Sunday, August 19, 2012

Mojo Monday ~ Equilibrium

Contemplate U by Larry Poncho Brown
Lately I have been feeling more contemplative and observational about life.  It seems as if I know quite a few people who are facing very difficult health issues or life challenges.  Some of them are people I have known most my life.  The pattern of life can sometimes seem very rote for all of us with our daily routines, but then life also has a way of throwing the unexpected at us too.  Sometimes life is incredibly joyful and everything seems to be going our way.  Then a day arrives when life seems really hard and we feel very challenged by health issues, job losses, tragedy, death and more.   

During a particular difficult time we may even wonder, "Am I going to get through this?"  I have certainly felt that way at times.  Back in 1995 when my fiance died in a car accident I wondered for a great long time if I would ever be able to feel happy again.  The loss felt so deep and profound.


What I have learned from my own life experiences is that we humans are remarkably resilient.  We are tough, even when we may feel weak and are incredibly sensitive.  Life really is much like a roller-coaster and there are always going to be ups and downs.  There will be good times and tough times.  Even just remembering inside our head the phrase "This will not last forever" can help pull us through.  Though of course the other side of this coin are that those magic and blissful moments, that we sometimes wish could last forever, but alas cannot, because even the great and good things come to an end.  Yet have no fear, more great and good things are always ahead of us too.  


I think that trying to see that there is a bigger picture and a longer view to life, can help us get through the darker days.  If we choose to live our life more this way, the dips of the roller coaster of life don't seem as scary or an pronounced.  I think we can choose to learn from our life experiences to flow more with the ups and downs.  There can even be comfort in knowing that a particularly difficult time won't last forever.  We will rise again.  



Here is a wonderful essay along the lines of this topic by author Charlotte, Davids Kasl, PhD from her book Finding Joy: 101 Ways to Free Your Spirit and Dance with Life.

"It Matters, But It's Not Serious"


"Having balance in our lives helps us find joy.  Keeping our equilibrium is about letting things matter yet realizing they are probably not of earth-shaking seriousness.

People who get lost in the 'it matters' side of the equation tend to treat every little ache, slight, upset, mistake, or rejection as if they qualify for headline news.  Someone slights them and they hold on to it, chew on it, bear grudges, or get obsessed with it.  On the other hand, people who don't let anything matter tend to grin and bear it, numb out natural feelings, and say ' It's fine' even when their best friend betrays them, the roof leaks, or their feet ache.
Both of these approaches leave out part of the picture.  If you tend to create a big drama about life's bumps, you might want to develop your ability to realize that it's not terribly serious --it's only a cosmic blink in time.  On the other hand, if you tend to tough out situations and play the martyr, you might want to give yourself permission to let things matter a lot more.  let yourself feel your anger, jealousy, sadness, frustration, hurt, or resentment.
One way to balance the two concepts is to first let it matter.  When something upsetting happens, let yourself feel the disappointment.  Don't swallow it.  Don't rationalize it.  Feel it.  Otherwise, it fests away inside.  Then, after you have had a good fit or a good whine, back off and put the experience or problem in perspective.  Look at the big picture,  Find a phrase that brings you back to yourself, and puts things in perspective.  (I remind myself that I have shelter, a warm bed, food, friends, and work, and the rest is gravy.)  Then write it down and put it up someplace so it will be there when you need it.  The more we accept our inner world and the less we deny, the more we come home to our center and the dwelling place of our joy."

Do you feel you are able to keep your equilibrium?  Or are there things that set you off kilter and make it difficult to stay balanced?

Do you have a phrase that helps you keep your perspective?


What do you think of the phrase "It's only a cosmic blink in time?" 



Sunday, August 5, 2012

Mojo Monday ~ Duality

"The conflict of who we are and who we want to be is at the core of the human struggle.  
Duality, in fact, lies at the very center of the human experience.
Life and death, good and evil, hope and resignation, coexist in every person
and exert their force in every facet of our lives.  
If we know courage. it is because we have also experienced fear;
if we can recognize honesty, it is because we have experienced deceit.
And yet most of us deny or ignore our dualistic nature."
~ Debbie Ford

