Gratitude that I can fly to Ontario and visit my 97 year old aunt this week. Grateful for a visit of tea and card playing – I know these visits are so precious. I could let all the challenges get me down, but I choose instead to expand my patience and focus on gratitude.

There was just an announcement that there was a power outage at the airport last night – and the airline staff are asking for everyone’s understanding. I’m grateful the power is back on and the airport is as open as it can be.

Everyone, including myself is doing the best they can in the moment.

I forgive myself for believing I need to get upset when things don’t go according to my plan.

I give myself permission to expand my patience and gratitude and flow with whatever comes my way.

I can get upset or I can expand my patience and gratitude and be in the flow of life. I choose to use this situation to expand my patience and gratitude.

I am free to expand my patience and gratitude as I thank the flight attendants at the gate and on the plane. They are having a challenging day recovering from the power outage and I can help with my patience and gratitude.

I know how to be patient and grateful – I helped raise 3 kids!

Today I am consciously expanding my patience and gratitude – and encouraging others to do the same!

I’m grateful for my ability to choose my response to any situation!

Where will you have the opportunity to expand your patience and gratitude today?

Our world can use all the understanding, patience and gratitude we all can create!

Thanks for being part of the solution by showing up with your patience and gratitude wherever you are, whatever the circumstances.

The people around you may very well have had a power outage recently.

Namaste,

Suze

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The Missing Pieces

I LOVE puzzles, and in the past 2 years I’ve moved my preCovid habit of jigsaw puzzling during holidays into a more regular – ok pretty much daily – practice. The dining room table wasn’t being used for anything else, so it became home to the series of “brain teasing put the pictures together” activities that made me feel some semblance of accomplishment and control over a world that had shifted so far so quickly.

A world where my footing was unsure, my confidence faltered, and my vision was, at best, very blurry. During my hours with puzzles I have the ability to see progress, and know I am productively moving forward with the celebration of the finished border or a completed section. There’s the huge satisfaction of clicking into place the illusive “one that has a square shoulder with a touch of green on it, but is mostly dark purple” piece. You know the one. When I can’t find “this piece that goes right here” I used to go into the story that a disgruntled employee  MUST have removed that piece before packing the puzzle. And then I went back to searching because I KNOW it has to be there and like a dog with a bone I couldn’t seem to let it go until I found it and put it in its place. That was before last week. My most recent puzzle experience sparked a new thought pattern, a change of habit, and a HUGE discovery about myself and how I have been in the world.

Last week’s puzzle came from my daughter whose 4 kids, 2 dogs and a cat sometimes equals lost puzzle pieces. She disclosed from the start that 2 pieces were AWOL – but she couldn’t remember exactly where the missing pieces belonged in the big picture.

As I brought the puzzle into focus, and looked for a “specific” piece that was not presenting itself, I decided THAT must be one of the 2 missing ones! I’d like to say I moved on immediately, but no… there was another step – I texted a picture to my daughter saying “AHA! I found where the missing piece goes.” Twice she came back with “Nope – for sure not there.” And I learned. In that very moment the lifelong habit of fixating on the missing puzzle piece dissolved. A new habit emerged – after a brief scan for the piece I was searching for, I decided since THAT must be one of the missing ones I  immediately shifted my focus to another part of the puzzle.

WOW! A LOT less frustration, I moved forward with greater efficiency, more fun, and it seemed like the puzzle almost “did” itself. Pieces clicked into place with ease, and the picture became clearer and clearer. Just like life.

Have you been struggling to find the missing pieces? The pieces that were in your life 2 years ago and are now AWOL? Let’s take a step back together and look at the bigger picture…

I forgive myself for believing I have to keep searching for the missing pieces in my life.

I give myself permission to step back and take a look at the big picture.

I can be frustrated trying to find the missing pieces, or I can appreciate the big picture – I choose to focus on the bigger picture of my life.

I am free to focus on what I can do from where I am with what I’ve got today when I…

I know I have a home, food, friends. I am safe and I am moving forward.

I focus on the big picture knowing the missing pieces will either appear, or won’t matter in the bigger scheme of things.

I am grateful for my ability to let go of the missing pieces and focus on what I can do from where I am at with what I do have.

What pieces of your life have you been obsessing about loosing? Life is just like the puzzle – acknowledge what might be currently missing and move forward knowing that all the pieces you do have are creating the picture of your current and future life. Bringing together the pieces you do have, from where you are right now will bring the picture into clearer focus – and I’m here to help you gain a perspective that supports you in creating your life with greater ease and joy!

Namaste,

Suze

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If you aren’t totally comfortable or confident these days – it’s OK – there is A LOT of that going on.

It seems everyone is in some place of awkward strangenesss – unsure about things, confused – neither here nor there.

If you are in a solid spot, it is likely that some of your family, friends and colleagues are not – and then that is weird and confusing.

What to do when there is so much shifting and changing – not sure who or what you can trust, unsure whether to do or not do things you used to take for granted – it erodes our knowing of who we are.

Our brains were not wired for so much uncertainty – and so it is time to get certain with what you can.

There has been a lot of stress – maybe within you, and certainly around you.

It is time for a MindSet Reset.

To get your mind to calm instead of spinning.

To get solid, and feel centered.

To deepen your confidence in yourself and your comfort in the bigger space of your world.

Try on these re-patterning statements…

I forgive myself for believing the way things are now is the way things will stay.

I recognize the “strangeness” of being out in the world again.

I would like to feel comfortable and confident – but things just feel weird.

I am ready to find my confidence and be comfortable again.

