Inspiration, Motivation

What Color Are You?

If you read my blog regularly, you know I have fallen in love with  Pinterest, a website where people share their interests via photos (pins) with comments.  I especially like the inspirational quotes I find.  This one shouted at me the other day:

what color is your attitude

from Belmont Wellness

Whether you realize it or not, you have control over your thoughts and life through your attitude.   Continue reading “What Color Are You?”

Photo blogs

It’s Not Summer Til You Go To The Beach!

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My day at the beach was perfect!  The weather and water was warm – just right for sitting for hours .  The sky was blue with only a few clouds drifting across it.  The word for the day was RELAX!. Click on the picture above to enjoy my photos from the day.

Encouragement, Inspiration

You Are Not The Center Of The Universe

Very often, we start things with the purpose of gaining money or fame or something else for ourselves.  But what we don’t realize is the real purpose is to help someone else.  We may not know the person when we start or we may meet him or her while we are going along the way.  And it’s always several people – it’s never just one person.

One of the tenets of personal growth is to get your mind off of you.  You are not the center of the universe.  Believe it or not, Continue reading “You Are Not The Center Of The Universe”

Motivation, Procrastination

Enough Said

Just Do ItSaw this on yesterday while on Pinterest (www.pinterest.com).   It hit me between the eyes.  Enough said … now MOVE!
(quote from www.fitsugar.com)

 

Question for Comment: What have you been procrastinating about?  What are you going to do to get going?

The Book

Book Update – April

Ever see a scene in a movie where a person is running toward a place, but instead of the place getting closer, the place keeps moving further away from the person?  That’s how I felt about my book.

I’ve been writing and editing, but the end seemed no where in sight.  That is until the other day when I decided to give a status report to my publisher and my accountability partner.  I inventoried my work and was very surprised.  This is what I discovered:

1- There is a working title for the book which is huge because I wanted one that would grab someone’s attention and make that person want to pick up the book and read it (no, I’m not ready to tell you yet)

2 -There are 17 substantive chapters: 12 are done subject to a few more tweaks before they are submitted to my publisher, 3 are being drafted and 2 need to be written.

3- There are 5 reference/informational chapters, 2 are finalized.

Wow!  The end is in sight.

Check back in May for another update. Smiley

Inspiration, Photo blogs

KITES AWAY!

This blog is about personal growth and the things to do to develop one’s self into a better person.  One of the goals you should set is a period of time to relax.  I’m not talking about sleeping.  I’m talking about sitting back and shutting your mind off from all the stuff written on your To-Do list.  I know this is counter-intuitive given the hustle-bustle, “gotta get it done yesterday” society we live in. But taking time to not do something productive, and stop and smell the roses of life rejuvenates you.  So, I took my advice on March 30th and enjoyed Washington, D.C.’s annual Blossom Kite Festival. It was a perfect spring day. The temperature was 60 degrees. The sky was bright blue with only a few clouds drifting across it.  The breeze came and carried the kites high.

Here are some pictures.  Enjoy  :)!

Encouragement, Getting Better, Motivation

It Was Achieved On Account Of

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines accountability as subject to giving an account; answerable.  We are not strangers to accountability.  In our youth, we were accountable to our teachers, our parents and other authority figures. As adults, we are accountable to our bosses and supervisors, maybe spouses.  In most instances, our accountability is involuntary – a relationship forced upon us which we grudgingly accept.  Many times, the relationship leaves such bad taste in our mouths that hearing the word “accountability” makes us break out in a cold sweat.

We are all adults now and it’s time to do a paradigm shift, to learn a new way of viewing accountability, to see it as a good thing. Why? Because accountability benefits your personal growth in several ways:

1. It keeps you focused.  Unexpected situations and events come along which require your immediate, and sometimes long-term, time and attention.  That’s life.  Accountability helps to get you back on track.

2. It produces long-lasting big results. Continue reading “It Was Achieved On Account Of”