I am grateful to all offerings of love and compassion whether you consider yourself a Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim, Spiritual or other teachings. Wherever you find peace, empowerment and connection is perfect while you allow others to follow what brings them happiness. By being and allowing peace, empower…ment, and connection, where you once flew, you can now soar.

5 days until Michael Losier – are you joining us here in Chicago?

I can see clearly now, the rain is gone. When you step back from fearful thoughts and look at the situation as how will this impact me in six months, a year, you are able to see it clearer. The fear is lessened and the hope begins to shine through. By seeing the big picture of your life filled with options and possibilities, where you once flew, you can now soar.

Six days until Michael Losier comes to Chicago to help you clarify the picture of your life. So make sure to join us.

More than ever before, world news comes to you at lightning speed from online news sources, breaking news on TV, and Social Media such as Twitter and Facebook.  The news is slick, savvy, and often fear based. I was recently asked how do I stay positive with so much going wrong in the world. It was such a great question, I felt I should share my response with you. She shared information on a tragic situation going on in the world, so how do you pull the positive in such tragedy?

Many of us have had those thoughts of feeling sorrow, sadness, and despair for events happening in our life as well as the world, and thus feel powerless with no control.

So, how can I stay positive while seeing the challenges others in the world are facing?

Sometimes the only positive in heartbreaking events far above my ability to comprehend, is knowing love lives there too, and I hold on to that.

I don’t have a magic wand to cure the world from sorrow and fear with one swoop. But what I do have is the capacity to be the best world citizen I can be.

Some days that might look like getting involved with organizations that share missions of positive solutions and focus on love, health, peace and abundance rather than have a fear focus of fighting.

Some days it’s the simple gesture of free hugs and creating global free hugs twice a year to allow people to know they matter.

Most days it looks like personally living a happy life and by others seeing my happiness, aspire to be happy as well, trickle effect.

Most days it looks like posting a positive message on Facebook and writing an affirmative message weekly to hopefully inspire/empower people to look through a positive filter at the world.

Most days I know that without contrast in our lives, we wouldn’t be able to recognize the wonders.

Most days I understand that even in the most challenging circumstances, hope and love lives there and good comes out of it. I don’t always see it right away, but I have faith and trust it’s there.

Most days I understand worry only begets more worry, so I focus on love over fear, abundance over lack, diversity over differences, and peace over conflict.

Most days its remembering that everyone wants and deserves a life of health, happiness, peace, and security, even those we might label ‘enemy’.

There are many conflicts in the world that can be overwhelming and thus feeling far too big to fix. So each day, I choose to be my best self, forgive myself when I am not giving the world my best, forgive others when needed, and ask for forgiveness from others when needed.

I invite you to look for a better feeling place and from that space, ask yourself how you can help. I don’t know what that looks like to you, but I’m sure it will help you feel empowered. Whether it’s simply being your best self, or getting involved with others who are peacefully making a difference, you’ll know what’s right for you. Finding the peace within you about life’s challenges helps to create the peace on our outer world.

Affirmation: I see all the possibilities within any challenge I face and move forward with love.

(S)he Said:

“Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.” ~ Bernice Johnson Reagon

“Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.” ~ Joseph Campbell

“The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.” ~ Bertrand Russell

“Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time…It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.” ~ Leo F. Buscaglia

Soulful Links:

Control ~ Janet Jackson

Self Control ~ Laura Branigan

Make Me Lose Control ~ Eric Carmen

For the next week, I invite (challenge) you to choose thoughts of:

Peace when dealing with any challenges, big or small, personally or worldly as through peace, conflict dissipates.

Love when dealing with any challenges, big or small, personally or worldly as through peace, fear dissipates.

Compassion when dealing with any challenges, big or small, personally or worldly as through compassion, judgment dissipates.

Mostly, I wish you to see the world as 1 person striving to live happily, peacefully, and healthfully. Be that in your own life and you will begin to feel as though you have a magic wand while being a role model for others.

Until next time, I challenge you to place your focus on love over fear, abundance over lack, diversity over differences, and peace over conflict.

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.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Positive Focus Announces YOU

Are Living Life Fulfilled

- Loving Self, Loving Life, and Loving Others -

Chicago, IL – August 4, 2010 – Positive Focus, a 501c3 non-profit focused on inspiring and uplifting people to live life fulfilled, is excited to announce that ‘Buddy – insert your name here’ is living the life of his dreams.

