All in a day’s work

In the infinity of life…

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… where I am, all is perfect, whole, and complete. I am one with the Power that created me …

(Most mornings, I repeat this custom version of affirmations from Louise L. Hay. It only takes a minute, filling my heart with possibility.)

I love myself; therefore I behave and think in a loving way toward all people, for I know that which I give out returns to me multiplied. I only attract loving people in my world, for they are a mirror of what I am.

I love myself; therefore, I forgive and totally release the past and all past experiences, and I am free. I have within me all the ingredients for success. I now allow the success formula to flow through me and manifest in my world. Whatever I am guided to do is a success. I learn from every experience, going from success to success and from glory to glory. My pathway is a series of stepping stones to ever greater successes.

I love myself; therefore I work at a job I truly enjoy doing, working with and for people I love and who love me, and earning a good income. My unique talents and abilities flow through me and are expressed in deeply satisfying ways. There are people out there who are always looking for my services. I am always in demand and can pick and choose what I want to do. My work is a joy and a pleasure.

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Ten thousand hours.

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If any of you have read Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers, you recognize the phrase ten thousand hours. According to many studies, ten thousand hours is the magic number of greatness.

“Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good,” Malcolm states in the book.

In journalism school, our professors always urged us to write, write, write –keep writing until you get enough words under your belt to actually start being a writer.

Don’t I know it.

How many steps does it take to achieve exercise nirvana? Ten thousand. A doable thing.

If you’ve been writing an hour a day, every day for a year –you’d have hit ten thousand hours in a smidge more than 27 years.

I’m several years over. Does this mean I can start being a great writer?

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Making room for the new.

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Cleaning out your closets may not be something you look forward to doing, so remember what it feels like when you’re done!

This is how you open yourself up to the abundant flow, the new, how all your needs and desires are met before you even ask.

Lately, I start my day with this: “I wear my beauty graciously. I am strong, releasing the past to move my body forward in a healthy way. I love and approve of myself.”

p.s. Happy Birthday, Mom!

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Successful unveil.

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After celebrating five years of publishing trade magazine HUDSON’S Childrenswear Review, co-founder Margaret Mobius took stock of her media company’s future. “In recent months, we have taken the time to really consider our dream – our brand, goal and focus, and our customers’ needs and wishes,” she says. “Now, we are excited to introduce to you our newly re-designed website.”

On July 1, Margaret and our staff unveiled a clean, well-organized online presence for HUDSON’S featuringa “magazine flipbook” version of our current issue and a nifty advertiser section that highlights our advertisers in a stand-out way.

Developed by Jordan Mansfield, the all-new HUDSONSCR.com also has links to official blog HCRSourceBook (two years’ publishing in May), HUDSON’S Facebook page and more.

I’m excited! It’s a fabulous start to the rest of 2011 and beyond!

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Bright core of failure.

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I’m meditating on abundance today, a practice that grows richer with the concept of flow.

The title of this post refers to a poem written by Rumi. Whether you’re flourishing in success or lamenting a failure, it is really all the “same glory,” as his words are translated. “You live in beautiful forms, and you are the energy that breaks form,” Rumi writes. “All light, neither this nor that.”

My yoga teacher Nancy Ayala

What a lovely expression of abundance, of flow. No matter what you face or how you get there, your personal power fills that place where experience lives with its light. It’s the epidemy of abundance, coming from a place of “full” … able to move in and out, back and forth, up and down, no matter what it looks like on the outside.

At the end of each yoga class, my teacher says, “My light sees your light.” I can’t help but feel full then, feel the abundance of life.

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Summer introductions.

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Today, I smell peonies growing in my front yard, the scent filling my office. The Earth has already opened its arms to the solstice and I am following suit.

Many across the country have already experienced summer’s heat … and fire or floods … but she’s only recently revealed herself to us here in the Pacific Northwest, shyly exhaling soft, warm air over all the living things. Big sigh. Not to say that things haven’t been growing around here; it’s a moist Lord-of-the-Rings sort of landscape lush with pine and green. A shade garden, I think they call it.

