Hello friends! Have spent much of the weekend reflecting on days gone by. At service yesterday we gave thanks for the service men and women who’ve given their lives for the freedom of our young and ever evolving country. It was amazing to hear the actual number of people who put their own lives on the line so that we may enjoy the many blessings we have today.

May is also the time for graduation. From high school to college and even in my own life. Lately I’ve experienced another graduation of sorts. I was just reading my wise friend Pam’s blog over at Make the Most of U, and she posed the question, “What purpose does hiding serve us?” Graduating and stepping up to the next level, can feel scary, as well as realizing our full potential. It can be intimidating when we come to the conclusion that we DO have a purpose to serve here on this planet.

Yet, every day we’re in service to our children, our partners, our families, our friends, our communities, our places of worship, our businesses, our schools, even our pets. But the one place where we need to begin is with OUR SELVES!

When we fill ourselves up first – with love, and joy and peace and respect – only then can we truly step out into the world and be of service to others. So many people (especially us women) were conditioned to be “helpers” and “good girls” and “strong young men”.

What we weren’t taught - was that in order to really be of service to others, our own wells must overflow, in order to flow out into others. If we just keep dipping from our own well and never filling ourselves back up, we’re constantly depriving ourselves. But if we take time out to recharge, re-energize, fuel-up, and fill-up – we’ll always have more than enough to give.

People often feel selfish putting themselves first. If you need permission, then I’ll give it to you! Chill out, eat till your belly is about to burst, laugh till you cry, cry till it hurts, sing at the top of your lungs, swim till your fingers crinkle, get a lil’ sunburned, lounge around in your comfy clothes, and enjoy this bonus day off.

My only request of you is to take a few moments and say THANK YOU. Thank you for the many blessings, gifts, opportunities, challenges, and wealth that we as Americans are so fortunate to enjoy everyday. While you’re at it, take time to reflect on the things you’ve graduated from in these first 5 months of 2006. Have you kicked a habit, started a new one, released some old fears or hurts, forgiven someone else or yourself? We are so lucky indeed. Life is good. God is great. Enjoy. Indulge. Give thanks. Be safe.

What are you indulging in today to be of better service tomorrow?

Peace, love & happiness,
Kam

Wow! Big breakthroughs happening here at PMP. Many networking opportunities and seeds are germinating and blossoming. Offering more sample sessions, which are turning into clients. Loving the feedback people are sending in on the newsletter. THANK YOU!

If you’re not a subscriber, please join by entering your e-mail on the subscriber link to the right. Check out the archives, available on the newsletter page of the main site. The newsletter allows me to be more detailed about some of the topics I touch on here in the blog. So jump on in the water’s delicious!!

I’m planning on fleshing out some of the newsletters into an e-book later this summer. I have a block of time at the end of June and my intention is to make it happen. Then plan on fleshing that out even more and publishing a full length book later next year. Too much fun!

On a personal note, I recently completed the Inner Empowerment Workshop. Talk about picking up your baggage, and dumping it all over the floor! Then sifting through it, packing it up into a box, and labeling it and setting it up on a shelf. A healing process like none I’ve encountered. I feel so free and light from shedding yet another layer of skin.

Caterpillars can’t turn into butterflies until they come out of their cocoon and shed that old, safe, familiar place. Shedding light on some of my darker and scarier places wasn’t as scary as NOT doing it. What other option did I have? If I am to evolve into the next version of me, I have to keep moving forward. Only I kept getting stuck.

I had an emotion block on my heart. This has played out over and over again in my relationships with men. After taking the time to really look at the patterns I kept recreating and where they stemmed from, I was able to become more aware and take an objective look at the situation.

I have taken a GIANT leap forward in this area. Shining a light into the shadows of our hearts casts light on the truth. It doesn’t have to be scary. It can just be what it is. The past. The present is where we NOW reside and if we keep ourselves chained to a tired and worn out scenario, then we’re the only one to blame. Not anyone else. Not some other situation or circumstance outside of ourselves.

We were born into the families we were born into for a reason. We attract the mates and partners into our lives that are a current reflection of who we are at any given moment. We all have lessons to learn and growth to facilitate in one another. By recognizing that a situation, relationship, friend or family member no longer serves your PRESENT situation, you can release the past, let go, and shed that old skin. Feel it. Heal it. Forgive it. Release it.

Now take a DEEP breath and say AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. Welcome to your new life! More light, more freedom, more strength, more love, more peace, more power, more abundance.

What can you feel and heal and forgive and release today?

