Resources organized by what do you need, now
Support, Energy, Reflection?
inspiration corner - Support
everybody hurts
R.E.M.
Legs up the wall
Maris Aylward
Anthem
Leonard Cohen
Connecting to others
By New Ventures West
Please stop three times each day (at noon, end of workday, and just before bed) and ask yourself the following questions. Please take brief notes so that you can begin to notice patterns.
1. To whom did you feel connected during this period of time?
2. What brought about your experience of being connected?
3. How do you feel about being connected now to these people or to this person?
4. What action will you take from what you have observed in this exercise?
when great trees fall - Maya Angelou
When great trees fall,
rocks on distant hills shudder,
lions hunker down
in tall grasses,
and even elephants
lumber after safety.
When great trees fall
in forests,
small things recoil into silence,
their senses
eroded beyond fear.
When great souls die,
the air around us becomes
light, rare, sterile.
We breathe, briefly.
Our eyes, briefly,
see with
a hurtful clarity.
Our memory, suddenly sharpened,
examines,
gnaws on kind words
unsaid,
promised walks
never taken.
Great souls die and
our reality, bound to
them, takes leave of us.
Our souls,
dependent upon their
nurture,
now shrink, wizened.
Our minds, formed
and informed by their
radiance,
fall away.
We are not so much maddened
as reduced to the unutterable ignorance
of dark, cold
caves.
And when great souls die,
after a period peace blooms,
slowly and always
irregularly. Spaces fill
with a kind of
soothing electric vibration.
Our senses, restored, never
to be the same, whisper to us.
They existed. They existed.
We can be. Be and be
better. For they existed.
inspiration corner - Energy
girl on fire
Alicia Keys
I won't back down
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Edge of MIdnight
Miley Cyrus
Deciding on issues
By New Ventures West
Please stop three times each day (at noon, end of workday, and just before bed) and ask yourself the following questions. Please take brief notes so that you can begin to notice patterns.
1. List the ten issues that you are having a difficult time deciding about. Put each issue into the following matrix.
Issue: _____________________________________
a) Why I should do “x” about it
b) Why I should do “y” about it
c) Why this issue is confusing
d) Why I haven’t done “x” or “y”
2. Only after you’ve fully filled out the matrix for all ten issues, then address the
following questions:
a. What patterns of explanation do I observe?
b. What is my decision making process?
c. What emotion(s) block my choices?
d. When will I make a choice about each issue?
The summer day
By Mary Oliver
Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean—
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down—
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.
I don’t know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
inspiration corner - reflection
Self awAreness
Tasha Eurich
more than this
Roxy Music
Designing Your Life
Bill Burnett
Hold on loosely
38 Special
the river and i - Heidi Sands
I move with the river,
it moves wtih me
We move in synchronicity
My thoughts flow with currents
Push my feelings around the beds
It heals my wounds, the hurts it mends
It washes away worries and doubts
In motion it turns it all inside out
As peace consumes me all about
No hurdles, no rocks are in the way
I move by and beyond them everyday
Taking in everything passing by
------- The River and I --------
Making Changes - Work
By New Ventures West
Write our your answers to these questions after reflection and research. Then talk through your answers with 5 people close to you; then rewrite your answers.
If you stay,
- What changes will you make? Beginning when?
- What actions of yours will it take to bring about these changes? When will you begin them? Who will support you?
- What actions of others will these changes necessitate? When will you request the actions? What will you do if the action isn't taken? Who will support you?
If you leave,
- What process will you use to decide what to do next? Who can support you with this? When will you begin this process?
- When and how will you tell your family? boss? peers?
- How will the change affect your family? cash flow? where you live?
LivING
By Marcus Aurelius, MEDITATIONS
Think of yourself as dead.
You have lived your life.
Now, take what's left, and live it properly.
What doesn't transmit light, creates its own darkness.