Rusty is gone and left a heritage about love.

. Rusty, our cat died this weekend. She was the sweetest yet most verbal cat I’ve ever come across. Because she had so much to say, she played a big role in our life. She was very wise, our little cat. She took life as it presented itself, she showed us how to relax and be peaceful; but above all else she knew a lot about love.

Rusty, a balm for wounded hearts.

That was very clever of her because if you don’t have love, no matter what else there is, it will never be enough.
This makes having a wounded heart a serious matter indeed.
To never feel satisfied, to never feel you have received enough because your wounded heart is not up to dealing with love, is a nasty life sentence in my book.
Isn’t it true that above all else we want love?
Isn’t it love that colors our world, what makes it beautiful, what has us to whistle while we work, what unearths our brilliance, our talents and our beauty?
Isn’t it love that has us live a life WE choose and has us pursue all we possibly can?

How I found my dream, my purpose.

. Follow your heart, create your dreams, go for it, you can do it! Such a great message, such a wonderful promise. These messages should get me excited, shouldn’t they? They should have me racing off into the direction of my dreams, shouldn’t they?

Making a heart on Bethells beach while my heart sings.

Did they and was I on my way?

No, I did NOT race off and no, I was NOT excited! 
Even when I got as far as the start line, I had no idea what direction to race off into.

I hate to admit it, but for most of my life I couldn’t find my dream, my purpose in life and I could NOT race off powerfully mowing down every obstacle on the way.  

An Irish woman and a Dutch woman, what are they up to in the South Pacific?

. Gloria Steinem once eluded to the fact that  “Any woman who chooses to live like a full conscious human being, looking beyond what is currently so, will need her sisterhood to keep her on track.” So true. I too believe that everybody who wants to tackle becoming a fully conscious human being, needs support, big time. How come?

Wilma and Ann-Marie, and yes we are working! The WomenLikeMe way of course!

Because the status quo and your familiar patterns will worry and wonder where you are off to, when you go for full human beingness.
They have no idea what you are doing and thus will reel you back in when they think you venture out too far.

Sorry folks; there IS more to the 10.000 hours success story. Of course!

. As always there is a bit more to the story of 10,000 hours than we think. How come the Beatles and Bill Gates could stick to doing what they were doing and avoid the trap we normal mortals seem to fall into most of the time? I am talking about the trap of stopping just 2 inches from gold, of giving up before we hit the jackpot.

John and I on our way to striking gold here and loving every minute of it.

There is no doubt we are all doing things, we are all striving for something.
But how come they kept going until they made it and we don’t.

Let me begin with a story.

How am I going? Anywhere near my 10,000 hours yet?

. Blogging scared me and being in business frightened the heck out of me even more. And what about all these current new paradigms that are promising everything I absolutely love but which I find so hellishly hard to understand and practice. So you can imagine that reading about putting in 10,000 hours practice to master these difficult paradigms and these things that scare me, didn’t do my insecurities any good. Not one bit.

Women like me, whom I met on my way to my 10.000 hours

It left me with the question ‘Where am I at with my 10,000 hours in my quest for living life wholesomely different doing all these new things?
I’ve only just started, so how long will it be before I can see the results and more importantly how do I know I’m on the right track and doing the right thing for me?