Thursday Theory ~03/31/11

Happy Thursday everyone! The last day of March 2011.  Yes indeed a busy month, full of news that at times was mind numbing, both locally and world wide the news came so fast that some stories just seem to pass on by the radar of our minds, beyond comprehension.

Last month I wrote a post on Red Gage about living at 8 and above expectations, on a scale of 1 to 10.  You have all heard that line on a scale of one to ten how are you feeling, doing etc.....

My thought and suggestion (my Thursday Theory) is that we should expect and always strive to be 8 and above!

I also suggested a list of things to do so that we always could lean on them if we are 7 and below.

Here was the first 5 on that list:

 

#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.

The next five is as follows and I hope you can proactive them from time to time.

#6  Take time to list those moments in your life when you felt on top of the world. Maybe it was the birth of your children, a moment with a loved one. Take time to sink into that moment, how did it feel that moment? Let it sink back into your front of mind thoughts, a mini vacation in the mind if you will.

#7  Play in the yard, cut some grass, play in the dirt, pull some weeds, take some time even if it is only for a little bit to make some instant gratification memories that you can relieve later in the day and right in the moment.

# 8 Sing, whistle your favorite tune, who cares who is listening, goes along with number 2 but for goodness sake let it loose, let your voice soar to the skies.

# 9 Your favorite list of movies make your top ten that make you feel good, make a date with yourself to get to that later in the day when you have the moment, your worth it. Make that date with some time with your favorite comedy or family movie. Sit back make some popcorn and enjoy it.

#10 Call an old friend, someone you trust, and can listen to you with out making any judgement.  Make sure your friends know that they can all on you when your need them.  A true friend is there in that moment when you just may need them the most.

Top ten things to do when your feeling 7 or under on your scale of 1 to 10.  Make up your mind that 8 and above is where you want to be, should be and must be.

Your family will appreciate it and so will you!

 

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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! : )

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A Wish on Wednesday ~03/30/11

A very happy Wednesday to you all. Cold weather is prevailing here in the Pittsburgh area but there is much more challenging weather across the country today. But spring is here and each day we are moving into a warmer and much kinder time.

The wish for everyone today the ability to have peace in troubled times, joy when sorrow strikes, hope when despair hangs around and a smile when you have none.

My quotes for today:

Courage doesn't always roar.

Sometimes courage is the quiet voice

at the end of the day saying,

"I will try again tomorrow."

- Mary Anne Radmacher

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"Getting over a painful experience is

much like crossing monkey bars.

You have to let go at some point in order to move forward."

~ Unknown

Moving on is perhaps the toughest thing in life, fear, worry and uncertainty about the next step sometimes makes us feel that staying put may just be a bit safer.

Like going into the cocoon is better than breaking free and flying into new territory is a bad thing we huddle and hunker down in misery. Why?

Why is misery and solace and despair so acceptable in anyones life?

Why is the mundane ok and possibility feared?

Why when we know the past does not equal the future not just a mantra but a fact do we hole up in some dark cave of life instead of pushing forward into the light.

First and foremost we take the easy way out. We have pity on ourselves and dread more failure by moving forward is another.

Remember that failure is nothing more than an education.

Failure is not just a possibility in life its a reality with life.

Failure is and always has been followed by success.

One of my favorite videos, enjoy:

and this one....with the watch:

So my wish for you today if and when you have failure in your life you won't freeze in the midst of it. But walk through with the diploma that you have just received and education. You graduated with honors at that task and you understand that the past does not equal the future.

Imagine those greats of yesterday if they had listened to the voices that said your not going to make it.

One last video that we should all do to ourselves each day, the voice we should hear coming first from inside then louder and audible on the outside:

Have a great Wednesday and let this wish become real

Become greatness

Enjoy life

Breathe joy

Share a smile, first with yourself then with another : )

Prayers and smiles always sent your way!

Have a great week everyone!

