Here is to hoping we all find the door we are looking for! I started this painting off with the intention of doing a realistic representational piece of my front door, then decided against it and changed mid stroke. The only thing now remaining of the front door I live behind, is the green, the rest is mine, what came to mind. Sort of a secret garden gate, filled with some pain to find. I haven’t painted in too long and it was fun to splash colors around again. Check our more Inspire me Thursday

I recently was forced to change hosting of my website and blog. Silly me I wasn’t thinking about my blog, how it is virtually saved, not saved to the harddrive of my computer and that it would disappear! So all the months of posts are gone, and I am forced to start a fresh. I was able to salvage my theme, and most of my links (thankfully).

Right now, I am reading The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss, this book was given to me by a good friend and an AMAZING chiropractor, who I am actually building a website for, and just started his own Journal. While at first I wasn’t sure about the book I am finding myself deeply engaged as I dive into the first 50 pages of this inspiring writing.

The book is full of many new concepts, ideas, hard questions and lovely quotes. One that I particularly liked was; “Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.” -Benjamin Disraeli.  Ferris, explores this idea, how fear, leaves us not doing anything, that fear paralyzes us, and instead of taking action we do nothing. I know I am guilty, I spend hours obsessing about what could go wrong, that I will be turned down, that I am not good enough, this the perpetual tune to my life, playing in the background. I am working on breaking this record now and chaning it’s tune. I want to start a new phase, much like my blog swiped clean, I want a new begging, while of course not loosing track of were I came from, or who I was, I want the chance to evolve and grow into the person I want to be.

Another concept Ferris introduces is that of Dreamlining, this I am a big fan of. Dreamlining as he describes it is, dreams with a timeline. Of course! Why not, turn your dreams into reality. For my birthday I purchased an IPOD shuffle, I had it engraved with; “my dreams are my reality” and that is becoming my “mantra” right now.

I am doing things that I am scared of, I am taking action steps towards defining the future that I want, for the first time working towards it, not being concerned about the salary that comes with my work, but rather the enjoyment and fulfillment I find in what I am doing. It is exciting and scary to think about actually doing what I want, to be able to do what I think I love, and to do it for my “9-5.” Of course it will take time, and it is my hope that I will be able to document my progress here. 

This weekend my darling and I took off and went to the zoo. It was typical dry hot Phoenix weather and the traffic home was horrible, but it was really fun too!