Currie's Gratitude 14 August 2012

BE Open Ó2012 Currie Silver

Listen, Look, Take Your Time

Each moment and every Now is new

Similar, mayBE, and connected

Yet utterly and completely NEW

BE Open to its possibilities and wonders.

Ever feel like you’ve “wasted” an hour, a day?! What happened? Did you really use it up without Purpose, Intention, or BEing Present?

Whether you answered in the affirmative or the negative, I’m guessing that were you to really sift through that “wasted” time you’d find something you didn’t see quite clearly, at first look.

I think this capacity of BEing Human is one of my favourites. When I am OPEN to possibility, when I know there is ALWAYS wonder, even the worst times, the most difficult experiences, and those things I simply NEVER EVER AGAIN want to think on are utterly transformed.

Amazing what OPENNESS can DO…

BEing Open hasn’t been something I’ve sought to BE, overall. In fact, for a Very [probably too] Long Time I just wanted to nail things down, set them straight, and get it “right.” However, over the past year I have started shedding old definitions, releasing what I KNEW TO BE TRUE, and letting myself BE surprised by Life. By Myself. By YOU. And by Them, yes, Them, too…

Openness makes the impossible laugh, lovingly. Gently. Easily. Deeply.

I love you, Currie

Currie's Gratitude 13 August 2012

BE Humble Ó2012 Currie Silver

Even if I need to look, to BE exposed

And vulnerable

To take the long way

I will BE Humble

I will allow Life to BE

Life

I know my ideas around BEing Humble and having Humility spent a Very [Too] Long Time swirling about in me in confused chaos. I know that when I was young, but no longer a child, I could NOT stand to feel Humble BEcause, largely, I didn’t understand it then, as I have come to understand it over the past few decades. I hated to BE put in “my place” and to BE condescended to, especially by those who did this with a certain glee at their lot, to BE able to shame and openly disrespect me.

I know that I was NOT a very humble child, teenager, or young adult. In fact, I don’t think I really grasped the draw and power of Humility until I was well into my 50’s. I know that BEing Humble scared me. It seemed to BE a way to keep from BEing noticed and acknowledged. It seemed ridiculous.

But you know, NOW, with no hesitation whatsoever, I seek Humility and choose BEing Humble. I no longer need others’ approval, recognition, or permission. I embrace my capacity to simply BE Humble.

I love you, Currie

Currie's Gratitude 12 August 2012

BE Remarkable Ó2012 Currie Silver

BEing a Remarkable person

It’s right within your reach

If only you will see

That you already ARE

Truly and deeply

REMARKABLE at BEing YOU!

What does Remarkable mean?! Does it mean fancy-shmancy with initials following your name? Is it awarded, earned, progressed toward in a certain way?!

Some, perhaps many MORE than just some, BElieve there is a WAY to BE a Remarkable person. I suppose they have a point, and I don’t mean to argue, yet more and more I am discovering that BEing Remarkable is actually very ordinary and everyday.

The moments of conversation, acknowledgement, and connection that can occur at a bus stop… are these less than REMARKABLE BEcause they are so ordinary?

The flash of insight when DOing something like washing dishes or brushing your teeth… aren’t these extraordinary, amazing, and, oh, REMARKABLE, too?

I BElieve in Remarkable People and I meet them, write with them in my heart and mind, and am filled full and overflowing with Gratitude for them. Each. And. Every. Day. Of. My. Ordinary. Life…

I BElieve that each of us is Remarkable, same as we are unrepeatable, unique, and quite extraordinarily suited to BEing Who We Are.

I BElieve that the most seemingly dull and ordinary are truly the most Remarkable ever imaginable.

I love you, Currie

Currie's Gratitude 11 August 2012

BE Focused Ó2012 Currie Silver

SEE it, whatever it is YOU want

See it with the same clarity

Hindsight offers

And let nothing

And no ONE

Dissuade you

BEing Focused has some connotations that are NOT so positive. Like BEing compulsive and obsessive, holding on for dear Life when the wiser thing is to Let Go, and living in significant denial despite things BEing crystal clear. And I admit, those are sorts and types of Focus I’ve held, and likely will hold to again. [and again…]

On NOT the but an OTHER hand, BEing Focused has been the singular most essential piece to every single good thing that I have ever managed to attain in Life. BEing able to SEE what it is, to truly envision it, and to continuously and definitively move toward it, even when standing still, BEing FOCUSED has been my “golden” key.

