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Obsessed with Gratitude

Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life.

-Rumi

Happy Thanksgiving, friends! This is by far my favorite Thursday of the year as well as one of my absolute favorite holidays. I savor the vibrant smells and tastes of seasonal comfort foods, the cozy roaring fire that cracks and burns in the fireplace, and I adore the fact that in this beautiful country of ours, we’ve managed to preserve the fourth Thursday of every November to remember, cherish, and give thanks.

CREATIVE LIFE, DESIRE. CONNECT. THRIVE., LIFE PATTERNS, RESOURCES, SPIRITUALITYKatie GustafsonNovember 24, 2016Gratitude, gratitude journal, holiday, mario batali, thank you, thanksgiving Comment

Recovering Simplicity: The Art of Enough

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

-Leonardo Da Vinci

The holidays are upon us. Between the unseasonably warm weather and the loud, distracting force of our recent election, I haven’t thought much of it yet. Sure, Kroger and Home Depot immediately threw up Christmas decorations the Tuesday after Halloween and quicker than you can say, “turkey and dressing” and honestly, I’ve come to accept that over the years. What’s tricky is when I still work up a sweat mid-November while rummaging around the car to find my favorite lip balm that went missing somewhere back in September. My body and brain register pure confusion in this suspended time frame hovering right between summer and fall. I call it “fummer”… (“sall” works, too).

ACHIEVING SUCCESS, CREATIVE LIFE, DESIRE. CONNECT. THRIVE., LIFE PATTERNSKatie GustafsonNovember 17, 2016art, big magic, calling, elizabeth gilber, expectation, simplicity, thanksgiving, the holiday, willy wonkaComment

The Scarcity Spiral

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens.
-Carl Jung

It’s been a big week. Understatement of the century. It’s been a historically and politically raucous year that just climaxed with the most wildly controversial election of our time. How are you doing?

ACHIEVING SUCCESS, LIFE PATTERNS, PERSPECTIVES, DESIRE. CONNECT. THRIVE.Katie GustafsonNovember 10, 2016carl jung, donald trump, election 2016, hillary clinton, inner child, paul simon, scarcity, the west wingComment

A Date with Procrastination

The more important the activity is to our soul’s evolution, the more resistance you will feel.

-Steven Pressfield

I’d like to introduce you to my new friend, Procrastination. Well, he’s not really new, quite old come to think of it. We go way back. I suppose we’ve rekindled something as of late, something good, different.

ACHIEVING SUCCESS, CREATIVE LIFE, LIFE PATTERNS, RESOURCES, PERSPECTIVES, DESIRE. CONNECT. THRIVE.Katie GustafsonOctober 27, 2016anne lamott, Bird by Bird, perfectionism, procrastination, resistance, Steven Pressfield, The War of ArtComment

Legacy & A Broken Hallelujah

Please think about your legacy, because you’re writing it every day.

-Gary Vaynerchuck

I have a confession to make.

Despite years of deep south steeping growing up in Mobile, AL, I have never been a huge fan of country music. In fact, I always felt like the odd man out during those fragile years of middle school when the cool kids where discovering the likes of Alan Jackson, The Judds, John Michael Montgomery, and most curiously to me, Billy Ray Cyrus. I was totally stumped, yet went along with it as my awkward stage lasted painfully longer than everyone else’s and I had just switched to a preppy new school. The part of me that wanted to be liked was much bigger than the part that couldn’t be bothered.

ACHIEVING SUCCESS, DESIRE. CONNECT. THRIVE., PERSPECTIVES, SPIRITUALITYKatie GustafsonOctober 20, 2016adele, amazing grace, andel adams, country music, dolly parton, gary vaynerchuck, legacy, nashville, oprahComment