October 2011
89 posts
Cheryl
Journey as far is you must, as long as you must until you get to where is your going. The road may get bumpy the journey will get tiring but you must keep going. Beyond where you’ve been before past where you thought you would go keep going
Kim
A guest post tonight from a Christian point of view, written by my sister, Lisa Z. Morgan. Enjoy!
“I was saying my morning prayers, thanking God for a good night’s sleep, for my family, for many good things in my life. I realized that if I listed the specific things for which I was grateful I could keep God tied up for an hour or two. I said ‘well, you know what I am thankful for,...
Cheryl
Each day we can work the plan. Make a plan and work the plan. Over the course of time we begin to move every slightly. There are days we must do things we don’t want to do in those moments we accept that which we must do. We find gratitude in the moment. The task turns to enjoyment as we realize the small things in the moment hold thier own quality to life when we are aware in the moment.
“We measure our age by the years behind us, but we measure our youth by the...”
– Unknown
Cheryl
Find something in this moment that makes you feel enthusiasm or excitement. If not accept that this is the moment you are meant to be in and have gratitude. Anything can change in a an instant.
“Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriate limits as caretakers...”
– Charlotte Davis Kasl
Kim
Faced today with the question of how much we help or rescue our kids and how much we let them fall and face the consequences of their choices. It is part of that maternal instinct to protect, but just like the mother bird, if she doesn’t let her baby learn to fly on their own, even if that means falling sometimes, they will never learn to use their own wings.
Solo & Confused Beyond Belief
Have you ever realized that sometimes we ask a question we know the answer to only to receive validation. Sometimes however, we don’t receive the validation we are hoping to get. So we ask another until we get someone that will agree with us. For me, I ask myself a series of question, only after making a commitment to be complete honest with myself. This is the most difficult part of...
“Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to...”
– Anthony Robbins
Solo and Confused Beyond Belief
In reading some of the questions our Facebook friends submitted there appears to be a common theme. The problems they face on the surface are really different on the surface, but the underlying concern is very similar. The basics of the problems are that they are torn between doing what is easiest and what is best. We all fall into that pattern at times in our lives. We choose to give in to a...
Changing Choice ~ Cheryl
We were asked how to stay positive when life seems to go against you. After being positive for over 2 years our reader was faced with news that altered not only the relationship but themselves. Now all alone and feeling betrayed by this person how do they move forward. How do you regain that positive attitude again knowing your life will never be the same.
I have been reading a book recently...
“Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy.”
– Wayne Dyer
Life Changing Choices
Instead of our normal blog about what happened in our day and what we learned from it, Cheryl and I have opened up this forum to perhaps offer a different approach, although it is not a professional one, to the questions or problems some of our Facebook friends have posed. My viewpoint is in response to the person who made a choice that left them in a life-changing circumstance…
I imagine we all...
Cheryl
We make lists, we have plans. Then we get distracted, or we re-arrange our priorities. Yet sometimes we get lost in inspiration. Life is constantly moving and we need to allow ourselves to be carried away by inspiration every once in a while. Maybe its a book, or journaling. Maybe its capturing the world with a camera of the feel of a paint brush on canvas. Maybe its the sound of music or...
“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common...”
– Gertrude Stein
Kim - Day 296
Most people have a love/hate relationship with technology, at least I do. I love that it can provide information in an instant and also hate that I am always connected to, well everyone and everything, even when I ought to be disconnected. I get pings when there is a new email and my bulging calendar is a constant reminder of how much is scheduled and what needs to be done. But just like money,...
Cheryl
Sometimes things aren’t the way you remember. That doesn’t mean they aren’t fun or you can still enjoy them. Release the past learn to live in the moment.
“Sometimes the most urgent thing you can possibly do is take a complete rest.”
– Ashleigh Brilliant
Kim -- Day 295
Beyond tired after another day of chores. At least it ended with a very nice dinner and drive to see the thousands of Jack-O-Lanterns. Tomorrow, the day of rest will be just that for me as I try to fend of the cold that is putting up a good fight. It starts now with a good night’s sleep. The busy week ahead will not wait for me to be back to 100%.
Cheryl
There are moments that you find that maybe that one extra step when you thought you had reached the end is all that is needed. Even if it doesn’t change anything you know you put your all into it. Is there anything better than giving something your all. Then knowing you stayed open to potential rather than bitter from failure. It is from the rubble that some of the most beautiful things...
“Think positively about yourself…. ask God who made you to keep on remaking...”
– Norman Vincent Peale
Kim - Day 294
I think I just heard my favorite line from a movie EVER. It’s from Eat, Pray, Love. I bet you are getting ready for something profound about how we find true selves. Nope. It is a line that Julia Roberts says while she and her friend are devouring the most amazing looking pizza in a Naples café. She says, “I have no interest in being obese, but today we are going to eat and enjoy, go watch a...
Cheryl
Seek to be inspired.. No matter what is going on it can be fixed with some inspiration. I find that I have my off days. Every time I have had a bad day it is because I am worried over a choice I made in the past or because or concern over the future. For the most part in the moment I am in I am okay. So once I recognize this I am then able to redirect my attention to the now and in doing so open...
“We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from...”
