Mind over matter, if you don't mind, it don't matter

BAD! Kitty Art Studio

Quote for the day

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"Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind.

If encouraged, it cuts a channel into

which all other thoughts are drained."

~Arthur Somers Roche

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I am worried. I worry by nature.

I think too much, and it scares the living crap out of me.

I hate to fear anything. I loath fear. I despise being afraid.

When I feel this way, I am a woman of immense action.

Sometimes my ideas to fix situations are great ones,

sometimes they are real stinkers.

I am not sure exactly what to do

with this fear I awoke with today.

I am unsure how to make the best of this situation.

I am living in the now, and fear is riding shotgun today.

I need a plan of action to help my family, protect my kids from knowing

that we are as poor as we have ever been in their lives.

I need to fix this situation so that the books are balanced,

and I can stop worrying about the youngest child's birthday in a few days,

the bills that have to be paid,

the food not in the pantry,

the lack of basic things to make a life comfortable,

the need for clothing,

the desire for more things to correct and start working in our

favor again.

I need to stop begrudging luck and fortune.

I will think about love, faith and courage,

to drive away the fear, the worry, the

anxiety of my dreams and my waking life today.

I will cross bridges, I will create meaning,

I will work as hard as I ever do, and then work harder.

Life is a gift, even when it's full of despair and worry.

I will remind myself of this every other minute today,

second by second if I have too.

I will keep my faith, and use my courage.

I will continue to be myself,

I will work harder, think faster,

and do everything in my power to

not focus on things I can't do anything about.

Rome was not built in a day, and my new life can't be expected to

be re-built in a week either.

So on I go, asking for nothing and taking the worry,

the fear and examining every inch of it,

for in that I will find new opportunity.

I will take chances,

and live, continue, and survive this day

with success, with grace and without

complaint,

because I am human,

and working to become more.

I am the next stage in human evolution,

in understanding,

I have to think a lot of myself,

if I don't who will?

I will not bemoan, I will not wish for it,

I will work for it,

with my head high, without too much pride,

and with the conviction of my dreams.

Onward and upward, it can't get much worse,

so it can only get better from here.

Yours in courage & faith today,

Heather

http://www.badkittyartstudio.com/

Thank Goodness it's Tuesday!

Vintage Bingo laminated collage above

one in a set of two, created by HMBT 2006

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BAD! Kitty Art Studio

Quote for the day

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"The most important moral of all is that excellence is where you find it.

I would extend this generalization to cover not just higher

education but all education from

vocational high school to graduate school.

We must learn to honor excellence,

indeed to demand it in every socially accepted human activity,

however humble that activity, and to scorn shoddiness,

however exalted the activity.

An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable

than an incompetent philosopher.

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing

because plumbing is a humble activity

and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy

because philosophy is an exalted activity will have neither

good plumbing nor good philosophy.

Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water. "

~John William Gardner

***

My boys start at their new school today!

Yippeee!

I'll have a quite day to work with clients,

and work on my art.

No fighting, feeding, yelling for 8 glorious

hours. I think I might burst.

The boys neither one are prepared for

the cold weather we are having here.

We unpacked their clothes and found that

all the jeans and sweatshirts and the jackets

I bought at the beginning of school, they have outgrown.

I mean it's only been two months ago, sheesh!

They have both grown about an inch and put on at least 5-7 pounds...a sure sign that more tallness is coming soon.

OMG! I am raising giants.

At least their new shoes still fit for the time being,

although they are complaining of them feeling tighter than they were.

While in Mississippi, they only wore warm weather clothes, and well...they outgrew the cool weather ones without ever getting a chance to wear them.

They now wear the same size as me in socks, shirts, jackets!

I am stuck by how much and how fast they have grown, in such a short time.

Time seems to be fleeting so fast these days.

So, I'll be working peacefully, they will be off learning

new things in a new environment,

and it will be fun to have them regal me with

their stories about their new school when they come home today.

I look forward to missing them after two weeks of them being underfoot, and completely un-miss-able!

Well I am off, so much to do today, and BTW...

I really could use some sales

so I can go buy clothes for them,

hint, hint...I am having a sale, dontcha' know?

So scroll down, check it out, the sale page

is just down a couple of posts.

Have a great day all,

Heather

www.badkittyartstudio.com

Action Monday

Untitled Collage above by HMBT 2006

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BAD! Kitty Art Studio

Quote for the day

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"This is my simple religion.

There is no need for temples;

no need for complicated philosophy.

Our own brain,

our own heart is our temple;

the philosophy is kindness."

~The Dali Lama

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"If you see your nature, you don't need to read

sutras or invoke Buddhas.

Erudition and knowledge are not only useless

but also cloud your awareness.

Doctrines are only for pointing to the mind.

Once you see your mind, why pay attention to doctrines? "

Bodhidharma

***

Yours in the struggle to become

all that is free,

all that is understanding,

all that is kind.

I dance in the chaos,

I breath in the action,

I sing the song

of love,

to you today.

