Another big move!

After much thought, I have decided it is time to integrate my selves, my lives, my blogs. I originally began this blog as an outlet for expression that I didn't feel had a place on my life coaching "business" website.

Now, I have launched a new website at www.nancola.com and it includes all of me -- writer, columnist, life coach. Body, mind, spirit. Intellect, goofball, diva.

If you're craving only posts in The Universal Flow, it has its own category with just those entries.

Catch you there.

Mixing it up

Well, clearly something is going on with this blog. I think it may be time to merge it with Write Thinking, which is now featured on the homepage of my new website -- www.nancola.com.

Ever since last week when I was having lunch with a fellow life coach and explaining the genesis of this blog, I've been thinking that the thoughts I put here should be expressed on the other. Streamlining, partly. But mostly it's to mesh spirit with body and mind and coaching and writing and everything else.

Still pondering ...

Open to receive

I am feeling so in sync with The Universe. Columns, interviews, meetings, potential ventures -- they're all lining up nicely.

Stay open. That is my mantra. You will not see the possibilities if you are not open.

Simple as that.

Elevate your thinking

All week long, this quote has been in my head. I've been feeling it lately, bigtime. I know I've quoted it before, but it's an understandable favorite. And I just came across it in an Oprah newsletter:

We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone.
-- A Return to Love by Marianne Williamson

This often gets attributed to Nelson Mandela because he used it in a speech, but it is pure Williamson.

It speaks to me so.

Break in the routine

Didn't do morning pages today. Makes me feel a little off. I always seem to notice their value more when I don't do them.

Hmmmmm.

Must make a point of resuming tomorrow.

Poetry in motion

Back in 2001, I attended a Creativity Camp in Taos, New Mexico. One of the exercises we did called for writing a poem from existing lines with some blanks and then a fixed list of words to fill them in. We had a time limit. The idea was to play with words and stretch them. I just found my poem in a batch of paper I was sorting through:

Serendipity that I sit here in the moonlight?
That I wander, my poignant soul a pool of laughter
The Universe is calling
It smells good, like fresh moonrise or a busy garden
I lunge, my heart elevated beyond a giraffe.

Makes me smile.

Channeling

Got an idea while watching The Today Show on the treadmill this morning. A Game Plan column possibility for FOXBusiness.com. Went to a cafe after the workout and nested in the back with a cup of coffee and a notebook.

Had a hunch that if I gave the thought over to my Morning Pages and just let it flow I'd get some clarity. And it worked. Before I knew it I had a few pages of a column.

Sometimes you just have to let it come through you.