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Let us promote Presence and InJoyment of Life
- in Nature, with Animals, for Friends and Family.
Showing posts with label GrAttitude. Show all posts
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#PositivePostsPlease
Everyday write/post/upload/tweet/speak about least one new thing, living being,
thought/feeling, or experience you are Grateful for!
If you struggle,
take a moment to make someone else feel good with a simple
old-fashioned greeting, specific compliment, or thoughtful gesture.
Share not to boast, posture, or for ego.
Share to inspire, motivate,
and connect.
Now more than ever
we need positivity over negativity.
Be the revolution and use hash
tags,
#PositivePostsPlease
#PostPositively
National Dog Day
Take time to appreciate the love and value
that dogs bring to our daily lives
on this National Dog Day!
Be
Delivering Outstanding Gracious Service
What if Heaven was a place...
What if Heaven was a place your mind goes when your body fails (or dies)? The mind’s energy would live on, continuing to produce joyful experiences based on your memory. The positive mood enhancing chemicals would take over and create absolute euphoria. It would not be like a drug-like induced state or a dream. Rather, it would be an actual experience for the soul and spirit in every way with all senses involved. All of the people, things, places, feelings, and moments that gave you joy were reinstated as your eternal experience --- incorporated to create new experiences just as pleasant as the initial.
Concentrate on this. Imagine what your Heaven would be like and write it out like a short story. List the people, places, and things you want to have there. Think about your idea of a perfect day and all it would include. This could be your Heaven. It could be your Heaven on Earth. Because when you focus on so much positively, you’re going to create a better experience for yourself. The positive energy you use to create a better world can carry-on.
Imagine. Focus. Be.
What we have here on Earth
"One of the hardest lessons we have to learn in this life, and one that many persons never learn, is to see the divine, the celestial, the pure in the common, the near at hand, - to see that heaven lies about us here in this world."
~ John Burroughs
Satisfaction Is Temporary, Gratitude Can Be Eternal
Nothing is 100%. Nothing is absolute. Nothing is everlasting. No amount of money, sex, love, fame, success, etc. can quench the desire for more. There is no real satisfaction in life – only gratitude for what is.
Try Something New, Dream Big! Create a Vision Board!
Maybe some of those New Year resolutions just didn’t pan out
like you thought they would. Spring is another time of newness and
rejuvenation; do some Spring cleaning! In other words, declutter and rid
yourself of the things that don’t work in your life and do some soul searching!
The
purpose of a Vision Board (aka Dream Board) is to help you focus on your
dreams, goals, and aspirations in life. Some say it’s a magical process...
Start with a poster board or old cardboard –
reusing will bless your board with good karma!
All you have to do is take pictures (from magazines, your phone, the
internet, etc.) that depict your goals or things you want to obtain. If you
can’t find the right pictures, you can also spell it out with words. Just cut
out whole words or letters from publications and attach them to your board. You
can add backgrounds and more things for inspiration. Pick a theme like sports,
your career, education, hobbies or leave it all inclusive like most do.
The
board will continue to grow and expand as you accomplish your goals and think
of new ones. You can also make a stack of books that inspire you or use your
cubicle wall as a Vision Board. There are no wrong ways to create your
Vision Board.
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My Vision
Board started
with hopes
of Obama's administration,
my college
education, career goals,
and moving
to Columbus.
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Enjoy!
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I added animal rights, more
traveling, and more about work and
education. About 7 of these items have come to fruition.
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Books and magazines
that
decorate my work
space.
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“Shelfie"
- inspiring, spiritual, and motivational books.
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All in All
In all the books and articles I’ve read, concepts I’ve
studied, internet research I’ve conducted, and the seminars and workshops I’ve
attended --- I have come to the realization that nothing Soothes the Soul or
facilitates Calmness like Nature, and nothing makes us feel Good or Happy like
Kindness.
Frugality and the Simple Life
As a kid, I learned the
value and importance of savings from my parents, especially my father. We
wanted for little, but lived tightly. When I was in 6th grade these air pump
shoes were very popular and very expensive for the time ($80-$100). The shoes
were supposed to inflate a bit when compressing this round bubble emblem and
give an advantage when playing basketball. I wanted shoes like that. Not
because I was athletic or anything of the sort, but because they were neat and
different.
My brother however, by
the age of 5 or 6 had become so spoiled that when it was my birthday my mother
decided to gift him a small cheap gift. The gift she chose was a candy bar.
When we were opening gifts, my brother opened his and cried out “It’s A CANDY
BAR!” and a hysterical temper tantrum followed.
Nowadays, I’m in my
thirties and I look around at all these man-made devices and the current
generation of want and must have and the get the next best thing way of
American life. I wonder if this modern life is for me. I’ve often felt like I
might have been born into the world a few years or even a decade too late based
on my likings. We are living unnaturally in a man-made world with trappings
that imitate life and our essence. Underneath the mainstreaming of our desires we
secretly and subconsciously crave simplicity, desperately.
I think back to my
childhood and remember all the summers of playing on my grandparent’s farm. They
were poor but completely supported themselves, self-sufficient and again wanted
for nothing. I think about my
grandmother’s very simple life as a widow and I envy her way of life, in a way.
She woke up before dawn, did her daily chores, made meals for family, and would
write poetry while staring out the window when by herself to pass the time.
Television and no other media distraction was ever a part of her life. My
grandparents had a TV; they just never turned it on. I remember my grandmother
saying the people on TV were silly.
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