"Duality" ~ art journal pages by Michelle Fairchild

The above quote by writer Debbie Ford appears in the introduction for a book called The Shadow Effect: Illuminating the Hidden Power of Your True Self.  The book was written by  three best-selling authors, Deepak Chopra, Debbie Ford and Marianne Williamson.  In the introduction Debbie Ford goes on to write:  "If we are living under the assumption that we are only one way or another, inside a limited spectrum of human qualities, then we would have to question why more of us aren't wholly satisfied with our lives right now.  Why do we have access to so much wisdom yet fail to have the strength and courage to act upon our good intentions by making powerful choices?  And most important, why do we continue to act out in ways that go against our value system and all that we stand for? We will assert that it is because of our unexamined life, our darker self, our shadow self where our unclaimed power lies hidden.  It is here, in this least likely place, that we will find the key to unlock our strength, our happiness, our our ability to live out our dreams."

Debbie Ford continues on about how the shadow effect is everywhere.  "Evidence of its pervasiveness can be seen in every aspect of our lives.  We read about it online.  We watch it on the nightly news, and we can see it in our friends, our family, and strangers on the street.  And perhaps most significant, we can recognize it in our thoughts, see it in our behaviors, and feel it in our interactions with others.  We worry that shining a light on this darkness will cause us to feel great shame or, even worse, to act out our worst nightmares.  We become scared of what we will find if we look inside ourselves, so instead we bury our heads and refuse to face our shadow sides.  But this book reveals a new truth -- shared from three life-changing perspectives -- that the opposite of what we fear we will experience is what actually occurs.  Instead of shame, we feel compassion.  Instead of embarrassment, we gain courage.  Instead of limitation, we experience freedom.  If left unopened, the shadow is a Pandora's box filled with secrets that we fear will destroy everything we love and care about.  But if we open the box, we discover that what's inside has the power to radically and positively alter our lives."

The dark side, the shadow effect, duality, paradox, and unresolvable dilemmas, have been a recent theme that had drawn my attention recently.  I first began reading about unresolvable dilemmas in a book called Unflappable: 6 Steps to Staying Happy, Centered, Peaceful No Matter What by Ragini Elizabeth Michaels.  I briefly touched on this topic in last weeks Mojo Monday post called Unresolved Dilemmas where I shared a poem about paradox.  

Then there was a fascinating novel I picked up, and then couldn't put down, called Impossible by Nancy Werlin.  The author shares that the novel began to take shape for her sometime in the mid-1990's.  She shares that "I had begun thinking about the ballad Scarborough Fair, as recorded by Simon and Garfunkel.  As a teenager, I found the song beautiful and sad and oh-so-romantic....But thinking about the ballad's lyrics as an adult---and focusing fully on the words themselves, rather than the gorgeous melody and harmony or the mood evoked by the music -- I found myself puzzled and then a little horrified.  The man, singing, demands one impossible task after another from the woman, and if she doesn't deliver, the she's no 'true love' of his...It's really a pretty cruel song, I thought.  There's no way that woman can prove herself to that man.  He's already made up his mind.  I listened some more, and then suddenly I thought: He hates her."





Consider these stanzas from the ballad Scarborough Fair for yourself:

From the sting of my curse she can never be free
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Unless she unravels my riddlings three
She will be a true love of mine

Tell her to make me a magical shirt
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Without any seam or needlework
Else she'll be a true love of mine

Tell her to find me an acre of land
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Between the salt water and the sea strand
Else she'll be a true love of mine


Tell her to plow it with just a goat's horn
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
And sow it all over with one grain of corn
Else she'll be a true love of mine
And her daughter's forever possessions of mine




Last week a friend also sent me an email that read: "This guy is freakin awesome!  (do the close up thing these are A-MAZING)  you have to check it out!!  you're the only friend I have that will like this ( i think)  ")  Had to share!"  A link to the web site of an artist by the name of Thomas Kuebler was included ~   http://www.tskuebler.com 


After visiting the site this was my response:  "Freakin' awesome is a great way to describe the art.  I agree wholeheartedly that he is a genius. Wow!  It is actually especially cool that he chooses unusual subjects, those that look different, perhaps ugly and even scary.  So much attention is given to conventional beauty. So much art focuses on classical beauty."  

Here is a sculpture called Drink with the Devil and a description of the piece by the artist:


"Liquid courage he calls it, the power to do the things you're afraid to try and to say the things you've been wanting to say.  And, when you sing you sound like an angel to your own ears.  Let the warmth rush in and slowly turn control of your will over to him.  Enjoy it, because tomorrow you'll need him again.  In fact, you may find that once you've swallowed him, your courage turns to fear and you can't live without him."




