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Child Like Joy As change continues in our real estate world, our national economy, politics, life in general, I have listened and heard from others all about their search for joy. That inner peace that we all seek, that contentment, that feeling that life is good despite the up and down experiences we all share each day. You can

Find In Your Life Real Joy.

You have to drive yourself into that joy. Walk into that splashing and spraying water and let it soak you fully for you to have that huge inner smile. It is a choice to not let your life be driven by apathy and indifference. But rather by being a difference maker. YOU make it happen. With others you interact with you uplift, encourage, empower, teach, praise, and have a positive impact on them with your ACTIONS. Action is a key to your joy, because in some odd circular fashion, life has a way of giving back to you what you give out to others. What you do for others has a profound and lasting impact on them.

Then with that strange 'what comes around goes around' way the world works, it has a profound and lasting impact on WHO?

YOU!!!

Find real joy in your life by being a difference maker. Touch another's life. Be active not sedentary. Walk into the spraying water and FEEL the happiness that was meant for you. See life with child like wonder eyes.

"The fragrance lingers on the hand that gives the rose." - Anonymous

Posted by Gary Woltal - Associate Broker REALTOR® Dallas Ft. Worth on 11/04/2008 09:32 AM

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NOV

2008

Gary - True joy seems to elude most people, doesn't it? I find my joy in my faith in God and the love of my family. Thanks for the non-election-related post today. I have a feeling that AR will be filled with Election Day "coverage".

Gary,

I love the quote and the photo. Thanks for starting my day with a smile!

Betina

Gary,

I feel like I am following Jason Crouch around today....I seem to comment behind him on every post I read.....

Palms 118:24 - This is the day that the Lord hath made. We shall rejoice and be glad in it.

Pay it forward. I'm a big Karma guy and I'm always happy to earn extra points by helping people or going out of my way to teach someone a better way to do something.

Gary, thanks for a great post! I really believe in what you're saying and try to live my life by that philosophy. It always encourages me to read material that confirms what I believe and to know that the same principles are working in the lives of others.

Hi Gary: Hey, I love running down alleys barefoot in the rain. Stopped kicking over trash cans, too -- primarily because they're too heavy nowadays and aren't the thin tin types.

Hi Jason: With your family and your faith in God you will never have problems with joy. I'm glad I'm not writing about the election today. Leave that to others.

Betina: You got it. Keep that beautiful smile going.

Julie: Great Psalm to quote. I have had that experience commenting on the same posts after someone else commented. Very eerie!!

Randall: Somehow that pay it forward really does work.

Real Living Advantage: I think you have it exactly right and finding joy doesn't have to be all that complicated.

Pat: You are going to be an entire fan club for me all on your own. Thanks for all your kind words as always and get out there and grab yourself up a cup of joy. Hope I add to it a bit for you!!

Elizabeth: You got that joy thing down now without stubbing your toe : )

Lovely post Gary; it is so true that we have the capacity to create new experience, change circumstance by what we say and do.

Gary- I am like Jason...I find my joy in my faith & family...both are things I have shared openly with members.

Gary, I read a beautiful line from a very close and dear friend of mine, named George Fowler. He was an ex Trappist Monk and left the monastery after 30 years of dedictaed servitude. He got married to a nun and remained married for another 20+ years until he died about 10 years ago. Anyway he was a published author and one of my mentors. In a manuscript he penned about 20 years ago, called Learning to Dance Inside, he wrote that our search for peace is like looking all around our house for a guest that has been sitting at the kitchen table the entire time. Peace is there always, we simply shut ourselves off from it.

I love this post

Thank you

Gary~How true! Rather than stopping to smell the roses, we should stop and splash in the water. Like many others before me, I continue to find joy in spending time with my family, my friends and in most cases, my clients!

Thanks for brightening the day!

Hi Gary - Your posts are always so positive; I remember a time you said it's not because your life is free from strife. Yet you manage to stay upbeat and carry so many along with you, it's pretty incredible ~ you wear it well :-) Thanks for all you do to keep us going in the right direction, you're the best!

Bo - that was a great story, thanks for sharing it.

Gary, Not only the best posts but some incredible comments on here! I have always believed "What goes around comes around" and it's why I try to send out only the best. And it's true, exactly when we feel like NOT acting is usually the time that we SHOULD!

Wow...what a touching thought. I love the quote of the rose! Thank you for the post.

Leslie

Gary, I do not care what you said in this post (:-), but I love the picture. Very cute.

Deborah: All the change we need is up to us. It is a result of our daily choices.

Jeremy: Faith and family are great to find joy with.

Bo: That is a tremendous story from that manuscript and often whatever we search the whole wide world for is right there in our backyard or a guest at the table.

LaShawn: You are welcome, and I always enjoy you stopping by.

Gail: We all have strife, good point. It is more your reaction to hardship. You may as well hang in there with it. It beats the alternative of having pity parties. Plus, things pass so you have to have more the long term view.

Carole: I know with your sense of energy in the world you understand that Karma thing well.

Allen: That quote with the rose is one of my favorites.

