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		<title>Yesterday, Today &amp; Tomorrow</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:12:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carol</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At this very moment, where are you? Are you overwhelmed in everything you need to accomplish today (future)? Are you thinking I could have/should have done that better (past)? Or are you right here, right now, being present with yourself? Yesterday can be filled with regret that you won&#8217;t let go of, or even past [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.positive-focus.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/past-present-future.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1102" title="past-present-future" src="http://www.positive-focus.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/past-present-future-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a>At this very moment, where are you? Are you overwhelmed in everything you need to accomplish today (future)? Are you thinking I could have/should have done that better (past)? Or are you right here, right now, being present with yourself?</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Yesterday can be filled with regret that you won&#8217;t let go of, or even past successes that you hang on tight to, or simply fond memories that make you smile.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Tomorrow can be filled with I&#8217;ll be happy when I accomplish x, y, z, or fear of the unknown, or excitement on all the possibilities that are ahead of you.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Today brings new possibilities. Today brings new choices. Today brings new hope. Today brings the ability to appreciate where you&#8217;ve been, where you are now, and where you are going.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Affirmation:</strong> Today I choose peace, happiness, and love.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong> </strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>(S)he Said:</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong> </strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">&#8220;What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow. Our life is the creation of our mind.&#8221; ~ Buddha</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">&#8220;If you&#8217;re still hanging onto a dead dream of yesterday, laying flowers on its grave by the hour, you cannot be planting the seeds for a new dream to grow today.&#8221; ~ Joyce Chapman</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">&#8220;Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.&#8221;  ~ Mark Twain</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">&#8220;Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day, you shall begin it well and serenely.&#8221; ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Soulful Links:</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONXp-vpE9eU">Yesterday</a> ~ Beatles</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnFZsrs32Co">Let’s Live for Today</a> ~ Grass roots</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yop62wQH498">Tomorrow</a> ~ Annie</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>For the next week I invite you to appreciate your yesterday, enJOY your today, and look forward to your tomorrow by:</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Appreciating </strong>the path that brought you to today as your path was an individual experience that only you have directly walked.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>EnJOY</strong><strong>ing</strong> exactly where you are at this moment. Become aware of all of your senses and see the beauty in this amazing web of life with everything being connected. Hear the sounds around you from a drip of water from the faucet, children laughter, a car horn, or your own breath when you sit in stillness. Open your eyes and see what is in front of you. See all the colors in your environment and how they blend together. Be aware of how things taste. Don&#8217;t simply eat or drink because you are hungry or thirsty, be aware of how the food and beverage taste. Notice how things feel when you touch them; are they soft, smooth, or sticky? Breathe in the smells around you and become aware of the smell of food cooking, the smell of a flower, the smell of the rain. Pay attention to your sixth sense, your intuition. As you become aware of sight, taste, touch, and smell, you hone your own intuition of what feels right for you.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Forgiving </strong>yourself on any limiting belief you&#8217;ve held about yourself or others.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Mostly,</strong> I invite you to see today as a gift and treasure it. Whether it is a blizzard outside or it is sunny and 75 degrees, today is a gift. Whether you are witnessing a birth or a death today is a gift. It is up to you to treasure the gifts of today or put them aside and wait for tomorrow.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Until next time, today I see your gifts, do you?</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Keep living big, loving big, and laughing along the journey.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">~ Carol</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">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.</p>
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		<title>Picture Perfect</title>
		<link>http://www.positive-focus.com/2010/07/21/picture-perfect</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 23:48:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carol</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you think of yourself as being photogenic? I must admit, I’m not the first to jump in front of a camera and prefer to be the photographer than what’s being framed by the camera lens. My eyes are closed,  blah…blah…blah. Mike Dooley, one of my favorite authors, said he began affirming that his pictures [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.positive-focus.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Reframe.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1095" title="Reframe" src="http://www.positive-focus.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Reframe-300x231.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="231" /></a>Do you think of yourself as being photogenic? I must admit, I’m not the first to jump in front of a camera and prefer to be the photographer than what’s being framed by the camera lens. My eyes are closed,  blah…blah…blah. Mike Dooley, one of my favorite authors, said he began affirming that his pictures all turn out great and now they do! He reframed his thoughts!