Some people may say when I believe in something, I go 110% into it. Little did I know that when I attended the class "Queen of Your Realm" by Rev. Ava Park, I would be becoming a Queen myself. I think the Queen within me was screaming for me to let her out. I've been an overgiving mother for too long and now it is my time to receive so I don't burn out, so I bring harmony and balance to my life. It's great to give but if we only give, in the end, we will burn out, dry out, become angry, tired, irritable, cranky and a few other not very nice qualities one can have.
My Queen journey started by getting a crown ring that will act as a reminder of the qualities I want to incorporate in my life such as letting people help me, not playing superwoman, placing myself in the center so I can vision my realm and create it the way I like it, respectful of others and expecting respect from others among other queenly characteristics. Sometimes they say you have to fake it till you make it so since I took the class I've been calling myself Lady or Queen, and now my husband calls me Your Highness... LOL. I also got some Queen mugs that I have around the house and I even got my own crown. All these external symbols help my mind encourage the Queen that is already inside me to come out and be part of my life.
But like they say in witchcraft teachings, it is not about the tools that make the witch powerful but the witch herself that creates the powerful magick. Being the Queen is about our actions, it's about the way we portrait ourselves in public and in our realms, it's about reflecting what's inside in the outside and visioning our worlds. It's about teaching others the way we want them to treat us, setting healthy boundaries and making sure that we walk our talk. When I read this phrase from Ava, I couldn't help but take it as one of my mantras for life:
"The Queen does not react; She intends, She plans, She sets boundaries, then She acts." by Rev. Ava Park ~ Author, "Queen of Your Realm: The Queen Teachings for Women" and Presiding Priestess of The Goddess Temple of Orange County.
While reading this phrase, I couldn't help but think all the times that I had screamed my lungs out because I got exhausted and I wanted attention but all I got was deaf ears and bad faces. The things I said moved from one ear to the other and out without leaving any mark. My boundaries were not honored when I screamed.
If I didn't scream, I would be a passive aggressive playing victim and trying to make others feel bad because I was soooo tired, I did so much.... You know the story. Have you ever screamed and felt you were not even heard? Have you ever played victim because your boundaries were not honored?
Yesterday, I was taking care of one of my friends' kid and he was complaining that he wanted to play with my phone and I said no. He got very upset and had a tantrum fit. I did not say much. I just said "I will be downstairs, when you feel better, come down." I did not engage with the tantrum fit, I did not try to convince him to do something different. I just stated my boundaries, no emotions, just pure assertiveness. I went downstairs and less than five minutes later, he was downstairs all happy and loving again. The Queen did not react, just withdrew her attention to make sure that her boundary was honored and respected.
Being the Queen is hard work, it is a reprogramming of our actions and ways of thinking, but in the end, it is an archetype that is necessary for women to have so we can change the world. We will not change the world as Maidens. We will not change the world as Mothers. We will not change the world as Crones. We, women, will change the world as Queens.
Blessings )0(
Lady Carolina
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Choice and Intention
The other day I was re-reading the book "The Queen of My Self" by Donna Henes and I came across this powerful paragraph:
"The story of our lives is ours to create. We can design our own roles and ideals, compose the scripts, and author the sagas of our own futures and that of the environment around us. While we cannot necessarily control the circumstances and influences that present themselves to us in the course of living, we can choose how we will respond to them when they do arise. Our power of choice is our sole control in the world. With each new paragraph, each turn of the page, each blink of the eye, each new dawn, each moment in time, we are gifted with another opportunity to exercise our right to choose. Coffee or tea? Lemon or milk? Right or left? Stairs or elevator? Vacuum? Vote? Cheat? Trust? Care? Dare? Change? What paths we take, what decisions we make, influence how the story will proceed and who we will be from this day forth."
