Never underestimate the power of online social networking, especially Twitter. Sometimes it is easier to connect with other people when it is only in 140 characters and not a long drawn out conversation.
What I loved about this story that I heard on ABC’s 20/20 TV show, is that e.c.o., Incorporated is innovative. One of the owners, a recent MBA graduate, could not get a job on wall street and so, she got creative and designed this pizza box and is thriving in this this economy. Why did you and I both not think of that before she did?
And using Twitter? From that single tweet, she got a lot of attention and now The Green Box has been the subject of various news segments and newspaper articles, and has been featured in hundreds of internet blogs and has been the talk of social networking sites around the world. The video has also been viewed half a million times on youtube.
That could be you? How are you using social networking to redefine your values and the way you approach your entrepreneurship?
Let me start off by blessing you this Father’s day! I bless your day, each and every one of you.
You know, Father’s day is an amazing wonderful opportunity to reflect upon our fathers and those that the men father.
I want to encourage you to tap into your Inner Genius as you celebrate Father’s day.
When I think of Fatherhood, I think of a loving, steady hand placed on my head and me as a little child feeling safe, knowing that all is well in my world. I also have the image of my father leaning down and placing a big fat kiss on my forehead. It is an image of a loving blessing.
That blessing is the manifestation of the God connection of my Inner Genius.
The surprising thing that you may find fascinating is that my father was an atheist but he taught me, by example, that I had a wonderful Spiritual Fatherly God connection and that this world is a safe and wonderful place to be in.
We were built to be fathered. Fatherhood represents stability and goodness; something solid and grounding in your life. The energy of fatherhood must show up in our lives whether our fathers were present or not, good or bad. Otherwise, we never know and develop our sense of belonging here on planet earth.
Celebrating fatherhood, both spiritual and earthly is part of discovering your Inner Genius.
How is the parental, all-is-safe-and-well-in-my-world God connection showing up in your life?
How are you receiving fatherhood energy in your life?
How are you giving the fatherhood energy to others in your life?
I found this article and I loved it so much, I reprinted it in its entirety here. Enjoy.
Psychologists break down gratitude into three phases: appreciation, goodwill and expression [source: Watkins]. Say someone gives you a ticket to see your favorite band. Initially, you’d probably react with appreciation for the unsolicited gift; the appreciation would breed a sense of goodwill toward the giver. Finally, you’d want to express your thanks in some way.
These characteristics of gratitude align closely with those of subjective well-being, aka happiness. You project a positive outlook onto a situation and exhibit sociability, likely strengthening the recipient-giver relationship. Due to this overlap, some psychologists have posited that gratitude is one of the keenest predictors of high subjective well-being. To test this link, a six-item Gratitude Questionnaire rates participants’ natural tendencies toward feeling and showing gratitude. People who scored high on the survey also ranked at the top of the pack on the Satisfaction With Life Survey, one of the most commonly used polls for evaluating happiness [source: Watkins].
It’s understandable that gratitude and happiness are intersecting affective states, given their similar set of positive features. Yet, what’s more intriguing is the impact of gratitude on one’s subjective well-being; people on the lower end of the happiness scale can benefit from practicing gratitude. In a 10-week study comparing participants who kept a daily log of things they felt grateful for and those who didn’t, members of the gratitude group demonstrated a 25 percent lift in happiness [source: Emmons]. Follow-up studies also found that people who regularly recorded sources of gratitude exercised more per week and achieved more goals [source: Emmons].
Gratitude may have positive long-term effects, but it doesn’t come easy for everyone. A study at George Mason University concluded that men may have more difficulty grappling with gratitude. Some men feel burdened when they receive gifts, rather than accepting them as unconditional favors [source: George Mason University]. Furthermore, gratitude demands a certain degree of emotional openness and vulnerability that some people find uncomfortable. Therefore, it may take time to grow accustomed to intentionally recognizing facets of life that we shouldn’t take for granted [source: Aaronson].
Research continually illustrates that practicing gratitude pays off in spades. Human emotions are highly adaptable, which can preserve our spirits during rough times and also numb us to happiness. Gratitude, however, refreshes our appreciation for good fortunes that may otherwise fall by the wayside in the daily grind. That, in effect, reinvigorates happiness.
Thanksgiving may only come once a year, but you’ll thank your lucky stars if you learn to count your blessings every day.