Much love,
Kam

Been a busy week here at the PP (that’s the Passion Palace). Sometimes it’s easy to get caught up in the doing instead of the being and I need to have a seat and just breathe. I’ve been so motivated since tuning in to my purpose (helping others fall in love with their lives) that sometimes I get over stimulated! Yes, there can actually be too many ideas swimming around!

What helps me focus and shift back into a more peaceful way of BEING, is to say thank you. It helps me to remember that everything happens in divine right timing and that I’ll “arrive” when I’m supposed to. Who’s to say I haven’t already? I know intellectually and spiritually that life is a journey. And that the trip might just be trippier than we all really think. But I’m an Aries, and we get antsy. We want “it” (whatever the object of our desire is at that particular moment) and we want it NOW!

So by taking time at the end of each day to write a quick “Thank You” to the Universe/God/Spirit, I’m validating that all is good and well right now. It helps to shift my perspective from future focused to present focused. And we all know that the present is the gift…(yeah, I know, extra cheese please!) But ya hear what I’m saying.

When we give thanks for the many gifts we’re given, whether it’s a smile from a stranger or a big ol’ diamond ring, we open the floodgates for even more goodness to pour into our lives.

So I’m gonna press pause on the passion meter, and say thanks for the beauty, love, creativity and inspiration that continues to pour through me everyday. I’m excited about the opportunity to help light other people up and help them tune into the beautiful gifts that they have been given.

Once we’re all tuned in and turned on, won’t this planet just shine? I feel so lucky to do this work and am thankful for the realization that I’ve already arrived. No need to put the future on a pedestal. I’m cruising at a peak soaring altitude and am abundantly blessed to say the least. Ain’t life grand?

What are you thankful for today?

Peace and elevation revelations,
kam

Holy rollercoaster Batman! This week’s been up, down and all around. I’m experiencing some growing pains. Major shifts began last Aug. when I hired a life coach to begin excavating my inner diamond. I knew I wanted to become a full-time coach. In order to do that, I needed to shift from what wasn’t working in my life, to getting crystal clear about what I did want my life to look like.

Well…it’s been a hell of a ride! These “stretches” or “growing pains” have been challenging all along. But recently, I’ve been faced with a major road block. I had a vision of my higher-self (she’s the me I aspire to be) driving down a desert road and coming up to a road closed sign. As she approaches the sign, the little girl me jumps in front of the car and waves her arms frantically trying to stop her. Faced with the decision of possibly running the little girl over and plowing through the sign, or stopping, my higher-self is faced with a decision.

I paused the DVD in my mind and asked myself, “Is the little girl trying to protect me? Or is she trying to hold me back?”. Faced with the decision to move forward towards my highest good, or to retreat back down the road I’ve already traveled, I encouraged my higher-self to let the lead out. “Punch it sister”, I shouted!

The coming weeks might prove to be bumpy, but if I don’t push through my fears and attempt to slay my own dragons, I can’t be the boldest, badest-ass coach I’m meant to be. To truly help others step into the great wide open, I too have to jump in and get dirty.

What is so scary about being the biggest version of ourselves that keeps us so locked up? The roots of these lies we tell ourselves go really deep and it requires strength, love and courage to rip them out in order to clear some space to plant new words, messages, ideas, and beliefs.

I’ll keep you posted. I’ve got a strong support system as well as spirit to guide me along the way. I’m ready to move forward and continue the journey toward my highest good.

What scares you so much you’re standing still? Or chasing your tail? Or 1 step forward 2 steps back? What work are you willing to do to face it? Hire a therapist? Hire a coach? Attend a workshop? Share your “scaries” with a friend? A minister? A mentor? Write about it in a journal? Choose the scenario that fits you, and support others choices too.

Yours in dragon slaying,
Kam

Quickie for tonight kiddos. KK is sleepy! Much action has transpired from the Millionaire Maker weekend. Not sure if it’s because I keep walking around chanting, “I am a multi-millionaire” or what…. but the flow is definitely flowing! I dig it.

Loral’s seminar was good. Lots to learn about the wealth cycle and the positive flow of money and our relationship to it. Also learning about real estate and investments, an area I’ve always been interested in. Hmmm, let’s see. I could seriously hang at some investment properties in Cabo. Or maybe a time-share in Florida. Ha! Can’t wait to get there.

But until then, lots of work to do. Passion to spread and people to light up! A book is brewing. Think I’m gonna shoot for an e-book first. So keep checking back for dates and topic ideas. I might even be asking for your help brainstorming several ideas I’m tossing around.