When I read this paragraph, I couldn't help but think how many times we don't realize that even when we are not choosing a path, we are actually choosing. We are choosing to remain the way we are, we are choosing inaction, we are choosing status quo, we are choosing to remain silent, we are choosing to follow the commands that have been programmed in our minds by society, by our parents, by the world. It is important to realize that from the moment we wake up till we go to bed, we are choosing. What we choose is up to us. We could choose to sit down in front of the television and eat till we can not eat anymore or we can choose to get up and go for a hike. It's really up to us what we choose and how we make our lives. The universe will send messages to us and put us in situations to help us learn lessons and grow, and it is up to us how we react. Do we give up? Do we continue to fight? Do we ignore? Do we deny? Do we confront? Do we explore? Do we take ownership? Choice is power. Don't let others take your power away because you allow them to choose for you because even then, you are choosing and your choice is one of giving away your power.
Intention is also coupled with choice. When we live with intention we know that from the moment we wake up till the moment we go to bed, we have the intention to do something, we have a purpose, we have a vision, we have a plan. Our intention and our choices determine what our lives would be in the future. Like Rev. Ava Park said "there are several dimensions and in another dimension, there is a version of you that already has all the things you want now, it is up to you to choose and manifest those things that are already yours in the here and now." Intention can help you bring them to reality, intention can help you manifest what you want.
So tomorrow, when you wake up, think about the power you have in every choice you make and live with intention. You will see your life flourish and become the image you hold in your mind of how your realm should be.
Many blessings,
Lady Carolina
"The story of our lives is ours to create. We can design our own roles and ideals, compose the scripts, and author the sagas of our own futures and that of the environment around us. While we cannot necessarily control the circumstances and influences that present themselves to us in the course of living, we can choose how we will respond to them when they do arise. Our power of choice is our sole control in the world. With each new paragraph, each turn of the page, each blink of the eye, each new dawn, each moment in time, we are gifted with another opportunity to exercise our right to choose. Coffee or tea? Lemon or milk? Right or left? Stairs or elevator? Vacuum? Vote? Cheat? Trust? Care? Dare? Change? What paths we take, what decisions we make, influence how the story will proceed and who we will be from this day forth."
When I read this paragraph, I couldn't help but think how many times we don't realize that even when we are not choosing a path, we are actually choosing. We are choosing to remain the way we are, we are choosing inaction, we are choosing status quo, we are choosing to remain silent, we are choosing to follow the commands that have been programmed in our minds by society, by our parents, by the world. It is important to realize that from the moment we wake up till we go to bed, we are choosing. What we choose is up to us. We could choose to sit down in front of the television and eat till we can not eat anymore or we can choose to get up and go for a hike. It's really up to us what we choose and how we make our lives. The universe will send messages to us and put us in situations to help us learn lessons and grow, and it is up to us how we react. Do we give up? Do we continue to fight? Do we ignore? Do we deny? Do we confront? Do we explore? Do we take ownership? Choice is power. Don't let others take your power away because you allow them to choose for you because even then, you are choosing and your choice is one of giving away your power.
Intention is also coupled with choice. When we live with intention we know that from the moment we wake up till the moment we go to bed, we have the intention to do something, we have a purpose, we have a vision, we have a plan. Our intention and our choices determine what our lives would be in the future. Like Rev. Ava Park said "there are several dimensions and in another dimension, there is a version of you that already has all the things you want now, it is up to you to choose and manifest those things that are already yours in the here and now." Intention can help you bring them to reality, intention can help you manifest what you want.
So tomorrow, when you wake up, think about the power you have in every choice you make and live with intention. You will see your life flourish and become the image you hold in your mind of how your realm should be.
Many blessings,
Lady Carolina
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
In Time
Movies have the power to take us places. To guide our minds to different spaces where we can be curious, we can experience, we can wonder. Today, I watched the movie "In Time." You may be asking yourself if I am a Justin Timberlake fan. Just to clear the air, I am not - LOL. The movie has a very interesting twist and I thought with a tag line that says "Time is Power" it was definitely worth watching. The story is not strong but it does have a key component that made me think a lot. In that time, people use time as currency. Time was literally money and people would die when they ran out of time. A coffee would cost 4 minutes, rent maybe cost a few days, and people got paid in time. People would steal time from each other to be able to survive and time was also a way to controlling people, a form of power.
