Saturday In Your Park Filled with Choices

Choices, we all make them.  Each and everyday we make plenty of choices. Some are good and filled with promise and some, well, they just are made to say lets choose to put this off.  For now!  For now often comes much later and often at a cost.

A cost of emotional distress.
A cost of missed opportunities.
A cost of wasted investments, that we lost.
A cost of time.

Time the biggest killer of bad choices.

So, what choices are you making or not making?  How will it effect your life?  Time will tell.....

Learn from each choice

The ones that work often teach you less than the ones that don't

Choices made

Choices avoided

Choices that we ignore

Make a choice based on facts 

Not emotions

Successful 

Where do you want to be?

What is your choice

Before the choice comes the plan and the acknowledgement that change must happen

Choose but end the end make a choice to do something

Some choices are hard

With out a doubt

Some are very hard

Choose to make the Right Choice 

That will help you and others 

Even if in the end the short term is a storm that must be driven or walked through

This smile is sent to you  : )

Victor Yakin

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Sunday Restoration and Giving Back

So my way of giving back is to inspire you to give to yourself and to others

If I can help one person breathe easier because I have lived then I have succeeded.

Take the time each day to do the above and find all the things that make you happy

Always keep the one hand, one arm, one ear, and one eye free so you can give back!

Everyone has the power and yes everyone includes you : )

In whatever you do give

In whatever you do love

It will come back and you will be so grateful during the process

Smiles to you this day and everyday!

Victor V. Yakin

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Saturday in your Travels

No matter what this is your day to make a difference so,

Easy enough?

Still need more reasons?

Still you ask why?

One key fits all locks and touches all hearts

Won't you use yours today?

Just one smile, share it, start small but start now.....

So here is my message for today.

In your travels make someone smile

Make another who may have found no reason to smile, Smile because you left one of yours!

Share

Care

Love

Smile

Make a Difference

Today in your travels and by the way

this smile is for you : )

Hope it worked and I hope you share

Victor V. Yakin

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Spring is on its way ~ Quote of the Day ~ Video of the Day ~ Scripture of the Day : ) 02/20/12

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.

: o )  Anne Bradstreet

Less than one month to spring. Can I get a big cheer of YES ! ! !

Spring flowers, spring garden plans, spring training for baseball.

Even spring cleaning is a welcome thing, the freshness of a breeze through open windows.  How sweet the smell of spring.

Its coming to a home near you.  Get your Ice Tea ready, some garden gloves to put on and yes you just may enjoy the playing in the dirt.  The planting season is almost here.

However winter is important and yes it was mild here in Pittsburgh.

We may still have a winter storm brewing.  Spring is a month a way and the gopher did see his shadow.  So we shall see.

Two years ago around this time we still were digging out from the snowmaggden that we had here.

But this year has so far not given us this.

So the countdown begins.

February almost has come to an end.  Bring on the mighty month of March.

Smiles to you this day and everyday : )

Video of the Day

Spring is coming soon .... Relax and enjoy the Video

Scripture of the Day 

Joel 2:22 KJV

Be not afraid , ye beasts of the field: for the pastures of the wilderness do spring , for the tree beareth her fruit, the fig tree and the vine do yield their strength.

Have a blessed day everyone :)

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Spring Flowers ... coming soon ~ Quote of the Day ~ Video of the Day ~ Scripture of the Day : ) 02/19/12

Earth laughs in flowers.

: o ) Ralph Waldo Emerson

What is your favorite flower that you plan on planting or grooming this year?

Do you have a flower garden?  Do you have an indoor presentation of flowers?

The presence of flowers is a majestic and empowering image.

I like to think that the wild flowers that we see as we drive along the back roads are indeed the earth sharing laughter with us.

The quote by Emerson gives us excitement to plan our flower presentation to the world.

Spring is a month away.

The garden centers will be blooming soon.

My favorite flower?  Thats easy.

The Coneflower (color is not important) I just enjoy the flower as it stand out in the sun. May your garden blossom this spring/summer as winter comes to a close.

May the wind blow beauty in your life and fresh joyous smiles and laughter fill your world.

Smiles to you this day and everyday : )

Video of the Day

Flowers in Growth Video 

Scripture of the Day 

Song of Solomon 2 : 12 

The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;

Have a blessed day everyone :)

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Stretching our beliefs on Success ~ Quote of the Day ~ Video of the Day ~ Scripture of the Day : ) 02/17/12

"I would rather be ashes than dust.

I would rather that my spark should burn out in a

brilliant blaze than that it should be stifled by dry-rot.

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in

magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

The proper function of man is to live, not exist.

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.

I shall use my time."

: 0 )  Jack London

Man was indeed designed to live, to make things, to care and to listen.  This quote speaks of that function and design.

Would we all not want to blaze a trail.

Leave behind some kind of legacy or improved social condition.

Maybe it indeed is just a garden that beautified our world.

Maybe we raised a child to do great things like be an awesome parent to their children.

Or maybe just maybe we want to make a difference in a big enough way that even just one life has breathed easier because we lived.

We created.  We designed.  We cared.  We loved.  We smiled.

