The Forest SEEMS Peaceful...

"Surround yourself with people who are only going to lift you higher and urge you forward."

--Me

There's something about walking through a forest that is so peaceful, calming and serene. I get energized, yet calmed to be outside of the noise and distractions of life. I'll bet you didn't know that there's a lot going on amongst the trees as written by a German forester, Peter Wohlleben, in his fully researched book, "The Hidden Life Of Trees." 

On a trek through the woods one day, Peter stumbled on an ancient stump which he first thought to be a ring of moss-covered stones. Looking closer, he discovers that the stump is still producing chlorophyll--something utterly impossible--unless the trees around it were keeping the stump alive by sending it their own life. This led the forester into a series of amazing discoveries about the interconnected life of trees. 

When one tree in a forest is diseased, the other trees will send critical nutrition to it through connections in their root systems and fungi "network" in the forest floor. This supports the ill tree until it is well again. In this same way, trees also communicate with each other. If an invader, like a beetle, bores into one tree, that tree sends a signal through those same connections warning the others that an enemy has come.  The forest responds by producing immune defenses, which they send up through their trunks and into their leaves.

Walking through the forest, there's an unseen shared life, an interconnection that is extraordinary and beautiful. Who knew? 

Do you have an inner circle of friends or mentors that will keep you alive by pouring their life into you like in the forest? When you are down, do you have an inner circle of people that will send you critical nutrition to encourage and urge you on? When a foreign invader like "stinking thinking", distractions or challenges bore into your life, do you have someone that will remind you that you have the power to overcome?  Do you have someone who holds you accountable to the life you told them you desired? 

If your dreams and goals are important to you, you may want to find those people now. Distractions already abound; email notifications, text beeps, social media, constant negative news, and our phones which are always hooked to our bodies. AND we're coming into the most distractible season of the year--after-school activities for your kids, Thanksgiving and Christmas. Oh yes, let's not forget football (or is that just me:).   

Like the trees in the forest, we need an inner circle/accountability group or 2023 will be upon us and we won't be any closer to those dreams and goals that we desire. Think about people who will lift you up and believe in you. Then call them...now. 

If you need help with this, let me know. My first group coaching program is full, but I am willing to start another. 

I believe in you!

Jan