‘Buddy’ consciously chose to shift his thinking to a positive space in all aspects of his life and now lives life to the fullest. How you ask? Keys to living life fulfilled are: focusing on the positive, shifting from judgment to gratitude, breathing through contrasting experiences, taking 100% responsibility for your experience, knowing the connection to ALL, and loving self, loving life, and loving others.

“When I started to ask myself ‘What would love do’ in any situation, life started to become easier and I was empowered,” states Buddy. “I no longer wanted to lash out at anyone for hurting me as I realized I’m not a victim. I have complete choice in my reactions to anything. I began to claim myself and see all situations as an opportunity to thrive and grow. Sure there were times that I went back to my old patterns, but the more I practiced gratitude, the less and less I thought life was hard. Are there challenges, disappointments, or sadness in my life still? Sure, life continues to change, but I now change with it in a positive frame of mind. Challenges, disappointment and sadness still visit, they just don’t move in.”

“I am always so excited to see people step into their innate greatness,” said Carol Miller, Positive Focus Founder. “Buddy became aware of his inner greatness and let it shine through. Everyone is exactly where they need to be at any given moment. Life is about choices, and when you choose different choices, you get different results. Buddy chose to experience life with positive choices. Positive Focus isn’t about changing anyone, but rather giving people the opportunity to see their true potential and thrive. I am so grateful that I get to experience so many people becoming aware of their inner power and beauty. I truly love and commend Buddy on living his best self as that is what makes the world an even better place.”

About Positive Focus
Positive Focus, a 501c3 non-profit organization headquartered in Chicago, spreads positivity globally through virtual and physical communities allowing people to see love over fear, abundance over lack, diversity over differences, and peace over conflict. For more information, visit: www.positive-focus.com.

AFFIRMATION: I love that I am unique and cherish my special gifts.

(S)he said:

“Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more; Love more, and all good things will be yours” ~ Swedish Proverb

“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” ~ Winston Churchill

“There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.” ~ W. Clement Stone

“People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong…Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Soulful Links:

Popular ~ Wicked

Paparazzi ~ Lady Gaga

Radio Gaga ~ Queen

For the next week I invite you to live your best self by living with:

Gratitude: Each morning as you wake, think of five things you are grateful for. Fill yourself with gratitude before your feet hit the floor. As you go through the day, be grateful for each experience. If you find yourself moving towards a negative thought, replace it with gratitude. And when you close your eyes for a restful sleep, enter sleep with grateful thoughts of the wonderful day you just had.

Intention: Each morning as you wake, set up the day on how you intend it to be the best day ever. Breathe in the knowledge that you get to choose how you experience life, so intend for amazing experiences. And when you close your eyes at the end of the day, set your intentions for a peaceful sleep to energize you for the next day.

Love: Each morning as you wake, think about all that you love. Fill yourself in love before your feet hit the floor. Go through your day knowing you are loved. Finish your day off with thoughts of love before you fall into a restful sleep.

Joy: Each morning as you wake, feel joyful. Smile before your feet hit the floor knowing that you will have joy and laughter in your world today. Finish your day off with a smile and perhaps a little giggle as you close your eyes and bring joy into your dreams.

Mostly, I invite you to reach deep inside and see how you are a unique individual. Only you have those exact qualities in the world. So dream big, love big, live big, and give big.

Until next time, love yourself, love life, and love others.

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.

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.

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.

Affirmation: I live from a space of awe and wonder allowing the very best to unfold.

(S)he said:

“The possibilities of creative effort connected with the subconscious mind are stupendous and imponderable. They inspire one with awe.” ~ Napoleon Hill

“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

“The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.”  ~ Henry Miller

“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

Soulful Links:

Life is Wonderful ~Jason Mraz

Wonderful ~Everclear

Wonderful ~ Adam Ant

For the next week, I  invite you to see the awesomeness in your life by:

Being 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.

Listening 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.

Serving 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.

Mostly, 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.

Until next time, have a week filled with the most awesome experiences ever! Now – that’s awesome!

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.

