Monday 30 November 2020

Creativity

Creativity is experimenting, growing, taking risks, 
breaking rules...and having fun. 
 - Mary Lou Cook

Friday 27 November 2020

Fit

[Be] able to choose to fit in without having to give in.
  - Wayne Dyer

Wednesday 25 November 2020

Happiness

Happiness is really just about four things:
 perceived control, perceived progress, 
connectedness (number and depth of your relationships), 
and vision/meaning (being part of something bigger than yourself). 
 - Tony Hsieh

Monday 23 November 2020

Define

You define yourself;
don’t let other people define you. 
 - Judge Judy Sheindlin

Friday 20 November 2020

November 20, 2020 Chautauqua



Beth's Ponderings

   Well, the snowfall sure put a kibosh on my daily biking, but I really can’t complain, as any biking this year was such a huge bonus.

   My totals this year were: 274.5 kms (or roughly the distance between Mirror and Black Diamond, AB) and I biked EVERY SINGLE DAY for 18 consecutive weeks!  (It was rather hit and miss for the weeks before that)

   Another milestone I recently hit, was that on November 5th, I celebrated my 200th consecutive daily creative activity for the year-long mentorship program I belong to.

   While those numbers look impressive NOW, they are the accumulation of one SMALL (almost insignificant) step made every single day.

   I was only biking 1.5 kms each day, so not going very far at all, but each time I went out added to the total.  My daily drawing/creative practice is usually less than 10 minutes, but each day adds to the total.

   We often think we need huge chunks of time to accomplish a task, or a dream, but we just need consistent small steps made over and over.

Beth

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Wednesday 18 November 2020

Choice

When faced with a choice, always choose the one that 
pushes you the most, increases your growth and 
promotes the unfoldment of your gifts, talents and personal prowess. 
 - Robin Sharma

Monday 16 November 2020

Place

Live in...that powerful place 
where the past, present, and future become one...
you can learn from the past, harness the energy of the present, 
and envision the future. 
 - Kimberly Friedmutter

Friday 13 November 2020

Live

Science is proving that man can live in outer space
 and at the bottom of the sea. 
 It’s the area in between that’s causing all the problems. 
 - Author Unknown

Wednesday 11 November 2020

Remember

Life is not what one has lived
 but what one remembers 
and how one remembers in order to recount it. 
 - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Monday 9 November 2020

SOS

SOS = self, others, spirit 
 - Amy Elizabeth Gordon

Friday 6 November 2020

November 6, 2020 Chautauqua


Beth's Ponderings

      Ever forget how to spell a word?  Not just any word, but a really simple common word?

   That happened to me the other day.  I can’t remember now what the word was, but I can tell you it had less than 6 letters, and was one I tend to use a lot, but at the moment I needed it, I could not remember how it was spelt at all!

   When that would happen to me as a child, my mom would always tell me to just go look it up in the dictionary, which used to bug me to no end, because if I knew how to spell the word enough to look it up, I wouldn’t need to look it up! 

   Sounding out the word didn’t always help either.  I confess, that in high school once I completely blanked on how to spell “is” and sounding it out SHOULD have worked to help me figure it out, but it didn’t.  Ever try getting a school teacher to tell you how to spell “is” - trust me, it’s pretty much impossible because they don’t believe you!

   Thankfully, we have technology now that will tell you how to spell a word when you speak to it, and it doesn’t care that you can’t spell the word, or tell you to go look it up.

Beth

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Wednesday 4 November 2020

Idleness

Work is not always required..
.there is such a thing as sacred idleness, 
the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.
  - George Macdonald

Monday 2 November 2020

Less

The less you do, the less you control;
 the simpler and quieter you get, the more magically gets done; 
and the greater your sense of safety,
 the more abundant and rich your life experience.
  - Kelly Brogan

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