Happy New Year 2009

It's been a while since I wrote. A lot has happened in the short span of almost 4 months:

• I completed the second module of coaching training through the Institute for Integrative Coaching; I was coached in my life for 3 months. I still have a lot to work on, now I have the tools to see more and more successes in my life.
• I decided to limit my communications with my father. (My father disappeared out of my life a few years after my mother and father divorced. I was seven. Forty-three years later, I was able to find my father. More on that with another blog.)
• I distanced myself from writing in my blog and chose to work deeply through the coaching and healing process, and that experience let me see many of my life situations and challenges through respectful, peaceful, non-reactive eyes.
• I chose to be fully in the process, and not hung up with the outcome of my decision to go through with coaching training.
• I made a conscious choice to put my need to be healthy as the priority in my life.
• I chose to stop being in denial about a medical diagnosis I received several years ago, and thought I was managing. I decided to create a health team with a naturopath, chiropractor, and massage therapist to aid me in taking stronger and more specific actions toward better health and fitness.
• I exercise 5-6 times a week.
• I dance at least twice a week.
• I take supplements regularly for the condition I was diagnosed with, and I changed my diet to increase my health benefits.
• The US had a presidential election, and the people spoke with their votes. It's an exciting time, full of hope and change. It's full of challenges, and people will face the toughest decisions they ever had to make.
  

• Financial markets are currently fractured around the world.
• I made a visit to Texas to spend time with my beloved aunt in early December.
• My brother in Washington DC got married to his long-time lady friend, with very little fanfare, but with a lot of heart.
• I became secretary of my homeowners association.
• I've continued my volunteering for etown.
  
• I've made some new friends.
• I continue to journal and meditate.
• I paid my quarterly taxes.
• I went to Fort Collins for the first time (and the second time, too).

Although I haven't written in my blog, I have been writing. I decided it was time to focus on what's ahead for me on a day-to-day basis, and take action. Sort of the one-day-at-a-time approach. Some things I had regularly enjoyed doing had to fall by the wayside, but as I learn to manage things large and small that come about in my life, I realize I have been responsible, accountable, and taking action. There are things I want to change, so, like a boat on the seas when the wind changes, I adapt, and learn and grow, and do. As Yoda said, "Do! There is no Try!"
I continue to be committed to my own evolution.
Come join the parade!