</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">How does the photo album of your life look like? Has it been filled with loving, happy, fun memories. Or have you taken yourself out of the picture due to fear. Whether you feel your life is on top of the world at this very minute, or if it’s stress filled with worry and fear, you have the picture perfect moment to reframe it.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Just like a photographer, it could be the first time you’ve picked up a camera (starting with positive thoughts), or your name might be Ansel Adams (continuing to enhance your positive thoughts), snap shot, by snap shot,  you have an opportunity at this very minute to reframe your thoughts into the life of your dreams.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Affirmation: </strong>My life is filled with amazing experiences and amazing people; I have the photographs to prove it.  <img src='http://www.positive-focus.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong> </strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>(S)he Said:</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">“A <strong>photograph</strong> is usually looked at &#8211; seldom looked into.” ~Ansel Adams</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">“A good <strong>snapshot</strong> stops a moment from running away.” ~Eudora Welty</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">“When words become unclear, I shall focus with <strong>photographs</strong>.  When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.” ~Ansel Adams</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">“He who <strong>frames</strong> the question wins the debate.”  ~ Randall Terry</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Soulful Links:</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB0DU4DoPP4">Photograph</a> ~ Nickleback</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZ5bS3_BCDs">Photograph</a> ~ Def Leppard</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml7EWuJaHr8">Photographs</a> ~ Rihanna</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>For the next week, I invite you to reframe your life by:</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Talking/thinking</strong> about the amazing parts of your life. Your family, your friends, your health. Talk about loving experiences.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Being</strong> gentle with yourself on the contrasting experience and realize they exist to help you reframe what you do want! By seeing what you don’t want, you can reframe as a picture perfect memory.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Appreciating </strong>where you’ve been, where you are, and where you are going. Get excited about the new photographs you’ll be creating.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Mostly,</strong> I encourage you to reframe any thought that is holding you back from living big, loving big, and giving big. Cherish each moment and empower yourself to choose the thoughts that enhance your life. Choose the thoughts that make you giggle. Choose the thoughts that make you smile. Choose the thoughts that allow you to soar!</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Until next time, smile pretty, as this a frameable moment.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Keep living big, loving big, and laughing along the journey.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">~ Carol</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">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.</p>
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		<title>Now Serving&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.positive-focus.com/2010/07/14/now-serving</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:55:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carol</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you feel overwhelmed that you have too much on your plate? Or perhaps your band-width is being stretched to the limit? Do you feel so much is being asked of you in an average day that you should have a &#8216;now serving&#8217; machine so there is some order on what to do next? It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.positive-focus.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/now-serving.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1081" title="now serving" src="http://www.positive-focus.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/now-serving-234x300.jpg" alt="" width="234" height="300" /></a>Do you feel overwhelmed that you have too much on your plate? Or perhaps your band-width is being stretched to the limit? Do you feel so much is being asked of you in an average day that you should have a &#8216;now serving&#8217; machine so there is some order on what to do next?</p>
<p>It&#8217;s easy to get overwhelmed in today&#8217;s busy lifestyle and the seemingly unending &#8216;to do lists&#8217;. However, if you refocus and choose calm over anxiety, love over fear you will find your busy lifestyle being less stressful and even fun! See your day as service. Serve yourself, your family, your friends, your colleagues, your community, and your earth by putting your best foot forward at each moment. Your best self is kind, compassionate, loving, caring, and fun. When you start feeling stress, ask yourself is your true self shining or is it fears of not living your truth?</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Affirmation: </strong> <strong>Serving others is truly serving me, for what I put out there comes back to me lovingly.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong> </strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>(S)he Said:</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong> </strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">&#8220;It is high time that the ideal of success should be replaced by the ideal of service.&#8221;<br />
~ Albert Einstein</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">&#8220;Teach the triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.&#8221; ~ Buddha</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">&#8220;The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.&#8221; ~Mahatma Gandhi</p>
<p>&#8220;Every day use your magic to be of service to others.&#8221; ~Marcia Wieder</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong> </strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Soulful Links</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9lq8oaK5Mw">Man in the Mirror </a>~ Michael Jackson</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO0Q2yu1pzk">Heal the World </a>~ Michael Jackson</p>
