Take Charge Tuesday *New* ~ August 09, 2011

Happy Tuesday everyone!  Welcome to a new day, a day to be a little better than the last day.  A day to say I am taking charge of my reactions and I have a cause that will have a profound effect on my life and the life of those around me.

Today! Right now I am in charge of my destiny.

Today I am a mother who is a difference maker with her children.

Today I am a co worker who instead of being someone who tears down another persons spirit I will be a builder of that spirit and give that coworker encouragement instead of something less.

Today I will be an agent of positive change and remove any nay sayer thoughts and words.

Today! Right now I am in charge of something bigger than even me!

Do you feel those thoughts begin to stir in your spirit.  No?  Look in that mirror and say them, look into your eyes and believe them.

Today start to take charge for the good of others not just yourself.

A quote to ramp up this idea:

A very happy Tuesday to you all !  This day is your day.

Everyday is yours of course, free will to do with it what you please. You can live with high expectations for yourself or you can stay in bed all day.  The choices are yours and really they are yours alone.

Oh I hear many of you say I have to get up for work, or get a long list of chores and tasks done.  True it is I am sure but truly the world won't end if you just stopped for a minute or the whole day for that matter.

We know that for every action we take or do not take their is an equal or greater reaction.  Life happens no matter, even if we don't

Todays post is about taking charge in the area of your life, your thoughts and your actions. The area to continue with this weeks theme of sort is understanding and appreciating that every action has a reaction.

First a quote:

To exist is to change,

to change is to mature,

to mature is to go on

creating oneself endlessly.

~Henri Bergson

We all have change in our life.  But it is the one who understands change and is the user of change to make themselves better and those around them that will make all the difference.

Take charge of your day!

Don't let anyone take charge of your life with out your permission.  Oh, some will try but we need ever let them.

Today understand that this is your day and you can make the very best of it.

With your thoughts, actions, smile and words!

Another quote by the French philosopher Henri Bergson:

"The present contains nothing more than the past,

and what is found in the effect

was already in the cause."

How big is your cause?  How big are your dreams?

What is your heart full of? Love -- Joy -- Kindness 

or something less that takes away from this world instead of gives.

The present (the right now) contains nothing more that the past (unless we develop a bigger reason) and what is found in the effect (our results) was already in the cause.

Don't have a big enough cause?  Look around and see the world with curious eyes.  See the world with the thought I am in charge and I want to have a bigger cause.

I choose to be a smile advocate, to teach, to entertain, to enlighten, to inspire others about these things:

The power of a simple sincere smile!

The power of a deep sense of gratitude in ones life!

The power of thought and having the motivation to change for the better.

The power of prayer that can enrich every second of your incoming day.

The power of making a difference by sharing it forward!

If you choose come on aboard and share it forward.

Become a smile ambassador for change!

Become a source of love, of kindness and share in the magic of being different that the status quo.

To smile with sincerity is not the status quo, not in these times.

To teach and live with gratitude in ones heart is not status quo in these times, it is to play at the feet of things and wants more than another persons need.

To choose to make a difference is not the status quo, look around you in every life the status quo seems to say whats in it for me.

Live your life outside the status quo!

Live your life with love and the power, the simple and sincere power that you have the ability to be something great!

Stay hungry and Stay foolish and stay smiling today !

Depends not just on the action taken but the attitude it is taken with that matters even more.

Attitude and especially your attitude as your feet hit the floor in the morning is everything.  It is how you feel, how you breathe and how your body moves that impresses your spirit and soul or depresses your spirit and soul.

Action taken is a reaction that is soon about to take place.

The cause will have and effect.

The cause often is your attitude.

Attitude, your attitude will dictate the outcome of a task even before you start it.

When we breathe deep and think with positive outcomes in our mind this will likely lead to a better outcome than if we are stressed and have less positive thoughts.

Actions come from thought

Thoughts come through your attitudes.

Take time to take charge of your reactions that your given.

They indeed do come from the actions you started the day with.

My day starts with prayer and it often ends with prayer.

Not prayer with requests and wishes but prayer with a thankful heart and spirit.

My wish for you is that you give your morning that quiet moment in prayer not to ask for a better life or day but to give thanks for what you have.

May you be blessed today and every day.

Smiles sent across the miles : )

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Monday Motivational Moment *New* 08/08/11

Happy Monday a new day and a start to a new work week!  May all your dreams become a reality and may all your plans become be clearly defined.

This is the day that many people dread, not me of course buy many stumble out of bed and say oh no not another Monday.

Why?  Conditioning perhaps, a learned habit from their past and others on t.v. it just seems right to feel that way to them. Almost a bragging right. But it does not have to be that way.

This past weekend was Hall of Fame weekend as far as the Pro Football Hall of Fame and its induction ceremony. I watched many of the speeches and for me I found Deion Sanders to have the most moving.

He spoke about his dream and goal to make enough in football that his mother would never have to work another day in her life. His whole dream was to be successful and paid enough to accomplish that goal and he linked much to every move he made on and off the field.

His dream came true and know his career and his dream have lead him to the Hall of Fame with other great football players and coaches.

His quote that I use today I hope will carry you through your day, your week and beyond.

The quote from his speech:

The problem is with some dreams,

the dreams are only about you.

If you're dream ain't bigger than you,

there's a problem with your dream.

