Author: AprilDaisy

I am an intuitive having a great one-on-one with God. I am awesome at giving intuitive words of comfort and care. I have a quirky knack for reading colors and understanding their messages as well.

Colors now has a Group

I have thought long and carefully about this. While I love how I’m creating this again, I’ve had to make decisions on the growth of my business and where I want my time to go. For that reason, I created a group for showcasing Colors and will include aspects like I have here…thoughts to ponder…and other things like herbs, remedies, uplifting each other. If you’d like to join, please do message me to send you the link. Thank YOU for being here. It’s always important. ((aprildaisy4 (at) yahoo.com ))

You’d like More Choices

I’ve been on an amazing journey this year. I’ve elevated my vibe from “unsure and fearful” last year to “I’m creating my life and each forward step, each time I raise my vibe, I give myself the freedom from fears to then live my life consciously in marvelous-ness”.

I was having a discussion with my husband yesterday about how I’d like to see my business grow and the kind of lifestyle I’m working my family towards. He says, “You know I don’t need all those extras and fancy things.” We were using vehicles as an analogy. He says, “A GMC is just a fancier Chevrolet.” I replied with, “That may be, but the GMC and Chevrolet are both choices to choose from and while we may not choose the GMC for ourselves, I want the freedom of more choices.”

I went on to say, “It isn’t that I would ever shop on Rodeo Drive or pay $600 for a watch because, no, that’s not really a goal of mine. It IS that I want more choices to choose from. I want to elevate my vibe and our life to be able to choose from several things and not be only in the realm of limited to just the one local discount store on the block.”

I think this is a great perspective that works. I mean, if you want to elevate your vibe to do those things….Rodeo Drive or a $600 watch…sure…I’m totally happy for you. However, for me, I am elevating my vibe to the freedom of more choices from the spot I am in right now. If I get elevated to high enough to afford that watch, sure, I’m good with that. That’s not the goal at the moment. The goal at the moment is to raise my vibe high enough to expand to more choices than I have right now.

I want to encourage you to think about this and consider it as a new perspective to make choices from. This way, in my thinking, it expands your own thinking just enough to feel attainable without feeling like something you can’t grasp at this time. This is how a marvelous life can be created…taking small steps to forward to expand onself a little at a time.

Looking Forward

I may have mentioned this before, but it’s what’s on my mind this morning for you, so here, goes…. Enjoy.

I used to have a tarot card with a woman at the top of a hill. She was looking forward to the journey she must take to cross a valley to get to the castle at the other end. I’ve used this vision many times in the past year when it comes to my own journey, particularly in business. This is also a very relatable scene in so many ways.

  1. She has a vision going forward. She’s looking at where she’s going and framing that in her mind. Once she starts moving forward, she won’t see that castle as clearly until she gets there…so she takes that moment to frame her vision solidly in her mind for “viewing” along the way.
  2. This scene takes place in a time of real castles, no cell phones, no electricity, etc. so she’s not going to backtrack or change her mind because there’s another “idea, choice, etc.” within her vision. No, she’s just got her, her companions, and her goal…going forward.
  3. To get where she’s going…she must go forward…there is nothing else that’s going to get her there…and since that’s truly where she wants/needs to be…she’s taking every step to make that happen.
  4. Along the way she may take a side journey, help a new friend, have to hide out from someone attacking her, etc…however, she’s still staying true to her vision and sets out to going forward again.
  5. Once she’s agreed with herself that forward is the only right step, she stays true…for her…there is no turning back to what was…there is nothing back there that is going to give her what she desires/needs/envisions/wants.
  6. This leads to the realization of…she doesn’t know all that’s before her, no. She doesn’t know what will be required of her or how much endurance she’ll need to get to her goal. She doesn’t know what will happen on her journey forward or who she will meet. She just knows of what her goal is.
  7. Regardless of any of these things, she knows each step forward will get her closer to there…and she’ll arrive. Nothing else in life will do that for her. It’s her…her vision…her aiming for and creating space for her success in her endeavor.

I want to encourage you to take this vision in and feel if it’s something you need to do and create for yourself. No distractions. Only making a decision to go forward and then making every other decision with that goal in mind.

What will get you where you want to go? What will distract you? Which choices are you making every day? Be mindful and conscious and go forth with this new thinking. Cheers.

