Emerging Futures

I started my day with telephone and email conversations with three women, one of whom I’ve known for years and the other two much more recent entries onto the holodeck of my experience.  Each conversation left me filled with deep love for who each of these women is:  full of wonder and willingness to engage; unsure and moving forward with trepidation and still, completely unwilling to NOT move forward; and standing firm in a quiet resolve to fully live her life, whatever the price may be, and unwilling to ever again be small and still in order to bring peace to someone else.  I hold each of these women as a living act of courage, unfolding. 

I’m noticing, more and more, that the women in my life are different from the women I meet in other environments.  It is less that they are a new ‘breed’ and much more that I believe them to be the precursor to a new expression of an awakened species: the Quantum Biological Human.

Historically, women have been the caretakers of the relationships while men have been trained to be the caretakers of the task.  Men become practiced and adept at ‘thinking/doing’ while women have become the same at ‘feeling/being’.  Like being nice; being polite; being understanding; being compassionate; being loving and warm and nurturing; being forgiving; being patient; being kind… and the list goes on and on and on, ad nauseum.

All of these attributes have been long encouraged and rewarded in women.  I take issue with none of them individually AND what I do take issue with is the price that women have paid to be seen to be these things as a statement of identity.  The expression of these was not dictated by the circumstances but by gender.  For me, that is no longer enough.

It is possible to be kind and considerate AND to be honest and direct.  It is possible to be loving and careing AND to draw the line in the sand and say ‘No more!’  It is possible to be forgiving AND to nonetheless, choose to leave.  It is possible to be nice and polite AND to decline/say no/refuse.

This expression of what I see as women awakened, is making it uncomfortable for many – both men and women.  It’s not easy, anymore.  It’s not predictable.  And it’s not a ‘done deal’ for any woman in my life.  Every single day, when she gets out of bed and prepares to step into her day, what guides her is not how her life went yesterday but how she wants to design her life today!   

That means that she gets to change her mind – without need for long stories and explanations, although she may choose to provide one.  It’s an option – not a command performance.

It means that she can love someone – deeply and profoundly and unconditionally – and still choose to live her life separate from him/her.  Whether it is mates/partners/lovers, our children or our friends, loving does not preclude individuation, separation and a willingness to be committed to her own evolution and sense of personal joy!

It means that the quality of her life matters, too.  No longer is it useful or valuable or meaningful to be the buffet from which everyone else feeds while she starves herself from living her own life.  She is discovering that it is possible for others to feed themselves.

This is a scary time for women.  Awakening to this expression of themselves means that people will be annoyed with them (who isn’t annoyed when the service stops and you have to do it for yourself!!!).  It means that others will be shocked when they cease to do what they’ve always done, and do something else instead.  It means that other women will be pissed when they no longer respond to the circling of the wagons as the be-all and the end-all for making the ‘right’ choice and capitulating to the expectations of other women.  It means that they will find themselves outside those circled wagons… and free to move on!

It also leaves us to ponder:  who will we become if/when we are able to love AND not stay; to give AND still not give up ourselves; to engage AND do so in a way that also honors our own needs, our own dreams and our own lives?

This is a scary time for men.  For so long, the women in their lives have put up, shut up and done what has been expected of them that they might be considered all those things I said above.  The demands now being placed on the men in their lives to take responsibility for their own emotional states; to do what is required for them to grow and evolve and become; to step up to the plate and discover their own capacity for ‘being’ while, at the same time, continuing to be able to ‘do’, is a terrifying place for many men.  It’s not that their not up to it – it’s that far too many don’t know how.  In my books, that no longer cuts it for not engaging.

It also leaves us to ponder:  who will we become if/when we can not know AND still be sure of ourselves; can be vulnerable AND still be connected to our strength; and can reveal our inner self AND still trust our confidence and competence to live meaningfully and well. 

In order for men to become who they are capable of being as fully expressive and engaging life-forces, women must let go of them; must trust them to be able to take responsibility for themselves; and must lay claim to their own terror in doing so. 

In order for women to become who they are capable of being as fully expressive and engaging life-forces, women must reclaim themselves.  Whatever that takes and however that looks, for each of us as individuals.  There is no cookie-cutter approach.  Life is the one thing that each of us must make up every single day, and we must do it alone.

