Wednesday WORD — by Diane, The California Dreamer

QUESTIONS

This week I have a few questions for you. They are very simple, but I will warn you that your answers might surprise you.

I was doing one of my most favorite Southern California kind of things - sitting at the beach on a picture perfect day. I was ready for some deep introspection and needed time to journal and gather my thoughts. I have been a bit under the weather the past week and needed to do whatever I could to refresh my soul. This was the perfect soul-lution.

Some of you might be familiar with Cheryl Richardson. She is a life coach and has been on Oprah several times as well as Good Morning America. I subscribe to her weekly email. She had sent a series of questions to answer and put away to take out later in the year. (She will tell us what to do with it at that time.)

I was really surprised after 2 hours that I had not finished all of them. However the ones I did complete provided some self realization. Let me ask you two of those questions…

If you were to pick an object to represent your past, what would it be? Why?

If you were to pick an object to represent your future, what would it be? Why?

Take a few minutes to think about these questions. There are no right or wrong answers.

I mediated on them for a few minutes and the answers that came to my mind really surprised me. Matter of fact, the answer to the past really shocked me until I started writing; only then did it make sense.

The answer to what represented my past was a bad haircut.

At first I didn't get it. But the more I thought about it the more sense it made. Let it be known that I have been a bit obsessive about my hair. Ok -- those who know me -- very obsessive. As soon as you get a bad haircut, you know it is bad. You think "what am I going to do now?"

You have a few choices: get another cut and hope that the next cut will even it out or look a bit better. Tolerate it just as it is. Cry about it. Feel embarrassed about it. Or hide until it grows out.

The one thing I realized was that the choice is always up to me what I do. I have the power to change it. And hair always grows and life moves on.

The second answer, the object to represent my future, was easy -- a Diamond. It is bright, shiny and clear. It is solid and forever. A diamond is formed by pressure and must mature to become the beautiful object it is. So much like me.

What were your answers?

Did they come easy or did you have to really think about them?

Did your answers surprise you?

And moving on… How is your vision board coming? I haven't heard from many of you on this topic recently.

Have you even been working on your Vision Board? You know once you put what you want into the forefront of you mind, find pictures of it and paste it to a board, you'll be surprised at how these things show up in your life.

Have a great week - you deserve it.

— © Diane, The California Dreamer

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