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Positive Ponderings: Theory of Relativity

Posted on January 7, 2013 | Comments Off

How much of who you are
and what you do
is based on your family history?

* * *

Are you using it as an excuse
or are there things
that you can change?

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Blog Of The Year 2012!

Posted on January 3, 2013 | 2 comments

Blog of the Year Award 2 star jpeg Imagine my surprise as I opened my notifications a few days ago to find that two wonderful and inspiring fellow bloggers, Metaphorical Marathons and Women Making Strides, had selected my blog as their choice for a “Blog of the Year 2012” award!

WOW! I have only been blogging for four months so for anyone, let alone two people, to find my blog worthy of such an honour is astounding! I am very appreciative and thankful. This award means a lot to me.

According to the author of Women Making Strides, here are the rules governing the award. In her Metaphorical Marathons blog, the author poses questions for her pay-it-forward award winners to answer.

So here goes; her questions, my answers:

What do you most like about yourself?

I like that, for most of the time anyway, I keep looking forward to the possibilities that lay ahead instead of dwelling on past failures. I look at failures as learning experiences from which to grow.

What makes you giddy with excitement?

If my kids have been away for a while, I get giddy with excitement as I’m driving to meet them. They are the bright stars in my life.

What’s your favourite place or part of nature, and why?

Walking a trail in a forest on a clear crisp Fall day. Everything smells so fresh. The birds are singing, the squirrels are scurrying up and down trees, and the leaves beneath my feet are crunching as others drift slowly to the forest floor creating a beautiful carpet of oranges, rusts, reds and yellows. It’s both peaceful and rejuvenating.

What is the one thing you really want to learn how to do?

I would really love to learn how to take professional quality photographs.

If you could be anyone for a day, who would you be?

I would be myself at about age twenty and I would convince myself to take the trip to Europe that I had considered but never took.

Here are my choices for the Blog of the Year 2012 award:

The inspiring Life Out of the Box: http://lifeoutofthebox.com/

The stunning photographs of Patrick Latter: http://hikingphoto.com/

The thought-provoking I Heart Change: http://iheartchange.wordpress.com/

My questions for you:
Who inspires you most?
What would like to be known for?
Name one challenge you have overcome and from which you have grown.
Name one place you have never been but would like to go.

Congratulations and keep blogging positivity!

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Quotes That Make You Go Hmmm…

Posted on January 2, 2013 | Comments Off

Just as man cannot live
without dreams,
he cannot live
without hope.
If dreams reflect the past,
hope
summons the future.

– Elie Wiesel

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It’s A New Year, Baby!

Posted on January 1, 2013 | Comments Off

medium_80224400 With Father Time safely retired, it’s time for Baby New Year to make sure his diaper is securely fastened, adjust his sash, and get to work. He has a lot to accomplish in only 365 days.

The beauty of having a baby as a symbol for the New Year is that he (or she) reminds us that before we can run, we must first learn to crawl and then to walk.

He also symbolizes a beginning. We all have to start somewhere. No matter what changes you hope to make this year, what goals you have laid out for yourself, you have to start somewhere. And that somewhere is exactly where you are.

There is no use wishing things were different; that you had a different job, a different house, a different relationship. You have what you have. If you want something different, you have to look at where you are then assess where you want to be, then plan the steps needed to get there.

Just like Baby New Year, begin by crawling. Go slowly and methodically as you plot your course and gradually pull yourself up until you are ready to take your first steps.

Before you know it, you’ll be chasing the other babies down the street – or maybe you will take the lead and they will follow.

There is a beauty in newness. There is an unknown. No history. No mistakes. Only unrealized opportunity.

What did you learn or accomplish in 2012? The lessons were likely many. It’s time to assess the past and set your sights on the future.

Today is the start of a brand new year. Imagine what you will do in 2013!

You’ll go a long way, Baby!

Share one of your goals for 2013.

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Positive Ponderings: World Shift

Posted on December 31, 2012 | Comments Off

What will you do this year
to create a positive shift
in your world?

Can you envision its impact beyond your immediate sphere?

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Bright-Side of the Web: How do 2,000 become 1?

Posted on December 28, 2012 | Comments Off

One man.
One vision.
One call.
2,000 responses.
One amazing result.

Eric Whitacre once dreamed of becoming an ’80’s pop star. Instead he became this:

Watch as he explains his journey from a university student with no formal musical education (he didn’t even know how to read music) to a professional composer and conductor and how he created magic with people he never met.

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Resolution Solution

Posted on December 27, 2012 | 2 comments

It’s that time year of again. Time to join a gym and vow to lose the 20lbs you’ve been vowing to lose for the past two years. Will this year be different?

According to Dr. Mike, it very likely will.

Dr. Mike Evans of Toronto’s St. Michael’s Hospital claims that resolutions made at this time of year have a significantly better chance of sticking than when made at any other time of year. He explains how and why in this very entertaining video.