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THE DAY THAT TURNS YOUR LIFE AROUND…

I recently heard a You tube video with Jim Rohn and he had a clip entitled, “The Day That Turns Your Life Around.”  For any of you that have not heard it, I will share his wisdom and the actual video.  Jim Rohn was mentor to Tony Robbins, inspirational speaker and motivator. 

Here are 4 words that can turn your life around:

  1. DISGUST – I’ve had it!  E N O U G H – you have hit your you know what level.
  2. DECISION MAKING – Time to clean up a list of decisions.  You make lists, you study the opportunities and now it’s time to actually take action.
  3. DESIRE – Wanting something bad enough.  You hear a song, a sermon, a conversation with a friend that makes you think.  When we have our walls down, we can then welcome all experiences.  It starts with desire.
  4. RESOLVE – Say I will do it and actually do it.  Promising yourself that you’ll never give up.  You don’t give up until it makes sense to give up.


 

When you don’t allow to let go of your past, it creates barriers and walls for your future.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Jim Rohn

Remember, may the possibilities of today excite you!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

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FORGIVENESS is certainly a way to HAPPINESS….

Paul Boese, a botanist who lived in the late 1600s early 1700s once stated, “Forgiveness does not change the past but it does enlarge the future.” I pondered on this quote, and the more I pondered the more aware of his words and meaning.

To forgive is not to forget, but forgiveness is the first step in healing ourselves.  We have to start somewhere.  Forgive someone that has wronged us, not due to the fact they deserve to be forgiven but only because we love ourselves so much that we don’t need to keep carrying the un-forgiveness baggage around.  Believe me it truly weighs you down.  How many people do you know including yourself that carry this heavy burden around all day and night with them?  They are the ones that have the bitter faces because they don’t know how to forgive another for their injustice to them.

To forgive means to healHealing ourselves is the way to wholeness.  To be the best person we can be for ourselves first.  To forgive is to be noble.  I often state to people when I speak of forgiveness – “If our Creator has forgiven us so many times over for our failings, how can we be more powerful and Omni-potent than HIM and not forgive our fellow man.”  By not forgiving we make ourselves larger than life and larger than our Creator.  Believe me we are not that BIG my friends.

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Forgive because we LOVE ourselves!

Learn then to forgive, you will get rid of so much weight and excess baggage off your shoulders and in your heart; but don’t forgive haphazardly, forgive with your whole heart – mean it – say it – you will release so much and not only that you will feel empowered!  Forgive your parents, your brothers, sisters, friends, forgive GOD!  Forgive yourself for all your mishaps and failings – acceptance will begin at that time.  So take the time to write that letter to someone that has wronged you, or make the phone call to let them know that they are forgiven.  It’s a beautiful thing and so much joy will be awaiting you.

The acceptance and love of self is to forgive.

You will definitely know when you have forgiven someone – when you see the person or a picture of them and it does not cause any emotional reactions.  Believe me its freeing – it’s an emotional release – it’s so healing and it moves you to a place of peace.  Going back to that quote from Paul Boese, our past cannot be changed, but surely our futures can be enlarged by the choices we make and my only hope is that someone can read this and it may stir a change in them in a way that they will either forgive someone or ask for forgiveness from someone in their life.

Remember, may the possibilities of today excite us all!

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MAY I HAVE YOUR EAR?

listening 150x150 MAY I HAVE YOUR EAR?“The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them.”—

Ralph Nichols

 

Have you ever been in a situation that you needed an “ear” from a friend – someone that could be there and allow you to talk, cry or just vent?

BUT INSTEAD….

You get someone that gives you advice, tells you what you should do and isn’t giving you what you need…..

So I dedicate this post to all of you that have given your ear and time to listen.  KUDOS and GOOD JOB!

So many times in life we want a good friend that can sit by us and truly listen – the word here is:

L I S T E N

No voice, no advice only to listen.  The listener allows you to vent, to cry, and to express your feelings.

This is a true joy to have a friend that allows this gift.  Yes, it truly is a gift.

We all can be better listeners.

We have agendas; we don’t want people to hurt.  We want to offer advice and solve problems.

B U T

Not always do we need someone to solve our problems.  Not always do we need advice.

S O ME T I M E S

We want someone to JUST LISTEN.