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<strong>For the next week, I invite you to serve by serving:</strong></p>
<p><strong>You</strong> &#8211; be kind to yourself. Appreciate and celebrate your successes. Be gentle to your &#8216;perceived&#8217; weaknesses and always put your best foot forward.</p>
<p><strong>Others</strong> &#8211; be kind to others. Appreciate and celebrate their successes. Embrace diversity knowing that each person matters. Be gentle to their &#8216;perceived&#8217; weakness and simply know they are putting their best foot forward at that given moment.</p>
<p>Love &#8211; when you work from a space of love of self, love of others, and love of life, your day is gentle, kind, and fun.</p>
<p><strong>Mostly</strong>, my wish for you is ask yourself &#8220;How can I serve?&#8221; How can you make your day better through serving you, others, and the world at large? Rather than putting worried, fearful, stressful energy into your environment, serve your body with a deep breath and fill it with kind and loving thoughts.</p>
<p>Until next time, now serving &#8211; one person at a time.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Keep living big, loving big, and laughing along the journey.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">~ Carol</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">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.</p>
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		<title>Build Your Resume and Take Flight!</title>
		<link>http://www.positive-focus.com/2010/07/07/build-your-resume-and-take-flight-2</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 14:27:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carol</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the business world we are told to have an updated resume at all times as you never know when you are going to need it. At a moment&#8217;s notice you are prepared to take the next step in your career as your resume is ready to be sent out, received, and decided upon. You [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.positive-focus.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/eagle-in-flight.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1056" title="eagle in flight" src="http://www.positive-focus.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/eagle-in-flight.jpg" alt="" width="468" height="312" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">In the business world we are told to have an updated resume at all times as you never know when you are going to need it. At a moment&#8217;s notice you are prepared to take the next step in your career as your resume is ready to be sent out, received, and decided upon. You are ready to go. You are ready to fly! How about in your life? Are you prepared to take the next step in your life? Are you ready to go? Are you ready to fly? Do you know what you want? Do you know what you love? What are you passionate about? What are your dreams? How about being prepared to fly in your life as you&#8217;ve been taught to fly in your career? How about showcasing your purpose, successes, desires, and dreams in a life resume?</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>AFFIRMATION:</strong> <strong>My life is filled with amazing people and experiences.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong> </strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>(S)he Said: </strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong> </strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">“We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we’ve established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.”  ~ Earl Nightingale</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">“The world has the habit of making room for the man whose words and actions show that he knows where he is going.”  ~ Napoleon Hill</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">“When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.” ~ W. Clement Stone</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">“The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.” ~Mitch Albom</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Soulful Links:</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb-Nacm-pKc">Learning to Fly</a> ~ Pink Floyd</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVCgf6_M7i4&amp;feature=PlayList&amp;p=F6433C62B77C2C6E&amp;playnext_from=PL&amp;index=0&amp;playnext=1">Fly Me to the Moon</a> ~ Diana Krall</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnlTrq6wLf0">Fly Like an Eagle</a> ~ Steve Miller Band</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>For the next week, I invite you to create your life resume by:</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Writing</strong> a life purpose statement: this should capture what brings you joy, love, and passion. When you read your purpose statement, it should immediately make you tingle with excitement.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Writing</strong> down 10 of your current life successes. This can be from graduating high school, getting a promotion, getting married, having a child, climbing a mountain, or getting out of bed through a period of illness. We often focus on what we haven&#8217;t done right in life rather than what we have, so let&#8217;s shift our thoughts to success over failure.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Writing</strong> down 10 things you are grateful for currently in your life. I am grateful for my health. I am grateful for my family. I am grateful for my happiness. And remember you should even be grateful for the contrasting experiences as it&#8217;s helping you define your desires by showing you what you don&#8217;t want.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Writing</strong> down 5 to 10 affirmations of where you want your life to move towards. This could be new job, new home, relationships, health, or anything that brings your happiness and excitement about the future.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Writing </strong>down 5 to 10 of your strengths. How many times have told people &#8211; I&#8217;m not good at that. Write down what you are good at!</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Writing</strong> down 5 to 10 activities and hobbies you love to do.