On A Personal Note…

By Jenn Pike | September 9, 2010

Ahhh…September, my favorite month of the year!

And no not because its my Son Sam and I’s birthday or because I am one child less with my daughter Emerson of to JK, its because September to me represents ‘FRESH”.

A fresh start, a fresh beginning, the chance to re-invent or re-gain yourself and the life around you.

September is my other January, the opprotunity to get back to order, a routine, to set new goals and begin new projects looking forward to the year ahead. I actually believe Spetember to be the most successful time of year to begin anything new because we all ready at this point to put some new  energy out there while the sun is still shining and the days are still somewhat long enough to make it all happen.

What  year ahead this will be for me and my family! I cannot begin to describe how excited and inspired I am to finally create a 12 year project-in-the-making into a tangible source of joy for me and knowledge to others. For all these years I have been driving all over the Newmarket and surrounding are and it has been great… a blessing and a sort of continuing education like no other, but that aspect of my journey has come to an end. I always ‘thought’ about having my own space, a one-stop-shop that would offer all that I taught and cared about, and now its finally happening.

This year proved to be one of those transitional years. I embarked on a self-made journey of the soul while watching a friend train for Ironman Canada. I too participated in some of the physical training, just much shorter distances :-), but it was the mental, emotional and life-balancing aspect of the training that really struck a cord with me. I realized that and said this to my friend;

Truly…the training, scheduling, logging, supplementing, feuling, maintenance on both your equipment, mind and body has shown to be the hardest part of it all.

It is somewhat like pregnancy when you think about it but in the reverse; we become so engrossed and wrapped up in the ‘big event’ – the birth – but its such a short period of time with the most amazing and joyous outcome…we don’t think about how challenging the afterlife of the big event will be..training, scheduling, logging, supplementing, feuling and maintaining that child as they grow – will be.
This is somewhat like it felt creating this vision and space for Simplicity, my third baby that is now ready and excited to be born!
 
Teachers come to us at different times in our lives and in many different ways, my friend Ironwoman Laura, was one of those teachers for me this year. Thank you.

One of the best pieces of advice that has come my way during this journey has been to ‘release specific outcomes’. Buddha said this a long time ago and it still stands. It’s not life itself that causes suffering and discontent, but rigid expectations not being realized that create great and unnecessary pain. If you wait the arrival of specific things in a specific time , and you don’t get them, and you get  bummed out, you trash your ‘inner’ practice,  and then you have missed the whole point.

I have chosen to say daily, “May the best possible outcome happen for myself and all those involved.” So far, so good…

Really…my ‘perfect’ and your ‘perfect’ are two different things, so why not just aim to be ‘Personal Perfection’ as opposed to ‘Perceived Perfection’? Personal Perfection, to me, is being equally happy, proud, confident, desirable, successful and joyful but also vulnerable, trepidacious, and okay with not knowing all the answers and open to asking for help. Again, just my thoughts…

I look forward to all of you, both near and far, in person and in spirit, joining my Simplicity family and helping to make this ‘baby’ grow big and strong:)

Live Simply.

Jenn

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