10 Good Investments! Just Because You Can!

My Coffee that came with LUV!

The past couple of days, I have been filled with gratitude for some good investments of time, money and energy over the past couple of weeks.  So  I honor that stuff that makes life just that Lovely!

10 - Geeky Friends - You must have at least one or two friends that are technology savvy!  Believe me it helps keeping you in check!

9 - A HUGE flat screen TV - You need to enjoy those TV moments with the best and be in the moment!

8 - Your Recipe Book - Food is Love. Invest in building your own Recipe book.  That is the joy of cooking.  You can take an idea from someone and adapt it with your flava.  I am really having fun building my own recipe book.  I am even now looking at healthier substitution options for ingredients!  Yum!

7 - Good Energy that gives you a Pleasant Surprise - Looked at the pic for this blog?  I got this when I was having a coffee break and blogging away at a coffee shop.  I fell in love with the coffee shop the minute I was in the energy of it.  I loved the energy the shop was feeding me. Love it when life throws a literal message!  Well it was my first time getting a message with my coffee! hehehehehe

6 - Women, Food & God by Geenen Roth - Please read this if you want to learn more about seeing how you deal with your issues using food as the drug to escape!  It has such a profound effect on how I see my eating patterns!

5 - Sexy Underwear - There is definitely a need to have more sexy underwear.  I strongly recommend it!  Just does something for the mood for the day!

4 - Holidays - What a brilliant time of taking stock and deep reflection of truth if you allow!  We all need doses of that!

3 - An Ipod - What would my world be without my Ipod!  Music is the soul of life and it literally goes where you go!  Stunning!

2 - An Ipod Docking Station - What a pleasure to have my playlists play through the house as I go about my activities

1 - A MackBook - What a piece of JOY!  It has over exceeded my wildest expectations of a PC.  Amen!

Song Crush : Ignite Those Desires!

In Honor of igniting desires, here is a delicious song to help invite those desires and their voice to come out and play.  Loved the movie Maid In Manhattan.  All about her stepping into her greatness.  You can as well.

Ignite It! Ignite It! IGNITE IT!

Do you believe that all you need to be happy lies within you?  Could you consider that it is a matter of degree of connection to that space within you from which all wisdom, intelligence, desire and guidance flows?  I have found what has helped get in touch with that space is a simple matter of what one is attracted to and/or repelled by!  You will be very fascinated to how this helps you with understanding your Life Themes.

For me, a life theme is a concept or area of focus that either bothers you in a big way or excites you beyond measure.  Great vehicles for understanding your life themes include :

• Images – A brilliant way to focus the mind on an area of focus and feeds the imagination beautifully.  A picture definitely says a thousand words that you can never fully capture in writing.  It also has a great way of invoking that feeling place quicker!
• Music – I have started touching on using music as a tool.  But start understanding the songs you are attracted to or simply love listening to.  What feelings are they invoking?  Good or Bad?  It is feeding something and simply put awareness to what feelings is being consistently invoked
• Energy / Time / Money Spend – If you going to know what you value highly, just do a list of the top 5 things you spend money on, your energy on, your time on!  Those are your current life themes!
• Lists – You can makes lisst till your heart’s content on anything you want.  But what is essential is the lists from your heart of hearts not from the mind!
• Journal / Recording Outlet – Find a way to capture all this for tracking.  I have found that life themes are an intricate 1 GaJillion piece puzzle!  You will be surprised how connected your pain, your blockages, your bliss and your heart of heart desires are. It is simply beautiful and almost always amazes me.  When you are ready you will make the links for your life!

The trick is to get the themes out, get a level of awareness of them and decide where they fall on the satisfaction scale.  You can then decide if you want to be deliberate in terms changing them to move up the satisfaction scale.  Keep the list as small as possible to help focus.  You can always add as you go along and other stuff falls into place.  Once you have the themes, then you can work on tuning into their frequency!  How YUM!

Have Fun Darlins!

With Love CB

Some Useful Links to get you going :


Miss Oprah knows how to connect people up.  I simply ADORE her website!

• Try out the article on Creating a Life Map
• Martha Beck says it best on the List Making Process
• An interesting article in Listening To Your Life.  A very powerful practice!

Proudly South African!

• I love the concept of Bucket Lists.  This Blog has the right idea.  Read about other people's Bucket Lists for some inspiration

If Your Life Were A Radio Station, What Would It Say?

Music is the soul of life!  Blessed be that we have such awesome songs that capture moments, a feeling, a sentiment and a map that bares witness to the journey that is our lives!  If you the type that can imagine and believe that your beliefs form the source of the frequency that you transmit into the world and that the world tunes into your frequency and basically responds with situations, events, experiences and things that match that frequency, then you can imagine that it stands to reason that you start looking at tuning into the frequency you transmitting!

Generally, beliefs are a well entrenched and practiced thought pattern.  So your mind can quickly and effortlessly get to the answer using the established thought pattern that feeds a belief.  So you are responding to your environment stimulus through well set up reliable well oiled thought patterns.  Your BELIEFS!

Music is an amazing tool for those of you that are looking to plant a seed of change within this well established network of thought patterns that feeds your belief system. I would recommend the following approach:

Step 1 – What Are Your Themes : Establish a few themes that you would like to make consistent within your life.  It could be something like working on enjoying healthy Intimacy, evolving or deepening skills within an area of your life, making better choices when it comes to looking after you etc

Step 2 – Know The Feeling Of Your Theme Being A Reality : Find the feeling place for those themes.  When that is a reality in your life, what would it feel like?  Get to know what that feels like!