May the world be yours,

Share the Love.

Heather

http://www.badkittyartstudio.com/

PS. Please Go buy some of my art, my boys need

warm clothes, it's cold here.

Brrrr, rabbit.

Super Sunday

BAD! Kitty Art Studio
Quote for the Day
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" Be Fanatics. When it comes to being and
doing and dreaming the best,
Be maniacs."
~A.M. Rosenthal

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Yours in the mania,

Heather

http://www.badkittyartstudio.com

Freeing My Soul Today

BAD! Kitty Art Studio

Quote for the day

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"Our nervous system developed for one sole purpose, to maintain our lives and satisfy our needs.

All our reflexes serve this purpose.

This makes us utterly egotistic.

With rare exceptions people are really interested

in one thing only: themselves.

Everybody, by necessity, is the center of his own universe.

When the human brain took its final shape, say,

100,000 years ago, problems and solutions must

have been exceedingly simple.

There were no long-range problems and man

had to grab any immediate advantage.

The world has changed but we are

still willing to sell more distant vital interests for

some minor immediate gains.

Our military industrial complex, which endangers

the future of mankind, to a great extent owes its

stability to the fact that so may people depend on it for their living.

This holds true for all of us, including myself.

When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money

I have ever seen, I had to do something with it.

The easiest way to drop this hot potato was

to invest it, to buy shares.

I knew World War II was coming and I was afraid

that if I had shares which rise in case of war, I would wish for war.

So I asked my agent to buy shares which go down in the event of war.

This he did.

I lost my money and saved my soul. "

~Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Source: Albert Szent-Gyrgyi,

The Crazy Ape, Grosset and Dunlap,

New York, 1971, p 72.

***

Today we will unpack my studio.

Today I will again put brush to canvas.

Today my soul will once again

breath.

Today I will feel whole again,

with the smells of oil paints,

the sounds of my children in the background,

and the beauty of my new land

laying before my wondrous eyes.

I will open my soul,

and know the peace

of the great universal

maker in my heart.

Today I will be free.

Yours in Soul-full-ness,

Heather

www.badkittyartstudio.com

Excellent Habits

BAD! Kitty Art Studio
Quote for the day
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" Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.
We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,
but we rather have those because we have acted rightly.
We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. "
~Aristotle
***
As I unpack my brown box life again,
I am reminded just how little
material possessions mean
to me in creating a happy
life.
Only a few months ago, I had a home
of over 2500 square feet,
my own separate studio space,
five television sets,
three couches,
shelves upon shelves of collectables &
Trinkets of a life,
closets of clothes, rooms full of books,
a pantry full of food, enough to feed 20 people for weeks,
two cars, stereo systems, fish tanks, china,
and truckloads of stuff in general.
I now own one car, and my stuff
fits into a 6' X 12' trailer.
At the moment I do not own one stick of furniture
to sit on.
My clothes fit into one small box.
I have two pairs of shoes.
I have enough food for one week for four people.
I have no extras, no trinkets.
As I unpack my brown box life,
I am reminded
of just how wealthy I am.
And I am happy.
Virtue is my steady companion,
Fearlessness my friend,
wisdom my cornerstone,
action my language,
clarity my food.
I am happy with my brown box life,
because it makes me feel free.
Now that all the stuff is cleared
out of my way,
I can really create
this life, this is
my ultimate work of
art.
My life is an artwork
in never ending progress,
it is my discovery of new habits,
an exercise in excellent
freedoms, and it is mine.

I am proud of who I am,
simple, free, and learning more everyday.
What do you have/do in your life
that makes you feel excellent?
What is the definition for you
of excellence?
What of Virtue?
What of fearlessness?
What habits do you have that make you feel
great about yourself?
Tell me, I really want to know.
These words, this transparency of my simple life,
this is one of my habits, it is one of my definitions
of excellence, I share it here, with you.
Yours in fearlessness
and habitual virtue,
Heather
http://www.badkittyartstudio.com/

I'm Baaack!

BAD! Kitty Art Studio

Quote for the day

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"All your life, you have heard yourself denounced; not for your faults, but for your greatest virtues.

You have been hated, not for your mistakes, but for your achievements.

You have been scorned for all those qualities of character which are your highest pride.

You have been called selfish for the courage of acting on your own judgment and bearing sole responsibility for your own life.

You have been called arrogant for your independent mind.

You have been called cruel for your unyielding integrity.

You have been called anti-social for the vision that made you venture upon undiscovered roads.

You have been called ruthless for the strength and self-discipline of your drive to your purpose.

You have been called greedy for the magnificence of your power to create wealth. You, who've expended an inconceivable flow of energy, have been called a parasite.

You, who've created abundance where there had been nothing but wastelands and helpless, starving men before you, have been called a robber.

You, who've kept them all alive, have been called an exploiter.

You, the purest and most moral man among them, have been sneered at as a 'vulgar materialist.'

Have you stopped to ask them:

by what right? - by what code? - by what standard?"

