Good Morning,

So, here we are… another day is stretched out before us…

Before we look at our self in the mirror again, let’s take a moment to think about the quality of observations we will make to the woman who is looking back at…

Will we criticize and judge her negatively, or will we smile and tell her that we are grateful and that we are glad to be her?

What will we plan to eat today? Have we given thought to balanced, nutritious meals for our self and our family?  Does the food that we keep in the house support a healthy food plan?

Our personal care: Are we going to take the time to dress and present our self in a way that feels good and self loving today?  Do we have self care products that make a positive statement about the care we think we deserve?

Money Matters: Will we respect our finances today?  Will we make wise choices that feel empowering?

Will we make time for some personal inner work? Time to connect with our Spirituality?  Time just for us…  or will we give it all away…

Here’s the thing… the better we treat our self, the better we will feel… the better we feel, the more we have to share with others… it’s the quintessential win-win…

I’m on my way to smile at the woman in the mirror…

Joyce

Good Morning…

Here is a nifty exercise that I like to do every day.  I would like to offer it to you…

It’s simple… Pick a word… any word… this word will keep you focused and anchored as you walk through this day…

You will know it when you see it… you can’t make a mistake with this exercise… and the great thing is… you get to pick another one tomorrow… how about that?

Serenity, Spirit, Inspiration, Peace, Love, Joy, Choice, Power, Friendliness, Share, Cherish, Appreciate, Laugh, Smile, Truth, Surrender, Tickle, Tease, Hug, Grace, Poise, Confidence, Worth, Value, Esteem, Acceptance, Create, Support, Communicate, Clarity, Positive, Dream, Deserve, Honesty, Passion, Health, Wellness, Grounded, Centered, Abundance, Receive, Blessings, Gratitude, Thanks, Manners, Authentic, Awakened, Empowered, Sage, Generous, Affirm, Approval, Acceptance, Tolerance, Patience, Connecting, Relax, Soft, Open, Flowing, Relax, Let It Be, Chill Out…

Pick one from the list that resonates with you or pick one of your own… the important thing is that you choose a positive lens through which to view your world…  you create what you choose…

Developing a Health Body Image seems to be a perennial topic.  Many of the women I talk to are either struggling with or hoping to cultivate a more positive body image.

So…

• How are you feeling about your body this week?
• How are you feeling about your body today?

When was the last time you set an intention to ditch your mean inner critic, and adopt a kinder and gentler way of talking to yourself.  Have you looked in the mirror today yet and smiled at the beautiful woman looking back?  Do you see yourself in a photograph and love your body/temple?

Loving yourself is a daily… sometimes hourly… heck, sometimes moment by moment decision… It is so easy to drift away from a positive intention and revert back to the familiar… even when the familiar is self-abusive…

I am lighting my morning candle for you and your positive relationship with your body image today… When you love yourself, all manner of goodness will flow to you… open your self… open your heart and allow….

open and allowing… it doesn’t get better than that…

Enjoy your body today… be grateful for your physical blessings… treat her well… feed her health-full foods, give her enough water to drink, let her rest, let her move and be active…

Namaste

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It’s Monday… (I can hear the moaning already…)

Whatever you do with your day, you are serving. Whether you are cleaning rooms in a hotel, or are an executive director somewhere, people will be affected by what you do.  People will also be affected by the energy you put out as you do it.

How can I serve?

• A job done with a willing and generous spirit carries positive energy.
• A job done grudgingly or with apathy carries negative energy.

You add positive, apathetic, or negative energy to the world each time you act.

Make sure you put positive loving energy into your service today.  It really does matter…

Just start with feeling good yourself.  Be kind to yourself.  Be mindfully grateful for your many blessings… get your self revved up about another opportunity to experience this wonderful life you have been gifted with.

Isn’t that a better deal than moaning your way through the day?

Perk yourself up vibrationally, decide to have a positive interaction with everyone you come into contact with today.  Decide to focus of happy thoughts… sounds like a cliche but it holds true…

I’m serving with love today.

Tootles…

Joyce Lee

I grew up in a family where:

• Children were to be seen and not heard
• We were told not to get “too big for our britches”
• We were supposed to downplay our accomplishments
• We were not taught to receive compliments graciously

Like many others, I had to learn how to step up and show my gifts and creativity publicly.  I had to learn how to be ‘right-sized’…  (not bigger than I am, but also… not smaller, either)

Here’s the thing we all know

• We are all given gifts and talents by our Divine Higher Power.
• We are supposed to share these gifts and talents with the world… (that’s a good thing for everyone isn’t it?)
• To minimize our talents and gifts is disrespectful to the Giver of the gifts.

