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Lifted spirit!

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It’s been a peculiar day, where for the first time ever, I seriously contemplated ditching my Twitter account. I’ve had breaks from Twitter now and then, but never really thought about just leaving it, completely. But this morning the thought crossed my mind. I’ve had lovely conversations on twitter about this today, and have decided not to leave Twitter, just now anyway, but I will clean up my following and also take more care as to what I do there, and with whom I interact. But I still felt a bit off.

So when my daughter came down to me a few minutes ago, with this song playing on her phone, I just knew this was the answer to my peculiar mood. It’s rocking and there is no way in hell I can sit still when listening to this!

You’ll never feel happy, until you try – so that’s what I’m doing now, and dancing wildly to this song sure helps lift my spirit! Over, and over again. It’s irresistible!

Can you sit still while listening to this song?

Podcast 1/52 – Quiet places

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VejbystrandWalking along the beautiful coastline of Vejbystrand just before New Years I listened to the most amazing episode from On Being, featuring acoustic ecologist (you’re in good company, I had no idea there was such a thing either!) Gordon Hempton sharing his love for nature and both sound and silence.

He speaks about silence not meaning the absence of sound, but rather the absence of noise. And the conversation Gordon and Krista have about the last quiet places really shook me up. I urge you to listen, and see if you get shook up as well. It made me realize that noise pollution really is all around us, and I’ve never really gave it proper consideration before. Did you?

Be your best you

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Someone rubs you the wrong way. Or annoys the heck out of you. Makes you feel inferior. Or is cold as ice regardless of how loving you try to be, so you say Sod it and start to act less lovingly towards them.

Know the feeling? Been there?

I have.

But lately, I try to be my best me, regardless. Give it some thought, please. Think about the person you want to be. For you. And for others, someone specific or just people in general.

And then think about what is says about you, if you refrain from being your best you because of what someone else is doing or not doing, saying or not saying, how somewhat is acting or not acting.

And I mean really consider this. Why would you let someone else be the driver for who and how you chose to be in the world?

Best youIsn’t that really just absurd? Letting someone else, whose behaviour and action, whose words and reactions, you cannot in any way control or even influence, be the determining factor for your behaviour and action, your words and reactions? It just doesn’t make sense to me anymore. And I guess, giggling a little to myself now that I think about it, that it never did make sense, but I just never thought to question it. It was the way I believed the world was, outside/in, and now that I know that it’s inside/out, there is no sense to it whatsoever.

So really really think about who you are and how you are when you are your very best self. And then, speaking from personal experience, I encourage you to be your best self. Try it out. It’s amazing what changes it evokes, for me at least, and for those around me.

And yup, I fail. Fall flat on my face. It happens often. I behave, act, speak in suboptimal me-ways. But I would be doing that anyway. So why not be more conscious about trying to be my best me, as much as I can? For me, now, that is where I am coming from. I want to be my best me. Because that’s the me I want to be. Not because I want others to like me. Not because I need appreciation from others. Not because I think I’ll get more friends or success that way.

I want to be my best me simply because that’s the person I want to be.

Who and how are you when you are your best you?

Welcome 2015!

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In 2014, transformation was the word of the year for me and what a transformative year it proved to be. Regardless of the ups and downs I’ve experienced during 2014, overall my experience of life has been enjoyable, and that’s probably one of last year’s great insights: you can feel good even when life is tough and everything feels messed up in the moment. It’s fascinating to experience that after forty-two years of believing the opposite.

expansion But now it’s 2015 and a new year is here (given that year as such is just a man-made construct, just like the concept of time). Ahead lies many moments of Now, and my only resolve for 2015 is rooted in the word EXPANSION.

Somebody tweeted about different concepts of integration, assimilation, inclusion, exclusion during the fall and I involved in the thread…. and suddenly the word expansion popped up, and something happened within, there was a click and things fell into place.

Since then I’ve returned time and again to that particular word, expansion, both in thinking and in conversation, even though it has yet to reach my writings. But now I am beginning to put words to my thoughts and I hope to return to the concept of expansion a number of times during the coming year.

I’m also very curious to find out what a year with the intent of EXPANSION will lead to. Do you have any resolve for the new year that is upon us, opening up one moment of Now after the other?

Bye bye 2014!

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Another year has passed and what a year. A year of transformation, a year in which I integrated myself into myself. A year unlike any other, so I’m curious about what will show up in my mind, when I set out to oom out to see what the year has offered.

SCA2014
During 2014 I participated in Supercoach Academy, which undoubtedly has had an enormous impact on my life. It has given me so much insight, so many experiences, immensely valuable friendships. Life will never be the same. And I’m grateful for it!

#afkAlmedalen
#skolvåren has obviously been a big part of my life even in 2014 and I remember with special warmth how amazing it was to experience Almedalsweekwith so so many #schoolspringers, all of which have a permanent place in my heart. In a short while we head for #afkUmeå and I can hardly wait!

Peak District
During the summer holidays the Roths traveled to England. No definite plans apart from start/stop in Ely, where we have family. Turned out to become a wonderful trip up to the Peak District. I particularly remember a visit to a deep mine and subsequent wanderings along the rolling hills dotted with sheep. The beauty of nature never sieze to amaze me!

Mastermind gang
A new constellation and astonishingly important for me. Never before have I so clearly understood the importance of creating contexts that challenge me to be and become my best self. Without you all, this year would be much less than it has been. You hold a space for me in which to grow, and I thank you from the bottom of my heart!

