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"It is time to believe in the preciousness of life -- and spend your hours of your days savoring and enjoying it. "
It is "Time to tell your loved ones and friends how much you love them."
It’s time.
Time to start finding and hanging with people who lift you higher and higher.
Time to notice when you are worrying - and go to gratitude.
Time to believe in the preciousness of life - and spend your hours of your days savoring and enjoying it.
Time to make all your decisions, every time, to take you in the direction of your dreams - your food; your exercise, your time; your actions that take you where you want to go!
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
Time to find and read inspirational words for 15 minutes every day.
Time to tell your loved ones and friends how much you love them!
Time to be kind to everyone you meet. Time to remember each is doing the best they can at that moment, with the resources they have.
Time to say thank you - when people are nice to you - and when they are not. Find a way you can appreciate them. Give them love anyway. They will love you for it.
Time to choose joy, to choose to be happy!
Time to savor your rich and wonderful life.
No matter what, no matter what.
Love,
Time to start finding and hanging with people who lift you higher and higher.
Time to notice when you are worrying - and go to gratitude.
Time to believe in the preciousness of life - and spend your hours of your days savoring and enjoying it.
Time to make all your decisions, every time, to take you in the direction of your dreams - your food; your exercise, your time; your actions that take you where you want to go!
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
Time to find and read inspirational words for 15 minutes every day.
Time to tell your loved ones and friends how much you love them!
Time to be kind to everyone you meet. Time to remember each is doing the best they can at that moment, with the resources they have.
Time to say thank you - when people are nice to you - and when they are not. Find a way you can appreciate them. Give them love anyway. They will love you for it.
Time to choose joy, to choose to be happy!
Time to savor your rich and wonderful life.
No matter what, no matter what.
Love,
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Every morning, my husband Claude and I enjoy our coffee from a French press pot. We have several, but this one is our favorite.
From your breezy glorious spring mornings, to winter’s blustery last reminder, to snowy skies and starry skies;
From bright pea green leaf shoots on winter’s awakening trees to herb seedlings popping through the ground;
From strawberry season’s herald to the anticipation of harvesting the first peaches;
From your morning coffee (yummy with a bit of chocolate and cream) to your evening salad of spinach, gorgonzola dolce (mild and creamy), walnuts, prosciutto and tangy onion chutney;
From a knock on the door’s excitement to a flight to a far and exotic place;
From blue jeans to tuxedo and all their comforts and sharing;
From your sleepy opening of your eyes to the morning golden light to your sleepy closing of your eyes to precious sleep,
Bask in your gratitude for each and every moment.
Grateful for you,
From bright pea green leaf shoots on winter’s awakening trees to herb seedlings popping through the ground;
From strawberry season’s herald to the anticipation of harvesting the first peaches;
From your morning coffee (yummy with a bit of chocolate and cream) to your evening salad of spinach, gorgonzola dolce (mild and creamy), walnuts, prosciutto and tangy onion chutney;
From a knock on the door’s excitement to a flight to a far and exotic place;
From blue jeans to tuxedo and all their comforts and sharing;
From your sleepy opening of your eyes to the morning golden light to your sleepy closing of your eyes to precious sleep,
Bask in your gratitude for each and every moment.
Grateful for you,
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Dr Chris honed her cooking skills while in dental school. She subscribed to Bon Appetit Magazine and learned new recipes each month.
Some Thursdays, we open my orthodontics office earlier, from 7am until 3pm.
A few months ago, I thought those hours might give parents some early morning appointments, to avoid the conflict of school and orthodontic appointments. Turns out, it seems to be quite popular. Since the staff, Claude and I get up quite early to be at the office “ bright-eyed and bushy-tailed” and ready for the patients, I usually provide “breakfast.”
Breakfast has included yummy fresh baked croissants and pain au chocolate (chocolate croissants) from Spinney’s, that absolutely brilliant, gorgeous food emporium, as well as other nifty pastries.
Yesterday I enjoyed making a Sour Cream Coffee Cake to take in this morning.