As I watched this movie, I started thinking about life in general and how we don't appreciate our time. We are usually rushing from one place to the next. The week starts and we want it to be Friday again. The day start and we want it to be 5 o'clock. We just want to push time and fast forward instead of realizing that time is one of the most valuable possessions we have because we do not know when our last day on this earth is, unlike the movie where they had a watch ticking and showing how much they have left. Each day can be the last and if you only had one more day, what would you do on that day? Would you do what you are doing now? Would you spend it with the people you are now? Our clock is ticking within and even though we don't know when it will stop, we do know that it will stop one day for sure. If you are living your life for somebody else, whether it is your parents, your spouse, your partner, your child, think again. Like on an airplane, you need to put your oxygen mask first, then help others. We can not live our lives sacrificing for other, we need to learn our own lives and if each person did that, there would be less misery in the world and people would be happier. We would live in a world where people love what they are doing and they know that each minute is as they would want it to be. No regrets. No pain. No guilt. No anger. Mortality is very real and uncertainty as of how much time we have left is also true. Choose to live your life from the heart. Appreciate and spend each minute wisely. You can not go back in time, you can not change the past, but you can definitely start today to live with intention, to make each minute count, and know that in the future when you look back, you would say "I would not change anything" and in the present moment you would say "this is as I would want it to be now."
Blessings )0(
As I watched this movie, I started thinking about life in general and how we don't appreciate our time. We are usually rushing from one place to the next. The week starts and we want it to be Friday again. The day start and we want it to be 5 o'clock. We just want to push time and fast forward instead of realizing that time is one of the most valuable possessions we have because we do not know when our last day on this earth is, unlike the movie where they had a watch ticking and showing how much they have left. Each day can be the last and if you only had one more day, what would you do on that day? Would you do what you are doing now? Would you spend it with the people you are now? Our clock is ticking within and even though we don't know when it will stop, we do know that it will stop one day for sure. If you are living your life for somebody else, whether it is your parents, your spouse, your partner, your child, think again. Like on an airplane, you need to put your oxygen mask first, then help others. We can not live our lives sacrificing for other, we need to learn our own lives and if each person did that, there would be less misery in the world and people would be happier. We would live in a world where people love what they are doing and they know that each minute is as they would want it to be. No regrets. No pain. No guilt. No anger. Mortality is very real and uncertainty as of how much time we have left is also true. Choose to live your life from the heart. Appreciate and spend each minute wisely. You can not go back in time, you can not change the past, but you can definitely start today to live with intention, to make each minute count, and know that in the future when you look back, you would say "I would not change anything" and in the present moment you would say "this is as I would want it to be now."
Blessings )0(
Monday, October 31, 2011
Changes in Seasons and the Druid Path
When I decided to walk the Druid Path a few months ago, I realized that nature has become more than something that's out there, something to admire. I started feeling like Nature has been communicating with me in different ways. For example, as I was walking down the stairs at work the other day, I found a little lizard on the bottom of the stairs. I had never seen a lizard in a place like that but he was looking at me, he had a message. I came back home and at looked at my Animal Speak book and there it was, the message was one of "detachment." sometimes you need to become more detached in life to survive. If you are too attached, you are too close, you will suffer. If instead you detach from the situation, you can look at the whole picture like the Queen and decide what is best for your realm even if it means sacrificing your own dreams, your own desires because in the long run, it is what is best for all.
Then a hummingbird was flying next to my window in the hummingbird way of flying when it seems it is suspended in the air. He wanted me to see him and his message was one of exploring the past and making sure I draw the nectars of joy. He reminded me that there is sweetness in any situation, not matter how sour it may be at the time. That joy is always there and that everything happens for a reason. Each situation is part of our learning experience, of our path, of our lifetime.
As I took the trash out the other day, a butterfly was sitting on the wall of my patio like ready to give me a message. She was sitting quietly and waiting for me to notice. I saw it on my way to the trash area, and then on my way back. I had to make sure my eyes were not tricking me and that the butterfly was really there. Animal Speak says butterflies show up in your life when you are going through changes and you need to evaluate what state of change you are at now. It also reminds you to not take things so seriously and they bring a sense of lightness and joy. Butterflies reminds us to get up and move for if we can move, we can dance.
