Dream Big
I had built walls that separated me from achieving my dreams, that separated me from even trying to do so. #dreambig
Reach Your Goals
Dreams on hold? It’s not about never having enough time. It’s about FEAR. #reachyourgoals
Easy Button
My dream got put on hold, & I can’t seem to take it off – I think my “easy” button isn’t working right – who do you call to get it fixed?
Wake Up
Natalie is a good friend of mine. I would like to request that my friends click on this and if you feel inspired by what Natalie is doing, to click on the Facebook, Twitter, and Linked In button below the video.
We need this kind of programing on T.V., so this is our chance to tell the Networks that we will support these types of shows.
Click please and help change T.V. programming to something that is encouraging and motivational and about Good News!
Busy
Is this you? I was always so busy working, taking care of the house & children, I said, “as soon as the kids are gone, then I will write.”
Dreams
When I was younger, I had the dream of writing bestselling books, but even that ended up on the backburner – I was always too busy. #dreams
Facebook Experiment
I am conducting an experiment. I was having a conversation with my assistant about my writing a book. I have been gathering the past couple of years of posts to see what might be included in the book. She was talking about my writing and how good she thought is was.
I said that I wasn’t that sure that people really liked my writing because I have almost 750 friends here on FB but I get so few likes or comments, that I didn’t think that it appealed or meant much to most people. I know that a few of my friends say that they like my writing, but I didn’t think that it speaks to the majority.
So Jacqueline Davis says that it is because of how FB works. If you are not liking or sharing or commenting to someone’s posts, after a while you just don’t see those posts any longer. So probably the majority of the 750 friends don’t see what I write.
So here is the experiment. If you read this post either comment or like the post so I can see how many people actually have this post come up on their feed.
If you feel so called, I would welcome any ideas on what I should include in my book (based on past posts).
Thanking you in advance and hoping you will say something if you see this.
Simple Acts of Kindness
Great video and great song and lyrics.
Simple acts of kindness are what we used to call being neighborly and somehow we lost that back in the 60’s to 70’s. It is something simple we can bring back into our lives by just noticing other people and what they may be going through. It doesn’t take much to give up a seat on the bus or let the mother dealing with toddlers have the closer parking space.https://www.facebook.com/libertatearo/videos/10152071153411204/?pnref=story
clearly defined goals
“In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia, until we ultimately become enslaved by it.” – Robert Heinlein – 1907-1988, Novelist and Screenwriter
When I read this quote, I thought that sounds like some of my “wasted” days. Days where I seem to be like an unmoored boat, just being led around by the tides with no particular destination or goal. The danger therein, is that I will end up on the rocks with a hole in my side taking in water and wondering, how did this happen?
I remember when the kids were young, that I had a basket that I would carry from room to room and I would pick up the various toys, clothes, shoes, school work from my kids and my husband, and then move to their rooms dropping off the items that belonged to them. It was a tip I got from some magazine on being organized, because otherwise I spent half my day walking back and forth from the bedrooms to the other rooms in the house. I was able to clean up in half the time because I was focused.
Daily trivia is just a bunch of habits that don’t really accomplish anything. When my mind is having a hard time landing, I will play the game Free Cell (a form of solitaire) until my mind quits arguing in circles with my heart and lets my intuition really speak to me. I used to think that this was a waste of time and just me trying to avoid what I needed to do. Then I read that Dr. Maya Angelou also played solitaire to free up her mind to think. She was such a talented woman, that I figured I was in good company.
So I thought, since Free Cell isn’t my “daily trivia” what is? I think that besides the TV (I record my favorite shows and then on those really hard days at work, I will watch several buzzing through the commercials to detox from my day) what it really is for me are those days when I have no focus. I sort of wander through the rooms in my house starting but not finishing project after project. Usually I am avoiding something I need to do, so I flitter from one thing to another and at the end of the day, I can’t see that I actually accomplished anything.
How much of our day do we fill up with things that don’t really matter? Have you ever walked by one of your teenagers or do you remember those conversations when you were a teenager on the phone – it sounded like this – “whatcha doing? Nothing. Me too.” I remember walking by those conversations where my son or daughter would be talking on the phone for hours bored by the conversation but more afraid of not having anything to do, so they would continue to talk about nothing. It could be T.V. or “trashy novels” or talking on the phone – almost anything that takes up time but without actually accomplishing something until it just becomes a way of life. You get up and go to work, come home, grab something to eat, sit on the couch until it is time to go to bed and do it all over again, week after week, after week.
So if you identify with being enslaved by daily trivia, how do you break free of the chains? It sounds like a pain to do, but you create some form of a “to do” list. Not the kind where you check off a box as in “did the dishes”. This is something different. This is more like a bucket list, but of things that you can easily fit into your everyday life. Watch a documentary about something that interests you and learn something new. Read a book that can create a shift for you or feed your soul, like a Rumi poem or Dr Maya Angelou’s poems. Walk to the park, not for exercise but to get your mind out of the normal routine rut and start it thinking down some new path to explore. Really open your eyes to see what you would normally walk by, with unfocused eyes. Have a spa day. Handwrite a letter to someone you love and mail it off – they will be so surprised to get it, because no one does that anymore.
So you get the idea – it doesn’t have to be life changing or dramatic, but it might just spice up your life a little and get you out of the enslavement one step at a time. What ideas can you think of that I didn’t? I would love it if you would all write down just one thing you would like to do this week – and make it fun!
Inspirational Quotes
“Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.” – Lou Holtz
“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?'” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw
“The greatest glory in living lies not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail.” – Nelson Mandela
“If we all did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.” – Thomas Edison
“Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.” – Wayne Dyer
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
“The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.” ~C.C. Scott
“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” -Amelia Earhart
“Although the world is full of suffering, it’s full also of the overcoming it.” -Helen Keller
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” – Mohandas Gandhi
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through…” – Maya Angelou
When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too. – Paulo Coelho
To live through the Soul is the highest calling. ~ Caroline Myss
Forgiveness means letting go of a hurtful situation and moving on with your own happiness. ~ Amanda Ford
The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are. ~ J.P. Morgan
Keys of Truth – Growth is potential unlocked – Sheryl Silbaugh
Change is like rain, it begins with a single drop, and one small action linked to another becomes a torrential downpour until you have shifted into a new you – Sheryl Silbaugh
April showers – raindrops bouncing off the windowsill, joined together in a delightful dance of community that brings the beauty of spring flowers into our lives – Sheryl Silbaugh
“There are no problems to be solved – just more truth to be revealed” Jeffrey Van Dyk