I have simply this note to my fellow Americanettes following Election Day:

Let us watch our thoughts for they become our words, our words for they become our actions, our actions for they become our habits, our habits for they are the real key things that determine our destiny.

Turn your love for this country into action.

Life is good,

I called Josh a minute before walking into my new hospice patient’s home (when I need to ground myself, connecting with this man is one thing that immediately does it).

My last words to him before we hung up and I walked up to knock, knock, knock:

Honey, I don’t even know him yet and I love him.

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Imagine if we went into our ‘regular’ daily interactions with those we have yet to know more deeply with more energy, tenderness and a willingness…to see another as the person we love (or for those of us who have lost, as the very person we’ve lost).

Our stress levels, road rage and walls of all kinds, once there and built as high up as they could go would, if not cease to exist, decrease in size dramatically.

Would those days be really good days?

Those days would be really good days.

Life is good,

p.s. How does your brand of woman express her soul’s service and what does it say about how to see and experience the world at large?

Every study leads to more questions. That’s what scientists and researchers say about their work.

It is also exactly what regular people like you and me say about getting to the next phase, space or place in life, thinking, wait a second, I thought I had figured that piece of it (life) out, I should (thought I’d) feel complete.

But the longer or deeper we go in our quest or understanding of life, death, ourselves, others, spirituality, parenting, healing or health, entrepreneurship, even love etc. the more questions we will have, similar to children. That’s part of what they consider play and it can feel like ours too.

There is no final arrival point, that’s the joy (play? work?) and the rub (work? play?) we’re gifted and confronted with called our regal reality.

Your next “study” will lead to more questions and that’s called having purpose, being purposeful and it’s exactly the point.

Crawl/walk/hike/run/somersault through the life of questions (each day will feel different) and, as you do, know that, also similar to children, being the student doesn’t mean we can’t also be the teacher. [We’ve all agreed our children are at the top of the list of our greatest teachers.]

Accept the latest study you’ve created for self or that’s found you knowing you don’t have to and may not be ready (no one is ever fully ready for all the ecstasy and magic life brings, no one is ever fully ready to experience the death of loved ones, parenthood, push-the-limits business endeavors, and once again, even love) and that is exactly the work, Life Scientist.

That’s our life’s curious work, play, work, play, work…play.

Life is good,

I read an application from a potential client yesterday that said what she valued most in business was honesty. Spark:

Ultimately what people feel about you, take away or remember most is how you feel about yourself.

Your potentially elegant outer shell or “brand” and what you share on Facebook, IG, in brand photos or in a new tagline means nothing if your home in self, your heart, awareness of self or honesty around your part in something, anything, is not more consistently present.

Asking more from ourselves in all relationships outside our businesses and brands support those public brands, personas and businesses in flourishing because you can’t fully express a true alignment or kind of human impeccability or leadership if you don’t lead yourself first. In other words, if you don’t also vibe it inside and with all those inside your closest circles first. The integrity practiced with those you’re most comfortable with seeps out to business relationships. It’s everything.

Just as mega companies and brands know their brand starts with internal company culture, your personal brand, or, as I love to say, your brand of woman, does too; it starts inside you and inside your closest friendships and connections with loved ones.

When the behind-the-scenes in business, family or self becomes the stuff you could more easily bring out to share under the bright lights is when you meet your true, honest shine.

Life is good,