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* ~03/29/11

Happy Tuesday everyone! Here is hoping your nice and warm it is below 20 here this morning and its almost April ugh.. LOL It is to laugh at because why cry about that or anything you can't change.

What we can change of course is the level of gratitude in our life.

The deeper the gratitude for what we have the less pressure we feel from things that we can't really control.

As you all know my son, Troy age 14, 6' 3" 179 lb, built for football is living with me now. I think coming up on 3 weeks, time flies so quickly. My daughter has lived with me for the past 7 years and I have cherished every moment. Two great kids and I am very blessed to share them with my life.

I am very grateful to have them in my life.

My wife, Janice who I have been married to almost six months now has been awesome in accepting me, and my children and designing a home with love and laughter in it and for this and all the love she sends out to me and our home.

I am very grateful for her love and care in my life.

My Gratitude attitude, living that every day makes my understand that our life is what we make it, how we perceive our daily surroundings and design is our responsibility. No one else has the control or should ever be given the control to change our perception. Living a life of gratitude will not only alleviate any stress but also put our heart and spirit in a place of giving to the world around us instead of always wanting to just use and take from the world.

A giving heart.

A giving spirit.

A concern not just for what we need to acquire but a concern for appreciation for what we already have.

My family, I love all of them and I am very grateful for what they add to my life. They add everything!

Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family.

Most of us would give our own life for

the survival of a family member, yet we

lead our daily life too often as

if we take our family for granted.

~Paul Pearshall

Don't take your family for granted, live, love, laugh and dream with them. Share and care for their needs, their love will sustain you in anytime and the laughter will fill your home with joy beyond comment. Just enjoy and smile along the way! : )

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 ~03/28/11

A very happy Monday and a fresh start to the week. The last few days of March are here and this is the last Monday in March as well.

This will also be the last Mojo Mantra next Monday April 4th I will be introducing the Monday Morning Minute so something to look forward to next week.

This week I want to start off the week with a thought, a challenge of sort, an eye opener and mind energizer.

The thought and idea will be the last Monday Mojo Mantra so here it is:

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion;

it is easy in solitude to live after our own;

but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd

keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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We should be smarter than the herd. We should think before acting on the common status quo. The Chinese proverb that speaks of the mind of the many goes like this:

One dog barks at something, and a hundred bark at the bark.

~Chinese Proverb

The mind of a child at a very young age knows no limitations but as we as parents raise them we try to conform them. The world asks us to control our children and raise them to be polite, stay safe, play fair, don't hit but as we as adults grow older we go through the stages of finding others that turn it all around and become at times rude, live with danger, and we hope they don't hit when they are unfair.

Now of course we should train our children, and later in life not conform to the angry and unfair but we should think differently from time to time.

Think outside the box, color outside the lines that someone place for us. A quick video about those who do just that:

Being someone who sees things differently, someone hungry and foolish who strive to look to make things better is indeed a game changer, a innovator, a person with passion.

A quote:

Read, every day, something no one else is reading.

Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.

Do, every day, something no one else

would be silly enough to do.

It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.

~Christopher Morley

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The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.

~Colin Wilson

Don't be average, don't accept anyones miseries but especially what you perceive as your own. Stay strong in spirit and in mind think of possibilities not limitations.

Play Hard, Stay Foolish and Stay Hungry!

: )

Smiles sent your way today and everyday!

Happy Monday everyone! : )

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Sunday Prayer and Sunday Thoughts ~03/27/2011

A very happy Sunday to you all! April is almost here, how this year has rushed on by. What a year it has been, so much news has happened thus far this year, incredible events that have made the year go ever quicker so it seems.

One of my favorite lyrics growing up was from the song American Pie by Don McLean.

A long, long time ago...

I can still remember

How that music used to make me smile.

And I knew if I had my chance

That I could make those people dance

And, maybe, they’d be happy for a while.

But February made me shiver

With every paper I’d deliver.

Bad news on the doorstep;

I couldn’t take one more step.

