I missed yesterday, as I had appointments that ran later than usual. BUT it was a fabulous day—here in Alberta, Canada, we have a lot of rocks flying, so we are always getting chips filled, but there are times you don't have time to catch it before it turns into a crack across your windshield, because this vast land is full of sand and dust; windshields also look like they have been sandblasted over time. We had both replaced on our vehicles yesterday. Why do I tell you this? This is also a beautiful metaphor for life; we get cracked, broken, and blasted! BUT we get to choose how it impacts us every second, minute, and hour of every day. For days, weeks, and years on end. WE CHOOSE and can see clearly again. Through healing, techniques, skills, learning we get to see clearly again...and again, and again, and again. That is what makes this life so beautiful. Circumstances come and go; experiences are in a moment. Some things get lost forever, while others are lost for a time. Deaths and diagnoses are most like the biggest and most permanent and often impact the most. Yet again, how we think, feel, and act around that situation is not. This changes the impact of that permanency. You and I still get to see clearly even after such events; some even bring the clarity. Some of you heard my story to varying degrees and details; it's been a lot of permanencies in death. 2 brothers, my mother, my in-laws, grandparents, friends, and close aunts and uncles. This is going to be a fact and part of all our lives; life is a cycle of born, live, and die. Unfortunately, I experienced a lot at a young age, and I didn't have these tools. My mom passed when I was 23, and that left us with half our immediate family gone. I used to say I lost 8 years of my life when she passed, in drama, turmoil, and grief. I now know that is not true! It was for many years, but I do not know. That was a cycle of life I lived. My beliefs kept me trapped in victimhood; my stories I told myself were vast and emotionally impacting. All the things that were happening outside of me, impacting how I felt, feeding the stories and beliefs, making it worse, thus impacting my actions...and for years, I felt I had no control over any of it. If someone acted mean, I fought back, meaner, stronger, and oftentimes more hurtful than what I was being hurt. I felt I had no control, and I had to.

Instead of my normal posts of story and wisdom. How about you share some of your flair and wisdom with us? What has been fabulous in your life this week, or of late? We would love to hear. If you happen to be one of the people that have been struggling lately, know it's OK, but also know you get to have the power to shift it. Starting with GRATITUDE, what is one thing you can be grateful for to be, have, witness, or experience? Anything at all, but don't just name it; sit in it and feel into the gratitude. This is where the shift happens in our physiology, our feelings, and our thinking.

Happy Mother’s Day to all the beautiful Moms in this community! Dragons hold a special place in my heart. The mystical creatures represent energy that becomes destructive when unconscious, but powerful when integrated. - respect instead of control - partnership instead of domination - courage instead of avoidance The dragon is often the force that changes the person who encounters it. This clearly explains my journey along with so many others. Letting go of extreme control for calm and respect, collaboration over domination and finding courage instead of avoidance. What has been your journey thus far? Can you relate to the dragon forces?

You ever notice how fast your tone changes when you feel misunderstood? This weekend, I sat in a room and cried more in three days than I have in years at any other event (Wealth Mastery). Not because something was wrong… but because something became clear. It wasn’t about money. It was about emotional competence. How we think, feel, and act doesn’t just shape our results… It determines the season we stay stuck in. I watched how quickly emotions rise when something feels uncertain. How fast the body tightens. How the mind tries to control, explain, defend it, but the body knows And of course it does. That’s protection. But here’s the cost: When emotion runs without awareness, it locks patterns in place. Same reactions. Same conversations. Same outcomes in relationships. And over time? That becomes your “normal.” The leverage point isn’t fixing the relationship. It’s increasing your capacity to be with what you feel without reacting from it. That’s emotional competence. And that’s what changes everything. Try this simple reset: When you feel the reaction rise… pause. I know I default to this a lot...but there is a reason for it when you do it with intent for clarity. Drop your shoulders. Take one slow breath. And ask: “What am I making this mean right now?” That question alone can interrupt years of patterning. Micro-momentum: Today, catch ONE emotional reaction before it turns into a response. Pause. Breathe once. That’s it. Do this once, and you start shifting the season you’re living in. Where do you notice your reactions show up fastest right now?

Have you ever walked away from a conversation thinking… “Why did I react like that?” Not because you don’t know better. But because in the moment—it felt automatic. That’s the thing about patterns. They don’t ask for permission. They run. Especially when your system feels pressure. So you snap.Or shut down.Or push harder than you meant to. And afterward… clarity comes back. This isn’t a discipline problem. It’s a timing problem. Your awareness is arriving after the reaction. The shift is learning how to bring awareness into the moment. Not perfectly. Just earlier. That’s where everything changes. Because even a 2-second pause can redirect the entire outcome. And that pause? It’s trainable. Start small. Don’t try to master every conversation. Just interrupt one pattern… once. That’s how new responses are built. Micro-momentum:The next time you feel yourself reacting, pause and ask: “What am I assuming right now?”: What’s one reaction you’d like to respond differently to next time?