1. Why
Why is so important because it is where you should begin before you start doing anything. Why am I going to this school? Why am I starting this business? Why should I go for this trip? Why is a reference point and you can always reflect back when things do not go your way. Your why should be Strong and have some Emotion attached to it. If you have a weak Why do not expect to succeed because when you hit the slightest bump you will quit what you started.

2. Why Not
Why Not is the next question because this is where you define your goals and get a clear picture of what you intent to do. If you have clear goals and time line to accomplish your project then Why Not is easy. If you are not clear on what you want to pursue or how to then Why Not is not possible.

3. Why Not You
This is where the emotional element kicks in Big time. Why Not You simply means that if other people can succeed and accomplish their goals you too can do the same. This requires inner or self reflection to know yourself.

4. Why Not Now
The past is gone and we cannot do anything about it. The future is not promised to anyone. We live in the present and the time to start is now. Do not wait to have all the pieces together to start. If you have the Why, Why Not and Why Not You then it is time to start working on your dreams.

So tell me what are you going to do about your why?

I was going through things in the hall closet (trying that de-cluttering thing again)…..this was one of the treasures I found. Reading it over….I thought…..now here is a good “food for thought” blog post!!! Sure wish I knew who wrote this!! A lot went into it! Enjoy the read….see how many you can fit into your life.

Positive Words

Laugh from the toes up • Take time for yourself • Give handmade Birthday cards • Shovel someone else’s walk • Lay in a field and watch the clouds • Feed the birds • Seek the wisdom of older people • Use only one parking spot at a time • Howl even when the moon isn’t full • Eat dessert first • Phone someone for no reason • Focus on people’s good points • Never stop learning • Be known as the one who always gets things done • Make someone happy • Listen to the quiet • Instead of making promises, make commitments • Be proud of your accomplishments • Never refuse homemade chocolate chip cookies • Be spontaneous • Make the most of the weather • Exercise your body and your mind • Get involved – volunteer • Start your day with a smile • Make memories • Count your blessings • Give a dandelion bouquet • Return borrowed books • Laugh at yourself • Listen to a child • Watch a sunrise; share a sunset • Leave the toilet seat down • Think big but relish small pleasures • Remember other people’s birthdays • Be the first to say “Hello” • Enjoy the moment • Eat by candlelight • Believe in yourself • Always say ”Thank You” • Admit your mistakes • Surround yourself with positive people • Give complements often • Look for opportunities, not guarantees • Celebrate life • Give credit where credit is due • Influence by example • Be patient • Hug your computer • Look for shooting stars • Smile at a stranger • Initiate a change • Be your own best friend • Plant a tree • Tell those you love that you do • Leave things a little better then when you found them • Be forgiving of yourself and others • Never hesitate to say “I don’t know” • Make new friends but cherish old ones • Always accept an outstretched hand • Strive for excellence, not perfection • Give your enthusiasm to everyone • Eat an ice cream cone from the bottom….

1. BREATHE AND GET INTO STATE!
You are a genius. You have a human brain that is more powerful than any known computer. Stand up, walk around and get into the mindset and physiology of someone who is confident, creative, and quick-witted. Notice how a confident person breathes, how they occupy their body and space, how they move with flair. You are a genius, so
move, breathe and act like one! It’s easy for someone like you to generate ideas – you are
an Ideas Person!

2. DRAW A MIND-MAP!
Grab some colored pens and paper. Draw a circle in the middle and write your challenge inside it. Let your brain start making connections. Draw branches out from the central idea. Using colored pens note your subsequent thoughts. Use little drawings where you can. This is an idea map you are creating. Let it flow from one thing to the next.

3. MIX SOME INGREDIENTS!
To cook a tasty dish, you need to mix different ingredients together. It’s been said that all
creativity is the act of putting old things or old ideas together in a new way. For ideas
within a specific field, look at the old ideas within that field or related fields. Ask how you can put them together in a different way, a new format or perhaps the opposite way. If you are just looking generally for ideas, then you can reach out and let anything be the thing that starts off your creative idea storming process. Just look to combine the old in new ways.

4. GRAB A FRIEND!
When you combine minds, the ‘computing’ power grows exponentially and is more powerful than the sum of its parts. The truth is that you only need 1 brain to get creative – yours! However, it’s a lot more fun when you utilize the spare brainpower of friends and workmates. The extra stimulation of their thoughts and ideas could be just what you need to trigger ‘The Ultimate Idea’ that changes your life forever.

5. DON’T BE YOURSELF!
Take on a role. Do your thinking as James Bond, Napoleon Bonaparte, Martin Luther King, Albert Einstein or Dolly Parton! You are an immensely creative being. By acting as someone else, you free yourself to access other parts of your mind. Try it – if nothing else it’s fun!

