I spend my days trying to teach kids that those fears we harbor inside ourselves can actually keep us from achieving, doing or becoming what we want most. They inhibit success and can trap us. Nothing is worse than not knowing what could have been, that is why you just need to reach for your […]
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Wow, how crazy! It is a small world…
Can i just share soemthing totally crazy with you? I spent yesterday sort of mass mailing band directors and schools trying to land a new colorguard “gig”… I already have one school interested in hiring me and I also got in touch with the local area’s colorguard organization to see if I could work as […]
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Reflections on past present and future.
Do you reflect on your life journey? Do you see how one thing leads you to another, does it help you to face the future and the present? Looking back and reflecting upon the journey is something I tend to do. It gives me perspective on the current events when I look back to see […]
My garden teaches me a lesson about life.
Yep you read the title right, my garden educated me today. Yesterday we spent money on our garden, you see we love to grow and enjoy stuff and since we had just received some product rebates we had some “free money”. We couldn’t think of a better way to burn free money. So we bought […]
Persistence often pays off..
This is a lesson that is very apparent in my file right now. I try to teach my students that perseverance and persistence will lead you to great things. Often times we fell the urge to give up right before we are about to experience success. Those who succeed are often those who kept trying […]
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The job search begins!
The resume tape is just a bout done, there are about 4 months left on his contract and the job search is under way! Job searching can be a tedious and stressful time for anyone. You sift through the possibilities, talk yourself out of the ones you feel are unachievable and then you pursue the […]
We all end up where we are meant to be eventually.
I just read a great blog post about U-turns and life. The author articulately compared life is with getting lost while driving. Oh, Dang! I just closed the tab for the blog I was wanting to link to. The blogger just left me a comment so now I have the url again, yay! Follow the […]
Another year older, oh how time flies…
My birthday is 10 days away. I’ll be 26 N tells me, already I have lost track of how old I am… I could figure it out by doing some math but I don’t really focus on how many years I have been on this earth. My age doesn’t really coincide with all I have […]
My interview by Janelle
I participated in the citizen of the month great interview experiment and totally forgot to post my own interview questions here. It was fun to interview someone and to be interviewed. Janelle over at junk food for the soul interviewed me and thankfully she asked about my interview and reminded me to post it! I […]
Wordless Wednesday- Nothing is Impossible!
Ever think something is impossible and that you are destined to loose/ fail etc? The impossible is sometimes possible! Just watch this, don’t worry it’s a happy story! [youtube LU8DDYz68kM Lion and buffalo battle]
Happiness is…
Everywhere you turn someone is talking about how to achieve what you want or how to be happy. Books like The Secret and Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships all talk about how those things you choose to surround yourself with can have a major impact on your happiness and success and they […]
Tis the season to be with the ones you love!!
I hope you all are having a very special Christmas!!
Enjoy the holidays- family members and all!
I am going to be honest, the holidays make me very anxious. I find that old issues and grudges resurface during this time and they make the holidays almost impossible to enjoy. Visiting certain family members means enduring blatant insults, being judged, openly criticized and manipulated. Certain people will go on and on about all […]
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Write for a blog carnival or read what others have written.
Occasionally I will post a compilation of several articles that touch on motivational living or on living more simply and naturally. I enjoy reading what others have written on these topics and want to share the articles with you also. You can read these compilation articles by selecting one of the two the categories that […]
Laws of attraction and expectation how they shape your life.
How many times have you have you just known that things were going to go wrong? That someone was going to fail you or let you down? That as soon as you paid off the car it would break… These are negative thoughts. When you think them you are expecting something bad to happen, you […]
A Carnival of Motivational Writing November 2007
I will be hosting the November issue of motivational writing over at gather.com. If you have a motivational article or story that you would like to submit click the above motivational writing link above. If you need to read some motivational stuff or if you need a pick me up you can visit http://motavation.gather.com/ where […]
Staying positive and motivated in life
I just read a blog post over at http://ProBlogs.com about staying positive. I believe that your outlook on a situation can and will influence the outcome of the situation. I see it everyday as a teacher. If you expect people to fail they usually do but if you have hope in them and if you […]
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Learning to attract what you want….
“The THOUGHTS we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives.” – Louise Hay So much of life is a self fulfilling prophecy. We can very easily become products of our environment if we allow it. This is a very difficult concept for people to understand and it […]
A quote on struggles – November 2006
“Every time you meet a situation, though you think at the moment it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned. Once you have met it and lived through it you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.” -Eleanor Roosevelt, humanitarian
Quote on manifesting your beliefs – November 2006
“Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help you create the fact.” -William James, 19th Century psychologist