In 2011 I Learned…

This has been some year for me. Sometimes exhilarating. Sometimes devastating. Sometimes both simultaneously.

I learned a lot of life lessons – lessons I hope I never need to learn again so that I can trek to new places. Ponder new questions. Resolve new quandaries. They include:

1) Forgiveness is a muscle that requires constant flexing to buff up. The payoff for being a knockout forgiver is more energy, more happiness, more gratitude, more abundance, more clarity… (and a complete purging of the yucky stuff).

2) Everything is figureoutable. (Thank you Mama Marie).

3) Keep your revenue streams diverse. (This one should be tattooed on my tushie!)

4) It’s more important to me to be in my integrity than to be liked. (Most changemakers aren’t winning any popularity contests.)

5) An idea goes further when you have a tribe behind it. (I’m over being a lone ranger!)

6) There is a fine line between looking to others for inspiration and to compare ourselves against them. The first is motivated by love. The second by ego. (When you recognize you’re doing the latter, get off social media.)

7) “The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.” – Arthur C. Clarke

Whether the year has been some kind of wonderful for you or some kind of nightmare you cannot wait to awake from in 2012, take some time during the final days of the year to learn what there is to learn from it, make peace with that which you are still at war, share the lessons you want to impart to others… and get ready to make 2012 amazeballs!