I can’t remember if I cried

When I read about his widowed bride,

But something touched me deep inside

The day the music died.

That song was sung to a generation going through so much. Buddy Holly had died in February 1959 and this generation grew up with his music. Dances and 'sock hops' as they were called was the generations expression during that time. The 60's was a time of war and chaos with the death of so many young soldiers, a race riot and the death of so many prominent leaders, two Kennedy's and Martin Luther King. The song reached into so many hearts and spirits that it still resonates even today.

This year thus far has had so many challenges, war, death of Liz Taylor, the overthrown government of Egypt, the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Challenges might not be the right word here.

But yet.... We push on, we learn to trust in God, utilize the power of faith in the human spirit to adapt and push on.

To stay hungry and stay foolish to push on pass any failure and understand that truly it was just an education.

To set our sights for better days and not dwell on and hide during the worst of days. We work and walk through hell not sit around and wait for a rescue.

That is our human spirit and that is the way I pray it always remains.

Just a Sunday Thought and a Sunday Prayer for you.

Live your life, make a difference!

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

Stay Hungry ~ Stay Foolish

Happy Sunday everyone

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Saturday Morning Reflection and Projection ~03/26/11

Happy Saturday everyone! The last weekend in March. It has always been said over the years that March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb so lets hope this last and final six days meet the lamb like status. April showers bring May flowers is the next line in the poem of the seasons. I think we want April flowers don't we?

In Ralph Waldo Emerson's quote on success he writes:

To leave the world a bit better,

whether by a healthy child,

a garden patch or

a redeemed social condition;

He defines here that our goal in success of life should be to strive to leave the world around us better, to improve it, to make it better in some way. He goes on to write that success is raising or helping to raise a healthy child, not just health in body but health in mind and spirit.

Planting or maintaining a garden patch, one could even say a garden patch as in our home, natural resources like our parks and forests not just a simple flower garden but everything that we pass through. Road side litter, abandoned lots are all patches that we pass on by.

A redeemed social condition. Social as in how other people interact with each other, our families, our neighbors, our fellow man. It is not just kind to give at local charities with a monetary value he suggests here perhaps but to give of our nature, our spirit, our essence of human.

We all can help in leaving the world around us better. We all have the ability to share our experience with a young mind, oh sure it may not effect them right away but they listen and more importantly they watch our actions.

We all can leave the world around us better by maintaining and improving upon our gardens in the space around us, picking up after our selves and cleaning up when a mess has been made.

We all have the power to create a better social condition with a smile, sincere and genuine, a kind word of encouragement placed often in some manner to lighten a persons load.

We all can and should and must looking into those windows of our own soul, the eyes and understand that we can indeed make a difference in another persons life. It is in us by nature and spirit.

I hope you take the time to reflect and project your nature and spirit to leave the world a bit better each day, every day.

It really is not just about you and me

But a bigger picture that we pass by every day

Your greater purpose awaits not just you

But somone who you just may touch in a special way!

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

Enjoy your weekend everyone!

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

Stay Hungry ~ Stay Foolish

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Flowing into Friday ~03/25/11

Happy Friday everyone welcome to the edge of the weekend, one final push and the weekend is here. TGIF everyone! My TGIF is Try Gratitude It's Free! Yours may be different. : )

Gratitude is perhaps the easiest thing to dwell in but for some its hard to find. We are after all a country that grew up with the thought:

I want more!

We even think we need more stuff, we have shows that show the absurd, like Life of the Rich and Famous and MTV Cribs. We even try to emulate the neighbors next door in some way, the keeping of with the Joneses is still a saying that holds true.

We want bigger SUV's, faster cars, more, more and even more of anything and everything. But our thirst and hunger is never really quenched.

We want more!

Here is a thought that I want you to think upon this Friday:

“When you can't have what you want,

it's time to start wanting what you have.”

~unknown

You have everything right now, life, friends, time, opportunity.

Take them and live your life with joy and share what you have with others, who just may not know yet that they have it too.

