Change ~ Doesn't Have to Be a Bad Thing

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And the day came when the rise to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. ~ Anaïs Nin

I haven't posted in a while. I felt that something with my blog here need to change. I wasn't sure what exactly that was; I just knew that something needed to be different. Posting to our facebook page has never been an issue; I do that daily, but simply re-posting what I posted there didn't seem to be the right thing. I thought maybe a change in venue would be the trick; but that didn't feel "right" to me. You will notice that I did re-design the page a bit tough.

I also added a couple of pages; one is an About Me page and the other is an BPI (Be Positively Inspired) Amazon Affiliate Store (please check it out here). There are a couple of categories - Kindle, Inspirational Books and Vicki's Picks.  My wonderful hubby bought me the Kindle Fire - I LOVE IT, so I naturally had to include it. If you are buying it to use mainly as an e-reader you will love it. If you are buying it to use a tablet . . . there are other tablets out there that offer some other features that you may enjoy more. Inspirational books are by those who I love to quote and those who I love to read. And Vicki's picks are my books simply for the story. So far it seems I have a it may seem that there are a lot of vampire/witch/werewolf type books on there I have a broad range of things that I enjoy reading and I will add more later. If you have read something you'd like to share with me drop me a comment or message me on facebook.

I get comfortable in my routine so change can be a bit daunting. But sometimes change has a way of hitting you upside the head and resisting it . . . is just, well, futile. I worked last evening making changes to the design of this blog and thinking about future blog posts and then this evening some bad news that threw a monkey wrench into the works. I am hoping that everything works out the way that it should.

I hope that you will join me on my journey to see this through. I hope that you will join me on facebook at Be Positively Inspired or here on my personal page.

Nothing in its essence is one way or the other. All around us the wind, the fire, the earth, the water, are always taking on different qualities; they're like magicians. We also change like the weather. We ebb and flow like the tides, we wax and wane like the moon. We fail to see that like the weather, we are fluid, not solid. And so we suffer.~ Pema Chodron - Comfortable with Uncertainty

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What are you Waiting For? What is the Best That Could Happen?

What are you waiting for?

For the time to be right . . . the time will never be right.
To have enough money . . . what is enough money?
Until you are guaranteed success . . . not sure that can ever be guaranteed.
Until you are no longer afraid . . . I'm not sure that fear ever goes away. We just find ways to work with it.

So what are you waiting for? What is the best thing that could happen if you went ahead with your plans today?

This post is part of the Ultimate Blog Challenge. I am going to really get this blog going. So I decided I'd join the Challenge. The goal of the challenge is to post 31 posts in the month of January and to get more traffic to my blog and to other blogs. This is post number 20. For more info or to join the challenge check the link below.

Comfort Food ~ Smoked Salmon Mac and Cheese

Winter time gets me thinking about comfort food. Our family has them; I'm sure yours does too.

I've got a comfort candy bar even. Nothing beats a rough day better than a Snickers Bar. On days like that no other candy bar will do.

Some of my favorite comfort foods are mashed potatoes with or without gravy, meatloaf, tuna stuffed potatoes (though we no long re-stuff the potatoes) and a recent addition is Smoked Salmon Mac and Cheese.

My husband spends time in the summer fishing the Pacific Ocean and filling our freezer with salmon. We eat it barbecued, broiled, baked, in tacos, on buns and as fish and chips. He also smokes up a bunch of it. 

I love Mac and Cheese especially homemade. I used to make it all the time; so this year I decided to make it with some smoked salmon.  It has quickly become one of our comfort foods. Sorry no picture (once I pull it out of the oven it doesn't last long) or smell-o-blog.

SMOKED SALMON MAC & CHEESE

2 TBS butter

2 TBS flour

¼ cup onion

2 cups milk (whole is probably best, but non fat works)

Smoked Salmon – I didn't measure . . . whatever amount looks like enough

2 cups dry pasta – what ever you have on hand is fine

Cheddar Cheese or a combination of cheeses – I didn't measure

2-3 TBS bread crumbs – plain is best

2-3 TBS Parmesan cheese – I like Kraft (grated is probably better than shredded)

Cook pasta

In a separate pan add butter and onion and flour to make a rue . . . when well combined add milk slowly. Using a Whisk stir constantly over medium to medium high heat until it thickens. Add cheese a little bit at a time and stir to incorporate once all the cheese is combined add smoked salmon and stir well. Add to pasta that has been placed in a baking dish. In a frying pan melt 1 TBS butter and mix in bread crumbs and Parmesan cheese. Saute until a bit brown. Preheat oven to 350. sprinkle bread crumbs and cheese on top and then bake in oven until bubbly and a bit toasty on top.

What are your favorite comfort foods?

This post is part of the Ultimate Blog Challenge. I am going to really get this blog going. So I decided I'd join the Challenge. The goal of the challenge is to post 31 posts in the month of January and to get more traffic to my blog and to other blogs. This is post number 19. For more info or to join the challenge check the link below.