Appreciation Calendar
Read a blog post a few months before Christmas on creating an appreciation calendar, which I decided upon. All four family members were given an envelope and in it we collectively penned 24 appreciations for each one of us. If you have not tried it, I highly recommend it, because it really creates an opportunity to experience, and share, gratitude.

Chicks
This is the year we got chicks! This monumental event has a definitive spot in the summary of 2014. Our three hens of the breed Faverolle, are so beautiful, and so talkative it’s funny. And did they ever grow quickly!! No eggs in sight as yet, but we are eagerly awaiting them now that daylight begins to return more and more.

Coach Carla
Carla is one of my SCA2014-colleagues, who made a big impression upon me, already the first weekend in Santa Monica. I hired her as my coach this fall and am forever grateful for the opportunity to work with her. She holds such depth. Such a compassion for beings. And her soul is beautiful. Not to mention her amazing voice. Namaste Carla, I look forward to continuing to work with you during the 2015.

Podcasts
I’ve read a huge amount of blog posts during the last 5-6 years …. but in 2014, I basically did not follow any blog. I’ve read a post here, a post there, but not opened my Feedly at all. Instead I dove headfirst into the world of podcasts. And oh, how many amazing podcasts there are out there!

Lifeline
You know who you are. You know, hopefully, how important you are. You are always there for me and I’m moved to tears just writing this. You are so important to me. Love you!

Expectations
Steve Chandler talk for 25 minutes about expectations versus agreements, and of all the pods I listened to in 2015 this is perhaps the one that turned my world upside down the most, in the very best of ways!

Significant meetings
Thanks to SCA2014 I have also visited highschool friends (Apple Valley and Seattle) that I haven’t seen in 24 years. I met up with a good friend from the American South, whom I met 20 years ago online, but had never met away from keyboard before. We did New York for a few days, days filled with laughter and explorations. And I had the pleasure to enjoy the company of Max and Mary for a couple of relaxing days on Long Island.

100 conversations challenge
In August, I initiated a 30-day challenge to find 100 people who all wanted to participate in a two-hour free coaching conversation with me. I filled the list with 100+ and have never had so many conversations ever, as I’ve had this fall. A small portion of the conversations remains to be had, and I eagerly look forward to resume them after the holidays. People have abilities and experiences that amaze me, and it makes me humbly grateful to take part of them, for two hours. For it has indeed been magical. Fantastic. Educational. Touching. Uplifting. Developing.

thanks 2014What I mention here is just a fraction of everything I experienced during the year and they are not set in any type of order. Fully random, this is what felt important to highlight, as I write this. But if I try to summarize what my perception of my life right now is, I’d have to say that I now live life with appreciation, love and joy. I discover what it is like to live when I have a kind and loving inner dialogue, in a quite outrageously developing and embracing context and I feel really alive.

So to all whom I have met, in one way or another, in 2014, I want to give you my deepest thanks, a thank you coming from my innermost being.

Thank you! You are important to me!

Listen for the unknown #6

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Hope you heard something new to you in #5. Otherwise, here’s your final chance, with the sixth and final of these podcast recommendations.

I’m leaving off with one of my absolute favorite RSA Event pods that I’ve listened to a multitude of times. Scilla Elworthy was unknown to me first time I stumbled upon this talk, but she’s been nominated three times for the Nobel Peace Price so obviously she’s made her mark in the world. Listen to her making a case for Pioneering the possible.

pioneering the possible

What did you hear that you’ve never heard before?

Listen for the unknown #5

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Turns out I’ll stick to three podcasts – RSA Events, On being, and The One You Feed. There are so many podcasts that I like. Hence, I’ve just decided to run a Sunday series all throughout 2015 with podcast recommendations!

But it’s still 2014, and yesterday in #4 we left off with an episode from On Being. Today, it’s time for yet another one from The One You Feed, an episode with Emilia Zhivotovskaya.

abundance

What do you hear that you’ve never heard before?

Listen for the unknown #4

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Why not stay where we left of with #3 yesterday with On being? Here’s another podcast from the same show, or actually, it’s old enough to be from Speaking of faith, which is what On being was called before. It’s been a few years since I first heard this specific podcast, and it’s remained with me since then. I just relistened to it and it’s as rich and rewarding today, as it was first time I listened to it. I remembered it to be called Being autistic, being human, but it turns out the episode is called Autism and humanity.

prepared to lose

What do you hear that you’ve never heard before?

Listen for the unknown #3

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Curious if you, like me, heard anything that stopped you dead in your tracks when you listened to the podcast from The One You Feed in #2?

Today, on to another of my absolute favorite podcasts, that I just realised I haven’t listened to all year. Most definitely want to change that for 2015, because On Being with Krista Tippitt holds loads of unknowns for me. Here’s lots to listen for, that I’ve never heard before, and Kristas style of being in conversation during her interviews is right up my alley.

Here’s an episode called Inner life at work, with guest Tami Simon.

unknown

What do you hear that you’ve never heard before?

Listen for the unknown #2

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I hope you enjoyed listening to the podcast from RSA Event called Life, Death, Self and Soul that I recommended in #1. This time, I’m hoping you will hear something new in an episode of The One You Feed featuring Andrew Solomon. I listened to it while taking a lovely winter walk with Trassel the dog, and I actually stopped dead in my tracks at one time (around ten minutes from the end).

suddenlyWhat do you hear that you’ve never heard before?