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I often find myself walking out of the house or leaving the car in full blown song.  I love that!

Well today I went down the elevator singing the “sound of music” and came up singing Alanis Morissette so it has been a very diverse day of song .  As I was signing the words to “Precious Illusions” from Alanis’ Under Rug Swept Album I was taken by their applicability to some of the transformation I am experiencing in life.  I thought I would share these powerful and insightful words with you.

“I’ve spent so long firmly looking outside me

I’ve spent so much time living in survival mode

This won’t work now the way it once did

Cuz I want to decide between survival and bliss

Once I know who I’m not then I’ll know who I am

But I know I won’t keep on playing the victim”

If these words have meaning to you or impact you I would love to hear your thoughts so feel free to add a post. HUGS to you on an inspired Thursday!!

With Love,

Joelle

These days I am living on inspiration.  It really is the most profound experience to have days on end of unadulterated joy and inspiration filling my days.  I was talking with my friend Tonetta (the future academy award winning actress) and we are both experiencing life as pure play. 

Can you imagine walking through your days playing? Well, that is what it feels like.  I am contributing in a big way and creating, creating, creating into the wee hours of the night. I am cooking more, I am working out daily.  My days seem to be quite full but here is what is different from all the full days that have gone before.

I am consistently busy with what I enjoy doing.

I am busy creating.

I am not busy with stuff I feel I “have to do”.

I am not busy with stuff I feel I “should do”.

I am not busy with stuff I resent or resist doing.

I am doing what I am doing for the joy of doing it and not as a means to an end.

I am not on the desperate mad dash to the completion of everything.

I am living in the faith of knowing all will unfold perfectly.

I am living in excited anticipation of all that is to come.

I am living and taking action from inspiration.

I have faith in the world and in life and that has made all the difference.

There is a distinct shift that has been and is going on in my life and it is the type of shift that has me never looking back.  This is the only way to live for this girl! Some day I will share all the nuances of what has occurred, but in the meantime, if you would like some inspired reading here are some of my latest life-giving literature adventures.

1) A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose: Eckhart Tolle

2) Ask and It Is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires: Esther Hicks ( if you liked "The Secret" you will enjoy this)

3) Busting Loose From the Money Game: Mind-Blowing Strategies for Changing the Rules of a Game You Can’t Win: Robert Scheinfeld

All these books explore the way the world works and the power available when we see the world through new eyes.  I am loving my new eyes. May your day be filled with the joy of living!

With Love,

Joelle

P.S. If you are someone on the path of finding joy, peace and passion in your everyday life, and you feel compelled to get in touch, do not hesitate to do so.  You can email me or give me a call 216 320 9298.  I would love to hear from you.

A week ago I created a new initiative in my life around the health, wellbeing and well,… sexiness of my body.  I am not sure if it was just that spring was in the air or some other wild hare that has gotten a hold of me but I suddenly got very clear that I am ready to really celebrate being in this body.

Last summer I discovered that I can be thin and healthy just by being responsible for my eating, thanks to Paul Koros and the Eating For Success Program(TM) (to read more about this click here) but recently I have been wanting more than just being healthy and thin. I am ready to not only feed my body with life-giving food, I am ready to MOVE this body!

Last week I was compelled on two separate occasions to go running outside.  Running. ME! RUNNING!  Last I heard, I didn’t like to run. What is that about? Then Monday I was up by seemingly supernatural powers at 6 am to go to the gym and I had a blast.  Last night at 7 pm I was there again… what is up?!

Well, one thing has lead to another and somewhere along the way I got clear that I am creating the body of a dancer! I will be strong and lean and healthy. I am ready to revel in my body and it appears that this thought and the idea of having the body of a dancer is so completely inspiring to me that there is no struggle, there is only desire and action!  I am looking forward to experiencing my strong neck and lean arms in a tank top and I cannot wait to head to Starbucks, hair up, with a pair of yoga pants nicely settling on my body with just a tich of flat tummy showing.  YUM!! How fun!

So in honor of my new adventure I am adding a whole new section to my blog that I am calling “the body blog”!  In it I will chronicle my adventures in my body as I explore what it will take to have the shape and vitality of a dancer.