Maybe just maybe Ralph Waldo Emerson had a point when we designed that work called success.

Enjoy your day and keep smiling as smiles are shared with you here today. : )

Video of the Day

Success by Ralph Waldo Emerson ~ a video 

Bible verse of the Day 

Proverbs 16: 7

 When a man’s ways are pleasing to the LORD, 
He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

Have a blessed day everyone :)

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Grateful to be alive and Free (Are You?) ~ Quote of the Day ~ Video of the Day ~ Scripture of the Day : ) 02/16/12

I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred.

  I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant. 

: o )  Ralph Waldo Emerson

What a gift life is, each day to fill our heart and speech with gratitude that we are blessed to be alive and free.  

When you acknowledge that the gift of life is awesome and that you are blessed to be free something starts to happen.  The clouds that may be above your head, those dark clouds start to dissipate quickly.  The sun starts to slip through and warms your soul and spirit.

Your heart begins to soar and your mind begins to think not with just clarity but with purpose.

Imagine to live your day with a fragrant sense of gratitude and have your attitude begin to understand that all that truly changed was your focus and understanding.

Just a thought, why not for the next week try it.  No matter how bleak you think things are in your life.  Take a step back and acknowledge the gift of life and the awesome ability to be free.  Try it.  For a  week.  Each morning speak words of gratitude to the energy force that surrounds you and your family.  Give thanks, spoken thanks for life, for freedom and for wisdom to know that you have choices.

Choices to smile, to spread joy and to give laughter freely.

Will you try it for a week?  Today and for the next 6 days.  First thing in the morning and before bed.  Giving thanks, aloud and for anyone to hear your appreciation for life, freedom and choices to share that smile, that joy and laughter with ease.

May your week be blessed and may your smiles be shared and your joy be abundant.  : o )

Today and everyday : )

Video of the Day   

The Gift of Today a Video worth watching everyday : )

Scripture of the Day 

Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe

Hebrew 12:28 (ESV)

Have a blessed day everyone :)

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What is Love ~ Quote of the Day ~ Video of the Day ~ Scripture of the Day : ) 02/14/12

"Love doesn't make the world go round,

love is what makes the ride worthwhile."

: o )   Elizabeth Browning

We have all heard the opposite have we not.  The saying, 'love makes the world go round', well according to another thought it really doesn't.  Ms. Browning may have a strong point here to be made.

Lets think about this for a second.

We make the world more interesting when we love.  But with often too much regularity hate can dominate in the world, anger too.

Why, if love is indeed such a wonderful and awesome emotion and in many ways a noun and a verb, why do we with hold it?

Ego?  Intolerance? Lack of gratitude?  Maybe all three and probably another handful of reasons.

So how do we fix this?

How do we make the ride more interesting and more care free?

ONE ACTION OF LOVE AT A TIME!

ONE PERSON AT A TIME!

Its in your court, mine too.  We love with action and we love with purpose.

We can love nature for no reason, right?

We love a bright sunny day, don't we?

Some like a fresh snow that covers the landscape.

Some like a rushing river to fish trout out of.

But they love in some manner and in some way they love nature.

We love pets, at least most of us do.

A dog or cat loves its owner with out any question or qualm, they just do!

So why can't we?  Just love!

Nike had a saying Just DO IT!

Maybe we should just have the words - - Just Love !

Smiles to you this day and everyday : )

Video of the Day

Come Close Listen to the Story -- What is Love?

Bible Quote of the Day 

Romans 13:8

Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.

Have a blessed day everyone :)

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Greatest Love of all ~ Quote of the Day ~ Video of the Day ~ Scripture of the Day : ) 02/12/12

I believe that children are our future.

Teach them well and let them lead the way.

Show them all the beauty they possess inside.

: o ) Whitney Houston

She is gone, a legend and I write this now so I can enjoy the Grammy's tonight as they plan a tribute that I am sure will be emotional.

I grew up with her voice, the movies, the personality.  The love she shared so willing and freely.  She was so above average but made common mistakes as well.

Mistakes we can all relate to our own lives.  Bad choices for the sake of love and to be loved.  Have you ever made and created any of those bad decisions?  My hand raises in the air, yep count me in.

She made me feel normal when she did it. She made a lot of us feel normal.

So we shall miss her. With out a doubt.

But the quote I use above is for all of us who stand behind our children, or nephews and nieces, our grandchildren, our neighbors children.

Teach them well and let them lead the way.

Teach them and show them all the beauty the possess.

Teach them spoken gratitude.

Explain the power of affirmations and self talk that goes on even in their young minds.

Love, share, care and let them lead our next generation. Guide them while their young but as they grow older let them fly a little. Let them be free to believe in dreams, in goals come true.

Let them learn the power of laughter and the simple power of a sincere smile.

We all believe that our children are our future.  So lets start our beliefs take over and let them lead, and trust in what we have shared.  Love and smiles to you all!

Video of the Day

I believe that Children are our future by Whitney Houston

Bible Quote of the Day

“And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.”

1 Corinthians 13:13

Have a blessed day everyone :)

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