Thursday Coffee Talk
Good LATE Thursday morning everyone. I pray you are doing good today and that you are up, at 'em, and on your way.
Our challenge today is to be excited about your life. Being excited about life causes you to want to do great, achieve much, and be something awesome. Life IS wonderful and it is meant to be excited about, not depressed and oppressed about things you face. We all face things in life, but don't let them get you down. stay upbeat and excited. I know, easier said than done. I'm talking to myself today. Can ya tell? Lets be excited about our lives today. IF you are NOT excited about your life, get excited and go get 'em!
So, what cha sippin' on today? Me? I'm enjoying some wonderful New England Blueberry Cobbler coffee.
It sure is good too. I'm working on my 2nd pot today already. Been up since 3:30 a.m., made breakfast for my 2 sweet ladies (Lucy and Allison), washed and dried laundry, and have been to Wally world to buy groceries. Now, to clean the house. Since Lucy is working, that is my job now. Makes me happy to do it for her. I love that woman so much!
Whatever you are doing today and whatever you are sippin' on, enjoy it! Love you all and have a great Thursday!
Our challenge today is to be excited about your life. Being excited about life causes you to want to do great, achieve much, and be something awesome. Life IS wonderful and it is meant to be excited about, not depressed and oppressed about things you face. We all face things in life, but don't let them get you down. stay upbeat and excited. I know, easier said than done. I'm talking to myself today. Can ya tell? Lets be excited about our lives today. IF you are NOT excited about your life, get excited and go get 'em!
So, what cha sippin' on today? Me? I'm enjoying some wonderful New England Blueberry Cobbler coffee.
It sure is good too. I'm working on my 2nd pot today already. Been up since 3:30 a.m., made breakfast for my 2 sweet ladies (Lucy and Allison), washed and dried laundry, and have been to Wally world to buy groceries. Now, to clean the house. Since Lucy is working, that is my job now. Makes me happy to do it for her. I love that woman so much!Whatever you are doing today and whatever you are sippin' on, enjoy it! Love you all and have a great Thursday!
For every Goliath, there is a Stone! His name is Jesus!"
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on 5/14/09 12:49 am
on 5/14/09 12:49 am
I'm working on my 2nd cup of coffee and my 64 oz. of water. I'm a gonna float away today. hehe
What a sweetie you are to cook, clean and love your family the way you do. You sound a lot like my own honey. He gets the coffee going in the morning - he washes clothes and helps me clean the house and he is a doggone good cook. He's trying a new recipe today with Chicken wings marinated in Zesty Italian dressing and Worcheshire sauce. He's going to put them on the grill when I leave the office. I love it when he cooks.
We've got a lot going on in our lives and it's an exciting time. You never know what might happen next.
Take care and spread the excitement!!!
DebbieDoo
What a sweetie you are to cook, clean and love your family the way you do. You sound a lot like my own honey. He gets the coffee going in the morning - he washes clothes and helps me clean the house and he is a doggone good cook. He's trying a new recipe today with Chicken wings marinated in Zesty Italian dressing and Worcheshire sauce. He's going to put them on the grill when I leave the office. I love it when he cooks.
We've got a lot going on in our lives and it's an exciting time. You never know what might happen next.
Take care and spread the excitement!!!
DebbieDoo
Good morning my dear friend!!!! Yep...I try to be upbeat, but sometimes, I get down. Then I have to remember those around me who don't even have a place to live or know where their next meal will be coming from. There are so many out of work right now and down. We all should be so thankful for what we have. I love ya!!!!
This is just bazaar I was just reading this in an E-mail right before I came here !!
There are numerous actions that support your ability to achieve a higher level of excitement about your own life. Below are several powerful places to begin:
1. Stop the Drama
Excitement about your life emerges as you gain a deeper capacity to accept things as they are right now. Often times when things get rough, it is easy to fall into the worry trap, worrying about the issue, picking at the problem, and conjuring up the worst-case scenario. Intense focus on the problem accelerates negative emotions and stirs up even more chaos.