My event marketer is itching to get back in the game lately too. Lots of ideas for some networking events and special weekend parties for the ladies. We’ll see what comes of it. The party girl in me always wants to play in the spring and summer. What better time of year to shake it?

Speaking of shaking it, me and the girls went out salsa dancing Sat. night at Club Viva in STL. What a freakin’ hoot! I can’t wait to take lessons and really tear it up on the d-floor. How great was the energy in this room? It was all positive love and people just having a great time. I loved it!

Gotta get some sleep, I’m working on about 5 hours a night these days and it’s starting to catch up with me…I can’t help it. The flow is flowing and the goodness wants out.

What goodness is flowing your way these days?

Livin’ la vida loca,
Kam-n-queso

Lots going on over here at the Passion Palace (as I’m affectionately calling the condo these days!). Tomorrow night a networking dinner with Loral Langemeier of The Millionaire Maker and Guerilla Wealth. Saturday is her workshop the Team Made Millionaire.

Can’t wait to hear her in person. Tuned in to a call she hosted a couple weeks ago to promote the event and was very intrigued. I’m ready to get in there and learn more about the millionaire mindset.

Also came across some good stuff by Davide De Angelis this week in Damien Senn’s newsletter. Davide is known as The Money Shaman. You should check him out; he’s got lots of cool stuff around money consciousness and abundance.

Lots of little taps on the shoulder this week from the Universe letting me know that all is good and I am on the right path. Got a random e-mail today from Kevin in Canada, giving me some props on the website and content. Thanks Kevin! It’s good to get those taps on the shoulder that indicate that I am exactly where I should be. Because the over-achiever in me can get antsy. I just need to have patience and trust!

Ahhh, patience. Always seems to be my lesson to learn!!

What could you do with a little more patience today?

Peace and playing full out,
Kam

Been kinda funk-tified lately. I’m only human! Have been called “obnoxiously optimistic” by an ex-boyfriend (notice I said ex) in the past. You’re familiar with a perkier Kam-post, but this last weekend was a whirlwind.

My dad and step-mom were in town. And Sat. night at dinner (with my sister and her husband) the conversation took a wrong turn down the “when you get married and have kids” lane. Whoa! Hold the phone. Isn’t my life just dandy the way it is? Why will things be “good enough” if/when I have the hubby and kids scenario?

I got defensive. I felt like I was under attack by what Bridget Jones called, the “smug marrieds”.  What really pissed me off was the fact that I felt I had to justify that my life is rich and full as is. My business is my baby right now. My love, attention and focus is all about living the juiciest life I can and sharing the details with you guys. The ups, downs, and all arounds. I’m creating the life I want to live one day at a time. And just because I’m not married, nor have a child, (yet) doesn’t mean I’m not loving the hell out of it!

Can I get an AMEN?!!

Maybe it was my own perception that was a bit off. OK, so if I’m the coach, then I need to examine this the way I would with a client. Hmmm…what do I NEED from my family? Do I NEED their understanding about how important this business is to me? Do I need them to accept the fact that I might not get married? Might not have children? I mean I might, but that remains to be seen. What would it feel like if I let them off the hook? What would it feel like if I were to release my need for them to “get it”?

Umm, can you say…aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh? It would feel like I could breathe again. I could wave goodbye to the big fat “shoulds” and say hello to MY life. My beautiful, succulently-synchronistic, funkadelic, know no strangers, nature & animal lovin’, learning to meditate, yoga-booty-balletin’, music junkie, book-a-holic, blog-o-rific, spirit-seeking, money conscious, business designing, higher vibration, intuition exploring, deep soul diving, living as if, divine right timing, truth seeking, love spreading, beauty creating, sacred sensualist, many colored days, pocket full of rainbows, BIG, FAT, juicy, ripe, shiny, life!

Mmmmm. Delicious!

To my anger and frustration, I say bye-bye. To my old racket and monkey mind, I say kiss off. To my inner-child, who sometimes thinks she isn’t good enough - I say I LOVE YOU just the way you are! To my family who is near and dear to my heart in all your wacky ways, I say this is me…revel in it and take me as I am. Cuz it just doesn’t get any more real than this. Me and God/the Universe/Spirit/the Higher Power got work to do, and it starts here. With me. Just me. If hubby and kids enter the scenario down the line, so be it. But today there’s just me…and that’s enough.

What un-met need can you satisfy by being just you, as is, right now?

Keep on keepin’ on,
KK