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LIVING BY DESIGN NEWSLETTER
by Leslie Karen Sann, MA, LCPC
V8, #9
April 17, 2008

IN THIS ISSUE

LivING not Live by Design

I call my business Living by Design.

I don't call it Life by Design or Live by Design.

I call it LivING by design.

When you add ING to any word it implies ACTION.

I move versus I am movING which means I am in motion.

I have a life or I am livING — meaning I am engaged in the action of living.

IN essence Living by Design is being in ACTION in MOTION in CREATION of what you really want in life.

So you are either savorING what you really want, or you are enjoyING what you have created, or you are makING what you want happen.

A person who is livING by design is a person who is willING to take action on creatING what they want.

Folks make themselves grumpy, sad, and unfulfilled in life as a result of not movING, actING, choosING takING risks, that will move them closer to the life they say they want.

It is easy to complain about what is missing. But complaint is not action. Complaints will not create what you want.

Complaints can be used in service to living by design if you listen to the complaint to discover what is missing so you can shift your focus on taking action on makING what you want happen.

If you want to be a person who is livING by design be a person who is in action, making choices, and is in motion towards what you reALLy want.

Even if the action taken turns out to be off course, it still is movement and will serve you — as an object in motion will stay in motion.

But an object at rest tends to stay at rest = not goING anywhere.

If you want to complain about that — your choice. For me there is beauty and power in getting unstuck and into motion.

If that is something that you are interested in and are unsure how to do that on your own — I encourage you to sign up now for the upcoming 5-week *Learning How to Live by Design* teleCourse beginning April 30th.

SignING up for the class is action. Action will get you unstuck and into motion.

Sign up - that's an action Show up - that's an action Participate - that's an action Do the weekly homeplay - that's an action. Participate on the call and discussion board - those are actions.

Next thing you know you are moving in the direction you want to go.

Sign up for the five-week teleCourse and watch your life change as you become a person who is livING by design.

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Thou shalt not be a victim. Thou shalt not be a perpetrator. Above all, thou shalt not be a bystander. 
   ~ Holocaust Museum, Washington, DC ~

To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
   ~ Hugh Prather ~

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A MOMENT OF BEAUTY

"The Deeper Person In The World"
   
written by Therese Townsend

I take my place

My heart breaks… Open Listening Lamenting

I look out into the greater world and I take my place

The circle keeps completing itself in the meeting and I take my place

I wait in preparation, afraid to walk through the door and again,

My heart breaks… Open Listening Lamenting

And I take my place

Out of our meeting, I find myself… Hazel eyes and tenderness, Now perfectly prepared to walk through the door

My heart breaks… Open Listening Courage

I take my place

In the natural order of things In the ordinary extraordinariness

My heart breaks… Open

And I take my place…there

AMAZING

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TT IS IN A BOOK ...

In 1986 I participated in a 35 day training facilitated by Terry Tillman -- a powerful experience that changed me. I have just discovered that he is in a book!

"Who Do You Think You Are? Discover the Purpose of Your Life".

Keith Leon interviewed 64 people regarding their life purpose, how they discovered it and what advice they would give to those who are still searching -- and Terry is one of the people interviewed.

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