Monday Mojo Mantra ~01/31/11

Happy Monday everyone! The last day of January and a new month less than 17 hours away.

It does look like parts of the country will be under heavy snow, we look like we will miss most of it here in Pittsburgh since we have a high pressure system. Stay safe where ever you are on the map.

Here is todays Monday Mojo Mantra:

A new day is here and I will live in the moment A new month starts, and I will succeed. I have my target, my goal. I have my plan and I will not let myself down.

Easy enough, having the knowledge that we control our success is the start. Having the goal that we not only want but we have planned for. Planned to succeed and not give up.

A quote:

Only those who will risk going too far can

possibly find out how far one can go.

~T.S. Eliot

What are you going to do with today?

What are you planning to succeed in the new month of February?

Aim ~ Fire ~ Repeat step on till you succeed.

Aim at your goal

Fire your plan and your desire up, what results have been achieved are they in line with your goal? Revisit your actions to align with goal.

Repeat step one AIM!

It really is that easy 2 steps with a whole lot of desire to win!

Have a great day everyone and happy Monday.

A new day is here and I will live in the moment A new month starts, and I will succeed. I have my target, my goal. I have my plan and I will not let myself down.

AIM Now

Fire and desire and ACT now

Repeat as necessary!

My wish for you today and everyday? Enjoy it and Smile!

Share and Care and above allow yourself to enjoy life!

A Monday Morning Mojo Mantra for you today this Monday!

Focus on what you can do today, right now is everything and the only thing relevant to accomplishment of your goal.

Smiles sent your way today and everyday!

Happy Monday everyone! : )

Some thoughts on sharing a smile, your smile with so many who come within your circle of influence.

Till next time....share a smile, make a dream come true and make someone's else a bit happier.

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Sunday Prayer and Sunday Thoughts ~01/30/2011

Happy Sunday to you all hope your day is full of praise, gratitude and family. Smiles that flow easily from joy is my wish for everyone. That they understand the power of the smile on another is my message to those that read my daily posts.

Sunday is a day to worship and give thanks, to share with family and those we care about to rest and recharge for the upcoming week.

I hope you get to do all of these and I hope you take time to pray for some hurting issues in the world today.

A senseless act in Tampa, Florida. Mother of 2 teenagers murders both with a .38 caliber revolver. Leaves a note and sits on the back porch waiting for local police to find her in slippers in a robe, the robe covered in blood. The motive the children were mouthy.

To try to understand is tough, to try to imagine the hurt the community and family and those close to Calyx the daughter at age 16, and Beau, her son, age 13 must feel. Empty, confused, and dazed.

The mother, Julie Schenecker, by all accounts was a good mother, great upbringing, friendly and part of the circle of friends in the community. Her pictures now show a woman over the edge with mental anguish coming not pouring out of her body. Tormented her spirit and mental disturbance is the only way to explain how a mother could kill her children without warning. The story is still unfolding but prayers are needed for those that surround this horrific outcome.

A country in free fall, a people filled with anger and civil unrest. My second prayer request is for the region around Egypt and the country itself. A very fragile condition that is putting the whole middle east region in peril. Pray for wisdom and peace as this area becomes even more volatile.

Two stories that take away a smile and joy. Only prayer and turning it over to those who can make a difference on the ground at both locations. Prayer for leadership, for wisdom and for humanity to flow through these people and places.

Thats my Sunday thoughts and Sunday prayers. Being a father I can 't even imagine this happening in relationship to the story of the two teenagers. The realization that two young lives are gone because of a mental illness, or lack of connection to reality it so hard to fathom. So very hard to understand. I only believe that someone anyone with a sense of connection to the mother could of slowed things down for her. Maybe a kind word, or a shoulder lent and and ear given would have atlas enabled help to be sent in their direction.

Maybe.... Maybe not.

A sigh, a deep breath and a prayer sent up to the heavens. I ask you for the same.

May your Sunday be filled with grace and joy, peace and promise, prayer and worship.

That is my Sunday Thought and Sunday Prayer.

God Bless you and Till next time......Smile!!! : )

Stay Hungry ~ Stay Foolish

Happy Sunday everyone

Some thoughts on sharing a smile, your smile with so many who come within your circle of influence.

Till next time....share a smile, make a dream come true and make someone's else a bit happier.

