Though in my home state of Colorado, USA, March can be the snowiest month, I remind myself daily that spring is just around the corner. When my week is sprinkled with a few sunny days in the 60’s, my faith and hope in the rebirth nestled deep in the earth is renewed.
Our lives follow similar “seasonal” cycles of dormancy, new growth, profusion and harvest. However, sometimes, when we consider all of the discord and unmet needs in the world, we can become stuck in the dormant cycle because we’ve become discouraged with fear-based illusions of lack and insufficiency. The sheer volume of need can feel so overwhelming, we begin to feel small and not up to the challenge. In fact, it can all seem downright impossible. There is just too much to do! And one person can’t do it all.
Good news. No one has to do it all. Everyone can do some good and every little bit of good makes a difference. Our individual contributions add up to a huge energy investment that starts shifting things for the better for everyone everywhere.
During the 19th century, renowned reformer Theodore Parker observed, “I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight; I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.” A century later, Martin Luther King, Jr. paraphrased these words to great effect in his famous August 1967 speech, “Where Do We Go From Here?” when he said, “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”
Instead of focusing on ALL the world needs, try thinking about what YOU can do. Maybe you can pitch in and help your elderly neighbor with a yard project. Or spend time with someone who can’t get out and about due to emotional or physical limitations. Or “go the extra mile” by contributing your time and talents to a charitable project or organization that matters to you.
Every act of kindness, large or small, makes a difference. Our service creates a ripple effect we often don’t see. The way to meet all of the world’s needs isn’t for you to try to do EVERYTHING, it’s for you to pay attention, care and do what you can.
As each of us does his or her part to foster hope, possibilities and empowerment by sharing kindness, love and light, we are changing the world, right now, one act at a time. The arc may be long, but it is indeed bending toward love and justice. We are each helping to make it so every day with the work of our hands and our hearts.
And so it is. Blessed be.
PS: Yesterday it was sunny here in Aurora, Colorado with a high of 63º F. Today when I finished drafting this post, I turned around to discover it had started snowing to beat the band. But I nurture the warmth of spring here in my heart as I recall the lyric from the song, “The Rose,” made popular by Bette Midler, “Just remember in the winter far beneath the bitter snow, lies the seed that with the sun’s love in the spring becomes the rose.” When I embrace everything I encounter as an opportunity, my life is a sunny journey to wholeness filled with endless possibilities for gratitude, love and joy. Even when it’s snowing.
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About djwlifecoach
I am retired from 40+ years of helping individuals and teams build lives and organizations they love. One of the great joys of my retirement from professional practice is having greater bandwidth to donate my professional and creative talents to support and promote animal and social welfare charities.
During my 30 years as an organization transformation consultant, I served as a senior partner in four of the world’s largest, most prestigious global professional services firms. In 2005, I took a five-year sabbatical to find healing and peace because non-stop work had taken its toll.
My recovery from burnout led to finding my purpose guiding others on their journeys. As a board-certified coach, author, consultant, radio host, Reiki Master and EFT/tapping practitioner, I share hope, possibilities and empowerment with the world.
111419 DJW Sid CH Pet Corner Photo ShootI help clients achieve rapid, extraordinary, sustainable results by connecting who they are with what they do, a connection often lost through stress and the sheer busy-ness of daily life. Courageous self-awareness and unconditional self-love lead to honest choices based on priorities that nurture you and those around you on a journey to wholeness.
Decades in coaching, consulting, change management, organization development, human resources and mixed media artistic expression honed my business sense, professionalism, creativity, intuition, leadership and communication skills. The result? Practical tools that help you become more insightful, creative, committed, productive and fulfilled.
Even the most dedicated and hard-working individuals can shift from frustration to a sense of futility when their values, passion, work, and lives become disconnected. One of the problems with not taking care of our health is that the effects of ignoring it are often slow to show up. We continue to juggle family responsibilities, work and finances until we lose ourselves, waking up one day 50 pounds heavier in body and soul—no good to ourselves or anyone else.
I love working with people who are ready to take life-changing action to make their dreams a reality. At each moment, you have inside you all the wisdom you seek to choose your life and your way of showing up. Limiting thoughts, beliefs and feelings can block you from moving forward. An absence of love and concern for yourself can result in negative head talk that holds you back with discouraging messages about who you are and what you can do.
By listening and caring deeply, I guide you in connecting with your own inner wisdom. We identify the way you’d like to live. We determine what’s blocking you and release you from the hold those blocks have over you—unleashing the positive energy that will fuel you forward. Together we develop a plan to move you closer to your heart’s desire.
My books, blog, radio show and signature coaching programs help individuals and organizations harness the transformative energy of love to turn unexplored possibilities into fulfilling realities and step into their greatness. What’s love got to do with it? Everything! My book, Choose Your Energy: Change Your Life! (Hay House/ Balboa Press 2013) shares my story and the stories of 10 of my clients along with my signature Discovery Framework.
For fun, I love reading, sewing, knitting, yin yoga, afternoon tea, opera and movies. I live in Williamsburg, Virginia with my spouse, Wilson Abney, and the cat who runs our life, Maisy Jane.
Choose Your Energy: Change Your Life! 