Love Makes the World Go Round

My Cup Runneth Over with Love

Is your life spilling over with love? If not, why not? 

Having a love-filled life is a dream worth pursuing.  But I'm not just talking about romantic love--although pursing romance is a very good part of life.

I'm talking about living an abundant life filled with love, purpose, compassion, connection, a sense of belonging, tenderness and hope. 

I'm talking about living a life in which you step past your fears and choose to reach out to connect with others in ways that enrich your life and their's.

Head Over Heels in Love with Life

Create a Life You Love

💓What are you willing  to do to turn your life Topsy-turvy to pursuit an abundantly loving life? 

💙What would make you fall head over heels for your life? 

💚What would make you feel fully ALIVE? 

Go for it! Do it NOW!

ASK. SEEK. FIND.

Don't wait around for your life to fall in place. Actively pursue the things that will give you a sense of meaning and purpose that shows your love of life, and your love for the people and other living creatures you want to welcome into your life.  

Don't stand on the outside of life looking in. Step in. Engage. Get involved. Show up.

💙If you want to find romantic love, put yourself out there where you can meet people. If you want to have a loving relationship with your partner, actively engage and spend time together. 

💚If you want to love your work, actively pursue opportunities for learning and advancing. Step forward and ask to be involved in projects that excite you. Be visible and enthusiastic. Continually seek doors to open that excite you.

💛If you want to make the world a better place, do it. Don't wait for permission. Find ways to be kind daily. 

Open Your Heart--Let Love In

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For more than 35 years, Susan Meyerott has been helping people lighten up and step over invisible barriers to change one step at a time. She speaks to your heart, puts you at ease, and makes letting go and moving forward with life easier than ever before.

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Embracing Change: You are not who you've been nor what you'll Become

Renew and Regenerate Yourself Daily

Choose to transform even your most painful experiences 

into something valuable and beautiful.

What will it be today?

When you hold onto the past, you become a 'Has-been' 

or a person locked into who you 'has been' in the past. 

Let Go.

Life is constant transformation. 

Resistance is futile.

Stay open and flexible.

Today, move from the old to the new with ease.

You are Becoming

Accept the good coming your way today.

Experience your worth today.

Believe in yourself and your life.

Thank you Debi Blair for Butterfly Photo

Debi is all about being a steward of the environment and creating habitats where birds, butterflies and other creatures can thrive. This is a photo of a Monarch butterfly she brought inside to transform from a chrysalis into the butterfly you see before setting it free to fly. 

The art in today's blog has turned the photo upside down to create the image of metamorphosis.

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For more than 35 years, Susan Meyerott has been helping people lighten up and step over invisible barriers to change one step at a time. She speaks to your heart, puts you at ease, and makes letting go and moving forward with life easier than ever before.

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Lightarted Living: Be of Good Cheer: Prevent the Birds of Sorrow from...: "Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom." Rumi Do Not Despair Things can happen ...

Lightarted Living: Be of Good Cheer: Prevent the Birds of Sorrow from...

Lightarted Living: Be of Good Cheer: Prevent the Birds of Sorrow from...: "Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom." Rumi Do Not Despair Things can happen ...

Be of Good Cheer: Prevent the Birds of Sorrow from Nesting in Your Hair

"Why should I be unhappy?

Every parcel of my being is in full bloom."

Rumi

Do Not Despair

Things can happen in life that sends us down the road to despair. But when you give into a hopeless, pessimistic view of life it's often difficult to find your way back to engaging in a productive and satisfying life. Why is that? And what can we do to keep ourselves from falling into deep despair and sadness?

As American Historian, Howard Zinn spelled it out so clearly, "Pessimism is a self-fulfilling prophesy; it reproduces itself by crippling our will to act."

"You can't prevent the birds of sorrow from flying overhead,

but you can prevent their building nests in your hair."

Chinese Proverb

Never Lose Your Willingness to Act

To get through life we must accept that 'birds of sorrow' will fly over us many times while at the same time we must accept there are things we can do to 'prevent their building nests in our hair'.

The key to keeping despair and sorrow from taking up residence in us is to continuously take steps in the direction of the life we want despite the birds of sorrow flying overhead. 