Step 3 – Match Songs That Capture That Feeling : Create your playlist with songs that put you in that feeling place!  I suggest that you keep it for the year and look at a complete overhaul on a yearly basis.  But remember that you can add over time.  The trick is to get the songs that really resonate strongly and give you that feeling of enjoying the reality of your life themes

Step 4 - Incorporate This Into Some Part Of Your Day : It could be that it plays in the car on the way to work, while you preparing dinner or part of your morning routine.  I have found that making it a as part of my morning routine does wonders for my energy for the day.  This is playing a few songs from the playlist.  Set the Ipod to shuffle and off I go!

Step 5 – Take Moments To Be In That Space Fully! :  Make time in the week for being in those songs fully.  Imagine you are at a concert singing the pages of your life.  Take 30 minutes and choose a few of the songs from your playlist and dance like no one’s watching, mime it or even sing it out aloud.  Just be in the moment, the song, the feeling and overdose on it.  It helps to be alone and in a place of not being disturbed.  The bathroom is usually a good place.  Usually you are not disturbed when people believe you busy with your business.  If you know what I mean.  Or take a Saturday or Sunday morning to have uncensored feeling of the greatness of your themes and songs!

Have fun with this.  Thus do not make it all about going through the motions. Go on wanting to.  That is why it is a good idea to have a couple of songs.  And go with the songs that resonate in that week or day!  It could just be one from the selection, or 3 or 5.  You will get into a space when you will know which song fits the time.

Music is a powerful emotion generator. Why not use it to help you tune into the frequency of what your life sounds like to the Universe.  Go for it Darlins, embrace your inner Diva/Rockstar and sing and dance the pages of your BLISSFUL life!

With Love 

CB xoxo

Clarity! It needs to be this simple!

Would life not be simpler if we just had clear messages to deal with?  Especially for the single folks out there!  I believe that in the whole meeting someone and getting a sense of mutual like and interest or even with courting someone or liking someone and then having that next level take over, there should be a moment of clarity when there is just no room for second guessing or ambiguity!  It is just clear that he is into you and you are into him!

I love how in Cougar Town this came together.  Jules let's Grayson know that she wants something special.  Grayson is scared and speechless and Jules tells him to say "why not"? and just do it!  He took some time but him walking in the street is how he makes a clear statement to her to what he is feeling!

LOVE IT!!!!!!!  That is the moment I am talking about.

Here is the clarity of knowing the like factor and that someone is simply into you! No questions required! Clarity is key!  Amen!

2010 : 10 Moments/Things/Experiences/Light Bulbs I loved . . . . .

Ignite The Light and Let It Shine!

Happy New Year People!  Trust it is all blessed and wonderful.  I am really drawn to the word IGNITE!  May 2011 be a year where we ignite the flame that allows for our greatness to shine and claim our joys.  Had some network issues late last night.  But 2010 has had it's fair share of great moments . . . . . .

10 - I always have what I need to succeed to JOY! - Amen, you have all you need within you.  It is a matter of giving it permission to float to the surface!

9 - We are always bigger than the moment we find ourselves in - It is scary to think that I have choice in every moment to offer the best and most loving response!  This applies to any situation, experience or situation we are in.  There is always the most Loving Divine response available to us. Big concept, flippin hard to practice but one I aspire to!

8 - We have all we need, it is recognising the form it is in! - This is still new to me but I am unpacking its practicality for my life at the moment.  The notion is that your life as it stands today has all your desire manifested, you just do not see it the form you would like!  So for me, my wealth is tied up in my Intellectual Property and currently it is in my writing and professional life, I just have not got it in as much cash as I would like!  The trick in life is understanding the conversion from one form to another!  I could never see life the same after this concept!

7 -  Everything has a Frequency - You are a magnet and you have a frequency that situations, experiences, events, people and stuff will match.  Give out I am worthless frequency and you will all life has to offer in deeds, experiences, situations, the way people treat you that matches that frequency.  Simply change the frequency and watch the fun begin!

6 - What you give out you get back - Don't underestimate the way you treat situations and people in the smallest ways.  From the way you judged a cashier, a waiter, a fellow driver, you friends and your siblings.  That all comes back to you in different forms.  Change what you give and you what comes back is different!

5 - Beauty is in the eye of the beholder - I get this in such a big way.  It is tiring trying to make up someone's mind for them, anticipating a reaction or a conclusion.  In essence it is exhausting controlling others and their reactions.  So here is the opportunity everyday of your life to align to your version of your truth and trust in that.  Then it comes down to opening yourself to the possibility that amongst the millions out there, someone does see your value and aligns to what you seeing!  It also comes down to being at ease with your truth and trusting that you will respond the best way you know how when it gets challenged!

4 - Vulnerability is a moment of truth and does not define you eternally! - This was a big concept to digest.  That being vulnerable doe snot define you.  It is merely an opportunity to be completely ruthlessly with our "no censor" "rawness" truth of the moment!  It does not speak to any permanent label but the opportunity to experience that truth of who you are in that moment.  You have choice to be different thereafter!  What a gift to those struggling to be vulnerable!

3 - Intimacy is when you experience someone through their values - So true and much harder in practice.  Seeing/Experiencing/Loving someone from a higher and bigger picture is rewarding when you realise that there is no place for judgement and your bullsh1t!  When you allow that person to be what they are and move to understanding their values and how they see the world, the love and intimacy you build is phenomenal!

2 - Never Judge a Book By It's Cover - This was very evident in the 2010 World Cup.  I love this where the truth sets you free.  It did for South Africa.  Well Done!

1 - You are what you believe!  You are the story you tell yourself every day even up to the minute.  And the beauty is that you have the freedom and power of choice to listen to a different story.  This is such a powerful bottom line!  You can choose the story you believe!