Hello Friends,
Today I’m writing you from Salt Spring Island, BC, where I’m attending a conference. Preparing for this conference is where this story begins. Getting
to Salt Spring requires taking a float plane. It all sounds fun until you get the news that you can only carry 25 pounds on the flight. That’s it, 25# for 6 days, including purse, mobile office, etc. I’m laughing because my clothing takes up the least amount of poundage in this equation and my incidentals the most!
What occurred to me, through this process, is how often seeking solutions can bring additional stress. In our innocence, we get to work on ‘figuring it out’. This is where we start to resemble a dog with a bone; we chew on it until we’re exhausted or stressed out. We just can’t let it go until we know the solution. There’s another way.
Here are 4 Tips for Stress-Free Solutions:
1. Know that you have a factory installed Creative Process built into your design as a human being. We all carry this feature. What’s cool about this 
feature is; the more you enlist it, the more it works on your behalf, the more you experience it, your confidence in its presence in your life soars.
2. Stop ruminating or trying to figure out a solution. This habit adds congestion to your head space and consumes your bandwidth for what’s requiring your immediate attention. Too many things living in your head space is where the feelings of overwhelm and burnout come from.
3. Relax; know that you have an inner resource that will lead you to your solution. Listen for fresh insights and ideas that show up on the scene about your topic.
4. Engage with these fresh ideas. Don’t poo-poo on them, follow the thread. When you poo-poo on these next steps, your creative process interprets it as you don’t want help and it retreats. Tip: these fresh ideas don’t always show up as logical. Keep following the crumbs and you will arrive at a solution that’s a perfect fit for you. This approach to arriving at solutions is like a mysterious treasure hunt. The discovery is fun and the bounty brings something brand new. In addition to a solution, you will also experience a new found hopefulness and resilience.
Right about now is when I usually hear someone say, “Yeah, but the solution I need is bigger than a weight issue!” No worries, the mechanics work 
the same regardless of the topic. Try it out for yourself. I’d love to hear from you.
My packing journey turned out to be a very fun ride. I woke up to new ways to travel with more efficiency, much less weight, and a whole lot more ease getting through my flight connections. The process also offered me the opportunity to hop on 2 earlier flights, arriving hours earlier to my destination. Following the ideas that occurred to me through this process brought me to the scales with a stress free 22.9 pounds and a big inner chuckle.
I encourage you to enlist this factory installed resource and let it work on your behalf. If you’d like to learn more and be supported in discovering a multitude of unrealized internal resources, I’d love to work with you. Let’s set up a time for a conversation.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Sending smiles,
Cherie