Focused Family

Teaching Your Children Law Of Attraction.

Welcome to Focused Family, our monthly newsletter on teaching the law of attraction to children.  We’re very happy and excited that you’re here. Each month we’ll share a parenting tip, a game to play, and a powerful child manifestation story to keep you inspired and focused on created the best possible family.

I’m so happy and grateful to share this work with you.  Until next month… dream big and keep focusing on what you’re wanting.

 Life is good, Steffani

Quote:

“Your children will see what you’re all about by what you live rather than what you say.” ~ Dr. Wayne Dyer

Parent tip of the month:  Energy, Attention and Focus! 

What are you including in your vibrational space? Do you know? Well what are you putting your energy, attention and focus on? Whatever the answer….that’s in your vibrational space. Are you day dreaming about a vacation? That’s in your vibrational bubble. Are you talking about a future experience or past experience? That’s in your vibrational bubble. Are you worrying about something? That’s in your vibrational bubble. Are you focusing on the bad weather, a sick coworker, a bad customer service experience? That’s also in there. Think for a minute about how often you worry about your kids. Do you want to include that in your vibrational bubble? We all know that we can’t attract or vibrate for someone else. So what does worrying do?  Does it affect them? No. But it does effect our vibration. And it effects what we’re attracting for everyone around us. It effects what we’re manifesting. So give some thought to what you’re putting your energy, attention and focus on. What are you talking about, thinking about, looking at, dreading? Change the negatives to positives and you’ll attract more of what you’re wanting. When conversations come up that are not welcome in your vibrational bubble. Change them. When you start thinking about things that are not welcome in your vibrational bubble CANCEL them. And move on to bigger and better thoughts and conversations. Only you control your vibration. Only you control what you’re attracting. You are a deliberate attractor. You can consciously create the life of your dreams by putting your energy, attention and focus on that dream life. Lead by example and show your kids that you’re putting your energy, attention and focus on all things good. They’ll be encouraged to do the same.

Monthly game:  Dinner Affirmations

When I am asked to create powerful affirmations I do. When I’m not asked I don’t. Kids are the same. If we ask them to participate in something, and keep it consistent, they’ll oblige. Sometimes right away, sometimes eventually. So what are you asking of your kids? What kind of rituals and traditions have you created? Are they positive and fun? Do they align with LOA? Here’s an idea you can add. If you spend a few nights a week having dinner with your kids, no matter what their age, ask them to create a new powerful affirmation each night. Tell them one of your latest and greatest powerful affirmations.  Don’t be afraid to share it. Then ask them to create one. It could be something pertaining to their school work. “I’m a straight A student.” “I work hard on every one of my history exams.”  Or something more personal that might be pertinent in their life. “I make friends easily.” “I’m very popular in a positive and helpful way.” You might start by asking your kids: “What are you working on in your life right now?” Or “what do you want to improve in your life right now?”  Then help them create an affirmation around that. It can become your new dinner routine. When you’re setting the table you can ask, “Are you thinking about your latest and greatest affirmation?” “Have you been saying your last affirmation often?” “Do you have something in your life you want to work on tonight?”  This can start as young as kids can talk. And it can last until they’re adults and beyond. J The basic tip for a good affirmation is, keep it positive, keep it present and keep it in the first person. So, I have or I am is better then I want or I will have.  I also like to ask one question of my affirmations. And that is, is it true?  Do I really feel like that can happen? If my affirmation feels like a load of bull, then it’s not going to get me anywhere. If there’s at least a hint of truth to it then it will work for me.  For instance, I have never considered myself a good cook. So if I had a new affirmation that said “I’m an excellent cook” That wouldn’t work for me. My subconscious would say “BS!” Instead I might set a new affirmation of “I enjoy cooking healthy meals”. Or “I cook healthy meals that taste great”. Both of those are true and believable to me. So that’s an easy leap. And it will get me where I’m wanting to be, which is to be a good cook. Help your kids to develop a new affirmation every night you share dinner together. They’ll enjoy it and get better and better at creating powerful affirmations in their lives. And with all those powerful affirmations floating around, ANYTHING’S POSSIBLE.

The latest and greatest Kids Manifestation Story:

My son Jack is 18 months old.  And he is a POWERFUL manifestor. We started giving him some Pedialyte (baby Gatorade) when he was young to keep him hydrated. And he LOVED it. He has since always had a bit of Pedialyte in his water. He doesn’t drink straight water very well because of it. Our doctor said it was no problem but if we wanted to stop the Pedialyte we should just stop it, cold turkey. So we decided to make a change. We were traveling to Mexico for a week long vacation. And we started just giving him Milk and purified water. He didn’t seem to protest very much.  But you could tell that when he drank his water he would look twice at it, wondering where the flavor was. We were only there a few days when Jack got a little infermo (sick). We took him to the doctor and although he was given a clean bill of health we walked out with a prescription for….yep, you guessed it, Pedialyte. Just a few days without his beloved Pedialyte and he suddenly has a doctor prescribed order for it. What a powerful little man! I can’t wait to see what he asks for next.

