worlds within. 

I love that, despite my ignorance of what is going on inside, my body is continually aligning itself with wholeness and balance.

I breathe without needing to think about it. 

My heart beats, my blood flows.

My immune system protects me.

I can sense the world around me in a beautiful array of ways.

I appreciate all the signals that I am given, the pain, the discomfort and the pleasure, that let me know when I need to assist in some form of action for continued well-being. 

Signals that inform me to rest, hydrate, stretch, move, eat...and so much more. 

What a gift to be given this advanced vehicle to explore this world.

To live life, to experience life, to feel life!

Yes, I am so grateful for this body I call home.

Remember to tell your body thank you!   
xoxo...Becca

Gratitude Day 16 - Expansion

In nature, there are only two states of being .... growing or dying. 

Sometimes it is these simple truths 

that wake me up the most. 

I find in myself the desire to thrive, to grow, to learn to expand. And it is tangible when growth happens in any form. 

Once you become informed or learned about something, it is pretty hard to unlearn it. 

Knowledge changes things. 

Just like it is super uncomfortable to try to squeeze into smaller clothes that we have outgrown, old thought forms can feel the same way. 

It is amazing to expand into our truth. Tangible expansion of self. Continually happening and pulling us closer towards interconnection with all. 

I am grateful for expansion. I am grateful for growth.

We are in constant motion  ... lets make sure we are moving the right way!

Gratitude Day 15 - Fun

You know you are having fun when you forget to take out your phone and take a picture of the moment!

... & more importantly, you forget about your phone altogether.

When I was a kid we used to move a lot. This meant that I was always having to make new friends, or probably more correctly, figure out how to fit in. 

I remember seeing best friends together and thinking that was so cool. How great it must be to have that special someone that got all your innuendos and jokes. 


It took me a long time to realize that it was me that was holding myself back from joining in on all the fun, not my circumstance. Sure, having a long history with someone is great, but that isn't the requirement to having real connection and fun with someone. 

When I learned how to be transparent with myself, I opened myself to being transparent with others. This was one of the biggest key factors in freeing myself from the myth that I needed to "fit in" in the first place. 

All the fears of judgment, shyness, insecurities etc. started to fade away. 

Thank goodness for the mirror that showed me that I was the one barking in my own face. 

Our world is a mirror reflection of our perception!

Laughter,

Fun

Child like freedom

In the moment

Fun

Talk about everything & nothing

Playful

Fun

I am so grateful to share this fun with the new friends I meet and the friends that I have known through the years. 

I am so grateful for the healing recharge of mind body and spirit when we just let go and have fun!

Gratitude Day 13 - Love

Love. What a wonderful word and even more so, what a wonderful feeling.


There is a rainbow of love in my world that and I am so grateful for . The love of my husband, the love of family, the love of friends, the love of pets, the love of the divine. And the love I give myself.

Pure, unconditional love. 

Love from the heart. 

Love that flows freely.

So there are two baby eagles that are on live cam  in the D.C. area. Baby Liberty and baby Freedom. I don't see them very often on the computer, but I was blessed with the best update on them when I called my mother in law to say than you and I love you.

I enjoyed hearing about how big they are getting and how they are doing all these exercises to strengthen their wings and the feeling of the anticipation for their first flight.

There was one part of the story that really touched me. Recently there was a very strong storm. Normally the mother eagle sleeps on a branch above the nest, but during that storm, the mother eagle came down to the nest, hanging on with all her might, in order to be with the babies through the night.


The storm was wild. The wind was whipping the nest all over the place, there was lightning, rain and thunder. The mama eagle could barely keep from getting knocked over by the wind and rain in the crowded nest. Soaked as she was, she never left the side of her babies the entire night.

And there they were, too big to hide underneath her, so they huddled next to her and tucked their little heads into her feathers feeling the comfort and assurance of her being there with them through the scary night.

To me this is such a wonderful story of love.

It is honest, and in its purest unconditional form, it reaches straight for the heart.

xoxo...Becca


Link to the eagle cam http://dceaglecam.eagles.org/

Gratitude Day 12 - Elders

I spent my day in the middle of thousands of people as they celebrated loved ones. I enjoy being in the midst of a large collective of humans all vibrating in this joyous state. 

I also got the opportunity to help a few elders to their cars. Their smiles and genuine happiness was so wonderful. One woman was 95 and had Alzheimer and so her answers to my questions were a small window into the world she was living in. Her world filled with happy people and jubilant events from her past. 

It was such an honor for me to be able to spend the time with those that I did today. 

And it reminded be how much I appreciate the wisdom and stories of those who have circled the sun for much longer than I have. 


