Drop The Struggle & Dare To Ask, “So What… What’s Next?”

A quick candid video of Lacy Kirkland explaining the stories we hold ourselves to and the powerful words that finally free us, allowing you to move forward to create and live your dream.

(Inspiration strikes everywhere: Video captured on the Santiam Pass driving to Bend, Oregon).

Quit Your Day Job

What I Learned In The 29 Years Leading Up To Quitting My Day Job
Click below to enjoy writer Melissa Gorzelanczyk’s journey from the rat race, to peace and solitude with family, friends, and time to enjoy the life she’s created for herself… A true woman after my own heart.
http://www.peaceandprojects.com/blog/2010/06/what-i-learned-in-the-29-years-leading-up-to-quitting-my-day-job/
I am a strong proponent that we [...]

Happy Father’s Day, Daddy!

This Father’s Day I think of my Dad and I smile. He sure didn’t know what he was in for when I rolled into the world!
Now, Dads, you have a job unlike any other. A job, even more complex at times than that of a Mother. In the course of your daughter’s childhood you will [...]

To The Mothers In My Life, This Is For You!

To the wonderful, loving, giving mothers who have raised and nurtured me in my life. Even to those who have simply smiled at me as I passed you by on the street. Thank you for the validation. This is for you. You know who you are.
Today I Celebrate You
May you know, whether you hear it [...]

Life Is Short: Why “Put Up” With It?

This was originally intended for a private journal entry, but this, my friends must be shared after a poignant life changer of a day:
If there’s one thing I learned from today, it’s that life is short. We’re here for but a moment and then just when we get comfortable, we move on. We have a [...]

What Do You Choose To Experience?

Enjoy everyone! Now that you remember who you are, what creates and what works, may you choose to live vibrantly, deliberately and on purpose every day of your life. You deserve it. It absolutely is for you.

To your Wildest Dreams and the willingness to allow yourself to create it.
(Thank you, Liz, for inspiring me [...]

Lifting The World With Best Selling Author of Middle Place, Kelly Corrigan

I just caught an interview with Best selling author, Kelly Corrigan, on the Today Show this morning. Immediately I thought to myself, “I want a friend like her in my life.” She’s a smart, savvy, peaceful woman who has clearly settled into her place in this world and inspiring the rest of us to do [...]

Part 2 :: Give Your Top 5 Favorite Books Away :: The Wakeup Call

Okay, so when I posted “Give Your Top 5 Favorite Books Away” I couldn’t wait to bound upstairs pick out my five books and sit down to my desk with all five stacked high in accomplishment. Then I’d whip out my post-its and assign each book to the person I believed would most benefit from [...]

Dear Life, Can We Do This Every Day?

I have always believed that life should be fun. All of it. Work. Play. Relationships. Family. School. Everything.
I believed that from sun up to sun down, we could be so excited about life, so into it and full of zest, that we would all look like a 6 year old after a day at Disneyland [...]

Give Your Top 5 Favorite Books Away

How Many Times Have You Read The Same Book, Twice?
I spent a good 30 minutes dusting my bookshelf yesterday when it occurred to me that some of my favorite books sit on the shelves waiting to be read, or waiting for a time when I need to reference them. Truth is, I never read the [...]