Do you have any kid’s manifestation stories you’d like to share.  E-mail me at steffani@postive-focus.com  I’d love to hear about your powerful kids.

I’m so happy and grateful to share this work with you.  Until next month… dream big and keep focusing on what you’re wanting.

Life is good,

Steffani

Steffani Fort LeFevour is an actress, a fitness specialist and an expert in the law of attraction and living your best life. She has been teaching the law of attraction to kids and adults for over 8 years and applying it in her own life for over 20 years. Her passion is to help others to focus on their ultimate lives and consciously create the life of their dreams.

 She is a board member at Positive Focus, a 501c3 Non-Profit dedicated to empowering people to live life fulfilled through the provision of Service-Charity, Mind-Body-Spirit, and Fun-Social events, workshops, resources and services.

Welcome to Choice Airlines where we honor the choices you make on living your life. We offer four different flight options: Grounded, Turbulence, Possibilities, and Joy. Choose your flight for today and know that you can upgrade at anytime.
 
Hi, I’m Captain Compassion and I will be your pilot today on aircraft Grounded. Please fasten your seat belts to feel secure. Rather than showing a movie, we’ll be listening to some relaxing music to help calm you. We will taxi around the airport but at no time will our wheels leave the ground. This flight is simply to prepare you to feel secure and know it is okay to be afraid. When you allow yourself to feel these feelings rather than degrading yourself because of them, you will move through them quicker. When you start feeling safe and secure and trust that you will always be supported on Grounded, I will share some information with you about our two other flights, Turbulence and Possibilities. And perhaps at the end of our flight, I’ll tell you about a dream aircraft we call Joy. Know that you are not alone as you see other passengers squeezing their arm rests. Look down the aisle into the cockpit and see compassion is right here to support you. Look out the window and see if you can see Turbulence. If you can’t yet, that is okay as you are right where you need to be for now.
 
Hi, I am Captain Hope and this is Captain Fun and we will be your pilots today on aircraft Turbulence. Please fasten your seat belts as the weather is forecasted to be stormy. The in-flight movie we’ll be showing is “Twister” as it demonstrates how inner turmoil becomes your outer reality in a fun and entertaining way. Although our take-off might be rough and we will barely clear the trees, I promise you, we will clear them. We might go through some strong air pockets, but I promise you as the flight continues you will build confidence that you made it through the last bank of clouds for some calm skies and you will make it through this one too. Eventually, Captain Fun will have you laughing through the air pockets as the aircraft suddenly drops and then settles into a smooth flight pattern. You started this flight wondering if you should have stayed on Grounded, yet as time passes, you are excited about the possibilities that lie ahead.
 
Hi, I’m Captain Peace and I will be your pilot today on aircraft Possibilities. Our flight today is interactive as all of you will choose how high we fly and the weather conditions we will face. When you take the controls of your life and realize that contrasting experiences are there to grow from and remind you of what you do want out of life, amazing possibilities open up to you. Our in-flight movie is “You Can Heal Your Life” as it walks you through a better feeling place to thrive and fly high. Look below you and see how you made it through turbulence. Look within you and find peace. Look above you and see joy.
 
Hi, I’m Captain Love and I will be your pilot today on aircraft Joy. Joy is first class treatment all the way as you’re loving life to its fullest. We will be flying up to 65,000 feet off the ground with no particular destination as we see all aspects of life joyful. The in-flight movie we’ll be showing is “Heaven Can Wait” as your heaven is here NOW. We will go through some turbulence and be grounded to refuel, but all is well, as you simply know that joy lies within the journey of life. Look below you and see possibilities. Look within you and see love. Look above and see the vastness of living your life fulfilled.

 Affirmation:  I continue to fly high knowing I am loved and loving.

 (S)he Said:

“He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.”
~ Friedrich Nietzsche

 ”Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn’t know it so it goes on flying anyway.”
 ~ Mary Kay Ash

 ”You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.” ~ Chinese Proverb
 ”How blessings brighten as they take their flight.” ~ Edward Young

 Soulful Links:

Fly Me to the Moon ~ Frank Sinatra

Fly Away ~ Lenny Kravitz

Fly ~ Sugar Ray

For the next week I invite you to fly first class by:
 
Reaching for a better feeling thought however you currently feel.
 
Loving yourself regardless of how you currently feel.
 
Appreciating your yesterday, being at peace with your today, and getting excited about your tomorrow.
 
Mostly, my wish for you is to find acceptance and fun in the bumps in life and to honor yourself as you are a unique person who is love, kindness, compassion, and lots of fun!
 
Until next time, thank you for flying with Choice Airlines and we look forward to you joining us again.

Keep living big, loving big, and laughing along the journey.
~Carol

February was a wonderful month full of hugs, feeding the homeless and our new event “Operation Sack Lunch & After Work Social”. Now twice a month you can help provide food to the homeless – once a month as we serve food at the Good News Kitchen and once a month via Operation Sack Lunch and Social.