I am surrounded by amazing women!  I am also surrounded by amazing men… many of whom have not yet figured out that they are just that – amazing!  Both these women and men are often afraid of being different; of being hurt and of being left behind.  The paradox is that I can think of no faster way to have that become a self-fulfilling prophecy than to curl in on ourselves.  It is imperative that we unfold, head up and arms open wide, chest up and out, belly to the world, and trust that we’ll be just fine!    

I stand by my choices and encourage you to stand by yours. 

Breathing is good…

(See Kathryn’s comments on ‘The right to change my mind’)Hi Kathryn,Thank you - for being a living example of the genius we instinctively ARE in the world! I can’t think of a single thing that is more connected to the body experience than a bed!  It is, after all, where we begin and end our days; where we surrender our need to hold ourselves up to the simple process of being held and supported; and where our personal choice, when driven by the intellect and logic, can lead to our suffering through an instrument of torture every single day of our lives! Thank you!  Thank you for trusting yourself.  Thank you for noticing that you do, indeed, deserve it - not because that side of the list is longer than the other, but because you say so!Thank you for declaring yourself to be worthy; for choosing yourself over all the reasons that could have persuaded you NOT to do so; and for being willing to share this journey with all of us.I offer this simple thought:  I encourage you to consider the degree to which this process has been a metaphor for how you make choices in  your life in other areas, too.  Consider also the possibility that this time, you moved beyond your history and took the first steps to designing your life differently.  Don’t be surprised if you begin to notice your life differently.  You might become more aware of all the places in your life where there is room for you to be MORE than you had thought possible  You might also discover that there are many in your life who want  you to have what you desire.  As you choose YOU, your life will expand to accommodate your growth.  An Emerging Future is our invitation to allow our lives to become much larger than our (hi)stories.And just think - you get to do all that and have a great night’s rest, to boot!I appreciate your taking the time to connect. Sleep well!Louise

As much as it’s always great to get away, it’s equally great to be home! 

I just spent time at Disneyworld in Florida.  Interesingly, I saw as many adults without children as I did those with!  I also saw more metaphors for living than I had noticed on the last trip to Fantasyland. 

I was very aware of distinctions between ‘illusion’ and ‘reality’, never quite sure that I could be definite about either one.  They seem to drift into and out of each other, sometimes feeling like droplets of water seeping into cracks and at other times, more like smoke filling a room and creating a haze… leaving us to wonder:  is it the room or is it my eyes?

I found myself thinking about the movie ‘Wag the Dog’ and all that television has to offer.  I watched the news from time-to-time and wondered:  what’s ‘real’ and what’s ‘illusion’?  Just how much of what we consider to be ‘real life’ is nothing more than an orchestrated event or, at the very least, orchestrated retelling of an event. 

It really drove home the point that it’s all made up!  Everything!  The way our emotions flow through our body.  The string of thoughts that line up neatly and trundle through our awareness, herded and packaged by subject heading, working hard to eject the interloper thought that strays and wanders into our awareness at the ‘wrong’ time.   Heaven help us should we dare to think a thought that does not match ours or someone else’s expectations!

I pondered the ‘magic’ of Disney (and it is indeed, magical, to be present to some of their creations!) and also pondered the ‘magic’ of how our lives unfold.  How much of how we live is carefully crafted to be seen to be a particular thing, as opposed to allowing that life to just unfold and be what it is destined to become?  How much of ‘magic’ is really carefully constructed expressions of ‘reality’, trained into submission lest anything out of the ordinary distract us from the illusion of its perfection?

I came home feeling rested and ready to expand my own thinking.  I returned mindful that once upon a time, I knew that my destination was to get to Vancouver from Ottawa.  My greatest challenges were in determining my best effort for the journey, through train, car, bus, bike or plane.  I’m now aware that my destination is the moon - and all that I know will not take me where I want to go, regardless of how intricately I may know how to get to Vancouver. 

I wonder about that… about the moon and the gap that exists (all that presumed empty space that is nonetheless filled with life!) and how to get from here to there.  I wonder about how to cross that gap and reach my destination.  Then I wonder:  how much of that gap is really illusion -and there is no gap at all!  What, then, is required for me to get to the moon? 

That requires not just new thoughts but an entirely new way to think!  These are not the same thing.  They are not even in the same ballpark!  And perhaps the ‘magic’ lies in, first, noticing this very thing.  How does one use an existing way of thinking to find a new one?  I don’t think that’s how it happens.  In truth, it may well be:  I don’t think AND it just happens.