6. CLOSE YOUR EYES!
Shutting your eyes immediately transports you into the world of the subconscious – and you can tap into its extraordinary non-stop thinking power. Associate closing your eyes with elevator doors closing – as soon as you close your eyes, you start going down into the depths of your subconscious and unconscious mind. Here you can access million dollar ideas with absolute ease. Allow yourself to relax, make the journey down and
think about your challenge at a deep inner level. Return when you are ready, feeling refreshed, renewed and ready to fire up your ideas.

7. A LITTLE DIVINE INSPIRATION!
Here’s an energy exercise much favored by the hottest Hollywood stars. Imagine that there is a golden circle of light right in front of you – this is your spotlight – your place to shine! Step inside that circle of light and feel the energy and confidence that it gives you. Ask your Higher Self, God or the Supreme Intelligence of the Universe to fill you with energy, inspiration and ideas. Imagine a little door or vortex opening at the crown of your head – your crown chakra – and then a beam of bright white light shining down from the universe and into the top of your head. This is an incredibly powerful beam of positive energy and information that should rock you to your shoes! Soak in the good feelings of being saturated by this loving positive helpful energy. Close the crown chakra and step out of your golden circle when you are ready and get on with your tasks.

8. ROB A BANK!
Grab sackfuls of quality ideas from an ideas bank and run with them! There are various idea banks on the Internet, as well as thousands of blogs, message boards and chat-rooms where ideas are mooted. You can also get books full of ideas. Let’s say you are looking for an idea for a new business. You could go to Amazon, order a copy of something like the “Entrepreneur’s Ultimate Start-Up Directory: 1,350 Great Business Ideas!” and you
could plunder that bank of ideas directly or indirectly by letting it stimulate you or by
recombining its ideas into more formats.

9. MILK YOUR BRAIN!
Milk will only flow from a cow when its teats are squeezed under pressure. It’s the same with your brain! To milk your brain for a bucketful of creme-de-la-creme ideas, you have to squeeze your brain and put it under pressure. The way you do that is to create a target, a deadline, a reward and a forfeit. Let’s say you set the target as 10 workable ideas, to be set down within 20 minutes. If you succeed, the reward is you spend $20 on yourself; if you fail, you give the $20 to someone who doesn’t deserve it and that you don’t like! Everybody is different, so set up a rewards and forfeit scheme that motivates you.

10. THE INQUISITIVE INQUISITION!
The brain is a stimulus and response bio-machine. The best way to stimulate it is to ask questions. Questions awaken your creative responses. Remember, the meaning of your communication is in the response you get. So, if you are getting lousy answers, you need to ask better questions. Interview and interrogate your brain to get the flow of ideas you want.

Be the master of your mind. Practice the martial art of Cando and you’ll find you CAN DO anything!

A Than You goes to Dustin Frankenfield who has posted it at the facebook group ABC’s to grow your marketing radius .

Seems the right things come at the right time. I went in to check what was happening in my Facebook group ABC’s to grow your marketing radius and saw the following that I am sure will hit home for a lot of you. It stood out for me because a leader of a group I am in felt she wasn’t/isn’t doing enough. She also felt she wasn’t good enough to do what she was doing. I kept telling her….Yes you are. I saw this and fired it off to her in an email. I thought…hummmm……I’m sure there are lots that feel/felt the same…..so I am sharing these wise words that were posted to the group as a discussion. Join in….. tell us your thoughts.

Measure Your Growth

Do you excel at most everything you do yet beat yourself up because you didn’t do more?

Are you striving for greatness every day and yet if everything isn’t turning out just so, you feel like a failure?

Remember, great people tend to be hard on themselves because they are up to something truly big. Whether you are committed to being the best parent, an entrepreneur or to change the world at a global level, the first step towards success is to know your power and greatness.

Just because you haven’t gotten ‘there’ yet doesn’t mean you haven’t achieved a high level of growth. It’s hard to see how far you’ve come without some sort of measurement. Looking forward at all you have to do is wonderful when it comes to staying in the vision, however if you want to see how far you’ve come, look back for a moment.

Don’t stay in the past of course, but for about 5 minutes once per week, take a peak at where you were a week ago, a month ago and then a year ago. Has there been a change? Did you start a new business, create a new program, do something more than you did before? If so, pat yourself on the back. You have grown my friend. Acknowledge your path. This is crucial in order to get to the next level. Honor all you have done and all that you evolved into during this time. THEN, stand on the shoulders of that phenomenal person (you) and move forward.

Affirmation: Today I appreciate where I have been and all I have done – this made me who I am today. I am proud of my accomplishments.

