lara simmons

For this final post of the Write Your Life! online mini-session , I would like to share a prayer with you. I don't remember where I first read it, but it was written by a three-time cancer survivor and I think it gives great advice. Don't live in fear. Open your heart. Become who you were sent here to become. I hope it inspires you to continue the work you have started by writing your life. "I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire.  I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me,  to make me less afraid, more accessible; to loosen my heart  until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise.  I choose to risk my significant, to live so that which came to me as seed goes to the next as blossom,  and that which came to me as blossom,  goes on as fruit."  -- Dawna Markova

"Make small changes see where they take you, repeat." -- Carolyn Hax

"A journey               of                a  thousand miles                                  begins                                   with  one step."                                  -- Lao-tzu Don't forget to take  your "one step"  today!

"IF I believed it were possible, what step would I take next?" -- Mary Morrissey How did it go? Were you able to take your first step, or did you get stumped or sidetracked? Either answer is ok.  If you DID take your first NEXT EASIEST STEP in the last twenty-four hours, pat yourself on the back. Great job! Cross that one off and pick your NEXT EASIEST STEP from the list in your journal. Do that within the next twenty-four hours.   If you DID NOT take your first NEXT EASIEST STEP, pull out your journal and answer this question: What happened?  Be brutally honest with yourself. Why didn't you do it? Are you afraid? Are you still unsure about exactly what it is you want to do? Do you not believe that what you want is possible?  Whatever the answer, write it down and then decide what to do next. You may want to redo your life map , or spend a few days repeating the heart-centered meditation . Maybe go back to your list of next easiest step...

"You are never given a wish  without [being given]  what it takes to make it come true."    -- Richard Bach This week is a bonus week - one I hadn't really planned on doing - BUT as I sat and finished the posts for last week on Thursday, I felt like things were incomplete. Like I was leaving you hanging. And I didn't want to do that.  There IS a fifth chapter in  my book  and it's called, " What's Next?!? " because it's all well and good to WRITE YOUR LIFE - to  draw a new map and listen to what your heart really wants  - but after that you have to figure out how to LIVE this new life you have imagined. And that, my friends, takes ACTION.  Yes, ACTION.  Stepping out, putting one foot in front of the other and starting to move in the direction of your dream whatever it is.  So that's what we're going to talk about this week: the DOING. First things first, grab your journal or a piece of paper. Fin...