~Ayn Rand

***

We have arrived at our new resting place. The home we

live in isn't the nicest in the world, but it is ours,

and we will make the best of it, with pride.

Danville is a really nice town, a little wet and cold for the last couple days,

but a very nice place to live, grow, work and

raise our little family.

I am pleased with the way things are turning out so far.

We are still unpacking, I am getting back to work with

my coaching clients, and working on new commissioned

work for a well loved art patron.

The boys are settling into sharing a bedroom, and will start school again next week, I can't wait for quiet days again.

Mate Man is looking for work, and it is a lot more promising here than in

Mississippi, we have crossed fingers.

The dog and cat made it just fine.

Danville is a dry town, interesting to me as I have never lived in a town where you could not buy liquor of any kind, I didn't even know they still had places like this in the country.

I will be getting together with the local art community leader

soon, and hopefully arranging for a public showing of my artwork for the near future.

Money is tight, and a more than a little scary, but I have hope and faith that things will eventually work out for us, in a fine fashion.

I am tired and sore from all the moving and travel.

We got stuck in an Alabama traffic jam on the way here that lasted hours in very hot sun, but we made it through and that was our biggest trouble on the trip.

I guess that's all for today, just wanted to let you all know we made it, and are fine...a little on the stressed side, but fit as fiddles.

Be well, Share the love.

Yours in Courage,

Heather

www.badkittyartstudio.com

BAD! Kitty has now left the building

BAD! Kitty is on the road again.

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Ok, so we are on the move again.

Nothing to hold us here in this place and time,

this isn't what I hoped it would be,

for myself or my family...

so we press on

to the great unknown.

I will be traveling for the next three to four days, to

our new home, and wanted to let you all know.

I will be back in communication

in about 1 week or less.

Stay tuned for adventure stories, kavetching,

and general in the know stuff,

coming soon. I will have a new show

to tell you all about when I come back...that plan is in the works.

So, my new local area residents will be able

to come and see what I do.

Bad! Kitty has now left the building.

I am going to find me a place

where I don't know a soul,

where I am not counting on anyone

but me and mine...

and start life over again

with faith, courage

and Bad!-ness.

Watch out world,

Here I come.

Heather

www.badkittyartstudio.com

New Art Just finished Mississippi Grrl

Mississippi Grrl

Oil Pastels on Canvas board

& Mixed Media

16" X 20"

40 cm X 50 cm

New Art Just Finished!

100.00 + Shipping

SHIPPING IS NOT FREE, but I do offer a free shipping

quote to anyone, and to any where in the world.

Please just email me with your zip code or country,

and I will get a exact quote for you, no problem.

*****

Here is the quote that inspired the work:

I am part of the sun as my eye is part of me.

That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood

is part of the sea.

My soul knows that I am part of the human race,

my soul is an organic part of the great human race,

as my spirit is part of my nation.

In my own very self, I am part of my family.

~D.H. Lawrence

Source: Apocalypse, 1931

*****

Mississppi Grrl is all about my quest for peace.

Peace in my heart, peace with my surroundings,

peace with my circumstances.

Loving myself isn't always easy to do.

I fail, I get stuck, I don't always make the right choices with people, places or situations.

The peace I seek is within myself, this world I live in and the places I dwell in. This is a break through work for me, as I have been

in a artistic rut for a few months, sick of myself, my situation, my choices in people to trust.

I choose to move past those realities,

I choose to make my own path, and capture the moments of living,

like the reflections of birds on the wing, in a sunset sky.

All places and people have meaning,

sometimes you have to be stuck to see them more clearly.

I am leaving Mississippi soon, but this is my painting

to document what I learned in my brief time here,

that I am free no matter where I lay my head.

I hope you enjoyed the work, and thank you for being here.

Heather

*****

These pictures were taken inside and out,

(See more at etsy, the link is below)

the darker pictures were taken inside,

but show the true colors of the work, violets, reds, greens, and blues.

the outside pictures are brighter and clearer,

but have too much of the blues to really show the depth of color,

I included them, because I wanted to show the detail of the work.

*****

I offer a no questions asked 7 day return policy. (7 days after YOU get it IN your home) If you don't like it, let me know and then wrap it back up, and send it back, I'll refund you the sale price, minus the shipping charges. No problems, no hassles,no waiting. Art is subjective I get that, so just relax. And for the love of art, take a look, you never know what you will discover!

*****

Click the link to see more:

http://www.etsy.com/view_item.php?listing_id=524371&pic_id=1

Thursday is the name of the game

BAD! Kitty Art Studio

'Seed of Change'

Oil painting

by HMBT 2006

On Sale Now on Etsy!

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The quote for the day:

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"Any change, even a change for the better,

is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts."

~ Arnold Bennett

***

We all love to be comfortable. Don't we?

Comfort conjures in our minds an idyllic life replete with all the trappings of the good life.

When we are in our comfort zones, we feel completely secure and are not afraid of challenges - for they don't exist.

Here at the apex of familiar surroundings, we are the rulers.

