Monday Mojo Mantra ~02/28/11

Happy Monday to you all and the final and last day of February 2011! Can we say a big yes to that one. No more cold nights and harsh February winds, done after today. Spring is 20 days away!

So how do I celebrate this morning, with orange sherbert/vanilla sherbert and coffee of course. For breakfast! Another resounding YES! LOL

So what do you have planned for this month of March? Ice Cream for breakfast? Not a bad idea trust me. How about flying a kite in the March winds? Planning your flower bed? Marching around the neighborhood with a big smile on your face at 7 am in the morning while everyone else wonders why your so happy! I like it sounds like a good plan. Whats your plan?

So the Monday Mojo Mantra for today is:

Spring is almost here, and my steps shall have a spring in them, my heart shall have love within and my face a smile to share. Beware of the frown on anothers face, it shall not impede my pace!

The march winds will indeed blow this month and yes a snow fall may still come down upon us but the mind set should always be one of hope and promise and not dreed and fear!

Just some simple easy thoughts as we head into a new week and a quote for you to ponder on this last day of March:

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

~Walt Disney

A pretty good reason to move forward into March with a smile! Enjoy your week!

Play Hard, Stay Foolish and Stay Hungry!

Smiles sent your way today and everyday!

Happy Monday everyone! : )

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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 ~02/27/2011

Happy Sunday everyone! Sunday a great day to share praise, to be grateful, to share a smile, to have time for those close to you.

This Sunday is no different. This day we are on the verge of closing out another month.

Februrary 2011 another month for the history books. The middle east has showed us many historic events from Egypt and Libia that still has effects that will ripple in the area and even in our homes.

Gas prices are rising and in some parts of America are well over $4.00. We need to make our stand over the need for oil and start to design our future.

I work in sales in the automotive for a local Toyota/Scion dealership. Been doing this since 1997 and I do believe that gas will rise to levels we have not seen because of Libia and the middle east crisis. I do feel that many people will have to choose to do something different in order to stay ahead of rising fuel prices.

Here are some ideas:

Buy a more fuel effiecient hybrid or high MPG car.

Car Pool, look for people to share in the cost

Ride the bus, or subway more often

Plan your trips to the market

Stay home more

Smile more

Eat out less

Make larger meals and freeze them for later

Make less trips into traffic where the engine just idles

Stay postive and focus on solutions.

Complain less, promote joy more

Just a few thoughts and hopefully you can use atleast four. Maybe even push your thought process for more than that.

Enjoy your Sunday!

Enjoy your family!

Start to set your goals for March 2011 !

A quote about setting goals:

The great and glorious masterpiece of

man is to know how to live with purpose.

~Michel de Montaigne

Live your life, make a difference!

That is my Sunday Thought and Sunday Prayer.

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

Stay Hungry ~ Stay Foolish

Happy Sunday everyone

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Saturday Morning Reflection and Projection ~02/26/11

Happy Saturday everyone! Very hopeful thoughts that you have an awesome weekend, with plenty of praise, worship, fellowship, joy, love and peace. May every minute have harmony within it and may your presence within cause you to share that smile, that sincere smile with others.

Yesterday on Red Gage I wrote on how the phrase 'On a scale of one to ten' implies in our everyday attitude of life.

Here is the link should you like to read it.

On a Scale of 1 to 10

(click on link above to see post)

I hope you build each day with that thought of staying at 8 and above and that you have that list of things when your 7 and under.

It serves us no real purpose to dwell on that extremely low number and feel down and out.

Lets all try to understand that we are indeed in charge of our moods, our thoughts and our actions.

Two quotes to reflect on today:

“A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow

as easily as he can invent a pleasure.

I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions.

I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”

~Oscar Wilde

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Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it...

that is the quickest and surest way

ever yet discovered to conquer fear.”

~Dale Carnegie

May you project these ideas into your day, week, month.

Spring is on they way.

Countdown Timer

Enjoy your weekend everyone!

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

Stay Hungry ~ Stay Foolish

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A video to enjoy this Saturday

On a scale of 1 to 10

We have all heard this one before have we not? I use it all the time, in sales, and with myself at times and my reflections of life's moments.