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Epilogue:  “You are ~ I am” a gift to the world.  There is only “one of you ~ one of me”.  Let’s share!

Namaste

Good Morning,

I was just thinking about what contributes to ‘feel good’ day for me… I love hugs, and ‘I love you’ and teasing and attention.  My day just goes better when there is loving expression.

I realize that I need to take the time to extend my loving energy to others as well.

• tell others what I appreciate about them
• go out of my way to inquire about them
• listen, really listen to what others have to say
• take the time to joke around… life is supposed to be fun
• touch…  merging energy creates sparks…
• surprise people with interest for no other reason than to let them know they are important to me
• make time for chit chat… quit taking myself seriously…
• go out of my way for others…
• and on and on….

I love getting and giving love.  It is like sunshine and water to a plant.

Law of Attraction: what we feel is what we vibrate… what we vibrate is what we attract

We all know human cactus’s.. cacti? They walk through their day like they are sucking on a lemon.  How much fun can that be?

Not me… If I were a house plant, I would sit in a sunny window, with a great view.  I would have regular spa treatments (water, fertilizer, misting, primping)  and I would bloom, bloom, bloom! The room would would be filled with my sweet fragrance and everyone who visited would come over to say hello… sounds like a nice life…(some days… lol…)

So, if you want love, make sure you give love… surprise people… be someone others look forward to spending time with!

And there you go… off to your day….

Here’s a hug…. ((((((((((you)))))))))

In a-bun-dance…

Joyce

I live in the country on a small hobby farm, (160 acres).  We have 3 tractors… one really big one with tires as tall as I am for working in the fields etc, one medium sized one and a small garden tractor… I absolutely adore them all…

Puttering around in a tractor is one of my favorite ways to connect with our land… I happily mow lawns, maintain my horse pastures and haul stuff around the farm…

yup.. that’s me and my tractor… what a babe, eh?  heehee..

I learned a life lesson yesterday when I was on the big tractor, pulling harrows (big flat rakes) around my riding arena to loosen the footing…

I was so focused on the ground behind me, that I almost wiped a big stretch of fencing… (let me tell you… that wouldn’t have looked good on my tractor driving record… talk about lucky…)

It occurred to me, that many messes in life happen because we have our focus on what is in our past that we aren’t paying due attention to the ‘now’ moment with a soft focus ahead…

So what if I don’t like the ground behind me… there is nothing I could do to change it…it’s done, it’s over…  the important dirt is right under me and my tractor, in the moment…. and I need to have a vision of where I am going in the future in order to navigate with grace and flow…

How successful would you be driving your car by focusing on the rear view mirror?

Once I took my focus away from the past (in this case the raked ground behind me) I was free… I could see softly ahead to where I wanted to go and make great decisions about the ‘now’… The past flowed smoothly as a result…

Many women try to create their life by focusing on the past… That is a big mistake… all the power is in the now… in the moment…

What do you think?  Where is your focus?

For most of my life, it never occurred to me to ask for help with my emotional turmoil.

When I was really struggling with my self esteem and confidence, I assumed there was something wrong with me although I had absolutely no idea what it was… I thought I was flawed.

Fresh out of a loving but dysfunctional family, I didn’t even have the language of functional and healthy versus dysfunctional and unwell… I had no idea how messed up I was… No one talked about the turmoil within…

My first glimmer of hope and help came in 1986 from a chance viewing of a John Bradshaw special PBS called “Bradshaw on the Family”… I remember sitting spellbound through hours and hours of this program while John described my family.

I was so excited…  My inner journey began that day… My path has been adventurous…

• It’s been scarey at times
• It’s required fierce determination
• There has been some very steep learning curves
• I have had to dig deep within myself to keep going when the terrain got rough
• I have met many helping kindred friends along the way who have held my hand
• For the life of me, I can’t think of a better path to walk
• I am heart-fully grateful for all the bumps and rocks and crevasses
• I am thrilled by what might be next
• I trust the process
• I’m having the time of my life

If you are deliberately walking your own path to wellness and self-love… I hold out my hand in friendship and unity…

Namaste