Acceptance of the situation allows you to stop flailing about and see the situation in a new light. Life is an ever-changing flow of moving, breathing, suffering, and hoping. It includes sorrows and dreams, and the mystery of things actually working out for the best. You’re not having a particular challenge because you are bad, wrong, or being punished. Instead, you can look at the situation and bring compassion to yourself. Discover if there is something to gain from the experience. Often, a difficult challenge also has within it a trans-formative power that can assist you in creating a more fully developed life.
2. Emotional Flow
Obviously, life is not about the absence of emotions. Therefore, allowing yourself to be excited about being alive involves an understanding that joy and sorrow are not a mutually exclusive proposition. Both are possible, and both can occur simultaneously. With this new definition of wholeness, your life journey is no longer about attempting to abolish difficult emotions, but learning new strategies to recognize, accept, and allow emotional flow.
Emotions have energy, and big emotions have big energy. A key to emotional flow requires learning to accept emotions as they occur while also attaining the ability to stand back and let the emotional energy move on through. I will be the first to admit this is tricky business. It’s so easy to want to resist uncomfortable emotions, suppress them, or get all tangled up in them. Mastering emotional flow means doing what we least want to do – accept emotions, stand behind a short wall, breathe, and let them flow.
3. Breathe
Conscious breathing is a vital ingredient in the recipe of an exciting life. Breath instantly lifts your spirits and clears your mind of negative thoughts and tension. Breath keeps energy moving. In addition, breath is the choice you make to be alive, to be you, and to be connected to your wisdom. Decide to breathe consciously throughout the day. Several times each hour take several deep, fulfilling breaths, that invigorates you body and rids your body of accumulated heaviness.
4. Practice Optimism
Optimism feels more excited about being alive! If you are not currently an optimistic person, don't worry – optimism can be learned. After all if the glass is half-empty, then it’s also already half-full. You can teach yourself to see the other side, despite the little setbacks, small adversities, disappointments, frustrations, and letdowns in your everyday experiences. Here are several optimistic thoughts to practice:
-Things didn't go well today, but there's a lot to be learned from this experience.
-Somehow everything is going to work out for the best.
-There is a future, and you will get through this emotion, situation, or experience.
-Be a friend to yourself when you need it most.
-When life is especially difficult, remember that life happens even to 'good' people.
-Understand that you are part of something bigger.
5. Choose Joy
A starting point to allow a deeper connection to excitement about your own life is to make a conscious decision that you are tired of “working" on your life and “working" on your problems. Decide you want to feel good right now. Then, get busy making simple choices that allow you to feel good about yourself today. For example:
-Appreciate the love and beauty already in your life.
-Always keep your word to yourself.
-Value your own efforts.
-Instead of focusing on problems, envision solutions.
-Practice self-supportive thoughts.
-Lighten up and don't take yourself so seriously.
-Schedule time every day for relaxation.
-Learn to breathe consciously and deeply.
6. Follow Your Bliss
Over twenty years ago the great American mystic Joseph Campbell told us that the secret of life was to “Follow Your Bliss." Turns out, he was right. Follow your instincts and choose actions that make you happy – both now and in the long-run. For example, if you’re feeling low and you choose sugary sweet comfort foods to lift your spirits, you may feel good now, but you won’t be feeling so good a little while from now. Following your bliss means looking inside and choosing an action or activity that allows you to feel more alive. Alive with no regrets or undesirable consequences. Choose to spend your time and energy on activities that create a fuller, richer life for yourself.
Excitement is something we choose. It’s something we set forth as a possibility, and then look for ways to making it happen. This is your life. Is today the day you purposefully get excited about exploring, discovering, and creating?
