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Showing posts with label goal fulfillment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label goal fulfillment. Show all posts
Saturday, July 29, 2023
Thursday, January 7, 2021
Monday, May 6, 2019
Your intended purpose
We are all intended to be here. We all have intended purpose for our lives. Find that purpose and live for that purpose!
Be laser-focused in pursuing that life purpose.
Be laser-focused in pursuing that life purpose.
Sunday, April 26, 2015
Faith is the springwell
You have it within you
to overcome the greatest of adversity.. Faith is the springwell that comes
forth and pulls you through.. You are not alone. The angels walk by your side and weep with
you.
You are in God’s heart every minute of the day. Know that ,gain comfort and feel at peace.
Tuesday, April 21, 2015
Books for personal motivation and inspiration
Reading the right book at the right time can bring you to a new level to understanding yourself, others and the pathway you are meant to travel. Good luck and Enjoy !
Books for Personal Motivation and Inspiration: Some of my Favorites:
Living the Seven Habits : Stories of Courage and Inspiration by Stephen R.
Covey
Yesterday I Cried: Celebrating the Lessons of Living and Loving by Iyanla
Vanzant
Travelling Mercies by Anne Lamott
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott
The Woman's Book of Soul by Sue Patton Thoele
One Day My Soul Just Opened Up by Iyanla Vanzant
Don't Sweat the Small Stuff and it's all small stuff by Richard Carlson
The Power of Optimism by Alan Loy McGinnis
Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy by Sarah Ban Breathnach
Life's Little Instruction Book Series by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Covey
Yesterday I Cried: Celebrating the Lessons of Living and Loving by Iyanla
Vanzant
Travelling Mercies by Anne Lamott
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott
The Woman's Book of Soul by Sue Patton Thoele
One Day My Soul Just Opened Up by Iyanla Vanzant
Don't Sweat the Small Stuff and it's all small stuff by Richard Carlson
The Power of Optimism by Alan Loy McGinnis
Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy by Sarah Ban Breathnach
Life's Little Instruction Book Series by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
Five People You will Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
For One More Day by Mitch Albom
The Anatomy of a Spirit by Carolyn Myss ( to identify your spiritual path)
Books on Tapping into your Creative Soul:
Julia Cameron’s Books:
The Artist's Way.
Walking in This World.
The Vein of Gold
The Right to Write
two.
Book on Multiple Intelligences:
" Seven Kinds of Smart: Identifying and Developing your Multiple Intelligences." 2nd edition.... by Thomas Armstrong. The publisher is Canbook. You can try ordering it online at www.abebooks.ca.- textbook section. This site has some good prices for gently used books and some new ones too.
Books on Connecting with the Right Brain By Betty Edwards
The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (Paperback)
by Betty Edwards
by Betty Edwards
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, Seven Lessons to Enhance Creativity and Artistic Self Confidence
Friday, February 27, 2015
Resilience
All things are doable-- in some fasion-- at some point. So don't give up! There
is strength in patience and perseverance
Thursday, January 3, 2013
New Year's Resolutions
To challenge ourselves spiritually, we can try approaching this New Year by doing something different each day and getting out of our comfort zone.
Complacency is indeed the death of creativity....
So try a new approach to New Year's resolutions and check out this site... www.365thingsin365days.com. This is one way of breaking out of the norm of being mediocre.
Wishing everyone all the best for 2013.
Happy New Year !
Sunday, September 9, 2012
We are all intertwined
We are irrevocably intertwined, interrelated... what we do to ourselves- we also do unto others.
This is something we must acknowledge and honour every day of our lives.
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
The Lighthouse within our soul
The lighthouse within our soul is there to light our pathway.
It lights up the darkness that harbours within our hearts at times.
But, more gloriously, it reveals what is so wonderfully beyond us.
Thursday, June 21, 2012
Digital Diaries
The therapeutic benefits of journaling can also be channelled into goal achieving e-plans and efforts..
With digital diary sites, such as penzu.com- you get reminders to write, get quotations that will help motivate you in your own reflections and have entries from months or years ago emailed to your email account to remind you of the spiritual journey you have travelled and your goals attained. You can access this site on your iphone or computer. And, it is password protected ...
Synchronicity and immediacy are now melded in such digital diaries... Good luck
Friday, January 13, 2012
Start off the New Year with your memoirs
Writing your memoirs - no matter what your age may be- is one way to motivate & inspire yourself and others. You get to see how much you have accomplished & how much you have survived.
It will also help identify your many accomplishments that will give you spiritual strength when you most need it!
What a wonderful way to start off a New Year.
It will also help identify your many accomplishments that will give you spiritual strength when you most need it!
What a wonderful way to start off a New Year.
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
A Reality Check
Kelly Culrone in her book Normal Gets You Nowhere comments that you are unique as your fingerprint as deemed by our Creator.
We need to capitalize on this fact.
She advocates that you figure out who you are- your unique features and Creator given gifts and get down to it; but bring conciseness and awareness along for the ride.
She also recommends in this process that you be realistic about yourself and others, and not play the fool.
In other words, take off those rose -coloured glasses and get to work on your spiritual self- assessment, and life plan.
