Hold on When You Get Love, Let Go When you Give it.

                                   The Stars

This is the name of a song that's been playing on the radio lately. As soon as I heard it I knew I would use it in this blog. What do you think the second part -"let go when you get it"- means.

I think it means to really give all the love you can- let it go. What about you?  Whatever they meant, just love freely and happily.

That said- LOVE YOU!  "  :-)

Ha ha-

Had to laugh at this one.

But there is so much truth there- some people are like this- (right Allison?) avoid the ones you can and put a shield up to those you can't and just giggle at their negativity when possible. If you don't engage mentally and emotionally they can't suck your energy!!

Seven

Remember the 7 thank yous.

Thank you for............
                                Feels really good after
                                you do it.

 

Faith makes us sure of what we hope for and 

gives us proof of what we cannot see.

 

Hebrews 11:1

Faith is the opposite of dread. Faith allows us to look forward to the future, to the day ahead when we wake up. Dread is a buzz kill.

Practice faith, hopefulness, joy. Know in your heart that God/the universe is working in your favor and has the perfect plan for you.

If you can't swallow that- than you can at least acknowledge that faith and joy are much better than dread.  So do, read, say whatever it is you have to in order to not have dread.  

Our thoughts and prayers are with a dear friend today as she has her surgery to wipe out the cancer in her body. I (we all) have faith that they will get it all and she will be fine.  We know they will and so readers send positive vibes of that same thought and faith. 

Love you, 

Joy Joy

If you read my enchanted lawn mower story you'll get this post. If not you might want to go a few posts back. 

It's Saturday and MY ENCHANTED LAWN MOWER IS BEING LESS THAN ENCHANTING!!

Whew! I just unfolded by writing this instead of unraveling.  
And now I think, I'll sing.

I've got the joy joy joy joy down in my heart. Where?

Down in my heart. Where?

 Down in my heart. 

I've got the joy

 hum hum hum  

Luv ya

PLM?

I know there is strength in the differences between us. 

I know there is comfort, where we overlap.

                                                                                  Ani DeFranc

I saw this the other day and it reminded me of a conversation I had with a friend. Not a long conversation just a mention.  We were talking about some people we knew and she had said that one of them had been one of her best friends. I was surprised and said so and that I thought they were very different people. She said back to me that she doesn't do PLM. PLM? What's that? PEOPLE LIKE ME. She doesn't "type" people or if she does she enjoys the differences and learns from them. Oh, I see. Hummmm.  Well I think I do have PLM syndrome.  And don't most of us?  I sort of "type" people and navigate to my comfort zone for my best friends and those I want to see on a regular basis.  But when I have opened up, I have to say I've sometime had some really different, interesting and cool experiences or aha moments.

This also reminded me of something else I've been told and read- that we can learn something from everyone we meet or come into contact with.  Even if it's just a jolt of what we don't want in life. I remember a time when Madonna had become "friends" with a woman, whose name I can't spell, and she invited her to St. Williams Church, a very liberal Catholic church. I went with her and wow what a cool, different, funny experience that was.  I do have quite a few stories like that. Of learning from our differences.

So may you find comfort where we overlap- I love that- the comfort of being with our friends can be like a big warm quilt thrown over our laps when we're cold. And find strength in the differences through learning. 

Lov ya.

Buddha Says

Each morning we are born again.
What we do today is what matters most.
                                                ~Buddha
 

Love it. This made me think of when I took a weekend retreat with the Landmark Forum (highly recommend it) They taught that we can begin our lives, start new at any time. Anything from the past that prevents us from realizing our goals today can be forgotten and overcome. It takes some work, but they recommend you start with seeing/imagining yourself in the place you want to be, say owning your own business, then go backward. What steps did you take to get there. Then do them. You see if you lay out the steps backward it's like doing something without a past. You don't have the past interfering. It's like being born again. No excuses.

Now we've laid out our plan, backwards, but some of us may still have that thing in our past that prevents us from making the steps. Example- say when you were age 10 you mentioned to someone you really looked up to, an authority figure or confidant or friend that you wanted to have your own business one day and that person said something like "What!!?? That's too hard, you're not smart enough, you're a girl, your--- fill in the blank--." Whether we realize it or not that one moment in time can subconsciously derail us from a dream. Add to that the fact that if it was said once it was probably said many times, maybe in different ways, but said.

Or being from divorced parents affects a kids development. It says so in all the psychology books. Reading that in school and believing it strongly will hinder success. So we work to find that moment, that incident, that belief and eliminate it's power and be born again. A process too lengthy to go into here.

But you don't have to go thru a process really - as Buddha says- what we do today matters most. So even without that process, wake up today and be born again. Believe that can happen, starting new can happen, as much as you believed what someone told you or you read years ago.
 

Be born again!

Luv Ya,

Affirmation

Another good affirmation taken from the book the Big Leap.

I expand in abundance, success, and love everyday 

as I inspire others to do the same.

Sort  of says the same as one of my favorites- I am a blessing going in and coming out.

I truly have had times when I've left a group, maybe from a party, a dinner, whatever, when I said to myself, "well you certainly weren't a blessing tonight".   Our brains are run by our hormones, by our past, which affects our moods which are also affected by events, and perceived happenings. It isn't always easy to live and be the people we really want to be. It does take practice if it isn't our true nature.  You know what I mean. You know people who you would describe as just crabby, moody, mean. They too can be a blessing if they affirm to be so.  

So today and as many days as possible-  I EXPAND IN ABUNDANCE, SUCCESS AND LOVE EVERYDAY AND INSPIRE OTHERS TO DO THE SAME.

Oh and let's not forget abundance, however you define that for yourself.

Luv ya soooooooooooo much!

 

Proverb

Luv you,

So Simple

Thoughts become things... choose the good ones!

So simple, yet so difficult to do. 

Luv ya!