Below is another art piece called Madame Orba.  Here is her description:  "The second child of a traveling gypsy dancer, Maleva bore evidence from birth of an affliction.  This aberration was the result of her mother's indiscretion with a gypsy witch's husband.  As a child, Maleva's deformity was hidden with veil, but the gypsy witch's curse could not be abated.  Maleva was burdened with the power to delve into even the darkest of souls and was forced to speak their truths.  As she grew older, Maleva traveled with her trib as 'Madame Orba, the All Knowing.'  From village to village, townsfold deemed her a novelty freak until the wretched among them were exposed to the masses.  No, the skeletons never stayed in the closets when Madam Orba set up her tent.  All mysteries, lies and dirty little secrets saw the light of day by the time the tribe pulled up stakes and rolled off to the next town."


When you think about the shadow and the dark side what thoughts or feelings rise up within you?


What about duality?  Do you sense any duality within yourself?  


If yes, does it create conflict within you or have you learned to accept or entwine the light and dark within yourself?


What about unresolvable dilemmas? Have you experienced the tug-of-war of wanting two opposite things at the same time?  


Examples: 
Commitment or freedom?
Playing it safe or taking risks?
Controlling or surrendering?














Other things to do in an exploration of duality, the shadow and the dark side:


Explore the art of Frida Kahlo, who also was not afraid to depict the macabre in life.    In fact, one interesting story about Frida goes like this according to Wikipedia ~ "Clare Booth Luce, an ardent admirer of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, almost immediately commissioned Kahlo to paint a "recuerdo" (remembrance) portrait of their deceased mutual friend, so that in Kahlo's words: 'her life must not be forgotten'. Luce understood a recuerdo to be an idealized memorial portrait and was doubtless expecting a conventional over-the-fireplace portrait for her $400. After being shown in March in Paris, the completed painting arrived in August 1939: Luce claims she was so shocked by the unwrapped painting that she 'almost passed out.' What Kahlo created was a graphic, narrative 'retablo', detailing every step of Hale's suicide. It depicts Hale standing on the balcony, falling to her death while also lying on the bloody pavement below.  Luce was so offended that she seriously considered destroying it; but instead she had sculptor Noguchi paint out the part of the legend that bore Luce's name. Luce simply left the work crated up in the care of Frank Crowninshield, only to be presented with it again decades later, when Crowninshield's heirs discovered it in storage. She donated it anonymously to the Phoenix Art Museum, where it was eventually outed as a Luce donation. The museum retains ownership, although the painting is frequently on tour in exhibitions of Kahlo's works.  

Monday, July 30, 2012

Mojo Monday ~ Unresolvable Dilemmas


"I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love." 

~ Mother Teresa






Learning 
to live with
unresolvable 
dilemmas

Those 
tug of wars
that pull
you this
way
and then
that way

Unresolvable 
dilemmas

Freedom or
commitment
free spirit or
responsibility
striving or
letting it be


Unresolvable 
dilemmas


Desire to control or
desire to surrender
wanting to play it safe or 
wanting to risk it all
desire to connect or
desire to separate


Unresolvable 
dilemmas


Mind's eye or
mystic's eye
trust or 
doubt
being alone or
being together



Unresolvable 
dilemmas

Sometimes
there isn't 
really
a perfect
choice



Unresolvable 
dilemmas

Spiritual life or
material life
part of a team or
independent
taking action or
letting things happen
planning or
spontaneity



Unresolvable 
dilemmas


Life
is
full
of 
paradox


by Michelle Fairchild


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Learn more about paradox and learning to live with unresolvable dilemmas in the book Unflappable: 6 Steps to Staying Happy, Centered, Peaceful No Matter What by Ragini Elizabeth Michaels.





Sunday, July 22, 2012

Mojo Monday ~ Redvolutionary

What is a Redvolutionary you might ask?  Well this is how author Sera Beak describes it for us: 


"A Redvolutionary is someone who does not play by the social, religious, cultural, sexual, or political rules.  She affects change by daring to be herself, forging a unique path, and serving her planet authentically through "ecstatic activism."  She's a kind of 'spiritual superheroine,' rebelling against dogma and ideology in order to experience a direct and intimate relationship with the divine.  She has a fearless commitment to truth and freedom, healing and empowerment, hot love, red wine and gold body glitter...for all."




