Hello Girlfriends – Mark Twain affirmed, “Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” 

We all have people in our lives that either inspire us or bring us down.  I call the ones that bring us down basement people and I call the ones that pick us up balcony people.  The balcony people triumph in your accomplishments, they are your cheerleaders, the ones that will encourage you and bring you to new heights.  These are the people I choose to surround myself with.

You can pick them out pretty quickly – be around a person a few times and you should have them pegged by their conversation.  The balcony people will find positive in even the not so good situations – they will see the light even in the dark.  Then there’s the basement people – these are the ones that will complain, can’t see the good in anything and seem to want to bring you down with them.  They will find reason to complain and find everything wrong with a situation.  They exude negativity and won’t be happy until they transfer their negative ideas and energy to someone else.

Bottom line – they will drain you and you’ll feel exhausted after leaving their presence.  Sometimes you’ll even feel as if something hit you.  They are the joy busters.  The great news is that we have a choice to either be around these types of people or not.

So ask yourself, do I want to be around balcony people and have them lift me up or do I want to be around basement people and go down to the dark abyss of negativity with them.  Now ask yourself what type of person am I?  Am I a balcony person – singing, dancing on the platform of life or am I a basement person bringing others down and stealing their and most importantly your own joy?  It’s time to go out there and dance to sing our songs of joy!

May the possibilities of today excite us!

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Hello Girlfriends – When life serves us lemons let us be sure to make lemonade! Imagine the sour taste of lemons but when sugar is added it makes a gentle sweet summer drink.  How many lemons have been served your way and what have you done with those lemons?

Turn those lemons into lemonade!

The choice is yours – those beautiful lemons that get thrown our way sometimes out of the blue – not expecting lemons – these are the situations that blow us away.  A pink slip, a loss of a loved one, a divorce – when these things happen do we fall in the dark abyss and rely on others to get us out or do we pick ourselves by the boot straps and make something good – something positive out of the darkness?

I believe that goodness can come out of every situation – but sometimes we are so marred by the negative – by the why is this happening to us that we loose sight and get completely clouded and in our clouds we don’t get to experience even the simple joys of everyday life.  There’s always a bigger picture even in the midst of the chaos in our life.  The bigger picture is the lemonade.  The rainbow across the horizon.  We have to train ourselves, train our minds to stop and look at the bigger picture.  There could be a reason for you to loose that job – it’s possible a better one awaits you with benefits and more money.  There can be a reason for that separation from a loved one – maybe it’s a time for self evaluation and self growth.

Do we choose to expand and change our thoughts and old agreements we’ve made with ourselves in order to think in a positive light and make lemonade out of lemons.

Remember, may the possibilities of today excite us!

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