The Green Apple Wisdom: Staying Teachable for Lifelong Success

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The Green Apple Wisdom: Staying Teachable for Lifelong Success

Remaining teachable and maintaining a beginner’s mind are essential for personal and professional growth. In a world that values efficiency and predictability, embracing a mindset of curiosity and continuous learning sets you apart. By cultivating a love for exploration and being open to new experiences, you keep your mind flexible and ready to adapt. This approach not only fosters innovation but also ensures long-term success and fulfillment. Learn why staying “green” and curious can transform your life and how you can practice being a lifelong learner every day.

Join Me At the Edge

Come To The Edge Come to the edge. We might fall. Come to the edge. It’s too HIGH! COME TO THE EDGE! And they came And he pushed And they flew. ~Christopher Logue The other day I was with a friend and one interrupted us, asking what exactly “at the Edge” means.  It reminded me […]

Let It Go or Lean Into It

…it feels that no matter how much I am letting something go, there is still a part of it that rises up – like the weeds that poke up around my flowers. I am always pulling, pruning and clearing to get everything back to how it should be.

That is a lot of energy. I wonder how much energy I have spent letting things go over my lifetime. Over and over again, trying to get things in my life to how they ‘should be’.

You Are Always Supported

One of the greatest gifts we can give ourselves, is being willing to believe that we are always being supported. Even when it seems like everything is going against us and even when it feels like nothing is working out – it is often just our moment of feeling shaky in our trust and faith we are going to be okay. And I think this is where the adage, “Hindsight is always 20/20” must come from. In the moment we are blind, unable to see what is unfolding for us, and we are feeling limited by our expectations of what we think should be happening. We cannot possibly see it all.

Honoring Yourself- a Most Loving Act

Why is learning to love yourself so challenging? Self love is not about the things you do it is about how you feel about yourself, how you love, honor and respect yourself. Read for more…

Dancing at the Edge

“Fixed mindset worries in the nest and the growth mindset dances on the edge.” ― Amit Ray, Mindfulness Living in the Moment – Living in the Breath Today I heard the words, “You are dancing at the edge of knowing.” spoken softly in my . And I immediately saw myself twirling around and around, and then suddenly […]

Tending Your Garden

Your thoughts are certain kinds of seeds in your life. You can water them and allow them to grow on fertile soil. Or, you can let them diminish and wither amongst the weeds. Be careful that your seeds are not contaminated as they begin to take root.—Amaka Imani Nkosazana September always has an energy of […]

Surrender yourself

You are greater than your mind can hold in its imagination. Your mind is an inherently limited system which is incapable of imagining greatness without smallness, completion without flaws, freedom without prison, good without bad, peace without disturbance, joy without dispair. God is all of this and more. You were breathed into being from God […]

Finding the Sacred in All Things

The sacred is not in heaven or far away. It is all around us, and small human rituals can connect us to its presence. And of course, the greatest challenge (and gift) is to see the sacred in each other. ~Alma Luz Villanueva The Sacred can be found in all things, in all areas of […]