Have you ever watched a baby learning to walk? He starts off by scooting on the floor with his arms pulling him towards his goal. The next thing you know, he is on all fours rocking back and forth. Now that he is rocking and rolling, before your very eyes, he takes off crawling! The world is a different place for him as he is mobile. He can now start reaching his dreams on his own. Mommy and daddy don’t have to give him the toy anymore, he can go get it! It’s time for more adventures, and his next step is pulling himself up and standing as he holds on to furniture. He is wobbly and falls easily, but he is determined to see the world from a new vantage point. Finally, just out of his reach, he sees something so enticing that he must have it. It could be a toy, the family pet, or the outreached arms of mommy or daddy, but he must get there. The desire to reach that dream far outweighs the fear of falling. He lets go of the security of holding on and steps towards his dreams. He is walking! Sure there are some slips and falls along the way, but he is walking, and before you know it, he is running toward his dreams full of confidence and ready to grow and explore.

Just like a baby, you too can move towards your dreams and desires with baby steps.

Affirmation: I am creating my dreams one step at a time.

(S)he Said

“When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.” ~Confucius

“Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.” ~Ayn Rand

“When we take one step toward to God, he takes seven steps toward us.” ~ Indian Proverb

“It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.” ~Ram Dass

Soulful links:

Gimme Three Steps ~Lynard Skynard

Stepping Out ~ Tony Bennett/Christina Aguilera

Stepping Stone ~ Monkeys

For the next week I invite you to move towards your dreams by:

Being at peace at where you are now, where you’ve been, and where you are going.

Releasing any fear and doubt however it shows up – not being good enough, not having the right resources, or not knowing where and how to start.

Visualize your dreams by seeing them as a movie. Write your own script, become the star, and simply know that as your movie plays, you can always make edits and rewrite the ending to meet your new dreams and desires.

Be grateful for all the little dreams that are coming true in your life. Say thank you to the little miracles that show up as you are building your dream muscles each time you recognize your successes regardless of the size.

Mostly, whether you sit, crawl, walk, or run, I encourage you to keep moving towards your dreams. Live your highest life of peace, happiness, compassion, service, and love for yourself, for others, and for life.

Until next time, keep on keeping on.

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.

What did you say? What words do you use when you talk about yourself, about others, about life in general? Do you choose words that excite you, encourage you, inspire and empower you? Or do you choose words filled with fear of the unknown that make you nervous, or fuel your frustration, and disempower you?

As a writer, I love words! I love to listen to how people use them. I love being aware of what words I use as it allows me to decide if I need to reframe my internal dialogue or if I’m talking in a manner that empowers me to live my highest self. We all want a life filled with love, health, peace, and abundance, yet we often choose words that conflict with our desire. We want love, yet we choose to talk about relationships in our life that don’t work whether it’s personal or professional relationships. We want health, yet we choose to talk about ravaging diseases and fighting (fill in the blank) disease. We want peace, yet we choose to talk about the horrors of conflict and war. We want prosperity, yet we choose to talk about the failing economy, job loss, etc.

When you speak of love, fill yourself with words that encourage you to live your life through love. Speak of kindness, compassion, service, joy, passion, trust, and words that allow you to feel love. When you speak of health, fill yourself with words and phrases that make you feel healthy. When you speak of peace, choose stories of people and movements who are making changes in the world through peaceful actions of support, love, understanding, and positive action. When you speak of prosperity, speak of all the things you do have in your life. What you think, what you speak, and what you feel, expands, so choose words that feed your soul and allow you to live your highest self.

Affirmation: I choose words that inspire and empower me and others.

(S)he Said:

“When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain” ~ Shakespeare

“Words are the voice of the heart.” ~ Confucius

“Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning.” ~ Maya Angelou

“A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.” ~ Chinese Proverbs

Soulful Links:

Word Play ~ Jason Mraz

Words ~ Bee Gees

More Than Words ~ Extreme

You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth ~ Meatloaf

For the next week I invite you to play with words by:

Being aware of your words as through awareness is where change can take place. Listen to see if you are using words of inspiration or empowerment or possibly words of fear and limits.

Scrambling your words up and using the ones that make you feel good such as love, happy, fun, laughter, peace, healthy, and prosperity.

Writing down words that empower and inspire you. Then post them on your bathroom mirror to empower you to start your day off right. Or post them on the inside of your front door as a reminder to live by those words as you leave for the day

Choosing to reframe contrasting experiences with positive words, such as rather than not liking the weather, focus your attention on what that weather brings to the world – I am grateful that the rain nourishes the earth, rather than I hate rainy days.

