Trust your gut

 I know you have heard the saying Trust Your Gut.
There are many people who live their lives trusting their gut. 

They believe it is how they have gotten this far in their lives.

Sometimes it feels like it's the only thing that you can believe in, it's the only thing that keeps you safe.

In some instances, you could be right.  

I'm learning to trust my gut and to listen to what it is trying to telling me.

I think, maybe, I could have been able to skirt around some of the difficult things in my life, if I had just trusted my gut.

How about you?

Make them feel like Royalty

 This may seem a little trite, but if you really think about it, you will admit that it is true.

If you are always making people feel like they are stupid or below you, you have to wonder why.  Do you need to make them feel bad about themselves so that you feel better about yourself?

If that is true, perhaps you need to ask what problems do you have deep down inside that makes you need to feel superior?

If what you do is make others proud to be them, they will be better able to achieve all that they can.  They can be the best possible person that they can be.

And THAT should be our goal.  

If we can make others feel good about themselves, then we too will feel good about ourselves.   

Let's face it, if we all feel good about US, the world will be a better place.

At the end of every day

 make sure that you are trying to put the hard or difficult things that happened that day in it's own space so that you can end the day being happy.

Trust me, it will make you feel better so that you can tackle whatever it was tomorrow.  Just a few hours of happiness can make those difficult things so much easier to handle. 

Happy Valentine's Day

 Didn't want the day to go by without wishing you 

I hope the day is filled with all kinds of wonderful things

because YOU deserve it

Surround Yourself

 This is something that we need to teach our children, right along side Math and Reading, as part of our Life study.

Much too often, we allow people to stay in our lives that do not help us, but actually hold us back.  

We may or may not realize it but those people need to be vanquished from our lives.  We need to be free of them so that the true beauty of our lives will unfold.

Two Dates

 

I love this one.  

I need to find something like this as a key chain or something similar so that it will always be with me.

I think we all need to be reminded that we need to LIVE each day and not just exist.  

I know you are probably saying .. but we do live each day. 

My response ... Are you sure you are living or are you just getting through the day?

And if you can truly say that you are living ... 

Congratulations.  

Please do it again tomorrow and the day after that and the day after that.

What you tell yourself

 I had seen this a little while ago, and to be honest, I didn't originally see it as a positive.

At first I was thinking this was going to be intensifying any "down" feelings that you have about yourself or a situation.

But as I have been thinking about it further, I realized that THIS is the way to turn around any "down" or "negative" thoughts and feelings you have about yourself.  It tells you that YOU have the power to turn things around, by looking at the positive aspects of any situation and focusing on those.

Once you are focused on the positive aspects, you can make yourself feel more positive.  The more positive you feel, the more positive things will be coming your way.

Think about it.

Pray for everyday blessings

I'm not saying that you shouldn't ask for things that you feel that you need.  Prayers are always used for our wants/needs.
God listens and will give you what it is that He feels you truly need.

What I am saying is that it's not the only reason to pray.

You should be praying every day, but it doesn't have to be a "formal" prayer.  God loves to have conversations with us.  

I can feel the difference when I don't reach out to him just to "chat". 

And sometimes, just sometimes, things happen that are unexpected as a result of our little chat.