Decide 2 Matter

Free Gifts

Did you know you are blessed with a simple gift that's so easy to give away? I just received one of these gifts from a co-worker who walked by. Yes, I'm sure you have guessed what it is: a smile! If we are energetic beings, if we can affect the room we walk into with just our presence, then image the gifts we can spread with something as simple as a smile.

I'm known for describing just about everyone as cute, attractive, very pretty, and handsome. I do this so often that you really can't ask me for an "accurate" description of what someone looks like because to me everyone looks good. And why is this? Because anyone with a smile on their face is attractive. I don't care who you are, where you are from, or anything else about you. If you can produce a smile, you have something to offer - even if that is all you have to offer.

So why not give someone the free gift of your smile? A smile is enough to make my day. How will it affect yours?

New Focus & New Blog

For those of you interested, I have a new blog that I just created. There are only a few posts, but I hope to do most of my posting on that site. It's called Spirit's Way and can be found at www.spiritsway.com .

I've decided that my spirituality and creativity matters most, so eventually I may stop posting on Decide2Matter. Instead I might have a creativity feature on Spirit's Way. We are all creative beings and most of the planet believes in a creator. So having a creativity post on a spirit directed blog makes sense to me.

I've always been interested in intuition, the divine, nature, crystals, stones, imagination, fun, joy, psychic development, art, music, writing, and tuning in to my higher self and the universe. If you are interested, please check out my new blog.

And don't worry, this isn't a stuffy spirituality blog. I love dreaming about worlds in the clouds, little birdies stopping by to say hello, spirits on the wind, and great strength flowing from majestic trees. Embracing spirit and living a spirited fun life means bringing your imagination back to life. I feel the most connected to my writing ideas when I'm dreaming up some fantastic dragon story or high priestess character. Actually I feel a lot of my good writing ideas were more channeled or intuitively guided. Are you ever creating something to much bigger than yourself you wonder "where exactly did this idea come from?" At the same time, if you tell someone you are talking to guides or angels and he or she says, "Oh, it's just your imagination" who is to say she is wrong? Do you know where your imagination comes from?

Spirit's Way is about discovering again what moves your spirit. Because art, writing, and music move my spirit, I feel it's a natural transition. Trusting your spirit will help you create more. You will find more meaning. You will blast through your critic's demeaning voice. You will have faith in your work. So please join me for spirited living, awakening your imagination, embracing the beauty of the universe, and enjoying your creative spirit.

Morning Beauty

There is a nice field I drive by every morning on the way to work. Often I look over in hopes to see deer or turkeys. Or it's just nice to see the mini green oasis in between the houses and stores. This morning I was thinking about how I should find one good thing to say about everyone I'm around. I thought, "I should focus on beauty more."

Right after I thought that, a voice/thought that didn't feel like my own said, "Look over there for something beautiful." I looked into the field and thought "Yeah, I wish. The deer aren't out this late in the morning." But when I looked closer, I saw one deer. Then the tail of another. And a little further down yet another deer.

That totally made my morning.

Flowing Around the Tangle

While leaving work yesterday, I had trouble getting out of the parking garage. I'm a little timid, or rather I prefer the word polite. Butting into traffic or cutting something off isn't the way I do things.

So, when there are cars blocking the exit to the parking garage, I wait until it's all clear. Yesterday it was apparent I would be sitting there a long long time. Traffic was all backed up.

Since there are two exits (me being in the right exit), someone pulled into the left exit and started poking his nose out into traffic. I thought "Wow, this guy came right in, saw me sitting there, and planned on cutting into traffic." But instead of pulling into traffic and leaving me sitting there, he wouldn't pull out until I pulled out. I just knew that he cut into traffic for me. He even motioned me on to pull into traffic.

When I was finally in the lanes, I noticed the police car, wrecked car, ambulance, and fire engine blocking the lane I would eventually need to be in. Right before the accident was the intersection, so traffic really was getting tangled.

But instead of getting upset and tangled mentally and vibrationally myself, I decided to embrace peace and sit there. I even tried to radiate calm.

The light turned green and 3 lanes of traffic tried merging into 2 lanes of traffic in the middle of the intersection. Another thing I do is this. If I'm at an intersection and the light changes, but I can't do anything but block the perpendicular traffic, I'll wait until everything was clear. With the accident, there was no where to go.

Surely I didn't want to sit in the intersection and block the other lanes when the light turned. So I sat there again embracing calm. Someone behind me beeped. I got the feeling that I should put my blinker on. I literally felt this calm bubble, this calm pool of energy, right in front of the accident. The calm was right where I would have had to drive if the accident didn't block the entire lane.

