May was a big month for me, people!

I read Brené Brown's "I thought it was just me" and "The gifts of imperfection". Both books are about shame and what it takes to live a wholehearted life and after being in love with her book "Daring Greatly", I just had to check out those two books as well.

These are my personal highlights:

I went offline for three weeks and got a lot of shit done! Well, I kinda went offline - since a lot of the work I do includes managing Social Media for clients I was there, but not really. Doesn't make sense? That's fine - let's move on.

I read a fabulous book this month - Brene Brown's "Daring Greatly".

The book begins with Roosevelt's quote - which explains the title, sets the tone for the book and summarizes it in a few words.

Show up and let yourself be seen. Dare to be uncomfortable and deal with it. Act with honesty and integrity and choose respect and accountability over "fast & easy". Engage rather than disengage and act like the adult you want your children grow up to be. Distinguish shame from guilt and be all in.

After 10 days in Vegas and not writing for my blog I can't even think of a decent opening sentence to this post and I didn't even drink (much)...

Anyway - I made it through month 3 of my Personal Revelation Revolution and through our Vegas vacation and I actually learned a few things.

For the first few days of the month I stuck with my daily reading of "Simple Abundance" until I decided on March 8 (International Women's Day) that I've had enough. It just got too painful. No, not the working-through-things and revelations, but the writing in that book. I am sure the author is a lovely woman, but her style of writing made me cringe. You know when you read a book and it's pure pleasure and you are excited for every new chapter and the aha-moments just keep coming and you feel like you could totally discuss this with Oprah? Yeah - that book was just not like that for me.

We're on our way to Vegas and that means my 2013 Self-Portrait Project has begun.

For every day during our 11-day trip I will take one or two duckface pictures and some other selfies, whenever the mood strikes (no, not those kind - believe me, you could not handle it).

I'm excited about this!

And to celebrate I am writing this blog, sitting in the hotel room (our flight leaves tomorrow morning), having my favourite beer ever - Fat Tire - which is not available in Canada. So needless to say I am a happy camper right now - but see for yourself:

I made it through the second month of my Personal Revelation Revolution!

I gave 2013 the theme of learning more about myself and - as Oprah puts it - living my best life. I committed to reading "Simple Abundance" by Sarah Ban Breathnach and pondering a way to live a more authentic life. And even though Sarah's writing is a bit antiquated for my taste, I've been getting some great insights and lots to think about.

It's been a month since I started my 2013 Personal Revelation Revolution.

I gave 2013 the theme of learning more about myself and - as Oprah puts it - living my best life. There is lots to discover and to experience and to ponder and with the help of "Simple Abundance" by Sarah Ban Breathnach, "The Happiness Project" by Gretchen Rubin and of course Oprah, I set out to do just that.