Loose the Mom Guilt

A post this morning in a group I partake was all about a woman having “Mom Guilt” between being a business owner and being a Mom. I just want to pass along what I wrote in response….

“I don’t think you should have mom guilt. We can’t be 100% to any one person and part of what makes a great life is finding the balance between “our time” and “work time”. Your child will grow to need some of her own space. You need your own space as well. I think you should loose the guilt, be present when you’re there with her, and also acknowledge there are other kinds of “space” in working. When you cook, you don’t feel guilty to be cooking for food nourishment, right? So, when you do business, you shouldn’t feel that guilt when you’re actually still providing for family financial nourishment. Balance is key, not guilt.”

If you’re a Mom, I’d like you to think on this some and really let it sink in. Maybe, just maybe, you can take this new thought forward and find the balance within the life you’re creating…for the best of all of your family’s needs. Cheers.

It’s the enjoyment, not always the mastery.

Yesterday I was out and about shopping at a Flea Market with my family. We looked around as that’s the place for it. I happened to see this bush amid other plants and the beautiful red caught my eye. It’s also the kind of bush that was growing at a house we’d lived in many years ago.

The other bush was massive…like 6-7 foot massive, lots of red, and lots of hummingbirds came by. It was one of my favorite things while living there.

Since then, I’ve bought other smaller bushes, like 4 inch size bushes, to help me grow others as I super love everything about the plant.

Well, my track record is to buy a handful of things I love and hoping only one will survive. So far, I’ve got one Crepe Myrtle tree and one Climbing Rose that didn’t die even after the horse ate it. lol So, this new bush DOES have a shot at surviving, it’s just a slim shot.

My oldest says as long as I don’t touch the plant, it has a substantial rate of survival. So, I’m giving her charge over where to plant it and my husband and youngest charge over actually planting it.

While this isn’t my best thing to do, I still work on this area of my life because I love color and flowers and plants. To me, there’s something grounding in touching the leaves or admiring the view.

Maybe you too keep working on some area of your life that isn’t your best area, but you enjoy doing it. To me, that’s plenty enough reason to continue to do that. Sometimes it isn’t in the perfection, but in the moments of enjoyment.

So, here’s to another plant…and the potential beauty of it for years to come within my garden.

Diversity is Key

There is no one way to do anything…nothing…nada…nope. There isn’t. You can believe there is only one way to do something and go with that, but to say it’s the only way to do something is untrue.

Some of it is shown by people learning to adapt to their disability or their culture or a simple thing like being left-handed instead of right-handed. Nothing much in life is 100%…except maybe being born and dying.

My favorite way to show diversity is in music. I am super grateful to the people who create lyric music videos and post them on Youtube. I am also grateful for Wikipedia and the people who work to make that happen on a daily basis.

There are songs that have been redone and sometimes in a different genre’ than the first recording. Sometimes all of the recordings are successful and other times people like one version over the other version(s).

Christmas songs are a major source of redos. It seems like almost a “rite of passage” to be famous enough to create a Christmas Album.

The ones that surprise me though are the ones where my husband says, “So and so recorded this first.” I look it up and sometimes find it has been recorded even before that.

Some songs become an artist’s “signature song” and I’m not sure anyone else would record it. It just “fits” that person so well that you automatically know part of its magnificence is that artist.

I’ve written about this before. If you’re a follower of my blog, you may remember the post.

Currently, my most favorite redo is Tennessee Whiskey done by VoicePlay. That said, many, many people have done it. There is no right or wrong version, only as you like to yours and others like to theirs.

So, be your own diverse self. Yes, there may be someone down the street creating the same kind of business or life or hobby as you…however…how you do it and how they do it is completely different. It just is.

As an analogy, one rose doesn’t think any thing less of itself for another rose blooming. Be your own kind of blooming beautiful.

Cher’s kind of Confidence

Confidence is a new skill I’m learning to master. I’ve got it in some areas, but really want it in other areas of my life as well, so, here I am making “Confidence” part of my “Vibe Wardrobe”. I even came up with a color for it. It’s posted below. It’s a paint color from Glidden called Chinese Lantern.

