You Are!

 You Are!

“Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself”.

The word “Beauty” means: “a combination of qualities, such as shape, colour or form, that pleases the aesthetic senses, especially the sight”.

The word “Decide” means: “come or bring to a resolution in the mind as a result of consideration”, or, “make a choice from a number of alternatives”.

The mind is involved, yet again.

We need to Accept who we are in our minds and then — the rest will follow.

It is a Choice. 

Do you want to always be ‘copying’ someone else? Or do you want to be your very own Unique and Special person?

When you look in the mirror, do you see your own ‘Beauty’? Or someone else’s?

Believe me, YOU are more Beautiful!

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Nothing Will Stop You!

 Nothing Will Stop You!

“Success in life comes when you simply refuse to give up, with goals so strong that obstacles, failure and loss only act as motivation”.

When a mother gives birth, she never gives up until the baby is born and she cradles her newborn in her arms. This is one of the greatest examples of overcoming obstacles to receive the reward.

Again, it comes down to our attitude and how we personally view life.

Refusing to give up.

Not accepting failure.

Being so Determined to reach your ‘destination’ that you see nothing but your “dream”.

This can apply to small dreams, just as much as large goals.

A student is Determined to pass a certain exam. The father is Determined to get that well-paid job to provide for his family.

What about you?

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Each One Of Us Is Unique

 Each One Of us Is Unique

“Happiness is found when you stop comparing yourself to other people”.

Every single person on this Earth is Unique with their very own Special talents.

Happiness comes when we “See” our own Unique and Special “Skills” — and accept them.

Whilst competition can be healthy and fun, as we ‘push ourselves’, however, comparing our ‘abilities’ with others and letting this take over our minds — is unhealthy!

This applies to every aspect of our lives, from the foods we eat, to the clothes we wear, to the very life that we lead, and even our looks and how we feel about our bodies.

Variety is the very life of this Earth, and we are a part of that variety — this should make us Happy.

Sit down and think about your own very Special and Unique talents.

How do you feel?

Proud, Special, Unique, Remarkable, Happy.

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Harmony Is The Word

 Harmony Is The Word

“If you want to attract happy, positive things — become a happy, positive person. Work from the inside out”.

A flower attracts a bee with its scent and colour. The bee pollinates the flower.

Harmony is the word.

If we want to be with Positive, Cheerful and Happy people, we also must be a Positive, Cheerful and Happy  person.

This starts in the mind.

Training our minds to think Positive thoughts, and to be Grateful for the good things in our lives is the best way to start this.

Writing in our “Gratitude” journals every single day will help our minds to start “Appreciating” the good things that we have, leaving no room for the negative ‘what we do not have’ attitude.

Helping others less fortunate than ourselves is another good way of appreciating what we ourselves do have today.

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As Busy As A Dolphin

 As Busy As A Dolphin

“Stay busy. If you keep your mind right, it will keep your grind right”.

By staying physically busy, we are keeping ourselves mentally busy.

This leaves no room for negative thinking!

Of course, it is important to rest, giving our minds and our bodies time to ‘heal’.

And yet, even during rest, we can ‘keep busy’ by using our ‘downtime’ to build our minds up in a Positive way, which will have a very calming effect on us emotionally, which, in turn, helps us physically.

In this way, we will always be “in step” with the world around us.

Did you know ? => when a dolphin sleeps, only half of its brain shuts down. This is so that they never lose consciousness, otherwise they would drown, because a dolphin needs to breathe, and their breathing is ‘consciously controlled’.

Dolphins are even ‘busy’ when they sleep!

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Positive Attracts Positive

 Positive Attracts Positive

“It takes the same energy to worry as it does to be positive. Use your energy to think positive, and positive things will happen”.

We are what we attract.

Think Positive and you will attract Positive things, giving you a Positive life.

Use your time and energy ‘producing’ a Positive, Strong and Happy frame of mind.

