This is my new formula: Just Do It + Excellent Excuses As To Why You Can Do It = Doing It
I ask myself, Why is doing what I really want so hard?

I have a lovely list of excuses and justifications. And before I’m dust, I’m learning to surpass them one by one.

For example, 7 years ago a yoga student said, “You should lead a yoga retreat.”

I thought, No, I shouldn’t. That’s out of my league. How the heck would I do that?

He added, “Just do it.” (Nike wisdom.)

A month later I found the Maya Tulum webs site. The Caribbean white sand beach said, “Just do it! No excuses. You have to do it!”

Still the excuse ridden, cranky voice of a mean Protestant Work Ethic, Penny Pincher Witch in a dark hole kept screaming at me in my mind: You can’t do that. It’s out of your price range. You’ll die penniless! No joy and fun for you. Get back to resignation, numbness and suffering.)

But I was determined and the new mantra became: Yes, we have enough time and money. Yes, we have more than enough knowledge. No regrets. Yes, we’re doing it!

Indeed, this is the 5th year of the Radiant Retreat.
Try this mini-retreat meditation: Close your eyes. Take a deep breath. Imagine it’s March 24, 2012 and you are headed to the Radiant Retreat to restore and inspire your body and soul. You have your plane ticket. Your bags are packet. You took the plunge and signed up. You are boarding the plane knowing you will do the perfect amount of yoga. It doesn’t matter if you are “a yoga person”. You don’t need to be. That’s not this type of group. You will do the perfect amount of whatever you fancy. Some meditation. Some writing with Laura Munson, NY Times Best Selling Author, This Is Not The Story You Think It Is. Maybe you will paint. Maybe you will sing. Maybe you will play your guitar. Maybe you will hike the pyramids and have a margarita. You are on an adventure. What do you want to experience? What freedom is calling your name?

How often do you give your self-permission to experience something new, outside your comfort zone? The only way to grow is to be uncomfortable, stretch, risk and do it. (I’m talking to myself!)

What do participants find meaningful about the Radiant Retreat? New inspiration, creativity, relaxation, playfulness, laughter, peace, joy, health, and fun. Not bad for 5 days!

What will you give your self time and permission to do in 2012?
(Start you own small business? Go on a trip to Africa? Fall in love?)

What are you committing to?

Curious…to know…

Happy Holidays &  Thank you,

Jennifer Schelter