Sometimes in the winds of change, we find our true direction. I just heard that one on the following Joy Movie. http://thejoymovie.com As I was reading the words and watching the most wonderful pictures, I realized that I truly believed of what was shown there.
"Nothing happens but first a dream by Carl Sandberg," I'm speaking to a group this week and my premice is that in order to make a difference in the world you must learn to live your dream or your passion. In this day and age, so many of us are living someone elses dream. Your parents told you that you must be an engineer, but you always wanted to be an artist. Might it be possible to be an engineer and still be an artist in order to fulfill that part of your life? Many of us have been pushed out of our nest (I was laid off three times) before we took a hard cold look at who we are and why we are doing what we are doing. We are forced to look. Isn't that when we get things done? Take a look at your dream today! Write it down. It really doesn't matter whether you know how you'll attain it, just write it down. Your own mind works wonders.
Look at yourself in the mirror? What do you see? Do you accept and love that person. I believe that we must learn to love ourselves, yes, even when we feel rejected perhaps in a lay off or in a divorce or any number of life's changes. If you learn to love ourself "anyway" you can really make a difference in your life and those around you. Remember, when you get on a plane, you are asked to put the oxygen on yourself first and then you can help those around you?. There's a wonderful motivational speaker, Nick Vujicic, who has no arms and no legs, yet inspires others. He empowers others to be the best person they can be. He credits God as the one who has enabled him to be love, to show love and to accept himself and what life has thrown at him. Can you do the same? Wes Hopper at http://www.dailygratitude.com inspiresd us to stay in the thankfulness mode - write down things that you have in your life that you are grateful for.
"Laughter is an Instant Vacation," says Milton Berle. When we learn to take life a little lighter, we will make such a difference in our lives (benefits:more blood in our veins, body pain killers-endorphins, lots of smiling,etc) and in the lives of those around you. You are contageous when you are smiling and when you are laughing. Get this, you don't even have to have something to laugh at in order to get those benefits - fake it until you make it. Studies have shown that you just have to anticipate a joyous event or you just have to be around happy people. That's quite a gift, isn't it? Take that instant vacation by laughing as you take your morning constitutional today:-)
So wading through life's changes will be much easier if you take a look at your dream, accept what God has created in you and put a smile on your face - Make a Difference Today!
Hi Kitty,
Our souls truly are renewed by laughter as my mother personified. When she was in her 80's and had lost her husband, a daughter to cancer, and her son due to a mistake during "routine" surgery, a friend asked, "How can you be in such good spirits after all you have been through?" Her response was, "No one wants to hear someone else's problems and, furthermore, anything short of a positive attitude only makes it worse." Another friend once commented, "I've never know anyone who could go from tears to laughter so quickly."
She Made a Difference Everyday!
Posted by: Jean R. McFarland, Ph.D. | February 08, 2009 at 02:40 PM