What does it mean to live from your heart? How do you “find” your passion? The word “heart” in French is coeur – where we get the English word “courage” Living authentically takes courage – courage to step outside of the box.

Sixteen years ago this month I was feeling “beside myself”. I loved my career, all was good with my family…but something was missing. I did what I know how to do: went for a swim and asked my higher power for guidance.

• I forgive myself for believing I need to protect my heart.
• I give myself permission to open up my heart to life.
•  I can keep my heart hidden, or I can step into my true self and choose to live from my heart. I choose to open up my heart to life.
• I am free to live from my heart today by …. (specific action or activity that will take less than 10 minutes and only relies on you!)
• I am grateful to _______ for modeling what it is to live from the heart (a specific person you know or are aware of who does this in a way you admire)
• I am open to expanding my ability to live from my heart.

If you are at a crossroads (a re-patterning term for “feeling stuck”, or in a time of transition (a re-patterning term for  “afraid of the change”), do whatever feels good to you (like go for a swim does for me!) and ask for support…

You are welcome to take my Dad’s terrific advice…Follow your Heart.

Find and then follow your own heart’s calling.

Namaste,

Suze

“If you spoke to your friends the way you speak to yourself, how many friends would you have?”

Re-entry – from a holiday, or illness, or time off can make you wonder if you’ll ever find your balance point. That’s how I felt this morning. The first two days back from our unexpected Australian trip, I saw clients. Client days are always joyful for me, witnessing the movement of individuals from the “stuck” to creative, positive forward places.

Today was a “desk day”. Time to catch-up on all the things that had happened while I was away, and the pile seemed overwhelming! Yes – I get there too – more “to do” than SuperWoman and 6 of her super-hero friends could possibly accomplish in one day rose before me this morning. Daunting, yes – until I did what I know how to do – I chose my word for the day.

Focus.

Seriously, there are 999 supportive energy words in Pocket Full of Possibilities, and I muscle-tested my way to page 6, column 2, section 1, word 4. If you’ve taken Flip Your Switch, are a one-on- one client, or have done Daily Practice 101, you’ll understand what I mean. If you haven’t let me just say there was a 1 in 999 chance that “Focus” would be my guiding word for today.

I opened up my journal and wrote the word: Focus.

Then I did these re-patterning statements:

• I forgive myself for believing I need to go to a place of overwhelm.
• I give myself permission to focus.
• I can focus or I can be overwhelmed – I choose to focus
• I am free to move through today with focus.
• I know what it feels like to be focused, I just focused for 10 minutes on my word for today and I am moving forward!
• I am focused and my creativity is kicking in – that’s just like me on a very full, and very accomplishing day!

At the end of the day I am gratified by my accomplishments. I used a bunch of the activities I teach – Brain Dump, Just 10 Minutes, Do Something Physical, Highlighting the “To Done” list – yes I am my own best client!

And the most important one of all – being gentle and kind to myself by accepting I am human.

Although, looking back – it was a pretty much SuperWoman kind of day!

Namaste,

Suze

Airplanes. They feel like fax machines for people. You file in, sit for a period of time, and file out somewhere completely different. Popping out of one “reality” and into another one. Both “realities” continue with or without my presence, and intellectually I know there are any number of other realities I could step into or out of simply with a decision.

A phone call last week 30 minutes before my weekly radio show switched our realities quickly. Within 24 hours we were on a plane bound for a family funeral, the brown winter landscape of Canada giving way to the “green so intense it hurts my eyes” of Australia. We’d planned to be here next month, yet today I find myself keeping cool in the air-conditioned kitchen of my partner’s family home, rather than keeping warm by the fire of my home in Calgary.

An early morning walk in the “gum” trees this morning was accompanied by the laughter of the kookaburra, and yesterday we walked at the ocean and body surfed in the waves. I went out to investigate the chainsaw sound of the gardener, and watched him “trim” the Bird of Paradise bush in the front yard…the trimmings of which became a bouquet on the sideboard. The Aussie relatives laughed when I said it would cost more than $100 to purchase the bouquet in Calgary, and here the blooms are composted as lawn trimmings. Different realities. Different decisions.

• I forgive myself for believing the ways things have been are the way they have to stay.
• I give myself permission to change the aspects of my reality I don’t like with a decision.
• I choose to make decisions that support the reality I want to create.
• I am free to change my reality, simply with a decision.
• I know what it feels like to change my reality easily, it happened when I…
• I am the co-creator of my reality, and I consciously make decisions that support me.

My day-to-day world seemed so important, yet one phone call altered our lives forever. It doesn’t need to take a long time to change your reality – just a decision.

Namaste, Suze

Luck of the Irish aside, perhaps it is less about luck, and more about Intention…
“I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it. The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.” – Samuel Goldwyn – 1879-1974, Film Producer

• I forgive myself for believing I’m unlucky.
• I give myself permission to acknowledge the opportunities I have and expand them.
• I choose to proactively prepare myself for opportunities by keeping my mind clear and my heart open.
• I am free to create my own luck through positive intention.
• I know what it feels like to be in the right place at the right time, it happened when I …
• I am lucky! I’m alive and enjoying the beauty of this day!

Clear your mind of the “chatter” and negativity so when opportunity appears you recognize it and invite it into your life!

Namaste,

Suze