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“About Me” Update

Goldilocks — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:22:37 +0000

Wow it’s been a little over two years since I started my blog, and I’ve been thinking it’s time to update my “About Goldi” section, and after just reading it, I can’t believe how far I’ve come, and how I’ve received everything that I wanted for my “just right” life. Except maybe not in the exact way that I was envisioning it.

For example I’ve had sooooo many friends and family around me. But when you’ve come from a drought, it’s felt like a sudden, heavy, rain shower that’s lasted for days and days, leaving you feeling totally unprepared. When what I was thinking of was more of a steady drizzle that you see is coming, but it’s perfect, just the way it is.

I talked of traveling, and in the last month I’ve been to the city of Santiago, and the desert of San Pedro de Atacama, Chile, where I stayed in Hostels, sand boarded, saw a beautiful cactus forest, and spent time in a natural hot springs. I walked on the vast an seemingly never ending salt flats. I stood lake side and watched pink flamingos fly overhead as the sun was setting, with the awe inspiring views of the volcanic mountains in the distance mimicked back in the reflection on the lake. I saw magnificent sunsets while at grand canyons and valleys, and stood at night, looking up at more stars than I’ve ever seen. Where just being there, makes you feel the grateful energy of being alive. I toured the Southern states of the USA going through Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Alabama, and finding the small city there, with the coolest tag line – Boaz, Alabama – The City of Possibilities. I ended my travels in the white sands of Bimini, Bahamas, where we relaxed, then snorkeled and swam in the turquoise waters, in what seemed like our own life size fish bowl.

And, I did find a love that I’m sure will last a lifetime. He’s like what I imagine a prince to be, from all of my fairy-tale books of my youth. He is handsome, kind, caring, compassionate, loving, brings me coffee in bed, and says he will always love and take care of me. “I promise, I promise, I promise”.

I’m writing twenty books in my head, and a few blog post online, and I’m sure the books will get on paper when the time is right. When I started writing the blog I was evasive on my “about me” page mainly because I was at the lowest point I could possibly get. I had made a small fortune, and then lost it all – houses, acres of land, and cash. I had been living away from my family for 30 years, and then single for ten. Sacrificing for my job, my children, my community, and my friends, hoping I was making life better, I was generous to many, and yet was so tired and alone. I was so unhappy, I knew I couldn’t remain focused on that, and ever live a happy life. I needed a shift. I needed Happy. Happy thoughts, Happy words, Happy news, and thats how this blog was born – and it worked. I lost myself in success and found myself in my failure.

I was looking for my perfect life. I believed it was possible, and then I started living it.

My hope is that you, and each and every person that reads my blog, finds there unique and perfect life. And, that what I write, helps, and inspires you to live a life that’s “just right” for you.

Just a thought…

Love, Goldi

A Perfect Life

Goldilocks — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 14:33:53 +0000

My passion is apparent if you’ve been reading my post, it’s that we create and live our perfect life, the life that is “just right” for us. It’s tailored made to suit us perfectly. Most of the post read that’s its about going after something big, something that we want to attain in the pursuit. The truth is the joy and happiness comes not from the attainment but in the doing. My goal is to travel and write, and I admit I’m not traveling and writing yet like I see it in my mind; but I’m happy now, because I’m writing. I’m doing what it is that I’m passionate about. I’m not putting it off. I’m living it now.

I also want to be clear that a perfect life can be the one your living… we all have different wants, desires, needs, and passions. I have a friend who is very happy with her life as a wife, mother, and friend. She is the glue, keeping us all in touch, and feeling the love. She takes great pride in the life she leads, and all of us who know her, are better off because of it.

It doesn’t matter what you do, it’s how you do it…so however you choose to live your life – it’s perfect!

Just a thought….

Love, Goldi

www.GoldilocksBlog.com

Creating my perfect life in a perfect world…

Goldilocks’s First Anniversary of Blogging

Goldilocks — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:46:20 +0000

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Today is my first anniversary of blogging. To commemorate the event, this morning, I created a fan page on facebook. As of this writing I have no fans…lol! Hopefully I will have more. In fact, please become a fan by clicking on the above logo…regardless, I am enjoying my journey.

I started blogging for myself, as a way to remind me of positive thoughts and things that I wanted to remember. Positive and beautiful people and places that I want to see. And, as time goes, my thoughts are changing a little on where I want to go, but my goals are still the same. I still want to write, blog, travel, see the world, and help you along the way.

Hoping that we find our perfect lives in a perfect world…

Just a thought…

Love, Goldi

www.goldilocksblog.com

Having the perfect life in a perfect world…

I love my life!

Goldilocks — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 15:28:54 +0000

Every morning I write a paragraph of all of things that I am grateful for, and for the feeling of having everything that I want. I have been doing this for about a year. Slowly I noticed that I have made some changes, and that I do have the life now that I want. I envisioned being happy. Having a great love. The discipline to exercise more. A great social life, and time to spend with my family and friends. Traveling more, and of loving the work that I do. And, I am living that life. I am writing, which is the work that I want to do. I am traveling and have been to California twice, Maine, North Carolina and Florida. I am making plans for more travel as soon as I get all my affairs in order. I realize that I do have people around me that love me, and my relationships have gotten stronger. In my quest to be healthier, and to spend more time in nature, and I am walking three days a week with a friend and then going on a long hike on Saturdays with my daughter exploring different places every week. I realized that I am living the life that I want already. It may not be as glamourous as I had imagined in my mine, yet, but, I am doing all the things that I wanted to do. I have peace in my mind when I go to bed, and I am happy now. I am grateful for the roof over my head, and the warm bed that I sleep in. I have a deep belief that I will continue to have all that I want, and my life will only get better.