It was fun to share it with the staff and with several of the early morning moms. Since every single mom wanted the recipe, I thought it would be fun to share with you here. In fact, I think I’ll share recipes regularly with you, as I absolutely love to cook, AND have some fabulous recipes.
This particular recipe’s history is part of my dental education. When I was in dental school, there was no money to be “going out” to eat. The money we had was hard-earned at the hospital where I worked as a nurse throughout dental school. Those evening shifts definitely paid the basic expenses, but not any going out expenses.
So, I subscribed to Bon Appetit magazine during the dental school years (only 9.95 per year - a veritable steal!). Each month a treasured new edition of recipes came to my mailbox. During the ensuing month, I made many of the recipes in each Bon Appetit, and boy! did I learn a lot about cooking! Oh - and boy, did we eat some great food! For cheap!
It so spoiled us that now eating at home beats the heck out of going out most any place you can name. Seriously!
One of the recipes discovered along the way is this one.
Sour Cream Coffee Cake.
350 degree oven (177 C)
Butter a bundt pan
Mix and chop in the processor, then set aside:
2T sugar
1T cinnamon
½ c pecans or walnuts
Mix in food processor in this order:
2 sticks of butter, softened in the microwave for 20 seconds
2c sugar
Then:
2 eggs
1 c sour cream, preferably Daisy brand (no junk/preservatives)
or Lebneh if you are in the UAE
1t Baking Powder
1/8t salt
1/2t vanilla extract
And then:
2 c flour
Finally:
1/3-1/2c of chocolate chips – just barely mix in Processor using short on-off turns
Spoon into bundt pan. Spoon about half in several large spoonfuls into pan, and sprinkle about half of cinnamon-sugar mixture over the batter, then spoon the other half into the bundt pan and sprinkle the rest of the cinnamon-sugar mixture over that.
Pop into the oven for about 1 hour, or until a little bamboo skewer comes out clean. Mine often take 1 hour and 10-15 minutes additional.
You should know that this melt-in-your-mouth cake that begs for coffee alongside, has been our family’s tradition on Thanksgiving morning and Christmas morning, ever since dental school. And, you can make several up one evening, and repeat another evening, and freeze them wrapped in foil, and into a ziplock bag, and have amazing presents for colleagues and friends.
We have started making these cakes some years around Thanksgiving weekend. We'll have a freezer full of 10-12 or more ready to take out of the freezer on an evening, and the next morning put a big red bow on it to delight someone.
It’s also nice to have your Christmas breakfast ready and waiting. Take it out of the freezer on Christmas Eve, and the next morning it will be ready to serve. That is if Santa hasn’t helped himself on his way outta Dodge.
Though the warm spice and butter-sugar cake scent wafting through the house makes it surely tempting to bake and then eat warm, right out of the oven. And it is goo-ooo-ood!
If you’re going to freeze them, BE SURE to let the cake cool completely to room temperature after it comes out of the oven, before you wrap and freeze.
Be sure to let me know just how yummy you think this recipe is, AND any ideas for enjoying it! You know I love to expand my cooking and baking in every way possible.
A few months ago, I thought those hours might give parents some early morning appointments, to avoid the conflict of school and orthodontic appointments. Turns out, it seems to be quite popular. Since the staff, Claude and I get up quite early to be at the office “ bright-eyed and bushy-tailed” and ready for the patients, I usually provide “breakfast.”
Breakfast has included yummy fresh baked croissants and pain au chocolate (chocolate croissants) from Spinney’s, that absolutely brilliant, gorgeous food emporium, as well as other nifty pastries.
Yesterday I enjoyed making a Sour Cream Coffee Cake to take in this morning.
It was fun to share it with the staff and with several of the early morning moms. Since every single mom wanted the recipe, I thought it would be fun to share with you here. In fact, I think I’ll share recipes regularly with you, as I absolutely love to cook, AND have some fabulous recipes.
This particular recipe’s history is part of my dental education. When I was in dental school, there was no money to be “going out” to eat. The money we had was hard-earned at the hospital where I worked as a nurse throughout dental school. Those evening shifts definitely paid the basic expenses, but not any going out expenses.
