Happy New Year!!

Another year has come and gone. It’s always such an exciting time of welcoming in the new and saying goodbye to the past. We set New Year resolutions of making our lives better in the New Year. We decide to exercise more, lose weight, find a new job, find love, etc., etc., etc.

For a few days, or a few weeks, we are ecstatic about our new found reality, until ‘reality’ sets in. Our perceived reality is the beginning of the end. You have a ‘bad’ day or ‘fall off the wagon’ or any other term of perceived failure and you lose your focus. It was a New Year resolution, not a one day resolution, so you’ve failed. Why keep trying?

You keep trying, because you are completely worth living life fulfilled whatever that means to you. Each moment you have the opportunity to shift into creating your dreams and desires rather than worrying about failing and fear. Each moment you choose how to move forward whether with laughter or tears. Each moment you can choose to forgive or to be mad. Each moment you can choose to be a victim or empower yourself. Each moment you can choose to complain or to live in gratitude. Each moment you can choose to be lost or to be found.

Quotes of the week:
“Stand still. The trees ahead and the bush beside you are not lost.”
~Albert Einstein

“In this world of change, nothing which comes stays, and nothing which goes is lost.”
~Anne Sophie Swetchine

“How much of human life is lost in waiting.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The worst bankruptcy in the world is the person who has lost his enthusiasm.”
H.W. Arnold

“The very man who has argued you down, will sometimes by found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said.”
~C.S. Lewis

“I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.”
~Amy Tan

“Much more happiness is to be found in the world than gloomy eyes discover.”
~Friedrich Nietzsche

For the next week I invite you to:

Lose fear, self doubt, worry, anger, and any negative feeling that holds you back from your greatness.

Find your truth on the amazing person you are.

Find your passion, dream big, give big, and love big.

Mostly, my wish for you is to realize that each day provides you the opportunity to lose limiting beliefs and finding opportunity for you to shine bright.

Until next time, I wish you all a Happy New Day!

As I sit writing the weekly message with the cold and snow just outside a thick pane of glass, I thought about how much I love Nature. Nature has a natural order and doesn’t let mind get in the way. There is a time for growth (spring), a time to thrive (summer), a time to slow down (fall), and a time to rest (winter). Without each season, the rest wouldn’t be so rich and wonderful. Nature doesn’t worry about what is going to happen next week, next month, next year – it thrives in the season it’s in. Without human involvement, nature is balanced and whole. Nature feels and doesn’t think. Nature simply is.

My favorite season is summer as I love sun, I love being on the water, and I love the vibe of summer. My old self used to dread winter coming – bulky coats, cold weather, slippery roads and sidewalks. Now I enjoy what each day brings. So I have to put on heavier clothing and perhaps walk a little more carefully or drive slower, or even stay in when the weather tells me it’s better to relax at home rather than face the elements, but that too is just fine. I remind myself to live in today rather than what my life will be in six months when the sun is shining and I’m on the water.

Quotes of the day:

“To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.”
~ George Santayaana
 

“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant. If we did not sometimes taste adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.”
 ~ Anne Bradstreet
 

“One kind word can warm three winter months.”
 ~ Japanese Proverb
 

“People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they are happy.”
~ Anton Chekhov

Soulful Links:

Seasons of Love

~Rent Cast

Seasons in the Sun

~Terry Jacks

Seasons Change

~Expose

For the next week I invite you to live in the moment by:

Looking up towards the sky when we do have the sunny days and just smile and be thankful

Sticking your tongue out and catching a snowflake remembering how much you loved snow as a child and just laughing.

Bundling up to make a snowman or a snow angel

Warming your body with a hot chocolate.

Mostly, I invite you to live in the moment and truly enJOY what today brings. If today is bringing you a contrasting experience to what you want in your life, just smile to yourself knowing that it too is just a moment in time and all is well.

Until next week, enjoy each day’s season.

Hugs,
~Carol 
 
Looking for a way to stay focused on Living Life Fulfilled? Make sure to surround yourself with people who lift you up, inspire you, support you, and simply love to laugh and have fun.

Is your glass half full? Or is your glass half empty? When people ask me that, my answer is a resounding, my glass is full and often overflows with love, happiness, and the simple excitement of the journey of life.
 
Would you like to grab a drink? I would love to share my full glass with you.
 
My glass is full of appreciation for all of my experiences as even the contrasting ones make me more grateful for the amazing ones.
 
My glass is full of gratitude for everything in my life. I am grateful for my family, friends and colleagues. I am grateful that I have a wonderful home and an amazing dog. I am grateful that I see the world connection. I’m grateful for the cold as it reminds me of the summers I cherish. I am grateful for the frustrations I sometimes allow in as they quickly remind me to tend to my full glass and not let it deplete.
 
My glass is full of love. I truly love my life. I smile and laugh as much as possible on my journey. I love my contrasting experiences – not for bringing me sadness, frustrations, or disappointment, but for reminding me that it is my choice how I interpret, handle, and move through any situation. I may not be able to control what goes on around me, but I am in control on what energy I want to give to it.
 
My glass is full of possibilities. Life is so full of them and when I release myself from having to figure it all out, wonderful possibilities simply flow in. And sometimes it takes that perceived contrasting experience to be the next step into something amazing, so contrast is full of possibilities too.
 
Quotes of the day:

“Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve”

~Wilfred Peterson

“When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent tools.”

~Michael Leboeuf

“I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let’s face it, friends make life a lot more fun.”

~Charles R. Swindoll

“When the heart is full the tongue will speak.”

~Scottish Proverb

“A man of courage is also full of faith.”

~Marcus Tullius Cicero

Soulful Links:

You Fill Me Up

~US Marines

For the next week, I invite you to share my glass and fill your own by:
 
Celebrating all of your successes regardless of the size as they are all important
 
Dreaming big, loving big, and giving big
 
Searching for the silver lining in the gray cloud or the positive side of any contrasting experience and focusing your attention there
 
Loving the journey you are on as you get to choose how full your glass is at any given moment. So appreciate that choice and choose what betters your life.
 
Attending and intending to your glass. When its three quarters full, place your attention there and when its only a quarter full, keep your focus on what you do have rather than what is missing.
 
Mostly, my wish for you is a life of fullness in health, relationships, abundance, and amazing love and joy.
 
Until next week, I raise my glass to celebrate your health, happiness, and abundance – CHEERS!
 
Hugs,
~Carol 
 
Looking for a way to stay focused on Living Life Fulfilled? Make sure to surround yourself with people who lift you up, inspire you, support you, and simply love to laugh and have fun.