We must never lose our willingness to act. It is through the physical acts of doing something positive that we show ourselves we can move beyond the current situation leading us to become pessimistic and despair for the future.

"She breathes in dirt and exhales flowers."

Anon

Regenerative Action

Sometimes the positive physical actions we take in response to the birds of sorrow flying overhead have nothing directly to do with our sorrow. Sometimes they're just the little regenerative activities that help us reengage in life--gardening, hiking, art, writing a letter, or cheering someone else on.  

Whatever the action we take that moves us towards active living will make a difference as it breaks the spell of immobilization and the freezing of our emotions. 

"Play in the dirt because life is too short to always have clean fingernails."

The Praire Homestead

The Blue Bird of Happiness

Bringing you Cheer!

Today's a New Day

Be of Good Cheer

If something has caused you to despair of late, get out there and do some simple restorative activity. Don't think about it--just do it. Time and positive action will lead you to better times.

Thanks to Kimberly Asborno

Thanks to my childhood friend, Kimberly Asborno, for allowing me to scribble over her award-winning succulents. I love succulents--the little 'fat guys' make me happy. 

Of late I've been thinking about the good times I spent with Kim all those years ago. So when I saw her perfect succulents they made me think how we were cozy like that. And despite losing touch through the years, she still holds a place in my warm and fond memories of years gone by.

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For more than 35 years, Susan Meyerott has been helping people lighten up and step over invisible barriers to change one step at a time. She speaks to your heart, puts you at ease, and makes letting go and moving forward with life easier than ever before.

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In support of Christine Blasley Ford having the courage to speak up.

Lightarted Living: Now What? Getting On with Life

Lightarted Living: Now What? Getting On with Life: So that just Happened...Now What? ��You completed your cancer treatment and just got a clean bill of health. You're quietly rel...

Lightarted Living: Now What? Getting On with Life

Lightarted Living: Now What? Getting On with Life: So that just Happened...Now What? ��You completed your cancer treatment and just got a clean bill of health. You're quietly rel...

Now What? Getting On with Life

So that just Happened...Now What?

💓You completed your cancer treatment and just got a clean bill of health. You're quietly relieved. Now What?

💓You focused for a year on creating a spectacular wedding that was a beautiful, warm event. You're tired and happy. Now What?

💓You finally got pregnant and just delivered your first baby. You're tired and in love. Now What?

💓You just lost faith in your current job and you're contemplating your future. You're weary and discombobulated.  Now What?

💓You've been looking forward to retiring and the big day is finally here. You're excited and scared. Now What?

The answer to 'Now What?' is always the same--no matter what the situation--good or bad:

"Accept What Is; Release What Was; Create What Must Be".  Andrea Balt

"Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom." Rumi

All Things Seemingly Good or Bad Work in My Favor

Staying engaged in life is about putting one foot in front of another whether you're recovering from or stepping into a scary experience, or coming down from a long anticipated happy event. There's always the next step. 

If you accept 'all things seemingly good or bad work in your favor' you'll condition yourself to always take that next step towards the sun, preparing yourself to be in 'full bloom' and happy.

"Hope is like the sun, which as we journey towards it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us." Samuel Smiles

The trick is to recognize which way the sunshine is--i.e. what is the life path that will give you the brightest rays of hope and the sunniest disposition.  You've got to name what it is you want in your next phase of your journey and focus your attention with the brightest laser beam on the step that will open up the most light into your life--and then take it.

We all have our moments of doubt, when we question if the good news or happy times will be followed by bad; or we wonder if we'll ever get out of the difficult times. But the more we choose to step towards the sun no matter what, the more sunshine fills our lives.

"There was never a night or problem that could defeat sunrise or hope." Bernard Williams

Here Comes the Sun

💓What do you need to accept about your current situation?

💛What do you need to let go?

💜What do you need to create to let the sun into your life and future?

Believe in Yourself

Believe in Your Life

Believe in Your Dreams

Create what Must Be

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For more than 35 years, Susan Meyerott has been helping people lighten up and step over invisible barriers to change one step at a time. She speaks to your heart, puts you at ease, and makes letting go and moving forward with life easier than ever before.

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