I can’t believe the magazine has gone valley-wide!

Sometimes I truly need to pinch myself over what has transpired with my little storybook. But man, it has been, well, WORK.

I don’t believe that WORK is a positive word, so to speak. I need to change that to “What a hell of a ride” or something like that, but believe me, there are days the W word is all I can come up with.

I have found that with our successes, out come people who want to tear us down and cut us up, and tell us how much we need to change everything we’re doing. I love to hear feedback, ideas, and get creative energy thrown my way, but sometimes does it ever suck having humans around  who think they are so important and have the right to give out their cutting opinion of our work.

Hence the thick, glorious and healthy skin I now wear. I have such thick skin that making it bleed actually takes some doing. From the outside looking in on myself, I have learned not to do what many people have done to me. I am very mindful about how I share my thoughts with others on their businesses, their creations, and their lives. It’s been a good thing, and I have to be grateful to the jerks out there that have helped me to grow, becoming the enlightened being I strive to be.

The moral of my story today:
Don’t let anyone break your dream. Don’t give up, don’t lay down, just because you’ve gotten spanked with words of rudeness. Shake your head, send them blessings of love and move right down your path with the thick, healthy, radiant skin you’ve grown because of them. You, my friend, are beautiful, and so am I!

Love Cheryl