Dreams have to be clearly defined and have action to them. I heard recently that a dream with out action is just daydreaming.  Very true.

Dreams have to be about more than just you, they have to be about as he stated so well bigger than you.

Life is about making a difference.

Life is about sharing and caring.

Love is a human need and desire that without another person involved in that love, we feel empty.

To be touched in our spirit and body.

To be heard and feel significance.

To be able to care and be cared about in our world.

Very important parts of our day to day existence.

So today after your morning stretch. Your morning prayer to God above.  Your morning coffee and breakfast, take the time to dream with the purpose of making a difference. Not just for yourself but for others.

The bigger the dream that revolves around more than you, the more you just may want to see it through.

Dream big!

Plan now!

Take action always!

Love forever!

Have a great day everyone ......

Smiles to you this day and everyday! : )

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Staying in Focus on Sunday *New* 08/07/11

Happy Sunday everyone and welcome to a brand new day to get in focus!

So how was your first week of the new month?

What plans have you made and what goals have you set?

What reactions have you created?  Did they have a positive impact or did they cause some drama or turmoil?

Remember the quote from the Dalai Lama:

"Our prime purpose in this life is to help others.

And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them." 

My hope is that that will be your focus each day and that this would help you stay in focus for creating love and joy in spite of others that may not have that goal for their moment.

Another quote I share with you today that should help you stay in focus.

"Every day, think as you wake up,

today I am fortunate to be alive,

I have a precious human life,

I am not going to waste it.

I am going to use all my energies

to develop myself, to expand

my heart out to others;

to achieve enlightenment

for the benefit of all beings.

I am going to have kind thoughts towards others,

I am not going to get angry or think badly about others.

I am going to benefit others as much as I can." 

~ Dalai Lama 

I myself every morning as I rise include these thoughts in my prayer to God.  I ask him along with these sentiments to give me a greater wisdom to see and to understand how I can be a better person in this world.

My goal is always to share that smile, make a person laugh and if they choose to think or drift off into a dream that they do so with happiness and hope of improvement in life.

So today I give you these thoughts do with them what you will. But I go with the comfort that I only tried to help another and offered nothing to cause ill will.

My reactions that I look for are to have you perhaps smile, perhaps sigh with content that the last 500 words you read may have had a positive impact on your soul, your spirit.

That is my hope and intention. My goal my purpose for this post, today and everyday.

I choose words that flow effortlessly from my spirit.

I choose words that empower and build, in hopes that you pick one or two ideas and take them with you.

Choices, we all have them to make and today I make these.

To love

To pray

To choose happiness along the way.

To inspire another soul

To help lighten their burden that the may have.

To be a light in a dark event, don't know if it will shine something a new for that person on the other side of these words.

But I leave these words like any writer would, to make another smile, to make their path perhaps more understood.

Have a blessed day!

Smiles as always sent your way : )

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Sizzling Saturday *New* August 06, 2011

Happy Saturday and may your actions cause a ripple effect towards joy, love and should positive energy abound by those actions may you learn to share in it.

A quote to start the day:

To get up each morning with

the resolve to be happy…

is to set our own conditions

to the events of each day.

To do this is to condition circumstances

instead of being conditioned by them.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are the effect from our own cause. Our own cause are the thoughts we imbed into our psyche. Thoughts can help or hinder our progress.

What thoughts do you wake up to each morning?

What thoughts do you take with you to your sleep at night?

If you take tension with you into your sleep or awaken with it each day then how do you expect to set conditions that will allow joy and happiness to find you.

We are energy, millions of decisions are made for you each second and we don't even understand that.

Your heart and your mind thrive on energy to beat and calculate instructions from your inner self.

We get up from a conditioned sound of an alarm clock.

We feel hunger and we are led to the fridge.

We sense thirst and we drink.

We feel tension and we are put into motion from those feelings.

We feel love and happiness and we float into our day because of this emotional state.

Would you rather float or enter your day with something dragging your down?

Think with energy to resolve any tension.

Love because you know that love can fix anything.

Pray for wisdom.

Laugh because everything has humor in it and the more you laugh the better your day will become.

Think before you take action and ask what is the possible outcome of this action, will it help or hinder, will it build with positive energy or tear apart from its negativity.

The choices are all yours and your choice is being make ever day and every night.

Let your day sizzle with the right choices.

Have an awesome day and may smiles find you where ever you are. : )

Smiles to you across the miles

and around and over any obstacle.

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Fun Filled Friday *New* August 05, 2011

Happy Friday everyone and the weekend, yes the weekend is almost here. Next week on Thursday preseason football returns and every team has the idea of taking the Super Bowl Trophy then they play the game.  But now is the best time for all fans that anticipation.

Friday is a fun day so thats why I label this post as our Friday Fun Filled post of the week.

This post every Friday will try to add a little fun, some humor, a fun song, a picture or too and today some video that we hope will make you laugh, make you think and maybe even share the power of laughter.

: )

Today we are sharing some video made just for laughs.  Some slap stick Three Stooges.  I continue with the theme of cause and effect and the quote for every action their is an equal or greater reaction.  I am sure you agree the brand of comedy that Moe, Larry and Curly and Shemp produced was in agreement with our theme.

Enjoy:

And one more before we leave ya today:

I leave you today with this quote:

Live with intention.  Walk to the edge. Listen hard.

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

Have a great day everyone

Smiles to you and yours enjoy your day : )

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