A few years ago I read a book by author Sera Beak called The Red Book: A Deliciously Unorthodox Approach to Igniting Your Divine Spark.  Out of the blue I recently began receiving newsletter updates from author Sera Beak about upcoming workshops here in California.  What seems like eons ago, I had signed up on her web site to receive updates from her, and my twin mommy brain vaguely recalls getting something a long time ago, but then nothing.  So, to start receiving new emails from this fascinating young author made me take notice.  I pulled the well-read and dog-eared book from my shelf and began refreshing myself with the delights inside.  I also re-visited her new web site and learned that over 3 years ago Sera stepped back from the path she was on at the time.  She said goodbye to a publishing deal for her second book and the production of a film. In her own words she puts the experience this way:  "Over 3 years ago, the Universe ripped me a new one, a new Red Heart that is, and a lot has changed."  She goes into more detail in a keynote speech she gave in Spring 2012.  (You can watch the video on her web page by clicking here.)


Sera Beak
Sera Beak is a world traveled, Harvard-trained scholar of comparative religion, a spiritual cowgirl, and a redvolutionary.  She has whirled with Sufi dervishes, had a private meeting with the Dalai Lama on her 21st birthday, took the host from a Croatian Catholic mystic who had the stigmata and has experienced life-altering visions with shamans (and everything in between.)  Her book also received rave reviews from the likes of Sark, Neale Donald Walsch and Rob Brezny.  


Here is the preface, called Prelude to A Kiss:


"Do you ever get that funny feeling, slightly surreal and disorienting, maybe late at night or early in the morning, maybe right before lunchtime or perhaps when your friends are chatting, a lover is changing, a job is droning, or a TV is flickering, a feeling that there's something more than all of this?  That you are more than all of this?  That perhaps life is more purposeful and magical than you give it credit for, and never mind all your unpaid parking tickets and bad work days that seem to prove otherwise?


You do?  Me, too.  As does your best friend, your boss, and your weird neighbor.  As do Russian rocket scientists, Belgian sheep farmers, and the Dalai Lama.  The feeling is, in fact, universal.


So, what is this funny feeling?  Sure, you could explain it away as some Freudian childhood glitch or planetary retrograde or even some of last night's margaritas coming up for an encore.  But more likely, it's something a bit more profound.  Chances are it's a coy catcall from the universe, disguised as existential angst.  It's the divine ringing your inner doorbell.  It's your higher self, stealing the spotlight.  It's your potential, aching to be realized, and your spirit, itching to be scratched.  So then the question becomes, what are you going to do about it?  Are you going to explore this feeling?  Are you willing to open the door?  Are you willing to refocus your lens?"


Author Sera Beak ~ Ignite Your Divine Spark
Chapter 1, called Light the Match: Set Your Intentions Free, begins off like this:


"So how the hell do you start igniting your divine spark?  Well, first and foremost, start by setting your intention.  Your intention is the energy, the electric charge, the awareness you bring to every aspect of your life.  It's the force that  lies behind everything you do, the fuel for your fire.  Your intention helps create the pathway for your experience; therefore, setting it ain't no trifling, careless thing, but a responsibility, one not to be taken lightly...


Setting your intention is a bit like offering up an invocation to the universe.  You place your desire out in the world, as an energized thought, a pregnant idea, an open prayer.  You envision how you would like to be, to feel, to progress...


You can state your intentions every morning before you get out of bed; it's like applying an all-day moisturizer for your spirit: 'I intend to be divinely aware and connected today, no matter what.'  You can sing them in the shower: ' I intend to follow my gut on this business deal and make it soar.'  You can let your intention move through your body during  a yoga class: ' I intend from now on to be healthier with my eating and exercise habits, and to love my strong, sexy body.'  Or set it when you take  stroll in the park: ' I intend to genuinely smile at every thing and every body I come across.'  You can set an intention for the coming day, week, year, or lifetime, or just for the moment you are in right now.  It's really that simple.  If you don't have a specific intention to set, just sit still, check in with your heart, and start sensing how you would ideally want to feel in your job, in your personal relationships, in your body, in your life, in your relationship with the divine.  Hold these feelings strongly for a moment in your mind and heart, and then release them, breathe them out into the world."


In what ways do you inspire/conspire to be Redvolutionary?


What Sparks are you feeling/experiencing right now in your life?  


