Inspirational – Page 23

Take a Step in the Right Direction

2011/10/03 Gayle 1

Today I am sharing with you a post I wrote last September. I hope it will mean as much to you today as it did last year. My friend Mary is an avid paddler. She holds a professional job and cares for her elderly parents but every weekend, you will find Mary in her canoe or kayak on some river or waterway paddling away her frustrations. This past weekend, Mary paddled a marathon (that is 26 miles for those of us who are not marathoners) on flat water (i.e. no current to carry you). The day after the marathon event, I sat down with Mary to hear all about her adventure. She described her adventure as perfect because there were natural intermittent goals along the The rest of the story

4-Steps to Living Happier

2011/09/30 Gayle 0

Today would have been my dad’s 80th birthday. Since 1997, the year my dad died, the 30th of September has been a melancholic day for me. I think of all the time I wasted as a teenager, and later as a young adult, being annoyed and sometimes down right angry with my dad for some now un-recallable action or inaction. So today, let’s talk about how to stop letting the petty things in life take over. Some days it just seems like I like to rant. I can, and do, rail on and on about some silly little inconvenience. I don’t really mean it; I just can’t seem to let stuff go. STUFF! Little, petty, stupid, stuff. So how can I or we if you’re The rest of the story

What’s it Take to Succeed?

2011/09/29 Gayle 1

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other. ~Abraham Lincoln Everyone wants to be successful; in life, in love, in business. Yet, we spend a ridiculous amount of time feeling like failures! We make up cute ditties like ‘if at first you don’t succeed, try try again’! We want success to come to us in a straight line. I did A, B C, and D and that should equal SUCCESS! Instead we find that A, B C, and D equals a try again or a give up. Success doesn’t come in a straight line! Success looks like this graphic (which one of our Facebook friends shared and I can no longer find the original posting). Success is The rest of the story

Beginnings

2011/09/28 Gayle 1

As humans we spend a lot of time thinking about the end. We ask questions like, ‘what’s your end game?’ ‘Where do you want to end up?’ or ‘where do you see this going?’ We do things like create a bucket list in an attempt to be sure we get in the things we wish to do before we reach the end. Rarely do we concentrate our efforts on the beginning. We frequently live our lives thinking about the end game; Trudging through our days to get to the evening or making our way through the week to celebrate the weekend. We live our lives as if it is just something to get through. Today, you get to breathe unassisted for 24 hours. What else The rest of the story

Even a Superhero needs Help

2011/09/27 Gayle 1

“If I could be a superhero I would be… Awesome Man I’d fly around the world fighting crime According to my awesome plan And if I saw criminals trying to lie Hurting other people and making them cry I’d haul them off to jail in my awesome van ‘Cause I would be Awesome Man” — Stephen Lynch, “Superhero” I read a blog post a few days ago entitled ‘you are your own superhero’. In the post Chris Brogan talks about how you do not have to wait for someone else to save you. You can and should save yourself. I have been thinking about that post since I first read it. It really spoke to me and the fact that I am in control of my The rest of the story