My body is a Quantum Biological Processor.  I am a Quantum Biological Human.  That is where the real magic lies.  And there is nothing for me to do but to ‘be’; and to be willing to allow myself to let my mind/brain/thinking be at rest and under the guidance of the body.  In that, there is indeed magic.

And so, I’m back from my time away - and yet, I’m not back at all.  I’m far beyond where I was when I left, and I know that there is no road back.  I stand here, not quite sure that I know anything, and yet trusting that it’s perfect.  To awaken each day, knowing that all that I’ve known will not serve me AND allowing myself to unfold today - in its unique and once-in-a-lifetime way - will, is a mixed blessing.  I look back and I can feel the pressure to conform to how I have lived; and yet, I look ahead and can already begin to feel myself in movement.

Today is the first day of the rest of my life!  From this moment on, I know that not only am I already on the moon, I AM the moon.  There is no journey required.

Breathing is good….

 I’m feeling more ‘prickly’ than usual, today.  Not quite sure what that’s all about AND my body is telling me to pay close attention to what is now in flow.

My world has been stirred up by the recent gathering of women at the Women Awakening event; by recent blog entries from Anita, and Amy and Marie ; and by my subsequent posting to the Women Gathering area.  

Through all of these experiences, I have witnessed the immense potential that women carry, and the degree to which that potential is watered down and diluted, sandbagged with the responsibilities of life so that it becomes a trickle, or corked completely.

Through the Women Awakening experience, I witnessed yet again the tears that flow when a woman reconnects with an essential truth about herself.  In a room of 17 women, none was without tears.  It makes me wonder:  what makes it possible for us to keep telling ourselves that what we’re doing… how we’re moving through the world in such a way that allows this massive disconnect to occur… is a good thing????

Each of these experiences - and each of these women - is a reflection of my own intense state of being.  I am so mindful, as I move forward in the radio campaign across the US and Canada, that it is imperative to penetrate the veneer of ‘all’s well’.  As one woman put it (and I happen to agree) ‘Fully Alive is the owner’s manual to a very successful life!’  I know she’s right.  Am I no longer willing to pretend otherwise.

Maybe that makes me arrogant.  Maybe it makes me pushy.  But one thing I know for sure: it still makes me right.  I am growing weary of the lets-talk-forever-about-change conversations that don’t ever come to the ENGAGE moment.  I am losing interest in taking forever to get to the part where we just do it and then, whatever happens, we do it again and weave our way through it.  It’s like hiking or climbing or shopping!  First you go one place (one foot, one hand hold, one store, etc.) and then you go to the next - but you can’t ever get anywere without that first place.

Yes, it can be unnerving.  Yes, it can cause the heart to beat faster and the palms to sweat.  But then, life does that. 

It’s not so much that it’s back, it’s more that it has never left.  Urgency.  Intensity.  There is indeed, a tension required for creation and manifestation.  I can tell from the state of my body that I’m on the edge of something… yet again.  I am feeling great pressure in my body to finish the ‘Emerging Futures’ book.  At this moment in my own evolution, it really does say it all.  And I know once it’s said, there will be more.

So, to all those wonderfully nervous, fearful, tense, annoyed, agitated, restless, uncertain, speechless, haunting, hungry women….THANK YOU!   Thank you for choosing to NOT take drugs to stop your body from vibrating.  Thank you for being unwilling to drink yourself into oblivion or eat yourself to death to calm your body.  Thank for being unwilling to numb yourself out by pretending that the only thing that really matters is everyone and everything else!  Thank you for showing up in my life.  And, most of all, thank you for being an expression of my consciousness in a way that I can notice my own urgency and intensity.  It really is time for ME to get on with it!

Breathing is good…

I’ve recently been nominated for Businesswoman of the Year in the Entrepreneurial category, sponsored by the Women’s Business Network of Ottawa.  In addition to my appreciation for what I know is the honour of being nominated, I have also become very mindful of my own thoughts about what, exactly, my business is about.  

Many years ago, when I started the first company (Partners in Renewal Inc.) that eventually spawned the WEL-Systems Institute, I was keenly aware of my motivation to do so.  It was not about making money.  Nor was it about making my mark in the world.  It was about finding a way to change the way children are treated in the world.  

