As we embark on another year, best wishes go out for a New Year filled with an abundance of joy, love, friendship, wisdom, courage, grace and prosperity. May your riches not be only of the material kind but may you be blessed with all the righteous virtues necessary for true wealth.
As I write this, the days count down to the end of 2009 and I look back on this past year and reflect…on the good, the bad, the indifferent. The memories I would like to keep, the ones I want to forget, the mistakes I made, the things I would have liked to handle differently, what I loved about the year and want to savour… if I can take my own advice, I will live in the moment, be totally aware of it, marvel in it, for when it is gone it is truly gone forever. Live without regrets or hang ups about the past for whatever happened in the past belongs there. The future is ours to explore with a fresh and bold outlook. Good things are in store for us once we believe it. Positive vibrations reap resplendent gains…this is the Law of Attraction. No holding back, sit back and enjoy the ride that is your life!
just flying these days. This is just a post to wish everyone a happy December...before they get busy with the hustle and bustle of Christmas...putting up the curtains and the lights...shopping and cooking those tasty Christmas treats....and of course the merriment and holiday parties and limes. .jpg)
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.......We need to be able to think on our own and draw our own conclusions. If things don’t go our way all the time, do we get upset and throw a temper tantrum? Or do we try to think objectively, weigh all the factors and try to figure out why things were handled the way they were? We need to open our minds and come out of our “glass cubicle” where the other person is always wrong. The world or rather the company is not out to get us unduly. Perhaps we should look at the glass half full instead of half empty. Are we giving 100%? At the end of the day, we need to make the decision of our level of commitment....(c)
So you gave it one more try…. and where did that get you? Honestly how many of us say that, then we wind up disappointed and more miserable than we began? Some of us do this for a multitude of reasons but after a while you know our judgment must bound to get better. Time after time we tell ourselves that this is it…never us again then we get trapped with the same old feelings that maybe it can work this time. Maybe it’s for the children, maybe it’s for social appearances, maybe it’s pride or ego…not me! I can’t fail at this! But call it what you want…sooner or later we must see the light before it’s too late.....jpg)
...It is of the view that if everyone was made to get along all of the time, then we would have been all created similar and have the same thought patterns, capacities and experiences, but sometimes our diversity is a test of our tolerance and openness to the wonders of humankind. Maybe we should try to step back and view ourselves through a different lens and ask ourselves if we like the person we have become over the many years of experiencing joy, pain, love, hurt, pride and disappointment. What factors have led to us becoming the person we are today? And how do we let it influence our life and interactions with others?... (c) .jpg)
At times we wonder if there is something more to life than the eight to four or nine to five. Have we found our true calling or are we still on our journey? Maybe sometimes we think that we have found it, but something may happen for us to doubt ourselves. How many of us truly can say we love what we do? How many of us know our true gifts and talents? This list maybe long or maybe we can’t seem to think of any at the moment but I’m sure some of our closest and dearest family and friends can tell us in one breath what is unique and special about us. This is something which we may overlook ourselves. Whether we can cook the best peleau or sew the best drapery to the envy of many of our houseguests. We are special creatures beyond imagination. We may be sitting on a goal mine and not know it. If we hone that skill or talent we may not have to work another day in our lives, as our job may not seem much like work at all...Today’s world calls for guts, for risk and creativity, passion and love. Many people may feel like they are just going through the motions waiting for that dream job or business opportunity to just fall into their laps. But sometimes we have to reach out and find it: make it happen...(c).jpg)
Nothing lasts forever…like children that grow up before the eyes of their parents; that ‘sweep me off my feet’ feeling of young love…the culmination of emotions at the yuletide season especially Christmas morning. These are all things that we wish could last forever but inevitably all good things must come to an end. Sometimes we wonder why did life have to change, these moments often pass by so quickly that maybe at the time we are not fully cognizant and appreciative of what is happening in our lives...Too many times we forget to savour the moments, we rush from one moment to the next without a second thought about what is happening in the present and before you know it that moment is gone. And the proverbial question remains: do we have control over our destiny? Many of us struggle with this eternal enigma. Is life laid out for us just to ‘live out’ or do we actively have a role to play in what happens at every stage? ...© To read more look out for the publication of a collection coming soon!.jpg)
Why are we a different way around different people? Is it that you put your best foot forward with some and others just seem to get the bottom of the barrel? Is it that you regard some people in higher esteem than others, or that you just have different sides of your personality? Founder of analytical psychology, Carl Jung proposed that there are different types of personalities: extroverted and introverted and he suggests there are different ways of dealing with the world around us – inner and outer. Some of us are maybe afraid of unleashing all of our personality…the good, the bad and the ugly with people we are not that close to, in the fear of them judging us or maybe creating a false impression...(c)
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This post is a little late but better late than never....jpg)
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The world have relied on the grapevine for news and information for so long that people often forget what integrity and honesty stand for. Often times we see persons engaging in idle chatter which inevitably is to the detriment of someone else. You never know where and when the rumour started but before you know it, it is spreading like wildfire and considered the talk of the town and gossip in all quarters. Too many times things like this originate from petty, selfish reasons; jealousy and idleness. If everyone was to concentrate on giving of their all to a particular task, life would not be about what the neighbour is doing or not doing in some cases. We see it in offices, in schools, in associations, even in church…where will it end? ...(c) At one time or another we may ask ourselves the question: “Am I living the life?” Or “am I doing what I was put here to do? ” If it is that each of us were created for a specific purpose, then the next question should be: have we found that purpose, or are we just going through the motions? And for those of us that have found our purpose are we really living the life? Maybe it is not for man to judge but what matters is that we are comfortable in our own skin. What is also important is what we carry deep inside which will be apparent to all, as it is manifested in the blessings that we receive...(c)
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