Do you ever get the feeling that you will never get it all right, that there is so much to learn, so much new that keeps coming up, so much changing, not even every day, but every minute it seems.
As you all know I am in the midst of two campaigns. My calendar got out of touch with my rational mind and voila’ – an Epic Experts Giveaway.
AND
Launching my virtual New Year Goals and Dreams Planning Program, Stalking 2023.
I’m excited (creativity always fuels my joy), exhausted tracking, planning, writing, and promoting, but I LOVE it… and I am so grateful to be able to do something that fills my time with creative adventures, new conversations, and shared stories. When you all gift me with a response and one of your own stories, my heart overflows with gratitude.
BUT… all that being said, guess who has gotten back on the first rung of that ladder up to the top of the ol’ shelf? Yep – me! I let all I had to do (or thought I had to do) overtake what I wanted or needed to do. The good news is that by writing the good, hopeful, joy-filled times, I remember how to take that step back when the poop hits the fan or when the muck gets too deep to take safe steps. I know my way off that ladder a lot sooner for the work that I have done and the writing that keeps me sane.
- Do you have a practice for bringing yourself back to you?
- Do you speak up for yourself when the poop hits the fan?
- When is the last time you took a breath and looked at where you are and where you want to be?
- Do you have a dream?
It feels like I am always in the process of learning something new or developing some new or underused “talent”. Sometimes it is time to let go of the stuff I’ve always done. This is the time of the year when I try to look into the “crystal ball” to discern where I have been, what has worked or didn’t, what I want and need to be my happy me, and what I need and want to do to get there.
What is my new threshold for happy?
Balance for sure is at the top of the list. When you are a recovering procrastinator, it is easy to put off, wait until tomorrow and often tomorrow never comes. Balance in the doing and being is my biggest challenge and part of that is because I am still learning what being me truly means.
Change usually throws me out of balance. Fine tuning one aspect of living can often throw the others out of whack ‘til I find that balance that feeds both equally or in a portion that best serves me. When I can recognize that I am overcompensating or undercompensating, that swinging of the pendulum from underdoing to overdoing. That is when I find my way back to the middle, to balance, and to me.
The key here as I write this, is to remember that I have tools to help me with this process and that remembering to open the toolbox is one of my biggest challenges.
In the end, when the pendulum rests comfortable in the center, balance is restored, inside and out.
May you find the peace and comfort that comes with balance and enjoy a most wonderful holiday season.
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Vicki Dobbs is a bold and adventurous warrior walking a path of heart to manifest spirituality in everyday lives. She opens existential gateways for individuals to face their challenges and embrace these tests as the great teachers that they are.
Her goal is to see everyone walk in beauty and balance every day of their lives empowered by the voice of their own authentic truth.
Through Wisdom Evolution and Sacred Wisdom Workshops, Vicki creates opportunities for others to make deep personal changes through experiential classes, ceremony, sacred art and story. She endeavors to inspire others to create their lives intentionally. Vicki is an Inspirator of everyday awareness, an Instigator of spontaneous stories and a Connoisseur of Creativity. Gratitude and grace sprinkled with humility and humor are the medicine she brings to the world.
As an Elder, Teacher and Entrepreneur, Spiritual Coach, Ordained Minister and Crafter of Sacred Art and Tools, Vicki perceives life’s journey as an ever-upward spiraling ascension of the human spirit leading her to wisdom, wholeness and authenticity.
Her experience includes being trained in the Harner Method of Shamanic Counseling and the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition of Cross Cultural Shamanism. She is a Graduate Teacher and Mentor with the Lynn Andrews Center For Sacred Arts and Training and has been the Administrator and Writers Guide for Writing Spirit, the School.
Vicki is also an Artist of the Spirit Certified Spiritual and Energetic Life Coach, a Graduate Mentor in the AoS program and a founding member of HeatherAsh Amara’s Warrior Goddess Leadership Team and Facilitator of the Warrior Heart Practice.
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