I was in a chat the other day. We were talking about negative comments we may see/hear in our marketing and/or daily life. We can either let our habits/comments be negative which I say is not a good plan…..or…..we can be positive. Someone posted the following and I found it so fitting. My choice is the positive route…..how about you? Read and decide…..remember it IS your choice…..

H-A-B-I-T…When 95% of people hear this word, a negative thought pops up in their minds. Typically, most people think of a habit being negative.

The secret to your future lies in your daily habits so ask yourself right now, “Are my habits today going to help me achieve my WHY in life?” This is a life-empowering question if you truly ask it and listen for the answer.

I received the following excerpt from a very dear friend of mine and felt that it is definitely the best explanation of a habit that I have ever heard:

I am your constant companion.
I am your greatest helper or your heaviest burden.
I will push you onward or drag you down to failure.
I am completely at your command.
Half the things you do, you might just as well turn over to me,
and I will be able to do them quickly and correctly.
I am easily managed; you must merely be firm with me.
Show me exactly how you want something done, and after a few
lessons I will do it automatically.
I am the servant of all great men.
And, alas, of all failures as well.
Those who are great, I have made great.
Those who are failures, I have made failures.
I am not a machine, though I work with all the precision of a machine.
Plus, the intelligence of a man.
You may run me for profit, or run me for ruin; it makes no difference to me.
Take me, train me, be firm with me and I will put the world at your feet.
Be easy with me, and I will destroy you.
Who am I?
I am a HABIT!

One of my daily habits that is the foundation of my life is spending 45-60 minutes each and every morning feeding my body physically by exercising and feeding my mental spirit by reading or listening to a motivational message. This habit warms me up for the day ahead.

Everyone washes their physical body and feeds their body every morning, but 95% of people will find an excuse about why they can not find the “TIME” to invest in a habit of feeding their MINDS!

This parallels the statistic that 95% of people are dead or dead broke by the age 65. I consider this particular daily habit of mine to be the driving force behind my ability to consistently maintain my intense focus on the journey of success and living a dream life.

Is it easy all the time? Of course not, but when it becomes a habit – you will do it! If you commit today to begin each morning warming yourself up for the day ahead by feeding your mental spirit, your entire life will change in a positive fashion very quickly. It is like driving a race car with the emergency brake on and you try to go ahead, but you can’t move. You stay in the same location with your wheels spinning, burning up, making a lot of noise, but not going anywhere! All it takes is to release the brake and you will fly towards toward your WHY in life!!

You need to review what your habits are and ask yourself…”Would I recommend MY habits to someone I truly love and care about?” Your entire future lies in your daily habits-positive or negative. You have the most powerful force right now in your hands, the ability to decide what your habits will begin to be.

Find Your WHY & FLY!!

John Di Lemme

“It’s true that we don’t know what we’ve got until we lose it, but it’s also true that wedon’t know what we’ve been missing until it arrives.” Unknown

Reminds me of the Big Yellow Taxi lyrics, by Joni Mitchell “Don’t it always seem to go /That you don’t know what you’ve got / Till it’s gone / ” We most times don’t see it till it’s gone. We need to be in the “See it Now”.

This brings us to the second part of the quote. Have you always had a strong desire to do something for example run your own business, but was never given an opportunity to do it?? Give your self that opportunity. That is your “missing until it arrives” . Have you forgotten about your goal?? It s there now! Act on it. Discover your passion.

There aren’t any limitations in what you can do, except the limitations you have in your own mind. Sure, frustration sets in and we made many mistakes, but realized your mistakes are the stepping stones to your success. Share your learning experiences, that is the way we learn and grow.

It’s like someone said to me earlier today….”I guess it’s like everything… if you live next to Disney World you don’t go there because it’s really close, you kinda take it for granted…..”

In my travels looking for new ideas and article content to write about I stumbled upon something I thought will be interesting to do. Guest blogging.

Now you are asking: “What is that?” Let me explain..

I’d be asking you the readers of my blog if you would like to have your articles posted here for others to read. It would be a great way to add more valuable content, free exposure for you the guest. Also drive more traffic in both directions. Who ever the guest poster is at the time will get a link to put on their blog to the article that they have posted here on my blog. I in turn will post a link back to guest’s blog so he/she would get more exposure.

So if I have a different guest poster once a week on a special guest poster page….that is four other blogs that will have more exposure.

You can do the same on your blog …..that will bring in more traffic to you too. Plus you won’t have to write as many articles….as we all would be sharing valuable knowledge.

What do you think?? Is this a good idea? Or is it something better left alone?

I have a cross stitch that I did many years ago hanging on my wall saying ‘Count your blessings’.