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Saturday Morning Reflection and Projection ~01/29/11

Happy Saturday everyone and welcome to the last few days of the month, the last few days before February rolls in. Thanks so much for the kind comments yesterday and thoughts. I am so grateful that you take the time to share, and to care.

My reflection and projection is set upon ice cream today, how many styles and flavors we do have. How many memories we have about ice cream, the first cone our parents shared with us, the first time we ate so much our stomach hurt.

Good memories, can't think about any bad memories, oh I am sure there are some probably how we cried because we could not have any. LOL

So after shopping at the local store last night I picked up a half gallon, yeah plain old vanilla. I have always like vanilla, love white house which is vanilla with cherry halves inside. Last week we had butter pecan.

I don't remember it being so hard to open a half gallon, or so hard to get that scoop into the first layer. So I let patience take hold and walked away from it.

Life is like that the first layer of someone is a little hard to break through but once you do you find a kindness and caring person waiting to share a smile and a kind word and conversation.

Memories are made and created at wonderful moments of our life.

We have them to reflect upon and to use to remind us that more our right around our next step and turn.

A smile or a kind word can soften that top layer of any hardened spirit. You, yes you have that ability to make a difference.

Back to the ice cream, its soft by now. Its not a bad way to start the morning, a hot coffee and ice cream. Two great tastes.

Like a smile and a kind word to a stranger who just may need it. Two great tastes, that feeling that you made a difference in anthers life.

Enjoy the day!

Happy Saturday everyone!

Just a projection for you today, a smile sent your way.

A smile wide and broad and full of love possibility.

A hope and a prayer that once you receive that smile you can reflect upon it the whole day through.

Till next time......Smile!!! : )

Stay Hungry ~ Stay Foolish

Some thoughts on sharing a smile, your smile with so many who come within your circle of influence.

Till next time....share a smile, make a dream come true and make someone's else a bit happier.

www.makemesmileonline.com

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A video to enjoy this Saturday

Starting the day out with ice cream try it you just may like it!

Flowing into Friday ~01/28/11

Happy Friday to you the very last weekend of January 2011.

Another month gone, nobody seems to mind January going away, the cold, the snow covered roads, oh I guess the snow boarders and skiers might mind but hey they still make snow in February right?

We have about 51 days till spring and how awesome is that huh? The countdown starts:

Spring 2011 Countdown Timer

Think spring quote and a poem:

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

~Anne Bradstreet

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And Spring arose on the garden fair,

Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere;

And each flower and herb on Earth's dark breast

rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.

~Percy Bysshe Shelley, "The Sensitive Plant"

Flowing into the weekend with thoughts of spring. Not a bad plan or trivial idea. I think not. We should all have spring like thoughts about anything our heart yearns for.

We are placed on this planet to have free will. We can choose.

We can choose to think on despair or have an attitude of delight.

We can choose to have jealousy of another or a heart of gratitude.

We can choose. Always have had that power.

Its not were we are raised in location.

Its not who raised us that matters.

It is what we become with what drive we have.

We are all instruments of God, but we get to write the music. We are the music makers and dreamers of dreams. A quote I have shared many times from Willy Wonka.

So today and everyday choose to be an instrument of love. Kind and caring. Sharing that simple sincere smile. Holding that door open for the next person, or letting someone into your lane on the road of life. Be gentle, be kind, be slow to anger but fast to praise.

Praise life! Praise God! You will love the image in the mirror and so will the next person.

Have a great Friday everyone!

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! : )

Some thoughts on sharing a smile, your smile with so many who come within your circle of influence.

Till next time....share a smile, make a dream come true and make someone's else a bit happier.

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Thursday Theory ~01/27/11

A very happy Thursday to you and may your smile light up the darkness in anothers spirit today. We all have that power and ability to be a light house for another. Many times we pass people who have that look of a heavy heart or a ton of thoughts on their mind. A simple, sincere smile can change that even if for just a moment.

We all have that power to be a light house for another. To carry each other even with that simple smile, or act of kindness. Make a difference when the opportunity arises.

Pass that smile forward.

Become an ambassador for the smile.

A video that is worth the watch and listen. A song about wanting to be free of the chains of sadness, worry, intimidation, loneliness and the wish to be a part from those feelings.

Sometimes hope is within us all and can come from a stranger or even a song. Enjoy!