Why worry when sometimes you can’t do anything about the problem anyway. Far better to use that energy in your mind to build yourself up, both mentally and physically.

Meditation is an excellent way to use your ‘energy’ to build a Positive mind, and to build Positive energy.

Meditation: “gives you a sense of calm, peace and balance that can benefit your emotional well-being and your overall health”.

This is worth putting your energy into.

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Look What You Have Accomplished

 Look What You Have Accomplished

“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else”.

A good way to ‘deal’ with depression is to go out and help someone.

Your mind is taken off of your own problems because you are so busy thinking about and helping the other person. Then, sometimes, when you are alone and thinking about your ‘problems’, they don’t seem quite so big or bad.

Think about how you feel when you have helped someone, a friend or a loved one. You feel ‘Elated’ and you feel as if you have accomplished something good in your life: “I did that!”

This way, also, you are making some good and happy memories, putting some really nice ‘scenes’ in your mind’s eye.

When you see the other person smiling and hearing them thank you — you know you’ve done the right thing.

Help yourself by helping someone else.

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Build It Up

 Build It Up

“There is always light. If only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to be it”.

It can be frightening.

We may not be used to being ‘in the light’, maybe in the center, and we may lack the Confidence to ‘be in the light’.

What does it mean=> ‘to be in the light’?

Basically, this can mean to be the Positive and the Happy person in the room.

To be always Smiling (no matter how we personally feel), and Cheerful.

It doesn’t necessarily mean to always be the center of attention, but to be known as ‘the cheerful one’.

And people do like to be with Happy and Positive friends, because it makes them feel Good, and quite simply, helps them through the day.

So, we need to Build up our own Confidence.

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What Do "I" Allow?

 What Do “I” Allow?

“There is nothing in this world that can trouble you as much as your own thoughts”.

It comes back to what you and I ‘allow’ ourselves to think about.

The mind is one of the few parts of our bodies that we can Control, and yet few of us do or even know how to.

What we take into our minds, through our eyes and ears, affects what we think about — Positive or negative.

If we keep on watching ‘drama’ and being in the middle of ‘trouble’, our minds will always be troubled.

If we listen to and watch Positive programs, even ‘fun’ shows, our minds will be ‘happy’ and we will start to want to always be in the middle of Happy people.

Then, hopefully, our thoughts will not trouble us but will be Positive and Strong.

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Make A Happy Memory

 Make A Happy Memory

“You can’t start the next chapter if you keep rereading the last”.

Mmm, this can be a difficult one.

We all have past experiences which we wish we’d never gone through, whether of our own doing or not, the ‘pictures’ can be constantly in our mind's eye, causing us ‘pain’ emotionally and sadness.

This blocks our lives from moving forwards.

We need to replace the negative with the Positive, the sad with the Happy, and the bad memories with the Good memories.

By being Strong and Positive within our own minds, we can do this.

What the eye sees leaves a ‘print’ in our mind’s eye, which does affect our emotions — the heart — and which does eventually affect us physically.

There are thousands of things that we can do, and one of them is to think: “what would “I” like to do?” and just do it!

Make some Happy and New memories.

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It Is Very Interesting!

 It Is Very Interesting!

“Difference doesn’t mean wrong”.

Variety is the life on this planet Earth.

When we think of the variety of birds, all different shapes, sizes and colours, and song, we are Amazed, and yet the Dawn Chorus is beautiful to listen to.

What is your favourite animal? I mean, the fact that we can even ask this question proves to the variety of animals we have on Earth.

My favourite animal is the cat. I love cats. Some are beautiful, some are just down right ugly, but I love them all, it doesn’t matter to me what they look like. Cats are cuddly and have very unique personalities, and this makes them so interesting to ‘study’ and learn about.

Why is it any different for us humans?

For example, there are 7,139 languages spoken on Earth today. Who loves to learn and speak more than one language? Some of us are brought up speaking 2 or more languages in the family. 

Communication is so Important!

