I’m so excited! The fruits of my successful intention-manifestation experiment are finally… um, fruiting.

Anyway.

Hop on over to Examiner.com/dc and check out my page.

Oh, and let me know what you think of my first article!

My husband and I had a plan for the next few years. It was a good plan. It had us paying off all of our debts (including my student loans), aggressively saving for retirement, and setting aside enough cash for a 20% down payment on the home of our dreams, AND it left room for a few dream vacations–New Year’s in Argentina, a trip to the Dominican Republic with my best friend, and a cruise to Alaska.

God, I loved that plan.

And then…

Then…

Something unexpected happened* (something wonderful, but earth-shattering) that has totally shifted our priorities, rendering our perfect, amazing plan irrelevant given our new circumstances. Continue Reading »

“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” - John Wayne

 
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I’ve been thinking a lot about fear and how it affects my life. Fear of failure has been holding me back for years from trying to earn a living as a writer. The most maddening thing is that acknowledging the fear and realizing that it’s holding me back doesn’t make the fear go away. As much as my heart wants to quit my job and go for it, my fear STILL controls me. As you might image, I find this situation completely unacceptable.
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I just [finally] finished reading Carolyn Myss’s Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential.

In her previous works, Myss, a self-described medical intuitive, has posted that failure to understand your life’s purpose can manifest as mental or physical illness (depression, anxiety, disease). She wrote this book with the intent of helping others discover their own Sacred Contract, by which she means the theory that our souls enter into a “contract” before birth wherein we agree to have various experiences and encounter certain people in order to learn lessons. Discovering your Sacred Contract would presumably answer the age-old question: What is my life’s purpose?
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As I mentioned last week, I’ve been offered and have accepted a paid writing position. (By the way, today is the final day of the Community Experiment. Any results to report? Email or comment to let me know!) I’m extremely excited about this opportunity, and I absolutely cannot wait until the administrative boxes have all been checked and I can get started with the actual writing. It feels so good to know that I’ll be getting paid to do something I love!

Even though getting paid to write has been a goal of mine for YEARS, I might not have been as excited about this opportunity if it had arisen a year ago. As a matter of fact, I might have walked away from it. Why on earth, you may rightly ask, would I have been anything less than thrilled about a paid writing opportunity? What possible reason would I have had for ignoring it or turning it down?
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