I think my most amazing experience was last week. As I walked around my apartment complex during the night, I started feeling the tingling in my hands. I could feel the energies of the plants around. I could also feel the energy I was creating to surround me in the shape of a circle, a protective circle like the one we cast when we are about to start a ritual. My hands started moving, my right hand was forward, my left hand was back, then moving around and changing positions creating a perfect circle. I kept walking until I finally felt it. This tree was calling me. He was my tree companion. I came closer to it. I placed my hands on it and I felt the tree vibrating as if it had a heart beat. My own heart beat accelerated. I started breathing deeply. I could feel the roots of the tree and the earth below. The tree and I became one and I asked the tree to take all the pain away and transform it, wash it off, let it go. In exchange, I gave Reiki to the tree and some of my own vital energy. The connection was made. This has become my tree and I will surely visit him often.
As I connected with Nature during October, I realized how we in our own worlds also change with the seasons. The wheel of the year is always spinning and as we move through it, we can see we change with it if we are in tune with it. We can see how we let go of all those things that don't serve us anymore during the fall like the trees lose the leaves. We start creating the new during winter, putting the seeds on the ground of all those goals and things we want to accomplish. We see them flourish during the spring and mature during the summer until we take them out of the ground with the first harvest - Lammas. The wheel keeps spinning and spinning, and it is in us to see these changes and choose to live with purpose and mission.
Today is Samhain on the Northern Hemisphere, we celebrate the night of the dead, the ancestors. The time we go back to the cauldron to be reborn during the winter solstice. I invite you to live this next wheel with purpose, with passion, with heart, with soul. See Nature and see how it reflects in your own life. What things you need to let go of today so you can make space for the new? What things no longer serve you? What have you learned and you are ready to move to the next lesson? Live with purpose today and tomorrow and you'll see the difference. Your life will become magickal and you'll have the opportunity to create the life you want.
Blessings )0(
Then a hummingbird was flying next to my window in the hummingbird way of flying when it seems it is suspended in the air. He wanted me to see him and his message was one of exploring the past and making sure I draw the nectars of joy. He reminded me that there is sweetness in any situation, not matter how sour it may be at the time. That joy is always there and that everything happens for a reason. Each situation is part of our learning experience, of our path, of our lifetime.
As I took the trash out the other day, a butterfly was sitting on the wall of my patio like ready to give me a message. She was sitting quietly and waiting for me to notice. I saw it on my way to the trash area, and then on my way back. I had to make sure my eyes were not tricking me and that the butterfly was really there. Animal Speak says butterflies show up in your life when you are going through changes and you need to evaluate what state of change you are at now. It also reminds you to not take things so seriously and they bring a sense of lightness and joy. Butterflies reminds us to get up and move for if we can move, we can dance.
I think my most amazing experience was last week. As I walked around my apartment complex during the night, I started feeling the tingling in my hands. I could feel the energies of the plants around. I could also feel the energy I was creating to surround me in the shape of a circle, a protective circle like the one we cast when we are about to start a ritual. My hands started moving, my right hand was forward, my left hand was back, then moving around and changing positions creating a perfect circle. I kept walking until I finally felt it. This tree was calling me. He was my tree companion. I came closer to it. I placed my hands on it and I felt the tree vibrating as if it had a heart beat. My own heart beat accelerated. I started breathing deeply. I could feel the roots of the tree and the earth below. The tree and I became one and I asked the tree to take all the pain away and transform it, wash it off, let it go. In exchange, I gave Reiki to the tree and some of my own vital energy. The connection was made. This has become my tree and I will surely visit him often.
As I connected with Nature during October, I realized how we in our own worlds also change with the seasons. The wheel of the year is always spinning and as we move through it, we can see we change with it if we are in tune with it. We can see how we let go of all those things that don't serve us anymore during the fall like the trees lose the leaves. We start creating the new during winter, putting the seeds on the ground of all those goals and things we want to accomplish. We see them flourish during the spring and mature during the summer until we take them out of the ground with the first harvest - Lammas. The wheel keeps spinning and spinning, and it is in us to see these changes and choose to live with purpose and mission.