Mostly, my wish for you is days filled with words that allow you to soar. Words that bring a smile to your face. Words that inspire and empower you to live your highest self. Words that show your inner being which is a person filled with love, laughter, health, compassion, abundance, kindness, and pure joy.

Until next time, choose words that reflect how you want your world to be, and I promise you, it will become that!

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.

What are you getting ready for? Are you getting ready for an amazing day filled with laughter and love? Or are you getting ready for a day filled with worry and fear? Are you getting ready for amazing opportunities and exciting experiences? Or are you getting ready for things not going right for you and worrying about what’s going to happen next? When you get a piece of ‘bad’ news, do you look for the silver lining in that news, or does it send you down a path of ‘oh no, here we go again’?

I encourage you to choose every moment as a ‘get ready’ moment on living your best life. Get your mind ready for living your dreams by filling your thoughts and feelings with loving, passionate, peaceful, abundant, and happy thoughts. Get ready to meet your doubts and fears with gentleness, compassion, and appreciation as they often show you what you don’t want, which allows you to move towards what you do want.

AFFIRMATION: I say YES to living my highest vision of myself as I am ready!

(S)he Said:

“Miracles come in moments. Be ready and willing.” ~Wayne Dyer

“Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.” ~ Napoleon Hill

“When the will is ready the feet are light.” ~ Proverb

“Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.” ~ Henry Ford

Soulful Links:

People Get Ready

Alicia Keyes

Crystal Bowersox

Rod Stewart and Jeff Beck

For the next week, I invite you to get ready by:

Being gentle with yourself on all aspects of your life by knowing whatever the situation, it was perfect in that moment. Each experience both ‘good and bad’ are part of life’s journey and you get to choose how to remember it. Enjoy your journey through gentleness.

Appreciating all the blessing in your life from the smallest to largest blessing as when you place your attention and focus on the positive aspects of your life, they expand. Enjoy your journey through appreciation.

Loving and laughing along the journey. Laughter has an amazing healing power and helps put you in or keep you in a state of joy. Enjoy your journey through love and laughter.

Mostly, my wish for you is a week that you simply bloom into the amazing person inside filled with dreams, desires, and wishes as you ARE ready to live the very best vision of yourself.

Until next time, people get ready as the time is now!

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.

Focused Family

Teaching Your Children Law Of Attraction

Welcome to Focused Family, our monthly newsletter on teaching the law of attraction to children.  We’re very happy and excited that you’re here. Each month we’ll share a parent tip, a game or exercise to share with your kids, and a powerful child manifestation story to keep you inspired and focused on creating the best possible family.

I’m so happy and grateful to share this work with you.  Until next time… dream big and keep focusing on what you’re wanting.

Life is good,

Steffani

Quote: “Your children will see what you’re all about by what you live rather than what you say.” ~ Dr. Wayne Dyer

Parent tip of the month: Be Happy!

We’re keeping it very simple this month and focusing on being happy! Did you know that happier thoughts lead to essentially a happier biochemistry and a happier, healthier body? Negative thoughts and stress have been shown to seriously degrade the body and the functioning of the brain. This happens because it’s our thoughts and emotions that are continuously reassembling, reorganizing, and re-creating our body. So this month start thinking happy thoughts and start being happy. Happiness is a choice. It’s a feeling state of being. When you’re feeling down, you can change that in an instant. Think of something that makes you happy, talk to a friend that makes you smile, listen to your favorite song or start singing. All of these things will change your emotion and you’ll start to feel good. Remember feeling good is the key to acquiring everything you’ve dreamed of. Isn’t that a great reason to be happy and choose positive thoughts?  After all, how can we set an example for our kids if we’re not happy doing it? How can we tell them to live a life with passion joy and happiness if we’re not doing it ourselves? I just bought a rock the other day that I put at the entrance to our home; it says “Think about happy stuff.”  Every time I look at it I smile and I’m happy as I walk through the door. What a great example.