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Include</strong> a couple quotes that inspire you. <strong>Writing </strong>down three references of people you can call when you need that &#8216;You Rock&#8217; inspirational boost. These references should be people who see your truth and support you in your journey as you do them.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Writing</strong> your life resume to really see how amazing your life already is and that it will catapult you to even greater heights. Read your life resume often. Update it often as while you grow, so will your desires and dreams. Read it on the days filled with successes and say <strong>YAY ME</strong>. Read it on days of contrasts to remind you of your purpose, your dreams, and your desires. Call your references to celebrate your successes. Call your references on when you need an inspirational boost on contrasting experiences.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Mostly</strong>, celebrate where you are today. Celebrate your yesterdays as they&#8217;ve brought you to today. Celebrate your tomorrows as your life&#8217;s resume is going to take flight and you will fly high.  I already see you soaring!</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Until next time, fly high &#8211; naturally of course. <img src='http://www.positive-focus.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong> </strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Keep living big, loving big, and laughing along the journey.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">~ Carol</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">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.</p>
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		<title>Someday</title>
		<link>http://www.positive-focus.com/2010/06/30/someday-2</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:03:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carol</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS FLASH: Someday I will be happy. Someday I will be physically fit. Someday I will have my dream job. Someday my prince will come. Some day my princess will come. Someday I will (fill in the blank with your someday wishes). I’m sure each of you have felt the someday wishes at some point [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>NEWS FLASH: </strong>Someday I will be happy. Someday I will be physically fit. Someday I will have my dream job. Someday my prince will come. Some day my princess will come. Someday I will (fill in the blank with your someday wishes).</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">I’m sure each of you have felt the someday wishes at some point in your life, and most likely hold onto them today. I’ve sure played the someday game myself. Today just isn’t that day to start on happiness, health, abundance, as I’m just too busy. Or I’ve already messed up today, so I’ll start tomorrow.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>NEWS FLASH:</strong> Today IS someday. Today IS the moment to begin your someday wishes. Today IS the day that if your someday wishes falter a bit, that you move through it and continue on your path of living life fulfilled. Today IS that day, so make it your best ever.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>AFFIRMATION: </strong>Today I will shine bright.<strong> </strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>(S)he Said: </strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">“Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and then we’ll need no other light.” ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">“How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.” ~ George Washington Carver</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">“Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the ’someday I’ll’ philosophy.” ~ Dennis Waitley</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">“Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.”  ~ Wilma Rudolph</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong> </strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Soulful Links:</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RDW__oo9JU">Ooh Child </a>~ The Stairsteps</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Someday</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">~ <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPcX-5Tmqt8">Sugar Ray</a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">~ <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VMFdpdDYYA">Nickelback</a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">~ <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NreMkXWXdnU">Mariah Carey</a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">~ <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhZKZmHYSFo">All-4-One</a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">~ <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm4xNlxznfs">Glass Tiger</a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>For the next week, I invite you to make everyday you’re someday by:</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Forgiving</strong> yourself for delaying your dreams because you are too busy to start, you’ll start tomorrow, next week, next month.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Appreciating</strong> your current situation and seeing the beauty in it. Appreciation and gratitude builds on more appreciation and gratitude which makes each day better.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Starting</strong> right now; at this very moment you can start creating your dreams. Even if your morning wasn’t a great start to creating your dreams, let that go and start fresh now. Why wait until another day, start now.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Being</strong> gentle with yourself as we all have moments of doubt and fall back to our prior beliefs that we aren’t good enough for our dreams and delay creating them so we don’t fail. Simply know each step forward is a step towards living that dream.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Mostly,</strong> my wish for you is to realize you can start living life fulfilled at this very second. You don’t need to wait for a new day, a new month, and a new season. This very moment is your someday, so dream big, love big, and live big.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Until next time, I see all of your days being bright, happy, and filled with love, and I invite you to see that too.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Keep living big, loving big, and laughing along the journey.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">~Carol</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">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.</p>
