Archive for Living Legacy
Creating a Core Values Statement
Posted by: | Comments“There is one aspect of your mission statement that is more important than all others: your core values.
Core Values Still Count
In an ever-changing world, core values remain constant.
Core values are NOT descriptions of the work you do or the strategies you employ to accomplish your mission. Rather, your values underline your work, how you interact with others, and which strategies you use to fulfill your mission. They are the basic elements guiding how you go about your work. They are the practices you use every day in everything you do.
Your Core values should: Read More→
Creating a Mission Statement
Posted by: | CommentsWhat Is a Mission Statement and Why Do You Need One?
Mary Ellen Tribbey discussed in her post today the Mission Statement for Working Moms Only, her new site that shows working mothers how to ‘have it all’ and still have a life:
“Our mission is to supply the tools that can give EVERY working mom the ability to lead a healthy, wealthy, and more balanced/blended lifestyle. To create a community where millions of working moms from all over the world come together in support and celebration of each other.”
“It’s simple and it’s sincere. And everyone I do business with gets it – point blank.
Many entrepreneurs make the mistake of not taking the time to craft a mission statement. If you do not have one, I urge you to write one immediately.
Once you do so, you will find that Read More→
Creative Living & NewYear’s Blue Moon
Posted by: | CommentsA Blue Moon has nothing to do with the man in the Moon or Blue Cheese- rather it’s the phenomenon of experiencing two full moons in one calendar month. Based on a mathematical calculation, a Blue Moon occurs about every 2 ½ years, with the month of the double showing rotating over that period of time. A Blue Moon on New Year’s Eve, however is much rarer, occurring every 19 years.
The last New Year’s Blue Moon was in 1990, and the next one is scheduled for 2028 (if we don’t all disappear with the global pole shift predicted in 2012).
So, while this event is somewhat predictable, it still retains a sort of magic. Most of us- at least the ones who pay attention, still get fluttery feelings when a full moon comes around every month anyway. Add on the unique pull of a Blue Moon and top it off with an occasion like New Year’s where we tend to make conscious and renewed choices to better our lives, and the magnetic attraction is palpable.
In mythic lore, the Moon is seen as feminine and receptive, compared to the more masculine Sun. Perhaps the fact that the moon affects tides and is connected to women’s cycle ties females & femininity closer to the moon, for better or worse. Full moons feature in both folklore and scientific evidence as impacting on weather, accelerating and heightening human and animal behavior with a thrust towards frenetic or frantic activity. Thus the tie between lunacy and the lunar cycles.
As someone seeking to express Creative Living, why not take advantage of moon cycles by aligning the birth of your fruitful creative endeavors with a full moon? This could include both the inception and delivery of your ideas, making use of both the receptive, internal nature and energetic expressive tendencies of the moon. Use the intervening month to incubate or act on your creative ideas, which makes use of the period of time required to form a new habit by rewiring your brain’s neural pathways.
You have thus put your own cycle of creative living & expression of your living legacy into place to be carried along by forces of nature.
So Step Out and Step Up to Creative Living in the New Year. And that won’t then just be Once in a Blue Moon!
