003: What You Forgot to Remember

November 19, 2015 By Arminda

What You Forgot to Remember

The All Arminda Virtual Show, episode 2

Childhood dreams and visions of ourselves in our grownup bodies are significant.

Pull that out of your memory bank and take action about that dream you forgot to remember. This doesn’t mean drastically changing your life.

What brings you joy and peace and happiness? Bring that back into your world.

This is the episode in which I talk about my brother Peter as an artist.

I reference The Not So Serious Life with Jason Goldberg and Steve Chandler. If you do nothing else for yourself today, watch their show.

Loving you,
arminda

The Waiting Place

January 13, 2015 By Arminda

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!”

Star Light, Star Bright

October 8, 2014 By Arminda

Star light, star bright,

First star I see tonight,

I wish I may, I wish I might,

Have this wish I wish tonight.

We’re accustomed from childhood to make wishes and throw them into the universe, hoping without believing we’ll see a return on that coin tossed into the fountain, the dandelion fluff blown against the wind, the first or even the shooting stars we see in the night sky.It’s habit. Habit to throw out our words without truly meaning or believing them to be true.What if instead of casually throwing about out our wishes, we create a dream.

What if instead of tossing coins into a fountain and hoping without believing, we deliberately choose action over hope.

Hoping leads to wasted wishes, and wishes are nothing more than passive and passing thoughts.

Be the maker of your dreams rather than the wisher leaning over the edge of an empty (yet thought-filled) well.

Be and become instead.