Today is Samhain on the Northern Hemisphere, we celebrate the night of the dead, the ancestors. The time we go back to the cauldron to be reborn during the winter solstice. I invite you to live this next wheel with purpose, with passion, with heart, with soul. See Nature and see how it reflects in your own life. What things you need to let go of today so you can make space for the new? What things no longer serve you? What have you learned and you are ready to move to the next lesson? Live with purpose today and tomorrow and you'll see the difference. Your life will become magickal and you'll have the opportunity to create the life you want.
Blessings )0(
Saturday, October 29, 2011
You have a Complementary Account for $14.99
I always have a hard time communicating with people in India over the phone. Whether it is when I call the help desk or when I am calling some customer service center for an issue I am having. Today was no different. I decided to cancel a credit monitoring service because I received a free two year service from work and it is redundant to have two. When I called this company, it took about 10 minutes to get through a representative. When I started talking to this lady, she was unable to locate my account. Then she said the account had been cancelled before but I mentioned I was being charged for it so I was wondering where the glitch was. She said she could not identify my account and was talking to a supervisor so she placed me on hold. I spent about 20 minutes waiting for this person to locate my account and she magically found it after I said I would contact the bank and request a charge back and block their company from taking any more money from my account. After she found the account, she told me that it was a complementary account and I was not being charged for it. When she said that, I was looking at my statement and seeing the charge that took place in September. You can imagine I was not very happy and I felt like she was really thinking I was silly. She kept saying that somebody was paying for the account as it was complementary and in my mind I was like "Yes lady, I am paying for it."
As I hanged up feeling like I had not accomplished anything, I called the credit card company to place a block on this company. After waiting a few minutes, I got another call center located in India and the man who was talking to me felt like he had a script. He told me I had to contact the merchant and wait another month. I told him that I had contacted them and there was no solution on their end and I needed to put a block on them. He said he could not do that and kept repeating I had to contact the merchant. By that time, I was already extremely frustrated since I had spent 40 minutes on the phone trying to solve something that should have taken 5 minutes. I finally figure out that I would file a dispute for the charge so at that point they will block the merchant.
As Ava Park said "A Queen usually does not go to war, but when she goes to war, winning is the only option." I was professional, I explained my situation, and in return I felt I did not accomplish anything so now I am disputing the charge because I will make sure this company will not take any more money from me. I could rest. I could let go. I could give up. That's not who I am. When something is wrong, we have to stand up and fight for what we believe and make sure we don't let it pass by. It could be an account for $14.99 or something bigger, what matters is the attitude and the will to stand for ourselves and make sure we set clear boundaries.
Many blessings )0(
As I hanged up feeling like I had not accomplished anything, I called the credit card company to place a block on this company. After waiting a few minutes, I got another call center located in India and the man who was talking to me felt like he had a script. He told me I had to contact the merchant and wait another month. I told him that I had contacted them and there was no solution on their end and I needed to put a block on them. He said he could not do that and kept repeating I had to contact the merchant. By that time, I was already extremely frustrated since I had spent 40 minutes on the phone trying to solve something that should have taken 5 minutes. I finally figure out that I would file a dispute for the charge so at that point they will block the merchant.
As Ava Park said "A Queen usually does not go to war, but when she goes to war, winning is the only option." I was professional, I explained my situation, and in return I felt I did not accomplish anything so now I am disputing the charge because I will make sure this company will not take any more money from me. I could rest. I could let go. I could give up. That's not who I am. When something is wrong, we have to stand up and fight for what we believe and make sure we don't let it pass by. It could be an account for $14.99 or something bigger, what matters is the attitude and the will to stand for ourselves and make sure we set clear boundaries.
