All my life I have been fascinated with words, the energy that they carry, the power that they have to transform. The power to help us shape how we see the world, and the people around us. Whether we see it as an opportunity or is it a burden? Is it a problem or is it a chance to grow? For me, it didn't matter whether it was studying different languages... I was always really interested in and really good at Latin, believe it or not... And I loved it. I was always fascinated with it. And fascinated in the root of words and the power and the magic in the words you choose and how that shifts your life. For singing I remember taking diction classes, that's actually what I went to school for. I also studied many different languages.

Understanding and learning how to tell a story in a way that engaged people and help them... Help them maybe see their life or someone in their life in a more meaningful way. So with that, I thought I would pick a word that I use often and seems like more and more lately. That word is AMENABLE. I actually heard it in a movie once. It's one of my favorite movies called Brooklyn. And, the way that the actor said the word I was fascinated...

"Amenable." I don't know that I've ever really used that word. So I looked it up and I love it. Amenable is like this video. It's  a way that I try to be most of the time. None of us can stay in an amenable state all of the time. How boring would that be? But amenable is agreeable.. open.. lighthearted.. in agreement, and in alignment.

Because it's tough to be in agreement if you're not aligned in some way!

And so practice what it feels like today to be amenable. If someone offers you something new to eat at lunch, it's a different kind of special today. Be amenable. Be agreeable.  "Yeah, I'll try that. Sure!"

Open.  Be ooen to unexpected things. You get a new offer to participate in a project that you hadn't anticipated. Now, I tend to often over-commit myself, because I want be involved and I want help and be of service. so certainly if your calendar's already full, you know, think about that. But, if someone offers you an opportunity to be amenable, and if you're in the grocery line or in the car and heavy traffic, be amenable.

Just be and enjoy the moment. Have a beautiful day. Be amenable and all the best for Living Well... Today.Words. There is power in words.

Speaking something into being begins with understanding. That understanding is what we're learning here, together. You can begin Living Well... Today.

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Hi! There's a wonderful saying that says, "When we no longer know what to do, we've come to our real work. And when we no longer know which way to go, we've begun our real journey." And there are a lot of us, including myself that, lately especially, feel like we're in this "in-between place." Maybe there are aspects of the work that we do that we love. But we're not fully immersed. We're not in it one hundred percent.

Maybe we sort of care about the person that's in our life, but we're uncertain... or we've got a few opportunities knocking at our door in either arena, relationships or in our work ,or where we're at in our lives with our children, with our family members, and we don't know which way to go. We're not sure which to choose. One, maybe feels easier. One maybe feels, maybe more financially, potentially prosperous, but we're not really sure. And if you're anything like me, I have this real need to know! I enjoy having a sense of certainty! But you know, sometimes not having that certainty and being okay, becoming okay with being in the in-between place, is the best place to be.

Right Here, Right Now

You can take stock of all the good things that you have in your life right here, right now -- with no other striving. No other expectations, just looking around and saying, 'I really love who I am and who I am becoming. I really love and appreciate the beauty and the gifts that have been bestowed upon me in my life.' Is everything perfect? What is perfect? But can everything be with ease? And so I will always offer to you that, what has worked well for me, and I've, it's taken a long time to learn this (and I'm still learning aspects of it)...

It's like layers of an onion, I guess. Right? Is that the easy path, the easier path can be the right one. We've grown up in a culture learning that it has to be hard if it's going to be worthwhile. That's not true. That's not true at all. So, I submit, just like in the saying, that the work is just beginning when you are in that in-between place. And it's okay.

What Can You REALLY Control?

All is well, all is always working out one way or the other. I'm there with you on that journey. And it really is about living well today in the here and now. Because in the end, my dear friends, that's really all you can control.

All the Best,

​Angela
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