So next time you’re in a situation where a friend comes to you and wants to “TALK” it might be a good thing to ask –

“Did you want me to just listen?”

O R

“Do you want my opinion and advice?”

This shows compassion, love and respect for the individual.

Remember, may the possibilities of today excite you!

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LIVING LIFE OUT LOUD AND SLOWING DOWN….

Living out loud 150x150 LIVING LIFE OUT LOUD AND SLOWING DOWN....There are 3 things that we know for sure about life:  it has a beginning, it will end some day, and we should make the most of it while in between.

It’s the gap – the in between that I want to write about today.

This is what I call the GAP – the place between 2 places.

How are you living in the gap? 

Are you living in a timid place full of fear?

-or-

Are you living in JOY full of laughter and peace?

To fully live life out loud means to smell the roses, enjoy the view, take the opportunity to meet and smile at a stranger and truly touch a life for that moment in time.

Sometimes we take life so seriously that we forget to exhale.  We run from one place to the next place and forget where we’ve been.  RUSH, FAST, HURRY is part of our vocabulary.  We don’t make time for ourselves because we’re too busy taking care of everyone else.  We even think it’s selfish to make time for ourselves.

Allow me to dispel that myth.

It’s okay to take care of yourself – to breathe – to exhale.

In my opinion, if you don’t exhale then you are probably almost on the verge of burnout.  It’s time to charge your batteries and take care of YOU.

So I believe there is a co-relation between slowing down and living your life out loud.

Do the things that matter most in life like spending time with your family, your loved ones.  Take the time to show the most important people in your life that they matter and you care.  Take the time to spend with friends.  Take that spontaneous trip.  In fact, I write this post on an airplane flying to Chicago.  My son is a pilot and he had sent me a text the night before stating he was flying to my town and if I wanted to catch a flight to Chicago with him since he had a few days off.  I pondered, and yes I was busy with work but I had the opportunity and I seized the moment – YES – I will!  Work will always be there, errands to run will be run, work will get done but precious moments with loved ones leave you with the memories of a lifetime.  So memories I created by going to Chicago with Kevin.

“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.” Robert Louis Stevenson

Remember, may the possibilities of today excite you!

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WHAT BRINGS YOU JOY?

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This is a time to be unabashedly honest with yourself and NO JUDGEMENT ALLOWED!  Every time I sit down with someone in my cozy office (presently glowing with holiday decorations), this question inevitably comes up. 

“What brings you joy?” 

For a lot of people, the answer is, “I’m really not sure.”  I often get people staring at me in a state of wonder…wondering why answering this question hasn’t been more important to them before. 

Here is why taking the time to answer this question is indeed soooo important; it’s because, if we want to invite more JOY into our lives, we first have to know what makes us FEEL JOYOUS!  So how do we go about finding our joy?  The first step is to go out there and EXPLORE your world with fresh eyes, and a totally open heart.  Yes, I completely appreciate that this may sound a bit cliché and cheesy even.  However, hopefully you can get past that and really hear what I am asking you to do.  Exploring your world may mean, stepping outside of your comfort zone and trying new things.  If you find yourself sabotaging your attempts to explore, by hearing and inner monologue something like, “don’t try that you will hate it…” and so on, tell yourself, “thank you for sharing, but people change and I’m going to try it anyways.”

The fact that people are changing all the time, is a really important thing to take into account while exploring for joy.  People do change and something that you may not have enjoyed at one point may be something that you would really love now.   This is why having fresh eyes, and an open heart is so important while doing this!  One way to encourage yourself to explore your world a bit more, is to make a list of things you want to do this season.  It may look like…

  1. Go Ice Skating, or a hike, or a walk on the beach (depends where you live)
  2. See a holiday concert or show
  3. Meet a friend for hot chocolate at a new coffee shop
  4. Look at Ticketmaster and buy tickets to an event
  5. Go to the Art Museum
  6. Send out an inspiring email to your friends and family 
  7. Try a winter sport that you thought you would never do
  8. Go to a  holiday party that you would originally have declined
  9. Go Christmas shopping in a town or city you haven’t been to yet
  10. Take a kid (yours or borrow one) to see Santa

Your list can look like anything you want! So start exploring and getting to know yourself a bit more.  Start every morning with, “Hello JOY, this is _________, I want to formally invite you to spend the day with me.”  Will you feel a bit silly doing this?  Most likely, yes.  But, isn’t being silly a great way to invoke the energy of joy?

