Blissalicious Blog

One thing I love about pets is they know exactly who they are and what they are here for!  When I think about the absolute clarity and endless love that my darling Coco offered all who met her, it creates total awe in me.  

From the first moment I set eyes on her, she found a myriad of creative ways to demonstrate the insights she was here to share and her supersonic personality created so many adventures we would never have had otherwise. (Funny doesn't cover it!!!)

It is instructional to watch an animal live their purpose in every moment, always persisting even when the obstacles seem insurmountable… Looking back I must have been pretty hard work at times for a little dog who was all about celebrating the moment and finding joyful possibilities everywhere!!

So how do we find that same spirit within ourselves?  That beautiful clarity, that sharing of our beingness so strongly that we persist in creating our vision… and the absolute joy we find in being our authentic selves?

One of the best ways I know of is to write… anything… whatever is inside you… without editing!!  When I do this, wisdom comes out that I had no idea was in there!  In writing often and consistently, we remove all of the clutter from our mind, allowing what’s in our heart to shine through.  Julia Cameron calls this the morning pages… I’ve taken to calling mine Inspiration Pages… seems like a lot more fun!!  

Here’s a recent gem from my Inspiration Pages…

“Wherever you are in the world and whatever you are doing there is always an underlying search for where you belong.  The employee with the unusual ideas often does not belong – either they leave, looking for that familiar comfortable feeling of belonging, or, they are increasingly marginalized and excluded from contributing if the culture does not support diversity.  Oneness does not mean sameness, it is the allowance and celebration of everyone’s differences!”

What little gems are inside you just waiting to pop up for the world to discover?  Feel free to share them here…

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At the moment we are looking for one or two more very special speakers to complete our line-up for The Bliss Connection event in Maleny on 30/31 October. It’s a little tricky because we don’t know exactly what we’re looking for here. You know what I’m talking about… it’s the “I’ll know it when I see it!” syndrome!!

I feel a little like Douglas Adams…  “I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don’t know the answer” Ironically, answering like this indicates that Mr Adams was a whole lot more aware of how the universe works than most of us!!

Most of us ask questions looking for an answer.  When we try to create new possibilities by finding answers, we’re actually limiting the many potentials and choices that could be created!!

So, instead of trying to decide on the answer of what we’re looking for (way too hard!!), I’ve been asking the universe to show me what other topics or speakers our phenomenal audience will love…

The next step was to follow my intuition – engaging with everything that feels like the energy of The Bliss Connection event… following what feels interesting and expansive… and guess what – I’ve connected with 4 possible speakers in the last few days, a couple of who are offering topics that are totally amazing in relation to our ‘Different Like Me’ theme!  How does it get better than that?

It’s another example of the universe being totally counter-intuitive – stop looking for the answers, keep asking questions and a heap of possibilities with unlimited potential will show up!!

When you follow the standard wisdom by answering the question, coming to a final decision, coming to a conclusion before you start or doing what other people think is right you are actually limiting all of the possibilities that you could create!!

Some great questions to play with are ‘What else do I need to be know or be aware of here?’  and ‘What else is possible that I am not aware of right now?  Ask these questions around a current challenge and watch the Universe turn itself inside out to deliver!!

Are you choosing whatever is easiest or something that will place you in that blissful 'over the moon' state of joy?



Think of this choice as the difference between watching tv, or choosing a moonlit walk along the beach...;-)

At our October Bliss Creators events we’re taking joy in discovering how collaboration and connections can offer us the structures and supports that are required for us to create magic in our universe.

What if you could create and generate the ‘synchronicities’ and ‘coincidences’ that occur for “lucky” people all of the time? What if you were willing to get really clear about what you require from your business and your life so that your spheres of influence can be created for you to have all of this and more with ease??

Do you want to discover spheres of influence you haven’t yet experienced? Do you want to solve challenges with ease simply by asking the right questions or the right people? Would you be willing to transition from survival mode into creative thrival and beyond? What could that look like for you? Come play and we’ll discover what’s possible beyond your imagination!!

You are a treasure… how many of your gifts and talents are hidden from others (and yourself!!) What would it take to share your unique differences with the world in ways that create ease for yourself and others? Bring along a project or idea that could benefit from some collaborative ideas… let’s see what treasures we can create individually and collectively!!

Want to know more?  Bliss Creators events are being held in Brisbane and the Gold Coast - Book now!

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The human heart is capable of perceiving things the eyes don’t see and the mind doesn’t understand.  Trust in your knowingness and know peace throughout your life.  Know that love always exists here and now… what are you choosing in this moment?

“True love creates an ‘us’ without destroying a ‘me’.  Who are you being today?  Yourself… your partner's version of you?  Your boss' version of you?  Or..........?  Whatever you choose in your life, keep all of you intact!  You're valuable just as you are... no changes required!!

"Dissent will not be tolerated."   On the weekend I was totally enthralled by ‘Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix’… watching the forces of good versus evil and magic versus ‘the rules’ at play got me thinking about how often we meet our challenges with rules when a little magic would go so much further and faster!! 

