“When men speak ill of you, so live that nobody believe them.”

 ~Plato.

What a great quote. However, I invite you to see this quote, not from others speaking of you, but rather what you say to yourself. When you are judging yourself for decisions or lack of decisions you’ve made, live knowing your ‘true’ self doesn’t believe them. When you are judging yourself for any form of insecurity, live knowing your true self doesn’t buy it. Know you’re  true self comes from a space of love. Your truth is kindness, compassion, brilliance, peace, happiness, joy, and simply living abundantly.

When you catch yourself placing negative judgments on yourself, see them for what they truly are, and that is fear. Fear comes in a variety of deceptive packages. Fear that the world won’t see your true self, fear in sharing your true value to the world, and fear in failing. For you truly can’t fail in being you. You get to make all the choices on how to live your life. Any decision you make at any moment can be changed, added on to, and even forgotten. So when you speak to yourself, speak of love, not fear.

Quotes of the week:

“If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.”

~Mark Twain

“For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.”

~ Ivan Panin

“Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.”

~ Mahatma Gandhi

AFFIRMATION: I live my truth through authenticity and love.

Soulful Links:

The Truth     

~ India Arie

For the next week, I invite you to honor your truth by:

Being gentle with yourself as you shift into affirming your value to the world

Laughing and enjoying the life you are living and allowing yourself to create an even better world through loving thoughts

Compassion for your past beliefs about yourself and past beliefs of others as when you see through the eyes of love, you know everyone is doing the best they can at that moment.

Mostly, I invite you to start your morning off from a loving space asking yourself how you see your day going that will honor your truth. As when you honor YOU, then you honor your friends, family, community, and world.

Until next week, it is an honor knowing you.

Hugs,

Carol

Happy Wednesday
 

Have you ever thought about life as being one big spice rack? You get to choose which ingredients to add to your life. You can choose loving ingredients, or you can choose fearful ones. You can choose peaceful or hateful. You can choose abundance or scarcity. You can choose light or dark.
 
Be the best chef in your life by taking a pinch of several ingredients you choose, blend them together, keep them at a nice simmer, add more as needed, and enjoy your Happy Life recipe.

Quotes of the week:

“What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.”
 ~ Benjamin Fairless

“There are three ingredients to the good life: learning, earning, and yearning.”
~ Christopher Morley
 
“The ingredients of health and long life are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.”
 ~ Philip Sidney

“Only you know the perfect ingredients for your best life” 

~ Carol Miller

This Week’s Affirmation: My life is tasty and perfectly blended.

Soulful Links:

Recipe for Love       

~ Harry Connick Jr.

For the next week, I invite you to create your recipe for a Happy Life by mixing the following ingredients:
 
Gratitude: A healthy blend of gratitude is a key ingredient. When you can be grateful for your contrasting experiences it is a tasty treat of knowing you are on a path for a happy life. You simply know this is just a momentary experience that is helping you grow and evolve.
 
Love: loving you, loving life, and loving others should be a daily ingredient and used often. When challenges arise, ask yourself, ‘What would love do?’
 
Forgiveness: forgiving others is truly a benefit for your well being. Even more importantly is forgiving yourself for allowing others misdeeds to permeate your being. Forgive yourself for taking things personally or your involvement in the contrasting experience.
 
Trust: Trust in yourself knowing that each experience you choose whether caring or contrasting are part of your life path – you chose, so trust you chose well.
 
Allow: Everyone’s path is slightly different, some have more bumps, twists and turns, but each is the right journey for that person. Allow everyone to mix their ingredients for their life without judgment.
 
Mostly, I want you to remember that even the best cooks ruin a recipe on occasion. But a true chef doesn’t give up, (s)he just works on perfecting it. Have fun blending the ingredients to create your perfect recipe.  
 
Until next week, happy cooking!
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.

Have you ever noticed that a particular word that makes you smile might make another person cringe? Similar to how the smell of wet grass after a spring rain might make some people feel light hearted while others are thinking allergies. Words are powerful and when used to your benefit, such as affirmative words, they can be used to lift you up. Used to your detriment such as ‘that was dumb, I failed, you were wrong, etc., etc.” are equally powerful and can continue to hold you down.

Certainly a positive word is Joy. And I often accentuate that word when given a chance. EnJOY your day. Have a JOYous day, etc. I even have it written on my bathroom wall I like it so much. A good friend of mine is named Joy. Another good friend is Jim who has quite the sense of humor. When he visits, he wants to know where his name is on my bathroom wall and often signs his emails EnJIM. He jokingly cringes at Joy and smiles at Jim, so it just shows you words are a personal choice. I have so much fun with the Joy/Jim conversation and often laugh a lot due to it.

The importance and power of words is what it means to you personally. A word that may have a negative connotation to me might bring a smile to your face. So pick words that make you happy, smile, laugh, giggle, smirk, and simply elevate your spirits to your highest good.

Quotes of the Week: 

“Kind words are short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.” 

 ~ Mother Teresa

“Perhaps you will forget the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them for a lifetime.”

~ Dale Carnegie

“Words are the key to the heart.” 

 ~ Chinese Proverb

“Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seeds of either success or failure in the mind of another.” 

~ Napoleon Hill

AFFIRMATION: I am gentle with myself and with others.

Soulful Links

More Than Words

~ Extreme

You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth         

~ Meatloaf

Words          

~ BeeGees

For the next week, I invite you to:

Be aware of your self talk. Do you choose words that lift you up? Or do you use words that perhaps bring you down?

Become aware of how you talk about situations in your life? How often do you say things are ‘hard, impossible, tough, etc’?

Reframe those situations from hard situations to opportunities to expand your consciousness.

Celebrate the positive words you catch yourself saying as being aware of them will help make that your natural self talk.

Celebrate the times you catch yourself with negative self talk as awareness allows you to shift into a positive state.

Mostly, I invite you to choose words that let you show the world how truly amazing you are. Choose words that are gentle, kind, loving, care free, hopeful, trusting, empowering, beautiful, amazing, and simply make you smile.

Until next week, have a Carolful kind of week.