The Forest

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Crazy Days

With all of the crazy things going on, it’s the perfect time to create habits and follow them.  They will greatly reduce your stress and keep you productive.  Working from home can throw you off track.  wake at the same time and follow your habits.  If you need to go to work than be safe and use common sense. 

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My Daily Habits

1. Wake up 4AM

2. Wim Hoff breathing exercises

3. Stretch

4. Push-ups

5. Meditate

6. 3 min cold shower

7.Get coffee and edit photos or films

8. 5 min Journal writing

14 days on still going.  feeling pretty good.  Cold showers are rough but getting easier.  I actually wake up looking forward to my habits.  

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"You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to...

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A forest is a great place.  Even in the cold.  Just stand in a spot for 10 minutes and just listen.  

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Which path would you follow?  

The correct answer is neither, make your own....

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Is it spring? Nope, It’s still 29 degrees outside.  

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Hi, my name is Karla and I’m not perfect. If you know me you would know that I am a cute, fun, comical, loving, organized, hardworking and extraordinary human being. But, if you really know me then you should not criticize me for not being able to speak or write 100 %perfect like I said before, I am a hardworking person and with that said instead of criticizing me, you should know that I continue to read and to learn every day how to be better at this. Before you speak learn how to advise or suggest how to say the word or sentence or maybe even encourage me with a book or a website not just poison the earth by judging or laughing behind my comments this is why people can’t learn more instead they go into a ball and say “I can’t do it ” #loveforothers #support #successfulwomen #worldlanguage https://www.instagram.com/p/B80vy1LJS4L/?igshid=8hf4jrju0nha

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"You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to...

A place for my portraits

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A word of advice

So I believe daily habits are extremely important.  They put me in a routine where I feel I can achieve my goals and move in a forward direction.

Today I slipped from my daily habits, my morning routines.

I thought It would be ok to skip one day.

I was so wrong.  I wasn’t ready for missing a day and I paid heavily.

It was like a very dark blanket swirled around me.  I couldn’t get motivated to do anything all day.  

My advice is, create a morning routine that works for you and do it every day.

Follow your path.

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What you dream about and where you focus your energy will lead you to what you will become.  So, dream big.

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Having daily habits has really helped me to focus my energy and creativity.  It’s been 30 days and I am feeling like I am creating the direction I travel.  I am able to appreciate the creativity of others and not judge myself against them.  I just added my next habit, waking up at 4 AM.  I won't say it’s easy, my demons are always trying to pull me back to bed,  but once up I truly enjoy the time.

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The Forest

I live in a forest. 

 I didn’t always use to live here. 

 I’ve tried many times before but always failed.   The forest can be scary.   The forest is massive.  Which way should I go?  What if I get lost?  The thing about the forest is that it is full of life.  Many different creatures live in the forest.  Some can be dangerous, but most are harmless just going about their day doing what they do.  The forest is also full of plants.  From enormous trees to tiny mosses and flowers. I realized the plants in the forest, especially the trees represented my thoughts and ideas.  Each one a different creative outlet.  The forest is my mind.  

It’s not necessary to have only one creative outlet or to work on only one idea at a time.  The thing about the forest is all of the different forms of life, they all live and work together.  They ARE the forest. 

There is no path in the forest or if there is I probably shouldn’t follow it.  A hiking trail that goes through the forest is a predetermined route created by what another person thought was the best path to travel.  If I stand in the forest the ideas can be endless.  I can go in any direction I choose.  Maybe the creatures of the forest represent obstacles or difficulties that surround the ideas and hinder my creation. Most of them are not a big deal.  Minor annoyances that try to throw me off my game plan.  However, some are big and fearsome.  If I freeze and don’t move, eventually they will move on and I will be left in the silence and peace of the forest. When I set aside my fears the forest is not scary.  It’s a beautiful space in which I can energize and live with the intention I choose.  I am learning to embrace the forest, sit in silence and hear what it has to say.  When I feel the urge to run back to the safety of the path and follow it out of the forest, I  remember I have a compass and can go in any direction I want.  

I know there will be darkness in the forest. I will be paralyzed by my fear.  Anxiety will swirl around my mind and tell me to run and hide. It will tell me to get out of the forest.  In the past I would run, I would leave the forest and not return.  The call of the forest is strong though, and I would want to return.  I knew something was missing in my life.  I would eventually pack a new bag and enter the forest again thinking this time I will not fail.  

The last time I entered the forest I fell down a steep embankment.  I fell into a dark hole.  The kind of darkness that swallows all light and wrapped me in a blanket of blind suffocation.  I was in this dark, dank space covered in slim and alone. It was so dark I couldn’t see my compass.  I just laid in the mud and wondered if this was the end.  Should I even bother trying to find my way back?  Months had passed and I was still in the dark.  I no longer cared about finding the way out.  There was safety there in the dark.  Then Something happened.  A flash or spark of light pierced the darkness like a thin web of a spider.  I wasn’t sure where it came from, but a sense of fear quickly filled me.  I heard a voice tell me this is not the place you want to be.  I was unsure of how to get out, but I decided I would build a house and live there in the dark.  I would surrender to the dark until I had a plan.  the house was small, a single room with a single-window.  Most days I sat by the window staring out at a  tiny sliver of light.   I waited for something to happen.  But nothing ever did.  I realized no one was coming to help me.  No one even knew I was down here in my mud house and darkness.  

Then one day, I had the idea to build stairs and climb out.   This seemed like the most obvious plan ever and I felt like a moron for not thinking of it sooner.  I starting creating steps out of the mud.  One by one I built the staircase that carried me back to the forest floor.  As I lay on the forest floor amongst the moss and ferns and little insects, I took the biggest breath and felt excited and grateful to be back in the forest.  I was dirty and beaten down.  Every inch of my body was sore, but I was hopeful.  I was moving with a greater intention than ever before.  Moving from tree to tree and realizing this is where I belong. 

I am no longer afraid

To live in the forest.

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"You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to...

A place to share my work.

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The Demon

Don’t let the demon in you control your future.  Ignore the voice of fear and be you.

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Many different things happen simultaneously in the forest. Don't let fear paralyze you. It's supposed to be that way.