So, this will date me and I’m okay with that. Two days until my 50th birthday and, well, it is the age I will be. Cheers to me! lol

Hubby and I play music we like while we sit together and do our individual things and it’s mostly older tunes. Last night I was watching a video of the song “If I could turn back time,” by Cher.

This video, if you’ve seen it, has Cher in a barely there outfit. Like, it’s beyond skimpy. It’s clearly in the risky category. If you have an opinion as to that sort of thing, that’s perfectly reasonable. You may not like Cher at all really, that’s another thought. However, here’s what I saw last night.

I saw Confidence…delivered in Spades…as she rocked rocking people out. That’s the level of Confidence I’m growing towards. To be brazen, bold, and beautiful all at once…exuding such magnificent vibes as to rock that whole boat of Sailors and even those that watch the video. That’s an amazing, amazing place to be.

I think this is how people feel at a Garth Brooks concert. I’m sure you can mention other people as well. They fill the whole space with their VIBE. It doesn’t matter that you have nosebleed seats. No. It matters that you were there. That is Confidence and personal Vibe all wrapped into giving back to YOU while doing their THING. <<<I had to pause right here and absorb this feeling…it literally blows me away…that’s a level to master.>>>

Here’s what I want you to know. I went to Wikipedia last night (one of my favorite places to be) and looked Cher up. She’s had an amazing career and it’s went up and down several times until she found her groove. She was scared at first. She didn’t find her footing so easily in the beginning. This reminds me that none of us do. We all must start from somewhere to then grow as we’d like to become.

I also recently watched a Garth Brooks documentary on Netflix (The Road I’m On). He’s from Oklahoma. He’d driven to Nashville, arrived, and was clueless as to what really goes on to get into the music business. In short time, he drove right back home. He said he felt bad that he didn’t succeed, especially since the folks that knew him had pitched in to get him there in the first place.

He said, when he got back home, he thought people would want to know where their money was or why he didn’t succeed. He was troubled by that thought. What he got was, “Well, you’ll try again, won’t you?” They believed in him through and through. He did go back, more aware of what it takes to make a career happen, and became a person of worldwide success.

Confidence isn’t instant for most people. It takes time to nurture and grow. Believe in yourself, where you’d like to get to, and tend to that.

Do you give deep thoughts about what you post on social media?

I wondered, as I do every day, what should be written here. Then, as I let my mind have the freedom of this ponder, something comes to mind and a post gets written. Fascinating, isn’t it?!

So, today’s ponder is, “Do you give deep thoughts about what you post on social media?” Now, not everyone takes social media seriously. There’s lots of shares, funny things, playful things, and even serious things people post. There is nothing at all wrong with you choosing to post whatever you like.

I try to post things in such a way that if I were to die after that post, I’d be glad of what I posted. Now, that doesn’t mean to overthink things, not at all. Yes, I’ve checked the “morbid and weird” box. I just wonder these things and post accordingly.

What it has done for me is to post less of the “crappy talk” things. I’ve still got variety, sure. I just don’t go posting the “life stinks” posts like I used to. To be fair, I never really did it often. People who know me know I tend to be positive and like to give positive to others. Yet even with my batting average being positive, there are going to be days…for you, for me…that just are not up to the par you set for yourself. So, now, on those days, I post something quieter.

This is a thought…just a thought…of the pondering broadcast system…it is only a thought.

Give yourself “STARS”

Hello. I pondered what to post today for you and this is the message that came up. I wrote it in response to a business post, but I think it fits with most anything in life we’re trying to accomplish.

I remember my SIL telling me in a conversation many years ago as she was knocking out her debt how she just didn’t seem to be getting anywhere. She had a chart on her fridge showing what she’d accomplished and her success so far towards where she had as a goal.

I reminded her of how far she’d come. Showed her she wasn’t at the beginning and was actually doing well with the journey she was working towards, freedom from certain debts.

Sometimes we get bogged down by the task at hand because we’re still “in” it and, frankly, are tired at moments. However, an outside look at the view, especially from someone who will give you positive words, is always a good thing and a great blessing upon our journey.

On that thinking…here’s the note I wrote:

“Write everything down and give yourself little “stars” in your journal or on a calendar for any and all accomplishments along the way. Some days will be hard, other days will not, but seeing how far you’ve gotten helps in reminding yourself just how much you’ve grown towards where you’re going.” –April Daisy Locke