Everyone and anything bow before us in humble servitude and awe.

We want and get what we want without much effort.

We can predict what tomorrow portends by just cutting and pasting today.

In our comfort zones, nothing moves, nothing shakes.

All is quite and seemingly peaceful.

No competition, no challenge, no need to exert ourselves!

In a word, everything is 'cool', 'calm' and 'collected' - just the way we like it!

But we all know that life, especially in the business world, is far from being 'cool', 'calm' and 'collected'.

With the fast-changing technologies and the rat race that characterize businesses today, it would be suicidal for a businessperson to sit on their laurels as though without a care in the world.

To think, even for a moment, that we can sustain successful businesses by just 'sitting there' is, to say the least, a fallacy.

As business techniques continue to evolve with speed, businesspersons must likewise evolve by adapting new technologies, techniques, styles, etc.

What worked yesterday may not necessarily work today.

The fact that your company has in the past employed certain strategies with tremendous success does not guarantee that the same strategies will yield similar results in the future.

You should never be 'satisfied' with your achievements to the extent that you stop seeking ways to achieve an even better performance.

And this applies to our personal life too.

The moment we become 'comfortable' and 'satisfied' with who we are and what we have, we kill the desire for improvement.

However good you may be, you will always find that there are certain things you can do better.

Let us learn to embrace uncharted terrain, even when we feel like we don't measure up.

When you venture into areas that others have given a wide berth, you become unique, a pioneer!

Bill Gates could have opted to get a prime job with a blue chip firm anywhere in the world.

This was the comfortable and rational thing to do. Instead, he opted to pursue a dream.

Today he is living that dream!

He decided to venture away from the mainstream thinking and way of doing things and instead started a company that has today made him the richest man on earth.

Is he now 'cool', 'calm', and 'collected'?

Not by a billion dollars!

He is still reinventing himself and the multi-billion-dollar-company he put together from scratch.

In that we can all agree that he is really cool - and damn rich too!

Do you want to live a full life?

Extend your boundaries a little further from the 'comfortable'.

And when you reach there, stretch them a little further still.

In so doing, you will not only reinvent yourself and your business (whatever it is), but you will also contribute to making the world a better place for all!

You will also realize that you've got much more stuff in you than you thought you had.

With this realization, you can now venture beyond the outer limits of 'convenience' and 'easy-go-lucky', and the God in you will arise and help you to move yet another mountain!

--- Written by Innocent Mwangi Gathungu

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This BAD! Kitty is now leaving her Comfort Zone...

May the world be yours today,

take a chance and leave your comfort

zone, see what happens, tell me about it.

Heather

http://www.badkittyartstudio.com

Keeping it real

BAD! Kitty
Will now tell you a
tasteless joke
***
A rabbit one day managed to break free from the laboratory where he had been born and brought up.
As he scurried away from the fencing of the compound, he felt grass under his little feet and saw the dawn breaking for the first time in his life.
"Wow, this is great," he thought.
It wasn't long before he came to a hedge and, after squeezing under it he saw a wonderful sight: lots of other bunny rabbits, all free and nibbling at the lush grass.
Hey," he called. "I'm a rabbit from the laboratory and I've just escaped. Are you wild rabbits?"
"Yes. Come and join us," they cried.
Our friend hopped over to them and started eating the grass.
It tasted so good.
"What else do you wild rabbits do?" he asked.
"Well," one of them said. "You see that field there? It's got carrots growing in it. We dig them up and eat them."
This he couldn't resist and he spent the next hour eating the most succulent carrots.
They were wonderful.
Later, he asked them again, "What else do you do?"
"You see that field there? It's got lettuce growing in it. We eat them as well."
The lettuce tasted just as good and he returned a while later completely full.
"Is there anything else you guys do?" he asked.
One of the other rabbits came a bit closer to him and spoke softly.
"There's one other thing you must try. You see those rabbits there," he said, pointing to the far corner of the field.
"They're girls. We shag them. Go and try it."
Well, our friend spent the rest of the morning screwing his little heart out until, completely knackered, he staggered back over to the guys.
"That was fantastic," he panted.
"So are you going to live with us then?" one of them asked.
"I'm sorry, I had a great time but I can't."
The wild rabbits all stared at him, a bit surprised.
"Why? We thought you liked it here."
"I do," our friend replied.
"But I must get back to the laboratory. I'm dying for a cigarette."
***
Have a great day.
Heather
http://www.badkittartstudio.com

Tuesday and the world keeps a spinning

BAD! Kitty Art Studio

Quote for the day:

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I saw a woman sleeping.

In her sleep she dreamt Life stood before her,

and held in each hand a gift-

in one Love, in the other Freedom.

And she said to the woman, "Choose!"

And the woman waited long: and she said, "Freedom!"

And Life said, "Thou hast well chosen. If thou hast said, "Love," I would have

given thee what thou ask for; and I would have gone far from thee,

and returned no more.

Now, the day will come when I shall return.

