Gayle Tabor

Loosen the Grip of Stress

2012/01/30 Gayle 0

Virtually every day when I sit before a blank screen and start to write, I think ‘Who am I to assume that I can write anything positive or inspirational to help someone else’. Most days I can remind myself that I am not writing to anyone but me. My positive blogging project didn’t start because I was looking to change someone else. It stared as a way to remind myself to be positive and as encouragement to me! Nevertheless, if someone reading can take a positive and helpful message from what I write, the more the better! This weekend I seem to have spent a lot of time talking about stress. Maybe it was something on my mind or maybe it is something that needs The rest of the story

32 feet in a beautiful day

2012/01/29 Gayle 3

Yesterday, I attended the Step Up for Soldiers Barbeque Cook-Off in Carolina Beach. It was an amazingly beautiful January day (the high temperatures were in the mid 60’s and the sky was a beautiful Carolina Blue – and if you know me you know that’s not a reference to any tar on heels). It was a great day of tasting wonderful BBQ, peddlin a little soap (and other Glynne’s Soaps goods) and listening to live music all day. Not long after our arrival, I noticed the wide variety of footwear. There was everything from bare feet to very furry winter boots. Naturally, I was toten’ a camera and thus began my journey to document the footwear. 32 feet, or photos, that’s where I ended. Some The rest of the story

Be your own weird self today!

2012/01/25 Gayle 0

Like most people I have spent a life time trying to fit in. I’ve been that round peg trying to fit the square holes. But as my sister so likes to point out, I march to my own drummer. For years I accepted the notion that being different, that being me was bad. However age, I’m amazingly nearing fifty, and life experience now tells me that I wasted far too much time and energy on trying be someone I am not. Dolly Parton said “Figure out who you are and then do it on purpose.” I don’t think I’ve ever heard better advice. Be your own weird self today! People may not love you for it, but you’ll love yourself!

Are you Using Social Media to it’s Full Amplification?

2012/01/25 Gayle 0

A goal of mine in 2012, along with consolidating my blogging, was to write consistently about social media. Last year I did well keeping up with my inspirational blog, and the occasional posts to my Glynne’s Soaps blog; However, when it came to blogging about social media, I quite simply was not any good. What I have discovered in 2012 is that while I have plenty to say about social media, my tenor is snarky. I want to blast some guy who inappropriately (in my opinion) shared his chicken soup recipe. I want to prattle on and on (WOW do I have a WHOLE LOT to say about the guy who invites me to some event every day via Facebook and Linkedin (often after I The rest of the story

Shake it off

2012/01/23 Gayle 0

Every so often the words of others become so burdensome in our lives that we can hardly move forward. The words! We hear the words of our friends as they comment on our latest adventure. The words! We hear parental words telling us no one will every like ‘that attitude’. The words! We hear teachers from the 70’s still telling us we’ll never succeed at math. The words! Words we repeat over and over in our minds. The words! Eventually the words become so taxing we are unable to hear our own voice. We can no longer hear our own thoughts. We can no longer drown out the words! The words of others! Are you letting other people’s words take over your thoughts? Are you The rest of the story