I'm a firm believer in the idea we all need personal cheerleaders along the course of our life to keep us believing in ourselves when our own doubts creep in.
Each generation has its own symbolic representations of what it means to have self esteem and to believe we are each worthy of everything.
I watched a movie the other night "Believe in Me" with Jeffrey Donovan who plays a coach who has moved to a small town to train the boys team. Upon arriving he find its the girls who will be his coaching duty and he is not happy about it. The time is 1964 and girls and sports were not thought of as something to be valued. Title IXX hadn't been passed and resources were just hand me downs.
But what this movie is about is not the man as a coach, but a man who finds his real purpose in life is not what he thought it was. And by following the path life showed him instead of fighting to show life the path he wanted, he changed lives in ways he could never have believed he could.
He didn't cheer the girls on as much as he believed in them so that they could then believe in themselves. You have to remember in 1964, the country girls highest aspirations were mostly limited to being a farmers wife and raising the kids.
High school was their peak for living their own life before they turned it over to their assigned roles.
But it's also about the idea that when we stand up for what we believe even in the face of certain failure or fear, life has a way of bringing those to us who will help clear the way for a higher truth. There is a lot of power in believing what your heart tells you over what you fear does.
It's worth a watch to get inspired by some young girls who lived a life most of us don't remember and see what it meant to them so we can remember what it means to us to have someone believe in them.
Daily Dose of Love & Freedom
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Monday, February 15, 2010
Who Cooked the Last Supper?
This is the title of a must-read book by Rosalind Miles. She asked the important question, where are all the women in our history? If any of us stop to think about it, it's a really good question!
Filled with humor, good stories and interesting facts that open our perspective, I recommend all women should read this book. While the past is gone, it does give us some idea of how we got here why things are the way they are.
Where I'll add my perspective that's a little different than hers is that as we examine what happened before, let's choose to own it so we can insure it won't happen again!
As you've heard me say before, you can't move forward until you own where you are now. And for women in this world what we all need to own is that we've not taken responsibility for the mess we've created.
There is great power in owning the idea once and for all "I am not a victim." When you own that single idea you've taken ALL your power back.
That's not to say everything in our lives and our world gets cleaned up instantly, but it's the first big drop in the bucket of a world filled with clean and pure Truth.
There have been so many women who have walked before us with courage, grace and integrity - claiming their truth so we could live ours. Let's honor them by doing the same, one small step at at time.
Jill Elizabeth
Filled with humor, good stories and interesting facts that open our perspective, I recommend all women should read this book. While the past is gone, it does give us some idea of how we got here why things are the way they are.
Where I'll add my perspective that's a little different than hers is that as we examine what happened before, let's choose to own it so we can insure it won't happen again!
As you've heard me say before, you can't move forward until you own where you are now. And for women in this world what we all need to own is that we've not taken responsibility for the mess we've created.
There is great power in owning the idea once and for all "I am not a victim." When you own that single idea you've taken ALL your power back.
That's not to say everything in our lives and our world gets cleaned up instantly, but it's the first big drop in the bucket of a world filled with clean and pure Truth.
There have been so many women who have walked before us with courage, grace and integrity - claiming their truth so we could live ours. Let's honor them by doing the same, one small step at at time.
Jill Elizabeth
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Florence Nightengale or "The Hammer"
I heard a little more about Florence Nightengale this morning and so today she is the inspiration for this Sunday! Most of us may? think about this first formal nurse as someone who must have been sweet and compliant as she dutifully took care of our sick soldiers.
Well, her real nickname was "The Hammer" because she was once told she couldn't have the medical supplies she needed to help the men so she literally took a hammer to the door and let herself in!
She was also instrumental in making the now very obvious link between hygiene and disease. For two years she meticulously documented conditions of soldiers and was able to demonstrate more were dying of disease than bullets. She also was able to demonstrate that when you keep things cleaned up (I know, duh?), she reduced the death rate by as much or more than 80% in the hospitals.
What was key here was she just "DID IT" and didn't really wait for permission. So the question I'll toss back to you, what in your life are you waiting for permission to do or more importantly to be?
Well, her real nickname was "The Hammer" because she was once told she couldn't have the medical supplies she needed to help the men so she literally took a hammer to the door and let herself in!
She was also instrumental in making the now very obvious link between hygiene and disease. For two years she meticulously documented conditions of soldiers and was able to demonstrate more were dying of disease than bullets. She also was able to demonstrate that when you keep things cleaned up (I know, duh?), she reduced the death rate by as much or more than 80% in the hospitals.
What was key here was she just "DID IT" and didn't really wait for permission. So the question I'll toss back to you, what in your life are you waiting for permission to do or more importantly to be?
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