Thoughtful Thursday *New* June 30, 2011

Happy Thursday to you all! The last, yes the very last day of June 2011. How was June for you ?  Did you enjoy the month? More smiles than frowns, more joy, did you accomplish what you intended to ?  Questions we should ask each time the month ends because the month is about to end and reflection for at the very least for a moment before it becomes history.

I hope your month went well but wait there is more, July 2011 is right around the corner. It awaits us and all we need to do is step into it. Eyes wide open, thoughts on improving our intentions and smiles locked and loaded and ready to share..

So lets take this journey into the last day of June and take some time to perhaps be kindler and gentler not only to others but ourselves.

This day each week I want to share with you the importance of being thoughtful towards each other.

Taking the time to make a difference and share the fact that kind people do exist on this planet.

But first a quote on being thoughtful that I chose to share with you today:

The shoe that fits one person pinches another;

there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

~ Carl Jung

While we all seem to be so much the same, living in a world created by God, all of the surroundings alive with color and splendor.  We all are different and not all views are the same.

The fact is no two walks in life are the same and neither are the fixes.  But there are many ways to help another and to me the power of the smile is a simple and sincere first step.

Other steps are listening, the fact that we have two ears and one mouth shows how the master designer/creator felt about this.  We just need to step out of our ego and care more about listening to another than always being that person who is trying to fix things for them.  Take the time to listen and ask the simple 'HOW' and 'What' questions than can draw out more information from the person in need to maybe just be heard more than talked at in the first place.

Another way is to show empathy, let the person know you understand from what they have said how they feel and gently take the time to share from your own experience how things like gratitude, meditation, prayer and faith have impacted your life.

The number one step is belief and faith that things can get better and the best place to always start is with prayer and really taking the time to listen in our quiet places for answers and that still voice that says what our next step just may be.

Lastly another way to help another is to really enable them to think with more positivity and try not to enable them to stay in a less resourceful state of mind and spirit.  We need to enlighten the energy and not let it continue to drag the moment.  Give hope not allowing the disturbance and negative energy to overwhelm the conversation or sense of being. Sounds easy right...no its not.

It takes time, it takes uplifting words of encouragement and baby steps to start to explain what gratitude will really do for another persons spirit and life.

Express what taking time to pray and listen to God really means to you and how it has effected your life.

Express in actions that you care and explain how you have gone through bad times but never stopped, you kept on walking through them till you reached the other side.

It takes time to be thoughtful but indeed we are all in this thing called life together and when we take the time to reframe and lift a burden with a smile, a kind word and a gentle conversation with more listening then speaking, our world starts to get better.

It improves because we helped another.  We shared our love and made a difference.

Take time to share today and here is wishing you the very best of the month ahead.  Smiles to you today and every day : )

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