Positive ThanksLiving
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What is Positive ThanksLiving?
Facing the world with optimism – strategic optimism!
Not that pie-in-the-sky, everything is perfect stuff… rather, the bold assertion:
Loved
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Encouraging
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Until the ordinary becomes extraordinary.
Three words can transform your ordinary into extraordinary. And they’re achievable by taking just the next step. You can do this – Read more!
Courage, dear heart. Begin Again.
Courage, dear heart. Begin again. Each morning there's a new chance to begin again. You can do this. C.S. Lewis is one of my favorite authors. His words hold answers to mysteries, they cause me to stop and wonder and then make me smile. I feel encouraged. Sometimes a...
Go Deep & Understand your Why
Don’t stop what you’d doing even if others can’t see your glitter, or critize your wandering, or if they question your age. Be strong. Go deep & understand your why!
Learn how to be optimistic.
Learn how to be optimistic. Basically, you aren't required to be born a positive person - optimism can be learned. Don't give up just because you're not good at it! Because there's a way to... Learn how to be optimistic. But how, you ask? If I'm being candid with you,...
Big Goals Take Many Turns
Big Goals need a different style of thinking from everyday duties. Here are a few thinking skills, and some suggestions on how to map out that plan for Big Goals!
Mistakes are proof you’re trying!
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. Mistakes are proof you’re trying!
JOY in Despair – It’s there!
Joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair. "Happiness needs security." -- these two statements are Ann Morrow Lindbergh's take on the difference between happiness and joy. What do you think? Is it possible to find JOY in despair? Have you ever...
Structure your Happiness – 100 days experiment.
Happiness is fleeting. In my life, the feeling of being happy shifts like the weather - the only surety is a change in and out and in again of happiness. I'm imagining you might relate? It's rare for anyone to be happy every day. (By-the-way, being joyful is a...
Positivity Gifts – Mother’s Day
Mother's Day is coming... use this time to honor the loving women - regardless of relation - in your life! Those women who encourage you like a mom might really appreciate something you make. And what's more encouraging than a bit of positivity? Remember - it isn't...
To miss the joy is to miss all.
Find out where joy resides, and give it a voice far beyond singing. For to miss the joy is to miss all. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson To miss the JOY is to miss all. I use Instagram to document those things that bring me joy... and around the end of each year, our family...
Who Gives with Joy
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. She gives most who gives with joy.
Joy – A good feeling in the soul.
Maybe joy and happiness are the same to you – or not. In this quote, joy, a good feeling in the soul, might resonate with you. Experience “soul” joy.
Practice Realistic Optimism
Go ahead. When you're practicing realistic optimism it's part of the process to identify and acknowledge the constraints. Because there will be obstacles and issues. Bad stuff happens. We have dilemmas and barriers. Nothing is perfect. Ever. But don't stop there! What...
What would a kind friend say?
If you were hurting, discouraged, angry, indignant, despondent, uncomfortable and/or generally blah... What would a kind friend say to you? There's a good chance what you're saying to yourself (your inner dialogue) is different from what a loving friend would say to...
Make Optimism a Habit
Make optimism a habit – get 25 positive sticky thoughts to help.
5 Great Lessons You Can Learn By Being Thankful
Practice your Thanks-Living! 5 Great Lessons You Can Learn By Being Thankful
Sticky Positive Thoughts
Instead of just melodies, it’d be useful if we could keep positive sticky thoughts going ’round inside our heads! Here are a few to get you started.
Positivity is Contagious
Is your positivity contagious – or are you waiting for someone else to pass it onto you? Here’s a little illustration to ponder…
Life as a symphony.
Don’t whistle alone in a room – make your life deeper with a symphony of voices! Here are some new voices for your pleasure from my April writing challenge.
Optimism and Achievement
Optimism is key to achievement. Find your optimism for what you need to achieve and your hope and confidence will follow!
Listen – and you’ll meet amazing people.
Listen to people – enter every conversation believing you have something to learn. Then be prepared to be amazed.
Our view shapes our ability.
Use optimism as a tool to change your own world. Not convinced optimism works? Read this to shift your view!
Best Friend – is that YOU?
Could you ever be your own best friend? How would you begin? Join me over at AngiesForum.com to learn more!
Be more kind than necessary.
Be more KIND than necessary. 10 Easy ways to practice
Do the next thing.
If you’re overwhelmed, just do the next thing. Here’s a poem that’ll give you the outline of how to do the next thing without worry or concern.
Curiosity and questions spark relationships.
Curiosity and questions. Get curious. It might take a relationship to the next level. Sure, being kind is important, but maybe curiosity holds an even greater power? Curiosity may even develop into empathy for others. It's about asking questions - the right questions....
Be thankful for the one. It starts with one.
It all starts with one thing – and we need to appreciate the joy of one thing done. How? Be thankful for the one and then record it in some way.
What would you give if you could?
What would you give? I found a poem with a plethora of things I would give if I could… and they’re not items that could be bought! What about you?
Do not wait for the right moment. Do it now.
Wait. Hang on. Hold up. Pause. Why? Why wait? Will the moment ever be right? And if we're waiting for that mythical just-right moment, how much will we miss? (Oh, yeah. I'm preachin' to the choir here. Waiting is my pass-time. I've spent 50+ years practicing the art...
Forward is forward – your speed is subjective.
Forward is forward. Yes, you need to know your trajectory, but try not to get hung up on your speed. There's always a pace you'd rather be experiencing, but it might not be what's really happening. At least right now. Forward is forward - your speed doesn't matter....
Lori
Lori Ferguson is an optimist. She’s married to Robert and they have three adult children and one grandboy. They’ve been crossing off their bucket-list items, including a few years living and traveling in an RV. Lori’s the author of “Moving Past Procrastination to a Great Marriage“. You can also find her writing online at EncourageYourSpouse.com