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What is Self-made success?
One day, I overheard a question asked our then-teenaged daughter by her friend's mother; “Who taught you to play the piano so beautifully?
Having listened to our three children practice each afternoon while I cooked supper, and hearing our daughter play classical pieces, and always feeling so grateful that I had been able to teach each to play, and grateful each had taken on the needed practice, my ears perked up for her answer to this mother’s question.
“I taught myself,” was her answer.
My ego felt a bit deflated.
Yet, indeed, through her practice, she had learned to play. While I believed, encouraged (read that, insisted) on daily practice, and I invested time and energy into weekly sit-down lessons with each child, my awareness shifted to gratitude for being that for her. For without that, she would not have “taught herself.”
Invest in others.
Be a light-worker.
Take the time, energy and effort to do so.
One day, I overheard a question asked our then-teenaged daughter by her friend's mother; “Who taught you to play the piano so beautifully?
Having listened to our three children practice each afternoon while I cooked supper, and hearing our daughter play classical pieces, and always feeling so grateful that I had been able to teach each to play, and grateful each had taken on the needed practice, my ears perked up for her answer to this mother’s question.
“I taught myself,” was her answer.
My ego felt a bit deflated.
Yet, indeed, through her practice, she had learned to play. While I believed, encouraged (read that, insisted) on daily practice, and I invested time and energy into weekly sit-down lessons with each child, my awareness shifted to gratitude for being that for her. For without that, she would not have “taught herself.”
Invest in others.
Be a light-worker.
Take the time, energy and effort to do so.
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Remember The Little Engine that Could?
“I think I can; I think I can.”
If you think you can then it is possible.
If you think you cannot, then you are right.
"I think I can. I think I can. I think I can. I know I can.”
― Watty Piper, The Little Engine That Could
“I think I can; I think I can.”
If you think you can then it is possible.
If you think you cannot, then you are right.
"I think I can. I think I can. I think I can. I know I can.”
― Watty Piper, The Little Engine That Could
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Crazy things to help your brain be at its best!
Love,
- Being with others, sharing and loving.
- A nice hot cuppa coffee or tea.
- Lions Mane Mushroom.
- Ginkgo Biloba supplement.
- Gratitude.
- Imaging and picturing the day of your dreams and watching it come to pass today.
- See the blessing in the difficult. It’s there somewhere.
Love,
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Everything else is resistance…
Recently saw this somewhere, and been saying it to myself all week:
Love others even more.
Everything else is resistance.
Wow!
Today is your day to shower love on others.
Go for it!
Love you,
Recently saw this somewhere, and been saying it to myself all week:
Love others even more.
Everything else is resistance.
Wow!
Today is your day to shower love on others.
Go for it!
Love you,
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Six Things to Do TODAY to Feel HAPPIER Than Ever!
Love,
- This is number ONE because it is the absolute root of happy: Think about what makes you feel grateful; that you awoke in a nice comfy bed, and could put your feet on the floor and walk through your day; That you have people to love? That your kitchen has food in it? Good food? That you can go out and share light and love with people you meet?
- Look for reasons to smile and laugh! Then smile and laugh. Don’t worry that the folks you meet wonder what you are laughing about. In fact, tell them you were thinking of your cute and adorable child or grandchild or friend…
- Feel the breeze blowing. Weather permitting, open the car windows so you can feel it.
- Feel alive. Breathe deeply, find sunshine to feel on your skin if it’s out today.
- Shine your light. Shine, shine, shine.
- Notice people smiling back at you, happier than THEY WERE before they met up with you!
Love,