Conger, Cristen. “Is there a link between gratitude and happiness?.” 16 June 2009. HowStuffWorks.com. 20 June 2009.
Have you recently checked your gratitude? Do you just assume you are grateful? How can you conciously create a practice of gratitude?
You know all about love. You know to love yourself and engage in massive self care but do you really understand what this is about?
Do you really know how to love yourself although you know how to love everyone else?
My client Isabel has been an awesome client. She shows up on time for her calls. She pays promptly and she works hard on personal development. She does not blame others for anything going on in her life. She likes her job but does not love it. She is deeply satisfied with her work as a volunteer with her local animal rescue league. She is single and feels lonely but she has made peace with this area of her life.
She started coaching with me because she felt all was well in her world but she did not feel fulfilled.
In our time together, I have noticed that so much is going well for her but she focuses her love mostly in an outside directional manner to others. Every time I brought up the issue of self love, she glossed over it. She felt her self care was in order as she exercised often and got regular haircuts, manicures and pedicures.
Finally, she admitted it. She felt empty. She felt something was missing in her. She felt something was fundamentally wrong with her.
This was a great opportunity to open the door of self love.
As we talked about self love, it surfaced that this truly was a foreign subject to her. She really did not grasp it.
It was painful for her to acknowledge anything about herself. As we focused on what she did for others, it was clear that she considered these things her obligations. However, when we turned that obligation inward, and asked her about her obligations to herself, she was unable to see that her obligations to herself were beyond providing food, shelter, exercise and proper money management for herself.
This was her home work:
Make a list of all the wonderful qualities you want in a mate or qualities that you truly admire in others. For each of those items on the list, find that same quality in yourself and write a full paragraph about it.
When you write out the paragraph, let it flow. Write down everything that comes to mind exactly as it comes to mind and sit with it and let the words speak to you. Acknowledge what it says about yourself. When you acknowledge those qualities about yourself, write down what feelings come up.
You cannot walk away from the exercise until you find and experience within you the fullness of what you are looking for in your partner or that quality in another person.
The first item on her list was that her potential partner must be intelligent.
So Isabel had to acknowledge within herself her intelligence.
She wrote a paragraph that went something like this:
“I am intelligent. Ouch! That is too hard. Ok, Ok. I am intelligent. I like being intelligent. Ok, I love being intelligent. I love how I like to read and how I create witty conversation about what I read. I love that I am not brainwashed by the news. I love that I am an independent thinker. Wow. This is deep. I really do see that I am intelligent. OK, how do I love this about myself? OK. I am intelligent. Wow. I love this about me. I love that I think critically. I know a lot of people who do not think. O, boy that is about other people, not about me. Back to me. I think. I like that. I really like that. In fact, I love that. Being a thinker helps me learn easily. OK, I am getting a hang of this. Learning easily means I listen better. I love learning so I listen so I can learn what I am listening to. OK, this means that I can focus on listening or reading. I focus. Wow. I like that I focus and I am not scatter brained.”
She then distilled out the wonderful things about herself that she learned in this lesson:
I am….
Intelligent
I think
I learn easily
I am a good listener
I focus well and in depth
She then let these words sink deep into her heart.
Here were her words describing how she fell in love with herself for the first time:
“Tears came to my eyes as I felt a swell in my heart. That is me. I am the one that is intelligent and thinking. I learn easily and I am a good listener and I can focus easily and in depth. That is a very awesome person. Wow. I am amazed that I discovered all that about myself. Phew. Gosh, I really am wonderful and I have deprived myself of knowing this about myself because I just never focused on myself and acknowledged myself. Thank you, Me!”
The following session, she informed me that she felt so calm and serene throughout the week and was able to find many more things she felt she was in love with in herself.
Interestingly enough, she did meet and flirt with two men that week that she felt were “remarkably intelligent.”
Interesting!
This is the law of attraction at work in a practical and personal way. As she focused on intelligence and love, intelligence and potential love showed up in her life.
What are the ways that you can fall in love with yourself today?
Do you have a favorite way?
How do you differentiate between external love and that internal falling in love with you?
Leave a comment about self love and the information here and you are showing yourself a lot of self love!
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Do you see those big pictures to the left?
Well, Click on each picture and you will find out more about the amazing person that you are.
Each picture represents that part of you that is your Inner Genius.
Welcome to the life that you have been wanting.