There was so much joy for me in the scene where the hundreds of rules put up by the miserable headmistress Dolores Umbridge (perfect name!!) crash to the ground.  I could have danced (if I wasn't so comfortable lying on the bed)!!

The world will not change for the better if we do not choose dissent when it most matters.  I have spent much of my business life in trouble for not following the rules set by those I reported to (mostly because they made no sense and felt like an unnecessary limitation!). And in doing so have often created many more possibilities for myself and the organization just by being me!

That commitment to being authentically me has been worth it on so many levels and has created immeasurable amounts of magic, often when least expected! 

What magic would you be willing to create in your world today just by being the magic of you?  Love your work!!

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Today’s bliss is shared via a beautiful quote by Lao-Tzu:  “The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.”

What would it take for you to choose to be the awesome difference that you be?  What is the world missing out on because you are sharing a cut-off version of yourself?

Love you just as you are!!

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I’ve been moving house for what feels like weeks now and the whole adventure is wearing a little thin!!  One of the simple tools I’ve been using whenever things aren’t working out as they could is to ask “Will this still matter in two years?”.  In virtually all cases, the answer is no and this puts everything into perspective very quickly!

This simple question has allowed me to skim across the waves of other people’s stuff rather than getting all caught up in the moment by moment stresses and strains that seem to occur in our lives when it is least convenient!

When you don’t buy the conventional points of view about how important, how significant and how essential it is that ‘……X……’ occurs, happens now, is changed or rearranged, then you can live in a peacefully purposeful  way.  

This simple approach is so much easier than living the trauma and drama that other people would prefer you to live because it makes their life right, meaningful or important in some way!  When you refuse to engage in the trauma and drama, people are left with their own ‘stuff’ to play with… and your life becomes peaceful and purposeful because you are focused on the bigger picture.

Same applies at work.  If you want to be effective, focus on what will make the biggest difference in the long term rather than what other people are making significant!  Making things significant is a recipe for creating limitations, sidetracking and sabotage!  Is that what you truly want to choose?

Your choices, however small, change the world in immeasurable ways (YAY!). Go be more of yourself today and have fun creating a more joyful, peaceful world ;-)   Choosing bliss is that simple!!

Sending you all infinite love!

Unpacking my books has been truly joyful… I’ve found treasures galore!  Not least of which has been a beautiful little book called ‘a Thousand Paths to love’ by David Baird.  Here are a couple of my favourite bits of wisdom from this delicious tome…

“Whenever you are confronted with an opponent, conquer him with love.”  Mahatma Gandhi  (It was no accident that India is the only country in the world to have gained its independence peacefully!!)

“Don’t ever frown, you never know who is falling in love with your smile.”  (Smiles build bridges where before there were none.)

And a cute little poem by Robert Herrick…

“Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score;
Then to that twenty, add a hundred more:
A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on,
To make that thousand up a million.
Treble that million, and when that is done,
Let’s kiss afresh, as when we first begun.”

May you find your own blissful path to love today.  And know you are loved!

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One of the ways we uncreate bliss in our lives is by giving up just before we are about to succeed!  How often do we quit before we get a result in order to prove to ourselves (or others!) that we really can’t succeed?  Imagine if the builders of the pyramids had done that... the world would have missed out on so much magic! 

One of the things I’ve learned recently is that failure is simply not real.  Failure is actually the unwillingness to do whatever it takes to succeed.   So often we half do projects, or we don’t give our ideas the energy and attention they require and then spend weeks or years wondering what happened and why we 'failed'.  You know that whole gig about ‘deserving’ success… it’s all tied up with this! Would you like to change that? What if it took less energy to succeed than to fail?  

The energy of success has three phases… firstly you create the idea, then you energetically generate everything that would allow your idea to be a success and lastly you physically institute your plan.  During that process there is often a natural lull in the energy when you may not see much happening on the surface.  

At that point, most people go ‘oh my idea doesn’t work… I’ll stop making it happen’… and so the Universe goes, ‘oh look at that, she’s changed her mind again… wonder what the next plan will be?...’ and it sits there patiently waiting for you to get started again!!  Yes, you read this correctly – when you give up on your dream, so does the Universe, immediately!  Timing truly is everything!!

I often see people stop pursuing a dream right before it is about to show up.  So what if you were willing to just keep instituting whatever is required, despite the lack of obvious action in the outside world? That means having the belief in your dream and feeding it lots of delicious happy energy so that it can go out into the world and attract everything required to make it successful.

There are three questions I use intuitively when I’m feeling that lull in the energy and wondering what’s going on…
1.   What do I have to change here today in order to have success?
2.   What can I contribute today that will generate the success I desire and refuse to have and be?
3.   What magic can I be today that would allow this project to be successful beyond my imagination?

After asking these questions, I sit blissfully content, knowing the Universe will show me everything required for my project to succeed.  Exercise the muscle of your knowingness rather than your habit of failure… it will take you much further towards your dreams!