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		<title>S.T..R&#8230;E&#8230;.T&#8230;..C&#8230;&#8230;H&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 17:17:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carol</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever felt you have great ideas but don&#8217;t know where to begin? Have you ever felt you want to make that leap, but are unsure if you are truly ready? Have you wanted to change careers but don&#8217;t feel you have what it takes? If your dreams and desires seem to daunting for [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: left;">Have you ever felt you have great ideas but don&#8217;t know where to begin? Have you ever felt you want to make that leap, but are unsure if you are truly ready? Have you wanted to change careers but don&#8217;t feel you have what it takes?</p>
<p>If your dreams and desires seem to daunting for you to reach, I invite you to stretch into them rather than leap.</p>
<p>Elite professional athletes don&#8217;t hit the winning home run, score the winning touchdown, or sink the winning basket without preparation. They have a game plan built on believing in themselves, visualizing the end result, and stretching to loosen up to allow their brilliance to shine. They are continually stretching both figuratively (mind) and literally (body) to live their highest dreams. They develop core muscles of confidence and determination. They visualize where they are going from putting on the uniform to winning the game. They stretch before each game to loosen up and allow their greatness to show up in its highest form.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Affirmation:</strong> I am always stretching toward my dreams.<strong></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>(S)he Said:</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">“When you engage in systematic, purposeful action, using and stretching your abilities to the maximum, you cannot help but feel positive and confident about yourself.” ~Brian Tracy</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">“By stretching yourself beyond your perceived level of confidence you accelerate your development of competence.” ~Michael J. Gelb</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">“Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.” ~Jeremy Bentham</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">“Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.” ~ Lao Tzu</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Soulful Links:</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR2T1fXP9NI">Rubberband Man</a> ~ Spinners</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>For the next week I invite you to stretch by opening your:</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Arms</strong> wide and embracing the amazing possibilities you get to choose from.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Heart</strong> and living each day from a space of love and appreciating where you’ve been, where you are now, and looking forward to where you are going.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Mind</strong> by affirming that not only do you deserve to be the best YOU, but that you owe it to yourself and the world to live the life of your dreams.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Creativity</strong> and truly seeing you living the life of your dreams and knowing you deserve it.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Mostly</strong>, I invite you to loosen up and see the good in you, see the love in you, see the gentleness in you, see the greatness in you, and stretch from fear based feelings and reactions. I promise you, the more you stretch, the better you’ll feel.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Until next time, simply loosen up and allow your winning spirit to shine.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Keep living big, loving big, and laughing along the journey.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">~Carol</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">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.</p>
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		<title>I Think I Can&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 11:48:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carol</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you remember the childhood story of the little train engine that didn’t give up on her journey by repeating &#8211; I think I can, I think I can? The little engine had a large load to carry up the mountain, yet she didn’t give up. She asked for help from others until she found another little [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: left;">Do you remember the childhood story of the little train engine that didn’t give up on her journey by repeating &#8211; I think I can, I think I can? The little engine had a large load to carry up the mountain, yet she didn’t give up. She asked for help from others until she found another little engine willing to embark on the journey with her. Together, the two of them pulled, chugged, and moved all the cars up the hill with success by affirming “I think I can, I think I can.”<br />
<strong> </strong><strong><br />
</strong>When you are in a challenging situation, I encourage you to think of that little engine who didn’t give up. She didn’t complain and say why me. She didn’t lose faith. She didn’t stop and fall down the hill. She continued along her journey until she found the right resources to help her along her path.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong> </strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>AFFIRMATION: </strong>I can do anything that my heart desires.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Quotes of the Day</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">“A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.”  ~ Oscar Wilde</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">“What we think, we become” ~ Buddha</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">“Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too” Voltaire</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">“Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.” ~ Victor Hugo</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong> </strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Soulful Links:</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sjSHazjrWg">Peace Train</a> ~ Cat Stevens</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7MiG2fe8lE">Love Train</a> ~ The O’Jays</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v78-ftcqpNw">Midnight Train to Georgia</a> ~ Gladys Knight &amp; the Pips</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong> </strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>For the next week I invite you to be YOUR little engine that could by:</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Being</strong> grateful for exactly where you are right now, knowing that all is well in your world.</p>
