Happy February – a lovely quote by author Kobi Yamada touched me today:

Believe in your dreams.

Believe in today.

Believe that you are loved.

Believe that you make a difference.

Believe we can build a better world.

Believe when others might not.

Believe there’s a light at the end of the tunnel.

Believe that you might be that light for someone else.

Believe that the best is yet to be.

Believe in each other.

Believe in yourself.

I believe in you.

- Kobi Yamada

“This is not a letter but my arms about you for a brief moment.”

Katherine Mansfield

Happy Holidays and best wishes that you may both embrace yourself and others in the coming year.

“Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.”

William Arthur Ward

Happy Thanksgiving!  For more on the benefits of gratitude, visit http://www.theprojectcoach.com/blog/bid/80456/Is-Gratitude-Good-for-You

I recently learned about the poetry of Hafiz.   Here is one of my favorites from his book The Gift:

“Even
After
All this time
The Sun never says to the Earth,

“You owe me.”

Look
What happens
With a love like that,
It lights the whole sky.”

― حافظ, The Gift

May you too experience the blessing of a love that lights up the world.

“There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors.” 

Quote by Jim Morrison, American Poet and Singer, member of the band, The Doors.

Hello friends! I hope you have been enjoying your summer.  I’ve been spending my time opening and closing doors, and arranging furniture in the rooms in between. The process has been challenging, enlightening and consuming.

Check out my latest Project U. blog, if you want to read a little more about transformation…

Back soon!

Catherine

Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we’re here we should dance.

Author Unknown

A young man named Shane Burcaw has a disease called Spinal Muscular Atrophy.  He and his cousin started a nonprofit called Laughing At My Nightmare.  Their mission is to raise money to fund research for a cure for muscular dystrophy diseases by promoting positivity and setting an example of how to approach the challenges of life with acceptance, humor and laughter.  I just viewed their first video project and found it to be so touching and inspiring, that I wanted to share it with you.  For more about Shane and and his cause, visit his blog  and view the video below or at http://youtu.be/5mkozRJQ2YI

Happy New Year! I thought it would be fun to share some of my favorite quotes from 2011. These are quotes that inspired me on days that I needed a fresh perspective  (and that I posted on my Saar Coaching Face Book page as a result.) I hope you enjoy them.

“To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten.” Unknown

“Do not fear mistakes – there are none.”  Miles Davis

“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”  Friedrich Nietzsche

“When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.”  Alexander Graham Bell

“Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.”  James Thurber

“One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.” French proverb

“Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.”  Oscar Wilde

“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.”  Epictetus

“Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.”  Victor Borge

“We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.”  E. B. White

Please share some of your favorite quotes as well.  I would love to know.

Happy, healthy prosperous New Year to all!

During this hectic holiday season, I hope you will find time to rest, reflect and connect – with yourself as well as others.  Where have you been this last year, and where are you going?  Is it good and right for you?  If not, how might you make a change for the better?

I love this quote from Peace Pilgrim, an American Teacher and Spiritual leader that says,

“There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace? If they have not, there is something wrong with them / so keep seeking! If what you do has brought you inner peace, stay with what you believe is right.”

I wish you joy, peace and light this holiday season.  Remember that every moment brings an opportunity to begin again.

When you face an issue that makes you anxious, trust your creativity and your internal compass.  There are solutions to issues when you are open to exploration. Try prayer, meditation, daydreaming, journaling and even plain, old-fashioned brainstorming. If none of those approaches work, try this: Ask yourself the question you are facing at night before you go to sleep.  Do that every day  for a week.  Don’t force it or think about it, just state the question in your mind and settle down for the night.  See what happens.

If there is still no answer, be patient. Maybe it’s not yet time to know. Sometimes it takes a long while to find an answer to a question, and that’s okay.

Author Melody Beattie says this, “The process of moving from what we don’t know to what we are to learn is a process that can be trusted.  It’s how we grow and change. It’s okay not to know.  It’s okay to let ourselves move into knowing.  The lesson is trusting that we’ll know when it’s time.”

Peace be with you.  You will find your way.