Category: Choice/Intention

“bombard yourself…”

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Today, I attended a wonderful presentation called “Branding Beyond Sex: Five Things Every Woman Must Do to Thrive in Her Professional Life” by a wonderful woman and friend, Jamila Meesarapu Randall.  I won’t go into the five things but the quote that really stayed with me was “Bombard yourself with positivity.”

She went on to state that we are constantly surrounded by negativity: bad experiences, natural disasters, stress, etc.  And in order to counteract it, we have to “bombard” ourselves with positivity. I LOVE that word bombard; it speaks to the rather extreme level that we must go to to make sure that we stay focused on and thinking about the positive things in our day-to-day lives.  “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.”

So, what are you going to do in order to “bombard” yourself: read something inspirational; pray and meditate; send an encouraging email; call up a positive friend; write a blog post? Let me know in the comments below.

Oh! You can check out Jamila’s blog, here.

enjoy life…

friday’s “secret” – oh, those self-sabotaging thoughts

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I have been very busy these past few weeks. My friend and client blogs about some of what I have been up to here. But now I am back and better than ever.:)

Today’s secret is about thoughts. I have found that negative thoughts are one of the leading destroyers of happiness for me. I will be feeling good about something, enjoying my life, and then I will start thinking, negatively.

Well, thanks to the friend and client above, I have discovered Marie Forleo’s website and she posted about negative, self-sabotaging thoughts this week. She said,

“Self-sabotaging thoughts are a screen saver that pops up every time you go idle.”

This is so true; most of the time, while I am busy accomplishing, doing, etc. I have no time to think that I can’t do it or that it will be bad, etc. I am too busy. It is when I have down time, when I am “idle”, that negativity rears its ugly head.

I had been thinking a lot about my thoughts and how best to deal with them; to master them, as it were. And even though I have heard this concept before, for some reason, expressed like this, I got it. So, this week, I have been trying to not let my brain go idle so long that the screen saver pops up. My mind does need to shut-down or hibernate. And when I do, that should be an intention and choice to rest and recharge. I do not need it to go idle so long (ie. mindlessly watching TV) that the screen saver of my negative thoughts pop up.

You can check out the full Marie Forleo video here. And in the mean time, tell me what you think and how you handle your negative thoughts. And don’t forget to…

enjoy life…

friday’s “secret” – “live in each season”

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“Live in each season as it passes; breath the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit and resign yourself to the influences of each.”  – Henry David Thoreau

So, I haven’t had time to post these past few days; I have been very busy and sick. And at first I was upset that I hadn’t posted. I felt like I was messing up; not doing what I was suppose to be doing. But then I read the quote above and thought that this is yet another “secret” to happiness.

To be content, to live, to attempt to enjoy, each season:  busy, sick, healthy, whatever, as I am in it.  I have been busy these past couple of weeks, which is good. I had a tremendous sense of accomplishment of getting things done. Now I am sick, which is also good.  I have time to recover, time to read, time to watch a couple of movies, and time to post to my blog – some of the things that make me very happy.

So, what do you think? I am going to “live in each season” and enjoy life…