If Sparks are lacking, what might you dare to do to ignite some?


Have you set any intentions for yourself?  

**One great way to get inspiration for your intentions is to participate in !Spark!, a Cosmic Cowgirl University offering, that inspires and supports you for thirty days in achieving your intentions.  The next session starts September 1st and you can learn more here.






There is much about Sera Beak that hollers Cosmic Cowgirl, in addition to her self-proclaimed Spiritual Cowgirl identity, Spark, Divinity, Red, Intentions, Revolutionary,  Daring, Glitter... and Oh, the list goes on and on.   She had been working on a book called The Red Book of Chakras three years ago, until her life took an unexpected detour.  She offers this particular book for sale on her web site.  She shares this about it: This was the book I started to write three years ago before my ass got kicked by the universe.  While my writing style and focus has changed since then, this book still packs a power-full punch of She-force and that's way I'm sharing it with you all now.  Enjoy!


She is now working on her official second book called Red Hot and Holy: A Heretic's Love Story and she still has intentions to complete and release the film called Redvolution: Dare to Disturb the Universe.


Sera is offering some amazing workshops in California, along with other opportunities to work with her, and you can learn more about that here.



Monday, July 16, 2012

Mojo Monday ~ Whimsy In the Garden


There is something so refreshing and fun about creativity and whimsy in nature.  I spotted a fun photo on Pinterest and followed the link back to the creator of the above signs.  The website where this image can be found is called Fresh Picked Whimsy and the blogger is artist Lori.  Her original post about how this sign came into existence can be found here.


What I loved seeing is how this project started off with a creative idea and a pile of old wood.  The photo to the left shows the pile of unused wood that was just waiting for a creative artist to come along.  


The simplicity of taking what is already readily available and turning it into an adorable garden art piece is brilliant.  


Look how simple it was to create in the following images.  First pick out some pieces. Next paint them.  






Lastly, add locations that have meaning to your life.  If you want to add the distance, simply look it up on google maps or some other on-line mapping program.  Have fun with the lettering. Lori did a beautiful job on these by using white and black to create some dimension to the letters.  I also loved a suggestion on Pinterest that stated you could also include dates for when you visited these various places on the back.  


What are you waiting for, go forth and create whimsy!






Sunday, July 8, 2012

Mojo Monday ~ We Are All Meant to Shine!



Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
 so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine, as children do.”
~ Marianne Williamson

Come sit down.  Make yourself comfortable.  If it was winter I would tell you to go ahead curl up on the couch, with a soft cuddly blanket to keep you warm, and I would serve you some hot Moroccan mint tea, my favorite.  However in my neck of the woods it is summer and we are in the midst of our annual triple digit days.  So instead I will invite you to sit in a lounge chair in our backyard, and you can put your feet in the cool water of our kiddie pool, while we enjoy some cold ice tea together.   

Now that you are settled in I want to share with you how round these Cosmic Cowgirl parts we have been discussing the topic perspective.  I have two very simple points of view to present about life perspectives:


The first one is: Life’s too short not to wear a red boa.

The second one is: We are all meant to shine!

You may have giggled when I told you that life is too short not to wear a red boa.  Quite a few people do.  You may have even laughed when I surprised you by draping a red boa around your shoulders.  The other possibility is that you looked at me like I wasn’t quite all there, wondering what was up with this red boa thing.

Well, the philosophy of The Red Boa, as I like to refer to it in short, is about having more fun and enjoying life more in the present.  Now this approach to life may come easily to some folks.  There are people with naturally positive, happy and laid back attitudes.  However, I recognize that for some individuals this way of being can be very foreign and it can take some actual effort at first to practice at lightening up.  There are also plenty of people who, like myself, fall somewhere in the middle of that spectrum.  Of course there are always going to be tough life experiences that come along now and again and can make it tough to see the brighter side to things.  There are a number of things that can help us all to keep perspective about this thing called life.  The first one, while it may seem a bit morbid, it is to remember that this thing called life is not a permanent gig that will last forever.  Every single one of us on this planet has an expiration date, it may be many years from now, or it may arrive sooner than that.  The reality can be uncomfortable to consider, but when taken into consideration can help us keep things in perspective.

Let me assure you that I don’t walk around with rainbows shooting out of my ears, sprinkling happy glitter while I skip through city streets nor do I have birds and friendly animals scampering around me while I sing angelically in a forest.  On occasion I do wear glitter and truth be told I may bust a move while cleaning the house, especially if a band like the Gipsy Kings is playing.  