To your fabulous body!

Love, Joelle

Or a film producer or a cartoonist.

Ladies and gentleman. At 4 am I was hit by a massive dose of inspiration.  The result of that inspiration is what you will find on my very first webcam produced video adventure on YouTube.  My husband and his team have been talking about branding and somewhere along the way I got stuck on this idea of their company being personified as a superhero. … Webtego… Master of the Web!

Anyway, it seems that my mind had been working on it because here it was 4 am and I could not help myself, I was up and creating. By 6 am I was figuring out how to set up the webcam that has been sitting in my drawer for 4 months. By 6:15 I was watching my first home video on my computer and by 7:20 I had a new YouTube account and was sending my work of art to my family.

So here it is…. Coach Joelle’s very first video production.  

It may make you laugh,  

it may make you cry,

it may make you question my sanity. 

All good.

Happy Friday! Enjoy!

To creativity and silliness!

Joelle 

Click here to watch The Adventures of Webtego!

Dear spammers,

While you seem to have not heeded my request to cease and desist your barrage of emails into my in box, I do want to acknowledge you for the cleaner, more attractive visual you have created for the Viagra ad.

Once again, while I am not in the market for Viagra, I must say that this new, higher quality graphic does make it pretty tempting. 

Great work!

Regards,

The non-medicated,

Coach Joelle

If you read this and you happen to know, have access to or be Britney, please give me a call and lets talk 216 320 9298. 

Dearest Britney,

I have been thinking of you recently and wanted to get in touch.  I will begin by sharing that I have been a fan for years.  Back in the day, “Hit me baby one more time” was my favorit dance tune, I of course thought the kiss with Madonna was genius,  and a few years back a girlfriend and I dressed like rock stars and headed out to your concert.  So I have been appreciating your talent and contribution and your free spirit for years. Thank you for that.

I am writing you from a desire to serve.  I cannot know what is going on inside for you right now but from some of what I have seen I believe I can relate.  You see, I was out partying like a mad woman, getting myself into unfortunate situations and searching for something that was alluding me about 10 years ago.   I have no regrets from those days as they brought me to be the woman I am today and yet, it would have been nice to have suffered a little less along the way. And so I am writing you in support of you finding greater joy in your life and peace in yourself, sooner rather than later.

I know, ultimately you will be fine. I know that this is a time for you to sort some stuff out and I really have confidence that you have amazing things in your future.  You are an incredible woman with a great talent and perhaps all the hype is just that and you are doing just great and perhaps you are looking for support. If and when you are ready I want you to know that it is very clear to me that I am here to support you on your journey. 

I have traveled the path before you (not as an international super star but) as a woman who has come into herself, found herself and is peaceful and delighted with life.  You are so powerful…. Look at what you have created! 

So now I invite you to use that same power that you used to create your empire to create your own peace and happiness. 

If you feel I am being presumptuous, I apologize.  I only want you to know that I have something in what I know and who I am that I believe will serve you at this time in your life.  It is important for me that I reach out to you to let you know I am here.

With Love,

Coach Joelle

Years ago my mentor and I discussed what freedom looked like in our work schedule.

He suggested the idea of Friday’s off.  I was a resounding YES!!  So there is no TGIF for this coach.  Nope, By Friday I am already on the weekend and I cannot tell you how lovely it was to wake up and decide today would be a day for noodling.

For those of you unfamiliar, by noodling I mean just doing what I feel like – or as my friend Sandor would say, “being off off off!” Some Fridays I go horseback riding, others shopping, others I will go write at Starbucks, but today I am just going to noodle.

On the non-agenda agenda is working on my vision board, coffee with my mother in law, a bit of laundry, maybe even trying to figure out my camera.  Definitely a nap, possibly a bath….

Hmmmm I might get the mail and no doubt somewhere in there I will be inspired to create something, write something, cause something, but if not, that works to. I wish for you to have your noodling days. I can feel my mind and soul sighing ahhhh as we step into a day wide open with possibilities.

HUGS to you!

