core values.....life changes

I am thinking about my core values.  what I value.  what really really matters to me.  And what is going to matter to me this year.  What is this year about for you?

I felt, a couple of months ago, this very strong sense that I was about to begin a new chapter in my life.  Thinking back at how life can lead into new directions, and those old lives feel so far away.  once i was a little girl growing up in the Midlands of England.  Then I was a little girl growing up in deepest darkest Suffolk.  I was a teenager in Ipswich drinking cider with the punkies on hippy hill.  I was a student in Brighton.  I was an idealistic hippy in London hanging out with the Big Truth Band, then a young entrepreneur about Portobello.  Then I was a glamourous young lady about town, sipping cocktails in all the best bars, living and shopping in Notting Hill.  Then a married woman with a young babe in arms, back in Brighton, a homeowner....

And what next? There are so many lives still to be lived.  How much has my life changed already - how much it can and will still change.

Its very exciting. 

SO. I had this urge to leap into Mondo Beyondo again... I did it last year, and while I can't say that everything on my list has transpired, I can say that it moved me forward.  Opened me up to possibilities.  And now I have been on an art retreat, I have painted big pictures, I am starting Yoga teacher training.... I have a fringe cut (its not insignificant! check out any lady who has a haircut in a different style and tell me that there are not deeper changes going on....seriously..)

As part of Mondo Beyondo this year, I am thinking about my core values.... Its hard to whittle it down.  Here is my long list

kindness
creative spirit
adventure
force for good in the world
great communicator
human
open hearted
humour
openess and willingness to grow and learn
openminded
inspirational
seeing beauty
real /authentic
love
honesty
spiritual
entrepreneurial go for it ness
belief in magic
friendly
creative play