Wishing you a season of unlimited JOY!

Erin Williams, LMSW, BCD, CHt

www.healingplacecounseling.com

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DO YOU EXPECT – OR ACCEPT?

expectations1 DO YOU EXPECT   OR ACCEPT?We set ourselves up for disappointment when we expect…….instead of accepting.

My Question is: 

“Why don’t we drop our expectations and open ourselves up to being pleasantly surprised by life and the people around us each day?”

Allowing your past and yourself to be proven wrong, while accepting and looking for new possibilities or behaviors that you like; can free you up to receive amazing results.

What’s normal and expected isn’t always what life delivers – these are the surprises, the AH-HA moments, the triumphants or the disappointments that come our way.

When there are expectations in life and these expectations are not met, resentment happens towards another and yourself.  When we expect to be the best and we don’t do our best in our perfect minds, then we disappoint ourselves; don’t get me wrong here, I am a proponent to strive for your best, but the key here is to not be so hard on yourself when you fall short of the best.  To live in expectations is so much more difficult then living in acceptance.  Think of the times that you’ve been in expectation.  Let’s take for example you have a new love in your life or even an existing love and your birthday is coming up.  He comes to you and says:

“I have a very special surprise planned for us for Saturday night for your birthday.”

Right away our surprise sensory goes off in our brain and we start to manufacture these great surprises, we envision, we know that he knows exactly what we want and thus it’s in the bag and we feel even more excited.  We can’t wait until Saturday night we may even go as far as asking a few times because we can’t stand it.

What is it about surprises that we love so much but yet can’t wait to hear what that surprise is?

Saturday rolls around and you are expecting to be surprised.  Remember the expectation has been building as each day goes by.  You get ready and you leave the house and what you expected and hoped to happen does not!

Disappointment fills your heart because your plan was for a romantic candlelight dinner for two, maybe even flowers thrown into the mix.  You are not happy – you expected something else and you got another!

How could all this have been different?

ONE WORD – ACCEPTANCE….

To accept a surprise was coming your way and being in gratitude from the first time you heard that something was being done for “YOU”; instead of creating expectations in our heads and later being disappointed.  Living life at it’s fullest - living in the spirt of the moment!

In optimism there is MAGIC

In pessimism there is NOTHING

In positive acceptance there is thrill of SUCCESS

So next time we are confronted with expectations versus acceptance which road will you choose?

Do you have a story to share where you expected and you were disappointed?

Remember, may the possibilities of today excite us all!

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WHAT IS IT ABOUT LOVE?

Unchained Melody ~ I invite you to watch the music video and feel the love….dedicated to each one of you that know love or have experienced love……

If one wishes to know love, one must live love, in action.  Leo Buscaglia

We are all born from Gods’ love – we die with Gods’ love and we do all we can do to find love in between our birth and our death.  Searching, seeking and longing for that true love……we were created to LOVE….

What is it about LOVE and why is it so hard to find?

I’m certain there are thousands upon thousands of stories written on the subject of ecstacy and longing.  Music galore about rising in love or falling out of love and many sonnets written about the heart connection.

We find love, we spend time with love, and know this must be LOVE, and then we do all we can to sabotage love, and walk away from it, in order to go find a more suitable love, for we think the grass is greener on the other side.    

I really don’t get it – Do you?

Is love an emotion, a feeling, a verb or noun?  The road to love can be long or not so long, can be lovely, can be adventurous, can be filled with joy or pain, can be a multitude of things.  I looked up the definition of love and this is what I found.  Love is a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person.  When I Googled, “What is it about love,” I found:  QUIZ: Is it Love?  WOW – now you can take a quiz to make sure it’s love! (I’m not sure if I want to do that)…..

Scientists say that the brain chemistry of infatuation is akin to mental illness – which gives new meaning to “madly in love.”

Love is about how the other person makes you feel.  The fact of the matter is that love involves non-verbal reactions – synaptic (chemical) connections within our brains.  Since I love to research, I did some research on LOVE. 

I discovered that the species that stick to one mate usually have a rich flow of another chemical called vasopressin, the “monogamy” chemical.  Experiments done with males injected with this chemical brought out all the evidence needed.  Isolating males before and after mating, he was indifferent to all females.  But 24 hours after mating, he is hooked for life.  The jealous husband syndrome sets in too.

