Friends and Buddies

Thinking about categories again. It's a fun game. It isn't about pigeon-holing the people in my life; it's about who I am being when I'm with the people in my life. I guess it's just checking to see if I've put myself in a box. :)

Once in awhile I will mention several people in my journal who have been important contributors to my life in recent (last 15 years or so) history. These people are automatically "friends" even if I speak to them rarely and see them less often than that.

There are other people who I don't see as contributors, or, at least, as important ones. With them, I consider myself a buddy.

What I have noticed is that I have been willing to contribute to those people I see as contributing to me! Whoa! And I do it in the guise of who is or isn't a friend.

It's an interesting game to play -- a point of view to try on.

It isn't good or bad that I set up my life this way. It's just good to notice that it's an automatic way for me. It's the one I do if I'm not thinking about it. I love finding my unconscious patterns. It frees me up to create new ways of being.

I like that!

New topic.

This morning will be "Study Little Shop." I was loaned a tape AND Aeire found her dvd. This is a good thing. I've to put costumes together this week and next.

Loving life is an experience I'm getting use to. Still, it comes on in a rush each day.

Love.

End of SELP

For the first time, and after two years of coaching in the Self Expression and Leadership Program, I am ready for this one to be over. In about 10 minutes, I'll have my last scheduled coaching call and tomorrow night is the last classroom.

I'll assist Tamara with some of the calls she has to make, but I think I'm done. I'm actually looking forward to getting my social life on track again. :)

In all the self examination and self creation I have done in Landmark's education, coaching and head coaching the Self Expression and Leadership Program has been the best of the best.

It is where the rubber meets the road. Without the SELP, transformation becomes "another good thing I did once." I have noticed that with my HAI training, too.

I am committed to keeping my transformation alive. I am committed to a life lived in possibility and love. And I am committed to the people in my communities have the experience of transformation. And it doesn't matter if anyone signs up for a HAI workshop or the Landmark Forum.

I am committed to living a life that reflects "win-win" and conversations that reflect the best of us all and calls us to cause the miraculous in our lives and the lives of others.

Life is good. Very good.

Love.