Share that simple smile, and enjoy your Friday.

During the past month or so I have share 2 stories from the I AM Second family. Today is the final two I hope you enjoy them:

and this one....

Much of what we really need, we already have. TGIF everyone, you can yours and I will share mine with you.

Try Gratitude It's Free : )

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 ~03/24/11

A very happy Thursday everyone! I hope you are all safe and happy this day. We had a wicked tornado rip through about 5 miles from where I live and luckily no injuries or deaths. We did have about 90 homes damaged and about 30 homes destroyed. My thoughts and prayers are with these families.

It just goes to show you how much we like to think that we are in control but in fact we have very little control over nature or random acts that befall so many.

Yesterday Elizabeth Taylor and actress and humanitarian passed away. I wanted to share a few quotes that I hope we all can take to heart and embed into our spirit and psyche.

Here are the quotes may you take time to understand and let them impact on your life.

"Every breath you take today

should be with someone else in mind.

I love you."

~Liz Taylor (from her Twitter account)

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"Give. Remember to always give.

This is the thing that will make you grow."

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What simple words on both accounts but wisdom shared to so many. We can only hope that we take heed to these two quotes.

Another great quote that I close with today from another awesome human that has walked this earth. Not to be compared in stature but in heart and intention.

If you want a love message to be heard,

it has got to be sent out.

To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

~Mother Teresa

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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.

www.makemesmileonline.com

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A Wish on Wednesday ~03/23/11

Good day everyone and a very happy Wednesday to you! Here is my wish for you this week:

That you stop by my last Wednesday Post here on Gather.com kinda liked how it flowed of my fingers and only 36 of you got to read it.......no just kidding, no I'm not, yes I am seriously if you get the time. Anyway on with this weeks post.

My post is embodied by this phrase that was hatched from a lecture I once heard. The phrase is

Success is easy to do but easy not to do because of neglect.

The meaning here is simple but yet so many trudge through life making little difference because of neglect in the actions they need to do.

It is such a foundational principle that when we neglect a principle like this over time we have wasted a large portion of life but even a larger portion of possibility.

We all know that a smile has many powerful reflective powers. When we give one, genuine and sincere one almost always comes back to us and we change and so does the person we sent that smile to. Change for a second or change of course for a little longer change happens. Easy to do..... but ... easier not to do.

We all know the reasons we married our spouse, their kindness, intelligence, strength, so many attributes we can all list but if words are the only attention you give to her/him then over time neglect sets in and the only thing they truly wanted was actions and love. Sure it is easy to do, show love, open that door, give that extra kiss with an extra touch but it is easy not to do. Neglect can be just as powerful perhaps more so and over time you wonder why the relationship became boring maybe your actions built up the wall.

We all see children playing, laughing, growing in life and yet something becomes a miss. A role model in the form of a famous singer pop star, an athlete what about the mother or father becoming the hero for a change. Giving that extra hug whether they want it or not. Spending that extra second to walk together or talk together sharing quality time and energy molding a young mind. Then after all of that attention maybe your child will label you their hero and bend your way like a new found flower leans into the sunshine. So easy to do but easy not to do.

We all see our country rolling along, promises made by leaders that we seem to fall for again and again. But yet when time comes to vote we stay at home, or pull a lever just because. I have heard reasons like, I liked his name, or his religion, or his look but what does his name or better yet the man truly stand for. We get upset when we send children off to war and even more upset when they come back injured or worse but yet we allow the leaders to lead us into more conflicts. We have homelessness and hunger here on our homeland. We have crime and illiteracy among us in alarming increase yet we weaken our nation by fighting other peoples wars.

So easy to do ..... but ..... so easy not to do.

I know I probably ranted a little to long today, but I felt this message bubbling in my spirit. So I just typed it out. So easy not to do just leave it on the inside and carry on with my day but I found for me, it was easier just to do and send it out to you.

Prayers and smiles always sent your way!

Have a great week everyone!

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.

www.makemesmileonline.com

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