Long story - short version:  I discovered that one of my children had been abused at the babysitters.  Great turmoil in my life ensued as I went from child protection services to police reports to the discovery that not much was going to happen.  I sat stunned, telephone in hand, watching my very young son  playing on the floor in front of me, as a child protection services person (who two days earlier had interviewed my son and was very clear that he had been victimized) asked me to call and comfort the woman whose care my son had been in during this incident since ‘… she’s such a nice person and is very upset about all this”.  Stunned… shocked… sick… and filled with a wave of immense force that screamed NO in every cell in my being.

I hung up the phone and my body shook uncontrolably and violently as I wondered:  ”Just how dead are we?  Just how numbed out have we become?”  In that instant, I knew where my future lay.  I knew that child abuse was not a child’s problem , it was an adult’s problem.  I knew that far too many adults had become disconnected from themselves - from the truth of their own experience - and had now become able to disconnect from  (become deaf, dumb and blind to) the truth of the experience of others. 

I also knew I had to find a way for adults to hear and see what they tried so desperately to push out of their awareness; and they needed to have access to hearing it in a way that there would be no excuses for them to NOT hear and see, anymore.  The frontline for children is always their parents and, in particular, the mother.  If a mother cannot protect herself, she cannot keep her children safe. 

Fast forward to 2008 - and here I sit, a nominee for this award.  As I revisit the roots of the creation of not only my business but the entire body of knowledge of WEL-Systems that was birthed from this intensely committed, personally driven exploration of what it is to be human and how we engage with each other, there is great clarity about a number of things.

For all the reasons that I’ve shared so many times, in so many other places, I continue to be very clear that:

* Our children are the future.  No children - no future.  Broken children - broken future. If we, as the adults that run the lives of these children, do not find a way to come to terms with our own experience of being broken, we cannot and will not find a way to create a different experience for our children.  We can’t give what we haven’t got - and the wheels just keep turning ’round and ’round, recreating what we already have in ways that are moving faster, getting smaller and tighter and less able to support life! 

* Women are the key to a different future.  Not only because women are still the ones that give birth but because an Emerging Future is a body process that demands the same abilities as does pregnancy: complete surrender to and trust in the process of the body to lead. For this to become possible, the body must be clear of hidden, trapped and ‘undigested’ experiences.

I am also very clear that work is the one place where as adults, we will spend more time than anywhere else in our lives.  Work is the one experience/event that every single one of us is and will be encourged to engage, without question, as a demonstration not only of value and meaning in our lives, but as essential to our capacity to function in a living organic collective that we call ’society’.  If we want to reach people; if we want to connect with the adults that are shaping our children… that are shaping our future; if we want to find a way to touch the lives of hundreds of millions of people, work is the channel.

My work - my business - is intended to be a conduit for the transformation of a people.  No longer can we continue to sit back and consider that it is enough that ‘work’ is about making things, selling stuff and generating wealth.  In my world, those values are archaic and dangerously arrogant in a world that is in serious decline.

In my world, business - all business! - must become a conduit for the growth and evolution of the people who are engaged in it.  This does not mean that business does not do as it has always done (offer something of value that shapes the world in some way), but that HOW business does this transforms in such a way that the invidual lives of the people in that business; the lives of the people who are touched by this business, are in some way transformed and become ‘more’ - not just bigger, faster and richer. 

I’m not against wealth and abundance - I’m for wealth and abundance at multiple levels of being.  Not just the physical where they can be measured by the bank account and how much stuff we have, but at levels of health and wellness; at levels of insight and awareness; at levels of awakened presence and connection to Self and other; and at levels of creation of a much larger, collective experience that allows a way of moving through the world that brings life and does not destroy it.

So, as an entrepreneurial woman, my intentions go far beyond the immediate (paying the bills and keeping the doors open on the Institute), far beyond the expansive (creating opportunitues for others to benefit from and expand in and from their experiences of what the business offers) and goes to a mindful awareness that not only CAN I make a difference in the larger collective, I already DO make a difference in that collective.  No matter which path I walk, I make a difference.  The question I choose to pay attention to is am I making the kind of difference that will MATTER in a world so desperately in need of something that does?

I know that I matter.  I also know that every other person who inhales and exhales, matters.  I also know that the vast majority of people in the world do not believe that of themselves.  As a generalization, most people don’t think they matter.  They believe that their presence is non-essential in the great scheme of things; and that they are, in many ways, pawns to be moved around by someone else on the great gameboard of life.  Not so in my world.

