Join me as I reflect on the opportunities seized on a recent trip to San Francisco. A relaxed Californian Rebecca without an agenda enjoys San Francisco with friends and comes back home to make the ordinary... extraordinary.  Are you seizing your opportunities? 

Well it's time to date again! But how does a modern busy mom meet someone? Well, I chose online dating and this first month has been something. While there is no match yet... I am learning about the me I am now. I have learned that I like me. I am enough! When a match doesn't work out, I look for the positive learning experience and take that with me with an open mind for whatever or whoever might be interesting next. Sit back and listen, wondering if you or your friends have encountered the same feelings and experiences. It's just real life going on here without fear and without judging myself. How are you doing knowing yourself and being comfortable with what you get from your experiences? 

Has there been something you want to try, but fear held you back? Was is it the fear of what others will think if you do it or the fear of the unfamiliar? Have you stepped out of your bounds and overcome one of your fears to realize that the end result of accomplishment and your growth afterwards was all worth it? My life is continuing to grow and I'm feeling the sense of urgency for more and to not be held back because of fear. Listen as I explain how I'll move myself from fear to a state of exhilaration! Only forward! Fly!

Do you have the next step of your life planned and then things change? There is an uncomfortable feel. One of excitement, but also of nerves and chaos. Sometimes we need to not plan and just trust the next step will arrive in its own time. I need to let go of my bananas...my self image and life expectations...my experiences from the past that I cling to and want re-created. What are your bananas? Where can you trust more and not have it all figured out?  Trust, take-off, and FLY!

When did we start believing Auto-Pilot is always negative?  Here are 7 life balance areas to keep me focused as I reach for auto-pilot. I actually believed I was going backward into Auto-Pilot and realized, it is what I need for this next season.

Today was the Professional Learning Community session "True Colors" and today I also ran across a list of 7 personal important balance areas that I listed many months before. These balances are consistent ones I list as important. It's just the focus and the specific action areas in them sometimes change. I can appreciate my "true colors" and accept my areas of balance so I can grow in them. What are the areas of your life where balance is important? Are they consistent over time?  Are you accepting of yourself? If you want to learn more about True Colors personality, message me and we'll find a way to connect.      "Fly" or perhaps "Glide" for a little bit.

Are their times you are busier than others and you can't avoid auto-pilot? It's needed for survival.. a future podcast. lol   I'm going into that season at work and just wanted to take a quick moment to reflect on what I've accomplished by living intentionally and give an update to regular listeners on what's going on in multiple areas of my life. Did I stick to healthy eating? Am I still practicing yoga? How did the first Professional Learning Community go at work?  I'd love to hear your inspirational and intentional moments. Leave a FB comment, message me, or leave a comment on itunes.  

From one conversation to another and another, a spark of insight created what will become our agency's Professional Learning Community. Have you wondered how you can get your teams/departments to talk more to one another? We will try a PLC, a community/team of professionals that will share their personal insights as we read books and participate in professional development opportunities. We will use these first 6 sessions to go through the forming, storming and hopefully move into the norming stage. All of these stages are necessary to learn about each other, our team make-ups, our shared visions, and build trust. We can transition from the norming stage to the performing stage of teams and begin to discuss deeper team topics and move agendas at more optimum levels. This is my hope anyway! Please share if you have other ways to build work communities. I love my work leaders for supporting this idea and know we already have a good place to start.

Have you wondered "Why me?" Had something happening in your life and wondered where is it going? Perhaps the unsettled broken feelings that happen are our subconscious telling us to slow down and TRUST that it will all work out. It is when we are vulnerable and feel weakened that we draw on our faith and remember to rely on God's plan. To be quiet and listen...  How nice it is to play this over for myself... cause the battle remind ourselves we don't need to have it all figured out happens more than once in my life.  Are there messages you play over to yourself? Times when you needed to be quiet and listen and trust? 

Ask folks about me and you'll hear words like positive, encouraging, determined, caring, and energetic. I like those descriptions, but I'm also real and have moments where I feel broken but have no specific reason... I wanted to share this because too often we see the best in someone because that is what they show us and we forget that we are all "real" and have our moments of sadness, tiredness, and maybe even brokenness. I allow myself to have these moments... I just don't get stuck there.. listen to another of my podcast "Moving past self doubt" to leave this podcast on a positive note and with the energy you normally come here to get.