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In This Issue:
- Make The Choice To Be Happy
- Mind Workout: Believe You Can
- Affirmation
- Email Preferences
Hello!
It’s March already. What happened to February? Oh, that’s right. We were in El Salvador. What a great trip! Lloyd and I visited our friends Shawn and D’Arcy Burke and rented one of their beautiful homes right on the ocean. Beach Bella Vista, which is located in El Sunzal.
The house was lovely with a veranda overlooking the pool, beautiful gardens, and the ocean. We took surfing lessons and Lloyd loved it. He surfed every morning. I, on the other hand, drank half the ocean and decided the pool was more my style. We did a lot of sight seeing, attended a concert with a dozen of the singing stars of El Salvador and a 24 piece orchestra, ate in some wonderful restaurants, and had the very best vacation ever. If you are looking for a relaxing place to go and really enjoy yourself with a private beach…no sharks, no jellyfish, no trash, just beautiful beach, you might want to check into this place. We highly recommend it. If you’d like to see it, go to http://www.vrbo.com/377210.
While there, we were asked if we’d like to help paint a community of houses for the poor people, so we did. That turned out to be a real highlight of the trip. Really fun, and the people were so appreciative. I enjoyed seeing how much better the houses looked with a fresh coat (or two or three) of paint.
I finished my book, Overcoming Cancer: A Journey of Faith and it is at the printer. Yea!!! I’m very excited about this one as everyone I know has been touched by cancer in one way or another…either they have it, had it, or someone they love has or has had it. There is so much we don’t know about this terrible disease, so I felt it imperative that I share the things I learned during my journey. It wasn’t a fun journey, but I was able to come through it and look back on it as the very best learning experience of my entire life. My book talks about how important diet, nutrition, exercise, self-care, and attitude are to getting healthy and staying healthy plus I put in tips for caretakers as well as patients. If you know anyone who has recently been diagnosed, I highly recommend you get a copy of this book for them. It will give them hope.
This month, I am working on the Life Choices: Ways to Wellness book and still looking for submissions. If you have a story you want considered, send it to me. 6 to 8 pages. If you want the submission guidelines, email me at judi@judimoreo.com.
Please keep in touch and look for our new on-line magazine, Choices, coming soon.
Remember, you are more than enough,
Judi
Make The Choice To Be Happy
 How can we be happy and passionate every day when we are dealing with the stresses of life? Worrying doesn’t accomplish anything. Worrying simply strangles our creative abilities and keeps us from being able to look for solutions to our problems and challenges. But how do we turn off the worry channel and get back to a happy place?
Focus on the positives in your life. Happiness is a way of looking at things. It is first a decision and then it becomes a habit. When you focus on positives, you are putting your faith into action and giving up uncertainty, doubt, and fear. As children, many of us were told to “look on the bright side.” Sometimes, it’s not easy to do. Some situations don’t seem to have a bright or positive side. However, in most situations, there is at least something we can learn from it. Most successful people believe “everything happens for a reason.” Looking on the “bright side” simply means to look for what’s right, what you can learn, and realize things could be worse. We can learn a lesson from the goldfish swimming in a fish bowl half-filled with water. One fish said to the other, “Is this bowl half-full or half-empty?” The other fish said, ‘I don’t really care. I’m just glad it’s enough.” Are you glad that you are enough?
Stop and think for a minute about the times in your life when you were the happiest…those expanded periods of time when you felt content, joyful, cheerful, or even bliss. What was going on then?
Turn off the television. Research tells us the average American household has the television on at least seven hours a day. Each year, television programming becomes increasingly more violent, inane, and abusive. The negative energy it puts into our lives becomes more and more difficult to overcome. We are subconsciously programming ourselves to be negative by what we are watching. We learn to accept abuse and violence. We are numb to it, even hypnotized by it. We turn that tv or radio on the minute we wake up or walk into the house, because we don’t know how to be alone with our thoughts. We don’t know how to listen to our inner voice. We may even be afraid of what we hear.
Tell your face. While attending a seminar to observe another presenter, I noticed a woman sitting in the third row with her arms folded tightly across her chest and a terrible scowl on her face. She sat like that all morning. At the break, the presenter, Carol, went over to the woman and asked, “Did you come to get anything particular today?” The woman didn’t change her body language or her facial expression one bit and curtly said, “I’m fine.” Carol probed deeper and the woman kept saying, “I’m fine.” Then I heard Carol say, “Well then, tell your face.” The woman burst out laughing. Lucky for Carol. Later I asked her what would make her say something like that to a person in her audience and she said she didn’t think. It just came out her mouth. Later, I started thinking about how many of us sometimes forget to tell our face we are ok. When we put a pleasant look on our face, it changes our entire physiology. The very act of changing to a more positive outward express will make us feel better inwardly.
Find your strengths. Alfred Lord Tennyson once said, “The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.” Do something that you are passionate about. Find your talent. When we use our natural abilities, we are being ourselves… who we were meant to be. This brings us happiness.
Visualize what you want. Pursue it with passion. Listen to your heart. Watch for opportunities. Choose to be happy and tell your face!
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(My mother gave me the following poem in a small frame when I was a child. I’ve kept it on my desk throughout my life as a reminder.)
I’m Happy Being Me
Imagine how happy and free I could be
If I took me a little less seriously
If I’d laugh at my faults every once in a while,
And accept my mistakes with a shrug and a smile.
If I’d take little setbacks and failures in stride
And remember successes with pleasure and pride –
Imagine how happy and free I could be
If I did all I could to enjoy being me!
Mind Workout: Believe You Can
Make a date with yourself and go someplace alone. Choose a place that will appeal to your creative side. Stay at least an hour. Do something fun or something brave. Do something you’ve never done before, or something you have secretly wished you could do. Totally immerse yourself. Tell your face you are okay and smile at passers-by. Speak to some of them.
Before you go home, write in your journal how you felt while you were doing it. Write about any new experiences or insights you had. Write about any fears and how you felt about yourself when you moved through the fear.
Affirmation
“I am free of worry. I do things that make my heart sing. I am a person of worth and I am confident. I take charge, take action, and take responsibility for my life. I am more than enough.”
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