At Positive Focus, we LOVE books that empower and inspire you to live your life fulfilled. We love books that share positive tools and ideas on bettering your life whether it be personally or professionally. And along with loving books, we LOVE to discuss them.

So join us as we are starting a series called ‘PF BLOGGING BOOKS’ by reading along with us and then sharing your comments questions about what we’re blogging about.

So join us this summer for our first book facilitated by Krista Hubbard as she reads and oldie but a goody – “7  Habits of Highly Effective People,” by Stephen Covey. It’s a good one for first-timers and also one to review from time to time.

June 7th will be the first post, so pick up the book and start reading. Thereafter, Krista will include a schedule and assignments.

We’re looking forward you joining the conversation on Blogging Books!

A new practice I just started is a calendar reminder called: My Life Is Awesome! I created that event on my calendar and then added 5 pop-up reminders. So five times a day, I get a pop-up reminding me how awesome my life is followed by affirmations or intentions I included to review and soak in the amazing possibilities life offers.

To add an extra dose of positivity to my affirmations and intentions, I’ve added the word – YES in front of them.

Examples:

YES amazing miracles happen to me daily.

YES I  have the most amazing job working with like-minded happy people

YES financial freedom is mine and it came quickly and easily

YES I am in a loving relationship with the man of my dreams

So join me and add to your calendar the amazing life you are living with reminders of it. Simply having the pop-up reminder saying my life is amazing is good enough and then opening it up to see all of my affirmations and intentions is simply a bonus.

I would love to hear how this is working for you, so make sure to stop back and share your affirmations/intentions.

Big hugs and mucho love,

Carol

Originally posted at www.allthingspositivity.com

As PF Lexington expands, I am personally learning a new skill; a skill that I’m not very used to, and that is asking for support. I was brought up not to ask for or expect help from others, so asking for help is a whole new world t0 me. I left home, Wexford Ireland, early and was in boarding school by the age of 12, 2 hours away from home. We were only allowed home every 2nd weekend and that is what we did. The school was strict in many ways so I learn very quickly to conform and do what was asked of me. I had to fight my own battles or so that is what I thought at the time. Then I went to University four hours away from home so I didn’t come home much then either. After that I decided to travel and that was always on my own too! I never knew I liked my own company so much and then wonder why I was always alone and had no major deep connections with any particular person in my life. It was me creating it as it was all I knew at the time. I was not letting anyone in.

Then along came Positive Focus and I am learning a lot more about myself and how I relate to others for the most part great but definitely an area I could do with a bit of schooling in. It is okay to ask for support and it okay to be vulnerable, it is okay to share a part of you and it okay to be who you uniquely are. Positive Focus has definitely helped me with these areas. Firstly to be aware of what you are putting out and secondly you have a choice of who you want to be. I choose to be a loving, supportive, grateful, kind, compassionate, positive Lorna. I am getting really good at hugging everyone these days too. As Positive Focus Lexington expands, I see myself expanding too as we share our stories and our experiences together while benefiting from a dose of Positivity in the process.

Loving life,

Lorna

For more on the Lexington Gratitude Chapter: http://www.meetup.com/PFLexington/

Since becoming part of Positive Focus, Lexington a whole new world has opened up to me. First, I started to test my own inner strength by setting up a group to start with. I wanted to learn more about changing the way we see things and this had to start firstly with myself. Coming from an environment surrounded by negativity, I lacked confidence, self-worth and any sort of belief on been able to do anything different than what I knew. I believed everything that had happened to me in the world everyone was doing to me. I was the prefect victim of my circumstances. It was all I knew at the time. Upon reading Louise L. Hay I read a quote in her book about ‘change your thinking, change your life’ and a strong theme in the book was to LOVE YOURSELF. I started to take these theories on board and all of sudden I knew what I wanted to do with my life. I discovered my purpose was that I wanted to help others, to give back. To show others the way and that they too do not need to be victims of their circumstances.

As I wanted to help others, I started a group here in Lexington and then learned about Positive Focus. What could it hurt, I emailed Carol and became part of a bigger movement on positivity. Carol was probably the first person to come into my life with this amazing energy I was seeking of my own. Now I have a team of anabolic energy as part of my everyday. Anabolic energy is a leader who has the ability to motivate and inspire themselves and others to do extraordinary things. What a new world I was living in. During the course of starting the group and building it up today in a short period of 8 months. My confidence just grows and grows, I am expanding my comfort zone constantly. I am less judgmental of myself and others, I have also have been complimented on my positive energy and that I am inspiring. Amazing that was not the same girl 2 years ago. I uplift others and then me. My self-esteem and self love is far stronger than it has ever been before. I no longer criticize myself, I am internally happy, I am peaceful and my days are filled with a clear mind. The monkey chatter has stopped and when it comes to greet me again, I now have control over my thoughts and I can turn them around into Positive Feedback. Huge when you were and have been heavily criticized your whole life. Enormously freeing. My relationship with myself and others has improved. I have more confidence in the company of the opposite sex, I have more confidence in my current job. I now have the ability to diffuse conflict in my daily living. I take things less personally and this is reflected to me in my outer environment. I am a person who is very Aware, I see awarness to be a huge concept and learning to work from the inside out. The more I work on myself internally the better my outer environment becomes. I have also become more spiritual. I believe  there is something greater than ourselves and I love the idea that we are all connected, it gives me great inner peace. Gratitude is another big one that I have now brought into my life, having gratitude helps you accept where you are right now. I see that I have the created everything that is in my life right now but I also have the choice and power to create the life I desire. And once you know this, that is what you will do. I am very much now creating the life I desire. I now live, a happy, joyous, peaceful, fulfilled life, thanks to Positive Focus and its members. I have also learned to be my authentic self.