Take a deep breath, look around – appreciate what you have…

Just a thought…

Love, Goldi

Goldilocks Blog

Having a perfect life in a perfect world…

Faith-Believing Beyond the Power of Reason to Believe

Goldilocks — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:44:16 +0000

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

–Voltaire

Today has been a hard day for me. Yesterday a friend gave me the book, The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner; One Grump’s Search for the Happiest Places in the World, and for those of you who are new to my blog, this was my dream. This is what I have been searching for, and what I wanted to do…travel to the happiest places in the world, and write about it.

I haven’t disclosed much on my blog about my personal life, and that’s because my last ten, no let’s say twenty years have been hell. I have been knock down so many times that I can’t count, so much so that I am writing a book about it. It’s too much to describe in a few short sentences. My blog has been thoughts that I myself want to remember. What I needed to hear and read when I get down, and it has worked. I am being more productive, and I am working toward the goals that I had hoped would lead me towards my dream, and I hope that it has helped others too!

I am what you would call right now a displaced worker, I have been self employed for the last 15 years, and have put all my funds into ventures that now in this economy are obsolete. I have been living off of savings, then sold assets, and am now waiting for my last asset to sell. If it sells, I won’t really see any profits, I just won’t have to declare bankruptcy. So I should be out of debt one way or another in a few months. And, as someone who has been living off of savings in the hopes that my businesses ventures would take off, I am not qualified for any type of aide. So at this point, and for the last eight months, I have had no income at all, and only a very small amount of funds left in the bank. And, these are the good years…

I am also a single mom, and I am trying to hold it together for my children. I have a son at the community college, who I am not really worried about. (I do receive 500 a month in child support-yea-food! )He is brilliant and his dream is to be a mechanic. He is well on his way, he works and pretty much supports himself. I believe he will be great at what he does, and he will love what he is doing. My youngest child, who will be graduating this spring, wants to be a doctor. She has taken all of the right steps to get into a good school; She has an unweighted 4.0 gpa and will graduate high school with five AP classes. Does Community Service, Varsity Athlete, actively involved in clubs, and she worked. She deserves to go to a good school. At this point I do not even no if I am going to have a roof over our heads, much less how I can help send her to school. She is applying though, we will just have to see how it all works out. No pressure!

My plan was/is to write my blog. Get healthier mentally and physically, hopefully grab some readers along the way, and some how earn some money. Write my Memoir. Get thorough the mess of my life, either by packing up or by losing it all. Then take my daughter to college, drop her off, and spend the rest of my life traveling, writing and blogging. I wanted to write a book on the Happiest Places in the World… I need happy! So if it just seems like a small thing, it’s just that it is in a long, long, long, line of things. It is what I have been hanging onto.

So if you are coming to my blog because your life is Shit too…and your are looking for a way to get through the tough times, then just know that I get it! But, let’s try and stay positive and have faith that somehow we will have the life that we dream. I still want to travel to all the happiest places in the world…I will just have to write about something else! I will have Faith. I hope you do too!

Just a thought!

With Love,

Goldi

Goldilocks Blog

Having the perfect life in a perfect world;)

PS. Eric Weiner’s book is great! I am thoroughly enjoying it!

Being Happy Now!

Goldilocks — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:23:39 +0000

I have been traveling recently and my first stop was at a friend’s house that was open bright, clean, and neat. This friend lives her life. She is always on the go, but works a really hard laborious job that is flexible with time so that she can travel, relax and explore. Her future is not secure, but when I asked her how she does it. How does she stay so positive? She said with conviction, “I refuse to live in fear! Right now I have everything that I need! So I am going to enjoy what I have while I have it, and if something happens I will deal with it then.” I felt so good staying there and being with her that I did not want to leave, but right before I left, her sister in law stopped by. I told her sister in law how nice it was to see her and asked how she was doing. Her reply was a series of complaints… Wow I could not wait to run out the door then.

My next stop was at a friend’s house that also has a beautiful home. This friend however is sick and has been for as long as I have known them. Nothing serious, mind you but sinus infections, aches and pains, that kind of thing. The house was cluttered and the blinds were always drawn. This friend was constantly saying negative things, but weirdly seemed happy in his own negative little world. That was who he was and it was fine with him. He did not want to change, but it made me acutely aware of how I did not want to live, and of how quickly I wanted to leave that environment.

For me, I know this stuff, but it hit me hard. Maybe I was never present enough to actually feel it and really see it, or maybe I just never experienced the two extremes so clearly defined like that, but it really struck a cord with how I want to be… and it reminded me that happiness is already within us! We just sometimes need to shift our perceptions and remember how lucky we are, to focus on actually living life, and to be happy with what we have already!

Today is a beautiful day! I have a roof over my head, food in the pantry, and I am alive! I hope I always see the beauty, and I hope you do too!

Just a thought!

Love, Goldi

Searching for a Perfect Life in a Perfect World…

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