TIME-OUT with Tracy Di Cecca

The I in Me

What brings the most truthful expressions of self? What is it about us that keeps our own joy at arm's length? In what activity does your purpose lie and are you exercising it today?

Puzzle Pieces

Integrating Control, Surrender and Peace

Point Your Finger

Point your finger at someone who has caused you to suffer. Is it true?

Reckoning

How often do we say and hear, "I'm fine." What if we're not fine? Is it time for a reckoning?

Line Up

Calm Space

Even in the most heated argument a calm space is available. Require it of yourself and, by example, require it of others.

Unhinged

How prepared are we for the things that put us over the edge and how familiar are we WITH the edge? How do we receive gifts of instability that cause us to become unhinged?

Calm Inner Guide

As long as I use external sources as my primary source of information and direction I am always slightly missing the point: Only I know what is truly best for me. What if we have an inner source of wisdom at all times? When we need internal guidance can we make the connection?

Change and Choice

What about this have I created myself and I am refusing to let go? We must move in ways that develop our unique internal harmony.

Deepest Expression of Self

What are we here for? What are we when we leave here? What do we understand about our expression of self while we are here?

Love

Allow love and demand it of yourself.

The Problem

Look at your life. What problems do you have that you could simply move away from or move into and solve? Look at yourself, are you the solution or the problem?

Attack

Describe a time when you felt attacked and you didn't get the help that you needed. The support wasn't there. Or a time when you were dragged down by another who needed you. When was the last time you felt supported? When was the last time you were needed and did you fail at giving support? How can we change the narrative?

Comfort

How comfortable are you?

Sadness

Is sadness a way of being and is it possible to change?

Focus

What if I were to allow the pleasant, peaceful focus of release of control?

Self-Awareness

Are we willing to be self-aware, to ask difficult questions? Do we choose to distract ourselves from the most meaningful aspects of our lives and what is the cumulative effect?

Let Go

Respect the cycle.

Compatibility, Combatibility and the Space Between

If compatibility was the number one goal in your life for a 24 hour period, what would you have to change?

Create an Adventure

Is it time for your next creative adventure? What keeps you from it?

Anger and Resolution

If anger and resolution are gifts I give myself, which do I choose to accept?

Uncompromise

Is life full of compromise or are we compromising ourselves?

Neutrality

"I can fix it, I can work it out, I can be anything and do anything." When is it better to reach for neutrality?

Service

"If I were to do more of what I am doing in this moment, where will that take me?" We never really arrive until we put what we have learned, joy, pain, struggles, into the service of ourselves and others. Ask yourself, "Where does my strength lie?" There is something that you are here to do. Do it.

Model of Love

What do we choose as the model we use for love, family, interaction with others and even ourselves? Can we change it?

Power

Do we have the power to admire, to judge? I give the gift of power to myself and I choose to receive it.

Delight in the Practice of Meaningful Moments

How quickly does a good day turn bad? When we refuse to allow anger and bitterness to make us small, we experience the possibility and probability of delight.

The Mystery of Love

Where is the love? What we struggle with most of all may have the simplest solutions.

Freedom of Expression

The goal of understanding what is purely ‘me’ to be. Am I expressing myself with strength or rigidity? Am I rule-bound or free?