Empowerment | I am an Interculturalist

Shunryu Suzuki once said – Our way is to go step by step, appreciating our everyday Life. Then we can see what we are doing and where we are. How often do we forget this koan and fill our lives up with multiple tasking and things to do lists. I know that it has been difficult for me at times to break myself of this habit and just smell the roses.

A useful tool I found was doing Daniele La Porte’s The Desire Map workbook. In this book you will work through all the things that inspire you and de motivate you. At the end you will come up with a list of 3 to 5 core desired feeling to live your life from.

Away with to do lists controlling your life, mine are I am Peace, I am Bliss, I am Love, I am H.O.P.E. – helping other people evolve and I am abundance. Since doing this process and a weekly checklist as to how I am going along in achieving my 2 to 3 goals for the year, yes 2 to 3 not 50 or 60 I have found that my head is so much clearer and I achieve much more of my what I will do this week to generate my core desired feelings.

Why is it important to appreciate our daily lives, I believe that a lot of us are just existing in our lives when we do not. How many of you can remember all the things you did yesterday because we are focussing on what we need to do to ….., were we appreciating our daily lives, methinks not.

Danielle La Porte is one of the young thought leaders transforming the way we relate to living our lives powerfully. I recommend you take the time to go through the Desire Map process, it will transform your life, and its under 50 bucks.

Have you ever received that call from your best friend, I need your help, I’m …….. What would you say. I have spent a lot of time in therapy and been hospitalised 4 times because I am not great at getting the coaching. But recently I had the thought what if it did not take years of therapy and having to go to hospital, what if it took ten words or less.

I have come up with this saying for the world, Love and Respect for All, No one left out, If we all lived by this koan, war would disappear overnight and peace would reign supreme. When I first thought of it I was confronted, but the more I share it and stand in its power, I can actually see it happening in my lifetime. We are on the edge of transformation for the planet, people are over the all mighty dollar being the dominant paradigm.

I have taken on a 32 day challenge to not complain, i.e. being part of a conversation that is a complaint, speaking or thinking a complaint. I am up to day 7, as a race humanity is not good at this non complaining. We seem to find it easier to bitch about life than stand in our power and make the difference required. I have had to leave situations several times but have also turned several situations around. MY mind needed some training in not thinking complaint mode, it is well trained in it.

So what would you say. I attended Catherine Deveny’s brilliant Gunnas Writing masterclass and I told her of my intention to write a book on the subject. Catherine reeled hers off without hesitating. What would our lives be like if we all could do that. Another one I use is it’s up to Us, because we can, its our time