My husband and I recently took a vacation to Kauai, Hawaii to celebrate our 16^th wedding anniversary.  We had a wonderful time even though it was just one week.  While there we snorkeled, hiked, shopped and took a fabulous helicopter ride.

Vacations provide a wonderful opportunity to “step away from” life as usual…

Since returning I’ve meditated on the following question:, “So Patricia, what’s going to change – what are you going to do differently in your life now that you’ve returned to it with “fresh eyes”?”

Fresh Eye Perspective

What can a fresh eye perspective do for us, and what’s the point?  We’ve all heard the statement about being too close to a situation to see it clearly.  Well, stepping out of and gazing at our lives helps us see what we are actually doing.

Taking an unbiased objective view provides us many pearls of wisdom.  We can see where we are supporting our selves, where we need help, what we are tolerating, how we are treating ourselves and what effect it’s having on our lives…

Gaining a fresh perspective is valuable and you don’t need to travel on an airplane or spend money to do it. Here’s an activity to help.

Activity

Find quiet time alone

Close your eyes and take several deep-relaxing breaths

Picture yourself as the main character on a movie screen as you are sitting in the audience watching…

Allow the movie to begin in 2009… and watch as month by month goes by…

What do you see?  What happens to the main character?  What is she/he doing, thinking, seeing, feeling and telling herself?

Allow yourself time to take it all in…

Then, knowing you can change the movie for this main character for 2010, think about how you will change it.  What will happen…. What do you want to happen…

Spend quality time here designing the script and casting characters…

Write it all down and check it periodically through out the year for any editing you may want to do.

I hope you found this helpful.  For more activities like this, and a “fresh perspective“ for your life sign up for my newsletter here.

Wishing you Many blessings this year and always, Patricia

Our December Newsletter
http://community.benchmarkemail.com/users/pevessey/newsletter/Dec-08-2009-Email

New Hypnosis for Weight Loss Courses starting soon…See them here:
http://online.activecommunities.com/BurienParks/Activities/ActivitiesDetails.asp?ProcessWait=N&aid=219

Your comments & feedback are always welcome and encouraged. For an appointment call 206-459-2898 or e-mail me at: patricia@integritylifecoach.comHome page http://www.integritylifecoach.com Copyright© 2010 Patricia Eslava Vessey… All Rights Reserved

As the year comes to an end I want to express my deep gratitude to you for supporting me this past year through attending my classes, choosing to hire me, reading my blog/newsletter and being my friend and colleague.  You have enriched my life immensely.  Thank you.

With the ending of 2009, and the beginning of 2010, each of us has a unique opportunity to start over again with a clean slate, keeping what worked, discarding what didn’t serve us, and creating more of what we want in the year to come.

It all begins with a vision or a dream of how we want our lives’ to unfold…

Wish your 2010 dreams to be the very best for you yet.  Cheers for a year filled with love, laughter, health and prosperity for you.

May this little video inspire your dreams…       http://www.thedreamsmovie.com/

Warmest wishes,

Patricia

Dear Friends,

As 2008 comes to an end I think about you with gratitude.  Thank you so much for supporting me through reading my blog, attending my workshops and fitness classes, and hiring me.

I wish you the very best year ever, and l look forward to our mutually rewarding ongoing partnership.

Please take a few moments to watch this wonderful and inspiring video, and may you all find joy this coming year.

http://www.findingjoymovie.com/

All my best,

Patricia

This prayer is in a couples daily devotional book my husband and I are reading.  It is titled Quiet Times For Couples by H.Norman Wright and it is filled with many wonderful insights.  One of them is this prayer for couples.  It is meant to share.  Many blessings to you this special heartfelt day. 

(James Dillet Freeman)

May your marriage bring you all the exquisite excitements a marriage should bring,
and may life grant you also patience, tolerance, and understanding.

May you always need one another -
not so much to fill your emptiness as to help you to know your fullness.
A mountain needs a valley to be complete;
the valley does not make the mountain less, but more;
and the valley is more a valley because it has a mountain towering over it.
So let it be with you and you.

May you need one another, but not out of weakness.
May you want one another, but not out of lack.
May you entice one another, but not compel one another.
May you embrace one another, but not out encircle one another.
May you succeed in all important ways with one another, and not fail in the little graces.
May you look for things to praise, often say, “I love you!” and take no notice of small faults.

If you have quarrels that push you apart,
may both of you hope to have good sense enough to take the first step back.

May you enter into the mystery which is the awareness of one another’s presence -
no more physical than spiritual, warm and near when you are side by side,
and warm and near when you are in separate rooms or even distant cities.
May you have happiness, and may you find it making one another happy.
May you have love, and may you find it loving one another!

http://www.myhappylove.com/lyrics/wedding-poems/blessing-for-a-marriage-251.html

http://jamesdilletfreeman.wwwhubs.com/
Patricia

To all the Mothers in the world, Happy Mother’s Day.

May you know you are deeply loved and appreciated not only today, but everyday. The work you do today shapes the future of humankind. This is not only an awesome responsibility, it is very difficult one. May those around you recognize this and support you in many ways.

Finally, may you be strengthened in body, mind and spirit for this most important role, and may you dwell in joy, peace, love and contentment always.

Blessings to you, Patricia

What is a Legacy?  According to the Merriam Webster definition, it is a gift by will especially of money or other personal property or something transmitted by or received from an ancestor or predecessor or from the past.

I watched two very good shows last week, and the similarities between them were interesting.  They were both heartbreaking stories that have stayed with me for a while. Even though these stories were very sad, watching them made me start thinking about legacies, and how we can influence today, what people say and think of us tomorrow.