Joelle

Many of you know that my fabulous husband and I are an E-Harmony couple.  We often joke about being on a commercial some day (ok, we don’t really joke because we know it is inevitable ) In the meantime, I just got the word. Here is the next best thing.  Read our story on E-harmony’s new section about long distance love.

Enjoy!

To love!

Joelle

I was just writing a memory from our recent Caribbean adventure on the Legacy, a tall ship in the windjammer fleet.  It was precious. I wanted to share.

Words cannot fully capture that moment each sunset when we were called to the top deck to join the crew in raising the sails. 

The crowd goes silent in reverence as the bag pipes start playing.  Amazing Grace is cranked over the loudspeakers and a chill goes up my spine. Together we take the rope and haul up the sails as the sun goes down on the blue waters. One day instead of hauling sails I stayed still and sang along with the music. 

As my voice lifted into the breeze I noticed another voice in harmony beside me.  A fellow passenger had decided to join me in my song and together we sang our heart out as our great ship got under sail. And then it was time for the rum swizzles. 

To Life!

Joelle

It’s happening!  Last night my husband had to call me to bed at 11:00 because I was so inspired I did not want to get off the computer! I spent hours laying in bed as though someone had slipped me an intervenes of diet coke and here it is 5:30 am and I am up because my head demands to be heeded – the ideas flowing out of it looking for a home in the pages of my new creation.  Ahhhh this is life!!

On Tuesday I told you I had an epiphany in the shower well since then I can hardly contain myself. I can barely focus on anything else because this puppy wants to be born NOW!  So I am totally caught up in the inspiration of it and the wonder of the way the world works as every idea I have had over the last 8 years, everything I have become and everything I love all has a home in this new idea.  The pieces are already there and all I need to do is draw them together. That is what I was doing last night and I already have 105 pages of the manual. I have already shared with 7 people and every one is totally excited, inspired and asking what they can contribute. I even had one person offer seed money for the starter packages and editing services (WOW! Thanks mom) and another was wiggling in her seat to tell me that she had an entire video production studio (green screen and all) in her office and it was mine to use at will  (thank you Sheri!) and I asked for nothing, NOTHING! It was my enthusiasm and their desire to contribute which created it all.  Now that I look at it, I also have my very own sound engineer and personal recording artist at my side (a la my sister Tiffany Prochera) and I am supporting my husband’s business in being even more brilliant than they are (Hi Webtego guys) and in exchange they have agreed to support me in building the website of my dreams.  And so it begins. There is total peace and TOTAL excitement emanating from my bones as I see the future unfolding in all its glory – way better than I could ever have manufactured through all my trying and effort.  Did I mention this was delivered to me in the shower when I had nothing on my mind but "lather, rinse, repeat"? Awesome!

My thoughts for you on day two of this brand new adventure (that has been brewing for the past 34 years) is to let you know that…

The creative power inside of you and all around you is far greater than what the efforts that “thinking hard” and “figuring out” can hope to produce.

You are more brilliant and more trustworthy that you can imagine.

When you have a flash of inspiration, check it out.

When you feel lead in a direction, try following it for a bit.

When your body and mind tells you it is time to be quiet, listen to it.

As the journey unfolds, know that in the end, you are safe and all is well.

I love you! Thank you for being on this journey with me.

Joelle

OH MY GOSH!!

Ok, so some of you may know that I have been throwing off the restrictions of conventional life as I know it to delve deeper and deeper into my authentic expression of myself.  The task I took on 5 months ago was living from inspiration and letting go of doing anything because I “should” do, I “have to” do, or anything “in order to” make something else happen.  So basically, I took on just doing what I was moved to do because I was moved to do it.  I can tell you, so many adventures have ensued since, moments of doubt, fear, wonder, and tons of miracles.  

I was enjoying the journey greatly but still wondering how I could ever really live my life only from inspiration – I mean really – I liked the idea, I was seeing results but it was pushing the boundaries of even this eternal optimist. And then something happened this morning in the shower.

You see, yesterday, I was at a Landmark Education seminar called “Excellence in the Zone”.  It is really perfect timing since the idea of living in inspiration is pretty much the equivalent of living life in the zone, living in the flow or as they say “following your bliss”. 