There is only One human race, whatever colour, language or ‘look’ — we are all human.

Isn’t this Interesting?!

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Never Miss Out!

 Never Miss Out!

“Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today”.

Never miss out!

What we can see, learn and enjoy today we may never have the opportunity to see, learn and enjoy tomorrow.

An example of this is when we get old. As a young person, we could run around, dance, swim, and do many things. However, as we get older, we become much slower and may be in too much pain to really enjoy life because of some illness or terrible accident, or simply because we have gotten older.

It comes down to taking every opportunity life gives us, and then we will have some lovely memories to look back on.

“I’m glad I did that” and “I wouldn’t have wanted to miss out on that” — how many times have we said these very words?

No, never miss out!

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What Is Your Reality?

 What Is Your Reality?

“Always remember, your focus determines your reality”.

What we think about affects what we focus on.

What we see and hear affects our thinking, which in turn, affects our ‘focus’.

Focusing our minds on Positive things will “keep” our Focus on a Positive and Strong Reality.

Helping others will keep us busy, keeping our minds constantly on tomorrow.

And what is Your reality?

The word “Reality” means: “a real event; his dream became a reality”.

What is Your dream?

If we focus on our dream, the kind of life we have always wanted, and work towards it, the dream can and will become a reality.

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"I Believe In Myself"

 “I Believe In Myself”

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today”.

If we doubt ourselves, we will never move forward in our lives.

If we doubt others, we will never make friends.

If we doubt the future, we will never see it.

It comes down to building up our Confidence, and this starts in the mind.

Saying and repeating daily affirmations will ingrain in our minds a Positive outlook on today, on tomorrow, and then on the future.

“I am in the right place, at the right time, doing the right thing”.

“I believe in myself”.

“I am grateful for another day of life”.

Many people have a “Daily Affirmations” journal and they write down these types of affirmations for Positive ‘thoughts’.

What about you?

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You'll Be Smiling For The Rest Of Your Life

 You’ll Be Smiling For The Rest Of Your Life

“Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about”.

“Smile and the whole world smiles with you”.

In our very busy, everyday lives, we don’t always think to “Smile”, because we have so much on our minds, so many very important things.

Smiling Is Important!

To quote: “studies have shown that smiling releases endorphins, other natural painkillers, and serotonin. These brain chemicals make us feel good from head to toe. Not only do they elevate your mood, but they also relax your body and reduce physical pain. Smiling is a natural drug”.

This is one ‘drug’ that is actually good for us and that is free.

Sit down, with a warm drink, and think about all the good things in your life and on this planet Earth.

You’ll be Smiling for the rest of your life.

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You Just Never Know

 You Just Never Know

“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on”.

Never forget this!

It is hard to remember when we go through a difficult time in our lives, or when we are so busy, every single day.

Some who have had a terrible accident have been ‘surprised’ to wake up in the hospital — alive! With the expert skills of the doctors and nurses, and the sheer resilience of the human body — life goes on.

When everything looks ‘black’ and it ‘seems’ to be the end of the world, Remember that Life Goes On!

What I say is: fight to stay alive and don’t miss out on anything that is nice and good, because we never know what can, will and does happen, but we need to be Alive to experience these lovely things.

BECAUSE LIFE REALLY DOES GO ON.

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Are You Doing What You Want To Do?

 Are You Doing What You Want To Do?

“Do not let making a living prevent you from making a life”.

We all need to go out to work to pay the bills, but sometimes ‘that’ becomes our life and we lose sight of any purpose or happiness. It’s just something that we ‘have’ to do.

What about all our dreams?

What about all of the things that we wanted to do since we were children?

What about making our lives “Meaningful”?

Some of us are happy with our jobs but (possibly) many of us are not, because we had to get the first job that came along to support our families.

Some of us have been able to ‘make our lives’ what we wanted them to become. Many of us have not.

The beauty of living today is that we can change our lives — if we really  want to.

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