I came across this phrase and I LOVE it so much!! I thought it’s really wonderful heart-healthy exercise….

LAUGHING is like internal jogging. It exercises our inner soul and bringing health to it.

Find Humor in our everyday lives and we ought to laugh at ourselves and not take ourselves too seriously.

We need a balance of FUN and RESPONSIBILITY @Work. If we are not emotionally balanced, our entire lives will be affected. Our state of being will be out of sync, the people around us will not find JOY working with us, we will begin to find the days in our lives getting heavier with every passing moment….

So beginning TODAY, start finding something to really LAUGH OUT LOUD! Even if you have to do it on PURPOSE…  JUST LAUGH!!!

We often make the mistake of being double-minded and end up sabotaging ourselves and our plans.

Often times, we ask the Universe for something by sending a thought or an intention out or for those of us who are more connected with God, we say a prayer and ask for God’s help in granting us our desires. But…..the problem comes when we begin to ‘doubt’ the Universe or God!

A double mind is an “unmade mind”; whereas a decisive mind is a mind “made up.” The double-minded person is like a wave of the sea, driven and tossed about by any blowing Wind.

Everytime we hesitate, we reinforce double-mindedness which means we reinforce DOUBT, WORRY & FEAR. Most importantly, it means we are opposing FAITH!

Confused desires make a confused mind and a confused YOU!

FAITH is the singleness of our Mind, where we have burnt our bridges behind us; close our options to the left or right and have become committed to the one thing we are pursuing.

My dearest friends, is there something you are hesitating about? Make that decision now.

Good or bad, trust the Universe and God to guide you once you are moving and taking action. Without action, you are motionless and stagnant. The universe and God can’t do anything for us to guide us with correction…

We r guided as we STEP OUT, with every step of the way, we can stay connected with God or the Universe and hear the silent wisdom guiding us from within. This silent wisdom is our CONNECTION with the Universe or God. 

With each step you take, FAITH steps out along with you, filling you with more and more confidence with every little step. A Faith-minded person is committed and decisive.

Therefore, whatever u seek for from the Universe or God… Ask & pray for it with a fully convinced mind that you WILL get it!! Hold on to FAITH and be ONLY Faith-Minded……..

Your Single-Mindedness will get you WHAT you truly want.

Recently, I started a daily morning devotional with my business partners who are also my housemates. We felt that when we dedicate the FIRST thing in the morning (after freshening ourselves up and getting dressed for our gym routine that is…), we are more mentally peaceful and equipped to deal with the stress or challenges the day throws at us.

Achieving Phenomenal PEACE

I had often taught in my coaching sessions that we exist simultaneously on all 4 levels of BE-ing… that is Spiritual, Intellectual (Mental), Emotional and Physical. And I could not stress enough that of the 4 levels, our Spiritual growth is the MOST important because it anchors us deep down and gives us phenomenal PEACE to cope with whatever hurdles or challenges happen on a daily basis.

I had always loved my mornings QUIET and TRANQUIL because those were my precious moments where I spend with my most inner thoughts, affirming myself with morning POWER questions and Affirmations.

So, when I commit with the 2 best friends and buddies in my life for the morning devotional, I vowed to stick to it wholeheartedly! And so, I experienced not only a NEW HIGH for my sense of well being, the Bonding, Patience and Understanding towards each other improved beyond words!! WOW!

This morning, something phenomenal hit me like a ton of bricks and I’m inspired to begin posting on my blog again……… (yeah yeah, I had contended with just inspirational quotes and phrases on FaceBook last 1 year)… So YES! Thank You LORD for kicking my butt to pick up writing again in such a loving way!!

We were at Proverbs Chapter 4 this morning and I found such amazing WISDOM which can be applied to EVERYONE’s life regardless of race, language or religion differences!! And it has moved me soooo incredibly I just felt the Strongest URGENCY to share with as many people as possible!!

We often blame ourselves or get discouraged when we try to WALK the TALK or simply BE BETTER everyday… and we get so discouraged or disheartened by ourselves that many times we just GIVE UP!

Now, imagine a one-year-old child learning to walk, each time the child falls down, we would NEVER think there is something wrong with the child!! As a matter of fact, we would pick them up, kiss them, love them, bandage them (if necessary) and keep working with them! The child KNOWS HOW TO KEEP WALKING THE WALK till the WALK IS MASTERED FULLY!

Why is it that we as adults FAIL to stay on the PATH and KEEP ON KEEPING ON till we succeed?

When will we ever learn from a child?? That a WALK is something taken ONE STEP at a time. Whenever we fall or stumble, just as a child would, we pick ourselves up and continue WALKING THE WALK till we no longer stumble and fall….. in short, till we achieve SUCCESS!

but by the seeds you plant

A deeply moving story…. THE OLD FISHERMAN

Our house was directly across the street from the clinic entrance of Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. We lived downstairs & rented the upstairs rooms to out-patients at the Clinic.

