Wisdom Project: Done Already

After researching on the internet, I have found a few projects similar to the Wisdom Project. They are very interesting and I’m spent some time reading the interviews.

getinspiredproject.com

thewisdomspeakers.com (video interviews)

theinvisiblementor.com

I am still contemplating whether this is something that I should do or just use the ones that are already there. We’ll see.

So lately, I’ve been thinking about what I want to do when I get home and making the necessary preparations to make that move. I am also slowly feeling more confident about my decisions and the moves that I need to make to continue to grow spiritually and emotionally. I love the changes that I have made so far, I feel less guilty about choosing things I want, I am spending more time with myself and having more positive dreams.

I am reading Louise Hay’s: You Can Heal Your Life and I love the wisdom in this book. I have been doing the exercises although his is my first read but I they are really working.

Used Books Store

• Passionate about books so this is a good fit for me
• Can extend this by doing literacy work as well
• Not really sure how to get the books shipped home at a low price

Natural Hair Salon

• This was my first idea, I still love this idea.
• Can’t wait to get there and start market research.
• I have some great ideas for this venture

Women’s Organization

• My ultimate goal
• Will never stop working to make this happen

The Wisdom Project

I’ve recently experienced the re-emergence of an idea that I’ve always had and am ready to do it now. It’s the Wisdom Project. I started this a few years ago while I was traveling. I would meet people on airplanes and ask them to tell me their stories and what things of wisdom they have gathered over the years. It was a really fun project and I met some people who had experienced much and had learned much that they could share. It’s a little uncomfortable to approach people and ask them about their lives, but I think people have so many good stories to tell. So  I want to learn about people, their lives and what they have learned. So here’s the birth of the digital Wisdom Project.

The Premise:

1. People are infinitely wise. They’ve lived and have learned and have much to share.

2. I am interested in learning what they have to share and expanding my human connections and consciousness.

So, I will email people and ask them to participate in my project if they are interested and then we’ll go from there. My hope is that I get so meet some great people and learn a whole lot about life and living.

 

 

Confusion and Letting Go

I’m learning life’s lessons and I am taking them really hard. I love the idea of family. I love all the members of my family and I yearn to have good relationships with everybody. I am learning that that is not always possible nor is it the best thing. Today, I called my cousin who has been upset with me for years for a very stupid reason. I don’t really remember the specific details of the story but it changed everything. This was my favorite cousin. We grew up together, covered for each other, comforted and consoled each other throughout our teenage years. About two years ago, she became angry with me because I said something she didn’t like. She has since gone on to badmouth, deride and ignore me for the past two years.  I have made a few attempts to re-establish our relationship. At times, they were ignored, other times welcomed and most recently snubbed. The interesting thing is her immediate family acts exactly the same way. Now, I said I am taking these lessons really hard, so I was very hurt and angered by it. The fat is, I really have not done anything to warrant this treatment. So I called my other cousin, her brother who asked about the last time I spoke with her. This is the brother who ha often been slighted by the family and has always informed me about the negative things they’ve said about me. When I told him what happened, he started wondering why we couldn’t just get along. We?? Needless to say, two down. This sent me in a tizzy because I’m not trying to lose more family.  I feel really saddened by this and wish to make it better, but I don’t think it will get any better. I have tried for too long.  So I have surrendered to the idea that this is my season to learn the virtues of letting go.   I introspected, trying to identify what I did wrong. Called and apologized  to the voicemail system and reserved myself to being down one more family member. I’m tired but I don’t want to not have my family, but I also can’t keep putting myself at other people’s mercy. They are all people, after all. I tried. I’m confused but I’m letting it go.

11.19.10

You can’t pawn off your unique responsibility in the world on any other person; if you aren’t who you are meant to be on this earth, no one else can take your place–it’s true.

True love starts with deeply loving and appreciating your own wild tender heart.

You can be strong and tender, open and honest, forgiving and insisting, all at the same time.

You can be (and often are) for yourself and others, a dream come true.

jenlemen.com

Hope’s Refuge

Girls need their mothers. No other mother will do.

 

I love the feeling of complete and utter joy knowing that my boss got his babies.

Beautiful Idea: Love Bombs

Love Bomb is a really amazing project that highlights the goodness in people’s hearts and the capacity for love and support that you can find in others. It’s great to be reminded that despite the hurtful actions that people can take in the world and the devastating impact they can have on others, that there are loving, caring, deeply supporting actions that others take that have a restorative effect. Love, love, love LoveBomb.

