Feel Your Emotions to Create a Life You Love - 11/30/09 10:24 PM
Feeling your emotions is very important if you wish to create a life you love. Many of us avoid feeling emotions we tend to think of as negative; for instance, anger, sadness, fear, hate, doubt, shame, jealousy, and resentment. These emotions (and others like them) become especially toxic when they are not fully experienced. Here are just some of the reasons why feeling your emotions fully is so important. * If you are not in touch with your unpleasant emotions, you cannot be fully in touch with the emotions we tend to think of as being positive, such as love, happiness, … (9 comments)

Motivational Monday - 11/30/09 03:37 AM
"Were the diver to think on the jaws of the shark, he would never lay hands on the precious pearl." – Saadi
"Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich." – Sarah Bernhardt
"Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy." – Pyotr Tchaikovsky
"Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little." – Plutarch
"The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started." – Norman Cousins
"We taste … (10 comments)

Happy Thanksgiving and a MILESTONE on Active Rain-100,005 points - 11/26/09 11:39 PM
Happy Thanksgiving and a MILESTONE on Active Rain-100,005 points

Hello everyone-I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. On Jan 1 2009 I joined Active Rain. My dear friend and a wonderful & incredibly uplifting inspiration to me and so many here. Gary Woltal "Extraordinaire" urged me to join and with lots of nervousness I did. I originally planned on doing it in May but decided for a number of reasons to do so on Jan 1 instead. I am SO glad I did. Here is my 1st post. <SMILE> I think I have learned a bit since this very … (28 comments)

Happy Thanksgiving to all the friends I have made here - 11/26/09 01:43 AM
This is a special day today and I am most grateful because a year ago I didn't know any of YOU. YOU have all blessed my life beyond measure this year. Thank YOU all for your friendship & support. I love YOU all. <SMILE>
 

 
I'm Thankful for You
Thanksgiving is a time for focusing on the good in our lives. It is a time for being thankful for the people around you. It's a time for loving and caring and giving. You are one of those people who I care about. You are unique in your own way. … (20 comments)

10 Ways to Lift Your Mood When You're Feeling Down in the Dumps - 11/18/09 07:36 PM
A very good friend told me he thought I have been much happier recently and that people were noticing.  He could be right. I am very blessed by my full time temp job and I have some very good friends that I have met here that put a smile on my face if I have bouts of the blues.  
Everyone has periods in their life when they feel down in the dumps, blue, or mildly depressed. These down feelings can be due to everything from some personal problems to business hassles to various weather changes or conditions. For those for whom these … (19 comments)

Motivational Monday-November 16th - 11/16/09 05:22 PM
"When you encounter difficulties & contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness & time." – St. Francis De Sales
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."– Theodore Seuss Giesel
"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit."– Peter Ustinov
"The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen."– Frank Lloyd Wright
"It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one … (7 comments)

Interesting streaks in the sky - 11/15/09 07:15 PM



These pics I took this afternoon and the first two were taken just before dusk. Normally these streaks are caused by jets but I didn't hear any at either of the two different times that I took these. But as I looked at the second pic when I posted this I saw(on the left) what looked like the jet that may have done all the sky display that I caught with my camera.
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Speechless Sunday Well "ALMOST"-Proper HUGGING of a baby" - 11/14/09 11:17 PM
The Proper 'Hugging' of a Baby
  FROM A DOGS POINT OF VIEW
 1. First, uh, find a baby

2. Second, be sure that the object you found was
Indeed a baby by employing classic sniffing techniques.

3. Next you will need to flatten the baby before actually beginning the
Hugging process.

4. The 'paw slide' 
Simply slide paws around baby and prepare for possible close-up.

 5. Finally, if a camera is present, you will need to execute
The difficult and patented 'hug, smile, and lean' so as to
Achieve the best photo quality.

To all … (20 comments)

The Power of Imagination - 11/14/09 10:12 AM
“You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.” Mark Twain Ask a successful person why he is successful, and you could get any number of answers. Some attribute their success to little more than luck. Others might believe that they owe their achievements to their fine education. Still others feel that they owe their good fortune to a helpful mentor or a loved one who encouraged them along the way. All of these things can contribute to success. But there's one thing that virtually all successful people possess, and that's imagination. Imagination is not given nearly … (10 comments)

Success without Limits - 11/12/09 06:15 PM
We all find areas where we can really compromise ourselves. We perfect that process and those patterns and it becomes second nature in how we live and what controls our lives. We repeat the same mistakes in the same areas over and over again, keeping us trapped and as the apparent shackles of our existence hold us in a pattern of frustration, confusion and unclear destiny. But opportunities for change are always present. Replace the sadness with an addiction to the successful YOU, regardless of circumstances. Find the successful YOU, which is within all of us, and bring him or her … (17 comments)

10 Keys to Finding Your Purpose and Achieving Your Goals - 11/09/09 08:11 PM
With my second job and the New Year right around the corner it got me to thinking about this year's goals and what I accomplished but also what I could have done better with.
Do you set goals, but never follow through with them? Do you have big dreams but don't know how to turn them into reality? Are you looking for a strategy to help you achieve your goals?

At some point, you may have heard of S.M.A.R.T. goals: Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Timely. I tried this strategy a number of times and found the concept to be … (13 comments)

Motivational Monday-November 9th - 11/09/09 04:45 AM
"Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."– Steve Jobs
"The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself."– Anna Quindlen
"You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it."– Robin Williams
"No great deed, private or public, has ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty."– Leon Wieseltier
"Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best."– Henry Van Dyke
"I … (14 comments)

Stay Young-Longer - 11/08/09 07:00 PM
I took a class in college a year ago on the different aspects of health and what you could do to improve the quality of your life by making better choices.  A good friend of mine will tell me often. Do you want to know the secret to Youth? I think all of us do.
Let me tell you the things to "AVOID", if you want to stay looking younger longer. With the holidays and the New Year right around the corner there is no better time to implement these in your life.
Poor Diet What you eat affects your health … (11 comments)

A Simple Way to Stop Procrastination Today - 11/08/09 10:46 AM
All of us are guilty of procrastinating at some point or another. I have personally been a BIG procrastinator but since working 2 jobs I have had to learn not to do that. With more time spent in the car in traffic I have used that time to listen to audiobooks and with reading previous books about "HOW" the power of the WAY you talk to yourself can make such a difference. Here is some of what I have learned.
We put off unpleasant tasks for as long as we possibly can simply because our mind tells us we don't want … (12 comments)

Fred needs a LOVING home - 11/05/09 08:51 PM
Hello Everybody-Today at work a woman who rescues animals brought in this sweet little 3 month old male beagle named Fred whose Mom had been euthanized by the animal shelter. The puppies escaped this fate and were rescued by a woman named Phyllis. Besides Fred there are three females.
They all need a good home. If anyone is interested in adopting Fred or his three sisters or knows anyone who might be you can call Phyllis at (434)993-3523.
So as YOU can see we occasionally have more than sneakers, medical and teddy bears show up on our doorstep.
This is Fred
… (20 comments)

 

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