Awaken Your Day - Dec 29 - Part of the Plan is to Plan

"Before you begin a thing remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. You can only see one thing clearly, and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin."
- Kathleen Norris, Novelist

Many of us at this time of year, are planning that wonderful "New Year's Resolution".
Maybe not 'planning' as much as hoping and trying to be convincing - to themselves, and then to everyone else.

While a resolution can be good, I prefer to label my New Year Plans as just that... plans, or goals.
Do what you must to take away the mental impact of 'pressure' but still make a commitment to yourself that you are going to apply your best effort.

Too often these resolutions are lined with a level of desperation, and then surrounded by negative energy. People are upset about their weight, or their job ... or something they deem as a fault and it must change...so they make a resolution...saying it feels better and they convince themselves...all will be better. But then, the first obstacle hits and they were too busy focussing on the promise to realize that there would be some tough turns to navigate on this journey...and then they give up.

I do not call it a "resolution". I call it a goal. A goal for something that is going to enhance my life so therefore I have everything to gain from staying focussed on it. AND... I know it will not always fall right into place for me, so I attempt to foresee what might rise up as an obstacle, and now I am more prepared.

The problems I may face, are nothing to stop me but the unprepared discouragement that attacks us can stop just about any of us.

Set a goal for this New Year promise on the horizon. Prepare yourself by accepting that things may not go 100% smooth but remind you of the rewards, and that these things are not show stoppers.

You still have your eyes on the prize and the awareness of why you are doing what you do.

Good morning.
Happy Holidays - and let's finish the year strong.

Pierre
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Awaken Your Day - Dec 24- A doorway to Celebrate

"Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation."
- John F. Kennedy

Your time is now.
The effort you put forward to make any kind of difference on what matters to you, that effort and energy all counts for something.

When you ask, "What can I do ?", do not let it be with that tone of despair or defeat. Presuming insignificance.

Ask it boldly, and with interest in an answer.

"What Can I do?"

You do not need to celebrate Christmas to adopt the need to Celebrate mankind at this time of year.

You do not need to buy presents or follow traditions that have no meaning to you to join in the Joyous attention that this time of year applies to our feelings of Goodwill, sharing, and making contact with the good in all people.

I think we have made it clear that you do not need an event, or special occasion to play a role, to make a difference; that all starts with you and can be expressed or acted out at any time and that is what we encourage. But seeing as how this is Christmas, and with this time comes a much more captive and receptive audience, along with the efforts of others who walk beside us in our efforts ... our time is Now.

Do a little ... to increase the total ... and together we make a larger difference.

Good morning...Great day.

Pierre Couturier
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Awaken Your Day - Dec 22 - Your Day, Your Decision?

"Be your own best advocate. You have the talent, energy and truck-loads of charm necessary for success. Now, add to that a little more faith in your efforts and watch things happen."
- Horoscope calendar for today.

Do you ever read your horoscope?
Are you one of those people that as soon as you read it, whatever those words said, you felt it?

Did you believe it?

If it was good...did you grab it and run thru your day using it like a lottery ticket ?

If it was bad, did you give up on the day and drag it with you like a heavy weight draining your energy?

My point? Did you let something someone else wrote - someone who does not know you, has never met you, has no knowledge about your ambition, your dreams, or your passions... someone who just grouped you in with millions of other people who share your birth "sign"... did you let that person tell you about your "daily destiny" and how it is going to be the same as those millions of other people... and from their words you are being told if you will find success, discouragment or a blah blah blah kind of day??

Well...if you are that person who gives all your power of decision to some words in a newspaper ...then try this. Read all the horoscopes...and pick the best one to be yours.

Seriously. If you are going to give up your power that easily - you should at least pick a prediction that best suits your results. And if you don't like that...send me $15.95 and I will surely tell you how to live your day.

Make sense? Let someone, or something lay out your blueprint, and you could very well be choosing the end before you start.

Maybe it is not the horoscope...so you think you are safe.

Well, what about these wonderful destiny controllers?

Coffee?
Cigarette?
Traffic?
Newspaper headlines?
Stock Quotes?
Alarm clock?
Lottery numbers?

Your crutch, you decide.
What fine line do you base your "daily destiny" on?

I invite you to take my horoscope from today, and treat it like a philosophy challenge.
It is not a "good day / bad day" prediction. It is an idea on how to take back control...

Opportunity greets you every morning at the very first fork in the road.
Your day. Your Decision on what path it will follow.

"You will have a good day, provided you choose to do so." - P

Pierre Couturier
Author - "All She Is..."
Reach and you will find hidden treasure -Here.
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Awaken Your Day - Dec 19 - Simple Things

"Anything simple always interests me."
- David Hockney

Socks.

Okay...Christmas, and socks.

Got a mental picture now, don't you?

Funny how things take on a whole different set of values, as our growth ( phyiscal, mental and emotional) progresses.

Christmas morning, all excited for presents and opening stuff and wondering what you got and Oh Ya one of those! and AWESOME ! you got that ...and .... and .... What's this? A package of socks? Who gives a package of socks? Really??

This morning I was getting ready and much to my disappointment I realized I did not have any clean work socks. More, I did not have any clean pairs of those ones I like, those cushiony ones that make my feet not hurt.

Those cushiony ones that make my feet feel good.

Those...grey socks, with the little emblem on top that should sit right over my middle toe cause then the seam is in the right place and oh you remember when we found those and how soft they were on my feet and how good that made my whole body feel because we know what happens when my feet get sore they just ache and I feel it all up my back and I can feel the agrivation coming on and I get grouchy when my feet hurt and why can't every pair of socks feel like that much cushion and I sure wish I had just one more pair hidden here in the drawer if I could just find one more pair hidden here somewhere it would be just like, I don't know like a gift or something boy would it be a nice surprise to find just one more of those pairs ya that would make my day be just like a ... Christmas morning, when I was a kid.

Socks. Then, and now.

What else in your day may fall under the same banner, or evolved story of meaning...as socks?

I challenge you to find the value in all the simple things in your day that we often overlook...until it is not there.

Objects, people and abilities to do things.
Count your "socks" - count your blessings.

Good morning, good counting - and I urge you to comment here on the things you get reaquanted with.

Pierre
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