And meeting Leslie Lewis Sword, avid student of OnePinky.com, was a total gift.

Tomorrow, I get to meet Gina who is doing her 102 day blog challenge here on the site.   I am thrilled to meet her and I really look forward to it.

I look forward to meeting all of you at some point and many of us will meet.

Please watch what Leslie and I have to share and enjoy!

Much Love, XO

Laura

P.S. A Loving Prayer that someone gave me years ago and the author is unknown. I adjusted a few things as the original prayer was too much about  hell and damnation, things I do not relate to nor teach.

Dear God,

Please help me to develop an interest in nutritionist and what my body needs to function beautifully for your glory. I choose to be wise in my eating habits and I choose your wisdom in the foods I put into my body.

I renounce my old habits of eating too much of one food to the exclusion of another. I renounce skipping meals and then binging at the next one. I renounce being ignorant about nutrition and how I eat. I renounce laziness and irresponsibility in food preparation. I renounce buying foods through lust and greed rather than in wisdom and understanding. I renounce stubbornness and rebellion against your divine plan for my nutrition and health. I renounce foods that are harmful for my body.

I love my body and take loving care of it and appreciate all the support that the universe has to offer me which is limitless.
I am conscious of what I eat, which is nutritious, healthy and loving for my body.

Amen

2010 is going to be a powerful year.

I feel it, I sense it and I own it.

A gift to you all to create a practice before each meal in this New Year.

I think it is a delightful way to start 2010.

With a loving practice for your mealtime.

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Recite before each meal.

This food is a gift from the entire universe.

The land, the sky, the ocean and the work of many people.

May I be the presence that deserves to receive this.

May I learn the right way of eating.

May I receive energy and be protected from illness.

May I walk the path of wisdom and love.

When I eat may I not forget the people who are now suffering from hunger in the world.

In this food, I see the presence of the entire universe supporting me.

-Mayumi Oda

And I offer you this from my heart for 2010.

May you be a guiding light for yourself and others who need protection and love.

May you be a ship to help others cross their ocean.

May you be a bridge for those who cannot find their way.

May you be the natural born  leader you are.

May you be love and live love and be the light you already are.

I Love You, XO

Laura

Memories are ours for life.  We get to keep them and treasure them and bathe in them.

I have so many beautiful changes and transformations that have taken place over these last 3 months, and if it were not for Leah putting out the challenge…

Leah put it out there, I asked her if I could jump in with her and the rest is history.

So much has changed, all good, and the best part for me was feeling that stick-to-itness of, NO MATTER WHAT…I still have it in me to do whatever it takes.
I am strong, I am powerful and I can do this. NO EXCUSES.

Thank you Leah for giving me the opportunity to affirm that by partaking in this daily practice and for your contributing to my being a more powerful leader.

One of the best things about this three month for me is that I finally wrote my book proposal and although I did not list it as one of my intentions, I told my agent I would have it to her by the last day of the blog.

I SENT IT TO HER TODAY and I am thrilled.

Yippee!

Fat Ugly Perfect – A New Conversation…

Watch out World. My book is coming.

Another thing I stopped talking about was my challenging class I took a couple of months ago called, “Black Diamond Glutes”.

I loved that class and I made it into the movie, which is on YouTube.

I thought I would complete this chapter with some highlights from my class. Can you find me in the video?

While it is true that I still cannot go down to the ground for 20 push ups, I love feeling stronger and…

I LOVE MY BODY!

I am blessed.

I love you Leah and thank you for your Courage,  Wisdom and Love…

To the readers, keep checking, we are going to continue blogging once a week (at least) and we welcome your feedback and comments always.

Anyone out there want a blog challenge?

You know where to find me.

Love You, XO

Laura

Love reading about your progress, realizations with Mum, your feeling your feelings and owning your power and your age!

Speaking of owning her power and her age, OnePinky member Kathleen has some great wisdom to share with us all.

Here it goes, enjoy!

Today I’d like to write about commitment and how it can reward us at unexpected times.  You may recall OnePinky Kathleen, who spent the day in September as a caddie at Pebble Beach.  She has maintained an 80 pound weight loss for 4 years now.  One of the things Kathleen loves to do is swim.  As a child, she was never on a swim team but she took it up in 1980 when she was 28.  She always does the same swim, 1 mile freestyle, because she loves giving it her best effort for such a precise distance.  Over the years, she has kept a journal of her swim times and as you can imagine, her times in the 80’s were her fastest.  In fact, she completely gave up swimming from 1989 until 2001 before the pool beckoned her back.  And while the joy of swimming had returned for Kathleen, her swimming times had not.  Her best time for a mile in the 80’s was 27:45.  Today on a good day, she was lucky to break 32 minutes.  In fact, that day in 2001 when she did her first mile in years, it took her 47 minutes.   Kathleen was convinced that she could never come close to her previous swim times.  But that really wasn’t the point.  The point was, that she had rediscovered something that she loved doing which was also very good for her body, mind, and soul.  So her swim times became secondary.  Then one day, she noticed her times started to drop.  Just a little, and then a little more. Kathleen told me that she has actually said to herself many times, “I will NEVER break the 30 minute mark.”

