What Inspires YOU?

Inspiration is everywhere. Here’s a list of ten sources of inspiration off the top of my head: 

Nature, poetry, music, silence, beauty, an author/speaker, new invention, art, new challenges, prayer. 

Now, you design a list of what inspires you. C’mon!

With social media stealing away our attention, it’s important to shut of the phone or laptop and pay attention to everything around us. What will we discover about our world and about ourselves? Think of the possibilities!

Trying to be in the present, reflecting on the past or dreaming of the future is filled with inspiration.

After I finished a music program yesterday, I loaded my gear into my car and began to drive away. It’s warming up now in the latter part of April in Ohio and I put all the windows down to enjoy the air driving home. Suddenly, the wind blew something into my car and it landed on my lap- a tiny seedling from a tree. So, green, with tiny oak-shaped leaves and a tiny string of seeds, like a string of green pearls. I held it in my hand all the way home and it’s now floating in a dish of water on the windowsill. What a gift, an unexpected, spontaneous moment of inspiration!

At this moment, as I am writing my blog, my cat, “Mia”, is doing everything she can think of to distract me. Lesson learned! It’s time to stop working, take time to enjoy life with her and get inspired!

To learn more about You are the Key, my Self-Discovery Course and Self-Discovery Lecture Series, discover it all at: http://YOUaretheKey1.com

Share You are the Key with those you love, admire and mentor. If you prefer the eBook version, link to Amazon Kindle:http://www.amazon.com/YOU-are-Celeste-Reichert-Friedman-ebook/dp/B01CPUHDQQ/

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“The unexamined life is not worth living.”

                                                          . . . Socrates

YOU are the Key!

Chart Your Course

Daily, we are experiencing the current changes, challenges and atrocities across our world. Many of us feel as though we’re drowning in sadness and despair. Many press on with hope and prayer. Many are losing hope.

How do we rise above the negative and dark forces? How do we lift others? How do we get active in our communities? What are we each doing to achieve peace globally?

How do we chart a course toward making a difference?

As a singer-songwriter and author, most of you know me to reach out through my music and writings, volunteering and fundraising. If you read this, thank you for taking the time and allowing me the chance to reach out to you. Social media has opened countless opportunities for all of us to take some form of action, whether it is at the local or global level.

The following are just a few of the answers on YouTube I have received to my question and title of my song, asking the world, “What Would John Lennon Say?”

“I think he'd tell us to keep going.”
“Keep believing.”
“Be the good you want to see in the world.”

YOUTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Nbk3Lwkz-w

What do you think John Lennon would say if he were here today?

As you chart your course for setting goals today and beyond, have you included what you would like to do to make our world a better place?

You don’t need a map to chart your course toward peace. Look inside your heart.
You are the Key!

Wishing you a peaceful HolyWeek.
Blessings,
Celeste

A Part of the Journey

On New Year’s Eve of 2016, I posted my blog titled, “The Next Journey Around the Sun”, after hearing a television news anchor say that “we’re approaching the beginning of our next journey around the sun.”

Wow, this journey for me, so far has been amazing, exhilarating and hopeful. 2017 began with an appearance on American Public Television’s Songs at the Center, followed by a flurry of Celtic performances in March and tribute programs to the Broadway production of Oklahoma!

This week, it’s an appearance at the Licking County Library Author’s Fair on Saturday, April 8 from 1:00 to 4:00pm I’ll be there to sign, meet and greet and feature “You are the Key”, celebrating its recent release in paperback.

To learn more about YOU are the Key, my Self-Discovery Course and Self-Discovery Lecture Series, discover it all at YOUaretheKey1.com

Share YOU are the Key with those you love, admire and mentor. If you prefer the eBook version, link to Amazon Kindle. Also available in Nook Books!

You’ve heard me say it hundreds of times, “If your dream grabs the keys and heads out the door, will you be ready to accompany it? If not, will your dream find another dreamer?” So far this part of my journey around the sun is going at warp speed. My dream has the keys and I am living my dream!

More amazing opportunities coming in May. Watch for details!

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." . . . Ralph Waldo Emerson