<p><strong>Seeking</strong> your truth of love, joy, peace, and a life lived fully.</p>
<p><strong>Releasing</strong> any cars (negative thoughts) that might be holding you back. Stay on the track of your greatest passion even if others won’t join you, as I promise if you stay true to your passion, many others will gladly join you on your journey.</p>
<p><strong>Finding</strong> a group who will lift you up, inspire you, support you, and simply love to laugh and have fun.</p>
<p><strong>Mostly</strong>, my wish for you is by practicing “I think I can, I think I can,” you quickly start affirming “I know I can”.  That you cherish the journey knowing you are your engine of love, laughter, peace, joy, and endless possibilities.</p>
<p>Until next week, I know you can, do you?</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Keep living big, loving big, and laughing along the journey.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">~Carol</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">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.</p>
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		<title>Food For Thought</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 15:31:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carol</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Low fat, high protein, juicing, non-processed, organic, Vegan, Vegetarian, South Beach, Adkins, the list goes on and on and on about options on what, when, where, and why you should eat certain foods. We spend a lot of time, energy, and money on choosing what will best serve our bodies, yet often find this to [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.positive-focus.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/FOOD-FOR-THOUGHT-TITLE.jpg"></a>Low fat, high protein, juicing, non-processed, organic, Vegan, Vegetarian, South Beach, Adkins, the list goes on and on and on about options on what, when, where, and why you should eat certain foods. We spend a lot of time, energy, and money on choosing what will best serve our bodies, yet often find this to be our biggest hurdle of self judgment and thoughts that don’t serve us. How often have you said or had thoughts like “I shouldn’t have eaten that, that went straight to my hips, this causes cancer, etc.” Or perhaps when you’ve made the choice to eat healthy, yet you find yourself thinking or saying “I don’t like the taste of it, but it’s good for me, I force myself to eat better, etc.” Healthy eating is an amazing gift to give yourself. I encourage you to wrap that gift in the most vibrant shining wrapping paper called – healthy thoughts.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">While you choose options that nourish your body to thrive and shine at it’s very brightest, I encourage you to fuel your mind, body, and spirit with thoughts that will inspire, empower, and encourage you to shine your brightest as well. As you feed your body, feed your soul with healthy and loving thoughts. Fill your soul of thoughts of worthiness, that YOU matter, love, health, abundance, peace, and empower yourself to make the choices that serve you as the world needs the best version of you!  Every time you choose a thought that empowers you to be your best, YOU have served the world! Every time you choose a thought that empowers others, YOU have served the world!</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Affirmation:</strong> I fill my mind, body, and spirit with thoughts and experiences that nourish me.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>(S)he Said:</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">“We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.” ~ Buddha</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">“The ancestor of every action is a thought.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">“Change your thoughts, and you change the world.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">“Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Soulful Links:</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong> </strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50JzRodGHXE">Food For Thought</a> ~ UB40</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kOuPZvg1Rs">The Thought of You</a> ~ John Denver</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnMFFZTmU9E">I Thought I’d Seen Everything</a> ~ Bryan Adams</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>For the next week, I invite you to feed your soul by:</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Being aware</strong> of your thoughts as through awareness change can occur if chosen. When you catch yourself with a thought that doesn’t serve you, CELEBRATE it. Don’t celebrate the thought itself, but celebrate that you caught it and can now change it.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Choosing</strong> thoughts that serve you, others, and the world. Start your day out by affirming you will consciously choose thoughts that empower, uplift, support, and inspire you and others.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Being gentle</strong> with yourself and others as some choices can be challenging and need time to incorporate them into your life. If there weren’t a few bumps and valleys along the way, how would you recognize the smooth roads and peaks of life?</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Mostly, I wish you a week filled with thoughts of how special you are. You are 1 in 7 billion!! You have the power to change your thoughts in a nana-second. You owe the world the best version of yourself, but more importantly, you owe YOU the best version of you. Be loving and gentle to yourself, others, and life, and I promise you will get love and gentleness back tenfold. Healthy thoughts allow you to soar where you once flew.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Until next time, I’m thinking of you!</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Keep living big, loving big, and laughing along the journey.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">~Carol</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">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.</p>
