I have collected many tools, ideas and mantras over these past many months.  Things to live by, internal post-it notes to help me out, lessons and insights.  Life has been so complicated and moved so quickly, that it seems I’ve barely had time to reach a conclusion or insight before the next layer peals back or the next challenge is upon me.  I haven’t had a chance to get these helpful things incorporated into my thinking.  And, when I stumble upon a rabbit hole, I don’t have them at my fingertips yet to help me out.  SO…in an effort to keep them around, I’m trying some good, old-fashioned memory techniques, including this blog…write it out.

Here’s my running list:

• Relax
• Reinvest
• Enjoy love, life and friendship
• Be blessed.  Be lucky.
• Feel sexy.
• Feel health.
• Allow room.
• Allow fluctuation.
• Trust yourself.
• Remember where you have come from.
• Look forward to what you want.
• Enjoy our home (dogs included!!)
• Enjoy my work.
• Use my personality.
• Dont be afraid of my strengths.
• Admit and be gentle with my weaknesses.
• Lessen the intensity sometimes.
• Follow my instincts (sometimes?)
• Wonder!!!!
• Choose my risks.
• Choose my battles.
• Write.
• Sing.
• Go dancing.
• Cook.
• Follow momentum.
• Protect healing.
• Go with what works.
• Listen to my body.
• Don’t trace everything back.
• Don’t analyze everything!
• Find breath.
• Calm the inner dialogue.
• Pause.
• Let feelings happen.
• Let thoughts and feeling pass through.
• Live in the middle.
• Take space for myself.
• Give space to others.
• Trust time.
• Don’t give away every thought.  Keep some with just me for awhile.
• Remember that I am the only one who will ever fully know me.
• Lift my face – in any weather.
• Keep love simple.

I’ll let you know when I have more additions.  In the meantime…surely there are things on this list to help any given moment.  I think I need to copy it (maybe by hand!!) several times and stash it in various places.  Yes, I think I shall become a scribe for a little while.