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I wrote this post a while ago to heal myself, it’s taken me this long to post it.

(warning: rant coming…. if you’ve ever felt lost and little depressed and wasted too many hours of your life wallowing in it all, then perhaps you might relate to this post, but there aren’t any tips or action steps to turn your life around, it’s just a rant…would love to hear your thoughts)

I don’t want to write about….ready. set. go.

This is one of the writing prompts I use in my workshops. It has a way of cutting right to the heart of what you need to address in your life. And since I’ve spent a good amount of time lately moping around the house, reading blogs from people I don’t know and don’t really care about, obsessing about things that have absolutely nothing to do with my work, and asking myself questions that have no good answers like:

why can’t I have a little bit of HER life?
why does her life look so cool and easy?
why can’t I be on this show?
Basically I’ve been falling down rabbit holes faster than you can say Alice in Wonderland.
I finally realized I needed to do this exercise on myself.

So here goes.

I don’t want to write about how I feel like I’ve lost a little part of my Self, my true voice. I’ve been so focused on bringing home the bacon that I can’t even remember what I used to write about before I was studying marketing and how to make money.

I don’t want to write about how I feel YUCK today.

I just want to stare out the window and do nothing.

I don’t want to write about how all my friends are coaches and if I call them to dump, they will just try to ‘coach’ me out of it and I don’t want to be ‘coached’ out of it right now. I want to wallow in my stuff, like a warm fuzzy (yet slightly itchy) blanket. I want to wrap myself in the darkness for just a bit and let it consume me.

I don’t want to write about how I’m tired and I don’t want to be happy, fun & sandylicious and I just want to down a bottle of champagne and orange juice, scratch that, that sounds too bubbly. I need something stronger, something meaner, something really macho, like whiskey or bourbon. Yeah, I want to down a bottle of bourbon and watch bad reality TV.

I don’t want to write about how I’ve been endlessly comparing myself to other more famous, more rich, more beautiful, more accomplished writers and frankly, I’ll never measure up.

And, by the way, I don’t think this exercise is helping me one damn bit.

It’s been a long, long time since I posted something very personal, that had absolutely no advice, no tips, no action steps, no resolution, no words of wisdom. I think I’ve run out of wisdom, maybe I never had any to begin with…???

I’ll go drink that bottle of bourbon (Diet Coke) and pass out (take a nap) on the couch, wrapped in my fuzzy, itchy blanket of darkness and decide later whether or not to share this rant with the world.

(7:30am, next morning…..)

So, that’s where I stopped writing, I shut down my computer and went in search of my Soul. I played with my girls, hung out with my family, we went skiing and soaked up the sun (I did my very first double black diamond & bashed my knee really hard when I fell down, down, down the mountain). And… eventually…. I started to feel like myself again.

Okay, so here’s what to do when you’re feeling this way — I’ve laid out 3 simple steps for you to do .….just kidding.

However, I did find this anecdote from Elizabeth Gilbert that helped give me a new perspective, so I’m going to share it with you, simply because it made me feel better.

“I have a friend who’s an Italian filmmaker of great artistic sensibility. After years of struggling to get his films made, he sent an anguished letter to his hero, the brilliant (and perhaps half-insane) German filmmaker Werner Herzog. My friend complained about how difficult it is these days to be an independent filmmaker, how hard it is to find government arts grants, how the audiences have all been ruined by Hollywood and how the world has lost its taste…etc, etc. Herzog wrote back a personal letter to my friend that essentially ran along these lines: “Quit your complaining. It’s not the world’s fault that you wanted to be an artist. It’s not the world’s job to enjoy the films you make, and it’s certainly not the world’s obligation to pay for your dreams. Nobody wants to hear it. Steal a camera if you have to, but stop whining and get back to work.” I repeat those words back to myself whenever I start to feel resentful, entitled, competitive or unappreciated with regard to my writing: “It’s not the world’s fault that you want to be an artist…now get back to work.” Always, at the end of the day, the important thing is only and always that: Get back to work. This is a path for the courageous and the faithful. You must find another reason to work, other than the desire for success or recognition. It must come from another place.”

After reading that, I felt like Liz Gilbert slapped me across the face and said “Sandy – Snap Out of It!”

So, my friends, I am finding that “other place” to create from. Not for recognition or some desire for external success (or to sell something and bring home the bacon). I am getting back to work and doing the only thing I can really, truly call my work, write. I’m driven, like many of you, to search and dig and analyze and over-analyze my life, other people, our emotions, the reasons and the seasons, constantly trying to figure out this journey of my life.