One summer evening as I was fixing supper, there was a knock at the door. I opened it to see a truly awful looking man. ‘Why, he’s hardly taller than my eight-year-old,’ I thought as I stared at the stooped, shrivelled body.

But the appalling thing was his face, lopsided from swelling, red & raw. Yet, his voice was pleasant as he said, ‘Good evening. I’ve come to see if you’ve a room for just one night. I came for a treatment this morning from the eastern shore, & there’s no bus ’till morning.’

He told me he’d been hunting for a room since noon but with no success; no one seemed to have a room. ‘I guess it’s my face. I know it looks terrible, but my doctor says with a few more treatments…’

For a moment I hesitated, but his next words convinced me, ‘I could sleep in this rocking chair on the porch. My bus leaves early in the morning.’ I told him we would find him a bed, but to rest on the porch. I went inside & finished getting supper. When we were ready, I asked the old man if he would join us. ‘No thank you. I have plenty‘ and he held up a brown paper bag.

When I had finished the dishes, I went out on the porch to talk with him a few minutes. It didn’t take a long time to see that this old man had an over sized heart crowded into that tiny body. He told me he fished for a living to support his daughter, her five children & her husband, who was hopelessly crippled from a back injury.

He didn’t tell it by way of complaint; in fact, every other sentence was prefaced with THANKS TO GOD for a BLESSING. He was grateful that no pain accompanied his disease, which was apparently a form of skin cancer. He was thankful for the strength to keep going.

At bedtime, we put a camp cot in the children’s room for him. When I got up in the morning, the bed linens were neatly folded, & the little man was out on the porch.

He refused breakfast, but just before he left for his bus, haltingly, as if asking a great favour, he said, ‘Could I please come back & stay the next time I have a treatment? I won’t put you out a bit. I can sleep fine in a chair.’ He paused a moment & then added, ‘Your children made me feel at home. Grownups are bothered by my face, but children don’t seem to mind.’ I told him he was welcome to come again.

And on his next trip he arrived a little after seven in the morning. As a gift, he brought a big fish & a quart of the largest oysters I had ever seen. He said he had shucked them that morning before he left so that they’d be nice & fresh. I knew his bus left at 4 a.m., & I wondered what time he had to get up in order to do this for us.

In the years he came to stay overnight with us there was never a time that he did not bring us fish or oysters or vegetables from his garden.

Other times we received packages in the mail, always by special delivery; fish & oysters packed in a box of fresh young spinach or kale, every leaf carefully washed. Knowing that he must walk three miles to mail these & knowing how little money he had made the gifts doubly precious.

When I received these little remembrances, I often thought of a comment our next-door neighbour made after he left that first morning. ‘Did you keep that awful looking man last night? I turned him away! You can lose roomers by putting up such people!’

Maybe we did lose roomers once or twice but, oh if only they could have known him, perhaps their illness would have been easier to bear. I know our family always will be grateful to have known him; from him we learned what it was to accept the bad without complaint & the good with gratitude.

Recently I was visiting a friend who has a greenhouse. As she showed me her flowers, we came to the most beautiful one of all, a golden chrysanthemum, bursting with blooms. But to my great surprise, it was growing in an old dented, rusty bucket. I thought to myself, ‘If this were my plant, I’d put it in the loveliest container I had!’

My friend changed my mind. ‘I ran short of pots,’ she explained, ‘and knowing how beautiful this one would be, I thought it wouldn’t mind starting out in this old pail. It’s just for a little while, till I can put it out in the garden.’

She must have wondered why I laughed so delightedly, but I was imagining just such a scene in heaven. There’s an especially beautiful one,’ God might have said when he came to the soul of the sweet old fisherman. ‘He won’t mind starting in this small body.’

All this happened long ago — and now, in God’s garden, how tall this lovely soul must stand..

The LORD does not look at the things man looks at.

Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.’

Friends are very special. They make you smile & encourage you to succeed. They lend an ear & they share a word of praise.

Show your friends how much you care.

Pass this on, & brighten someone’s day.

“Life without God is like an unsharpened pencil – it has no point.”

WISHING YOU LOVE IN YOUR HEART…

PEACE IN YOUR SOUL..AND JOY IN YOUR LIFE…..ALWAYS…

Leo Tolstoy said, ‘Everyone thinks of changing the World, but no one thinks of changing himself.’

I have lived by the principle: For things to Change, I MUST FIRST CHANGE!

How can one embrace Personal Change?

Do not look to someone else to change you. If any changes were to be made, it’s only because YOU had given the permission to allow someone else to change you. You made the DECISION to be CHANGED.

Here’s an article from John C. Maxwell which I had come across some time ago, and I have thus lived by this principle henceforth…

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-Extracted from John C. Maxwell-

After several years, I awakened to the thought that the only person who can change himself or herself is himself or herself. You can change yourself, but I cannot change you. You see, I am responsible to you but I am not responsible for you; and there is a world of difference between those two. I am responsible for teaching you good leadership. I am responsible for sharing things that can help add value to your life, but you are the only one who can take responsibility to change yourself, and that is what this whole article is about.

Most people need to look at the way that they look at change.