So, I subscribed to Bon Appetit magazine during the dental school years (only 9.95 per year - a veritable steal!). Each month a treasured new edition of recipes came to my mailbox. During the ensuing month, I made many of the recipes in each Bon Appetit, and boy! did I learn a lot about cooking! Oh - and boy, did we eat some great food! For cheap!
It so spoiled us that now eating at home beats the heck out of going out most any place you can name. Seriously!
One of the recipes discovered along the way is this one.
Sour Cream Coffee Cake.
350 degree oven (177 C)
Butter a bundt pan
Mix and chop in the processor, then set aside:
2T sugar
1T cinnamon
½ c pecans or walnuts
Mix in food processor in this order:
2 sticks of butter, softened in the microwave for 20 seconds
2c sugar
Then:
2 eggs
1 c sour cream, preferably Daisy brand (no junk/preservatives)
or Lebneh if you are in the UAE
1t Baking Powder
1/8t salt
1/2t vanilla extract
And then:
2 c flour
Finally:
1/3-1/2c of chocolate chips – just barely mix in Processor using short on-off turns
Spoon into bundt pan. Spoon about half in several large spoonfuls into pan, and sprinkle about half of cinnamon-sugar mixture over the batter, then spoon the other half into the bundt pan and sprinkle the rest of the cinnamon-sugar mixture over that.
Pop into the oven for about 1 hour, or until a little bamboo skewer comes out clean. Mine often take 1 hour and 10-15 minutes additional.
You should know that this melt-in-your-mouth cake that begs for coffee alongside, has been our family’s tradition on Thanksgiving morning and Christmas morning, ever since dental school. And, you can make several up one evening, and repeat another evening, and freeze them wrapped in foil, and into a ziplock bag, and have amazing presents for colleagues and friends.
We have started making these cakes some years around Thanksgiving weekend. We'll have a freezer full of 10-12 or more ready to take out of the freezer on an evening, and the next morning put a big red bow on it to delight someone.
It’s also nice to have your Christmas breakfast ready and waiting. Take it out of the freezer on Christmas Eve, and the next morning it will be ready to serve. That is if Santa hasn’t helped himself on his way outta Dodge.
Though the warm spice and butter-sugar cake scent wafting through the house makes it surely tempting to bake and then eat warm, right out of the oven. And it is goo-ooo-ood!
If you’re going to freeze them, BE SURE to let the cake cool completely to room temperature after it comes out of the oven, before you wrap and freeze.
Be sure to let me know just how yummy you think this recipe is, AND any ideas for enjoying it! You know I love to expand my cooking and baking in every way possible.
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As we journey through our lives, we have almost constant choices to make along our path.
Jeff Olson's excellent book, The Slight Edge, is a great guide for turning your goals into reality.
Make the pursuit of your dreams a joyous path.
As we journey through our lives, we have almost constant choices to make. Those choices will make or break our life’s joy. It is truly our choices that determine our results.
Jeff Olson has said that each choice is a simple decision moving us the way we truly want to go, or a small error in judgement that takes us away from joy.
And over time, these choices/actions create our results (our life.)
What determines your choice? — Your beliefs which make up your attitude.
"The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill. It will make or break a company ... a church ... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude ... I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me, and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you ... we are in charge of our Attitudes.”
~ Chuck Swindoll
This week, you can decide to make choices that take you toward your goals, your joy, the life of your dreams. You can act “as if”. Another way to say it is, “fake it till you feel it.”
Because, as you act like the successful, joyous person you want to be, you are putting energy toward your joy, your goals, your dreamlife.
You do not need to know all the pieces of the whole picture of your life, but rather you need only the missing piece at this moment, the thing that will get you started, the motivation to start on the path. This could be the realization that you and only you are responsible for changing your life to what you want.
On this day of decision, you may not know where you're going, but you're on the pursuit. And the pursuit is joyous in itself.
Today - grab hold - take hold of your life - make decisions - every single one - that make your ride what YOU want.
Keep walking on your path - joyously.
Jeff Olson has said that each choice is a simple decision moving us the way we truly want to go, or a small error in judgement that takes us away from joy.
And over time, these choices/actions create our results (our life.)
