Positive Affirmations

I am a big fan of saying daily positive affirmations! I definitely feel that they help manifest wonderful changes and it helps me stay positive and focused on my life goals! I have lists of them everywhere, and I make a habit of repeating them several times a day, every day! Here are a few of my favorites:

- Today is a beautiful day and will be full of happiness and love!

- All of my relationships are loving and harmonious!

- I am thankful for all the wonderful things in my life!

- I open my heart to allow wonderful things to come into my life!

- I am healthy, wealthy, happy and successful!

- I am prosperous!

- I am a loving, kind, generous person!

- I love and accept myself exactly as I am!

- I am healthy and full of energy!

- I send out love and it returns to me multiplied!

- I am grateful for everything I have received and will receive in life!

 "What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve." Napoleon Hill

Happy 2012!

Happy Happy New Year friends!

Last year was very much an adventure for me, but then again when isn't life an adventure?! I had many up and downs, learned lots of lessons, gained and lost friends, tried some things for the first time, had a plethora of new experiences both good and bad; I laughed, cried, loved and lived and I am utterly grateful for every single moment! I can't believe another year has come and gone but I'm very much looking forward to all the surprises and gifts that 2012 holds for me! Here's to a beautiful year ahead!

This bright new year is given me

To live each day with zest

To daily grow and try to be

My highest and my best!

-William Arthur Ward

Thirty Days of Thankful

HAPPY NOVEMBER!!!! I cannot believe the end of the year is so close; I can't believe the end of November is so close! Before we know it, December will be here! This month I'm doing a Thankful challenge, where I think of something I'm thankful about every day. I love this! It follows in my attempt to live life with a feeling of "Gratitude is the best attitude!" So here we are on Day 22 and I'd like to recap my gratitude for the last 21 days...

Thirty Days of Thankful

Day 1: I'm thankful for hugs on bad days!

Day 2: This last year has been hell on my health, so I'm thankful for being healthy and whole again (physically anyway lol!)

Day 3: I'm thankful for foot rubs after a long day of work!

Day 4: Today I'm thankful for a comfy place to rest my head every night!

Day 5: Today I'm thankful for my boobs! Just leaving the Save Second Base block party! So nice to spend time with friends and help raise money for breast cancer!

Day 6: I'm thankful for painkillers lol! I will leave it at that.

Day 7: I'm SO thankful for living somewhere with an endless summer! Love my flip flops, summer dresses, beach days, boat trips, sunglasses and bikinis 365 days a year!!! ♥


Day 8: I'm thankful for all this rain we're getting! Filling those cisterns right up!

Day 9: I'm thankful for quiet, alone time. And I'm thankful that I can enjoy it. I remember a time when I couldn't stand to be alone for more than 30 seconds. Growing up a tiny bit I think.

Day 10: I'm thankful for hugs! Not many things let you receive and give comfort at the same time...

Day 11: I'm thankful for love!

Day 12: I'm thankful for bad days, because once they're over good days seem so much more amazing!

Day 13: I'm thankful to have not only have two jobs, but I like them both and the people I work for!

Day 14: I'm thankful for politeness and manners! I'm thankful I know how to use them and I'm thankful when others do as well!

Day 15: I'm thankful for self confidence because I'm rocking a fro today! The old me wouldn't have left the house:)

Day 16: I'm thankful for learning to let go, to forgive but not forget! And I'm thankful for the experiences, good and bad, that are teaching me how to do this every day.

Day 17: I'm thankful for Karma.

Day 18: I'm thankful for music.

Day 19: I'm thankful for a car that runs on this island! No walking for me:)

Day 20: I'm thankful for the holidays! Can't wait for a few days off to do nothing at all!

Day 21: I'm thankful for my love who always cooks the most delicious meals for us!

Day 22: I'm thankful for second chances! Actually I'm thankful for 3rd and 4th chances, because I shudder to think what could have been had I not gotten a few re-dos in life!

Happy Sunday!

I'm determined to be a happy girl! Before I got out of bed this morning I thought of all the things in life that I'm happy and grateful for. I'm still feeling blue, but I'm resolving to keep thinking positively. Isn't that what the saying "Fake it, til you make it!" means?! I'm not always the best at it, but I'm just going to keep trying!

I'm happy to be winding down my work morning. It has been a bit hectic at the Inn here today! In a few minutes I'll be heading towards a much needed counseling session. And if this pretty weather holds up, I'll be heading to the beach after that. I'm really looking forward to that since it's been weeks since my toes have been in the ocean!!!

Happy Sunday all!!!!

Gratitude is the Best Attitude

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today.  Have you used one to say "thank you?"  ~William A. Ward

If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get.  ~Frank A. Clark

Gratitude is the best attitude.  ~Author Unknown

I'm working on feeling grateful every single day so I can appreciate all the positive and beautiful things in my life and bring even more into it! Today I am grateful for friends and family.

I'm grateful for D who calls to check on me constantly and has been with me through the thick of it. I think she has a 6th sense about when I'm feeling my lowest and calls to listen to me cry and share stories about S  which always cheers me up! Thank you.

I'm grateful for F whose random stories and funny words makes me forget why I'm feeling sad. Thank you.

I'm grateful for B who makes me smile, without fail, every single day. This is something that I need more than I can put into words. Being happy for those few minutes means more to me than he probably knows. Thank you.

I'm grateful to P and P whose tough love and yummy food I just couldn't live without! Thank you.

I'm grateful to E who is one of the very few who actually makes plans with me and keeps them! Without him I would rarely leave the house! Thank you.

I'm grateful to O for giving me a very comfy place to stay and shoulder to cry on when I needed it most. Thank you.

I'm grateful to A for understanding me emotionally like no one else in the world ever has and for always having positive, enlightening things to share with me. Thank you.

I'm grateful to L who follows me around, almost stalkerishly (pretty sure I just made that word up, but I am a Grammar Queen, so yeah) but makes me feel loved and wanted. Funny how such a small thing can do that. Thank you.

I'm grateful for J whose constant invites to hang out are extremely appreciated and needed. And even though I haven't taken her up on them quite yet, I will and very soon! I'm getting there, I promise! Thank you.

There are a million other things I am grateful and thankful for. I try to remind myself to start the day saying thank you for anything and everything I can think of, down to what seems the most insignificant. Once I get going, it's easy to think of more and more to be grateful for. It's something I will try my best to keep up with.

Happy Wednesday all!!