Arminda Lindsay

Being On Purpose

Environmental Influences

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Slowing Down

SLOWING DOWN so that I can RISE UP

Too often I hurry. I’m in a rush. I want to get to the end of the day and cross my own imaginary finish line so I can go to sleep again because it’s so exhausting being me.

Except I make it all up and never really need to hurry (unless the house is on fire: then definitely hurry).

When I consciously and intentionally and deliberately slow down, creating space for simply being, then all the possibilities rise to the surface.

I rise to the surface.

I am a living and breathing and creating and loving spiritual being having an amazing human experience.

And everything and more gets created, achieved, checked off, or imagined. At least the stuff that really matters.

“Everything changed the day I figured out there was exactly enough time for the important things in my life.” — Brian Andreas

The Waiting Place

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There have been times in my life I’ve found myself in a lower emotional state, a place inside my own head that I believe is real. It’s a place that’s easy to stay, inside that limiting belief.

It’s easy because I’m not the only one who gets settled in that spot. Many people around me believe that life is just hard, or the economy is in a slump, or we just are the way we are, or somebody else gets all the luck, or the locals aren’t ready for a business model like mine, or I don’t know how to do that one thing that would make all the difference, so I’ll just envy others for what obviously comes easy to them and jump back on social media to check in on what everyone else is doing.

What thoughts and limiting beliefs are you holding onto right now?

Some of my most profound learning moments have come from children’s books and one of my greatest teachers is Dr. Seuss. I particularly love his fabulous Oh, The Places You’ll Go!

In this book he reminds us that when we believe our own thoughts, our own limiting beliefs, we are hanging out in “the Waiting Place,” and until we snap out of it and get on with the business of living and creating the life we want, we are wasting time waiting for something or someone that isn’t coming.

You’re it.

You’re all you’re waiting for, so . . .

“. . . be your name Buxbaum or Bixby or Bray
or Mordecai Ali Van Allen O’Shea,
you’re off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting.
So. . . get on your way!”

Steps

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stepsOne step at a time.

I once bought a pewter key chain in the shape of three footprints in succession. I was going through an extremely difficult experience and decided to carry the key chain as a reminder that I need only take one step at a time, one day at a time. There were many moments when I reached into my pocket or purse to clasp that key chain as a silent reminder to take my next step.

Approximately two years after I purchased it, the key chain broke in two from all its use, and my first reaction was alarm at what I would do without it, but I took a deep breath and slowly turned to look behind me and realized how far I’d already climbed and was delighted to discover that I no longer needed the physical reminder.

I’m so grateful for that climb.

What project or task or experience feels daunting and overwhelming right now?

Take one step. That’s it. Just one and then another. Before you know it, you’ll be turning slowly around to look behind you and will have your own moment of recognition of just how far you’ve come and just how much you’ve achieved.

I’m here cheering for you. You’ve got this!

Behind Door #1

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In honor of the Christmas season, my family recently visited an assisted-living facility, where we moved from floor to floor stopping in the residents’ public gathering places to sing a selection of holiday songs.

After our third performance we were approached by a nurse who asked if we would be so kind as to sing for a 100-year-old patient unable to leave her bed.

We immediately obliged and our very large assembly squeezed into a modestly-sized room, where Miss Ellie lay bed-ridden and speechless, but with eyes wide open.

I stood at the foot of Miss Ellie’s bed riveted to the floor as her gaze locked with mine and while I sang, my heart swelled with love, tears spilling from my eyes.

We shared three or four songs, all the while Miss Ellie’s eyes never leaving mine and before leaving her room I approached her bed, bent and gently kissed her, and thanked her for her gift to me.

How often do we stay in the public gathering places of our lives to share our services?

When was the last time you went through an unknown door to simply serve because someone on the other side couldn’t come to you?

Miss Ellie’s fierce devotion to living serves as a reminder to me that behind every door is an opportunity to keep growing when we serve with love.

But only every time.

Wanting

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We’re all guilty of getting in our own way. But only all the time.

The truth is we make up lies, then believe those lies, and play them on a repeating loop inside our heads. It’s no wonder we feel we lack or that someone else is better than us or others are accomplishing more or are capable of bigger things.

When was the last time you caught yourself believing:

  • I’m great at what I do; I just don’t know how to run the business side of things.
  • I’d love to be in that career but I don’t even know where to start.
  • Oh, I could never. . . .
  • I don’t know how to motivate my team.
  • I’ve got a great story, but I’m no writer.

Trust me when I say the “how” is the least of your worries. What you need is a “want.”

Identify a time in your life when you REALLY wanted something (anything) and (against all odds) you got it. You didn’t allow your lack of knowledge of the “how to” to stop you. YOU figured it out!

Admit 2 things:
1. You’re really smart!
2. You need to get out of your own way. Yesterday.

What do you REALLY want right now?

Now go figure out your how.

Ugly Duckling

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I love the story of the Ugly Duckling because he struggled with self-image, belonging, personal performance, bullying and general unhappiness.

Until he didn’t.

During his transformation everything around him remained the same:

  1. The family occupied the same nest.
  2. The bullies were still throwing barbs at anyone who would stop long enough to listen.
  3. They were all floating on the same pond.

What changed?

Only the way he saw himself.

Yes, there was a physical alteration on his outside, but it wasn’t until the Ugly Duckling saw himself differently from his inside that transformation took place.

True transformation requires of us the inside work — the place only you know — and can happen with one turn in the mirror.

Because once you’ve transformed you’ll never see yourself the same way again.

What’s Your Different?

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I LOVE being noticed because I’m different.
Because what I offer my clients is different.
Because I have my own way of putting myself together.
Because I don’t subscribe to the conventional wisdom.
Because what I do works for me.
Because my different is exactly what I love most about me.

What’s your different?

Future Planning

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“If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you will be unhappy for the rest of your life.” — Abraham Maslow

Have you ever stopped long enough to consider your own “what ifs”?

At year’s end, does the caterpillar set goals on how to be a better caterpillar next year? Of course not! She creates an entirely new future and transforms her very DNA to grow her own wings.

Create your future from your future and don’t worry about being a better caterpillar.

Is there a pair of wings inside of you, waiting to emerge?

Loving you, always.

Linear Happiness?

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The “achievement” of happiness is not a linear equation.

You will never be happy when ___________ happens, or arrives, or is completed, or you get the idea.

Happiness happens because you create it in spite of the line you’re walking.

Being happy is a conscious choice you get to make every single day from the inside out.

Choose you. Choose happy.

Let’s Do the Time Warp!

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How often have you heard yourself saying you don’t have enough time in your day? Or a new project comes along and your stress level increases exponentially because of the perceived time commitment? Or your heart rate goes up just looking at your ever-expanding list of things to do?

Have you ever wondered why you feel like nothing is getting accomplished even though you are always busy?

And in those moments you dismiss it all by acknowledging, “I struggle with time management,” as if that wipes your slate and gives you permission to continue being busy with little outcome.

Steve Chandler says, “. . . with a clear mission driving [you], time management is never a problem.”

Would you agree that when you really want something (anything), you figure out how to get it?

What is your mission?

Here’s the promise: Get a mission, identify your wants, focus on your goal(s) and time slows down and moves to the side as you create your how.

Every single time.

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