The Climb is Never too Steep - A Message of Never Giving Up

If I was a quitter, I would have quit a long time ago at a time where I was miserable, making one mistake after another. This included marrying the wrong guy, crying myself to sleep almost every night and just really hating who I was as a person which seems oh so long long ago!

Over the last 25 years though, I have crafted a life of knowing who I am and being very transparent of who I am. Honesty of our life is freely shared and I have nothing truly to hide. I am confident, intense and passionate about the life we live. I love to share everything we experience for the chance it may inspire or help others.

I may change plans and dreams due to circumstance, but I don't quit, I don't give up and I certainly do not allow my family to quit either. We adapt.

In this past year we have moved crossed country, lost my sweet mama as well as several of her brothers and sisters, we became homeless by choice, took a huge cut in income, discovered a brain tumor right before it killed me, and have had to seek help in a variety of ways.

However, we also have fell head over heels in love with Oregon, met the most amazing people and families, went to Spokane Washington and the wonderful Portland Oregon. We drove up to see Crater Lake when snow was still on the surrounding mountains around the lake. Which is good because now it is smoke filled from a fire in that area with an entrance closed off and one of the roads in closed off as well. We have explored our wonderful new town where we go for everything and they have the coolest shops! We are being sheltered in a small studio for the most incredible, big hearted folk you can imagine while we get treatment for myself and try to pull together our financial resources to find our own place. We have gone to some amazing parks and seeing the Rogue River daily is just amazing.


I never see our circumstances as a bad thing, just another step in our journey with so many beautiful things to keep fighting for. Or should I say flowing for , because is that really what a journey is? A beautiful flowing dance of good and bad? But what defines bad as bad? Is cancer bad? No, not really it is no different than what someone else would see as bad, just a different obstacle is all. Truly the really only bad thing I would agree with would be something awful happening to a mother and fathers child.

Debt, car loss, home loss, terminal or chronic illness...........I refuse to quit, it is just not worth quitting and is just a small obstacle one must creatively figure out while they continue to seek joy daily.

Learn to dance in the rain or smell spring flowers, laugh...oh  I can not stress laughter enough!

A daily Mantra should be "I can do this, yes I can!"

I simply just don't take giving up as an option, I just have way too much to live for and what I do TODAY is what matters. TODAY I choose to fight for our joy and always be full of gratitude.

Have a marvelously inspired fun filled weekend everyone!

Carrie Hetu

Dreams Know No Fear If They Are To Manifest

Sorry these photos are blurry but it was a fascinating thing to watch and observe. I was standing there as this bee flew down and instantly got stuck in a little bit of spider web. As I watched, this amazing tiny spider jump in without any thought about the danger running back and forth adding a little more web to entrap the Bee, quite larger in size to the little spider.

Working quickly the spider then proceeds to bite the bee on it's back rear portion, well out of harms way of any stinger. The bee was by this time safely entangled in web to where he could not really move nor turn around on the spider.

I marveled not only at how quickly this little spider acquired it's next meal but at the tenacity of it as well. It never hesitated, it never showed any fear, only seizing the opportunity as quickly and efficiently as possible. The spider never thought for one moment he was too small, incapable, or could not acquire his dream meal.

We could take a great lessen away from this observation of nature at it's finest. Many humans simply do not follow their dreams because their fears paralyze them into inaction

Fear Stops Movement!

Fear blocks success of Dreams becoming reality

Fear keeps us caged in a life of average mundanes!

Fear stops us from reaching our greatest potential!

When we allow all those self doubts to creep in, thinking we are inadequate for the job, we are unworthy of such a grand thing, bad things may come from it....... we stop our progress and potential for greatness and good things flowing into our lives.

Dreams stay dreams when they never get to be launched into action. Many times it is fear and fear along that keeps it as nothing more than a passing thought.

Sit down right now and write out your dream life.....what would that look like? What would you do for money? Where would you live? What would you do with your time? What does a perfect day look like to you? What kind of structure would you live in? What would you do on your days for fun or to contribute to society?

Now ask yourself.... What is stopping you from that?

Be the spider, jump into action and seize this dream life you want! Don't ask yourself what bad would come of this? Ask yourself what great things can come of this?

Every single human being is worthy of having a great life that energizes them, that brings good things to them and joy to their hearts. The work however is up to the individual, how hard are you willing to go after your dream life?

You will need the courage and the tenacity of the spider... and the attitude of NO FEAR!

The only thing standing in your way of creating and manifesting your dream life is YOU!

Remove the self doubts and fear and get out of your way, ignite the flames for that dream life with nothing but passion, zest and a tenacity for LIVING LIFE TO THE FULLEST!

YOU CAN DO IT, I BELIVE IN YOU, NOW BELIEVE IN YOURSELF AND START THE ACTIONS NEEDED TO MANIFEST THE LIFE OF YOUR DREAMS!

Please share your dream life in the comments below, I would love to hear all about them!