It really is that simple and powerful that smile.

'One love one blood

One life you've got to do what you should

One life with each other

Sisters, brothers...

One love but we're not the same

We got to carry each other Carry each other

One One One One One...'

One sincere smile!

One moment to make a difference for another

One kind gesture

Soar to the sun today

Light up the world with your smile

Choose to make a difference

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My Thursday Theory

Smiles and love sent your way today and everyday!

Enjoy your day and may it be a day filled with

smiles and magic and love!

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 Thursday everyone! : )

Some thoughts on sharing a smile, your smile with so many who come within your circle of influence.

Till next time....share a smile, make a dream come true and

make someone's else a bit happier.

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A Wish on Wednesday ~01/26/11

Happy Wednesday to you and a very sincere smile and warm wishes sent your way this day!

The middle of the week has come and the first month of 2011 is almost over.  What progress have you made on your goals, have you labeled them goals and rid yourself of the word resolution.  To me the very word resolution brings about thoughts of past failures and short term resolve.  Goals tend to mean works in progress that are monitored and adjusted to completion.

Earlier this month I became a contributor to the UM! (Unstoppable ME) blog on Danielle Pierre's web site dpmotivation (dpmotivation.com) .

We both share a passion for helping others to 'get them where they want to be' .

I have started to share my thoughts and passion with her readers and I hope you stop by and support her efforts and maybe even get more inspired and educated or at the very least learn something new.  Smiles sent to Danielle for a very clean and powerful site on the web.  : )

Today is a new day for you and my wish is that you pick yourself up, dust off that idea and wish to better, stronger and wiser and put into action the first step to a better you.

Just one action today, start the momentum. It all begins with you.

 

 

I hope this little Eureka! video at the very least made you smile.  Simplified education for all!

LOL!

So my thought start the action, and move because nothing gets done without action or energy!  Nothing!

My Wednesday Wish for you today!

You can use your life in a very useful and intelligent way.

You can very well transform that negative energy into

a positive energy that empowers you and

makes life meaningful.

Thich Nhat Hanh Quote

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But if we have the energy of compassion and

loving kindness in us, the people around us will

be influenced by our way of being and living.

Thich Nhat Hanh Quote

Two quotes to think upon today!  Smiles sent to you today and everyday!

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.

Some thoughts on sharing a smile, your smile with so many who come within your circle of influence.

Till next time....share a smile, make a dream come true and make someone's else a bit happier.

www.makemesmileonline.com

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Tuesday Gratitude Attitude *New* ~01/25/11

A very happy Tuesday to you all! Smiles sent your way from my Gratitude Attitude. Second week of this topic/post. I truly believe that we all have 'attitude', know doubt about that. We all have that swagger, that confidence, or sadly that anger, or despair at times.

Some of popular belief is that we need and 'Attitude of Gratitude' and I feel if we switch those words around and focus first on the 'Gratitude' the 'Attitude' will change just by the focus alone.

Switch your heart and spirit to thoughts and belief of Gratitude and watch the difference in your life.

So what do you focus on now? What thoughts is your attitude focused on?

Do you believe that you are special? Do you have creative thoughts or destructive thoughts?

Do you live to empower those around you (including the person in your mirror) or do you limit them?

Do you truly believe that you deserve the very best that life has to offer?

Focus on what you have right now in your life. Know that you have everything you need right now to obtain and share happiness. Focus on your health, your children or grand children, your family, your home, nature right outside your window and front door.

A quick video I wanted to share:

click here for some quick thoughts

So many times we get in the habit of limiting thoughts.

We get down or sad, let thoughts of despair in.

Stop it! Ok it truly starts with us and our thoughts. Truly you can change your life, your direction in a split second. Just by changing how your view things in your life.

A split second can change everything.

A view from the top indeed looks much better than a view from the bottom. You see further, it has more light and the sky truly is the limit.

I leave you with this video and I hope you develop that Gratitude Attitude for your life and family.

Enjoy!

Just some thoughts this Tuesday, a video or two,

some new ways to look at becoming the true you!

Happy Tuesday everyone!

May you start to develop that Gratitude Attitude

May you always stay Hungry

May you always stay Foolish

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May you never struggle to live with love

It is inside of you right now that thing called love

Share it, care for it and always be grateful for it

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Smiles sent your way this day and always!


