So if you noticed, there's a lot of Shifts happening for me, the Fam, teams and Businesses. I am so excited about life today and it hasn't always been that way. In fact when I took the leap of Faith a lil over 3 years ago I had a really Big Dream and No idea of How yet. I sometimes love to put the cart before the horse, start pushing the cart myself, then find the horse and teams to move the cart more efficiently.
Well with the Dream, Business and Personal Brand, yep I did the same thing. Thankfully I have some Got her Done skills that I have been able to use along this journey to keep enough funds coming in to give me the time to deep dive into learning more of What I love and want to share with the world. I now get to enjoy more Quality family time, plenty of time for Personal development as it starts within me, time to nurture, guide and grow with those along the way ready to learn an easier way to Shift our own Shitake to enjoy more days. We don't have to agree, we Can disagree with kindness, compassion and grace so we have and create a safe space to be authentic, vulnerable, real and raw. Some of us may not know what that is, I get it, I understand and Boundaries plus communication are key for sure.
As I Partner with more Beautiful Sisters & Brothers that are ready to invest in themselves. others and build an inclusive community of Humans ready to find Creative, Fun solutions to live more and more in Wellness., while creating a life you love to live your best life. I am especially talking to those Mamas that are feeling frustrated, tired of feeling like doing all the right things, sometimes back n forth between procrastination and perspiration and yet there feels like something is missing. You've heard about Self care & Wellness and with the chaos of life the Most important Me time, to Recharge & Reset is most likely last on the To Do List.
Hi, that was me too, after so many times & years of being told and not being in the space to hear it with love, I realized the True importance, Yes, even as a Busy Working, Mama and all the chaos of life. When I am not taking care of myself first and I decide to show up anyway. The Mama that shows up, isn't always open to hear how others are feeling, may not even take the time to ask or care about finding out more. Again I get it, I am / was you too and if I can shift it so can you. Best part it's not about My way or the Me way, it's in the finding solutions so the We way so more of us, can find grow and share more of our Strengths rather than staying stuck in the weaknesses.
So Before I get in to writing a novel, when it’s a Blog, Bottom line for me, Change Begins in Me. Not My Fam or Team, in me, I had to get my Mind right and in alignment with my Desires, I had to start being my own Best friend instead of my worst enemy, I meant it well, those that do it too, mean well as well. Learning to give myself Love, Grace and Compassion while holding myself accountable for my actions and distractions, was key for My Shift and I am thankful.
Until next time, please know you are Loved, you are Not Alone and We Can make the Shifts to Live a Life we Love waking up to. I Believe in us and I Believe we can make Partner with and Invest in ourselves and all the people we are aligned to connect with along this Beautiful Journey of life.
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Change Begins in Me...
Today I know that's not mine to own, it took a long time to get here. And because of that I stay in my lane and work on the lessons for me, owning my part and letting others learn in their time. Does it mean I do it perfect, Fluff No. Life is Imperfectly Imperfect and so are We. We can't do better until we know better. It doesn't feel good to me anymore to be a part of or stuck in the Blame, Shame, Guilt trip, gossip game. It feels so much better to me, to own my Shitake and let others do the same. If we can and choose to help each other walk through it with more Love, Grace and Compassion awesome, it's an amazing journey thus far and I look forward to the Shifts and Gifts Daily. Btw Abundance flows in so many more ways than just the $$$ and the Blessings are so much more Priceless than I ever imagined. Truly Thankful on this gorgeous Thursday.
All this was to say I am going back to my original blogs about the Designs, the journey and the shifts behind them so I can share more of my journey with you. I share so others may learn, so maybe just maybe someone else doesn't have to take the longer harder road. We are all Unique depending on our experiences something that works for me, may not work for you, that's okay, let's find something that does. My geek out moments are personal development and finding what can work, finding Fun Creative Sustainable Solutions for everday What the Fluffs, Can make life even in the Freaking Chaos a lil Better. From the Better Shift we Can find more possibilities and solutions. I Believe in all of us, I Believe we Can do all the things we Love and that Feel good to us. It may not look the same to me as it does to you and it still Can be Right for We. 
