This is a gorgeous video with flowers, people, wisdom, nature, and the power of actually seeing your life and your blessings. It’s 10 minutes long.

You have time.

Breathe.

Have a good day!

“You won’t be successful until you want it as bad as you want to breathe.”

For most of my life, I’ve had asthma. I didn’t know I had asthma. I thought everyone was like me. I was forty when I found out I had asthma.

This year, for some unknown reason, my asthma is mostly gone. I don’t know why. My doctor doesn’t know why. But one day, I woke up; had my usual my bronchial spasm; and no asthma came.

In response to misplacing my asthma, I started taking spin classes. At least twice in every spin class, when I’m sucking air, my bronchia spasm.

I expect asthma.

I get in position with my head down, my neck relaxed, my throat open, my chest straight and…

It doesn’t come.

I laughed. Every time. And get back into the class.

How badly do you want it?

“What I do today is important because I am exchanging a day of my life for it.”
(Author Unknown )

Happy Monday!

“Twenty years from now you will more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails.”

Thanks Smashing Magazine and Mark Twain for my inspiration this month!

Happy Monday!

Ok, it’s been a while. I’ve been immersed in the Queen of Cool. I’m still working out and still watching TEDs. As I can, I’ll continue to review and post them.

What is Daily Ted? Daily Ted is reviews of great videos posted on Ted.com. When I find them, I’ll post them.

Video Synopsis: The title of this talk is ‘making movies that matter.’ I mean really who cares about movies? The talk is so much more than than. Mr. Skoll discusses his passion for making a difference and his bumbling, silly, undirected way toward changing the world. I highly recommend this video for anyone who’s journey has been bumbling (like mine).

Time: 15:37
Recorded: March 2007
Where: August 2007

You probably don’t know this about me, but I fall. A lot.

When I was 24, I was in a car accident that left me with muscle atrophy down the right side of my body. Even with weight training, I wobble when I walk. On a good day, I walk with a slight limp. Most people don’t notice it; some people see it right away.

And I fall. A lot.

I hate falling. I really hate falling. Whenever I fall, I feel this hysteria that takes my breath away. All the years of being grateful I can walk slip away. My mind is filled with: “Why did I have to fall? Why did this have to happen to me?” I holdd my breath to keep the thoughts from escaping and flooding the world with my hysterical self pity.

It’s taken me a long time to discover that everyone falls. Bryan Kest says: “We all fall in life. The question is whether we fall with awareness.” I would add with grace.

The grace to know that movement is a blessing. The grace to know that we mostly fly through life unhindered. The grace to see the moment of falling as a chance to wake up to our life. The grace to see the shower of blessings that are bestowed on us at every moment.

But in the moment of falling? I only feel hysteria.

When I look around the world, I see that most of us have fallen flat on our faces. The economy tripped some of us. The rampant greed for no reason tripped others. The Internet tripped the entire publishing business. Just as video cell phones have tripped some violent cops. Negative one sided press trips up even the brightest. In one way or another, we’ve all fallen.

The question to me is: Can we get up?

Not everything in life is about winning races. But maybe it’s time we stop licking our metaphorical or real wounds, get up and start running again.

Take it from one who falls a lot. There’s one thing worse than falling.

Never trying, standing, walking at all.

“Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.”
- Lao Tzu

Happy Monday!

This is an amazing video (8 min) of the 10 best jumps. If you have limited time, go to the end and watch the last one.

What amazing leaps will you take this week?

Happy Monday!

“You will never find happiness if you do not conquer your own doubt.”
-Yogi teabag quote

I have this quote on my wall, but it seemed to be everywhere this morning – in my tea again, on the box. Maybe it was just my eyes that kept seeing it or the someone is trying to tell me something.  I guess, I need to conquer my own doubt.

Happy Monday!

?Life engenders life.
Energy creates energy.
It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
- Sarah Bernhard

Happy Monday!