#diannadavid

[diannadavid]

In the past 90 days, I set upon 4 goals - 1) Run a 1/2 Marathon  2) Increase my network  by sharing 8 Raw life Journals of the Art of my Life in order to create more intimate relationships with those who don't and do know me. 3) Buy the Car of my Dreams and 4) Build a strong community of positive thinking people around me to keep me being the best person I can be. 

Well, I have officially completed ALL of my goals and I truly am enjoying the affects it has made on my life. My heart has opened to let more and more people into my life. Wealth is directly proportionate to the number of people you serve in this world. This was a very tough concept to understand how I do that in my life...and today, I definitely know what that means. I've been able to raise $410 in 3 hrs for the Downtown Eastside Women's Shelter from my run. My online journals helped me structure my Tedtalks audition, that which deemed me one of the 8 selected TedxRenfrew-Collingwood Speakers this Oct 19, 2013. I never knew exposing what I'm going through helps others too!

I feel I've moved into a place of abundance and acceptance of what I feel I deserve. I've never bought something big for myself before and so I carefully went through the process of buying an absolutely preciously cute car to drive within the city AND IS the Ultimate Classically Quirky with and Urban Twist sort of car that I would drive. (SEARCH: Black Nissan Figaro).

Lastly I chose to run a 1/2 marathon on my own to really build an internal gauge of excellence for myself. By doing this alone, I stayed committed to my success and my training towards seeing myself through my blocks. Plus I had to do the race in San Diego because most races were sold out months in advance in Vancouver. So, since I was in Las Vegas for a Locking Camp, I decided to combine my running goal and deepen my relationship goal in one big trip. I was welcomed with loving arms by new friends and old friends who encouraged and loved me all throughout the way. 

I don't know when living a full life would get old. I feel so excited to be alive for myself and purposefully for others. What I've learned that even through the rough patches, if I stay committed, even just the thought or a small step towards the things my heart wants, then I know I will always be able to find a solution to whatsoever obstacle that may come my way. This is how walking towards a life I want to continue to live looks like. 

Many thanks to my friends who travelled emotionally with me through these past 90 days. I wouldn't have experienced it the same way!

I love you all!   

DO WHAT MMMOOVESss You!

[diannadavid]

This is me and a bunch of little boys at a private all boys school called St. George's. No matter what status, what age, what gender, what location, we all can make things real. 

LIFE LESSON #3

TO BELIEVE OR NOT TO BELIEVE.

In Mime, I learned that even when things are not there, you as the artist have to believe it so much that the audience believes it too. It goes the same in life. How much of our life do we say we want to do something and never do it because we don't even believe it in ourselves.

Belief is the catalyst to action. Belief is the tool that brings the invisible into reality, ideas into action, feelings into expression. I today sometimes say, “I can't believe I did that”. Fact is, without belief, it wouldn't have ever happened in the first place. Without me as a mime on stage demonstrating the shape of an apple and eating it, my audience would never know what I am doing...”Hello, I'm eating an apple”. I make it real. I make it exist. I see it first. I make it believable. If I am careless about what I am doing, my audience will be just as confused, and so will the Universe. Being clear and believing in my actions makes things become what I want it to look and feel like. It's that simple.

We are the creators of how we want it to look like, we just have to believe that we are and decide on how it's suppose to look like. 

Was there a time in your life where you saw it come to life in your mind's eye first and then you literally walked right into it? Tell me about it. 

'Till next post! Rock it out!

[lifeofplay]

March 12, 2013

Today I decided to start speaking my truth. So, as manifestation has it, a (not so surprising) email surprised me in FB inbox. It was my niece who is a young adult now had insisted I continue my blog because she always found them inspiring. It was a nudge from the Universe. And so this is so...

I was quite hesitant to start speaking online. In fact, the cyber world was something I was afraid of. After an eye-opening discussion with some dear friends who said, all I see you do is post your events, classes and performances, I don't even know who you are. People online now a days create relationships, you're not just a company blasting sales and ads all over the place, you're a person. 

So Hello Cyber World...Nice to Meet you...I guess this is me...

So, in the later parts of last year I went on an internal search. I mean, if I wanted to stay up to date with the evolving times, be a contributor to the world, and be authentic, I definitely had some work to do. Time to start shedding some skin here baby. They said the world was going to end December 21, I think my new world just started then...as it did for everyone I guess. 

By the end of this month I'll be reaching my 6th month of devotion to yet again, understanding my new truths. Even more so, when I pulled out my calculator, at the end of March, I will be reaching my 10th year anniversary from quitting my engineering job. Holy MFG! Yah!

Looking back at some of the things that have helped me in this journey, I wanted to share with you some of the things I've learned. 

LIFE LESSON #1

ACCEPTANCE OF TODAY: In life we are either moving towards or moving away from something. Like this picture. I left engineering to go towards a dream to perform, teach and affect lives as well as towards my deeper understanding of my humanness to live in full acceptance with my sexuality.I was also moving away from a life of expectation, rules, and status quo challenges of what 'success' was suppose to look like.

Today, I can finally see that the journey towards success doesn't look the same across the board.  It wasn't linear. It was a dot. A spot, a point. With my very logical mind, this was a hard one to grasp. I struggled with placing a label on me so that I could define an identity. Am I just a Hip Hop Dancer, an engineer, nope, how about a performing artist, what kind of artist, not a poor one, someone who makes a lot of money...is that possible?

The truest acceptance of success is the truest acceptance of where you are today, what you believe in today, what you are feeling today. Not right, wrong, good or bad, it is exactly what it is. That is the only truth that you know, and nothing else. So when we can live truly in the moment of full appreciation of what is happening right now, it will give us the answers to which direction we so choose to go from here.  It's like playing. You get lost in the moment, you love every moment of it, you're fully engaged and you're perfectly in the right place at the right time...or not and you laugh about it. 

Stay tuned for more Life Lessons. Thank you Bea for inspiring me to stay connected and share my story. And so it shall.