Many blessings )0(
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
About Legendary Women and Vision
It's not every day that we get the opportunity to meet somebody who can change our lives, somebody who with one word can bring harmony into a chaotic world, somebody who we can admire and become fond of. Last weekend, I had the opportunity to participate in the "Queen of Your Realm" Convocation with Rev. Ava Park. Ava is one of the most amazing women I've met in my life. Her energy, her charisma, her power are beyond any words I could use to describe her. You have to experience Ava to see what I am talking about. A Priestess, a Goddess Woman, a Queen, a vessel for transformation for this world that is in so much need for change. Ava Park is the presiding Priestess and founder of the Temple of Orange County - http://goddesstempleoforangecounty.com/About_Rev_Ava.html. As she talked and described her teachings, I couldn't help but feel that every word of her work resonated with me on a deeper level. She was describing the qualities I aspired to have, the leader I want to become. Her Queen Teachings are some of the most amazing teachings I've ever experienced as a woman and I highly recommend to participate in her workshops. Ava is also writing a book that will be published next year and I am definitely waiting for that book to be out.
During the workshop, she described the Queen as the one who holds the vision, the one who has the plan. The woman that sees the bigger picture and makes her decisions based on what is best for all involved, not just a few, but all. She also talked about the Queen being at the center and not at the top and I definitely liked this much better than the normal King mentality of being on the top and directing everyone but when we are at the center, we can see everything and feel everything so we can decide what is best.
As she talked about vision, I couldn't help but think that in the past few months I've been lost, I have lost my purpose, my vision, my fire. As I said before, I think I got lost in the woods of my own confusion and shadow self. My Shadow Maiden and Shadow Mother have come strong and played their parts showing how I can derailed fast if I don't keep my focus, if I don't stick to the plan and make sure that I manifest the world I really want to manifest and not the one that just comes because I live without intention or purpose. Intention is very important and also a clarity about where we are going and what we want to accomplish. This world is just a reflection of our dreams, if we put energy and passion in creating our dream, we will live in the world that we desire. If instead, we let things happen to us, get sucked into victimization, feeling hopeless, helpless, and lose faith in ourselves, then the world be nothing but a mere shadow.
Do you know where you are going? Do you know what your vision is? What would you like to have accomplished in 5 years, 10 years, your life? Do you want to live a legendary life knowing that you lived your purpose and you manifested your dreams creating a better world for the future generations? It is time for each of us to care of our realms, it is time to become the Queen and make sure that we are planning and visioning so our realms are what we want them to be and not what others just desire. You have the power to create, you can manifest your dreams. Start today!
Blessings )0(
During the workshop, she described the Queen as the one who holds the vision, the one who has the plan. The woman that sees the bigger picture and makes her decisions based on what is best for all involved, not just a few, but all. She also talked about the Queen being at the center and not at the top and I definitely liked this much better than the normal King mentality of being on the top and directing everyone but when we are at the center, we can see everything and feel everything so we can decide what is best.
As she talked about vision, I couldn't help but think that in the past few months I've been lost, I have lost my purpose, my vision, my fire. As I said before, I think I got lost in the woods of my own confusion and shadow self. My Shadow Maiden and Shadow Mother have come strong and played their parts showing how I can derailed fast if I don't keep my focus, if I don't stick to the plan and make sure that I manifest the world I really want to manifest and not the one that just comes because I live without intention or purpose. Intention is very important and also a clarity about where we are going and what we want to accomplish. This world is just a reflection of our dreams, if we put energy and passion in creating our dream, we will live in the world that we desire. If instead, we let things happen to us, get sucked into victimization, feeling hopeless, helpless, and lose faith in ourselves, then the world be nothing but a mere shadow.
Do you know where you are going? Do you know what your vision is? What would you like to have accomplished in 5 years, 10 years, your life? Do you want to live a legendary life knowing that you lived your purpose and you manifested your dreams creating a better world for the future generations? It is time for each of us to care of our realms, it is time to become the Queen and make sure that we are planning and visioning so our realms are what we want them to be and not what others just desire. You have the power to create, you can manifest your dreams. Start today!
Blessings )0(
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Steve Jobs - 1955-2011
Last year, my best friend sent me a link to the one speech I think it is one of the best speeches I've ever heard. Below is the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc
This was the first time I was introduced to Steve Jobs. If you know me, you know I live in my own private bubble and I am not very connected to the outside world since my inner world has plenty to keep me entertained. Like a Harry Potter book would say, I don't participate much in the muggle world. But this speech has the strength to burst my bubble and catch my attention. Each word Steve said resonated with me greatly and let me see him for who he was. A pioneer, a square peg into a round hole, different, unique, a person who was not afraid to follow his heart and live with passion.