After the little beep, I changed lanes, pulled into the intersection, and too my delight was able to move out of the intersection just in time.

I definitely felt some divine help and was also pleased that my vibration overtook the chaos that was threatening to overtake everyone as they merged lanes in the middle of the intersection.

Thank you universe!

Have you ever had a similar experience?

Welcome

Because I've been so moved by HayHouseRadio and by the reading's of Sonia Choquette, I've decided to start my own blog dedicated to the way of the spirit, or as this blog is called Spirit's Way.

All my life I've felt a deep connection with nature, nature spirits, stones, crystals, rocks, crows, cats, birds in general, trees, and clouds, to mention a few. Whenever I read fantasy books, I didn't imagine myself as the heroine per say. But I loved the idea of the wise woman, the sage, or the wizard/witch.

I consider myself to be psychic and I would love to be a psychic or spiritual counselor. Currently I'm attending Bay Path College to finish my degree in Liberal Arts. From there I might pursue a degree from the American Institute of Holistic Theology in holistic ministries.

Each day I strive to live with more spirit in my life. Or as Sonia Choquette puts it "live a spirited life".

So this begins my journey along Spirit's Way. I may start offering oracle card readings, too, in the future. Stay tuned.

Creativity and Free Time

Sorry it's taken me so long to finally post again. With my free time taken up with homework and school, my schedule needs some serious adjustment. That brings me to my current topic of discussion: creativity and free time. Before I started school, I had lots of free time to do what I enjoy. I could practice piano any time I wanted. My Netflix DVDs were watched and sent back steadily. Better yet, I responded to emails on a regular basis.

But something was missing through it all. With my free time, I often didn't know what to do with myself. I missed the structure of commitment (i.e. an art class I was paying and getting credit for). Sure, I wanted to create more, blog more, and coach more, but there wasn't much drive behind it. When I got around to it, I would ..well.. get around to it.

With my wasted Saturday mornings of sleeping in, watching TV, and doing household chores, I felt I was ready to take on the accelerated program at Baypath College in MA. So I signed up.

Do I enjoy school? Absolutely! But now my creativity is suffering. It's the old cliche saying that you don't appreciate something until it's gone. That would be me right now. My piano practice time has diminished down to nothing and my Netflix DVDs collect dust even though I'm still charged each month. And all the spirituality books I recently bought just sit staring out at me: reminding me of the money I spent on something I'm not using.

Why is it that we don't appreciate creative time until we don't have it? Many of you are probably thinking "gee, she has free time? I have three kids!" But I'm sure you have activities in your life that aren't fulfilling or soul inspiring that are pushing your creativity to the back burner. Do you really need to keep up with Lost, Desperate Housewives, or American Idol? See, I have to do my homework if I want to get a high enough grade to warrant corporate reimbursement. But I really don't need to keep up with American Idol, a video game, or my Netflix DVDs. Or rather I could keep up with all of that if I want my piano lessons to be wasted.

Last night I had a lesson and my teacher said I should be practicing my songs for 2 hours a night. I'm not sure if he meant each song since I'm practicing (let me count on my fingers here) 3 or 4 or songs. Oh and throw in my daily finger exercises which take about 15 minutes and we are talking about a lot of time just for piano. Granted if I was a professional pianist, I would be practicing at least 5 hours a day. My teacher was practicing that much and still managing to teach students. Perhaps that's why he's retired now.

For you piano lovers out there, I'm practicing the following: Rachmaninov's Prelude in C-sharp minor Bach's Invention No. 8 Debussy's Claire De Lune

And I can't remember the name of the fourth song. Perhaps it's because I don't like it very much. It's one of those "easy" songs that you have to play at 70 mph. So when you are practicing it slowly, your ego is strutting around saying "Ah, this is SO easy. We can totally do this." But when it comes time to play it at the correct speed, your fingers crash and burn on the keys, leaving your ego sitting on the sidelines with a bump on the head and a bad attitude. "Stupid song."

Now that my piano time has been affected, I didn't realize how much I wanted to practice. When I was bored and had lots of extra time, I practiced maybe 15 minutes a day. Yes, I should practice more, but I would stop when I felt I was "done". But as the songs get harder, I find myself more motivated to get them perfect. I want to impress someone. I want the wow factor. "You can play that?!?!?" Why I get motivated right when I have less time to practice is beyond me.

Take time today to review your priorities. What one thing could you give up? What one thing would you miss if you were told you couldn't do it anymore? Is creativity important enough to ignore TV over? Is it important enough to schedule time for? If someone said you could never paint, sing, draw, dance, sculpt, or play again, what would you do?