Play With Me: Vision Boards

(Monthly game)

If you’ve been practicing the law of attraction you’ve probably made a vision board or something similar.  Even writing down things that we want makes us 300% more likely to attain that goal.  Vision boards are a wonderful way to put your focus your attention and your energy on the things you want to manifest in your life. Big or small, physical or emotional, anything you’re wanting can go on a vision board. Why not make a vision board with your kids?  Here’s a simple way to do it.  Get a piece of cardboard or create paper, some tape or glue and a few magazines.  Start asking your kids what they want to create in their lives.  If they’re as young as 2 or 3 you can just ask them about things they like.  “You love bananas don’t you?”  Great so we cut out some bananas and they go on the board.  “Do you like it when your friends are nice to you at school?”  Cool, so we find some happy nice kids and put them on the board.  “You love to ride your bike?”  Perfect, we put that on the board.  “You love to snuggle with Mommy!”  We can even add a family photo to the board.  And if your kids are older 4 – 6 they can help you even more by telling you things they want that they don’t have yet.  “You want a new pair of roller blades.”  That goes on the board.  “You want to perform in the school play.”  That goes on the board.  It’s easy to find a symbol or picture to represent almost anything.  You can even add to them, or draw something yourself.  And the older they get the can do it themselves.  I like to add my name and the date to the board.  So I claim all of those things as my dreams and goals and so I can watch how quickly those things manifest in my life.  It’s a great project to do with your kids and a great way to show them how to focus on their dreams and put some positive energy towards their goals.

Kid Power!

(The latest and greatest Kids Manifestation Story)

My friend, who lives in California, has a beautiful 6-year old girl who’s very into High School Musical. So much so that she wanted to buy the DVD, but her parents were waiting for her birthday. She kept waking up and looking for the DVD to come to her house. They explained to her that if she didn’t order the DVD it wouldn’t come. But she kept looking; she would race to the mailbox to check for it. They didn’t understand. One day, there was an envelope for their neighbor in their box. They walked over with their daughter to give it to their neighbor. The neighbor opened it in front of them and it contained some DVD’s friends had sent to them for their grand-kids. One of them of course was High School Musical. The girl started jumping for joy! That’s my favorite movie, she shouted. The neighbor happily gave it to her stating that they already had a copy of their own. Coincidence? I think not. Her parents were amazed. What a powerful girl!

Do you have any kid manifestation stories you’d like to share?

Email me at steffani@positive-focus.com as I would love o hear about you powerful kids.

About Steffani: Steffani Fort LeFevour is an actress, a fitness specialist and an expert in the law of attraction and living your best life. She has been teaching the law of attraction to kids and adults for over 8 years and applying it in her own life for over 20 years. Her passion is to help others to focus on their ultimate lives and consciously create the life of their dreams.

You come to me and say you are dealing with a devastating illness and you are scared. I am not a doctor, but I can listen and send you love.
 
You come to me worried about your investments. I am not a financial planner, but I can listen and send you love.
 
You come to me in fear of your marriage collapsing. I am not a marriage counselor, but I can listen and send you love.
 
You come to me as you’ve just lost your job. I don’t have a job to give you, but I can listen and send you love.
 
Has any of your family or friends come to you with fears and worries? Or perhaps these are feelings you are personally dealing with. You don’t want those you love to feel scared, worried, or fearful, yet, the scenarios seem overwhelming. What can you as one person do?

You CAN listen. You CAN be compassionate. You CAN send them love. Empathy and compassion are amazing traits to feel connected to others. Take a moment and look at how you express empathy and compassion with yourself and others. Be empathetic and compassionate, but I encourage you not to join in the worry wart syndrome. Rather than spending time thinking of those you love in difficult situations and worrying about them, every time their name comes into your mind, send them love. When it’s fear in the form of illness, send them love and healing thoughts rather than worrying and more fear. When people discuss the current economy situation, especially if they are personally dealing with challenges due to it, send them love rather than conversing about how bad things seem to be. Send your family, friends, and world citizen’s love, for if you believe that what you put out there comes back to you – send love and be ready to receive it.

This week’s affirmation:

I send loving thought to myself and others.

Quotes of the week:

“It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.”

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us.”

~Flora Edwards

“Sometimes creativity just means the daily work of helping others to see a problem in a different way.”

~Joseph Badaracco

“What looks like a loss may be the very event which is subsequently responsible for helping to produce the major achievement of your life.”