Coming soon I will be organizing a cooking/serving event opportunity where we will go to the Lincoln Park Community Shelter to provide, prepare and serve dinner for 35 residents of this shelter.I’m sure you have a favorite comfort food, ethnic or vegetarian meal you would love to share with the LPCS guests one weekend. Stay posted to the calendar for details. I recently became a Night Supervisor at LPCS and had my first overnight experience. It’s truly a home environment complete with meals.

Ways to serve LPCS besides food: Acetaminophen and Excedrin, men and women’s gently used clothing and shoes, personal care items, bus passes, breakfast items, coffee, tea, magazines, movies, twin bedding and blankets for their bunk beds. I would be happy to drop off any items you would like to donate, so just let me know.

Gives Back Ideas: We are always looking for Co-Organizers so please contact me if you have a gives back idea you want to help bring to the PF community.

Global Free Hugs IV is off to wonderful roll, with people from all over the world participating. We need your help to contact more huggers!  Do you have friends or family in another part of the world?  Do you have Facebook friends from other parts of the country or world who you could invite to participate?  Send them the Link to Positive Focus.  Send them one of the many YouTube videos of Free Hugs Events.  It’s a wonderful free warm gift to share with anyone who passes you.  I cannot explain the warmth and love I feel when a hug is shared with a total stranger. Instant friendships are made and the world is somehow different.

Hugs to you and I look forward to seeing you at a PF event soon!

Cathy
cathy@positive-focus.com

Upcoming Gives Back Events:

Operation Sack Lunch After Work Social, Tuesday March 16^th from 6:30 to 9:30pm at Cathy’s House on Wells Street in River North.

Free Hugs Event, Sunday, March 21 from 1pm to 3pm at the Old Water Tower on Michigan Avenue in Chicago.

GIVER PROFILE:

NAME:  Cathy Landerholm

CITY:  Chicago

I volunteered at these PF Events: Free Hugs, Feed the Homeless, Sack Lunch Social

I volunteer because: I get an enormous positive feeling to be able to give back in ways that make a difference to someone’s life.  Where financial donations are not always possible, I can do much by volunteering my time and efforts.

My favorite volunteer experience: Getting to know the guests at the Rogers Park Kitchen. They have become like family to me.

When not volunteering, I like to: Cook, go to outdoor festivals, backpacking trips, skydiving, camping, fishing, hiking, beach volleyball, Opera!

You might be surprised to know: I used to teach ballroom dancing at Fred Astaire Dance Studios and in 2005 I ran the Chicago Marathon for the first time and did it in 6 hrs and 19 minutes. Yes!

What our Givers are saying:

Food Service:

I loved that everyone enjoyed the food, the smoothies and the biggest blast was the assembly line to prepare the 30 lunches. Lots of laughs for all

Such a great idea to make food for the homeless while getting to know each other too. Thanks Cathy for putting this together.

Good News Community Kitchen now looks to Positive Focus Members to answer the call when needed. I am so proud to be a part of a group with so many dedicated members who know the need in our community, and would give up their time when needed. We all get so much out of this.

Free Hugs:

A little cold weather, but was comforted by warm hugs!

It was cold, but as always still a great event.

The best, as always!

Its a wonderful opportunity to spend a couple hours on a Saturday or Sunday, greeting people from all over the world, sharing a smile, a laugh and most certainly a hug. This really does have a profound affect on so many people, including yourself! That’s what keeps me going month after month.

Haiti Fundraiser:

The sale of some very beautiful artwork brought in some much-needed funds for Doctors Without Borders and we had a great time socializing, eating, and being entertained.

Awesome event for a great cause! Kudos to Rossi and everyone that helped arrange this event.

Thanks Rossi for hosting this event for such a worthy cause.

I am so very grateful to all of you who helped make this event a big success! Love

Our World:

I got lots of the big stuff picked up but much of the smaller litter was frozen to the ground. We’ll go back when it thaws a bit.

Inside activities for me this month – getting rid of some clothes and will donate soon.

Gives Back Events Offered:

Complete Details: of our Gives Back Offerings are on our events page, so check there and RSVP where your are drawn to assist. I promise you that it will be a worthwhile event and have you coming back for more!!

Free Hugs: Twice a month (1^st Saturday’s, 3^rd Sunday’s, and occasionally additional dates) we spread kindness by the simple gesture of a free hugs at Old Water Tower Park, Michigan Avenue and Pearson St.

Good News Community Kitchen: We meet at their Rogers Park location to serve food to the homeless.

Operation Sack Lunch & Social: Join us monthly for our kid-friendly event with a entree for the potluck food to include in the sack lunches we’ll be preparing to deliver to the Lincoln Park Community Shelter (LPCS). It’s a great time to get to know the PF community better as we eat, drink, laugh and prepare 30 sack lunches to deliver to the LPCS to distribute to their guests.

Our World: First Sunday’s of the month offering you an opportunity to help beautify your space in the world. It can be 5 minutes or five hours. Just imagine if everyone chipped in to clean up in their community from their personal home, neighborhood, city, etc.

RSVP: Although we appreciate you honoring your event RSVPs, when we are working with another organization that is counting on us to provide volunteers or other services it is imperative that you keep these commitments. Certainly emergencies come up, but if you need to cancel, please alert the event organizer ASAP so your position can be filled.