What determines your choice? — Your beliefs which make up your attitude.
"The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill. It will make or break a company ... a church ... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude ... I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me, and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you ... we are in charge of our Attitudes.”
~ Chuck Swindoll
This week, you can decide to make choices that take you toward your goals, your joy, the life of your dreams. You can act “as if”. Another way to say it is, “fake it till you feel it.”
Because, as you act like the successful, joyous person you want to be, you are putting energy toward your joy, your goals, your dreamlife.
You do not need to know all the pieces of the whole picture of your life, but rather you need only the missing piece at this moment, the thing that will get you started, the motivation to start on the path. This could be the realization that you and only you are responsible for changing your life to what you want.
On this day of decision, you may not know where you're going, but you're on the pursuit. And the pursuit is joyous in itself.
Today - grab hold - take hold of your life - make decisions - every single one - that make your ride what YOU want.
Keep walking on your path - joyously.
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PEDO - ORTHO WEEKEND
March 23-26, 2017
Crowne Plaza Hotel - Nashua, NH
Space limited to 35 participants. Your enrollment reserves your space in the complete package. For further information, contact Dr. Nicholas Roy at toothdoc17@gmail.com
IAO NEW ENGLAND
Study Club
March 31 - April 2
Sheraton Hartford Hotel at Bradley Airport
Windsor Locks, CT
Contact: Dr. H. Michael Sefranek - IAO New England Section - 401.247.1777 - mike@smilesdr.com
Sheraton Hartford Hotel at Bradley Airport
Windsor Locks, CT
Contact: Dr. H. Michael Sefranek - IAO New England Section - 401.247.1777 - mike@smilesdr.com
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REAL is Dr Chris' great little book on how
to live an incredibly GREAT life!
to live an incredibly GREAT life!
Two human needs are certainty, and uncertainty, or variety.
We need both.
Our routines provide the security of certainty. Fear of change and risks may keep us bound in certainty to a fault. It is in uncertainty that we grow and expand.
Our significant progress involves change, and change involves uncertainty.
“The quality of your life is in direct proportion to the amount of uncertainty with which you can live.” ~ Tony Robbins
Wayne Dyer used to say that“fear is False Evidence Appearing Real.”
If you believe it will work out, you’ll see it as opportunities. if you believe it’s too scary, you will see it as an obstacle.
“Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.” ~ Wayne Dyer
Why not?
Go for it!
Why not now?
To uncertainty!!!
In love,
We need both.
Our routines provide the security of certainty. Fear of change and risks may keep us bound in certainty to a fault. It is in uncertainty that we grow and expand.
Our significant progress involves change, and change involves uncertainty.
“The quality of your life is in direct proportion to the amount of uncertainty with which you can live.” ~ Tony Robbins
Wayne Dyer used to say that“fear is False Evidence Appearing Real.”
If you believe it will work out, you’ll see it as opportunities. if you believe it’s too scary, you will see it as an obstacle.
“Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.” ~ Wayne Dyer
Why not?
Go for it!
Why not now?
To uncertainty!!!
In love,
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Today was different. Rain. Real rain. Pouring at times. Huge puddles of standing water on the road, some four or more inches deep. This was Abu Dhabi today.
We surely did not expect that we could get drenched walking from the office to the car, or that there would be flooding on roads.
It was pretty. The overcast cloudy skies, reminiscent of Kentucky winter days, opened up in the desert, first damp air and walkways, then pitter-patter drops of rain, then lots more rain.
To walk out the back door of the office to the laboratory, feel the rain on my head and hear the rain thrumming on a metal surface out there was almost dizzying. It didn’t belong here in the desert, making music with the splatters.
As we drove home later, the roofs of the cars danced with spray and I enjoyed the murmuring of the rain through the window.
But then, of course it rained and rained. There have been prayers for rain for the last month or so.
And the skies answered with a day of sweet, clean rain filling the aquifers and oases, renewing the life-roots of the plants, and washing the large dusty leaves of the plumeria to a fresh moist, dark green.
The desert was bathed in sweetness today.