And so, as a nominee for BYA in the Entrepreneurial category, I am very clear what I’m here for:  to create a business that will not only bring value at the level of what it offers, it will also BE the channel through which much greater intentions are created and expressed.  I believe, with every ounce of my being, that business is the key to creating conduits for massive change.  And it needs to happen now!

Breathing is good….

Maybe that’s as good a way as any to describe what an Emerging Future looks/feels like : I get to change my mind.  I get to change my mind often and without hesitation and explanation.  I get to step into a thought and in doing so, find another just over that edge and follow it, instead.  I get to live fully, moment to moment, and have that living reflected in my choices - and in the quality of my life. 

This new blog location is me, changing my mind.  Trying something because it feels right to try it, and then stopping it because it feels right to stop - both of these are part of the process.  It took me a long time to get past that one. The one where changing my mind calls up those inner conversations about my capacity for commitment; my ability to exercise discipline and will power to ’stay the course’; the length of my attention span and all the derogatory things that we could say about it!  And those were just the things going on inside myself!

I’m older now and not quite as maleable as I once was.  I am aware that doing something just because I said I would, despite the entry of new information to the contrary, is not the sign of a high IQ.  Yes, I understand that it makes me unpredictable in some ways - and I wonder what made us think that predictable should garner such favour and high praise?  I suppose if control were high on my list of preferred outcomes, I might agree. However, it’s not - so I don’t.

I’ll likely change my mind a lot in the next two years.  Intention 2009 is looming large on the horizon and I’m very clear on the direction that I’m moving in.  Having said that, I am not wedded to how I do that.  No doubt, over the next 24 months, lots of things will ebb and flow; many opportunities will present that I will step into and likely just as quickly either move through or step out of.  And through it all, I will continue to move in the direction of my destination.

I wonder how many women get stuck on that one? I wonder how much harder it is for women to do what ‘feels’ right for them, when doing so has an impact on loved ones?  It is perhaps one of the reasons why love is so easily lost to obligation and resentment.

I’m looking forward to trusting myself and discovering what magic lies ahead!  Given all the people I know who are travelling this road with me, I know that I am in the best of company!

Breathing is good…..

Mom and I just got back from spending the day together. Man! That woman is a hoot! I sure hope that there is some genetic coding in there, somewhere, that will allow me to look forward to being 83 and as irreverant, outrageous and funny as she is! The drive to the hair stylist’s took 40 mintues - and we laughed all the way.

She’s really an amazing woman. I don’t know anyone who is more generous in spirit than she. Her compassion for others and generosity, at all levels, have touched the lives of so many over the course of her lifetime. Our house was always full of people that she did stuff for; people who found that talking with her made a difference in their lives. I often thought that she had missed her calling. I know that had she been born in another time, she would have been a doctor of some kind… of body, mind or spirit. As full as her life has been and still is, I sometimes look at her and wonder : had she been born in 1950 instead of 1925, who would she be today?

As we were driving home, Lorna starts talking about what I do for a living. After all these years (close to 20, to be more precise) she still does not have a clue what I do! SShe’s like something simple, like teacher or doctor or therapist, that would make it easy for her to tell her friends. They would then hear the word and go “RIght! I kow that that is!” and that would be the end of it. She has often suggested that I write what I do on a little card and have it laminated so that she can hand it out to her friends. That way, she wouldn’t have to try to figure it out. My older son, when asked what his mother does, tells people that I’m in sales! His reason for that? “It’s just easier than trying to explain to people who you are and what you do.” At some level, that does make perfect sense.

However, I find it all too puzzling because from where I stand, it’s not complicated. I work with people so that they can transform their lives. But I don’t think that’s the tough part. I think it’s HOW I do that that seems to cause the problem.

Last week, when I wrote the article on The Year of Practical Magic and listed the 5 Keys to Making It Happen, I wasn’t kidding. I believe, with every cell of my being that those indeed, are the 5 essential requirements to transforming your life. Not making changes at the edges. Not tweaking a little here and there. Not complaining about it but unwilling to engage differently! But profoundly redesigning who we are in the world and, in the process, transforming our world.

Those 5 Keys are:

1. My body is a Quantum Biological Processor (QBP). This simple fact has profound and mind-blowing implications in that it does not add to our description or understanding of what a human being is – it completely redefines it! My body is not who I am – it is an exquisite, organic, profoundly powerful device that allows ‘me’ to express through it, in a physical universe… and it is a device, nonetheless! Like breathing is the key to an open, relaxed body, a soft, open and fully relaxed body is the essential requirement to creating a fully functioning Quantum Biological Processor.

