My Beautiful Chaos » The Bloggy Challenge http://www.mybeautifulchaos.com My wonderful, chaotic life Fri, 09 Apr 2010 00:35:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 The Chameleon meets the Chaos http://www.mybeautifulchaos.com/2007/08/17/the-chameleon-meets-the-chaos/ http://www.mybeautifulchaos.com/2007/08/17/the-chameleon-meets-the-chaos/#comments Fri, 17 Aug 2007 08:57:40 +0000 April http://aprilgroves.com/beautifulchaos/2007/08/17/the-chameleon-meets-the-chaos/ So very exciting!  My friend Lani has joined me here.  I hope you all will find her as thought provoking as I do.

Lani has already introduced herself, so I’ll explain how she got here. I have addressed it before, but now she is here!

Lani and I began exchanging emails.  We found out very quickly that we clicked on a relational level.  We found that we were able to bounce ideas, address fears, share personal accounts, and basically be friends in a safe environment.  We challenge each other to self examine and to be better today than yesterday.

The emails are full of things we would never blog about.  But, they are also salt and peppered with topics that are totally bloggable and challenging.

We toyed with the idea of creating that challenge blog, but neither of us really needed a new blog to maintain.  Lani has done a wonderful job of focusing her site, RERevealed, and these types of topics don’t really blend.

I trust Lani to be gracious, smart, encouraging, and beneficial – so, why not let her write here?  Beautiful Chaos is already set up for the personal and it already addresses the importance of challenge and introspection.

Too excited that my friend has come over to play,
April

]]> http://www.mybeautifulchaos.com/2007/08/17/the-chameleon-meets-the-chaos/feed/ 1 The Benefit of Phenom Friends – The Challenge Trackback http://www.mybeautifulchaos.com/2007/07/30/the-benefit-of-phenom-friends-the-challenge-trackback/ http://www.mybeautifulchaos.com/2007/07/30/the-benefit-of-phenom-friends-the-challenge-trackback/#comments Mon, 30 Jul 2007 10:17:19 +0000 April http://aprilgroves.com/beautifulchaos/2007/07/30/the-benefit-of-phenom-friends-the-challenge-trackback/ I have some great friends.  I consider them to be my safety rope in the Chaos.  They keep me from going it alone.  I have been fortunate to make some really good ones – both here on the blogiverse, and in my local area.

Good friends challenge you.  They encourage you to be a better person. More than that, they expend of themselves to see that you succeed.

Lani and I email each other on a regular basis. There are no topics off limit. As such, they remain fairly private – we are both very responsible about what we will and won’t put on the net for anonymous viewing. However, we thought it would be neat to motivate each other to make positive difference – and those types of movements are incredibly blog worthy.

Last week, over on Making Life Work for You, I talked about personal responsibility.  It was the first attempt at an idea Lani and I have been brainstorming over. When she mentioned it, I immediately thought of the conversation Liz and Dawud are having. It’s cool – you should check it out.

So, this is home base. Whenever Lani or I become inspired to post about something we learned (or relearned), we’ll post it and link back here. We invite you to join us.

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