Some thoughts on sharing a smile, your smile with so many who come within your circle of influence.

Till next time....share a smile, make a dream come true and make someone's else a bit happier.

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Monday Mojo Mantra ~01/24/11

Happy Monday everyone! A great day in Pittsburgh as the Pittsburgh Steelers won the NFL's AFC Championship over the New York Jets. Great game and great teamwork as they will play the Green Bay Packers in Super Bowl 45 in Dallas, Texas at Cowboy Stadium.

I know my Chicago Bears lost but my favorite team the Dallas Cowboys lost way before that.

It is what is and that does not define my happiness or grief. They have a standard to live up to in life and we all have our standard to live up to.

So that goes pretty hand in hand to todays Monday Mojo Mantra.

Here it is:

My life, my happiness and joy is not contingent upon anything but what I put out to create the best moment my life can handle at any given moment.

In other words live your day, your moment at the highest standard that you choose. Your in charge of what to be happy about, laugh about. The smiles you give to others, and I only mean sincere smiles, are the best tool to not only share your joy and state but to change theirs for the better.

Life is meant to be enjoyed!

Life is meant to be lived!

Life is meant to be played out to your highest standards.

I have a quote that I share on here from time to time.

It is as follows:

What other people think about you is really

none of your business.

The other quote I want to share today:

“Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listenhard.

Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh.

Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends.

Continue to learn. Do what you love.

Live as if this is all there is.”

~ Mary Anne Radmacher

My wish for you today and everyday? Enjoy it and Smile!

Share and Care and above allow yourself to enjoy life!

A Monday Morning Mojo Mantra for you today this Monday!

Focus on what you can do today, right now is everything and the only thing relevant to accomplishment of your goal.

Smiles sent your way today and everyday!

Happy Monday everyone! : )

Some thoughts on sharing a smile, your smile with so many who come within your circle of influence.

Till next time....share a smile, make a dream come true and make someone's else a bit happier.

www.makemesmileonline.com

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Sunday Prayer and Sunday Thoughts ~01/23/2011

Happy Sunday everyone and a very cold, I mean very cold day here in the Pittsburgh area.

Stay warm today as you enjoy the NFL Championship weekend. In Pittsburgh the town is over the top excited about the Steelers playing for their eighth super bowl appearance and a chance to win their seventh super bowl win.

The town is black and gold crazy today and the smiles will be broad and wide if they pull this off. My choice and pick is that the Steelers win today.

The other game is an old rivalry the Green Bay Packers and the Chicago Bears. This historic game will match in the early game.

The rivalry has played out since 1921 and the Bears have won 92 of the 181 games and tied 6. The Bears are at home and have been labeled underdogs all season and are not favored again. My choice and pick is the the Bears win today.

So that would put the Bears and the Steelers in the Super Bowl in Arlington, Texas (Dallas).

Who are your favorites today? Did you team win? The latter question is for you if you read this post after the fact. Smiles to you all and i hope you enjoy the games.

So today is of course not just the NFL or sports, but it is a day to recharge, refocus, replenish the spirit, soul and mind.

I truly believe Sunday should be a day to spend with loved ones, the other side of our eye lids, meaning a nap and the word of God in the Bible or at church, or on TV.

Many people are home bound or maybe just prefer to listen to the message on radio or tv or the Internet. Many just do their daily devotions and pray on Sunday.

Whatever you do I pray that you take the time to recharge the soul and get into that word called faith. Faith of course is a choice and many people have lost faith or perhaps have given up on faith.

I am not here to place blame or what should or must work for you or anyone else in the faith arena. Let me repeat this in bold letters.

I am not here to place blame or decide what should or must work for you or anyone else in the faith arena.

Having said that.....

Here is what I do believe.

We are spiritual beings by design.

Some quotes to think on.

“You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self.

Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.”

~Richard Bach

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“Convince a man that he is an animal, that his own dignity and self-respect are delusions, that there is no 'beyond' to aspire to, no higher potential self to achieve, and you have a slave.

Let a man know he is himself, a spiritual being, that he is capable of the power of choice and has the right to aspire to greater wisdom and you have started him up a higher road.”

~L. Ron Hubbard

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“When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all. They have been aligned first with their spiritual nature and only then with their physical selves.”

