My daughter actually sat and read some of my blogs last night and in between laughter and criticisms ( she is after all my daughter and we all know how our offspring can be our harshest critics ) she said what's a Dodie? I said it was a shortened term that meant Diva Roadies...Oh...You have a fan club she asked??? Well yes...only it's not my fan club in the sense that you would term it...I have a group of women who I am a fan of. Puzzled, she said...I don't quite follow your thoughts here.
Dodies started as a fun term to describe those women who I jokingly referred to as repeat offenders...they show up monthly for my wine and design seminars. The term stuck and soon they started referring to themselves proudly as Dodies to women who were dewbies ( diva newbies ). Dewbies then aspired to become Dodies and the list has grown and so has the comraderie and laughter. And do I look at these women as my fans? No...these are women that I am fans of because they have given so much more to me then what I have ever given to them. Truly, I learn as much from them and receive such support and encouragement that I am often times humbled to have them in my life. They are like proud sisters who applaud my efforts and encourage my growth. My successes are our successes as they were there in the beginning and they continue to be there in the moment for me. Together we encourage and cheer on one an other's journeys. I will run in to them in the grocery store or receive an email from one expressing with such joy and excitement of something they have just done be it moving their furniture around in their family room after being encouraged to do so after a furniture placement seminar or made a decision to do something entirely different with their lives because of learning something intimate about their personality from a color seminar. These are the the moments that give me the greatest pleasure...when I realize that what someone has experienced was the okay and permission to do something out of their comfort zone. I know how powerful that moment can be as someone once did that for me without even knowing it. They gave wind to my wings and allowed me to know that I could do these things, that my thoughts and dreams were not in some far off out of reach spot, but just within my grasp if only I would release them and follow them. From that point on there's been no stopping me. Have they all been successes? YES...every one of them has been a success...because success comes from taking the chance to allow for failure. It releases the woulda, shoulda, coulda obstacles and makes room for new allowances, new endeavors, new dreams... new possibilities!
So yes, I have a fan club...and I am a proud card carrying member!
My mother once told me the following when I was at that pinnacle age of 14 or 15 and worried continuously about what others thought and tried so hard to be someone or something that I really wasn't meant to be in order to maintain or impress a " friend "... At the end of your life when you look back and think about those people who were really true friends, you will find that you may only be able to do that on one hand and still have finger's left to count. True friends she said were not so easy to find...you would be lucky to have had 2 or 3. Well, I hopefully still have a lot of living left to do, but at this point if I had to count those people in my life that I can honestly say are true friends, I do believe I would use both hands and quite a few toes. I really have been that blessed! These are people who would do anything for me and if I didn't want to offer them an explanation for why I needed it done, they wouldn't ask. They would just do it because that's what true friends do.
One of my favorite descriptions of what a true friend is was written on a sign I read. A good friend is someone you can call on to bail you out of jail, a best friend will be sitting along side you saying God, that was a good time!!! I have such great friends in my life and often times when we are out sharing good times one of them will comment...you know...you're going straight to you know where for that thought or comment...to which I can happily look around the table and say...well, at least I know I'll have lots of good company!!!
Thank you to all the Dodies in my life...better yet, thank you for allowing me to be a part of your lives...Pinkies UP!!!
Dodies started as a fun term to describe those women who I jokingly referred to as repeat offenders...they show up monthly for my wine and design seminars. The term stuck and soon they started referring to themselves proudly as Dodies to women who were dewbies ( diva newbies ). Dewbies then aspired to become Dodies and the list has grown and so has the comraderie and laughter. And do I look at these women as my fans? No...these are women that I am fans of because they have given so much more to me then what I have ever given to them. Truly, I learn as much from them and receive such support and encouragement that I am often times humbled to have them in my life. They are like proud sisters who applaud my efforts and encourage my growth. My successes are our successes as they were there in the beginning and they continue to be there in the moment for me. Together we encourage and cheer on one an other's journeys. I will run in to them in the grocery store or receive an email from one expressing with such joy and excitement of something they have just done be it moving their furniture around in their family room after being encouraged to do so after a furniture placement seminar or made a decision to do something entirely different with their lives because of learning something intimate about their personality from a color seminar. These are the the moments that give me the greatest pleasure...when I realize that what someone has experienced was the okay and permission to do something out of their comfort zone. I know how powerful that moment can be as someone once did that for me without even knowing it. They gave wind to my wings and allowed me to know that I could do these things, that my thoughts and dreams were not in some far off out of reach spot, but just within my grasp if only I would release them and follow them. From that point on there's been no stopping me. Have they all been successes? YES...every one of them has been a success...because success comes from taking the chance to allow for failure. It releases the woulda, shoulda, coulda obstacles and makes room for new allowances, new endeavors, new dreams... new possibilities!
So yes, I have a fan club...and I am a proud card carrying member!
My mother once told me the following when I was at that pinnacle age of 14 or 15 and worried continuously about what others thought and tried so hard to be someone or something that I really wasn't meant to be in order to maintain or impress a " friend "... At the end of your life when you look back and think about those people who were really true friends, you will find that you may only be able to do that on one hand and still have finger's left to count. True friends she said were not so easy to find...you would be lucky to have had 2 or 3. Well, I hopefully still have a lot of living left to do, but at this point if I had to count those people in my life that I can honestly say are true friends, I do believe I would use both hands and quite a few toes. I really have been that blessed! These are people who would do anything for me and if I didn't want to offer them an explanation for why I needed it done, they wouldn't ask. They would just do it because that's what true friends do.
One of my favorite descriptions of what a true friend is was written on a sign I read. A good friend is someone you can call on to bail you out of jail, a best friend will be sitting along side you saying God, that was a good time!!! I have such great friends in my life and often times when we are out sharing good times one of them will comment...you know...you're going straight to you know where for that thought or comment...to which I can happily look around the table and say...well, at least I know I'll have lots of good company!!!
Thank you to all the Dodies in my life...better yet, thank you for allowing me to be a part of your lives...Pinkies UP!!!
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