Boobashabanami

Once upon a time...I was a tech-writer looking for magic. I left the corporate world searching for sunshine and found a bright rainbow with Jen Mavros, soulful coach extraordinaire, who will forever be my Ambassador of Boobashabanami.

She wielded her word wand to help me rediscover my passion for creative writing. But still...I worried about turning something fun and creative into WORK. To me, that mindset meant deadlines and have-tos. My homework from the Sesh was to pick a word to call my non-work, soulful craft of writing. Pencil in hand, spiral-notebook-page turned, I researched--the Irish word for writing (scribhneoireacht), for passion, for life's work (tsaoil oibre); for shine (soilsigh).

My page filled. I've no idea how accurate the translations but my mind moved on and on from word to word finding the right logical choice. I sat with the translation of Craic for a bit...it means serious work of fun--I think. ;-)

And then...

Feel More, Think Less! That's a takeaway from my time in sesh with Jen. Guiding, inspiring soulful thoughts to get to the heart of where I wanted to go and to grow. So I got out of my head and into my heart more. And sitting at my computer, making eye contact with the red turtle staring at me, I paused. I closed my eyes, turned the page in my mind's eye of what I felt as a kid, writing gibberish, writing what I felt, things that sparked childlike hope and fun and simple feels of magic as a young kid, as an adult kid.

Then Mary Poppins popped into my head...spoonful of sugar, su·per·ca·li·fra·gil·is·tic·ex·pi·a·li·do·cious...then, Abu from Aladdin, monkeying around.

I opened my eyes and the word, my word for my non-work, whispered.

Boobashabanami

I smiled. I laughed out loud. I felt the magic of the moment, and I knew.

Ha, it makes me smile. Every single time I say it. And so, that is how I came to call my dear friend, Jen, my Ambassador of Boobashabanami.

And that is how I re-frame my mindset, she mighta said something like re-program, but whichever word, the magic she wielded stuck with me. To this day, every time my old mindset tells me I got work to do, I reframe the "have-to" energy to my "want to" vibe.

With this post, I'm sending sweet and bright orbs of warm sunny thanks to My Ambassador of Boobashabanami.

I hope you enjoyed this episode of Behind the Magic of Blue Hissy Highness.

I gotta go now, me and Abu gonna do some Boobashabanami.