Become a Painter of Personal Development

Designing your mind to be kind helps you discover the ability to put down the weight of what you're carrying and return to what matters. 

While authoring my new book, Design Your Mind to be Kind, at the age of 41, I have several communication patterns that I am still working through in my life and career, not to mention, on top of that, now healing from a broken heart and mending my body from a boating hit and run accident on January 3rd where I lost my love, but not my life. 

I am a miracle to be alive and I plan to give everything I have to this book, my body of work, and to my upcoming talks and coaching so that I can deliver what’s inside of me to those who also yearn to heal and love.

I am not perfect. Nor do I wish to be. I’m certain you’re not perfect either. We’re all a work of art. Painting our way towards life with watercolors and brushes, many canvas that are unfinished and others that become masterpieces. Childlike curiosity is within all of us-but somehow, someway, we forget that we can engage in life like children and we must remember to step out of the stress of adulthood and soar into the freedom of our spirit. I can help you do this. TheKindCommunicator.com.

Youthful habits can keep us healthy. Think about finger paintings. Yes! Remember you would glop up your paint brushed hands with bold, wet colors that sept deep into the construction paper so much so that the back wouldn't never seem to dry. Remember that? Remember how proud you were of your finger paintings? 

As you grow within The Kindness Innovation and participate in new communication habits, you can transform back into your childlike spirit as a finger painter. Your fingers gently become brushes and as you mature and grow into who you're meant to be, your artwork of life evolves from glopped finger paint into memorable paintings- more like memories, experiences and moments of life.

You are an artist of what you do and say. The difference between a finger painting and an Italian fresco is patience, time, experience and growth- maybe a deeper appreciation and a focussed mindset. Great artists were once children and many of the greats never lost their touch of creativity.

As you refine your flaws and fears into learned lessons, you essentially become imperfectly perfect artists, loving yourself for who you are- paint brush in hand- some red splatters on your face and maybe a dried up cup of water. If you use what I call, authentic presence, which is your “nowness” and your real time moments to love and live- with the help of breath and a smile, you can newly awaken into the moment of feeling alive. Use this powerful artwork analogy as a personal development tool to uplift your soul as you design your mind to be kind.

Maturity is the ability to see your idiosyncrasies through a more vulnerable lens with a calmer demeanor where moments of kindness become new habits and the discipline to create them becomes easier- like your once forgotten, but newly remembered- finger paintings.

Stress, chaos and insecurities become so clear as you notice your unwanted habits that are created by ego. These are the moments that you become fully alive, revealing your best and lowest self, understanding the difference- and perhaps, hopefully wanting to be better. The more you see what you don't like in yourself, the more you're trained to catch difficulties in real time, diffuse them, and become a happier, healthier adult. You can become a badass finger painter!

Learn to change habits by catching yourself, flying above and speaking your truth as your actions, attitudes and behaviors become reconstructed thoughts and ways of speaking. Today you can be an artist of effective communication, paint brush in hand, ready to fill your canvas with the loving wisdom of designing your mind to be kind.

And as you slow down to love yourself more through the teachings of my body of work and my books and thoughts, you learn to recognize that each imperfection is unique- it's your authenticity that makes you different than anyone else on this planet. 

Being imperfectly flawed has a nice ring to it. When you remember to give yourself permission to mess up and realize the journey is about getting up and trying again- like making a bad finger painting, you can just get another canvas and try, try, try.

You have the chance every day to go up, down, left, right, north or south, so why sit at the stop sign of your mountain of life contemplating? Take risks. Open your wings and fly. The nest was only built for the egg to hatch, so hatch away, dear readers.

When you release negative feelings, toxic people and situations from your life, you fly steadily into your future with more peace and less worry, wings spread, smiling and breathing. You notice the bad folks when you pause and step into your "nowness". You pay too much attention to them when you're rushed. Slow down! The more you have the courage to handle life situations better, the happier and healthier you become. This process continues like an infinity loop as you encounter and discover more and more impurities within your life that are excuses for being better. This is where change happens. 

When you slow down, you discover greater patience and react less. When you learn to acknowledge and love your mistakes as they are, you can grow in real time.

Paint away at your courage and like Michelangelo revealed the david from stone- look at what is revealed in yourself and use it to your advantage to grow and love, be and fly, fall and rise. You're an artist of your life, never stop painting.

Love

Elizabeth 

Elizabeth Barry is an empowerment author, keynote speaker and performance coach. Her expertise in kind communication and compassionate leadership motivates readers, audiences and clients to charismatically step into their highest self. Elizabeth has self-published 3 books, Own Your Vulnerability, The Kind Communicator and Design Your Mind to be Kind, with more in the works. As a trailblazer from the early start of her entrepreneurial career, Elizabeth ran a successful strategic marketing agency and has curated 17 TEDx and TEDxWomen events as well as having produced large scale, multi-day conferences. Elizabeth privately coaches CEOs, managers and teams as a business advisor. Affectionately known as EB, Elizabeth Barry inspires everyone with her energy. Connect with her and join so many who have been touched by her light, profited from her advice, and transformed from applying her wisdom.