But a funny thing happened this past Monday….

Stay tuned to tomorrow.

XO, Laura

There is great wisdom in the question,

What age am I being right now?

What am I fixated on and where is this leading me?

If I am afraid to confront someone or something because I feel they will not….like me, hear me, see me, get me, think I am a loser, etc.

For me, it always comes down to fear and inadequacy.

SO WHAT?

My wise woman says to me. She says, Then what?  I feel fear and still stay fixated and afraid? How is that working for me?

I am wise, I am powerful and no matter what age I feel like in the moment, I know that my true age is my wise woman self who is always present, always accessible. I just need to quiet my mind long enough to hear her speak to me.

I welcome what your wise woman has to share with you today.

What does she want to come through?

What does she want to say to you?

What does she want to share with us?

Get quiet and listen. SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

She knows and she loves you….always and unconditonally.

I love you too, XO

Laura

Your blog today was incredible.

Thank you for sharing your wisdom and heart centered words.  I loved it and I love you!

I want to talk a little bit about the issue of trust and safety.  Next Tuesday, November 3^rd at 7 pm Pacific time, I will be interviewing Kelly Rudolph, founder of www.positivewomenrock.com, an online community to empower women.

Kelly Rudolph
www.PositiveWomenRock.com
SURVIVE! Self-Defense LLC

Kelly has been a leader in the movement of personal safety.  I will be interviewing Kelly and one thing we will be discussing is desperation and neediness and how those things lead to vulnerability which leads to being a target.

If anyone wants to be on the call with Kelly and me live, (it will be recorded) please email me, laura@onepinky.com and I will get you the call in phone number and pin.

I hope many of you will join Kelly and me.  She is incredible and committed to women’s safety, empowerment and well being.

The key in life is to self correct. We get up, we fall down, we get up, we may fall down and what do we learn in each situation counts and matters. All leading to the whole picture and staying no matter how many times we fall is the name of the game.

For me, I have a pattern. I trust people because I see the good in them. The universe is constantly knocking on my door saying Laura, you have to be more discerning.

I had an incident happen today where, and unsafe person showed up at my door step, and I almost took the bait. I felt so sorry for this person and wanted to help them and they were dangerous.

Again, I want to believe people are good and they are. However, some of them have illnesses. Mental, emotional and physical illnesses that are way beyond my ability to heal and help. I want to save the world and I know I cannot….I can only serve and help those willing and able to help themselves.

So my personal lesson today is to be more rigorous about checking people out and not be so trusting all the time and follow through with my gut check. It always works. My body always knows. When fear gets in the way, we often become weak and make decisions further away from our truth. I get it God. I am listening. I say we meaning me…and hopefully some of you out there can relate to something being shared here.

Someone just sent me a great email and in it, she wrote, H is for Holy Crap!

Holy Crap, I lovingly learned something profound today, had a powerful OnePinky call, and made it through the day safely and healthy. It was a great day.

I am blessed.

Sending you all love and gratitude as we get closer to November, the month I focus on Gratitude. (I do every day and especially this coming up month!)

Much Love, XO

Laura

Today it is pouring in Northern California. And cold, way too cold for my taste:):)….and for some reason, our heater decided to break. And have I told you that I am cold bloodied and get cold very easily?

So today is a day to bundle up, write and reflect and I have done a lot of that.

I actually had some moments of feeling jealous, can you believe it? , YES JEALOUS! that you are below the equator and having warmer weather now. Silly things our minds will do. I just hover and listen and observe knowing I am exactly where I am supposed to be.

So I will share some thoughts and wisdom and call it a day.

The Dalai Lama writes,

I find hope in the darkest of days and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

A perfect quote as everything is an opportunity for growth and learning including the weather. It speaks volumes! A cannot think of a greater metaphor for life. Cold, heat, windy, sunny….like our moods. Hopefully we have more sunny than cloudy and whatever is happening is what is happening.

Another quote I read today which tied into the weather theme is by Martha Washington,

” I have learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or our misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.”

AMEN to that Leah! We cannot control the outside world, the season, the weather, however, we can change our mind and set a course of action for our life (this blogging, the course, etc.) that has nothing to do with the outside world.

Love that.

And on the same token, no love from outside of us will truly heal the longing we all have for self-love, it must come from the inside of us. It is who we are, that part of our soul that as Ginger shared, “needs no protection”. Sure it is great to be told how loved we are and hold that in our hearts. I do believe that as we trust it in ourselves, we can receive it without any doubt and questioning.

I hope that is helpful and I hope you know how sincere my love for you is…and I trust that you receive it Leah! You are wise and so amazing.

And feel just how loving and wonderful you are. Cause you are!

Live, Love, Learn, Let Go and Enjoy every moment.

I Love You Truly, XO

Laura