Relaxed and free, she is one with nature, above her worries
Judge what I need
and don't need.
This allows me to discern
and place
healthy boundaries.
I teach people how to treat me.
Judge what is healthy
and right
for me
with clarity and care.
Simplify.
I can say yes or no with authority
and clarity
and care.
Simplify.
I do not need so much fluff
and people-pleasing
or running about madly
or fast food
or fast fashion
or fast-talking whispers
or Olympic-level, hard-core, scheduling and busy-ness
and keeping up.
I just don't
anymore.
I judge that certain things are unacceptable
now.
Happily.
Judgement = boundaries = teaching people how to treat me
= teaching me how to treat myself
happily.
More than anything else, living in wealth and abundance is simply a matter of knowing that you already do.
the Universe (via Mike dooley)
We’ve been exploring abundance and richness in our lives through a lens of wealth in this series. Specifically, we have used this idea of wealth to not only recognize and value but also to increase our time, love, health, finances, friends, creativity, mental, spiritual, home, travel, and nature aspects of ourselves.
Which brings the next part to you. What is an individual aspect of abundance in your life, perhaps not mentioned yet? Where else are you wealthy?
Ahhh, the richness of nature. Just look at what’s around us!
Trees. Flowers. Plants. How many different kinds can you notice? Is there one you can water, right now? I adore the young white birch trees that shade our front patio.
Birds. What do you see, both in flight and in place? Do you have a feeder out that you can observe feathered visitors at? The local mama hummingbird again came to tell me hello as I write this outside, two feet from my face for a solid twenty seconds.
Animals. What activity and signs of such might you be witness to, wild and domestic? The deer and foxes that we see daily haven’t yet shown their young ones this year, and we will be gifted with sightings soon.
Wild strawberries found in unexpected places. Four leaf clovers that I trip over. Surprise turtles inside our under-construction house overnight. (We named her Roomba.) Bald eagles dropping fish on the lawn. All of these are treasured offerings.
This wealth of nature is our inheritance.
We are rich, indeed.
What nature wealth can you recognize in this moment?
Looking at abundance, wealth, and richness is about throwing away our lack-covered glasses.
Wow, this is the kind of life I want to be living.
Our lives are enriched with travel. Travel gets us out of our routines, out of our established zones of structured, expected, prescribed living. Travel expands our ideas and thinking, allowing us to see and experience other ways of living, thinking, and being.
Still choosing from there what we want for our own lives, but now from a wider awareness of options and compassion.
With that approach, travel becomes redefined. Oh sure, it can be international globe-hopping. Or maybe it’s visiting national and state parks. It can even be going to visit your cousins Eddie and Catherine. But in this light of what travel is, what if we expanded our idea of travel to include our daily lives as well?
gina drellack 