Huiting: I thought the photo was pretty cool too.

You get out of life what you put in. One of my goals is to be present in the moment. That's harder to do than it sounds. It's easy to tune out.

Gary-Wonderful post and so true. Thank you for sharing. I would rather be the hand that gave the rose.

What a beautiful post indeed. You have such a way with common words. I wish I could do that. I think that is one thing no one can take away is ones joy.

Allen: Being in the present most of the time is tough. Keep working on it.

Hey Pat: I think William was over talking on that blog with the floppy ears. The what goes around comes around in the positive sense is that pay it forward idea. Thanks for all your thoughtful comment as always.

Laura: Love the rose and your thoughtfulness of the giver. Ah, the fragrance is on you now!!

Hi Joyce: Joy from Joyce. I love that. I do the common word thing I think cause I am so common : ) You are right though that no one can take it away.

Gary, the fragrance lingers on the hand that gives the rose. That is beautiful. I am very into my sense of smell. I love to bruise a petal on my basil plants and sniff my fingers. If a man walks by and he is wearing cologne that I recognize, I can picture the man who used to wear it. I had a teacher in middle school. Mr. Appa. He wore Aqua Di Selva. I'm not sure I am spelling that correctly You almost never smell that anymore but even now, at 49, if I do catch a whiff, I can see him in my mind. My dog's smell, which some people find disgusting, fills me with joy and calmness. I actually hate his newly bathed smell because it doesn't bring me the same feeling. I am a weirdo. What can I say, except admit the truth. I'm weird.

Gary,

It gives a person great joy to help another. I have found to smile at another helps their mood and mine at the same time.

Smile and make another person's day!

Ann

NOV

2008

Gary, I'm sorry I missed this yesterday but it had the needed affect today. I second both Jason and Julie's comments. You know the saying that we can't control our surroundings but we can control our thoughts. That being said I noticed most of the blogs yesterday were about the election and I just didn't need my head there. Thus I missed you. The blog you posted this am is just as great as this.

I think you're going to become my MUST READ first thing everyday!!! :)

Hi Susan: God has blessed you overcompensating you with your sense of smell to offset your hearing and sight I bet. You are so in tune with people too. Knowing them by sensing them. I remember that Aqua Velva cologne too. Used to get bottles of it at Christmas. Having done dog washes before I am VERY familiar with wet dog smell. You are not weird Susan. I stand on top of Mt. Weirdo. You're just trying to play capture the flag with me but I've had a few more years at the top of the weird chain than you : ) xxoo

Ann: Helping people and smiling at others will take you a long way to joy. Follow Susan Mangigian in this area. She's one of my many heroes in this area and is always helping people and making all of us laugh. Pure joy and goodness in the heart of that woman.

Hey Pat: I know, I get all these blogs and comments confused many times myself. The funniest is you read one post but click on the wrong post to comment. Dumb Gary.

Connie: Thanks. Everyone writes about the election. I don't. Have you figured out I'm different from the bunch? ; )

Pat: I like your comments. Keep doing what you are doing. Just don't wear yourself out. : )

Gary,

I will take your advice and see what Susan has to "say". I am certain I will agree with you.

Ann

Ann: Subscribe to Susan Mangigian's blog. You will be glad you did. Such goodness, such humor, such "real" joy there.

Gary, I didn't see your comment to Ann until she responded to it. You really do give me way more credit than I deserve and for that, my friend, I thank you. You may think you have a few more years at the top of the weird chain but I have many more weird experiences! Just ask Max... he thinks I'm nuts.. although I think he means it in a good way.

Gary,

Thank you. That is just what I did!

Ann

Oh and it isn't Aqua Velva. It's ACQUA DI SELVA Aqua di Selva.

Hi Mr. Appa!

Mr. Appa is probably heading for the hills as we speak. I think I followed him home once, he smelled that good!

Susan: You may be right with the more weird experiences and Max would validate that with you stealing his Lucky Charms out of the box before he gets his cereal. But the way I look at it with you Susan, that is all about the joy and smiles you are dishing out everywhere you go. Sure you use that funny bone as this HUGE defense mechanism for all sorts of things in your life. But in the end it makes you feel good and certainly spreads massive smiles and laughter in your wake every where you go. You're not going to get me to stop promoting you or giving you credit where credit is due. I found you and I can't hog you all to myself. : )

Susan: OK, you got me there. I got the cheap version (Aqua Velva) in my stocking from K-Mart. I come from humble roots, don't you know.

NOV

2008

Well Gary! I have a problem. I can't grow up and still feel and act like a child. I jump up and down with joy... but everybody keeps telling me to grow up! For many growing up is in fact growing out of touch with their "love for life"

As always, an uplifting and inspiring post. Thanks again, Gary.

Gary, yes, I figured it out and subscribed to your blog so I can read you often!!

JAN

Gary ... I like your article Find in Your Life Real Joy and have linked that at one of my posts. We agree that we should find real joy in life, be a difference maker, touch another's life, and be active. Best wishes. Harrison

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