And I don’t think for one second it’s NOT the same for others, though I really don’t KNOW how it plays anywhere but HERE, in ME and My Life.

At many times, oh, so too many I am sad to say, BEing Focused has also led me far afield and off on tangents. These are examples of focus-gone-bad, yet even those experiences have been hugely beneficial and of significant and great value…

I love you, Currie

Currie's Gratitude 10 August 2012

BE Simple Ó2012 Currie Silver

BE Simple BEcause you CAN BE

BEcause it may seem complicated

Yet it’s NOT

BE Simple BEcause Life is short

And Simple travels light

I’ve long wished to BE a simpler version of myself. And I have blamed people, places, things, and circumstances for NOT BEing able to BE Simple, or even simpler. NOT a good plan… [in case you were wondering]

In the past 4 months I have discovered a Simpler Currie who is fully formed and ready to roll. Letting Go of my 4-wheeled transportation has, practically in one stroke, carved out a simpler way of BEing that really couldn’t BE easier to incorporate.

One thing that really made me complicated was my openness to other interpretations. Or mayBE it was my unwillingness to commit. Call it what I will, I am Now living and BEing Simpler than I could ever have imagined DOing and BEing.

When I have confusion Now, I am quicker to resolve it. Oftentimes it requires nothing more complicated than saying “NO.” And this is, by the way, NO to myself. Turns out I was the complicated stick-in-the-mud all along!!!

And I have learned to ask for help, though I still don’t like it all that much. But when I DO I show up clearer, more myself.

I love you, Currie

Currie's Gratitude 9 August 2012

BE Nurturing Ó2012 Currie Silver

Take the time

Make it

To BE someone who

Encourages

Even inspires

Something [or someone]

To flourish

It was sort of strange in a familiar way to look up Nurturing and discover that in fact it means:

1) to encourage somebody or something to grow, develop, flourish, thrive, and be successful; 2)to give tender care and protection to a young child, animal, or plant, and helping it to grow and develop; 3)to keep a feeling in the mind for a long time, allowing it to grow or deepen.

Which is perhaps WHY, without knowing it, I chose Nurturing for Part 1 of Plan BE. BEcause Plan BE is all about How We BE & BEcome Who We Want To BE & BEcome.

As I often DO, I am coming at things from several directions at once, and often the fact that I AM is NOT something I am completely conscious of. [or even AT ALL]

BE Nurturing is more an attitude and intention than a task with specific steps to follow to thus BE it. It is how I like to look at the myriad opportunities a day presents me with.

Can I give someone encouragement?

Can I BE more tender and kind?

Can I feel more thus let feelings deepen in me?

I love you, Currie

Currie's Gratitude 8 August 2012

BE Trustworthy Ó2012 Currie Silver 

DO what you said you’d DO

Follow-through

Make it a priority

Keep your word

BE worthy of trusting.

When I set out to create Plan BE, I used a simple trick I’d learned works well for me to mine my birdbrain for insights and ideas. I used the alphabet. I know there are many good “T” words, yet the one that floated to the top for me THAT TIME was Trustworthy.

I am certain that there was [and is] a Very Good Reason for this word BEing part of Plan BE. Trustworthy means: dependable, reliable, responsible, truthful, honest, constant, honorable, upright,and faithful. At least those are the synonyms I found.

I have NOT always been Trustworthy. [oh surprise?!] I have been neither dependable nor constant. I haven’t been upright and I’ve surely been irresponsible. I’ve stretched and even fabricated the truth.

And yet…

One of the things I look for in others is Trustworthiness. And one of my strengths is Trustworthiness. I hadn’t really wrapped my head round all this until just Now, but I have also known it for a Very Long Time.

It is easy to promise, to say I will DO this or BElieve you when you say you will DO that. What’s NOT is when I [or you] don’t.

I love you, Currie