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February 13, 2008

My 33rd bday - the JESUS year, I mean the DE JESUS year!

Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

Time is a created thing. To say ‘I don’t have time,’ is like saying, ‘I don’t want to.’ - Lao Tzu

Aut viam inveniam aut faciam - [ I will either find a way or make one ]

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.  - Ayn Rand

It used to be kind of a joke that I called myself a Professional Muse. I'm not going to feign humility about it - I know I have provided inspiration and catalyst and am thankful for this gift.  I've spent these past few months, mostly silent from my friends, trying to figure my shit out, because hey - CDJ either has her shit figured out, or is in process of figuring it out - part of the Reinvention/Rebirth cycle I go through every year before my birthday.

It's too ambitious anymore to think that I can do everything I want to do - there's simply really not enough hours in the day nor enough RAM in my own head to parallel process all the projects I want to pursue. Time to make some judicious cuts with the unforgiving sword of discernment.  While it irks me to feel that I might be LIMITED in my pursuits, but then again, as I see time as a sequence of ordered events (because everything can't happen at ONCE), "dreams deferred" just mean that they are further down the roadmap, but not lost forever.

For my birthday, I want to announce my desires and intentions for this year.  For my birthday, I ask you to consider collabo-creating with me, in any one of these.  We can choose to deepen our relationships, and pull one another into more active roles in each other's lives.  I've been too reticent in talking about what I need,

I am re-opening my Hypno-Productivity Coaching practice - Optimalmindset.com.  I've found a lovely space ( all feng shui'd out ) in West Hollywood to begin seeing clients again, probably for about 5-10 hours a week.  I love and miss the energy transfer and the profound fulfillment of doing change work.  Dissolving obstacles has always been one of my foremost talents, and one that I feel confident has a direct impact on the enrichment of people's lives.  I want to see more clients. I want to work with hidden genius and frustrated artists and people on the verge of breakthrough to their next level.  I do this in person but also over phone/web.  If you know someone, kindly send them my way. 

I am working with HeatherVescent at Thepurpletornado.com, as a product development and new media marketing consultant.  We've had some great people and companies on our client roster in the time we've been working together, and I am very satisfied to be working in an environment where clients benefit from my data intake, strategic counsel, pattern recognition, and intuition.  So I've already working in High-Tech Advertising, then High-Tech PR, now it's Marketing.  Just can't get away from corporate mythmaking. Personalities who want to take make/take their brand online, early stage startups, companies in need of rebranding . . this is who we work with.

I'm working on web-based (also for mobile ) series with Romeo Candido, with Thedigitalsweatshop.com.  There's so much opportunity to distribute content.

Last but not least, I want to use my Voice more this year: I want to sing, perform, record audiobook narrations, be the voice of a video game avatar or a cartoon character, do a jingle or two and wherever else I might lend my voice. 

[ All supporting websites and information for these aforementioned intentions and activities are being updated and will be completed by Feb 29, ready to launch - in concordance with the Meta-CDJ site carmenleilani.com ]

I'm just telling you this so I'm accountable. So it's not just a pipe dream. So if you ever come across a mutually symbiotic and synchronistic person, company or need, then my service or knowledge will be filed in your head appropriately.  Is that ok?

Of course, I know any and all of these intentions might shift and evolve too, as I am open to the delights of unexpected opportunities and surprises (like Phoenix was an unexpected surprise, ahem) but these are some solid trajectories I'll be following this year, and the support of my friends helps me to realize these goals.

I wish I could spend more time being with my friends. But I had about 33 years of self-indulgence, and Phoenix needs my unique brand of discipline and nurturing to develop his genius and indomitable will. So I am sorry if I am not as available as I used to be, but please don't write me off because I'm a married working mommy now.  I'm still one of the coolest people you know, and I have so much love . . and vibe . . and powers . . to SHARE!

Oh, if you want to know more about Baby Phoenix. Visit phoenixorison.com for pics and videos of Phoenix are here: http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=carmenleilani  He'll be 7 months old on Feb 15th.

Thank you thank you.

Always with more love and ruthless insight,

Carmen

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Tags: aquarius, birthday, carmen de jesus, carmen leilani, digital sweatshop, jesus year, optimal mindset, professional muse, purple tornado

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  • Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate. - Chuang Tzu

  • There's no secret to balance. You just have to feel the waves. - Frank Herbert

  • As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  • The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it. - General Norman Schwarzkopf

  • Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death. - Earl Wilson

  • The world steps aside to let any man pass if he knows where he is going. - David S. Jordan

  • Leap, and the net will appear.- Julia Cameron

  • Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it. - Rabindranath Tagore

  • "We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other. To meet, to love, to share. It is a precious moment, but it is transient. It is a little parentheses in eternity. If we share with caring, lightheartedness, and love, we will create abundance and joy for each other, and this moment will have been worthwhile." - Deepak Chopra

  • "I don't take drugs: I am drugs." - Salvador Dali

  • "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is." - Albert Einstein

  • "Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your objective. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • "Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream." - Harvey Mackay

  • "It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk [it took] to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to bloom." - Anais Nin

  • "Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend." - Albert Camus

  • "Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." - Douglas Adams

  • "Will is the measure of power. To a great genius there must be a great will. If the thought is not a lamp to the will, does not proceed to an act, the wise are imbecile. He alone is strong and happy who has a will. The rest are herds. He uses; they are used. He is of the Maker; they are of the Made. Will is always miraculous, being the presence of God to men. When it appears in a man he is a hero, and all metaphysics are at fault." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • "When I had youth I had no money; now I have the money I have no time; and when I get the time, if I ever do, I shall have no health to enjoy life. I suppose it’s the discipline I need; but it’s rather hard to love the things I do, and see them go by because duty chains me to my galley. If I ever come into port with all sails set, that will be my reward perhaps." - Louisa May Alcott

  • "Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world." - Arthur Schopenhauer

  • "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle

  • "It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult." - Seneca

  • "And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

  • "After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." - Aldous Huxley

  • When you get to the place where you would worry, stop and pray. - Edgar Cayce

  • At the center of your being you have the answer; You know who you are and you know what you want. - Lao-tzu

  • If you don't change, reality in the end forces that change upon you." - Stuart Wilde

  • "Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us." - Stuart Wilde

  • "To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do, that is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself, to test your limits, that is the courage to succeed." - Bernard Edmonds

  • "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." - Albert Einstein

  • "I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain." - Frank Herbert

  • "We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves." - Buddha

  • "To achieve, you need thought... You have to know what you are doing and that's real power." - Ayn Rand

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