7 Steps to Happiness

7 Steps to Happiness.

My Morning Green Juice

Get the recipe here: My Morning Green Juice.

20 Things You Shouldn’t Tolerate

 

Get the answer here: 20 Things You Shouldn’t Tolerate.

Rise above and choose love!

The Daily Love

via Visual Inspiration: Rise above and choose love!.

 

 

 

Celebrate

Melody Beattie writes:

Take time to celebrate.

Celebrate your successes, your growth, your accomplish­ments. Celebrate you and who you are.

For too long you have been too hard on yourself. Others have spilled their negative energy — their attitudes, beliefs, pain — on you. It had nothing to do with you! All along, you have been a gift to yourself and to the Universe.

You are a child of God. Beautiful, a delight, a joy. You do not have to try harder, be better, be perfect, or be anything you are not. Your beauty is in you, just as you are each moment.

Celebrate that.

When you have a success, when you accomplish something, enjoy it. Pause, reflect, rejoice. Too long you have listened to admonitions not to feel good about what you have done, lest you travel the downward road to arrogance.

Celebration is a high form of praise, of gratitude to the Creator for the beauty of God’s creation. To enjoy and celebrate the good does not mean that it will be taken from you. To celebrate is to delight in the gift, to show gratitude.

Celebrate your relationships! Celebrate the lessons from the past and the love and warmth that is there today. Enjoy the beauty of others and their connection to you.

Celebrate all that is in your life. Celebrate all that is good. Celebrate you!

Today, I will indulge in the joy of celebrating.” via August 26: Celebrate | Language of Letting Go.

Face Your Fears!

Visual Inspiration: Face Your Fears!.

Dear Dr. Ruth…

Heh, heh, heh…

higher powered: Dear Dr. Ruth,.

Who’s your daddy?

 

 

 

Mediterranean baked feta with tomatoes

We have tons of cherry tomatoes from our garden and I love feta cheese and olive oil. This looks like an amazing and healthy way to use them! Get the recipe here: mediterranean baked feta with tomatoes | smitten kitchen.

Church Or Beer: What Do Americans Tweet About More?

FloatingSheep.org examined 10 million tweets tagged with a location within the US sent between June 22 and June 28, filtering out everything except tweets mentioning “church” or “beer”.

They found a total of 17,686 tweet mentioning “church” (half of which were sent on a Sunday) and 14,405 tweets mentioning “beer”. Digging further into the data, the team analyzed which term was more popular in each state.

Below is the visual representation of the great debate (?) between beer and church – which side does your state land on? via Church Or Beer: What Do Americans Tweet About More? [INFOGRAPHIC] – AllTwitter.

All comes down to where you live. Me? I live in a ‘beer’ state! Click to enlarge the map:

Perhaps all Americans can agree on the immortal words of Ben Franklin: “Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy”!

Create your day!

Visual Inspiration: Create your day!.

Covering the Cosmos

Covering the Cosmos | Pops Digital.

The complex tale of Todd Lohenry?

Heh, heh, heh… This was produced automatically from my Facebook data. You can produce one of your own at the Amstel Light website

And then there were two…

I invite you to slip off your old, worn out habits….

notsalmon

via I invite you to slip off your old, worn out habits…..

 

 

 

Try this quick, easy and joy-boosting practice…

notsalmon

via Try this quick, easy and joy-boosting practice….

 

 

 

28 Sexy Pictures Of Older Actors When They Were Young

 

BuzzFeed – Latest. Get more here: 28 Sexy Pictures Of Older Actors When They Were Young.

 

I’m so goofy…

When the posts on my page line up perfectly like in the picture below, I’m happy. To me, the center column should be the longest and the left and right should be shorter. If it’s not this way, it seems out of balance to me and I feel like I need to post something more. Sometimes it’s good to be obsessive with your blog but this? :-D

Detaching in Relationships

Melody Beattie writes:

When we first become exposed to the concept of detachment, many of us find it objectionable and questionable. We may think that detaching means we don’t care. We may believe that by controlling, worrying, and trying to force things to happen, we’re showing how much we care.

We may believe that controlling, worrying, and forcing will somehow affect the outcome we desire. Controlling, worrying, and forcing don’t work. Even when we’re right, controlling doesn’t work. In some cases, controlling may prevent the outcome we want from happening.

As we practice the principle of detachment with the people in our life, we slowly begin to learn the truth. Detaching, preferably detaching with love, is a relationship behavior that works.

We learn something else too. Detachment – letting go of our need to control people – enhances all our relationships. It opens the door to the best possible outcome. It reduces our frustration level, and frees us and others to live in peace and harmony.

Detachment means we care, about others and ourselves. It frees us to make the best possible decisions. It enables us to set the boundaries we need to set with people. It allows us to have our feelings, to stop reacting and initiate a positive course of action. It encourages others to do the same.

It allows our Higher Power to step in and work.” via Detaching in Relationships – Saturday, August 21 – Adult Children Anonymous.

Social media & social change

Holy Kaw!

via Social media & social change [infographic].

The best of @toddlohenry for 8/20/2012

  1. “As a lotus flower is born in water, grows in water and rises out of water to stand above it unsoiled, so I, born in the world, raised in the world having overcome the world, live unsoiled by the…
    Mon, Aug 20 2012 06:42:37
  2. “Your life is meant to be filled with beauty.” Bryant McGill
    Mon, Aug 20 2012 06:42:37
  3. If it doesn’t work, if it doesn’t flow, maybe life is trying to tell us something. Life is a gentle teacher. She doesn’t always send neon road signs to guide us. Sometimes, the signs are more subtle. Something not working may be a sign! Let go. If we have become frustrated by repeated efforts that aren’t producing desired results, we may be trying to force ourselves down the wrong path. Sometimes, a differ­ent solution is appropriate. Sometimes, a different path opens up. Often, the answer will emerge more clearly in the quietness of letting go than it will in the urgency, frustra­tion, and desperation of pushing harder. Learn to recognize when something isn’t working or isn’t flowing. Step back and wait for clear guidance.

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