Love Bomb is a project of ItStartsWith.Us. Once a week we come together to drop hundreds of love bombs (in the form of blog comments) for those who need it most. Subscribe via email below & join us in our missions. It only takes 5 minutes a week!

http://dropalovebomb.com/

Lovely Finds 11.18.10

I love this statement about the description of an ideal man:

“If I were to write a book on how a man should be, I would make Jeff the main character and the ‘ideal’ for other men to go for.  He is everything a man should be.  He is loving and strong and protective and helpful.  He is fair and helpful and loyal as a friend, a son and a husband.  He never ever laughs at me for my weird ideas…even though I know he doesn’t always ‘get’ them at first.  He makes me feel loved and cherished and honored.  He takes care of all the man jobs in our life.  He always carries the heavy stuff.  He always opens my door.  He holds my hand whenever he can.  I am lucky to share his name and lucky to get to go through life with him.”

From Weliveinanrv.com

there’s a wonder in not knowing.
there’s magic in still wanting to see and to be seen.
there’s healing in hoping for love, no matter how far-fetched or impossible that sometimes seems.

Fromjenlemen.com

You yourself, as much as anybody
in the entire universe, deserve
your love & affection.
-
Buddha

From Kindovermatter.com

11 Ways to  More Positive
★ Spend some time taking stock of all the influences in your life. This includes friends, family, television shows, magazines, blogs, etc. Think about which aspects of your life motivate you and push you to live positively for yourself. Think about those aspects which pull you down and drain you of your positive energy. Spend less time around the negative influences and more time around the positive!

★ Set aside more time for yourself where you can be alone. Sometimes it is easy to become depressed and grumpy when you give all of your energy to others. Having scheduled “you” time will guarantee that you  will be able to pamper yourself and participate in your favorite hobbies.

★ Try changing your perspective about situations. Sometimes that is all it takes to turn a crummy day around. I try very hard to find something positive that will come out of the crappy things that daily life deals us. It doesn’t always happen naturally, but it gets easier when you push yourself to see the good in life.

★ Have friends and family in your life who can cheer you up and encourage you to be positive when you fall down. It’s inevitable that you will have a bad day, stress attack, or an emotional melt down in the future. It happens. The difference between you and a negative person is that you have the courage to get back up and keep going. We all need to be reminded that life really can be amazing if we take the time to see things positively.

★ Fill your space with reminders of how wonderful your life is. Write your favorite encouraging quotes on colorful post-its and paste them around your home.

★ Write letters and cards to your close friends and family with positive wishes and joyful greetings! Spreading positivity helps you feel positive in general!

★ Encourage the people in your life who take on pessimistic attitudes to be more positive. If those people are not willing to hear you out, limit your time around them. Negativity is very draining and you can only be around it for so long before it takes over.

★ Get excited about the little things that make you happy!

★ If you are feeling down and depressed, own your feelings. Don’t deny that you are grumpy. Accept that you aren’t feeling 100% and give yourself time to just be.

★ De-clutter your life! Get rid of things that you don’t love, things that you never use, and things that aren’t sentimental to you. Clutter can weigh you down and fill your life with unnecessary negative energy ! Make room for new things that you adore!

★ Channel your inner child every so often. Do things that the child within you would love! Blow bubbles, ride the merry-go-round, drink chocolate milk, play hop scotch, color, take photos of random objects, play dress-up, etc.

From: randomisessential.blogspot.com

Great Find of the Day: Bravegirlsclub.com

Glimpses of Love

I have always been really into self-development but lately I have begun the journey to find joy and peace. I read somewhere, I think in the Women’s Field Guide to Happiness, that keeping a happiness journal is a good way to remind yourself of all the good things that you find daily. I do find tons of good things daily, so I started keeping a book of quotes and statements and songs that bring me joy, help me feel confident about following my dreams and propel me towards joy–my glimpses of love.  I will be posting wonderful sayings from blogs and websites and books and songs (I will give credit for them).

Changing the World: Freedom

Today is the first day after six months of hell that I feel truly free. Six months ago, my engagement ended and I felt like my entire world crashed. This was the beginning of the most tears, pain, betrayal and hopelessness that I have ever felt. This was also the period in which I connected most with God and myself. I decided during that period that my living my passion to help and uplift other people and to help people understand and value themselves. I have always been afraid because I felt that I was not special enough or talented enough or not a good enough writer. My self-work and resolution to live my life in the best way I know how has helped me to start here. I don’t know what the impact will be, but I hope someone else besides me will read it and find something that can lift their moods. I love life and I wish every single person can find the courage to love themselves enough to love life too. Out of this, I have decided to pursue the development of a self-esteem program/organization for women. I have also decided to target single mothers and pregnant teens who have the challenge of raising a generation with sometimes very little support. I have been blessed that I am a therapist and can meet many women (parents) who have no-one that they can tell their inner insecurities and find some solace in talking with me. I love that I can allow them to question those insecurities and not feel alone. I would like to expand this and make it a bigger mission. I would like to change the world and I am determined that less children will feel unloved because their mothers don’t know how or women will feel unable to change their own worlds because they only have their own voices in their heads. Glimpses of Love is one way to keep myself sane and remind myself that I only have the present moment and there’s no time like the present.