On a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being the very best in life and 1 being where do I run to how are you feeling right now. We often look at our moments and find ourselves in the middle. My focus is getting to the top I don't want to be just status quo.

So here is my thoughts on this what if we have a solid premise that from now on being below an 8 just is not acceptable. What if we had an action plan to get ourselves out of the 7 and under range and stay at that 8.

Staying at an eight or above

will always feel great and keep us filled with love

Ok so thats my mantra for this post. But for now lets design that list of what we can do, right when we have that feeling that we are not an eight and we are 7 or below.

Here is a quick list of 5 things we can do to get us out of that funk. In the coming days I will repost this with 5 more and my goal is to reach 200 things we can do to get us from 7 or below to 8 and above.

Here is my list for today:

#1 Smile in that mirror and do some serious self talk about what it truly feels like to be in control of your emotional state.

#2 Play on your mp3 player, ipod or computer your favorite music, not soft and mellow but loud and proud.

#3 Write some, draw some, laugh some, play with play dough some just do something that will take you out of your doll drum into a higher state of joy.

#4 Take a walk out in nature, take deep breath, inhale in through your nose and exhale out through the mouth, hold the intake for 4 and exhale for 6. Do this as you walk!

#5 Should have been number one sorry about that Pray and give thanks to God for your family and those that are around you that you love.

More to come folks. Enjoy your day and don't forget to:

Stay at an eight or above

we will always feel great and keep us filled with love

Smiles to you all....Today and everyday

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Flowing into Friday ~02/25/11

Happy Friday everyone! Welcome to the edge of the weekend, right on the top and waiting to climb to the next summit.

“Life always gets harder toward the summit

the cold increases, the responsibility increases”

~Friedrich Nietzsche

You should not want it any other way, because at the top you find the very best view and the best outlook of the valley.

We all have had valleys in our life and perhaps you feel like your in one now, but the ultimate mission of life is to know that each step taken with our eyes and head held high is a step in the right direction. A smile, a laugh shared will always make the valley seem a little brighter, a little less ominous.

Keep climbing! Keep smiling! Keep praying!

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“As your faith is strengthened you will find that

there is no longer the need to have a sense of control,

that things will flow as they will, and that

you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.”

~Emmanuel Teney

As I have been doing on Friday a couple of videos from the I am Second group. This week a Captain in the Army and a winner from the Biggest Loser who is a bigger winner in the game of life and faith. It all starts with us, our belief and our faith.

Enjoy the videos:

A video of a person in a valley who walks on with faith, and love:

It all begins with us, you and me, one voice at one moment.

Doesn't matter if your the most visible person or the one way behind the scenes we are all part of this experience called life.

Live ~ Love ~ Laugh ~ Pray ~ Smile ~ Rejoice and yes it is ok to cry, it washes away the old and allows us to start over. Don't forget to smile again and make a difference.

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 ~02/24/11

Happy Thursday everyone, welcome to a new day full of opportunity, dreams turned into reality and promises that we make to ourselves kept. Thats really what life is about.

We all have the same opportunity.

A quote:

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

~Seneca

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We all have the same ability to dream and turn these dreams into reality.

A quote:

Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.

~Earl Nightingale

Truly the world has been built by dreamers. Dreamers who have done the following to make thier dreams come true.

Research: The first dreamer his research was just that a dream, he tried and failed over and over again till success was achieved.

Hard work: The research and trail and effort comes first the hard work is the constant and never ending desire to get it done. The 'it' being the dream of achievement, the goal and reworking the plan to get you thier. Nothing is ever done with out effort, action and constant buring desire.

Unyeilding focus: So many have quit just when the door to thier dream was about to be knocked down. The door was about to be unlocked by another, or an idea or just because you were persistent. Never give up, Never give in. Learn that the recent failure was knowledge placed before you that 'that way' did not work. You got an education not a waste of effort. Everything happens for a reason. Everything.

Relationships: We always get more done with others. We can learn from the path blazed by another. How they did it, why they did it. What inspired them, what kept them up late and what made them rise early. Share your time and resources with those you admire, those that you have seen have that desire and burning focus to get it done.