~Srully Blotnick

Soulful links:

With a Little Help from My Friends

~Beatles      

With a Little Help from My Friends

~Across the Universe         

With a Little Help from My Friends

~Joe Cocker 

With a Little Help from My Friends

~Bon Jovi     

Help

Beatles         

Help

Tina Turner   

Help Is On It’s Way  

~ Little River Band

For the next week I invite you to help by:
 
Appreciating the fact that life is filled with choices and you get to choose yours as others get to choose theirs - choose from a space of love.
 
Loving you, others, and life – when you live in a space of love, all is well.
 
Asking you, what would love do or what would love say? When you speak from love, you should feel empowered. If it’s a disempowered feeling, perhaps fear has crept in. Love can and does say no when it’s needed. 
 
Mostly, I invite you to become aware of your thoughts. If you want more love for you and others, send out loving thoughts. If you want great health for you and others, send out thoughts of health. If you want more abundance for you and others, send out thoughts of abundance.
 
Until next week, I send you love, health, and abundance to help you on your journey.

Hugs,
~Carol 

Happy Wednesday!

What are your dreams, desires, goals, and passion? I bet all of them revolve around love, peace, abundance, and happiness. Now ask yourself, what do you spend most of your time focusing on? Do you focus on love or fear? Do you focus on peace or fear? Do you focus on abundance or fear? Do you focus on happiness or fear?

Keep your eye on the ball. If your dream is a loving romantic relationship, focus on feeling loved rather than feeling alone. If your dream is to live in peace, focus on what brings you peace, rather than world conflicts. If your dream is financial freedom, focus on abundance rather than what is going on with current economy. If your dream is being happy, focus on what brings your joy rather than what brings you sadness. Be the change you want to see in the world by focusing on your own reality. If we each stood up and created our reality of love, peace, abundance, and happiness at the individual level, I promise you, the world would live as one.

Quotes of the day:

“For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see. Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.”

 ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson

“There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect”

~ G.K. Chesterton

“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend”

 ~ Henri Bergson

“The eyes are the gateway to the soul.”

 ~ Herman Melville

Soulful Links:

In Your Eyes ~ Peter Gabriel

Every Time I Close My Eyes ~ Babyface

Bette Davis Eyes ~ Kim Carnes 

For Your Eyes Only

For the next week, I invite you to refocus by being:

Aware of your dreams: Stay plugged in, revved up, and excited about your dreams. When contrast shows up, refocus on loving thoughts.

Grateful: Be grateful for all the amazing things in your life, even if they are seemingly small, and when contrast shows up, refocus on loving thoughts.

Appreciative: Appreciate yourself, others, and life. Talk up the good things going on in your life, and when contrast shows up, refocus on loving thoughts.

Mostly, my wish for you this week is to realize your focus is your reality, so focus on your desires and send loving thoughts to your fears. Focus on love. Focus on wellness. Focus on abundance. Focus on joy. Focus on a better feeling when contrast shows up. Refocus on all the goodness, love, and joy the world offers.

Until next time, focus on living your life fulfilled.

Hugs,

Carol

That was stupid. I can’t do that. I am undeserving. I’m too old, too young, too skinny, too fat, too tall, or too short. Do any of these comments sound familiar to you? I bet you have said these to yourself in the past or possibly still do. The list is endless of negative self talk. However, it’s just as endless for positive self talk – you choose what to affirm whether positive of negative.

Now let’s wipe off the ick from those statements and ask yourself if you would say any of those comments to your best friend? The answer is NO. You would realize these statements would just perpetuate their negative self talk. You would choose affirmative comments and help make them feel better because they are YOUR best friend.

How about being your own best friend and catching your own negative self talk and turning it around to be supportive and loving? Rather than talking yourself down, talk yourself up. Rather than giving yourself a hard time, be gentle with yourself. Talk to yourself about solutions rather than problems. Talk to yourself about blessings rather than hardships. Talk to yourself about gratitude rather than lack.

Quotes of the week:

“If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.” ~ Maxwell Maltz

“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.” ~ Bernard Meltzer

“Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends with them?” ~ Abraham Lincoln

“Silence is the true friend that never betrays.” Confucius

Music for your Soul:

You’ve Got a Friend by:

Carole King

James Taylor

Carole, Gloria, Celine, Shania

Patti LaBelle

For the next week I invite you to be your own best friend by:
 
Giving yourself five compliments each day. If you are struggling to come up with five compliments, think of things you say to your friends. Or think of things friends say to you and repeat them to yourself.
 
Treating yourself the way you treat your best friend going through a challenging time by being gentle, loving, and supportive.
 