Another chemical is oxytocin, the “cuddling” chemical.  It promotes the need to be physically held, have close contact with the mater, and makes the sexes more caring.  It can be released simply by a lover’s look, smell or even a fantasy.

When infatuation subsides, another chemical takes over which is responsible for intimate relationships, these chemicals are created by endorphins.  They make a relationship steadier, intimate, dependable, warm and a great sharing experience.  They do not induce a giddy high, but calmness and stability….hence the reason why people stay married.  This chemical is addictive so the longer a couple stays married, the longer two people stay together.  It is endorphins that trigger grief on a spouse’s death or long separation, those yearnings for togetherness.  Adrenaline love is being in love with the idea of being in love.  With endorphin love, we like loving someone. 

There are foods that can intensify love…..

We eat aphrodisiacs (named after the Greek Goddess of Love – Aphrodite) to enhance love:  chocolate, oysters, turtle eggs eaten raw with salt and lime (haven’t tried this one yet); asparagus, almonds, avocado, bananas, basil, figs, garlic and honey.  It was suggested by a very “special man” in my life – “Why not prepare a dinner to include each of these foods?”

Now that we know about the chemicals and foods involved in the “love” process:

What is it about love and the longing to have it in our lives?

There are so many dating sites to meet the “ONE” but yet we are lonelier and lonelier as a society.  Here are a few statistics from Match.com:  People over age 50 makes up Match.com’s fastest growing segment of users, with a 300% increase since 2000. 

WHAT is that all about?

Is it because our biological clocks of younger years is ticking away and we wake up one day with more wrinkles and the reality that we are not getting any younger and no one to share our golden years with…..

I WANT A PARTNER/MATE NOW SYNDROME?

 75% of women and 81% of men in their 50s experience a serious, exclusive relationship after a divorce.  (this to me is great news)

There really are a lot of fish in the sea:  According to the Census Bureau, 29% of adults age 45-59 are now single, compared with only 19% in 1980. 

I listen to so many single women and I hear, “Where are the men?” I listen to so many single men and they say, “Where are the women?”  They must “NOT” be out there since I’m hearing the same thing from both sexes; or are they and the real reason we haven’t found the ONE for us is because we have been so busy in dating so many men and men women, that it’s been a distraction in truly discovering ourselves out and working on US?  I read in Don Miguel Ruiz book, The Mastery of Love that we must be 100% complete in ourselves in order to attract that perfect one for you.   Once you accept yourself just the way you are, the next step is to accept your partner.

It makes sense to me, does it you?

If you have the eyes of love, you just see love wherever you are, even in the imperfect – Wabi SabiWhen you perceive with the eyes of love, you can connect your will with the will of another dreamer, and the dream becomes ONE.  Then you can see with the eyes of an eagle or transform into any kind of life.  With your love you connect with the eagle and you become the wings.  But to do this, you need to clean the mind of fear and perceive with the eyes of love.  If you can open your heart completely to your partner, you can reach heaven through your love.

When we fulfill the needs of our mind and our body, our eyes see with love.  We see God everywhere.  I love what Don Miguel Ruiz says, “But when we know that our heart is a magical kitchen, we are always generous, and our love is completely unconditional.”  I love the anology of our heart being a magical kitchen…..

I believe we have this “Jerry McGuire” notion of love in the famous line from the movie where Tom Cruise tells Renee Zellweger , “You complete me.”  Are you kidding me – why did they not edit that line from the movie?  Hey, it’s Hollywood and they can say anything to make us say, “AWWWWWHHHHHH – why doesn’t anyone say that to me????”  So we look for someone that can say to us, “You complete me.”  I believe a better term may be – “You compliment me.”……. It truly is a beautiful gift to us when we compliment and not complete.  I much rather use the term from the movie, “As Good As It Gets” where Jack Nicholson tells Helen Hunt, “you make me want to be a better man.”

Once we awaken to self and clean up our houses (our temples -mind and body), then the awakening is like being at a party where there are hundreds of people and everyone is drunk except you.  You are the only sober person at the party.  Most humans see the world through their emotional wounds, through their emotional poison.  Here lies the problem of not being awake and aware.