Much love,
We surely did not expect that we could get drenched walking from the office to the car, or that there would be flooding on roads.
It was pretty. The overcast cloudy skies, reminiscent of Kentucky winter days, opened up in the desert, first damp air and walkways, then pitter-patter drops of rain, then lots more rain.
To walk out the back door of the office to the laboratory, feel the rain on my head and hear the rain thrumming on a metal surface out there was almost dizzying. It didn’t belong here in the desert, making music with the splatters.
As we drove home later, the roofs of the cars danced with spray and I enjoyed the murmuring of the rain through the window.
But then, of course it rained and rained. There have been prayers for rain for the last month or so.
And the skies answered with a day of sweet, clean rain filling the aquifers and oases, renewing the life-roots of the plants, and washing the large dusty leaves of the plumeria to a fresh moist, dark green.
The desert was bathed in sweetness today.
Much love,
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Find the Joy in Your Everyday Practice Life:
Part II - The Critical Elements
Part II - The Critical Elements
A classic book for improving your life and your business is Dr Norman Vincent Peale's "You Can If You Think You Can."
Though it was written for parents, Dr Chris Baker's book, "Your Child's Smile," has been used as a textbook for dentists who want to treat children.
Dr. Wayne Dyer's classic work, "You'll see it when you believe it," takes readers on a step-by-step path toward living and loving both life and career.
Critical element 1: Gratitude
As you drive in to your practice in the morning, spend the drive-time in gratitude, loving your life and yourself.
Think about your simple gratitude, and about your sacred gratitude. While you may have some current situational gratitude - the new car you are driving, your daughter’s amazing sports performance last night, also remember the simple gratitudes - your home, your work, your shower this morning, the way your staff makes your patients happy.
And, practice your sacred gratitudes: feeling grateful for everything in your life - even the hard stuff, the challenges, the grief in loss, knowing no matter how difficult, there is benefit to you to come.
There is no substitute for feeling grateful, happy, blessed.
By the time you get to your office, you will be ready for a fantastic day where things seem to turn “your way.” I love the story of the doctor whose staff knew what sort of day “they were in for,” when they noticed how the doctor got out of the car - slowly, slumped, low-energy, or, on some wonderful days, upright, with energy, smiling.
Before you walk through the door, take a nice slow breath through your nose. This engages the peace of your para-sympathetic nervous system. It changes your physiology immediately to one of peace. Then, you can walk in to your office and greet each team member by name.
We all love to hear our name. It has been said that your name is the most beautiful word in the whole world. Yes, greet with love and their name! And feel your gratitude for each one of them. Why not? - the alternative is not going to make you feel happier, and gratitude can make you remember all your joy.
Critical element 2: Your beliefs and thoughts
Decide to love your practice. Assuming you are continuing to practice dentistry, you don’t have to love your practice. Your choices would appear to be three: You can:
1. ...transition/sell your practice if you’re not happy with it,
2. ...keep trudging through your days and practice, facing the difficulties and challenges with dread at the worst, coping at the best, or...
Critical element 3: Decide to love the practice life, and do what you need to do to see it as joyous.
I know one general dentist in a small upper mid-western town who so loves his practice, patients, and staff! His life is full and his family reaps the benefits of a joyous husband and father.
Years ago he did not feel quite that way about his practice. It was much more work, not financially great, and he came to the fork in the road - toward joy? Or toward the "same old, same old"? His beliefs and thoughts had to change, and when they did, he ran smack into the knowledge and guidance he needed to transform his practice to GREAT, and with that, his life to GREAT.
You may think, “Dr. Chris, you have no idea…”, or “It’s just not that simple.”
Indeed, it’s not that simple. But it IS that worth it! And it gets easier and easier. You can turn your beliefs / perspectives of your daily “grind” to daily joy.
You can if you think you can.
Yes, it will take work. Work that has the magnificent outcome of bringing you to a joyous existence.
The work can be magnificently successful if you “get out of the way”, and get into the belief state as soon as possible. Nothing will change until you do.
How do you get out of the way? You might call this release, or surrender, or focusing on what is right in your life/practice. Dr Wayne Dyer liked to remind us, “You’ll see it WHEN YOU BELIEVE IT.”
