July 11, 2007 - Blog Launch
Of the many blessings in my life, one of the greatest is my friends, who often speak the Truth to me and show me my path in loving and caring ways. One of these friends, who is an inspiration to me, has helped me see that small steps can build the pathway to big audacious dreams! So I have cast my fears and doubts aside and begun this journey.
And so it is for us all — we begin to climb the mountain one step at a time, focusing on the present moment, which is where we experience our true joy.
Have you ever tried to freeze a moment in time? Stopping, breathing, and focusing, just for the instant you are in, on a cloud or another miracle of nature? Letting your eye rest there, quieting your mind, and realizing that in the instant, the moment — exactly where you are — you are totally safe, whole, complete, and free? In that instant, there is nothing wrong in your world, you are in the perfect now and perfectly who you are and who you were created to be.
Then little by little you can string these perfect pearls together — creating waves of gratitude and positive energy. Which enables the way to become clear and the flow to carry you gently, without needing you to manipulate outside circumstances in the hope of changing your inner world. Only your thoughts can change your reality, from the inside out. My work in changing my thoughts has completely changed my inner and outer worlds, absolutely for the better.
My vision for this blog is to begin a discussion of how we can improve our lives in the workplace, and by extension our workplaces themselves, by being authentically who we are at work. We can bring a spiritual awareness based on honesty, integrity, and open-mindedness to our work lives. Even if we don’t like what we do, where we do it, or who we do it with, we can be happy and fulfilled on a daily basis. We can be in the solution and walk with grace. We can honor our co-workers, even those we fear, by simply allowing them to be who they are. We can improve our communications and get our needs met.
I believe that all workplaces can be places of learning and joy, even if what we learn ultimately reveals choices which must be made that we’d rather avoid. We can be happy even when we are not happy. We can stop fighting.
As one of my favorite teachers, Dr. Wayne Dyer, to whom I owe an enormous debt of gratitude, says: “When you change the way you look at the world, the world you look at changes.”