Sometimes my life feels grand and sometimes I want to scream “get me out of here.” Many wonderful things have occurred in my time here on planet earth.  My life has been full of abundance and I always try to be grateful for all that I have.   My life has also been affected by tragic and deep loss and I have even experienced depression.  A few years ago in fact I went through what I describe as a dark night of the soul.  Yet somehow I have always managed to return to what I call a sunshine spot.  Sometimes the return trip to my sunshine spot is quick and I stay there for an extended period of time.  Sometimes I can’t find my way back there for a long time, and those are the hardest times of course.  I won’t delve into all the details of my soul’s story right now, but I believe there is much we can learn from one another’s life stories.  Especially when brave souls come forth to share how they triumphed over adversity and chose to rise above it all.

Perhaps even after the introduction to The Red Boa philosophy you are still asking yourself “But why a red boa?”  I am here to tell you that wearing a feather red boa can be transformative.  There is something about a feather boa that is sassy, playful, mischievous, sexy and a little bit wild.  If the thought of being “wild” sounds a little intimidating consider what reknowned writer Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D writes about the “wild woman” in her introduction to Women Who Run with the Wolves:

"Within every woman there is a wild and natural creature, a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing.  Her name is Wild Woman, but she is an endangered species.  Though the gifts of the wildish nature come to us at birth, society's attempt to "civilize" us into rigid roles has plundered this treasure, and muffled the deep, life-giving messages of our own souls.  Without Wild Woman, we become over-domesticated, fearful, uncreative, trapped."


If you do not yet own a feathered boa add it to your shopping list right now.    Then make up reasons to wear it.  For example, on my 30th birthday (which unbelievably was 13 years ago) I had my birthday party at a roller skating rink.  My family and friends requested lots of disco music (think Michael Jackson Off The Wall) and a few of us even wore feathered boas while skating.  I for one, am the owner of a rather fabulous collection of feather boas.  I often incorporate them into Halloween costumes too.  There is the flamingo pink boa, the fire red and orange boa, the parrot rainbow boa, as well as boas in simple black, red, green and blue. The photo collage (top left and then counter clockwise) above features me as "Fire," a rainbow parrot with my twin kittens, a pink flamingo, and then see how I use the rainbow one for decoration by framing a mirror in my art room.  

The reality is that I am a regular run-of-the-mill woman.  I have my low melancholy times, I get angry and feel impatient.  My figure will never walk a fashion show runway and from time to time I even have (gasp) bad hair days.  Yet, underneath there is also my wild woman, who occasionally howls at the moon, has danced in a bar cage and in the rain in Paris, and will when needed (or just for the hell of it) break out the glitter and feathers to help me keep that Red Boa perspective.

Put on
that red boa,
fling it round
your shoulders,
shimmy shake
those full
feminine hips
take pride
 in your stride
delight
 in the tickle
the caress
 of the feathers
feel your skin
oh how good
 it is to be you
one of a kind
a singular creation
of love


What do you do or could you do to stay in touch with your wild woman?

How do you keep perspective (or your cool), if you even do, when the shit hits the fan?

Do you own a feathered boa?  If not, what are you waiting for??

Monday, July 2, 2012

Mojo Monday ~ The Cowgirl's Guide to Riding Wild Donkeys

A brilliant email landed in my email box this weekend from Leonie, formerly known as Goddess Leonie.  She offered for FREE, her book called The Cowgirl's Guide to Riding Wild Donkeys.  As a member of a women's tribe called The Cosmic Cowgirls, I have to say that seeing the word cowgirl in her title made me happy inside.  


Now here is what Leonie offers in her brilliant (and FREE) Project Finisher Ebook:


* Her secret to producing and creating effortlessly, easily + with ridunkulous amounts of joy
How to get your projects finished + out into the world in record time 
* How to transform your biz + creative practice with this simple, powerful technique 
* The secret to making your ideas into real, finished, tangible creations that can touch the world + give you gorgeous income!


Here is one of the fun pages from the book:




























To get your FREE copy of this delightful book visit Leonie at her web site by clicking here


Here is the full web address:
http://leoniedawson.com/free-the-project-finisher-ebook-how-to-finish-your-projects-get-them-out-into-the-world/