Earlier I said how important it is to keep the promises we make to ourselves. A quote:

A rose must remain with the sun and the rain

or its lovely promise won't come true.

~Ray Evans

So it is with our heart, our dreams our wishes remain when the effort and focus and desire to achieve are present. Don't ever lose that desire, don't ever stop the effort or give in when you should have and could have kept on. Your desire it is always there and so it always should be.

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My Thursday Theory

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 ~02/23/11

 

Happy Wednesday to you this day! Smiles sent your way, so that you may share with another who may have none to give. Joy sent your way that you may feel gratitude and glad for another day to share and make a difference.  Love sent your way just because.

Those are my wishes for you this Wednesday.

To me love is as necessary as a glove that fits on our hand.

Let me explain.

Here is what a glove can do for us.

Protects us from extreme tempertures, either hear or cold.

Protects us from infection.

Protects us from abrasions.

As does love, protects us, warms us, makes us feel needed, wanted, safe, healthy.

When you have it, you feel these things and when you don't you feel discarded, lost and you search.

Love is a human essential much like air to breathe, water to drink and food to nurish the body.

Love nurishes, provides and protects.

My wish for you is that you have it always.

A quote about love:

“I don't pretend to know what love is for everyone,

but I can tell you what it is for me;

love is knowing all about someone,

and still wanting to be with them more than

any other person, love is trusting them

enough to tell them everything about yourself,

including the things you might be ashamed of,

 

love is feeling comfortable and safe with someone,

but still getting weak knees

when they walk into a room and smile at you.”

~Author unknown

Thats what love is, warm, rich, safe, growing, all knowing.

May you find it, nuture it when you have it and whisper in your prayers your gratitude that you share in it.

 

My Wednesday wish for you this day.

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.

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Tuesday Gratitude Attitude *New* ~02/22/11

 

Happy Tuesday everyone and welcome to a very challenging day in Pittsburgh, last night we had around 8 - 10 inches of snow.  All roads were awful and side roads even more so.

 

My personal story is I walked home about five miles last night after having to park my car at a local drug store. It still sits there, sorry to say.  Never felt so alone walking home, no gloves just trudging through the snow and wind on normally busy roads that were pretty deserted.

A couple cars past me, which is fine I can't say I blame them at 10pm at night.  I did have a gentleman in an old pick up truck pick me up and took me the last mile home. Walked in the house around 11pm.

Janice and Tori stayed one more day in MI since the roads were very bad and dangerous to come home so it was just me.  Oh yeah the pets, dogs and cats where happy to see me. LOL I must have looked like a snow man walking through the door.

So do I have gratitude that I made it home. You bet.

Do I have gratitude that Tony, the guy in the pick up truck took the time to ask me if I needed help.  You bet.

Do I have gratitude that my pets stood at the ready to welcome me home, yeah you bet I do.

It is when the times get the toughest that the Gratitude attitude becomes so important.

Sure my body aches and I am working Thursday instead of today.

Sure I need to figure out what and how to get my driveway ready for the wife and daughter to pull into.  It will be ready.

Sure I need to figure out how to get the car some miles away at the local drug store.

I'll figure it out, maybe I can find a ride there, maybe a friend will be home, who knows.  But what I do know is I am alive, I am loved and God watched over me as I walked home.

I didn't crash, my car kept moving even though I got stuck a few times.  A few kids pushed me out one time, which I could of stopped and said thanks but I had to keep pushing through the snow or the car would have stopped again.

Gratitude Attitude works, you have to laugh sometimes at the pain, even though you may have cursed it for a few seconds, you push on and keep smiling so how and it works.

We work and life goes on.

You can love life and live it, or you can hate it and wish you didn't have to. Ultimately it is your choice, my choice, I choose life every time, with a healthy dose of gratitude on the side.

When you can't have what you want,

it's time to start wanting what you have.

~Kathleen A. Sutton

 

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!


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Monday Mojo Mantra ~02/21/11

Happy Monday everyone and welcome to a new week! I find myself sending you out smiles that last, dreams that will not fade, and beliefs that better days are always within our grasp.

