Dreamy

I have been having a lot of strange dreams follow me through my day.  Dragons in Hawaii and a strange boy with yellow and blue eyes.  There were gingerbread houses around the pool and lots of beautiful art laid out on the tables inside.

There is a web of gauze around me and I am not sure if it is the safety of a cocoon or the web of a spider.  All I know is that something…  something…

Today is the Yellow Rhythmic Human; a day for organization of free will to gather the harvest.  That feels eerily profound.

Again the Absent Minded Professor theme seems apropos.  I have a lot of good traits, but organization is not one of them.  And yet, I know that the success of each day depends upon, in part, this organization.  A few day ago, I had recognized this and already began to put tasks into Outlook and created a semblance of routine for my mornings.

And since change is in the air, I have decided to include the Mayan Signature each day as a reminder of my ultimate goal: to get my calendar out to the website.  I have never known greater success in my life than when I began to connect with the earth’s energies and my own intuition.  Today my intuition guides me to do just this… as I listen to Native American flute :~)

I know Pandora was created just for me :~)

Victoria Crystal
... living SimpleSexy

Sometimes

Sometimes I think I am delusional.  Sometimes I think I understand.  One will win. 

Qigong bubbles

It was a fantastic weekend.  I managed to mix a client-based weekend with a little bit of fun.

The highlights were simple moments, dinner over-looking the bay with a bottle of red wine and fantastic service, (thank you Andy for the extra mahi mahi!) and a quiet walk along the water. 

I practiced Qigong this morning, partly why I am beginning my blog later than usual.  I feel amazing!  It is as though any heaviness that was within me has transformed to floating bubbles with the luminous glow of a rainbow.

I find so many things to bring a ready smile.  Why do we create difficulty with fear?  Alas, that is a question to end all others.

One point I have always tried to impart to my clients is to accept life as a process.  It is okay if you want something now and that desire moves you to action, but you will not serve yourself by becoming disappointed in the process.  It empowers.  It teaches.  It is the way to create continuity for your desire. 

Sometimes it is good to remind myself of the same things.
Fall down.  Get back up.  Try try again. 

Time for a late breakfast.  Care to join me?
Victoria Crystal
...living SimpleSexy

Not dead... yet

I find it interesting that although we are all part of this human experience, we find mistakes humiliating.  

My daughter has had this tag line as her email signature for years now:  “I have not failed, I've just found 10,000 ways that don't work.”          - Thomas Alva Edison   I love her for this.  And while I accept this as truth, I still find ways to be hard on myself.  

There is that fire burning for everything to come together quickly and perfectly as evidence to my own perfection.  When will I give that up?  I certainly hold no one else to that standard.  As I sit here, I can smile and say “soon”. 

Mistakes mean living, learning, curiosity for something new…

Finding out that Steve Jobs died and then listening to the speech he made six years ago at Stanford, a lot of thoughts run through my mind.  I wonder how many students there that day actually took his advice or even understood what he was actually saying? 

We cannot walk in someone else’s shoes.  We can only consider as if.

I have thought of dying a lot.  Not morbidly.  I have no desire to die. I have no desire to cheat death either… but I do have an honest desire to live to 473 years on this earth.  People laugh at me when I say that, but genetically speaking, there is no reason why I shouldn’t.   

If I die sooner, I’ve allowed myself to be talked into something.  If I die sooner, you can know that I have no real regrets.  I have been following my curiosity and my intuition… and with that, my heart.

I have certainly found more than 10,000 ways that did not work, but the ones that do have more than made up.  My children are my crowning jewels… with the millions of mistakes I have made raising them and the zillions of mistakes they will hopefully make in their life… nothing to me could be more perfect... and perhaps with that I have just found my perfection.

I have been on a mission to find a better way.  Thank you for the company...

Victoria Crystal
...living SimpleSexy

Get it write

I was a bad girl yesterday not writing.  I became mired in one To Do and then distracted into the next, until I was completely lost to the world of problem-solving.   I have often considered myself the quintessential Absent-Minded Professor, becoming so absorbed in thought that the world falls abstractly away.  Certainly my children have thought so…  “Mom.   Mom.  Mom.  MOM!   

Oh well.  No one is perfect.  And I hope you can forgive me.  Perhaps I can make it up with something extraordinarily witty to share…?  Perhaps not.

On an important note; my newest set of business cards comes tomorrow.  (Summertime by Rosinha de Valencia is kicking!  Yes, more guitar.)  I love the creative personality business cards have to offer and wonder why more people don’t have fun with them.  The ones I passed at the event last weekend were “peacefully playful” while the ones for tomorrow are “playfully cute.”  You see?  You want one of each, right?  Depending on the day, I'll give what I feel.

Ohh.. Jesse Cook, Into the Dark.  He has to be one of my favorite guitarists.  I absolutely melt into his music.

After a few discussions, it has been decided that I will change the sub-title of this blog from “Starting” to “Restructuring.”  I’ve been questioned a few times why I’ve used the word starting.  To me it was obvious: Duh!  I’ve not owned an internet storefront before.  This part of it is so new to me that starting is the only word that made sense. 

But Life Coaching is not new to me, and thank you my friends, especially Mr. Magnificent, for pointing this out.  I shall no longer disregard the expertise I have in this area.

I welcome the challenge of bringing my life coaching insights together with my penchant for writing.

Henceforth, restructuring it is…

(I moved to Pink… I love her raw confusion.  Ooh my.  Katy Perry…)

Victoria Crystal
...living SimpleSexy

Define your Life

Today’s issue of the Simple Sexy gazette brings a huge smile to my face.  I can’t help it. 

We were not taught about change; what to expect, what it means to us and others.  Yet it is a fundamental part of our life that we are continually involved in.  In this issue I have taken an analogy that I believe resonates well and will be carried through to a deeper understanding.

I hope you agree!
Piña Colada anyone?

Victoria Crystal
…living the SimpleSexy life

Live on the Radio...

So many things going on, but first:    A shout out to Jen!  I am so glad we connected!  Your Little Miss reminds me so much of my daughter at that age. Synchronicity is indeed the word!

I am listening to Gino D’Auri play Ida y Vuelta (loosely translated: to there and back).  His bio begins: Guitarist Gino D'Auri was born in Rome, the grandson of a gypsy… no wonder I love the song

So it began last Wednesday when I went out looking for trouble.  Instead my intuition led to good fortune and an opportunity to hone my message.   I spent much of Thursday crafting materials to hand out at the event Friday and Saturday morning (which is why there was no blog Friday, apologies).

I was very pleased with the results and was even given radio air time for my first live interview.  Thank you so much Lori! 

Oh my.  The next song I find to “like” on Pandora is Gypsy Circle by Incendio.  Theme anyone?

… as a result of this recent campaign, I have been able to wrap my head around making some changes to the website that should be up later this week.  I have to admit, I love being able to put things “out there” and then later change my mind.  But I truly miss Will’s mad abilities.  My creations are visibly more amateurish in comparison, but this girl will do what she must.

The Mayan calendar keeps haunting me.  I need to get that out.

My mind has already melted.  The list of To Do’s grows, but I could not be happier about it… because, as my son said to me yesterday, everything is falling into place. Gosh I love him.  We had such an amazing conversation.  He continues to amaze.

Ciao bella y bello.  Hasta mañana.

Victoria Crystal
…living the SimpleSexy life…