Okay, so let's keep this simple and to the point. My dream, for a very long time now has been to start a business, named Karma Chameleon, where I can create and deliver an overall healthy and balancing experience for the mind, body and spirit. Through years of personal struggle with depression and anxiety, I have come to love all things natural and spiritual. I have gained knowledge and continue to gain knowledge about the things that are around us, seen and unseen that influence us on a day to day basis. Good and bad, we are all affected by the energy of things, people, and environment. Most significantly we are influened by the way we interact with our world around us and what we put into our bodies. With this knowledge I have started to gain a sense of strength and calm that I have never experienced in my 34 years of life.
The challenge for me, and I think for most people would be to overcome and break all the self destructive habits I have created throughout my lifetime of trying to fit my spirit and my energy and body into a "one size fits all" type of life. There is a ton of advice and books that I have listened to and read. Fact is I love it all. It all fascinates me and on some level they all make sense. The thing is where do I begin?
For me the begining has to start with the end. What this means is, I need to fully and completely know where I want to end up to even start. I know in my heart, and in my soul that what I truly want is for Karma Chameleon to be a successful, inspiring, real, honest, life changing way of life, not just a business. I want my family and myself to live day to day in a joyful state that can only come from perfect mental, spiritual and physical balance.
How do I get there? How do I get to the point where I can promote a business and a lifestyle that I can completely stand behind and say I did it? It seems daunting. Especially since my accumulative "bad habits" are not pretty, nor easy to break. So how about I start by listing the bad habit and then start working on creating new good habits. I beleive in working with nature and our surroundings. I find the moon influences alot of how things go for me, so right now April 16th 2012, is the perfect day to start to break bad habits. This whole week in fact. So here they are and lets get to work...
1) Addicted to food, I am an emotional eater, gorging on all things unhealthy, fatty, processed, not natural or good in anyway for my body or mind.
2) Lack focus or follow through. I am great at starting things but HORRIBLE at finishing them. I will rent a movie or a library book and never return it. I'll start a project and get half way done and get distracted or discouraged, some might even say LAZY. Aargh, I hate to admit it, but lazy is a trait I definitly have, and I am most ashamed of.
3) Do as I say not as I do attitude. I am Miss Know It All, always giving advice and spiritual leadership, yet I am the first one to fall back on old habits and the "comfort" that has for me.
Bad habits there are a plenty, but just to keep it basic we'll begin with these. I don't expect this to be an easy journey...hence the "challenge" part, but I am determined to be successful for myself, for Karma Chameleon, and for my family. The only way to live the life I dream of is to actually live it and stop just dreaming about it.
Challenge guidelines:
1) Hold yourself accountable. Every week right your goals for that week and check in daily with a mind, body, spirit check.
2) Be honest! Should you fall, it will be easier to pick yourself up from that point, then to deal with self deciet, which causes guilt and ultimate failure. No one is perfect, the growth comes from learning from and admitting our mistakes.
3) Every week, try to challenge yourself with a goal that puts you outside your comfort zone. True success comes from facing our fears.
4) Every new week should have a new goal for mind, body, and spirit....ex: mind/read a new book,
spirit/ meditate for 5 minutes, body/ do yoga every morning. You can keep those goals and expand on them...ie..the length of time or the type of exercises.
5) Be inspired, but be unique. Like I said I read a ton of books, and absorb information from all different resources, most recently, The Blood Sugar Solution, 3 Seasons Diet, and The Primal Blueprint. All of the have inspiring and motivational information, but again, I am an individual. It stresses me out to have to follow, word for word someone else's blueprint. Take what works for you, get to know where your limits lie, what feels good and right to you and do it. The less you try to be or look like someone else, the better you feel. Be you, love you, and embrace your own unique needs and life. Live YOUR life!
6) Be open and ready for change. In the same sense that you need to be inspired but unique, it's important to remember that life is forever changing. There are forces in nature and the people in our lives that can change the course of our lives in the blink of an eye or the whisper of a word. Adaptability is the key to survival and health. These weeks are going to change the way you feel, the way you think and the way you look. That can be really exciting and really scary. Remember guideline number 3, face your fear and accept the change. My favorite quote and one that warrants a place in these guidelines..."Sometimes in order to live the life that's waiting for us we have to let go of the life we planned."
7) Stay present AlWAYS! Do not forget the we hold all the power and strength we could ever need in this very moment. This moment is the only moment that matters, remember and embrace that.
More to come......www.karma-chameleon.com
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