Happy Friday and welcome to a wonderful Christmas Eve! We have less than 17 hours remaining until Christmas for a more accurate countdown please click >HERE <. May the joy of the season be plentiful and your gratitude become immense.
The holiday season extends all the way through to January 2nd this year and the plans we make and execute now will help us all have a better 2010. The last few Fridays I have posted some tips for a better year ahead hare are the links to those and I hope you take time to review them.
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A better you is always a possibility, a better husband, father, son or a wife, mom, or daughter. It is right now within you and that is what I continue with today as step 8.
Step eight ~ Everything you need to be a better and improved contributor is within you right now. The check up from the head up is crucial here.
Lets take inventory.
One brain that we often utilize only 10-15% of the time. It is our super computer and it can lead us to higher ground or it can take us to new lows. We control it, or do we let it control us.
As the spirit and soul within our bodies we can focus on using our mind for better things, more productive things. More on this in coming weeks, I promise.
On with our inventory, two ears, two eyes, and one mouth. The very fact that we have this ratio for sight and hearing lends factual evidence that we should watch and listen more than we speak. We should listen for God to speak to us and watch for evidence that we can make a difference when we choose too.
We choose again to control our mouth and voice, often we speak to soon, or to often. Let the nature of the world sink in to our thought process before we jump to conclusions. Seldom is a decision so desperate that we need to make it before some thought or more factual assessment.
Step nine ~ Decide to Act Now. Sounds simple right, we can buy a gratitude journal or create one but if we never use it or seldom reflect on it we have another notebook plain and simple. We can listen to the self talk over and over belittle us and know that it is harmful but if we decide to let it continue without much fore thought it will continue to harm Those are just the first two steps that we need to decide to act now. The other six that come after it will make a difference in our lives if we only decide to act with mindful intent and resolve that we choose to never again live a sub standard life. It all begins with you.
Step Ten ~ Control what enters your body. Garbage in can only give garbage out. Whether we are talking about computers or a trash can it means the same when we are talking about our stomach with food, our lungs with nicotine or tobacco or our liver with alcohol.
When we put that garbage in the natural order of things will take over and we will put garbage out.
Whether it is the reflection in the mirror, the cough or wheeze at our next breath or the hangover and toxic levels within after drinking too much. We will reap what we sowed.
So why do we do it when we hate the result from the intake.
Good question, pleasure vs. pain I'm sure more pleasure in eating than the long term painful effects that are surely coming. Reflect on that question the next time your jeans are too tight or the shirt is not fitting right. Control what enters your body and know that your in charge.
The holiday will come and go but your year, this next year is all yours to build and grow.
I will list them all on the last day of 2010 with more surprises.
But for now enjoy your Friday Flow and your Christmas even and keep smiling!
A video that I wanted to share to add some flair to the post and your heart and spirit. I hope you enjoy it.
Just flowing into Friday with you and
sending you a smile along the journey.
May your smiles abound.
May your joy lift another spirit.
May you stay hungry and stay foolish!
May your heart be warmed because it always was.
Smiles sent your way this day and always!
Happy Friday everyone! : )
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