In that day I shall bear both gifts in one hand."

I heard the woman laugh in her sleep.

~Olive Schreiner

***

I woke myself up laughing this morning.

I remembered this poem.

I laughed some more.

I brought it here to share with you.

And I smiled while I wrote it.

Life is my ultimate canvas, my art in progress and

with my courage

I shall earn my freedom,

true and clear,

crisp and fresh,

and all my own.

This is the life I wanted, it is what I asked for.

I laugh in my sleep.

I am Free.

Yours in truth,

Raw & Radiant,

Heather

http://www.badkittyartstudio.com

*PS: I added new art to the sale, scroll down to see... and I reduced prices on all the on sale works too. I will be adding some NEW art to the sale later today, so check back for more choices.

Freedom, yeah that's the ticket...freedom.

Monday, Monday, Monday

BAD! Kitty Art Studio

Quote for the day

***

Each smallest act of kindness reverberates

across great distances and spans of time,

affecting lives unknown

to the one whose generous spirit was the source

of this good echo,

because kindness is passed on and grows

each time it's passed,

until a simple courtesy becomes

an act of selfless courage

years later and far away.

Likewise each small meanness, each

expression of hatred, each act of evil.

~ This Momentous day

by: H.R. White

***

I have spent many hours, days, weeks and months

thinking about what might have been.

What might have happened if I had said this,

or done that.

Would my life have been any different with

those actions?

Would the people I love and care about have

not left, not hurt, not been mean?

If I had been stronger, smarter, faster

would it have made any

difference?

Did I make the right choices, did I say the wrong thing,

would it have made any difference?

I can't know.

I can't care.

I can't let the world and all it's

problems, people, situations

make me hard inside

like a shell with no flesh.

I can't be carved out, empty and sad.

I can't live a life without meaning.

I can't not be me.

I feel things, some would say too much.

I act when I am scared, some would say too fast.

I worry about things, some would say too often.

I work hard all the time, some would say not hard enough.

I ask a lot of myself, some would say not enough.

I can't care what others say, feel or do.

The facts are that I can't be anything but me.

To be myself, is all that I can do.

I am scared, and lonely at times.

I don't have enough money to take care

of things the way I think I should.

I don't have the ability to make everything all right.

I can only eat so much, grow so much, and hurt so much.

I can only be myself.

That's all I can do.

Carry on, and be the kind, brave, no money having,

hard, scared, lost,

passionate, loving,

person I am.

That's all that I can do.

Take this day, and slurp it up in

spoonfuls, one at a time,

until I reach the end of days.

I'll count my blessings one by one,

and name my regrets in the clearing.

And know that all I could ever do,

is be myself; I'm sure everything will work

out alright.

Bring a little love, and know

that everything will end

up alright.

***

Yours in truth,

Heather

http://www.badkittyartstudio.com/

Thank the Universe it's Friday!

BAD! Kitty Art Studio

Quote for the day

***

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

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Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

***

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

***

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

-- Robert Frost

***

Living with purpose and passion is based upon decision. You may choose to live day after day, one after another, in a completely ordinary existence. OR you can choose to greet each day with a possibility mindset. A purposeful mindset. A Passionate mindset. Begin each day with these questions and be amazed.

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1. Why is it important for me to engage myself in my work passionately and purposefully each day?

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2. How will I choose to allow my attitude effect how I address stressful situations at work today? How can I be more affective and proactive in regards to stress and attitude?

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3. When am I most likely too react with the most passion and purpose today? Meeting with clients? Working on my computer? Following up on a lead? Take note of what makes your passion come alive, so you can use it to better your work performance.

***

4. Where within the organization am I best able to express my passion and purpose? Is it working with my peers? My supervisors? Clients? Interdepartmentally? Where physically do I perform the most purposefully?

***

5. With whom do I need to spend time in order to maintain balance as I pursue my passion and purpose? Within the organization, who best supports me?

***

6. What choices will I make today that align my purpose and passion with the tasks at hand at work?

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7. Who am I called to be today as an expression of my passion for living?

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By Julie Jordan Scott

5passions.com

***

Have a great Friday everyone,

Inspire yourself, and share it with

someone you care about. See where that

road takes you.

Raw & Radiant,

Heather

www.badkittyartstudio.com

btw...the BAD! Kitty Art Sale is still

ON!

Pondering the real questions

BAD! Kitty Art Studio

Quote for the day

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"We do not err because truth is difficult to see.

It is visible at a glance.

We err because this is more comfortable. "

~Alexander Solzhenitsyn

***

When you think a new thought, entertain a new dream,

or mentally choose a new goal, your thoughts "leave" you and go out, in every direction, to the farthest corners of the planet - on a mission.

They carry a life force all their own, like ripples created when a pebble is tossed into a pond,

and their sole object is to reappear back into your life

as things and experiences.

You can't change this... but, YOU CAN use it.

VISUALIZE.

***

There are two days in every week about which we should not worry, two days which should be kept free from fear and apprehension.