That’s why I named this blog The Road to Fabulous, because I believe we are all on this road together, sometimes it feels like we’ve arrived- we ARE Fabulous- and we’ve got it all figured out, and everything will fall perfectly into place from now on. Then life takes an unexpected turn, and we feel confused or betrayed: “Hey! I thought I was done with all of these life lessons. I thought I’d figured everything out. What happened?”

Life happened. Maybe tomorrow I’ll be fabulous.

Now I’m gonna quit my whining and get back to work.

How about you? What do you do when things feel dark and depressing? How do you “get back to your work”? I’d love to hear from you….

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Chakra Kids Yoga – Teach the younger generation!

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In this workshop, yoga teachers will learn how to move with your students to find a deeper state of union. You will experience the principals as you practice on other teachers. We will move though how to adjust common poses including the sun salutations, standing poses, forward and back bends, twists and more.

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Part 1: Sunday, February 21th 5-7:30pm
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In part 2 we will dive deeper into the adjustment learning different poses, and honing your skills. Part 2 consists of a 30 minute Coaching/Consultation with Casey.

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Got a Vision Board? It’s January 2010 and starting off the new year with focus is essential! I just finished my vision board a few days ago, And recently attended a Millionaire Tour the other night. I was so inspired by what the speakers where presenting! So much of it was on cue with my practices of radical transformation, yet it all related to money, well, it was a Millionaire Tour! Who doesn’t want to make millions?  What really struck me is that Brad Hager (a Multi-Millionaire)  talked about writing out your dream list, what will your life look like on December 31st, 2010. He then then empowered us to rewrite it every day for 30 days. Record it and listen to it often and take action towards making it happen!  So I AM pumped up! I finished my vision board, got this amazing new journal F.U.E.L (Focused – Unlimited – Extraordinary  – Life) by Trisha L. Moore, and filled out my affirmations, my goals and intentions, my bucket list, and who I am attracting into my life.

I had a little bit of time left before had to leave to pick up my daughter from school and head off to teach kids yoga, I picked up my iphone and drew a card from.. click on pic to get application.

T. Hav Eker’s Secrets to Success of a Millionaire Mind application, and it said “BE THE BEST AT WHAT YOU DO” “To get paid the best you must be an the best, rich people are experts in their field…  this lead me to open up my journal and write and here is what showed up..

Let me share with you that sometimes when I write I ask questions to a larger source, I really don’t give it a name, well, not true, I give it many names, such as Angels, guides, spirits, god, higher power, highest good.. something beyond my ego.. etc… you get the idea, I am not attached to a name, but this energy serves in guiding me..

Here is  a journal entry from Wednesday January 20th, 2010

Which leads me to where am I an expert? According to Malcolm Gladwell’s book “Outliers” it’s an accumulation of 10 years in a specific field and spending over 10,000 hours in that area.  So clearly I am an expert in radically transforming myself. Being a personal trainer for 20 years, 10+ years of coaching and teaching yoga, I am all about growing and evolving as a human being and have succeed in making most of my dreams come true!

So I come back to the how? How do I share my own transformation and get it out there that I am an expert in the transformation process? That I can guide others in this process, to help them manifest their dreams?  I don’t know what the answer is?  How do I authentically put myself out there and share my own transformation to other that will show that I am an expert in the field of using these tools? Ok, here is the answer…. share what you just wrote. Let people in! They don’t know you from adam, share your story, your fear, your process.. give them the juicy details and let them know it’s possible!   Today you drew the  Angel card “Listening”. Are you listening? We have been guiding you to get in your 7 practices daily, take the time to write, practice yoga, meditate, wonder, write about them… why do I keep crying here?….. because I am scared shirtless (;-) of rejection and having people laugh at me and making a complete fool of myself. Good awareness, now do it anyways, who cares what they think, do it and you may be serving in helping someone!

Please, simply type this into your web site and put it out there daily. Don’t be afraid to share it, people need to see how real you are. You can’t hide anymore if you want to powerfully inspire and empower others beings. Yes, the tears are flowing as I write this and again as I type this, and I  know that this is really a part of the healing that really needs to happen. As you always said, JUST DO IT! Feel the fear and do it anyways.. As Bob Marley Says, Don’t worry about a thing, cause everything little thing is gonna be alright!  What a blast I had last week having my yoga students sing this song in shoulder-stand, 31  beginning yogis singing about it all being OK!  Time to run off and pick up grace and head off to teach some wonderful kids yoga… awe the life of a passionate single mom – big dreams and always searching for more time to make it all happen, its all good, dreams are being realized.

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