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		<title>Your Shipment Will Arrive In&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 19:11:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carol</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So you’ve ordered something online that you are excited about and perhaps you even paid the extra cash to expedite the delivery time. You are excited and already know where you are going to put that new item you’ve been longing for. Or you know how great it’s going to look on you. Or perhaps [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: left;">So you’ve ordered something online that you are excited about and perhaps you even paid the extra cash to expedite the delivery time. You are excited and already know where you are going to put that new item you’ve been longing for. Or you know how great it’s going to look on you. Or perhaps it’s tickets to the most amazing vacation you’ve been planning and are now taking. Even though you’ve just clicked on complete the order, you are anxious for it to arrive.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Today, I encourage you to place your order (fill out form below) with the Universe on what living your best life looks like and get excited about its arrival! What does living your life fulfilled look like? Place an order for all of your relationships to be filled with love from romantic, family, friends, colleagues, and acquaintances. Order up what you are passionate about doing for work, for when you love what you do, 4 hours, 8 hours, or 12 hours, it doesn’t matter as you love it. Pick out the furniture for the home you love to come home to at the end of an amazing day. Order up more laughter than you can imagine. More abundance, more health, more passion, more compassion, more peace, more, more, more of things, places, people, and experiences that would bring you to tears with such gratitude and happiness.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Then hit complete order, and <strong>KNOW</strong> that UPS (Universal Possibility Services) will deliver you the most amazing life possible through faith, appreciation, gratitude, love, and gentleness. Get excited and be really grateful for the little presents that come quickly as when you build your Universal Faith Muscle, those little presents will turn into the big gifts of life.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Affirmation:</strong> My life is filled with amazing gifts and wonderful surprises.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>(S)he Said:</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">“It’s not the towering sail, but the unseen wind that moves the <strong>ship</strong>.” ~Proverb</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">“I am not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my <strong>ship</strong>.” ~ Louisa May Alcott</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">“If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his <strong>ship</strong>, he would keep it in port forever.” ~ St. Thomas Aquinas</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">“A man without a goal is like a <strong>ship</strong> without a rudder.” ~ Thomas Carlyle</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Soulful Links:</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQm1WyKkhmE">Ships </a>~ Barry Manilow</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5QKBmBAxQk">Sailing Ships </a>~ Whitesnake</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inXC_lab-34">Sign, Sealed, Delivered, I’m Yours </a>~ Stevie Wonder</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>For the next week, I invite you to order BIG in:</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Love</strong> for yourself, others, and life. Start every morning with loving thoughts for the current people in your life, those who are no longer a part of your daily life, those soon to be part of your life, and those you may never meet yet share this world with you. As when you work from a space of love, life IS the dream you are looking for.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Possibilities</strong> by looking at the end result of your desires rather than saying exactly how the dream has to look. Get into how you will feel with the end result while knowing that the Universe has more options available than you can possibly think of, so let your dreams (ideas) expand beyond your wildest dreams.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Gentleness</strong> for you, others, and life. We often get impatient that our lives aren’t the way we expected them to be, or it’s not happening soon enough so we get frustrated, possibly give up, and often beat ourselves up. YOU are 1 in 7 billion people, I don’t think you can get much more unique than that. So be gentle and kind to yourself.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Mostly,</strong> my wish for you is to live, love, laugh, and hug everyday knowing you are living your life fulfilled simply by choosing to do so. Choose living. Choose loving. Choose laughing. Choose hugging. Believe in the magic and mystery of life.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Until next time, UPS (Universal Possibility Services) will send your shipment when you fully believe you deserve to live your best life while shining brightly allowing others to step into their brilliance.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Keep living big, loving big, and laughing along the journey.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">~Carol</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">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.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Dreams, Desires, and Wishes Order Form:</strong><strong> </strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong> </strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Dear Universal Possibility Services,</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">In order to live my highest life and thus making the world a better place, I lovingly request that you share with me the most amazing, wonderful, and fun experiences possible to be shared with people I love. Remind me of my power when I am feeling weak. Show me the awe and wonder that surrounds me in every moment, even when I seemingly choose not to notice it. Laugh with me and surround me with people who choose to live their highest selves.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Living my life fulfilled includes these dreams and wishes (fill in here):</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong> </strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>I promise</strong> to work with you rather than against or around you. I promise to shine my brightest to light the way for others who are in need. I promise to allow others to walk their own path and offer my light when asked for it. I promise to make you as proud of me as I am of myself.</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">I am excited to see how this unfolds and fully understand the delivery instructions require me to have faith, appreciation, gratitude, peace, and love in my heart with the intention of the very best coming to me and all those involved. This or something better.</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">With much love!</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">(sign here)</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">To complete this order, email it back to yourself and anyone else you believe will hold your highest intentions with you.</p>