One of these days is Yesterday with all its mistakes and cares,its faults and blunders, its aches and pains.

Yesterday has passed forever beyond our control.

All the money in the world cannot bring back Yesterday.

We cannot undo a single act we performed; we cannot erase a single word we said.

Yesterday is gone forever.

The other day we should not worry about is Tomorrow with all its possible adversities, its burdens,its large promise and its poor performance; Tomorrow is also beyond our immediate control.

Tomorrow's sun will rise, either in splendor or behind a mask of clouds,

but it will rise.

Until it does, we have no stake in Tomorrow,for it is yet to be born.

This leaves only one day, Today.

Any person can fight the battle of just one day.

It is when you and I add the burdens of those two awful eternities Yesterday and Tomorrow that we break down.

It is not the experience of Today that drives a person mad, it is the remorse or bitterness of something which happened Yesterday and the dread of what Tomorrow may bring.

Let us, therefore, Live but one day at a time.

***

May the world be yours,

Heather

www.badkittyartstudio.com

It's my Birthday and I want to show you my Dream!

BAD! Kitty is dreaming of home.

Well it's my birthday, and I am getting ready to blow out my birthday candles.

I thought I would share my wish with you all.

The picture above is a favorite of mine,

it's a picture of the town that I most want to live in... in all of the world.

Where is this magical place, that can call a big city BAD! Kitty to it, you ask?

It's a little place called Danville, KY.

I will be calling it home, someday soon.

So, as I close my 37 year old eyes, and smile at my beautiful family

I will be wishing and saying a prayer

to my new forever hometown

Danville KY.

I will be thinking of the soft hills, the kind people

and the wonderful life I will create there.

It can not come fast enough for me!

We all have to have dreams, goals, desires in this life to make them come true.

This is one of mine.

May the world be yours today,

Heather

http://www.badkittyartstudio.com/

Tuesdays thoughts and convictions

BAD! Kitty Art Studio

Quote for the day

***

"The universe is change;

our life is what our thoughts make it."

~Marcus Aurelius

***

So, today is the day before my birthday. I will be 37 years old tomorrow.

I have come to some conclusions about my current

set of circumstances.

I will not "heal" anymore from the crimes of careless

people and their actions any longer.

I will not waste another day on those who have caused

me pain, been cruel, abandoned my love and friendship,

or taken me for granted. I don't deserve to be carved up into little bits,

any longer, because I choose not to be.

This is my life, no one Else's and I am in charge

of where it goes, and where it will end up.

I will take what I have learned from them (the carvers of the world),

and use that knowledge as fuel,

instead of weight and continue to grow.

I have been a rut of unhappy feelings for about three months.

I fight it everyday, I stand up to myself and ask for more, every single day.

I am no coward.

To regain momentum in my life, I have to

forget about what others think, feel and do.

I have to be more concerned about my own actions in this life,

my rights, my wrongs, my life is my own.

I know all this stuff, logically...but like all humans

I get sidetracked every once in awhile.

I want to have a large group of friends,

I want to have a happy family (I do have that)

I would really love to have extended family,

but they are all dead and gone.

I have not enjoyed my birthday in a few

years, it seems to me that it such a lonely time,

with just the five of us to celebrate, no parties, no friends,

no external life really.

Just this small band of people, under one roof

working hard to become the very best we can be.

Today I can see just how Lucky I really am.

The fog has lifted, and I am ready to embrace this next

step in my personal evolution.

I will take the pain, I will take the abandonment

and use it as fuel.

Nitro charged.

I am not a coward.

I am no shrinking violet.

I will waste not another day

wishing for something I can not at this time have.

I will take what I know, my talents, my fearlessness

and create the life I have dreamed of.

I will get my farm in the soft hills,

I will find and develop friendships with

other humans that are worthy and brave enough

to stand in the fire with me...and laugh at the

flames that will lick every soul

clean from time to time, and I will love them fully.

I will continue to raise wonderful children, and be the ever growing

life mate of a man that has proven himself, over and over again to

be exactly what I need and want,

loyal, honest, supportive and true.

I will get back to my work, my passion,

creating art that is

unlike any one Else's, and full of promise and soul.

I will continue on, with my head up high

and be proud of the risks I have taken thus far in life.

Yes, I failed...so what?

My circumstances are temporary

and not a definition of who I really am.

Today...I am free.

Today I am living in truth, and not just sitting beside it.

Today, I launch myself back into the world,

and create the life that I want to have.

Today I am fully

me.

Can you see me?

I am bright, raw and radiant,

yours in fearlessness,

Heather

www.badkittyartstudio.com

Monday is here again, and there are blue birds in the trees

BAD! Kitty Art Studio
Quote for the day
***
We're worn into grooves by Time - by our habits.

In the end, these grooves are going to show whether we've been second rate or champions,

each in his way in dispatching the affairs of every day.

By choosing our habits,

we determine the grooves into which Time will wear us;

and these are grooves that enrich our

lives and make for ease of mind, peace, happiness

- achievement.
~Frank B. Gilberth
***
I am wearing new grooves in this reality. Trying on new habits, forcing

myself to stretch, to grow, to let go.