There are numerous actions that support your ability to achieve a higher level of excitement about your own life. Below are several powerful places to begin:
1. Stop the Drama
Excitement about your life emerges as you gain a deeper capacity to accept things as they are right now. Often times when things get rough, it is easy to fall into the worry trap, worrying about the issue, picking at the problem, and conjuring up the worst-case scenario. Intense focus on the problem accelerates negative emotions and stirs up even more chaos.
Acceptance of the situation allows you to stop flailing about and see the situation in a new light. Life is an ever-changing flow of moving, breathing, suffering, and hoping. It includes sorrows and dreams, and the mystery of things actually working out for the best. You’re not having a particular challenge because you are bad, wrong, or being punished. Instead, you can look at the situation and bring compassion to yourself. Discover if there is something to gain from the experience. Often, a difficult challenge also has within it a trans-formative power that can assist you in creating a more fully developed life.
2. Emotional Flow
Obviously, life is not about the absence of emotions. Therefore, allowing yourself to be excited about being alive involves an understanding that joy and sorrow are not a mutually exclusive proposition. Both are possible, and both can occur simultaneously. With this new definition of wholeness, your life journey is no longer about attempting to abolish difficult emotions, but learning new strategies to recognize, accept, and allow emotional flow.
Emotions have energy, and big emotions have big energy. A key to emotional flow requires learning to accept emotions as they occur while also attaining the ability to stand back and let the emotional energy move on through. I will be the first to admit this is tricky business. It’s so easy to want to resist uncomfortable emotions, suppress them, or get all tangled up in them. Mastering emotional flow means doing what we least want to do – accept emotions, stand behind a short wall, breathe, and let them flow.
3. Breathe
Conscious breathing is a vital ingredient in the recipe of an exciting life. Breath instantly lifts your spirits and clears your mind of negative thoughts and tension. Breath keeps energy moving. In addition, breath is the choice you make to be alive, to be you, and to be connected to your wisdom. Decide to breathe consciously throughout the day. Several times each hour take several deep, fulfilling breaths, that invigorates you body and rids your body of accumulated heaviness.
4. Practice Optimism
Optimism feels more excited about being alive! If you are not currently an optimistic person, don't worry – optimism can be learned. After all if the glass is half-empty, then it’s also already half-full. You can teach yourself to see the other side, despite the little setbacks, small adversities, disappointments, frustrations, and letdowns in your everyday experiences. Here are several optimistic thoughts to practice:
-Things didn't go well today, but there's a lot to be learned from this experience.
-Somehow everything is going to work out for the best.
-There is a future, and you will get through this emotion, situation, or experience.
-Be a friend to yourself when you need it most.
-When life is especially difficult, remember that life happens even to 'good' people.
-Understand that you are part of something bigger.
5. Choose Joy
A starting point to allow a deeper connection to excitement about your own life is to make a conscious decision that you are tired of “working" on your life and “working" on your problems. Decide you want to feel good right now. Then, get busy making simple choices that allow you to feel good about yourself today. For example:
-Appreciate the love and beauty already in your life.
-Always keep your word to yourself.
-Value your own efforts.
-Instead of focusing on problems, envision solutions.
-Practice self-supportive thoughts.
-Lighten up and don't take yourself so seriously.
-Schedule time every day for relaxation.
-Learn to breathe consciously and deeply.
6. Follow Your Bliss
Over twenty years ago the great American mystic Joseph Campbell told us that the secret of life was to “Follow Your Bliss." Turns out, he was right. Follow your instincts and choose actions that make you happy – both now and in the long-run. For example, if you’re feeling low and you choose sugary sweet comfort foods to lift your spirits, you may feel good now, but you won’t be feeling so good a little while from now. Following your bliss means looking inside and choosing an action or activity that allows you to feel more alive. Alive with no regrets or undesirable consequences. Choose to spend your time and energy on activities that create a fuller, richer life for yourself.
Excitement is something we choose. It’s something we set forth as a possibility, and then look for ways to making it happen. This is your life. Is today the day you purposefully get excited about exploring, discovering, and creating?
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