One thing I could easily do today that feels comfortable and confident is…

(pick something you KNOW you are able to do successfully… go for a walk, talk to my neighbour, go to the grocery store)

I can also increase my confidence and comfort tonight by… (something simple – only relies on you… packing my computer bag with what I need tomorrow, taking a drive, making dinner)

I remember feeling confident and comfortable with myself, it happened when I… (real examples that bring you the feeling to reinforce your comfort and confidence)

I am consciously focusing on and expanding my confidence and comfort. That feels more like me!

I am grateful to  myself as I expand my confidence and comfort in the strangeness that is our day to day these days.

I get it – and it doesn’t need to be such a struggle. Let’s each create more ease and confidence, and the world around us will calm down too. It’s time to get out of the spin cycle. Let’s do this!

Namaste,

Suze

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Are you having trouble seeing clearly into the New Year?

Are you challenged by the uncertainty and experiencing viral fatigue?

It’s OK.

You aren’t wired for this.

Your brain likes patterns, and over the past 2 years the well-developed patterns  that provided predictability, created a sense of stability and allowed your feelings of accomplishment have been twisted, mangled and derailed.

Are you – or someone you care about feeling “what’s the point”?

For most of us the fear, anger, and frustration have eased –  but something potentially of greater long term damage has set in. Resignation, lethargy and giving up.

Yes – there is every reason for you to feel that way – and it isn’t supportive and is not only draining, but actually stealing your most precious asset – your life energy.

And just like that you’ve allowed the circumstances to control you.

You became a victim to “it’s just the way things are” and have lost a bit – or a lot – of yourself along the way.

It’s time to reclaim, renew and rebuild who you really are.

Rather than focusing on what I should “DO” this year, I’m focusing on how I want to “BE”.

This I have total control over, and so do you.

Rather than set goals, I set intention.

I focus on how I want to show up. What aspect of who I choose to BE will I cultivate, encourage and expand in the coming year?

And I invite you to step into who YOU really are, and make an empowered choice.

Would you like more Mindfulness? More joy? Creativity? Kindness? Harmony? Abundance? Compassion? Peace?

You can have it all – but choose 1 or 2 aspects of you that you feel like you’ve lost along the pandemic path we’ve all been travelling.

What attribute have you admired in others recently and want to claim as your own?

How do you want to BE?

This you have control over. This is true empowerment.

I forgive myself for believing the way things have been is the way they have to stay.

I give myself permission to BE the person I decide to BE in these circumstances.

I can be victim to the circumstances around me, or I can empower myself by choosing how I want to BE . I choose to BE… ↑

I am free to BE more ↑ today as I…

I remember being ↑ – it happened when I was…

I know I was ↑ when I…

I AM creating who I really am – and this year I focus on ↑

I consciously notice, expand and claim my ↑

I am grateful for the opportunity to be empowered with my ↑

Seven simple steps to change your perspective. It’s time to BE your true, creative and beautiful self. Stop victimizing yourself to the circumstances and trying to “wait it out”. This is your time. Claim it!

How will you BE in the coming months? Decide, gather your support team and practice.

I’m here for you.

As we each become lighter, the world becomes brighter.

Find your light. Strengthen your light. Shine your light.

Namaste,

Suze

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Are you having trouble seeing clearly into the New Year?

Are you challenged by the uncertainty and experiencing viral fatigue?

It’s OK.

You aren’t wired for this.

Your brain likes patterns, and over the past 2 years the well-developed patterns  that provided predictability, created a sense of stability and allowed your feelings of accomplishment have been twisted, mangled and derailed.

Are you – or someone you care about feeling “what’s the point”?

For most of us the fear, anger, and frustration have eased –  but something potentially of greater long term damage has set in. Resignation, lethargy and giving up.

Yes – there is every reason for you to feel that way – and it isn’t supportive and is not only draining, but actually stealing your most precious asset – your life energy.

And just like that you’ve allowed the circumstances to control you.

You became a victim to “it’s just the way things are” and have lost a bit – or a lot – of yourself along the way.

It’s time to reclaim, renew and rebuild who you really are.

Rather than focusing on what I should “DO” this year, I’m focusing on how I want to “BE”.

This I have total control over, and so do you.

Rather than set goals, I set intention.

I focus on how I want to show up. What aspect of who I choose to BE will I cultivate, encourage and expand in the coming year?

And I invite you to step into who YOU really are, and make an empowered choice.

Would you like more Mindfulness? More joy? Creativity? Kindness? Harmony? Abundance? Compassion? Peace?

You can have it all – but choose 1 or 2 aspects of you that you feel like you’ve lost along the pandemic path we’ve all been travelling.

What attribute have you admired in others recently and want to claim as your own?

How do you want to BE?

This you have control over. This is true empowerment.

I forgive myself for believing the way things have been is the way they have to stay.

I give myself permission to BE the person I decide to BE in these circumstances.

I can be victim to the circumstances around me, or I can empower myself by choosing how I want to BE . I choose to BE… ↑

I am free to BE more ↑ today as I…

I remember being ↑ – it happened when I was…

I know I was ↑ when I…

I AM creating who I really am – and this year I focus on ↑

I consciously notice, expand and claim my ↑

I am grateful for the opportunity to be empowered with my ↑

Seven simple steps to change your perspective. It’s time to BE your true, creative and beautiful self. Stop victimizing yourself to the circumstances and trying to “wait it out”. This is your time. Claim it!

How will you BE in the coming months? Decide, gather your support team and practice.

I’m here for you.

As we each become lighter, the world becomes brighter.

Find your light. Strengthen your light. Shine your light.

Namaste,

Suze

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