I am sitting here, and wishing I was somewhere, anywhere else.

Some days the alone-ness of my current situation is

overwhelming. Some days it's a blessing.

I am training my mind to accept things as they are, not as I

wish them to be. Life isn't easy, life isn't fair, and life isn't

going to be, at least not for me.

I work hard on myself, my internal workings, my understanding of reality,

my capacity for making sense of what is really going on,

under the surface of things.

When I am in the studio, and working,

when the paint is flowing, and the art is capturing all of my focus,

and I am lost in worlds of texture, tone, color, and light...

I swim away from the pain, from the disappointments, from the aloofness

of this life. It's not easy to let it all roll down, and let it go.

I just keep doing my best, looking for opportunity, grasping sometimes

for a handhold in this slippery surface,

and I keep climbing up.

Hand over hand and mind over matter,

I will reach my summit, and stand in the

purified air, throw my hands up over my head

and be thankful for the hard climb.

I will survive, of that I am sure.

What I want more than anything is be able to survive with

a measure of success. Not just get through, not just get by,

not just know truth and suffer it.

I want to embrace all of the universal truths, and not be burned in the flame.

Today I will work hard, I will burn the candle at both ends,

and I will light my own way.

I will stand on the summit in my mind today, and practice feeling

success. I want to know the feeling well, when the day arrives that I actually

get to take it home, inside and let it live there.

I will practice, I will teach, I will lead, and in that truth,

I will evolve into the being I am

struggling to become.

It's not easy, but I know it's got to be worth it.

So what will you do today?

What are the choices for you,

today, in this reality, that help you to feel successful?

What Summit are you reaching for?

What is success as a definition, for you?

This is one of my ways of growing beyond the edges,

to write it all down here, for you to read.

Just today, Just Imagine,

Living in truth,

Raw & Radiant,

Heather

www.badkittyartstudio.com

Tuesday and my new Coaching service is READY

Hello everyone...I have been hinting for a few weeks about a New service that I have been working on, and now I am pleased to tell you all...it's live! Most of you already know that I am not just a painter and writer, but also a Motivational Speaker, Master Clairvoyant, Intuitive Life Coach and Business Consultant...and that my nom de plume is Sybil Ann...well now I have partnered with a great business (you can read all about it below) called Mystical Wonders (Link below and in the header to learn more). I wanted to be able to find a way to be able to make a significant change in the Metaphysical World...no more expensive, just for Profits "psychic" or Life Coaching services. I have many private clients, and currently am in a holding pattern to take anymore on...at least a three day waiting list at this time...but with my sucess, I have also been very aware that many people out there need my services, but can't afford my prices...so I am all about being the change this world needs to see and feel, so I started looking for a way to make my services more affordable, yet keep the high quality of my work, as it is...the top end of the very best!
And finally I have found a way to do it. I found Mystical Wonders and started talking with the owners...we came up with this great idea, and they have the tools for me to use to get my talents out there, to everyone! Yippee for the change!
So here is the official release of MWILC (Mystical Wonders Intuitive Life Coaching) Headed by no other than myself! I am really pleased with the results and how we were able to reduce the costs of Coaching. Please read more about my newest Venture in the press release below...that just went out to thousands!

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Press Release
Announcement of a new Joint Venture between
Mystical Wonders. Org and Sybil Ann Tells-All.com
The Next Generation In Interactive Self-Help Service!


The Mystical Wonders™ Yahoo group was started in June of 2003. This group was the largest & most popular Mystical Discussion Group on the Internet with thousands of members involved in teaching, sharing and learning from one another. The group grew so large that the founders were forced to find a new server and become their own site, to better serve the ever-growing community. Now a complex site, with dozens of active forums and free discussion boards, Mystical wonders is the best place to find what you are looking for in the spiritual, scientific & metaphysical world.
Registration is free.


Sybil Ann Tells-All is a web based Intuitive Life Coaching service, headed by Sybil Ann Truman. She is a gifted Master Clairvoyant, Life Coach, Motivational Speaker and Fine Artist. She has been working in the field of Intuitive Life Coaching for more than 20 years. She has helped thousands of people around the world find they’re way to better lives; lives that people are proud of living and that are filled with joy. Her standard fee is $125.00 per 60-minute live consultation. She currently has a waiting list for new clients.


The collaboration of the two companies has resulted in a new paid subscription forum service on the Mystical Wonders web site. Sybil Ann will be offering her Intuitive Life Coaching services exclusively to Mystical Wonders members. Sybil Ann will be charging only $100.00 per 7 days of full-time, hands-on Intuitive Life Coaching services. Members will have the ability to ask questions, get answers, and save their consultations for re-reading at later dates. Members will have the option to cancel their services at anytime, and also to continue the coaching service for as long as they feel they need to. It is an exciting new service, that has not been seen anywhere in the coaching or the metaphysical service industry. A unique blend of free education tools and paid subscription services, the new MWILC (Mystical Wonders Intuitive Life Coaching) forum is sure to be a success, both for the inspired companies involved and the public at large. Both companies are committed to being and bringing the change the world needs to see and feel, in order to move into the new millennium with courage, joy and freedom.