Focus on what’s right. Act as if. Walk in that door in the morning and act as if your practice is the best place in the world to be. If it were, would you ignore the staff, or would you say a bright and cheery “Good morning, Claire” to each person you see, greeting them by name?
If your practice were such a happy place to be, would you look at the schedule with dread over the patients who are scheduled? Or would you think how lovely it will be to see each one? Act as if…
Believe it TIL you see it!
The change is in YOU.
Your belief, your trust, your joy will change everything, including your practice. And when that happens, you will truly be living your magical, miraculous, magnificent life of your dreams!
Just you wait!
Your staff will become wonderful (or you’ll find new staff who are wonderful and fit your new life well.) Your patients will be delightfully happy with your care (or the grumps will leave.) You will have created your great practice!
More critical elements to come next time!!
As you drive in to your practice in the morning, spend the drive-time in gratitude, loving your life and yourself.
Think about your simple gratitude, and about your sacred gratitude. While you may have some current situational gratitude - the new car you are driving, your daughter’s amazing sports performance last night, also remember the simple gratitudes - your home, your work, your shower this morning, the way your staff makes your patients happy.
And, practice your sacred gratitudes: feeling grateful for everything in your life - even the hard stuff, the challenges, the grief in loss, knowing no matter how difficult, there is benefit to you to come.
There is no substitute for feeling grateful, happy, blessed.
By the time you get to your office, you will be ready for a fantastic day where things seem to turn “your way.” I love the story of the doctor whose staff knew what sort of day “they were in for,” when they noticed how the doctor got out of the car - slowly, slumped, low-energy, or, on some wonderful days, upright, with energy, smiling.
Before you walk through the door, take a nice slow breath through your nose. This engages the peace of your para-sympathetic nervous system. It changes your physiology immediately to one of peace. Then, you can walk in to your office and greet each team member by name.
We all love to hear our name. It has been said that your name is the most beautiful word in the whole world. Yes, greet with love and their name! And feel your gratitude for each one of them. Why not? - the alternative is not going to make you feel happier, and gratitude can make you remember all your joy.
Critical element 2: Your beliefs and thoughts
Decide to love your practice. Assuming you are continuing to practice dentistry, you don’t have to love your practice. Your choices would appear to be three: You can:
1. ...transition/sell your practice if you’re not happy with it,
2. ...keep trudging through your days and practice, facing the difficulties and challenges with dread at the worst, coping at the best, or...
Critical element 3: Decide to love the practice life, and do what you need to do to see it as joyous.
I know one general dentist in a small upper mid-western town who so loves his practice, patients, and staff! His life is full and his family reaps the benefits of a joyous husband and father.
Years ago he did not feel quite that way about his practice. It was much more work, not financially great, and he came to the fork in the road - toward joy? Or toward the "same old, same old"? His beliefs and thoughts had to change, and when they did, he ran smack into the knowledge and guidance he needed to transform his practice to GREAT, and with that, his life to GREAT.
You may think, “Dr. Chris, you have no idea…”, or “It’s just not that simple.”
Indeed, it’s not that simple. But it IS that worth it! And it gets easier and easier. You can turn your beliefs / perspectives of your daily “grind” to daily joy.
You can if you think you can.
Yes, it will take work. Work that has the magnificent outcome of bringing you to a joyous existence.
The work can be magnificently successful if you “get out of the way”, and get into the belief state as soon as possible. Nothing will change until you do.
How do you get out of the way? You might call this release, or surrender, or focusing on what is right in your life/practice. Dr Wayne Dyer liked to remind us, “You’ll see it WHEN YOU BELIEVE IT.”
Focus on what’s right. Act as if. Walk in that door in the morning and act as if your practice is the best place in the world to be. If it were, would you ignore the staff, or would you say a bright and cheery “Good morning, Claire” to each person you see, greeting them by name?
If your practice were such a happy place to be, would you look at the schedule with dread over the patients who are scheduled? Or would you think how lovely it will be to see each one? Act as if…
Believe it TIL you see it!
The change is in YOU.
