Monthly Archives: May 2014

May 25
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Let’s Sleep Our Way to the Top!!

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Having just met Arianna Huffington for the first time and getting her book “Thrive” I thought I’d share a few of her quotes here (and her 12-Step process):

 

Step 1: GET 30 MINUTES MORE SLEEP TONIGHT “My single most effective step for being effective, productive and creative is getting enough sleep.”

 

In my own life I have found this to be so true. For years I tried to follow the norm and time my body to the world’s time schedule and clock. This didn’t work so well…and led me to being tired and cranky.

 

Then one summer I had the luxury of living in Hawaii for six weeks. Sure it was sort of a vacation, but I am a writer by profession and can work anywhere and anytime I’d like. In other words, I choose my own time schedule.  So I decided to lend into a new time zone and time schedule.  I went to bed when my body told me it was tired, and I woke up when my body said I was rested.  I loved this…as I have never been a “morning” person and being able to sleep in was sweet!!

 

So when Arianna mentioned this, and I found that it was her first step, I was like, AMEN to that!  Right up my ally…and my advice to anyone is to GET MORE SLEEP!!  If you just do this one thing, it will increase your productivity and effectiveness greatly.  Just think how much this world and our interactions with others will be improved.  Let’s stress, less irritability, and less caffeine needed!! lol

Here’s to you and I getting more sleep…

Thanks Arianna :-)

xxoo

Cathy Lynn

 

May 22
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Rising From the Ashes…

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Bird on Fire

I’m not gonna lie but this past month has been nothing short of “challenging” to say the least, but after just coming out of an amazing massage experience today, I feel there is a glimmer of hope…

And that I may be in fact “rising from the ashes” of both grief and anger… two elements or traits of “being” that I do not dwell near or tread in very often.

Where I began to lose hope and faith, I’m now finding that perhaps there is a new and grander level of that, which may in fact emerge from the ashes and rubble of my current life and physical existence.

I am finding that the answer to everything is love…

It truly is!!

And that every answer I seek is contained within the “animals” that my treasured soul-brother Roger Anthony, who passed away a month ago today, created.

Roger dedicated the majority of his amazing life to bringing into existence in order to both serve others and to make this a better place in which to be and live.

I honor you today Roger, for who you were and who you continue to remind us to be…

I LOVES you!! xxoo

Cathy Lynn

 

 

 

 

Photo Credit and Artwork by Baraka Robin Berger Fine Arts