Welcome to the next generation in interactive self-help tools, brought to you exclusively by Mystical Wonders.org and Sybil Ann Truman.

Check us out and the great free tools that are already available at:

http://intuitivelifecoaching.mysticalwonders.org

Thanks for being here today.

Live Well, Be Well,

and Share the Love!

Heather (aka Sybil Ann)

*I'm soooo out of the box now!*

Monday in the BAD! Kitty Lands

BAD! Kitty Art Studio

Quote for the Day:

***

"I guess you are kind of curious as to who I am, but I am one of those who do not have a regular name. My name depends on you. Just call me whatever is in your mind.

If you are thinking about something that happened a long time ago: Somebody asked you a question and you did not know the answer.

That is my name.

Perhaps it was raining very hard.

That is my name.

Or somebody wanted you to do something. You did it. Then they told you what you did was wrong- "Sorry for the mistake,"- and you had to do something else.

That is my name.

Perhaps it was a game that you played when you were a child or something that came idly into your mind when you were old and sitting in a chair near the window.

That is my name.

Or you walked someplace. There were flowers all around.

That is my name.

Perhaps you stared into a river. There was somebody near you who loved you. They were about to touch you. You could feel this before it happened. then it happened.

That is my name.

Or you heard someone calling from a great distance. Their voice was almost an echo.

That is my name.

Perhaps you were lying in bed, almost ready to go to sleep and you laughed at something, a joke unto yourself, a good way to end the day.

That is my name.

Or you were eating something good and for a second forgot what you were eating, but still went on, knowing it was good.

That is my name.

Perhaps it was around midnight and the fire tolled like a bell inside the stove.

That is my name.

Or you felt bad when she said that thing to you. She could have told it to someone else: Somebody who was more familiar with her problems.

That is my name.

Perhaps the trout swam in the pool but the river was only eight inches wide and the moon shone on iDeath and the watermelon fields glowed out of proportion, dark and the moon seemed to rise from every plant.

That is my name."

~Richard Brautigan From the book "In watermelon sugar" 1968

***

I was a weird kid, I learned to read late, because I had dyslexia, and they thought I was a dumb bunny. My I.Q. in reality, hovers just a few points below Einstein's. This is before cable TV, video games, personal computers, and teachers who knew what dyslexia even was. When I started memorizing the words they gave me to learn so fast that they could not keep up with me any longer, they sent me back to the regular classrooms, with the regular kids, who all knew how to sound out words, I just knew what the words were.

I became addicted to reading back in those days, and now read at about 1500 words per minute, with an almost photographic memory.

When I was a kid, I read 12 to 15 books a week, and my allowance was spent in the paperback book trader store. I would take in a dozen books to trade and come out with a dozen books to read, half I paid for the other half were credit for the books I brought back. After a year of seeing my face behind a large stack of books about everything I could find, the old lady that owned the store, just told me to take them and bring them back every week, she was tired from just watching me, and having to keep up with my account.

I was careful, never tore pages, never creased the bindings, so the books were in just as good of shape when I brought them back.

When I was in trouble growing up, my parents would punish me, by taking away my books. I hated that more than anything.

Today, with an adults life I can only read about half of what I did as a child.

I only read 6 books a week on average now.

I still have a photographic memory, although my retention is only at about 80% of what it was when I was younger and my brain worked like a sponge on crack.

I skipped four grades in school and was the youngest Homecoming queen my high school had ever had. I went to college just so the schools could keep me in books, as I had read them all they had in the library already. I would read the phone books of towns I was in when I traveled as a child, thinking they were very interesting, all those names listed, with numbers...very interesting to me at least. I used to walk down the street reading a book, and never look up, or look where I was going...I never tripped or ran into anyone, like my Grandmother kept saying I was going to do someday. She was afraid I would break my neck, she told everyone at her weekly bridge group. I used the prop up my book and fold clothes, cook dinners, and do household chores. I used to read anything at all, but now I am more selective. I used to write letters to my favorite authors, telling them what I thought of the stories they wrote, and I have several hand written letters back from them. Richard Brautigan is one of them, he sent me a copy of Watermelon Sugar with the letter, and I wrote to tell him thank you, but after reading the book, I thought that he had the wrong idea about how old I was at the time.

I was 10.

He thought I was 20 something, he said when he wrote back, I was a little younger than his own daughter at the time, he was embarrassed, I was thrilled.

Arthur C. Clark also wrote me once, he said I should think about boys more...so I thought about girls instead. I don't like doing as I am told.

I was 13.

I love to read.

So why am I telling you this story?

Because I wanted you to know

my name.

Be well, Live Well,

and share the love.

Heather

www.badkittyartstudio.com