We need to capitalize on this fact.
She advocates that you figure out who you are- your unique features and Creator given gifts and get down to it; but bring conciseness and awareness along for the ride.
She also recommends in this process that you be realistic about yourself and others, and not play the fool.
In other words, take off those rose -coloured glasses and get to work on your spiritual self- assessment, and life plan.
Sunday, March 6, 2011
International Women s Day March 8 th
International Women s Day - March 8 th,which is celebrating its one hundred- year anniversary, is dedicated to all women , warriors in pink, who fight discrimination based on skin colour, gender, culture , age, religion, educational and socio-economic status, their weight or simply the colour of their hair.
Instead of being divided, we have to be united in our battle for equal status in the workplace, and in the world.
As we honour this significant day and remember all those who fought so hard so we may observe it, let us make a promise to ourselves that we may never turn away from another woman in need- no matter the circumstances involved.
Instead of being divided, we have to be united in our battle for equal status in the workplace, and in the world.
As we honour this significant day and remember all those who fought so hard so we may observe it, let us make a promise to ourselves that we may never turn away from another woman in need- no matter the circumstances involved.
Sunday, January 9, 2011
What is the colour of your grass
With a new year, we often make new resolutions for change, but at the same time should we not count our blessings and step back to view the positive aspects of our lives-- instead of focusing on only the negative ones.
As we begin 2011, a lot of us make resolutions for change in our lives and yes, change is good, yet at the same time- to play the devil s advocate here- we have to reflect on what things we really genuinely should change in our lives.
To elaborate here,do you seriously believe that all the grass in your life is yellow. Something we sometimes simply have to come to terms with is that there is no perfect life, job, spouse, relationship, child or parent.
In other words, there is always going to be yellow and brown spots in our grass. This is something that we must take into account when making a major decision in our lives- be it personal, spiritual or career.
Yes, we all have heard of people who have made a drastic change in their lives—thinking that the grass is green over there only to find out that the grass was just as yellow over there. We often have used filters that coloured our experiences making the grass brown or yellow and so much more delectable on the other side... these filters often make us colour blind to the fact that our current grass is actually quite green exactly where we are. The filters have distorted the true picture for us thereby making us sometimes foolishly ponder a drastic and unwarranted change in our lives.
An epiphany is experienced when you realize that the grass is greener where you water it—in other words-- that only you and you alone are responsible for your life satisfaction and happiness. So sometimes you have to take out that hypothetical( spiritual) watering hose (vessel) and pour more efforts into your life to make that part of it green again.
We can look to others for inspiration and motivation in our watering efforts and how our water vessel is created. We also can journal to explore some of the issues that may be responsible for our yellow and brown spots. Depending on the situation, we can have conversations with loved ones, colleagues, coworkers, our life,spiritual, and work advisors to get a deeper perspective on some of these issues.
With a more mature, seasoned perspective with the help of mentors,spiritual and otherwise, we can now look at our grass with as few of these filters as realistically possible.
Along with these efforts , we can with a little more initiative and patience ,slowly and purposefully, turn the grass green under our feet once again.
If we go through this contemplative and reflective process, better career and life decisions can be made if we embrace and accept the reality that the grass is not always greener on the other side.
As we begin 2011, a lot of us make resolutions for change in our lives and yes, change is good, yet at the same time- to play the devil s advocate here- we have to reflect on what things we really genuinely should change in our lives.
To elaborate here,do you seriously believe that all the grass in your life is yellow. Something we sometimes simply have to come to terms with is that there is no perfect life, job, spouse, relationship, child or parent.
In other words, there is always going to be yellow and brown spots in our grass. This is something that we must take into account when making a major decision in our lives- be it personal, spiritual or career.
Yes, we all have heard of people who have made a drastic change in their lives—thinking that the grass is green over there only to find out that the grass was just as yellow over there. We often have used filters that coloured our experiences making the grass brown or yellow and so much more delectable on the other side... these filters often make us colour blind to the fact that our current grass is actually quite green exactly where we are. The filters have distorted the true picture for us thereby making us sometimes foolishly ponder a drastic and unwarranted change in our lives.
An epiphany is experienced when you realize that the grass is greener where you water it—in other words-- that only you and you alone are responsible for your life satisfaction and happiness. So sometimes you have to take out that hypothetical( spiritual) watering hose (vessel) and pour more efforts into your life to make that part of it green again.
We can look to others for inspiration and motivation in our watering efforts and how our water vessel is created. We also can journal to explore some of the issues that may be responsible for our yellow and brown spots. Depending on the situation, we can have conversations with loved ones, colleagues, coworkers, our life,spiritual, and work advisors to get a deeper perspective on some of these issues.
With a more mature, seasoned perspective with the help of mentors,spiritual and otherwise, we can now look at our grass with as few of these filters as realistically possible.
Along with these efforts , we can with a little more initiative and patience ,slowly and purposefully, turn the grass green under our feet once again.
If we go through this contemplative and reflective process, better career and life decisions can be made if we embrace and accept the reality that the grass is not always greener on the other side.
