A Different Kind of Life

The minute you begin
to do
what you really
want to do,
it’s really
a different
kind of life.

—Buckminster Fuller

Take a moment to contemplate this: “What has been keeping me from doing what I really want to do?” And then ask yourself: “How would my life be different, if I were to do what I really want to do?”

Be Empowered...Take Your Heart To Work

Take Your Heart to Work
And Ask The Most
And Best of Yourself
And Everybody Else.
Don’t Let Your 
Special Character
And Spirit—
The True Essence of You—
Don’t Let That
Get Beaten
Down.

— Meryl Streep

Open

“The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.”
—Flora Whittemore

Take a minute to think about the doors in your life and how they impact your experiences.

How do you interact with the world around you?

• What doors have you opened? What doors have you closed?
• Are you open and engaging or are you closed off and isolated?
• What is your level of accessibility to people that you know and to those that you don’t know? 
• What does your body language say about you? Does it tell people that you are welcoming and interested in meeting others or does it shout “stay away?”

“People are very open-minded about new things—as long as they’re exactly like the old ones.”—Charles Franklin Kettering

What is your perspective on life?

• Are you open-minded or closed-minded?
• What are you committed to being open to and what are you closed off to?
• Are you open to new possibilities or do you only see closed or limited options?
• Do you only see the doors that have closed in your life? Or do you see many open doors to new pathways beckoning you?
• What do you tell yourself about change and opportunities? Are you open to or closed off from change?

“Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.”—Lester R. Bitt

So what sign are you hanging in your mind or wearing on your sleeve? 

• Does your sign say “open?”
• Or does your sign say “closed?”
• Is it a simple, old fashioned “open” or “closed” sign hanging from a string in the front door?
• Is it a flashing neon sign or a digital display with a scrolling message?
• Is your internal and external message regarding your openness in alignment with your intentions? Is it authentic? Or are you sending mixed messages?
• Is this the message you really want to send to yourself? to the world? to your customers and prospects? to friends and family?

Consider how things could shift if you committed to being fully OPEN to life…if you were to allow yourself to be open to new perspectives, to change, to opportunities, to experiences and to people. 

• How would your day-to-day and overall experience change if you allowed yourself to be fully open to life?
• What would being open make possible in your life?

“When one door of happiness closes another opens; but we often look so long at the closed one that we do not see the one which has opened for us.”—Helen Keller

Isn’t it time to choose OPEN?!