Why do I say that, because the 3 of us in this house prove it on a regular basis and it works for us. It feels so much better than how we were showing up for each other until we began our journey. For me it started 8 years ago, the next big step was 7 years ago and each year Since receiving this home as the opportunity it was. I was a Single mom as Tam and I were friends, helping each other through life and building a foundation of trust and unconditional love. Each year after has brought even more steps to where we are now. Enjoying Being Present for each other, Thankful we make the time. It's not always easy and yet each day it proves to be so worth it, individually and as a family.So I am sitting here wondering how to start this after that Title.. I thought 3 years ago I was creating my life with everything I was doing at the time, the workshops, the events, the daily stuff, I was supposed to do for all the things. After the last 3 years of Shifts, Changes, Lessons and Blessings, I can say I was Dealing with the hand I was dealt and doing the best I could with what I was given and exhausted.
When I started working with Mentors to help me Shift my stinking thinking about life as I was exhausted from trying to help others while depleting myself. I meant well, I always do and yet I was causing more harm to myself and those I loved more than I knew. I had a lack of communication in some areas as it wasn't in a helpful manner. Teamwork makes the Dreamwork I always believed in and yet I lacked the full communication skills to make it work as my own FEAR of my reaction to others and Not Feeling Good Enough would creep in.
With so many lessons in the last year of I create my own reality I have realized so much including that my thoughts (our thoughts) around things Create our Reality and what we Receive and how that momentum can either Catapult us in to a life we Love and say of course that happened or a Why the Fluff is this all happening to me all the time. We bring whatever we think about into our reality, neither good nor bad it just is.
If I think & tell someone it is a certain way or how to be, that's what will end up being. When I notice what I am noticing, Shift my Thoughts to what I would Love. Guess what, that happens to, what we focus on we bring more of.
Silly big Family learning example was Last Sunday, I started doing laundry after putting it off since we got back. Yep lol So the laundry was a big pile in our kitchen. I did thankfully notice it was leaking before doing a second load & it finished the first load. I checked it out to see if it was anything I could fix & found out nope. Now the old Crystal would have Freaked cause that could hurt a pocketbook, anybody feel me on that. I'm Frugal and They can be expensive, even used.
So I let Tam know and we decide, nope not gonna panic. We know some tips about things as that's how I thrived during the first part of Single parenthood, thankful. So We talk about what we'd love, a Top load Washer, that no longer scares us on loads, lol. No matter how many times we've replaced them with Used, something was a lil scary about each one, lol. We are always thankful & yet they had their own personalities you could say.
So we talk to Jazz and ask her wanna see how to do something you desire with a lil more ease & fun rather than Rushing to Get Her Done? She was skeptical and still game, so we talked a lil about what each one wanted, no specific brands or anything like that just like White to match the other appliances, quiet, top loader and then Let it go. No worries, no stress on the How's, in the knowing, it'll be there as we wanted, in our price range and in Divine timing. We asked her to give us 2 weeks and the Key now is to focus on the things we Love, that bring us our daily happiness, while going about doing the rest of our lives in our Best life and we head off to bed. 
So Tam heads to work the next day and goes about her morning like usual and if you know her, that's her Zone & Happy place is working and Helping people. I love and appreciate her Heart Space. Then the morning goes by and she feels like calling and checking to see if there were any floor models that matched what we needed & no rush, keep an eye out. And I kid you not, they had one come in, the right size, the right price & we picked it up after Tam was off work, Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy.
When we switched it out, we opened it and there was an owners manual. This is a Y'all moment...Y'all I am 48 and have not seen an owners manual in a washer, for real. That may sound funny to some and yet it means so much, I was always raised to Save money wherever and however, work hard, push hard and do whatever it takes to get the job done. Too many times that ways and beliefs took hard tolls on my body, mind and spirit and left me inflamed, enraged and engaged. 
I truly am thankful for the beautiful people on my path that showed me ways to find my ease and flow of life. It’s not a one and done, it’s a daily process and for that I am thankful. I started this blog full of gratitude already for this week and so many shifts for the good in our lil Family and growing community, tribe and so much more than I hoped for.
I was finishing this blog after enjoying a Beautiful day at the Giants vs Dodgers Game, where I thankfully enjoyed the day with all the lessons and blessings. There was a time I had to step away from everyone and say no to things as I didn’t feel safe, I was having too many triggers to process and ground and it exhausted me.
Today I am thankful for continuing to do the work for me to Feel Good Enough more and more and I love and appreciate different ways I use to do just that. With the 3 Main things I Believe in, Change Begins in Me and Mindset, Motivation and Movement matter for overall Wellness in Mind, Body, Spirit...What would I love my life to feel like? And So much more.
I am grateful for the growing community we have in Partners in Believing, it’s not just about positivity, we have to do the work to see what the lesson is for us, not anyone else. No one can fix me and I can’t fix anyone else, however, together We CAN help each find different ways to find our best overall wellness for Sure.