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		<title>Life is Awesome</title>
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		<dc:creator>Carol</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite words, which is highly overused by me is awesome. I catch myself saying it all the time and I’ve even tried to come up with another word to replace it, but it’s reliable, it’s always there, it’s simply awesome. I finally realized why it resonates with me almost to the point [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: left;">One of my favorite words, which is highly overused by me is awesome. I catch myself saying it all the time and I’ve even tried to come up with another word to replace it, but it’s reliable, it’s always there, it’s simply awesome. I finally realized why it resonates with me almost to the point of it losing its value. I find something to be in awe of every day. I’m in awe of visionaries who choose to follow their passion even when the majority can’t see it as a reality. The many things we take for granted today were a yesterday vision filled with people saying – that isn’t possible, it can’t be done, etc. Tons of steel fly through the air carrying hundreds of people safely to their destination- now that’s awesome. Worldwide travel used to be done by ships. Traffic is routed through overpasses and underpasses intertwined and I’m in awe of how that was designed. Do you think people on horses and buggy’s thought that was possible? And let’s not even discuss the visionaries of the pyramids!  I’m in awe of the fact, that when I finish today’s message and hit the send button, in an instant it’s sent to Australia. I’m in awe of people facing seemingly insurmountable challenges, yet they surpass them. I’m in awe of people who choose love even if fear is a predominate theme of those around them. I’m in awe of you every time you say yes to your dreams and desires.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Perhaps your dreams and desires seem too big to accomplish, but know you aren’t alone. Every visionary before you had some doubt that they could make it happen. However, their passion and belief was stronger than that fear. Watch your dreams grow as you nurture them with hope, faith, belief, and love.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Affirmation:</strong> I live from a space of awe and wonder allowing the very best to unfold.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>(S)he  said:</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">“The possibilities of  creative effort connected with the subconscious mind are stupendous and  imponderable. They inspire one with <strong>awe</strong>.” ~ Napoleon Hill</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">“You will  make a lousy anybody else, but you are the best you in existence. You  are the only one who can use your ability. It is an awesome  responsibility.”  ~ Zig Ziglar</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">“The moment one gives close attention to any  thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, <strong>awesome</strong>,  indescribably magnificent world in itself.”  ~ Henry Miller</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">“Beliefs  have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the  awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a  meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their  lives.”  ~ Anthony Robbins</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Soulful Links:</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7l74d1fmZbw">Life is Wonderful</a> ~Jason Mraz</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQiBop5ns8k">Wonderful </a>~Everclear</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19f6961h-G4">Wonderful </a>~ Adam Ant</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>For the next week, I  invite you to see the awesomeness in your life by:</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Being</strong> aware of life. As you head to work, pay attention to your surroundings. Appreciate the traffic lights as a gift to keep things in a safe and reasonable flow. When you become aware of your surroundings, I promise you that you will find many things to be in awe of.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Listening</strong> to you. Often it’s not fear of our dreams, but fear of not knowing what we want to be when we grow up. We want to be happy, healthy, and safe. So listen to you on what makes you the happiest and follow that dream.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Serving</strong> others in need. Go to a soup kitchen, volunteer, etc. If you are finding your personal life filled with challenges, there is little more rewarding then helping another. You will be in awe of the human spirit witnessing people doing their best.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Mostly</strong>, my wish for you is to see how awesome you truly are. There is only one of you in this world, so share your uniqueness by being your best self. Choose love over fear. Choose happiness over sadness. Choose health over illness. Choose abundance over lack. Choose to be gentle with yourself and others along life’s journey.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Until next time, have a week filled with the most awesome experiences ever! Now – that’s awesome!</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Keep living big, loving big, and laughing along the journey.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">~Carol</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">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.</p>
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