People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them. ~ George Bernard Shaw

What powerful words! The first time I read this quote was in Glendalough Ireland, and I was honored to be sitting in the Writer’s Room at the Wicklow Heather Restaurant. The people who get on in this world are people who get up and look for the circumstances they want. At the time, I was on my honeymoon with the love of my life. How’s that for synchronistic! I knew I deserved love and, after two marriages (yes two) that ended in divorce, I made the conscious choice to be love. It might sound strange, “be love”, but before the very things we want in life are going to show up, we need to “be” them. I also needed to be specific as to what I was looking for and what I wanted. There wasn’t a need for me to apologize or make excuses for the very things that are important to me in a relationship. I didn’t sit and wallow in past dysfunctional relationships or play the blame game as to why the marriages didn’t work. I got real. I let myself off of the hook and really took the time to honor what “love” meant for me. It took two years, but I didn’t settle and I allowed it to happen organically. Read More »