Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

I love lucky charms! It is sugary sweet, yet, when you get down to it, no true substance. They taste good, but the goodness in your life isn’t derived from them. They give you a quick boost of sweetness, but if you don’t have sweetness in your life, that feeling will quickly dissipate. I rarely eat them, but smile when I see that leprechaun smiling and reminding me just how lucky I am.

Do you have a lucky charm? How about a favorite coin you keep in your pocket? Or perhaps a rabbit’s foot, or do you wear lucky underwear?

Do you consider yourself a lucky person? Or have you caught yourself saying “I wouldn’t have any luck if it weren’t for bad luck”? When you go about your day, listen to what you say to yourself. Do you say “I’m excited as this is going to be amazing?” Or do you catch yourself saying “here we go again.”

Within you at this very minute is where you luck lives; your thoughts. When you honor your highest self of love, joy, brilliance, creativity, and peace, ‘luck’ begins to flow. You find yourself in the right place to meet the right person, hear the right words, taste the right food, and live in joy. When you live your highest self, you are excited and joyful as others live their dreams and you share in the excitement of their ‘luck’.

Affirmation: I create my luck by knowing life is full of amazing possibilities.

(S)he Said:

“Luck is what happens when preparations meets opportunity” ~Seneca

“Luck is believing you’re lucky” ~Tennessee Williams

“The day you decide to do it is your lucky day” ~Japanese Proverb

“Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow’s good luck.” ~Og Mandino

Soulful Links:

Lucky ~ Jason Mraz and Colbie Caillat

Wishing I Was Lucky ~ Wet, Wet, Wet

With a Little Bit of Luck ~ My Fair Lady

For the next week I invite you allow your luck to flourish by:

Focusing on the goodness in your life and I mean every situation. Seek the good out of a contrasting experience and celebrate the good in an amazing experience.

Appreciating the fact that you always have a choice how to react to any situation in your life as lucky or unlucky – you choose.

Loving yourself through each experience in your week.

Forgiving yourself for having fear based reactions as contrasting experiences simply help lead you to what you do want. The less you beat yourself up on the past (which could be five minutes ago) the more ‘luck’ will come to you.

Mostly, my wish for you is a week filled with the absolute knowledge that you are an amazing piece of a worldwide jigsaw puzzle of humanity that is coming together. And when you see yourself fitting into this worldwide puzzle, you will be your lucky charm.

Until next week, here is to a heaping full bowl of your lucky charm – YOU!

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

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

What are you dreaming about? What intentions have you set for living the dreams of your life? Although we all certainly want to live the lives of our dreams, sometimes those dreams seem so big and insurmountable that it can be overwhelming.  How do you stay focused and move forward in those dreams? How do you handle contrasting experiences that seem to be two steps backward in actualizing your dreams? You stay focused and move through those contrasting experiences by building a solid foundation on which to nurture, build, evolve, grow and allow your dreams to unfold in all their glory.

Foundation building can involve research, meetings, visioning, paperwork, people, places, money, and so on and on and on. Getting all the pieces together to create your dream can seem daunting and create uncertainty in even deserving them. Sure paperwork will most likely be needed as you want to meet laws and regulations. Sure other people, places, and resources might be needed. But the foundation I am talking about is the foundation of love, faith, compassion, and belief. Build YOUR foundation of ultimate belief in yourself, love for yourself, and trust in yourself, and as you build your dreams from that space, your foundation will allow those dreams to soar. Your unwavering foundation will see the contrasting experiences as growth opportunities rather than setbacks. Your solid foundation of love, faith, and trust will bring those insurmountable feelings into bite size doable tasks and fun tasks.

(S)he Said:

“Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.” ~ Nicholas Murray Butler

“The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.” ~ Zig Ziglar

“The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.” ~ Thomas Kemptis

“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” ~David Brinkley

Soulful Links:

Foundation ~ Kate Nash

For the next week I invite you to build your foundation by:

Being gentle with yourself as beating yourself up for perceived failures, missteps, or misdeeds only keeps you in that space of lack. Honor those feelings, but don’t live in them.

Surrounding yourself with people who inspired and support you to be and live your best.

Loving you, others and life. When you work from a space of love, amazing experiences are grander and contrasting experiences are softer.

Mostly, my wish for you is a week of fully becoming aware of your inner power and letting it shine bright for others to emulate.

Until next time, reach for the stars, knowing your foundation is loving, trusting, sturdy, and fully supporting you! \

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