– Earl Nightengale
Kim - Day 293
It was a very productive evening and I can’t believe what a difference in stress levels it makes to cross off the list a bunch of little things that were hanging over my head. It helps too to have organized the space in which I needed to do the work first. A clean and clutter free space leads to a clutter free mind. I am hoping that it will spill over into work tomorrow and the weekend ahead. It...
Cheryl
If I take my life a moment of the time. If I allowed myself to the present in that moment. To find that which I am grateful for and have a bunch for in a very moment. I would always be in the present in the now. By doing now I’m no longer worried about the past are concerned of the future. I am free to get the mom and I meant my attention 100 percent. In doing so I love myself always be open...
“A healthy outside starts from the inside.”
– Robert Urich
Kim - Day 292
I learned my lesson. I was bragging (sort of) about how I never really get sick, and now I’m sick. I am now thinking that I’m never sick for very long, so I hope this time I am not jinxing myself again. I have taken my vitamins, had lots to drink and now I am going to bed very early in hopes that all this plus a good long sleep will fight off anything virus that dares attack. I won’t be taking...
Cheryl
If you looked back over the past year, is there something you had to face that you never thought you would. How about the last 5 years or even 10. The truth is until we come to face the mountain we must climb we doubt our ability to climb it. It is only when we have made it to the top or the other side that we realize we had more in us than we thought. Take time to reflect on how much progress...
“An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea...”
– Buddha
Kim - Day 291
The best ideas are often left dormant because we are afraid to share them. Not all ideas are great by themselves, but when shared have the potential to spark another idea that may spark the perfect solution or more creative option – an option that may have never been considered had it not been inspired by another’s willingness to let go of one idea so it could reach its full potential.
Cheryl
My one gift that I was born with is the ability to bounce. No matter what happens I seem to have this ability to bounce back up. Sometimes I wish I could linger longer in the reality and not seek the sun beyond the clouds. There are days I feel it would be nice to sleep through my problems or hind them away in something. But, no me I bounce. I find a book to read, a film to watch, a song to...
“Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.”
– Virgil
Kim - Day 290
When we think of the word endurance, we often think of the athlete able to run a marathon. There is the short distance sprinter who may be able to get ahead in the short run, but those with endurance will win the race that continues day in and day out. In the words of Buddha, “Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.” ...
“If you confront the universe with good intentions in your heart, it will reflect...”
– J. Michael Straczynski
Kim - Day 289
Even when your heart is in the right place, it is sometimes better to step back and let others deal with the consequences of their own actions instead of trying to help out. I made the mistake today of trying to correct something that was wrong, when it would have been fine – in fact better – had I just let the situation play itself out. Good intentions are not always good and certainly not always...
Cheryl
Vince Lombardi said
“The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.”
Instilling Self Worth in Children – The Balancing Act
Guest post by Cheryl Nordyke
Parenting is very similar to walking a tightrope. As parents we want to raise our children...
“In quiet moments when you think about it, you recognize what is critically...”
– Elder Richard G. Scott
Kim - Day 288
I don’t often enough have or take the time to simply sit and think. Most of the time, I drive with the radio off so I can multi-task and get to where I need to be and think at the same time. This isn’t nearly as effective as totally removing yourself from your daily cares and concerns and thinking about that which is most important or even essential. Tonight I had some time for that kind of...
Cheryl
Release the fear of what may not workout. There are plenty of teams that have proven what putting heart into the game can do. Guess what this is your game and you are up to bat, what are you going to do about it? Stop replaying the mistakes or detours that put you in a situation you don’t want to be in. That’s like driving in circles. There is always more than one way to get...
“I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the...”
– Maya Angelou
Kim -- Day 287
I saw a news segment tonight that was all about a man who immigrated to the US about 10 years ago. He was living the American Dream by owning a business, a home in the suburbs and had a beautiful wife and two kids. It was all about how he gave back. He gave to more than 100 local community fundraising events and even hosted a fundraiser for a young widow whose husband died in the line of duty as a...
Cheryl
As a human no matter where we are in our life, there are those that are in a better position and those that are in a worse. Stop comparing yourself to where others are. Stop allow your mind to do the thinking. Look at what you have and figure out how to make the most of that and then what you need to do to get to where you want to be and take action on that. I in no way have this perfected it...
Cheryl ~
Sometimes we are confused when things don’t happen the way in which we feel is best. We get frustrated and feel as if the world is working against us. I wonder if the shore feels the tide is against it because it keeps crashing back into it? Then after a while we either give up or we alter our course a little. Something about our approach changes and it seems as if now, just maybe...
“Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony;...”
– Albert Einstein
Kim - Day 286
It’s gotten to that point again where I have lists everywhere on scraps of paper, backs of printouts, that piece of paper on the end of a post-it note pad and even my right palm! Time to get them compiled into one master list and start checking off the items one by one. And this is just the office list. At home, there are similar lists floating around by the phone, on the kitchen island, the desk...
Cheryl ~
Be still at moments throughout your day. Be awake when those repetative thoughts come in. Be patient when things aren’t going your way. Be thoughtful of others in your life. Be giving when it seems you have nothing left to give. Be kind to all you encounter. Be forgiving to those that have wronged you. Be honest with the person in the mirror. Be gentle over you past and patient with...
“Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life...”
– Katherine Mansfield