This is a BLAST!
 

Happy Saturday Night for those in North America Anyway!

I live SUCH a happening life these days, I am sitting here at my computer on a Saturday night, working on an article for my ezine, DiscoverYourPassion when I had run out of fresh ideas.

So I decided to make up a message to send via random chat to whomever showed up on ICQ Find-a-Friend mode. What a hoot this has been!

Here is what my message said:

Hi! This might sound really strange, but I am a writer collecting
ways people remind themselves of how wonderful they TRULY
are when they are feeling down...any ideas?

It has been really enlightening and inspiring for me as well as entertaining to say the least....oh, and tell me...what is it YOU do? Inquiring minds want to know?!

With Purpose and Passion,

JULIE JORDAN SCOTT




Always Passionate, Always Me!

Lions
 

Someone wrote about the method I developed:
http://www.uniblab.com/collie/musing/musings02.html

I've done some writing about this (not on the net) and it's been the subject of a number of talks I've given.

Counting your blessings....
 

Hi Julie,

When I'm feeling down, I find it often helps to count my blessings... Everyone on this forum is incredibly blessed. The fact you are accessing the internet in itself shows that to a degree....

Recently I read an article about a small business in Eritrea (in Africa) which was trying to make shoes and export them to surrounding African countries. This business had a very difficult time.

Firstly, they had difficulty competing because there is a large second-hand shoe market in parts of Africa. So they had to compete with the flood of very inexpensive second-hand shoes. (I have a friend, actually, who was once exporting second-hand shoes from Australia to Malawi, so I know this is in general true.)

Secondly, the war between Eritrea and Ethiopia fired up again, and something like 20 of their staff were drafted. They had to keep going with a large portion of their staff gone.

In addition to that, they had many problems just in transporting their products in basic ways. We take the use of good shipping for granted. In their case, often there were poor roads. Sometimes, they had to use bribes to get through (because of widespread corruption), which greatly increased the costs of transport.

The only way this company managed to survive through the difficult times was to rent out their office space to a United Nations agency, as an alternative source of income. All their company staff had to move to the factory floor to work.

When I read this article, I realized how good we have things in reality.

We are all blessed, but often we don't see how tremendous those blessings are. Counting (and being thankful) for your blessings can be very healing.... I remember, Julie, you talking about the importance of gratitude, so my apologies if I am regurgitating some wonderful lessons which I learned from you.... :) The reason why I am doing so is because they are so very true!

- Dien Rice

There was a ringing in his ears...
 

As raindrops danced on the windshield before him, an equal amount of tears rained down his face. The dizzying stench of exhaust in the car was comforting in a way... The lowest point he had ever experienced in his 30 something years.

He began to falter, his mind clouded rapidly. There was a ringing in his ears... and then the echo of a voice:

"I need you"!

In a panic he found the strength to grope for the door handle, pulled it, a deafening clap of thunder and lightening illuminated his world lighter than day as he fell out into the mud and the pouring rain. His eyes opened as he breathed the fresh air once again. It was the happiest moment of his life.

Three words... "I need you" ...At the very moment of truth...

Divine intervention you say??!!

Well, some would say it was the hands-free speakerphone hooked up to his cellphone (you know, the one that automatically answers after 2 rings) which, in his desperate state of mind he had forgotten to turn off...

But we'll still say it was divine intervention.

No matter how low you go, someone out there needs you.

Believe in that... even when you do not believe in yourself.

Paul

Re: Lions
 

Thank you, Mel!

This story was VERY inspiring indeed. It immediately made me recall lions I have slain.

Thank you again!

JULIE

The Highest Form of Energy
 

Hi Dien and all!

My friend Sandie taught me that Gratitude is the highest form of energy out there. I even incorporated it into my exercise routine...here I will get a copy of an email I sent to one of my coaching groups, just a sec....As I did repetitions on the machines, I would silently state what
I was grateful for about specific parts of my body. So for example,
for ten reps I was grateful for my feet....it went something like
this: I am grateful for the balancing you provide me, I am grateful
for the journeys we take together, I am grateful for the perfection
of your size and shape." I simply let my thoughts flow. Since the
machines I work on are all automated (The reps are counted for the
exerciser) I simply expressed gratitude until that particular 10
reps was completed.

I did my feet, eyes, elbows, stomach, knees, fingers and nose. It
was nothing short of amazing how great I felt afterwards!

This technique could literally be applied to any repetitive movement
(washing dishes, vacuuming, walking, you name it.

I thought it would be a great one to pass along to my clients, so I
thought I would share it here as well.

So there you have it. I get a kick out of observing myself, I look like the most cheery person working out! :-)




5passions

Awesome (Dno)
 

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