What I know is, it’s warmer outside than it is in here, so that’s where I’m heading. To celebrate the sun.

And … to find scented geraniums at the garden shop. I’ve got the truck today!

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Still wearing flannel pjs.

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Here it is, the middle of June, and I’m still wearing flannel pajamas.

This is not to say that I’m actually working, wearing flannel pajamas (think the flannel suit on Wall Street,  for those uninitiated in the foibles of freelance work). Unless it’s four o’clock in the morning, I arrive in my office dressed appropriately and smile every time I answer an email. Even if it is just down the hall.

Yet I’m still sleeping in flannels, under several comforters, too. Long winter’s nap, as they say, the preamble to summer solstice notwithstanding.

Only the occasional morning greets me with sunshine right now, frequently mellowing throughout the day to the gray of clouds –angry rain clouds at that.

And it’s chilly. My office stays a brisk 62 to 65 degrees.

Good sleeping weather, though.

It’s just that … with the sun rising here a little after 5 AM, setting after 9 PM, it’s such a pity to squander the light behind a veil of dull.

This of course, is just my opinion.

I’m very ready to enjoy a cup of coffee sitting outside on the deck … in a caftan, perhaps (come to think of it, I even own a flannel caftan).

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Beautiful kindness.

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Go ahead. Ask.

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Who are you? What do you want? Do you believe in the wisdom of uncertainty? Why would kitties sit in any sliver of sun when it shines? Does love come into the heart with a song? Can you wrap your legs around your head? Do you want someone to listen to you? How many times do you sneeze in the morning? Is that coffee in your cup? Which do you prefer – the left coast or the right? Is that a live oak or a red oak? Are you a gold or silver kind of person? Can you watusi? Do you want to be heard? What is the color of heat? Do you think if you live the questions, life will move you to the answers? Are you fascinated by the shape of trees? Do you like reading my posts? Why not sign up for an email subscription – you receive a little somthin’-somthin’ to ponder every Tuesday and Thursday? What is my purpose?

List maker.

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What is it about the human psyche that responds to lists?

Americans have our top 10’s, our winners, our honeydo’s, our grocery lists. I’m an organized person and pretty old school about my lists – I like to write them out and check them off (if applicable).

Can you tell a lot about a person from their lists? Hmmm. Take, for instance, my own fickle list of favorites, (partial, among other things):

Favorite guilty pleasure: ABC’s Castle

Favorite current TV image campaign: USA’s Characters Welcome

Favorite recent television commercial: iPad, VO: Peter Coyote

Favorite newscast: ABC World News

All-time favorite newscast: CBS News Sunday Morning

Favorite TVchef du jour: Roger Mooking, Everyday Exotic

Favorite new spice mix: vadouvan

Favorite drink: all things wine

Favorite mind game: meditation

Favorite exercise: yoga

Favorite fashion inspiration: Anthropologie windows, catalogs … and shoes

Favorite book at the moment: Stieg Larsson’s The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

Favorite music discovery: Tina Malia, The Silent Awakening

Favorite sanctuary: San Diego

Favorite thought-provoker: spirituality & religion

Favorite garden flower: geraniums, especially scented geraniums

Favorite night sky: full moon in the desert

Favorite Steeler: Hines Ward

Favorite Charger: Antonio Gates

Favorite Cowboy: blue-eyed Miles Austin

Favorite Saint: Drew Brees

Favorite Falcon: Michel Turner

Favorite Giant after Michael Strahan: Osi Umenyiora

All-time favorite coach: Bill Parcells

Favorite owner I love to hate: Jerry Jones

Favorite NFL TV show: FOX NFL Sunday

Favorite football commentator of 2010: Jon Gruden

Favorite other sport to watch: Tennis, especially the US Open

Favorite moment of the day: the moment of gratitude

Now … you tell me.

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