2. Discovering that my body is a Quantum Biological Processor presses for us to consider: what is it processing? Processors have no value, in and of themselves, without having something to process. The Quantum Biological Processor that my body is processes signals/information/intelligence. These signals occur at multiple levels of expression, from the external physical (i.e. food for my lunch) to the internal physical (i.e. my feelings/emotions) to the esoteric (i.e. thoughts, intentions, expressions of the spiritual). The Quantum Biological Processor that my body is, is capable of expressing and processing all of these signals, at the same time. The human body is the epitome of multi-tasking.

3. I am not my body, I am the Signal. The “I” that “I” am, is the Signal that flows through the QBP and manifests in the physical world through body and behaviour. The Signal from Self….the signal that differentiates ‘me’ from my history, my cultural conditioning, my external demands….is in constant flow with those other signals that come from my history (experience/wisdom/knowledge) and the demands/expectations of my outside world. Nonetheless, the Signal from Self offers the clear, direct and internally-driven sensory cues – moment to moment, without fail - that will lead to my body and my Self being in total alignment, if I allow it. In that moment, an Emerging Future becomes possible.

4. Emerging Futures are the key to transforming our world. The alternative to an Emerging Future is to create the future from the past – which we already know how to do. To do otherwise, we must discover HOW ELSE to engage the energetic for expression through the physical.

5. Evolution by Intention is the platform that allows us to move beyond our historical notions of living and stand firm in designing how we live. In that moment, we become willing to let go of all that has been that we may create all that can be. The alternative is to continue to attempt to create the future, shackled by the past.

Here’s the condensed version: we are the godforce in expression in a physical universe. We are the very thing that we seek. There is no external god… no guru/master/saviour/guide/mentor/guy-in-charge… that is not already us.

Those are not complicated words. However, those words, spoken that way, pack a punch to the body that most people recoil from. Those words are indeed a great challenge for most of us to process. In a world where we are rigorously trained to externally reference - to always look outside of ourselves for the cues and guideance on how to live the ‘right’ life - it is indeed heretical to suggest that our capacity for internal sensing (i.e. following an internal truth that is far more accurate and potent) is actually superior and that we’re designed for it.

Such notions are a massive challenge to cultures/societies shaped through dogma (and that would be all of them), the tool for controlling organic collectives. The notion that each of us is naturally guided by internal cues to be the unique expression of the godforce in a physical world would render redundant the notions proferred by organized religion. In that moment, we would lose interest in killing each other over whose god is the right one, since it would have become a moot point. Organized religion forms the basis from which our rules about how to live are derived. Our collective beliefs, values and attitudes are fired in the crucible of our willingness to gather ’round an external god who will both reward and punish. The party line is that without that, we would be in chaos.

My experience has been quite contrary to that. The reverse has been more an evident truth: that the dogma of organized religion has become the platform on which we mercilessly judge ourselves and each other, often being judge and executioner to how another chooses to live his/her life; and being willing to make people invisible - or worse - if/when they are non-compliant.

So, maybe my son is on the right track. Used car sales, it is. Nothing too scarey about selling a used car. However, who would we have to become if we were to come face-to-face with the notions that a) we are the very thing we seek; b) no one will save us from ourselves but us; and c) our science - the god of the culture! - has been telling us for at least 10 years that we must redefine what we believe ourselves to be in order for us to get past ourselves.

Maybe Mom’s on the right track. She finds humor in everything! What’s NOT to laugh about when you’ve made it to 83 and are still vibrant, sassy, healthy and welcomed everywhere you go! Maybe I’ll put those 5 Keys on a small card and laminate it - just for her.

Breathing is good…

I wrote The Year of Practical Magic… and The 5 Keys to Making it Happen as a reminder to myself to keep moving forward. It is also the first time I’ve written this way - about 5 keys to anyting! I have identified the 5 things that I believe are essential to creating a different life. Not just talking about and/or thinking about a different life but actually living it.

I also recognized when I wrote those 5 keys that they are not your standard ‘put your left foot in and take your left foot out’ kind of keys. They are not about changing behaviours or even strategies - they are about redefining what we define ourselves to be as a human being. Once that switch is flicked, everything changes all by itself. From that, there is no going back.

Today is the first day of the rest of my life. I wonder where my own evolution will take me?

Breathing is good….