There are times yes I ‘don’t’ see it…..other times I do. Sad in a way as I Should see it and count my blessings each day.

Now you wonder……are there that many in a day?? Yes there are!!! You are awake right? That is a blessing….means you are alive and can go on with your day. You you walk into your kitchen…put the coffee on…..start you breakfast there is another.

As you pour that coffee you think….grass needs cutting….windows need cleaning……that too is a blessing……you have a home. See there is another…..

As the day goes by you find other ones…..kids come home from school……start grumbling that you have asked them to help……that is a blessing…….they could be roaming the streets.

Hubby comes home…..plants himself in the recliner…….that is a blessing…….he could be sitting in a bar……

You grumble paying the bills……..it’s a blessing…….you have power, heat and water…….

You look around…..you see the mess……count your blessing that there is one…….shows you had fun with family and friends……

You crawl into bed to rest those weary achy muscles…..means you are healthy and capable of working, playing hard etc……see there is another……

I’m sure you can find more…..I did……

Keep counting your Blessings.

I glance through the Christmas CD collection and pick out a favorite. ‘Two stepping ‘Round the Christmas tree’ will do. I have now started my Christmas routine.
After years of practice I have learned a few quick tricks. Now it only takes days, where it used to take months, or so it seemed.
Writer’s cramp is a thing of the past, I now send e-mail newsletters and virtual Christmas cards. Freezer is full of store bought goodies… all I had to do is label them, cabbage, carrots or some other non goodie, so they aren’t ‘stolen’ by those who can’t wait. Gone are the baking get-togethers with friends, when I can assemble a precut gingerbread house in less time then it would take to bake. The family marks their wishes from the catalogue, I place the order, If I pay a small price they will tag and wrap. Even deliver to family that are far.
The pre-decorated tree is ready each year. All I need to do is bring it out of it’s wraps. Decorating is done in a snap. I can call my sister far away and ask her to swap our festive clothing for this year. Hey I’ll be ready in record breaking time.
Hanging those stockings on the fireplace mantel has me reaching for the switch. Hearing the cackle of that almost real looking fake flame, I glance out the window and watch the snow fall. Oh such a perfect touch.
Watching the snow fall, I start to daydream of Christmas’s past. The CD starts playing an old favorite. Filling me with memories; it gives me a jolt. I’m then not in my own home. I see Grandma basting the turkey and Grandpa putting his final trimmings on the tree singing his own rendition of “Jingle Bells” with us all joining in.
The majestic pine tree fills the room with its fresh smell. All the homemade ornaments, that we have all helped make, were hung with care. Each with it’s own special meaning. The tree can’t begin hide all the gifts brightly wrapped with matching ribbon and lace. Looks too pretty to unwrap come Christmas day.
The door bell rings bringing more cheer.
A room full of family so dear. I can see Uncle Tim and Aunt Sue smiling and kissing under the mistletoe.
The music ends along with the vision. I’m left thinking of the pre stuffed turkey, the store bought canned sauce and goodies. I felt as though something was missing, so I turn my thoughts back to the past.
Although Uncle Tim and Aunt Sue worked and were of few words, their card would be the first to arrive. Always a special picked card with a handwritten note. Wishing us good cheer; the best in the coming new year.
I peek at the calendar. It’s not too late. I rummage and find some left over cards from a year gone past. I pick a special one with a country-style Christmas scene. I start writing, ‘ Dear Uncle Tim and Aunt Sue’.

Well I do. And most likely you do too.

Farming can be one of the most unscheduled lifestyles you can get at times. Interrupted meals…..lack of sleep……especially during seeding, harvest and calving time. So I thought. Our health is so very important. Something we all tend to neglect.

And neglect; yes both hubby and I have done it. Being on the farm you are prone to bumps, burses, cuts, strains, lifting/moving the wrong way….which leads to…yes I am saying it; pain and inflammation. I had cellulitis that developed a blood clot three years ago; that left me not feeling 100% healthy. This spring I was introduced to something that has made a world of difference. The constant swelling is under control. The pain is almost 100% gone. I have a lot more energy. I don’t tire as easy anymore. I’m enjoying life again!! Going for walks; enjoying having fun again with family and friends. Hubby seeing how it has worked for me is on it now too. He says he has a lot more energy and feels healthier then he has for a long time. We both get a restful sleep and wake up refreshed!!

From conversations with family and friends I have suggested they try Nopalea. Some have done it on their own. A few I have sent them A Gift.

I believe this may help you or someone you know.

I would like you, or someone you know to take the challenge!!! I’d like to send a Gift, to the first 10 that respond. It’s up to you now. Do you want to be on your way to a happier lifestyle??

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