BUILDING LIFE PYRAMID WITH Style by V

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. Michelangelo 

Sometimes it looks like dead end is reached, and the way is lost. It may seem the circle is closed, and there is no way to unlock it. The solution is probably closer than you might think, and it is the biggest mistake to think you made a mistake when you entered the circle…

Life is like a large layer cake that takes you years to bake it; remove one of the layers and the taste is different. It is a huge pyramid that is built piece by piece, layer by layer, hour by hour, day by day, year by year… Have you ever watched kids building a toy pyramid? They choose the parts very carefully matching every piece to find the right one. It doesn’t mean they make mistakes, they just look for the part that fits perfect. This is what our life about. We need to find the parts that make it possible to put our own lifeline together. Building process is similar to building a house: it seems nothing is done when you work over the foundation, but when it is finished, the way to put up the walls is easy and fast. It takes a lot of efforts to lay the foundation, but at the same time, it gives you a chance to build your own beautiful and fabulous castle. When I speak about the castle, I mean not only the place to live, though it is important, I’m talking about that beautiful inner world and balance that all of us keep looking for the whole life long. Life starts with your state of mind, and if you are okay, outer world is fine as well. 

Life is about projecting the situations and creating the solutions by making mistakes. Probably these mistakes are the solutions that help to create a unique life story… a complete colorful pyramid of full value.

TO ALLURE BUTTERFLIES WITH STYLE BY V.

“Success is not a doing process, it is a becoming process. What you do, what you pursue, will elude you—it can be like chasing butterflies. Success is something you attract by the person you become.” Jim Rohn

Anastasia & Steven Phelps, A Lovely Couple And My Close Friends

I feel like to change the word success into the one more mysterious and marvelous, love.  Love is something you attract by the person you become. There is no clear definition for this word that can be approved and added to the encyclopedia. This glorified feeling has no right answers or clear explanations creating haze of mystery around and casting a spell over human minds. It’s something that is out of control making you smile in panic and cry in happiness. A person in love forgets about his/her ego sacrificing own pride and prejudice for the happiness of beloved, becoming more sensitive to surroundings and things happening. 

Love is a beguiling and astonishing feeling that can serve as reviving medicine, but overdose may be fatal. That’s why you should define that right dose to keep your life vibrant, vivid and full of energy despite any attempts to hijack your prescription and take an advantage of it.

Success is something that can’t be stolen or hijacked; it is a state of mind.

Both of them are inseparable meanings that complement each other. Success without love is beyond the bounds of possibility, and love can’t settle in your heart until you have inner success and balance. Many of us seek for both of them gazing far away beyond horizons, therefore forgetting that we are blessed with a talent to generate these feelings by evolving, cultivating and cherishing them within ourselves. It turns into a process that ensnares you with love and success when you don’t have to chase butterflies, because they start following you…

THE POWER OF VISUALIZATION THROUGH STYLE BY V.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. Epicurus

It was 1991… I was on board of the airplane taking flight from island Cuba to Kyiv, Ukraine. That was my first transatlantic flight ever taken. Spending two months in Cuba, I discovered a new world for myself that was similar to the moon flight. What could a simple girl see, being born in the Soviet Union and living behind the “Iron Curtain”? She could see totally nothing except for her own country. That was the year when the Soviet Union collapsed and a new and serious step in the history of Ukraine was taken. But it’s not about the country history and its politics. It’s about my feelings that I experienced at the moment of opening a glossy magazine with a colorful article about San Fran. It was describing the city life with its green streets, night lights, gorgeous and delightful houses and buildings, famous all over the world cable cars, unbelievably luxurious and never-seen-before shops and independent people living their best life. My emotions were running me so much that I got speechless. The only thought that crossed my mind at that very moment was: “How happy the people should be living there. I want to be among them”.

19 years later… I was sitting at the window of my friend’s house, watching the perfect view of night San Fran that was reflecting its beauty in the Bay. Yes, I was in San Francisco… At that very moment I remembered the dream of that little girl who perhaps was so impressed by that charming city and those bewitching words from the article, that in 19 years she happened to be here. Many years ago she left her heart in San Francisco waiting for the time of meeting. It was the power of visualization of that little and naive girl, who had inexhaustible trust in her dream and its might. Being grown up and mature, we don’t know what wonders we can achieve always leaving a drop of hope. We forget about our inner energy and belief in miracles, and it makes us weaker even though we think we are getting stronger by putting on some fancy dresses for a next masquerade. Every so often we are afraid of changes and new possibilities, leaving our dreams beyond belief and behind the scenes of our consciousness. What I know for sure is that we should pamper ourselves, living our life beautifully, feeling true colors of its beauty and leaving some space for our child-like dreams. Let your mind play some games with you and stay up-to-date to new life prospects.

P.S. I still keep that flight magazine as a reminder of human inner strength and power in time of loss.