Not a bad Monday Mojo Mantra, but thats not it, here it is:

When you can't have what you want,

it's time to start wanting what you have.

~Kathleen A. Sutton

How often we seem to want more, like what we have is not enough, or maybe is it that we don't know what we had until its gone.

Yesterday I watched In Touch a great minstry message delivered by Charles Stanley. This topic was on this very subject and you can look for a replay on line. Its worth the listen and only 25 mintues.

My message on this topic is much like the quote above and also my message that I share on gratitude attitude, (tommorows msg). I truly believe that having the gratitude deep within our soul and spirit will stop much of the desire for what we don't have and help us to enjoy what we do have.

Just a thought. Try this for the next 7 days. Each morning when you wake up, turn to your loved ones and the person in that mirror, yes this should be more than just one memeber of the family. LOL. Turn to them and tell them how grateful you are that they are in your life, give them a sincere reason why and follow that with a sincere smile!

My first question to this challenge is be prepared for 7 different reasons, not the same one over and over again. Please be ready, its good to have some thought for this for Tuesday morning and the rest of the week.

Let me know how this works for you. But more important let me know what this meant to the other person. How did it make you feel when you noticed thier smile and gratitude returned in some fashion.

Thats it the Monday Mojo Mantra:

When you can't have what you want,

it's time to start wanting what you have.

~Kathleen A. Sutton

Play Hard, Stay Foolish and Stay Hungry!

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 ~02/20/2011

Happy Sunday everyone and welcome to a great day of worship, rest, family and yet another day closer to spring! Today is also the Daytona 500 the opening race for the NASCAR season.

I must admidt I watch the first few laps, DVR the rest and fast forward through the not so exciting stuff. But hey I know others that watch it for every lap which is ok just not ok for me.

This is a very hard day for some in that race community, back in 2001, February 18 Dale Earnhardt crashed on the final lap of this grand race. They do not forget this racing legend and my prayers and thoughts go out to his family and close friends. He is still missed and will for many years to come. It was a hard thing to see, but even a harder thing to understand that you would not see that black Chevrolet that wore the number 3 race again.

It is very hard to let someone go in life, in death or in sickness it is hard to let go. We sometimes get selfish because we enjoyed their company so much.

We loved each moment we shared with them.

Even when it is someone more famous who was known not directly but by how they made us feel we cry.

When someone makes us sense life at a higher plane and then we lose them we hurt because we long for that feeling again.

Some quotes:

“'You'll get over it...' It's the clichés that cause the trouble.

To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever.

You don't get over it because 'it' is the person you loved.

The pain stops, there are new people, but

the gap never closes. How could it?

The particularness of someone who mattered enough

to grieve over is not erased by anyone but death.

This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and

no one else can fit. Why would I want them to?”

~author unkown

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A poem worth the read:

if tears could build a stairway

and memories a lane

i'd walk right up to heaven

and bring you home again

no farewell words were spoken

no time to say goodbye

you were gone before i knew it

and only god knows why

my heart still aches with sadness

and secret tears still flow

what it meant to love you

no one will ever know

but now i know you want me

to mourn for you no more

but, remember all the happy times

life still has much in store

and since you'll never be forgotten

i pledge to you today

a hollowed place within my heart

is where you'll always stay

-Anonymous

It is o.k. to feel that hollowed place within your heart but perhaps the loved one would rather you have a hallowed place. A place of honor, love, respect, cherished.

We need not tear our spirit down when we lose someone or should we build walls to protect ourselves from further pain. Because if we do either we lose our dreams, our passions and our way.

The candle and flame burns on within our spirit when we lose that special someone and it warms our soul from within.

That is the way I see it.

Tears of joy may fall

the loss is hard that is very understadable.

But when we cherish all of those special moments shared

and we know that they are safe within the heavens

we then can endure with the knowledge that one day we will meet again. The love they placed in our heart never fades away.

It lingers like the taste of fine wine or the smell within a rose garden or the spring air after a rain shower.

It lingers on and so do we.

My prayer and thoughts are clear may you be blessed, loved and smile through out the year.

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.

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