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Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Take Charge Tuesday New ~July 19, 2011

A very happy Tuesday to you all ! Stay cool as much of the country is under a heat advisory. Stay indoors if possible, drink lots of water and think cool thoughts if you must. Stay cool tempered and share that smile. This too shall pass, it always does.

Today my son Troy has surgery on his wisdom teeth, his wisdom teeth are impacting against his back teeth, just the bottom two thank goodness. But if you can send up a prayer he will be going under anesthesia and a local Novocain and this should all happen around 9:30 am. He should be back to normal in a couple days. So in advance thank you for your positive thoughts and prayers. :)

Todays post is about taking charge in the area of your life, your thoughts and your actions. These thoughts and actions are all yours and no matter what another person suggests or intends for you should not matter, what other people think or want for you is not their choice its yours.

First a quote:

"It is a painful thing to look at your

own trouble and know that

you yourself and no one else has made it.

~ Sophocles

True enough!

This world always seems to play the blame game.

We blame the President for the countries debt and poor decisions. Yes they are his poor choices and all but did he really start the ball rolling or was it many administrations prior and other parts of the government as well.

We blame juries for the lack of a conviction for allowing Casey Anthony to go free. But then we never ask or blame the families and friends for no questioning where is your daughter for over a month. It takes many to allow a crime this heinous to become a reality. Many people looking the other way and not making a conscious choice to get involved. Prosecution had their role in the juries decision as well.

We love to blame but the old saying that when you point a finger at another your pointing four more back at yourself holds true.

Taking control of your thoughts and actions and taking responsibility that they are all yours, is the first step in having a bountiful harvest from your 'garden of thoughts' that I spoke about Sunday and Monday.

“When you blame others, you give up your power to change.”

~Unknown

So don't blame another for choices that were ultimately yours. Not everything that happen should affect us of course. There is little we can do about the 'debt ceiling' or 'Casey Anthony' they are both outside our circle of influence. But we can vote and contact our Senator or Congressman. We can make sure our children and family now that we love them and care about their safety and well being.

These things we can choose to control.

“When we have begun to take charge of our lives, to

own ourselves, there is no longer any

need to ask permission of someone.”

~George O’Neil

The only permission we should seek is from our own conscious.

“Make the best use of what is in your power, and

take the rest as it happens.”

~Epictetus

Indeed..... make the best use of your energy, thoughts and power.

We can continue tomorrow but for now I wish you the very best and smiles sent your way.

Have a great day : )

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Monday, July 18, 2011

Monday Motivational Moment New 07/18/11

Happy Monday to you all! Are you ready for it? I mean really ready for today. I love the day, I love most days but trust me life is not a rose garden for me with out any thorns. I don't want you to get the wrong idea of life in my world.

It is just the idea and the attitude that I try to carry within my heart and soul that I can make a difference and that my self talk and gratitude attitude sets the pace for the day.

I hope you enjoyed your weekend and that you made a difference whether for your family or a complete stranger.

Yesterday I spoke about taking care of the garden of thoughts that we all have the power to tend.

To keep with that theme a quote:

A man sooner or later discovers that he is

the master-gardener of his soul,

the director of his life.

~James Allen

It is far better to know this sooner in life of course. It is also a must that you try to teach your children that quote as well.

Imagine if you knew that as a young child, as a young adult and prevented I am sure mishaps along lifes journey.

No probably at that young age you thought you knew most of the lessons of life, or so you thought.

You looked at your mom and dad and said, 'I will do it better'.

And life went on with the twists and turns and the speed bumps.

Sure everything happens for a reason, with out a doubt.

Failure is perhaps the best teacher in life.

But too often we think as we stumble and fall that this is so tragic and that how is this fixable.

In fact everything in life is like a garden, if you pay attention and take care of your crop you will sow a nice harvest. In life the nice harvest would equate to gratitude, happiness within, the ability to enjoy laughter and even enjoy a tear or two.

Does life always promise a harvest of joy, hardly, storms do come but I have said this before it is how we handle the storm, how we react to the storm that matters most.

Take life slow and steady in your decisions and actions. Allow yourself the time to think out the possible outcomes.

But as far as laughter, or dreams, or the passion to do your very best. Take the plow and the hoe and take to the fun of planting your dreams in strong and steady soil.

The soil that will help the roots of life's decisions take a strong grip.

Dream

Laugh

Smile

and yes even cry each day, just a little and you will find your master garden blooming plenty to go around.

May your pantry in your soul be filled with love and smiles. Plenty to share and even enough to give away.

Have a great week everyone and have fun playing in your garden.

Smiles to you this day and everyday! : )