Loving today,

Lorna

Positive Focus, Lexington

For more information on PF Lexington, visit: www.meetup.com/PFLexington/

I love my new found Positive Energy and when I ooze it my world sails like a dream. I can manifest like I am waving a magic wand over everything I do. And as positive energy becomes more and more a part of my being I have a great day/week/month and maybe even a year. That is the power of Positive Energy!

I receive and give the best positive energy at Positive Focus Lexington events. I’m surrounded by like minded people who lift you up, tell you everything is possible, we laugh, we joke, we share, we give, we love, we inspire, we hug, we compliment and I leave that evening grateful, satisfied and fulfilled with a warm fuzzy feeling inside that last for days.

And this Friday 4th May is a slightly bigger day for Positive Focus, Lexington we are doing our first global hugs event which I can not wait to tell people more about what we do and why we do it.

Lorna Poole

Gratitude Chapter Lead – Lexington, KY

For more information on Positive Focus Lexington: http://www.meetup.com/bepositive/

If you want to smile and receive a great hug, come to any Positive Focus event. I have gone to numerous Positive Focus events over the last three years from book clubs, to free hugs, to serving dinner for the homeless at a shelter. No matter what the event, I always felt such love, acceptance, and joy that I found myself laughing and smiling often.

I believe it is the people  even more than the events that create this wonderful atmosphere. These are people committed to seeing the light and sharing it openly. Positive Focus is a group of people focused on the positive and spreading this message to those around them.

There are events to serve the community like “A Just Harvest” at a food pantry in Rogers Par, “Free Hugs” on Michigan Avenue, and many spiritual growth meetings like Book Club, and Tuesdday Teachings discussion groups.  I found all I went to be uplifting and fun.

I work in natural health care and see how worry, fear and anger can wear people’s bodies down. Being able to laugh, share and smile with other accepting and loving folks is the gift Positive Focus offers. I am honored to be associated with this amazing group.

Love, light and abundant growth to Carol, Positive Focus, it’s vision, and all involved.

Samana Jasper

www.kidznmoms.com

My angels must have gathered in the last year and banned together to get my attention as I continually am attracted to the angelic realm. Last year we hosted Sunny Dawn Johnston who recently published ‘Invoking the Archangels’. She was amazing and re-lit the desire for me to know more about Angels.

This year, we’re bringing Gary Quinn author of ‘May the Angels Be With You’ on April 21st and I’m so excited to learn more from this bestselling author.

Then my Angels said – that’s not all! International visionary artist Joanne Macko and great friend offered a free 16×20 lithograph of Archangel Raphael as a gift to people purchasing tickets to both of Gary’s workshops on the 21st.

If you would like to learn more about Angels and receive the lithograph above, join me on the 21st for the full-day. Purchase your tickets here: www.positivefocusproductions.com and type in angels for a 10% discount.

Okay Angels – you have my attention! I’m excited to see what other gifts and love you share with me. I’m listening! And I’m asking for your guidance to living the highest vision of myself with more love, more health, and more abundance than I could possibly imagine from my physical senses.

Big hugs and mucho love!

Carol

Positive Focus Founder & Vision Keeper

(Originally posted: www.positivefocusproductions.com).

It’s usually the last month that the vast majority of people sign up, so I”m excited to see how this continues to grow. You too can be a Positive Focus Global Hugger by sending your name/city/state/country to hugs@positive-focus.com.

Big hugs,

Carol

PF Founder & Vision Keeper

My dream for Global Free Hugs was to get internationally recognized peace leaders to participate. Did I know any of them (well not yet anyway)? NO! But I turned over every stone I could think of and emailed Archbishop Desmond Tutu through an info@ email address. Yep – that’s how I got him to participate!! I continue to think of him and the info email whenever I start thinking my dreams are bigger than me. Thanks Arch for being my inspiration in ways you will never even know. ♥

So I encourage you…just keep dreaming…just keep dreaming…just keep dreaming. ♥

Carol Miller

Positive Focus Founder & Vision Keeper