Sunday, January 2, 2011
Journalling and the year 2011
As we begin a new year, I thought it might be nice to revisit the benefits of journalling in my life and in others.. Journalling is a wonderful way of seeing your life- both spiritually and personally- in a different light.
So here again are the main benefits of journalling
-getting clarity re: what you want in your life.
-Creating and setting boundaries.
-Ferreting out life goals.
-Beginning a journey to walking your own pathway.
-Tapping into your intrapersonal/ retrospective side by means of reflection.
-Helping you take yourself and others through the experiential learning cycle.
-Finding hidden talents and abilities within your authentic self
-Finding the positive strengths in yourself and others, and building on them
For a great guidebook on journalling, you can check out my journalling workbook at " A Year in Serendipity: A Journalling
Workbook"http://tinyurl.com/serendipityjournal .
All the best for 2011
So here again are the main benefits of journalling
-getting clarity re: what you want in your life.
-Creating and setting boundaries.
-Ferreting out life goals.
-Beginning a journey to walking your own pathway.
-Tapping into your intrapersonal/ retrospective side by means of reflection.
-Helping you take yourself and others through the experiential learning cycle.
-Finding hidden talents and abilities within your authentic self
-Finding the positive strengths in yourself and others, and building on them
For a great guidebook on journalling, you can check out my journalling workbook at " A Year in Serendipity: A Journalling
Workbook"http://tinyurl.com/serendipityjournal .
All the best for 2011
Saturday, October 16, 2010
As a writer of a one-of-a-kind journaling workbook “ A Year in Serendipity” http://
tinyurl.com/serendipityjournal -written to help people in their life and career goal
attainment, I have come to experience first-hand some of the unique insights
regarding how to use scrapbooking in both my professional and spiritual life.
There are some very wonderful and inspiring practical reasons for scrapbooking.
Yes, indeed, it can be a multifaceted technique/approach to career and life management and planning. For example, it can be applied in journalling, in autobiographies, diaries and even as a professional career portfolio/webfolio/ blog.
Scrapbooking, in a life skills sense, can be employed to focus on motivating and
inspiring moments , and even to retrace a journey to life transforming/ life –changing moment(s). For instance, you can immortalize a pictorial of a significant historical event you were involved in , or an episode of spiritual enlightenment and of personal achievement that changed your life forever.
Scrapbooking can be one way to figure out who you used to be, how you got to be who you are today, while at the same , rediscovering the journey of the spirit that got you there. You can also reflect on the synchronicity of the journey and your Serendipity quotient development through this activity.
The possibilities for its uses and benefits for your spiritual development are limitless.
tinyurl.com/serendipityjournal -written to help people in their life and career goal
attainment, I have come to experience first-hand some of the unique insights
regarding how to use scrapbooking in both my professional and spiritual life.
There are some very wonderful and inspiring practical reasons for scrapbooking.
Yes, indeed, it can be a multifaceted technique/approach to career and life management and planning. For example, it can be applied in journalling, in autobiographies, diaries and even as a professional career portfolio/webfolio/ blog.
Scrapbooking, in a life skills sense, can be employed to focus on motivating and
inspiring moments , and even to retrace a journey to life transforming/ life –changing moment(s). For instance, you can immortalize a pictorial of a significant historical event you were involved in , or an episode of spiritual enlightenment and of personal achievement that changed your life forever.
Scrapbooking can be one way to figure out who you used to be, how you got to be who you are today, while at the same , rediscovering the journey of the spirit that got you there. You can also reflect on the synchronicity of the journey and your Serendipity quotient development through this activity.
The possibilities for its uses and benefits for your spiritual development are limitless.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Breaking down the barriers
Don't let the world put up barriers around you and what you would like to do or be.
Tap into your inner core -spirit for the drive to reach those goals you set out for yourself.
Tap into your inner core -spirit for the drive to reach those goals you set out for yourself.
Monday, September 27, 2010
The Dance of the Candle Flame
******** To Inspire and motivate*****
As I looked in to the flame of a burning candle, I became mesmerized by the slow and entrancing dance of the candle flame.
The dance I beheld was soulful, wistful and whimsical, yet touching in its painfully simplistic beauty.
The inner spectrum of the veil of lights within hauntingly lingered, yet was exhilarating in its flickering flame of visions of the things to come.
We too can experience the candle flame dance in our daily lives. It is a singular flame that luminates unsteadily, igniting and fashioning images that are soulful, yet so poignantly meaningful.
It is up to us to materialize these images into our reality—one that is a pictorial of our dreams and wishes for ourselves and others.
The dance is ours to complete.
As I looked in to the flame of a burning candle, I became mesmerized by the slow and entrancing dance of the candle flame.
The dance I beheld was soulful, wistful and whimsical, yet touching in its painfully simplistic beauty.
The inner spectrum of the veil of lights within hauntingly lingered, yet was exhilarating in its flickering flame of visions of the things to come.
We too can experience the candle flame dance in our daily lives. It is a singular flame that luminates unsteadily, igniting and fashioning images that are soulful, yet so poignantly meaningful.
It is up to us to materialize these images into our reality—one that is a pictorial of our dreams and wishes for ourselves and others.
The dance is ours to complete.
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