Motivating yourself with excitement and eagerness to start whatever it is you’ve been putting off and beating yourself up about.
 
Laughing at yourself several times a day just the way you laugh with your friends.
 
Mostly, I invite you to truly think of yourself as your own best friend. Be your biggest cheerleader rather than heckler. Be pro you rather than anti self. Be hopeful rather than worried. Anytime you start the negative self talk, ask yourself, would you say that to your best friend? And I bet the answer is – NO!
 
Until next week, my intention for you is to have a week full of amazing friendships, and that starts from within.
~Carol 

Happy Wednesday!

Wouldn’t you love to see wars end? Wouldn’t you love to see people not fighting and hurting others? Wouldn’t you love to see people not littering and being destructive to our environment? Wouldn’t you love to see (fill in the blank)?

How often do you have thoughts of changing others? Changing the world? Changing loved ones? I certainly do, but I am quickly reminded of my favorite quote, “Be the change you want to see in the world,” by Mahatma Gandhi. My second favorite quote is Margaret Mead’s “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”

When you seek change, seek from within. If you see war, poverty, pollution in your outer environment, look within on how you can change. Perhaps it’s just changing your thoughts and focusing on peace, abundance, and purity. Rather than fighting war, be for peace. Rather than fighting hunger, be for abundance. Rather than fighting illness, be for health. Rather than fighting hatred, be for love. Change your perspective from a negative situation to a positive solution. Involve yourself in groups that promote positive solutions rather than fight the negative problems. I promise you, if you make those changes for yourself, your world will change.

Quotes of the day:

“The key to change is let go of fear.” ~ Rosanne Cash

“Everything changes, nothing remains without change.” ~ Buddha

“I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” ~ Jimmy Dean

“If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we are not really living.” ~ Gail Sheehy

Music for the Soul:

Be The Change – Kat Edmonson

Change ~ Tracy Chapman

Change of Habit ~ Elvis

For the next week I invite you to live your highest good by focusing on:

Peace: be peaceful in your world. Be peaceful to yourself, your family, your friends, your neighbors, and your world community.

Love: be love in your world. Be loving to yourself, your family, your friends, your neighbors, and your world community.

Compassion: be compassionate in your world. Be compassionate to yourself, your family, your friends, your neighbors, and your world community.

Appreciation: be appreciative in your world. Be appreciative to yourself, your family, your friends, your neighbors, and your world.

Forgiveness: be forgiving in your world. Be forgiving to yourself, your family, your friends, your neighbors, and your world community.

Mostly, my intention for you is to be the change for you by living a peaceful, loving, compassionate, appreciative, and forgiving life. I promise you, if you live this way, your world will change.

Until next time, remember – change starts from within.

~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.

Happy Friday!

WOW what weather Mother Nature has given us these last few days. I trust that all of you are safe and sound with minimal damage.

Have you ever had a moment where you felt completely alone in life? I think we all have at some time or another. However, I’d like to challenge that belief as we’re in this life together all connected through energy. So if you stop and think about it for a moment, you may realize you aren’t alone – what you are feeling at this exact moment is felt by thousands. That you as ONE person truly does matter in the world as you are a part of it. Perhaps knowing (or remembering this) will make the challenges you face in life a little less scary. Perhaps it will make your victories feel even bigger knowing you are sharing them with ALL.

An interesting story of people who on the surface you might feel sorry for, truly knew that there is a connection between us all and that we truly go through this life together. It happened at a Special Olympic track event. The gun went off and these athletes started their journeys striving for victory. Shortly after starting, one fell and started crying. A few of the athletes turned back to comfort their fallen friend. They helped him up, told him he would be alright, and returned to finishing the race – together. I’m sure each one of these athletes wanted to win. And in the end were all winners regardless as they saw the connection and elevated their spirits.

As you go through this next week, I invite you to be aware of connections and allow it to elevate your life by knowing that we are connected. We may live thousands of miles a part, follow a different religion, and have different life experiences, but we are connected as part of this world at this time in space.

Looking for a way to stay connected? Make sure to surround yourself with people who lift you up, inspire you, support you, and simply love to laugh and have fun. Feel free to post to the message board any ideas on what connections means to you and/or ideas for others to stay connected.

Have a fantastic weekend and until next time.

All my best,
Carol