When in the awakened state, your heart is an expression of the Spirit, an expression of Love, an expression of Life.  It’s being aware that you are Life.  When you are aware that you are the force that is Life, anything is possible.  Miracles happen all the time, because those miracles are performed by the heart.  The heart is in communion with the human soul, and when the heart speaks even with the resistance of the mind, something inside you changes; your heart opens another heart, and TRUE LOVE is possible.  It’s in opening another’s heart there lies the chemicals, the passion, the Love that we are ALL either trying to find or keep.

My girlfriend Giovanna stated it so eloquently to me this past week, “almost all relationships start with what can I “get” from it rather then what can I “bring” to it; I believe that we have to be selfless and selfishness abounds us these days….the other part is to choose wisely.  We tend to choose what is familiar to us whether it feels good or not because it is what we know…we change it by our thoughts about ourselves, our actions and constant vigilance of those thoughts…..BELIEVE IN YOURSELF!

WE MUST FEEL WORTHY OF LOVE FOR LOVE TO COME…..

Love enables you to stand for yourself in an honorable and gracious way; with no hidden agendas; with no room for negativity.  In its purest form – UNCONDITIONAL!  My friend Jimmy has a website Life Architects andLovers WHAT IS IT ABOUT LOVE? stated it this way on my guest blogger Angie’s comments on, “Only Time Can Reveal If It’s Real“:  “true love is attached to us with invisible ties. These ties connect our spirits and souls that only we can understand.”

For the MAGIC of love and the volumes written and sung about it; it continues to afflict us generation after generation.

So the bottom line in all this LOVE talk is we are put on this earth to experience LOVE in its purest form – to get closer to our GOD for HIS love is unconditional – and in so doing we discover that HE is LOVE, LIGHT and TRUTH – all the things that we search for in a lifetime are all wrapped up in our Divine.  We crave all these things in human form – so it is in acquiring the eyes of GOD and having your eyes fixed on HIM, then this should make the love process easier to find and keep, for love never fails…..  

Where there is GREAT LOVE, there are GREAT MIRACLES…..

L’amore vince tutto (Love conquers all)…. (Italian)

I invite you to share your thoughts on this?

Remember, may the possibilities of today excite us all!

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COURAGE….WE ALL HAVE IT, SO WHY NOT USE IT?

Hello Girlfriends -

Dr. Martin Luther King wrote, “courage faces fear and thereby masters it.” 

When we come to the edge of all the light we have and we must take a step into the darkness of the unknown.  We must believe one of two things;’ either we will find something firm to stand on, or we will be taught to fly. It takes courage to fly!

I would say have the courage to ACT and to FLY - you want a new job, a new beginning, a better relationship – why wait? ACT now!

Courage and fear are polar opposites.

It takes courage not to fear! Fear is debilitating, but courage is empowering! Fear keeps us stuck, but courage keeps us moving.

Believe in yourself, believe in your passion, believe in your dreams (no matter how big or small they may be).

Change requires not to fear but to have courage. Take the baby steps you need to pull yourself in the direction of your dreams! You notice I said baby steps – I didn’t say giant steps. One foot in front of the other. The motion will take you to the next level.

Dream BIG- life is too short not to dream big! Be the one writing the book instead of the one reading the book. Write the best novel for your life – write your new story.

In the wind of change we find our new direction.

It takes courage to really live, it takes courage to be open to new ways of thinking. Make it happen, it’s up to you now!

Fear gets in the way, especially fear of the unknown. Can you replace that fear with courage instead? We get in a pattern and if fear has been in that pattern we continue to have fear as our driving force.  How about replacing the fear with courage instead.

Be courageous in doing things differently, change requires courage.

Look within, discover where you are? Do you live from fear or from courage? It’s time you lived out of courage and be excited about life and all it has to offer.  Take the steps in the direction of courage  and start living!

 
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Remember the Wizard of Oz

Remember, may the possibilities of today excite us all!

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HOW DO YOU LIVE YOUR LIFE TO THE FULLEST?

Moment 150x150 HOW DO YOU LIVE YOUR LIFE TO THE FULLEST?Hello Girlfriends – This post was sparked by a random seat that I happened to take at a local restaurant bar counter.  As I took my seat, I noticed a young man in his 20′s sitting there with a stack of note cards in front of him.  I immediately thought he is studying for something and needs to memorize.  I later found out that he was a helicopter pilot for the U.S. Marine Corp.   I was there with my daughter and as my daughter got up to step outside for a few minutes, he turned to me and asked this question….