This idea of legacy. Our story. What will we say at 95? What unique signature are we creating with our time here?

Time is so valuable. 

I am grateful for time with elders who bless me with their portals into a past that I now get to know in a richer way through their own words and memories. I am grateful for the gift of the personal experience they share with me. And I am grateful for the reminder to make my life the best biography in the making that I possibly can. 

What legacy are you creating?

xoxo...Becca

Gratitude Day 10 - Blessings

A while back our family made the conscious decision to start celebrating every blessing that we experience. This habit has become something that brings so much joy into our life.

We celebrate big and little victories, accomplishments, 11:11's (or other numbers like it), syncronicities and abundance however we receive it and anything else that we feel in our heart.

To us, finding a penny on the ground is a momentous occasion and brings a cheer. 

"Lucky penny!" 

"Look a blessing!"

But it's not only pennies, this celebration brings every currency and even paper bills and the occasional diamond too. 

And the thing that I really notice is that whether we find a penny or a $50 on the street, the joy feels the same.

It reminds me of the thought that What we celebrate we invite more of into our life!

I had quite a collection of lucky pennies going and I decided to make a jar of blessings. A little something that when I see it I think of all the celebrations we have had as a family and all the blessings that we are open to receiving.

It reminds me of all the great experiences, connections and loved ones we have in our life.

I am so gratitude for every blessing and I am so grateful that we are open to receive them with open arms and big smiles. 

What is your "jar of blessings"? 

And how do you celebrate the blessings in your life?

Let's share our ideas and help spark new ways to celebrate our gratitude!

xoxo...Becca

Universal Mind

Gratitude Day 7 - Patience

Patience, I'm not always very good at it. It's hard for me to sit still for too long. Hands on learning works better for me and yes, I'm the one that jumps at the idea of travel or a road trip if I've been in one place for too long.

When we moved from Virginia to California at the end of December, I had a clear vision of our start
up plan here, a plan that included me doing massage.

Well not this time, this time the "plan" was all fine and dandy but not what reality dished on our plate.

You see, usually getting your massage license transferred to a new state takes about 30 days but my 30 days turned into 2 months, 3 months, 4 months.....5 months!



It was this process alone that taught me so much.

I faced feelings of self doubt, fear, elation, freedom, worry and and surrender. Sometimes one at a time and sometimes all at once.

But dispute it all I kept coming back to just letting go...and I was so grateful of the patience that it showed me through this surrender of what I thought should be.

Every once in awhile I would still think about my massage license...what ever happened to that!?

And then there it was in my inbox ..."Congratulations!"

I had to laugh out loud!

Yes, patience. I am so grateful for patience and surrender. I am grateful that I allowed myself to trust and flow with the process. (not without some anxiety, ha!)



I have really stepped outside of the box now and had to face a lot of places in me. The truth is I didn't always like what I saw. But it was because of this experience that I got to shine the light on fears and insecurities that I may have never found otherwise.



And I'm sure to the universe, 1 month or 5 month....what's the difference? lol!

xoxo....Becca

Enlightenment

100 Days of Gratitude - Make it a Year!

I feel a great sense of joy inside when I see the gratitude, love, inspiration and positive vibes that others share with the world. 

It is so wonderful to see what others are doing and feel that connection on an energetic level with the positive art that I create and share. I love it! I love that there are so many of us doing this and I want all of us to inspire more and more people to also share positive vibrations of love, gratitude, inspiration and beautiful art with the world.



I have been doing gratitude journals for a long time and so when I saw a friends post of  #100daysofgratitude on Facebook I warmed with joy at the idea of sharing gratitude in this way. What a great way to inspire through social media!

Just like the #lovestones, let's keep growing the #positivevibes and sharing the love through our #positiveart. I want to continue the sharing of this idea of 100 days of Gratitude! Or if you like let's make it a Year of Gratitude! Wow! Imagine the wave of blessings and smiles we can create by doing just this one thing!

On my ground zero day... A year of Gratitude-Day 0

I share with all my gratitude for other artists of love and joy who share in their own creative ways with others. Because all of us together are creating a better world around us with each breath of gratitude we take. 

Let's make a wave!

I am so grateful to all who help me share this post. And I invite you to make your commitment to sharing with others your 100 days of Gratitude or if you choose, make it a year!

Post your gratitude and tag it with:

#100daysofgratitude

#yearofgratitude

#positiveart

#positivevibes

and if you would like to see what others are grateful for, you can join the 100 Days of Gratitude community on Facebook at: 

https://www.facebook.com/100DaysOfGratitude

With Joy and Gratitude!

xo...Becca