How many times have you heard somebody say, “I sure hope things will change.” The only way things will change for me is when I change. It has nothing to do with hope. You can’t just say, “Well, I just hope things will change around me,” and expect results. The only way that things will change for me is when I change.

I have also heard this before, “I don’t know why I’m this way.” Well, you are the way you are because that is the way you want to be. Let’s expose it for what it really is.

When you make the right personal changes, other things begin to turn out right.

So when people say, “I’d like things to turn out better for me; I’d like things to turn out right; I’d like things to turn out better in the organization, or in my family,” I say to them, “Start by making personal changes.”

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So, how does one embark on the FIRST STEP towards CHANGE?

Step 1: Make a DECISION that you want to live a Different life.

You want things in your life to be different. You want circumstances in your life to be more ideal. Just as James Allen says, “Your circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not long remain so if you but perceive an ideal and strive to reach it.”

Step 2: Set a GOAL and WRITE your GOAL down. (Important to write it down)

There is a process to set GOALS. The normal Goal Setting process SUCKS. I’ve given a link below how you can have access to the audio recording of why Goal Setting sucks by Bob Proctor’s Master Coach DEV and how you can actually set a Goal and ACHIEVE It. GREAT insightful audio! Answers loads of people’s questions why they never achieve their goals.

http://goals.successesource.com/ 

Step 3: Set a 90 days Plan of Action to form that NEW & DIFFERENT habit

It takes 21 days to form a new habit. 90 days before this new habit becomes a conditioning or a part of us. Stick to it. Remember, for things to change, you must FIRST change.

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How often do you let other people’s nonsense change your mood?

Do you let a bad driver, rude waiter, curt boss, or an insensitive employee ruin your day?  However, the mark of a successful person is how quickly one can get back their focus on what’s important. David J. Pollay explains his story in this way….

Sixteen years ago I learned this lesson. I learned it in the back of a New York City taxi cab. Here’s what happened. I hopped in a taxi, and we took off for Grand Central Station. We were driving in the right lane when, all of a sudden, a black car jumped out of a parking space right in front of us. My taxi driver slammed on his breaks, skidded, and missed the other car’s back end by just inches!

The driver of the other car, the guy who almost caused a big accident, whipped his head around and he started yelling bad words at us. My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy. And I mean…he was friendly. So, I said, “Why did you just do that? This guy almost ruined your car and sent us to the hospital!”

And this is when my taxi driver told me what I now call, “The Law of the Garbage Truck.”

“Many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of anger, and full of disappointment. As their garbage piles up, they need a place to dump it. And if you let them, they’ll dump it on you. When someone wants to dump on you, don’t take it personally.. You just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on. You’ll be happy you did.”

I started thinking, how often do I let Garbage Trucks run right over me? And how often do I take their garbage and spread it to other people: at work, at home, on the streets? It was that day I said, “I’m not going to do it anymore.”

Life’s too short to wake up in the morning with regrets. Love the people who treat you right. Forget about the ones who don’t. Believe that everything happens for a reason.  Never let the garbage truck run over you…

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I’m dumping my Love, Hugs & Light on you TODAY.

The Greatest Power is the Power of the PRESENT MOMENT.

We have to live in the NOW, have a sense of NOW-NESS and be a NOWIST.

My schedule comes in short bursts of extremely hectic times, hectic times and just about busy times. Once in a blue moon, I get that wonderful blissful days where I don’t have to turn on my computer, not even to surf. And I dedicate those days entirely to pampering myself.

And being so hectically busy most times, I still want to inject little pockets of moments where I will be spiritually fed and mentally nourished. It’s almost difficult to read books as fast as I would want to, and so had turned to mind tidbits on days when I’m going through extremely hectic bursts of days.

Today, I’d like to share with you, my dearest friends…. some of the golden gems which I’d call the greatest Mind Tidbits:

GREAT MIND TIDBITS for a WONDERFUL LIFE……

1. Always do MORE than you get paid for as an investment in your future.
2. Whether you stay six weeks, six months or six years, always leave it better than you found it.
3. If you make a sale, you can make a living. If you make an investment of time and good service in a customer, you can make a fortune.
4. Don’t just let your business or your job make something for you; let it make something of you.
5. The worst days of those who enjoy what they do are better than the best days of those who don’t.

Extracted from T. Harv Eker’s SPEED WEALTH

1. Leverage is using other people’s talents, skills, contacts, credibility and resources.
2. Leverage is fully utilising the latest technologies in computers, software and telecommunications to increase your speed and efficiency.
3. Leverage is selling products before you have them, or at least, before you have to pay for them.
4. Leverage is expanding your business using your customer’s or supplier’s money.
5. Leverage is getting more from each of your employees by properly training them, treating them well, and giving them the space to express their true talents.
6. Leverage is managing your time more effectively so you do the right things instead of just do things right.

Leverage is a MINDSET. It’s an ART. It’s a SCIENCE.

It often separates those who create financial freedom quickly, from those who continue to struggle for the rest of their lives.