This is the place where I am working this week. I am grateful for the flexibility to do my work anywhere. I’m grateful to my friends who invited me to join them at their place in Paradise. I feel peaceful listening to the ocean waves as I work on my tasks. 🤩. This is my happy place.

Today I had an opportunity to practice one of Wendy’s tools. Did I practice it perfectly? Nope. But I remembered it in a moment of frustration and annoyance at myself. I was picking up my daughter to breakfast with my two older kids this morning. It was my last morning with them before going back to HK tonight. I have a rental car, and as I turned the car around for her to get in, I heard a loud scrape. This car didn’t have any sensors, and I could not see that the kerb would scrape the front bumper. I was so mad at myself because I knew it was tight and should have just backed up and given myself more space. But I didn’t. When I got out to check things, I could see some visible damage, so I knew that the rental car company would ping me. Man, I was so angry with myself. "Why did I do something so stupid?" "What an idiot?" "How easy would it have been just to back up?" But in that moment of anger and frustration, I imagined myself holding the little bunny rabbit and stroking it while also reminding myself to be gentle with myself. What would I say if it was one of the girls who did it? Or my husband? Or my gorgeous five-year-old self? I would say, "It's okay; these things happen." It helped. I enjoyed the breakfast with my beautiful kiddos, and even though I wish I hadn’t done it, I am also grateful that I decided to take out worldwide insurance cover for rental cars just before I left, so hopefully, it won’t cost too much!

This is my mantra of the day. I just had a little kerfuffle with a Zoom meeting--started to notice an amygdala hijack. I declared I CAN HANDLE THIS. Ring the bell, I did "handle" it with a lot of grace.

I can't remember how I came to pick it up (probably mentioned by our lovely @Wendy Hart ) , but I want to thank the universe for encouraging me to read the Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor. It really reinforces so much of what I have learned here in the PCC! I also now own Expectation Hangover after reading it, and will be starting on The Power of Systems next. So many great books! I love that I can see how I'm shifting myself. Stuff I've heard in trainings and calls is being repeated in another way, cementing some pretty amazing learning. WOOHOO for learning, applying and evolving!

I just can’t have enough of the beautiful Fall Colors at this time of the year… grateful for each day with incredible light andstll warm temperatures