Your belief, your trust, your joy will change everything, including your practice. And when that happens, you will truly be living your magical, miraculous, magnificent life of your dreams!
Just you wait!
Your staff will become wonderful (or you’ll find new staff who are wonderful and fit your new life well.) Your patients will be delightfully happy with your care (or the grumps will leave.) You will have created your great practice!
More critical elements to come next time!!
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When people describe your life, they'll use the word, "awesome." Find out how this can happen in Dr Chris' book, REAL.
Life’s school is structured to give each of us the lessons we need to keep growing. While one person is working on their second grade class, another is in their Master’s program.
The older we get, the higher our “degree” may be, and the tougher our classes become.
Your curriculum may be tough at times! All for your good, and you have the choice as to how to view your curriculum.
“God allows difficulties in our lives, so we can overcome them.” ~ Zig Ziglar
“Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grievances which we endure, help us in our marching onward.” ~ Henry Ford
“Life is a balanced system of learning and evolution. Whether pleasure or pain; every situation in your life serves a purpose. It is up to us to recognize what that purpose could be.” ~ Steve Maraboli
Your curriculum is just what you need to learn and grow!
Are you in your PhD program? The higher your degree program, the more you’ll be questioned and criticized for what you’re doing. You may get a lot of unsolicited criticism. Remember, what people think of you is none of your business. There will also be people who admire you and support you.
“Let your setbacks become set-ups for your comeback .” ~ Joel Osteen
When you’re misunderstood because other people don’t get that you “get it,” pay attention to the people who admire you. Don’t take them for granted. You’ll want to look for the more authentic people, because you don’t need to impress anyone!
As you become more authentic, you’ll stop caring about what is fair. Because, life isn’t fair. It’s a curriculum of what you need. When you leave fear and doubt behind, all of a sudden, you do things because they feel right, and because they benefit others, and because THAT benefits you!
Yes, Yes - Put Yourself Out There!!
Enjoy your classes!
Happy Studies and love,
The older we get, the higher our “degree” may be, and the tougher our classes become.
Your curriculum may be tough at times! All for your good, and you have the choice as to how to view your curriculum.
“God allows difficulties in our lives, so we can overcome them.” ~ Zig Ziglar
“Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grievances which we endure, help us in our marching onward.” ~ Henry Ford
“Life is a balanced system of learning and evolution. Whether pleasure or pain; every situation in your life serves a purpose. It is up to us to recognize what that purpose could be.” ~ Steve Maraboli
Your curriculum is just what you need to learn and grow!
Are you in your PhD program? The higher your degree program, the more you’ll be questioned and criticized for what you’re doing. You may get a lot of unsolicited criticism. Remember, what people think of you is none of your business. There will also be people who admire you and support you.
“Let your setbacks become set-ups for your comeback .” ~ Joel Osteen
When you’re misunderstood because other people don’t get that you “get it,” pay attention to the people who admire you. Don’t take them for granted. You’ll want to look for the more authentic people, because you don’t need to impress anyone!
As you become more authentic, you’ll stop caring about what is fair. Because, life isn’t fair. It’s a curriculum of what you need. When you leave fear and doubt behind, all of a sudden, you do things because they feel right, and because they benefit others, and because THAT benefits you!
Yes, Yes - Put Yourself Out There!!
Enjoy your classes!
Happy Studies and love,
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This morning, Trey read his daily spiritual uplift to us, about spirit and truth. Each morning, we Skype with Trey and he gives us a blessing in sharing.
Today we pondered how we get so involved in our human issues, challenges, and experiences, that we may temporarily forget our spirits and their Divine connection to God.
Funny thing is, as Steve Maraboli has said, one of the most spiritual things you can do is to embrace your humanness. Connect with everyone you meet.
Give them love. Say, “You are great!”, “I love you,” “I am proud of you”, and give hugs and smiles, and support.
Give healing words and touches. Share compassion. Remember your oneness with each other soul. Give peace.
Even in your hardest times, keep going. “Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end.” — Roy Bennett
And you will be fuller, more at peace, more in love.
Happy Heart’s Day! Happy Valentine’s Day.
Love,