~ Albert Einstien

How the natural order of things are meant to be followed. It pains most to not have a rational knowledge of things to be able to understand life, death and beyond. Oh sure their are plenty of those who are quite happy with black and white with colors that they place upon the canvas of life.

It works for them and that I would never, ever want to dilute or wash away. Not by choice or consultation.

My choice is to allow the spirit of faith to flow among us whether we like it or not. It will touch the soul when it is needed, wanted and chosen. It is and always will be the natural flow.

My thought and prayer is that all of us would believe and trust and respect each other, first with the image in that mirror and then with those in our world.

That is my Sunday Thought and Sunday Prayer.

God Bless you and Till next time......Smile!!! : )

Stay Hungry ~ Stay Foolish

Happy Sunday everyone

Some thoughts on sharing a smile, your smile with so many who come within your circle of influence.

Till next time....share a smile, make a dream come true and make someone's else a bit happier.

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Saturday Morning Reflection and Projection ~01/22/11

Happy Saturday everyone a new day full of moments to enjoy with family, with friends. A day to not only make memories to reflect upon but to project out our love and smiles to the very same people.

I write each day in hope that I can make a difference for just one mind, one person so that they may think a little differently about themselves or a situation and perhaps place a smile on their face with hopes that they pass it on.

That is my mission and hopefully just one can achieve and feel my intent.

My writing is automatic and I type what I feel and think at that moment but my intention is always the same, to send out a smile and kindness.

I often wonder why more of us can not get the purpose of the smile and of a kind word. Why we can't reach out more often and quit the zero sum game that many of us join in on.

Zero sum is a theory that Investopedia describes as follows:

A situation in which one participant's gains result only from another participant's equivalent losses. The net change in total wealth among participants is zero; the wealth is just shifted from one to another.

Life and experience can be that way. A zero sum event where we push our knowledge around but do not partake in accepting of it. It could be working towards a goal that would benefit ourselves and others but in the end we don't open the final door that would help everyone we just look for the door that helps ourselves. By doing that the balance of power and success erodes and no one is really helped.

In relationships we do that, we go about our own agenda that may not be in agreement for the betterment of all parties but if it helps ourselves for the moment we feel like we won but in the end we really lost. Zero sum someone wins and the other loses so no one really wins.

Why not project out our true intention to those we care about. Let the other parties know what we truly want and compromise so that everyone wins. A non zero sum game where the effort helps all parties concerned and not just one group.

Take the hybrid and solar moment for energy. A group of people understand the importance of harnessing the energy of the sun or battery power. They work and put others to work making the goal of using less fossil fuels and the local and national governments provide tax incentives to allow the movement and growth of these energy types to expand. A non zero sum effort where everyone can win.

Take the opposite situation where a group of bankers and investor's created banking and mortgage products that almost destroyed our economy and put investors in a true ZERO SUM game that hurt retirement earnings, employment numbers and placed our economy in jeopardy just so a few could win.

Perhaps we can look at the current rhetoric of health care in America where the large HMO's control who and how much health care is divided out amongst the masses. I support private enterprise and believe that health care should be a competitive product even across state lines, however I also believe that if an United States Armed Forces and the United States Government can provide health care then even the poorest among us should have the chance to provide health care to their family.

It would be nice to think that everyone has a firm footing and has the ability to provide for their family, however reality says that not everyone has that ability. So should we continue a ZERO SUM game of the have and have not's or should we realign our thinking and demand that everyone makes a contribution to society that enables them to have health care for their families.

We need to rethink possibilities and rethink what we do with our opportunities to help each others. We are all in this together and everything we take and use will have an accounting for. The question is will it be a zero sum game or a non zero sum game.

Make a difference today.

Share your personal gifts that God has bestowed on you today.

Become a fanatic for decency today and share your love today.

Happy Saturday everyone!

Just a projection for you today, a smile sent your way.

A smile wide and broad and full of love possibility.

A hope and a prayer that once you receive that smile you can reflect upon it the whole day through.

Till next time......Smile!!! : )

Stay Hungry ~ Stay Foolish

Some thoughts on sharing a smile, your smile with so many who come within your circle of influence.

Till next time....share a smile, make a dream come true and make someone's else a bit happier.

www.makemesmileonline.com

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The ME is really all about YOU! Join today !

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A video to enjoy this Saturday from June 2001 from former President Clinton on this same topic as he saw it.