In Order

"Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money in order to do more of what they want so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do in order to have what you want."

- Margaret Young

Wake Up

"God is available to you and me all the time, welling up within us, quenching our unsatisfied desires, overflowing to refresh those around us.  He is in every place, all the time.  And every once in a while, somebody somewhere wakes up."    

--John Ortberg

Release the Attachments

"Enjoy everything that happens in your life, but never make your happiness or success dependent on an attachment to any thing, place or person." --Wayne Dyer

Oh, I have learned this the hard way.  And I hope and pray I learned it well because I don't want to experience it again! 

New Ad"ventures"

"When you want to do a big thing, get the mental pattern, make it perfect, know just what it means, enlarge your thought, keep it to yourself, pass it over to the creative power behind all things, wait and listen, and when the impression comes, follow it with assurance. Don't talk to anyone about it. Never listen to negative talk or pay attention to it and you will succeed where all others fail."  --Ernest Holmes


It's crazy when you dream something up in your head then God just drops it in your lap and makes everything just fall into place!  More details to come....

Have a Good Day!

"Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself. When you are carried away with your worries, fears, cravings, anger, and desire, you run away from yourself and you lose yourself. The practice is always to go back to oneself."


- Thich Nhat Hanh

Daily Goals

"Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is."

- Mary Anne Radmacher, inspirational writer and artist

Remembering

"Over time, I began to acquire the tools needed to live a better life. I didn't want a life of just survival; I wanted to thrive! But to get to this place where I wanted more I had to first hit rock bottom. There was a time in my life when I had worked and worked and worked and nothing worked. I never thought I would have success again, and I was getting the worst sleep of my life. Fear had brought me to my knees!
If you are letting your life be run by fearful thoughts, by a belief that you are lacking and that hard work is your only salvation, my guess is that you are probably not getting enough sleep, either. Let one of your goals for 2010 be to rid your mind of fearful thoughts and begin to replace them with thoughts of Trust, Abundance and Love. " ---Mastin Kipp, the Huffington Post

My daughter asked me if it was okay for her to write about my heart attack again. She has used this topic several times over the past 6 years. It made me pause and think about that time in 2003 when my world turned completely around, upside down and hit bottom. I had worked myself to death, nearly. But I got a second chance to make things right. So for the past 6 years I have been living a life of abundance and enjoying every minute of it. Oh, and by the way, I sleep really well now!