Awaken Your Day - May 8, 2017 - On your mark! Get Set!

"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about."
- Charles Kingsley

Go!
And then, I am speechless. When the obvious hits you square between the eyes, really, what is there to say? Should you say anything? Or should you choose to spend a quiet moment with the realization that is around you like a healing cloud, and let it sink in.

I am talking about Enthusiasm. It is a choice. It is often the road forgotten because the road signs pointing you in the better feeling direction are obscured by the clutter we attach to our vision like magnets on a fridge.

Read Charles' words again. How much different is your day, more importantly how much more improved is your focus when you approach your day, your job, your task ... with Enthusiasm?
I say - enough to make it worth your time and energy. Enough to heal what ails you. Enough to change your experience and in so doing, change you for the better.

So... Monday. Instead of thinking about work and how much money you make and the comfort and luxury it brings... think about how good you are at what you do. Think Enthusiastically about your skills, what you bring. Do this with your work, your sport, your music and hobbies and teaching and outlook and breathing and your laughter and your sharing and...

your life.

Enthusiasm is that ingredient that improves everything you experience - Pierre
 
Good morning, Greater Day. Greater You - adding a new ingredient to everything you cook up in life.
AYD - Pierre Couturier - Husband, Daddy and Enthused and Infused Author to my Day.

Awaken Your Day - May 5, 2017 - Push Your Limits

( repost from Aug 29, 2008)

Push Your Limits
Before you stands a weekend....
A finish line of sorts for many of us who work at a job for a standard Monday to Friday obligation.
Before you stands a weekend, and often with it - an idea of what you will do with your time.
There is the list of what you should, or "have to" do.
There is an idea or a list of what you "want" to do.

Many of you have a list of some sort ... and many have an invisible word behind some of those things.
I want to work on the car ... "but"...
I want to take the family to the lake, "but"...
I want to work on my business,
I have to take the kids back to school shopping,
I need to get in some time for ...
I sure would love to ...
"but"
Do you know your boundaries? Your self made limits.
Do you know or can you see beyond them to that symbolic goal line where you have to get in order to check off items on a list of any kind.
Have a good weekend... as I picture you, and all of us, reaching beyond the boundary limit... and doing something a little more with our time.

 Good morning, Greater Day.
Greater You - pushing yourself in a good direction.
AYD - Pierre Couturier - Husband, Daddy and Author to my Day.

Awaken Your Day - May 1, 2017 - A piece of advice from a long time ago ( May 2008)

Quick and easy this morning, but something that makes sense.


"Throw out an alarming alarm clock. If the ring is loud and strident, you're waking up to instant stress. You shouldn't be bullied out of bed, just reminded that it is time to start your day."
- Sharon Gold

My wife says there are times when I would sit bolt upright in bed when the alarm used to go off. Would like to see a visual of my heart when that sudden bolt of panic hits it. Maybe that is why I felt defeated thru my mornings on those days.


Remember to take a moment for you. Deep breaths and a visit to your present state of mind.
Change it now if you need to. Change the alarm clock before there comes the time that you "need" to change your state.


Good morning...Opportunity Monday...what is the step you will take today?
Good morning, Greater Day. Greater You - recognizing a simple change.
AYD - Pierre Couturier - Husband, Daddy and Author to my Day

Awaken Your Day - April 25, 2017 - TBT

( borrowed from the archives - May 22, 2008)
"Those too afraid to chase their own dreams, are always first to discourage yours."
- Author unknown to me

It never fails really. I run across this statement, and without another word being spoken in support of it, I have visions of memories - just like the movies - that come at me one after another of people who had no reason to "rain on my parade" , however it was their immediate reaction to do so.

Keep in mind that if you too have this - I would like to remind you that you are looking backwards to see them.

Victim or victor? Are those faces and unknowing comments spurring you on - or dragging you down?

I know I spend less and less time looking back because I am too distracted by the cheering of those that have chosen to support me, as they stand at the "goal" line encouraging me to keep going - to keep pressing onward. Those memories of doubt are becoming more and more faint. As are the faces and the names of those who cared nothing about my dreams - but more about their fear of being more alone with their uncharted dream.

Looking forward, and good morning.
Good morning, Greater Day. Greater You - with a positive-forward point of view.
AYD - Pierre Couturier - Husband, Daddy and Author to my Day.