The scene:  An overcast morning, I’m walking Gypsy, my half belgium shephard and half “whatever jumped over the fence", just barely awake and feeling rather uninspired.

The soundtrack: Cat Stevens’ Can’t Keep It In

Few things can turn a morning around faster than the The World’s Most Perfect Soundtrack, right?  The very moment I heard the first few bars of this song piping through my headphones, my brain was immediately full-to-overflowing with ideas.  Mr. Stevens has that effect on me.  You’re right, Cat!  I cannot, in fact, keep it in!  Yes, I do have to let it out!

It’s all I can do to keep these ideas in my head till I can get home to write them down.  New programs to offer clients!  A new recipe to use up the last of that cabbage!  My next 982 writing topics!  Half-baked ideas drop like f-bombs about who I want to be and how I want to change the world.  

I realize that certain songs are the backdrop for my laboratory.   In my mind kitchen, I get finger lickin’ messy and play with ingredients I would never dream of combining.  Occasionally, my creations are one taco short of a combo plate but more often they’re lightening bolt fantabulous. So thank you Cat, for heating my blood and inspiring me to be  the best I can be.

Did you know that Mr. Stevens is really a life coach in disguise?   His lyrics are my newest coaching tool.  Join me in your own little brain blow out by clicking here and then answer these questions –

1.     What three things can’t you keep in?
2.     What do you need to say?
3.     What do you want to show the world?
4.     What does the world need to know?
5.     What needs are aching to come out?
6.     What heats your blood?
7.     What spins your head?
8.     What are you keeping locked away?
9.     Why are you afraid to unlock it?
10. If you’re not doing, being or expressing at least three of your responses, as Cat would ask, “Why not?  Why, why, why not?”

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