On October 5, my best friend texted me telling me "Steve Jobs is dead." A sadness took over since this person was only 56 and he was gone. He had lived with passion. He had changed the world. He had left his imprint and legacy on this Earth. Can we say the same? If we were to die today, would the world remember us or would the world forget? That day, I decided to watch the Stanford Commencement Ceremony again. As I watched, I wrote down the words and phrases that really resonated with me at that time.
"Connecting the dots - Trust that all will work out. You can't connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect the dots looking backwards so you have to trust that the dots somehow will connect in the future. You have to trust in something, your gut, your destiny... because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart even when it leads you off the well worn path and that would make all the difference."
How many times have you been in a situation when you wonder why I am living this? What's the lesson? Why life punishes me? Why does everything have to go wrong? Those are the moments you need to trust that the dots will connect and in the future, you will look back and smile because you wouldn't be the person you would be at that time if you hadn't gone through that experience.
"Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick, don't lose faith"
How many times have you wanted to give up but kept going? Thought everything was lost but inside yourself, you had faith that the lesson was there for a reason.
"If today was the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am going to do now?"
Do you live with passion? Do you wake up in the morning and know that you will doing what your heart wants and not what your mind wants. Are you following your mission in life or just the vision somebody had for you? Today, we had an earthquake in the Bay Area, nothing mayor, but it brought back human mortality and how we are all going to die one day. Once again, the question would be if I died today, would people remember me? Would I have fulfilled the purpose I had for my life? Would I have lived my life as the unique being I am bringing my gifts and skills to help the world become a better place?
"Your time is limited, don't waste it living somebody else's life."
"Stay hungry. Stay Foolish."
Steve Jobs was a man who changed the world. Will you do the same?
Blessings )0(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc
This was the first time I was introduced to Steve Jobs. If you know me, you know I live in my own private bubble and I am not very connected to the outside world since my inner world has plenty to keep me entertained. Like a Harry Potter book would say, I don't participate much in the muggle world. But this speech has the strength to burst my bubble and catch my attention. Each word Steve said resonated with me greatly and let me see him for who he was. A pioneer, a square peg into a round hole, different, unique, a person who was not afraid to follow his heart and live with passion.
On October 5, my best friend texted me telling me "Steve Jobs is dead." A sadness took over since this person was only 56 and he was gone. He had lived with passion. He had changed the world. He had left his imprint and legacy on this Earth. Can we say the same? If we were to die today, would the world remember us or would the world forget? That day, I decided to watch the Stanford Commencement Ceremony again. As I watched, I wrote down the words and phrases that really resonated with me at that time.
"Connecting the dots - Trust that all will work out. You can't connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect the dots looking backwards so you have to trust that the dots somehow will connect in the future. You have to trust in something, your gut, your destiny... because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart even when it leads you off the well worn path and that would make all the difference."
How many times have you been in a situation when you wonder why I am living this? What's the lesson? Why life punishes me? Why does everything have to go wrong? Those are the moments you need to trust that the dots will connect and in the future, you will look back and smile because you wouldn't be the person you would be at that time if you hadn't gone through that experience.
"Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick, don't lose faith"
How many times have you wanted to give up but kept going? Thought everything was lost but inside yourself, you had faith that the lesson was there for a reason.
"If today was the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am going to do now?"
Do you live with passion? Do you wake up in the morning and know that you will doing what your heart wants and not what your mind wants. Are you following your mission in life or just the vision somebody had for you? Today, we had an earthquake in the Bay Area, nothing mayor, but it brought back human mortality and how we are all going to die one day. Once again, the question would be if I died today, would people remember me? Would I have fulfilled the purpose I had for my life? Would I have lived my life as the unique being I am bringing my gifts and skills to help the world become a better place?
"Your time is limited, don't waste it living somebody else's life."
"Stay hungry. Stay Foolish."
Steve Jobs was a man who changed the world. Will you do the same?
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