One of the outcomes of yesterday’s lesson was to create a new possibility.  The possibility I created was:

“The possibility that by just being me, in joy and ease, I can have everything I could ever imagine.”

I said my new possibility hesitantly to my husband and his response was “Absolutely, it’s true.”  While I was doubting myself, I could see in the next moment how if he had made the same declaration I would have said “absolutely. it is true.”(It so funny how blind we can be when we are looking in at ourselves.) So I accepted this as my new possibility and stepped forth.

One hour ago, I was in the shower and a series of thoughts lead to an AHA that was so significant that I had to write it down – it was an idea for a women’s focused, group home study program that was a combination of several things I had done in the past and everything I was passionate about. I got on the phone to my mom, and ran the idea by her. As the conversation ensued I was able to flesh out the idea – the entire creation filled in through the conversation and then suddenly I saw it…..  This idea, 100% IS “me just being me, in joy and ease and having everything I could ever imagine!” It is that on so many levels and this is the kind of creation I could give my days and nights and my life to.  It is my possibility generated over night. Wow!

I wanted to share this to mark the moment when this new creation came into the world and to say once again that we are amazing beings with creative power beyond our imagination.  Life can be so full of joy and wonder and ease.  Believe it my friends.

BIG HUG!!

Love,

Joelle

This morning I woke with  a list of things I love running through my mind. I thought I would share.

I love….

A freshly organized closet

The way linguinnee’s tail puffs up when she is feisty!

My new spa bath robe

A hot bath with candles and a book in the middle of winter

Talking with my mom

Dreaming with my husband

Singing

Dancing

Music with meaning that makes me dance or cry

Brunch with Andy and Riddi

Little Miracles

BIG Miracles

The wonder of the world

My new wardrobes and the order within Spring in Cleveland

Watching the apprentice with my husband Sunday night

Creating anything

Exploring life

Sharing with friends

Giving myself in contribution

A 3 hour meal with a great bottle of wine (or 2)

The perfect cup of coffee

Massages YUM!

Naps

Climbing things

The smell of green things

The wind

The smell of wet desert

Staring at my husband’s face when he is happy

Alanis Morissette (it’s true – she makes the list)

Reminiscing with Squiffy (my “seeester”)

Hugs

Guinee in her bowl (my little cat likes to warm herself in a bowl on the radiator)

Wine on the patio with the girls

Feeling great in my body

Feeling the joy of life welling up in my chest

Standing in awe of the world

Knowing that all is well and always will be

Life

Hmmm, I like this list. You are invited to share yours below. 

Enjoy, it will put a smile on your face.

HUGS!

Joelle

The time has come to document the insides of me for the outside.  That’s right, I have been waiting for the right time to create a book and the time is approaching.  The possible topics are abundant; I could start on my “MANifesto” the story of powerful intent, personal growth and commitment that allowed me to meet and marry the man of my dreams. I could write of the magical unfolding of my life to this moment, the path to authenticity, joyful work and my delightful life. I could write any number of coaching and inspirational books to support others on their path to joy, peace and power.  I have been waiting for the time, knowing the place to start would rise to the top and this morning spurred that unfolding. 

This morning I woke to find two invitation’s to writing retreats in my in-box.  One is in Barcelona Spain, the other in California, both in July.  Upon reading them I was so clear, It is time and now the only question is would I rather spend a week writing in Spain or Cali.  Hmmmm.  I even sent an email to my mom, she has been on her own writing journey so it seemed a perfect occasion for Marmy-Joey time. ?

It is interesting to me how just the idea of taking a week to learn and write creates an energy, a momentum and an anticipation. It is 5 months away but I can already feel the wheels in motion and I can hardly wait to see what shows up in my life in the wake of this intention. This burst of inspiration came after about four days of quietness.  Four days when I did not feel inspired to start anything, where I did not feel moved to do much more the carefully and gently take care of myself.  I no longer fear these times as I used to.  Today I know that there is nothing I need to do to push or pull me out, I need only wait quietly, knowing that inspiration is only a night or a nap or an email away.

I look forward to sharing this new adventure with you.

With love,

Joelle