How do you live your life to the fullest?

At first I was taken by surprise and didn’t really think he was talking to me.  In fact, I glanced over my back to make sure there wasn’t anyone else there.  I thought pretty deep question for a bar counter discussion with a total stranger….I even asked him if he was talking to me?  Of course he was!

SO

I paused and allowed my heart to speak from my TRUTH.  I looked within for a moment and answered:

“By living in the moment……”

My girlfriend Marci Calantonio has an eloquent way to bring people back to the moment and realize we truly ONLY have the moment.  She states, “look down at your feet – where are they planted right now”?  They are right in front of you and since you can actually see them then you are in this moment.  This is the only place you can be right now.  If your mind is someplace else, bring it back to where your feet are – you must be aligned with your mind, body and spirit.

You are only living where your feet are.

By focusing in the PAST you bring the past to the moment and the past doesn’t serve the moment.  We learn and gain insight from the past and then we release it to the…..

Proverbial Past Abyss.  Ciao for now baby!

To live in the total fulfillment we must stay focused in the HERE AND NOW…..

To be focusing on the FUTURE – not such a good idea either, for the future is not right here and right now.  It has its fair amount of uncertainty  and why even go there unless you are into stressing about the future.  Of course, don’t get me wrong – we must plan for the future and have it in our peripheral vision – not the same as worrying about the future and living in the future.

I chose to live in joy and gratitude for all my experiences (good, bad or indifferent) and I meet each new day with a smile.  Look into each experience which comes to you for some grain of happiness.

Be your own best friend and let the world know you’re happy to be alive!

If you ever get asked the question:

“How Do You Live Your Life To The Fullest?”

How will you answer?

I invite you to share your thoughts on living your life at its fullest……….

Remember, may the possibilities of today excite you!

 

 

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THE POWER OF WORDS….

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Hello Girlfriends – Lisa Darden, a friend from my Facebook Group, “The Women of Facebook” shared this video.  I’ve watched it before but on that particular day my heart was stirred to write a post on it.

The video can be accessed by the above link- Notice the words on the simple signage that the blind man wrote…..

“I’M BLIND PLEASE HELP”

The Good Samaritan with her distinguishable shoes took time out of her day to change the blind man’s perspective and stated…….

“IT’S A BEAUTIFUL DAY AND I CAN’T SEE IT”

(the words “beautiful” and “see” stand out so vividly)…..

I have written about the power of the word before under a different subject line – I AM Statements.  The post spoke of the power of TWO words……

I AM…..

 

The Way we say things can be taken as negative or it can be taken as positive.  In this lovely feel good video, the blind man wrote a plea for help – for monetary assistance.  By changing his words and adding ……

“LIGHT” (SIGHT)

to his words he reaps the benefits of the beauty of the day.  He’s no longer blinded by his words but enriched by the givers of money!

HOW DO WE SPEAK?

We can say the same thing two different ways but get better results when said with a “positive” life affirming tone.  For me I want to be more aware when I speak.  When I’m talking to people, I remind myself by simple statements to myself such as, “notice what you are saying, and the tone you use when you say it.”

DO YOU COME FROM A PLACE OF LOVE?

There’s an old saying, “you catch more bees with honey.”

It’s the sweet essence of words that flow with true intention that color our world.

So in this video I see a beautiful soul that was aware of herself and made a choice to reach out to make a difference in a blind man’s world.  We truly must be aware of the world around us and the words we create with each breath we take.  Are they life affirming or are they not?

THE POWER OF THE WORD

Think of a time that you were around a negative person.  Can you remember the words that were flowing from their mouths?  Can you remember how you felt?

NOW

Think of a time that you were around a positive person.  Can you remember the words that were flowing from their mouths?  Can you remember how you felt?

I’m sure the first scenario as you thought of the situation you were in made you cringe a bit.  Didn’t bring love and light into your heart.  The second scenario probably made you smile, feel joy and certainly brought love and light into your heart.

I ask each one to a CALL TO ACTION

Let’s together hold each other accountable for the words we use in the course of the day.  Let’s be aware of what comes out of our mouths to the people we interact with.

Remember, may the possibilities of today excite you!

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