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I'm hanging out in a couple of different locations today. Head to either or both! Crazy Sexy Life I'm guest posting for Kris Carr, NY Times bestselling author of Crazy Sexy Diet. You should get to know her and all she's up to, for sure and you can read my post on Five...
The Quest of Your Heart
“Last of all, you must want to find it,” she said, flipping her thick black braid off her shoulder. I frowned. What kind of idiot did she take me for? I traveled 3200 miles, by cab, two airplanes, by rental car over dusty washboard roads for three and half arm numbing...
Bucket List Got You Down? Try a Thimble List
I do not have a bucket list. On paper, I love the idea of it - a list of things to experience in life - and I can certainly see how such a list could motivate you to open more to wonder. As much as I love adventure (I'm in Portland this weekend at the World Domination...
Emerson and Self-Trust: A Personal Invite
Tickled to be one of the "thought leaders" (that phrase always makes me giggle) celebrating Emerson's 208th birthday. The Domino Project is republishing Self-Reliance by Emerson and to bring your attention to this lovely volume, they have a great invite for you. But...
Oprah’s Final Show
"Start embracing the life that is calling you and use your life to serve the world.” -- Oprah Those words sing to you, don't they? They make you say YES, please, YES! They certainly do me. (Thanks to everyone, including Goddess Leoni, who sent them my way.)...
The Writer’s Retreat Contest Winner
Please read this post before you scan to see if you won - please. Being of service means choosing - choosing where you can give your limited time and energy, where you can share your limited resources. At first, I did not want to choose a winner for this contest. I...
The GPS of Your Soul
I drove back from a life-changing retreat lead by author and wise woman Christina Baldwin* yesterday noon. As I drove up the spine of Whidbey Island, past milk cows, spring greening cedars, pie shops and many espresso stands, I thought about what gets in our way after...
Savoring & Serving
An occasional round up of Savoring & Serving inspirations from my heart to yours: The Work that Goes into Magic In which the fab Colleen writes things like "I suspect that kings lose kingdoms because they have no one around them willing to argue against their own...
Transform Shame into Essence then Action
The deeper I've dug into my stories of shame (thanks to the community at the Savor & Serve Cafe and the guest experts we invite in for long wonderful chats like Brene Brown and Eric Klein), the more I've seen the link between failing at something and creating a...
Instructions to Self on Becoming Supple
Give up all hope of ever getting it together rinse & repeat 10000000 times a day without succumbing to despair and resignation Claim my light and shadow back from where I have flung them - light, not just shadow compare = despair Give up my search for answers and...
Savoring in the Face of Disaster
I am privileged to create a home on the web for an extraordinary mix of about 400 super-duper smart, compassionate, engaged, insightful women, a number of whom live in the South, where tornadoes ripped lives apart last week. Nay Nay is one of those amazing women. She...
We Can be the Greg Mortenson’s of the World
This post is not about whether Greg lied - this is about how I interact with stories of service. About what I am doing or not doing. This morning I couldn't sleep. I was thinking about Greg Mortenson. Under-attack hero. 3 Cups of Tea spilled. I thought how much I want...
Leave the Ideal and Liberate Your Longing (or How to Love Chicken Butts)
My assistant Deb gave me this stone for Christmas. I’ve been re-reading Thoreau with my daughter and I’m struck by the same thing I was when I read him as a kid – he makes living by your principles sound like an early Nike ad - just do it. He makes it sounds so easy...
Shrink Your Steepest Hill
I belong to a birthday club. We share a sumptuous dinner four or (hopefully) five times a year in celebration of each of our births. Here's a picture from our most recent celebration: I share this with you because service happens best when we are connected. When we...
8 Weeks into the Experiment: Heart’s Desire Found
I launched this experiment 8 weeks ago. I can only chuckle at my fantasies of what would happen in eight weeks. I am so good at fantasies. Savoring and serving? Got nothing to do with fantasy. It's got everything to do with being in your body. Honoring what you can do...
Stepping into Your She-ro’s Journey
Can you feel it? Can you? Please tell me you can because I am feeling it to vastly, so insistently, I can barely sleep. Some days I don’t know what to do with all the energy bubbling up through me, so I go outside and howl with the coyotes. Tell me you feel it. Then...
19 More Random Acts of Kindness + Small Acts of Love
I was talking to astounding server-of-life Julie Daley this morning about a fall event we are dreaming up with sizzle muse extraordinaire Dyana Valentine, mega-soul mogul Danielle LaPorte, make-your-own-luck maven Susan Hyatt (get her new book, it is great!), the...
19 Random Acts of Kindness
A month and three days ago, Beth's son was murdered. Beth belongs to my Savor & Serve community. She attended one of my retreats last year. Over the years, I've gotten to share her heart's desires, to walk with her as she makes a life she loves - and even to know...
Despair You are So Busted
Listening to NPR this morning, a doctor in Afghanistan said the entire country is very depressed. Caught between our drones and the Taliban, with no justice, no hope, no normalcy, despair is killing them. Driving home, I thought about how despair and depression...
Everything is Conspiring on Your Behalf – Everything
Everything in my life is conspiring to teach me to savor & serve. I wonder if that is true for you, too? From the messages on the Yogi tea tags to every book I pick up to the interviews I did yesterday for Teach Now with Michael Jones, Brian Andreas and Lee-Ann...
How You Teach is How You Do Everything
by Michele Lisenbury Christensen and me As you read through the following list, you may see yourself more than once. We sure do. This list of ways we can approach teaching is both diagnostic and prescriptive - it will lead you to sparkling fresh insights and some new...
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