Giving up Control ~ Jesus Take the Wheel

Another music inspired post. I'll admit that I like to watch American Idol. I mostly enjoy the first part of the season with the auditions. I understand how hard it can be to go into a room and sing in front of judges; but not all of us were blessed with the voice of an angel. I remember watching the year that Carrie Underwood won. She has accomplished a lot since then . . . 2 albums and some great awards to her credit.

This is one of my favorite songs by her from her first album. I'm sure we all have moments in our lives where we just have to through our hands in the air and say that you need help. You can't do it all on your own anymore.

As I started to picture the trees in the storm, the answer began to dawn on me. The trees in the storm don't try to stand up straight and tall and erect. They allow themselves to bend and be blown with the wind. They understand the power of letting go. Those trees and those branches that try too hard to stand up strong and straight are the ones that break. Now is not the time for you to be strong, Julia, or you, too, will break. ~ Julia Butterfly Hill

Some think it's holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it's letting go. ~ Sylvia Robinson 

This post is part of the Ultimate Blog Challenge. I am going to really get this blog going. So I decided I'd join the Challenge. The goal of the challenge is to post 31 posts in the month of January and to get more traffic to my blog and to other blogs. This is post number 18. For more info or to join the challenge check the link below.

 

Stress Busters

To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace. ~ Milan Kundera

My daughter is a senior this year. This is the first year that she was not looking forward to going back to school in September. Senior year is huge. It is the final year of high school, the final year of being a "kid" and time of a lot of stress that the kids aren't used to.  

First she had a Culminating Project to choose and work on through out the year. Then she took her SAT's as the first step to going to college. Now she has college applications, financial aid applications and scholarships to apply for. This all on top of her usual studies, her daily tasks at home and she works a part time job. 

I think she and her other senior friends are a bit stressed and would probably prefer sitting with the dog on a hillside than any of the other tasks they have to complete.

So what do you do to beat Stress?  Here are some things on my list . . .

1. Crafting . . . any of the ones I enjoy, knitting, beading, quilting, etc.
2. Laying on the couch reading a book
3. A large cup of tea
4. A long soak in the tub (well, if I had one)
5. A walk on the beach
6. Meditation
7. Baking . . . the one type of cooking I like to do
8. Listening to music - whatever type that you really enjoy
9. Finding and Posting quotes on our Facebook page

 

Stress will only increase with your permission. If you desire more of it, do nothing. If you desire less of it, do something. If you’ve been doing nothing, doing something means everything! ~ Debra Costanzo

This post is part of the Ultimate Blog Challenge. I am going to really get this blog going. So I decided I'd join the Challenge. The goal of the challenge is to post 31 posts in the month of January and to get more traffic to my blog and to other blogs. This is post number 17. For more info or to join the challenge check the link below.

You Are Amazing . . . Just the Way You Are

Well you are . . .

I love this song.




"When I see your face
There's not a thing that I would change
Cause you're amazing
Just the way you are
And when you smile,
The whole world stops and stares for awhile
Cause girl you're amazing
Just the way you are"

I think it is sad that we have to be reminded of this.  You are all Amazing . . . just the way you are.

This post is part of the Ultimate Blog Challenge. I am going to really get this blog going. So I decided I'd join the Challenge. The goal of the challenge is to post 31 posts in the month of January and to get more traffic to my blog and to other blogs. This is post number 16. For more info or to join the challenge check the link below.

Meditation

This was in a post from one of the blogs I read (Teeny Tiny Pieces)

May you know peace
May your heart remain open
May you feel safe, honored, and respected at this time
May you see the light of your own true nature, and see that as good
May you feel love, compassion, and human kindness
May you feel whole in body, mind, and spirit
~   Unknown

I attempt to meditate. Usually in the mornings before I get up or at night before I go to bed.  My struggle with meditation is not in the sitting still; I do that pretty well. My biggest challenge with meditation is quieting my brain. It is constantly jumping from one subject to the next. Making my lists of things to do the next day at the shop; orders to make, bookkeeping to do or even blog posts to write. If it isn't about my work; its about a craft. Which project do I want to work on next, how I'm going to fix the mistake I made 4 rows ago in my knitting . . . this could go on and on about what ever topic.

Meditation is not contemplation because it is not thinking at all – consistent, inconsistent, crazy, sane. It is not thinking at all; it is witnessing. It is just sitting silently deep within yourself, looking at whatsoever is happening inside and outside both. Outside there is traffic noise, inside there is also traffic noise -- the traffic in the head. So many thoughts – trucks and buses of thoughts and trains and airplanes of thoughts, rushing in every direction. But you are simply sitting aloof, unconcerned, watching everything with no evaluation. ~ Osho

I love this quote. I think we can sometimes take meditation too seriously. So seriously that we worry about all those thoughts, or traffic, as Osho calls it; "but you are simply sitting aloof, unconcerned, watching everything with no evaluation. That is the key. "It is witnessing" and "sitting silently deep within yourself, looking at whatsoever is happening inside and outside both."

Go easy on yourself when you are working on your meditation practice. I'm still learning how to make it a part of my every day life and sometimes get frustrated with the ongoing traffic my head. One of the things I'm working on this year is just letting those thoughts come and releasing them without judgment and evaluation.

This post is part of the Ultimate Blog Challenge. I am going to really get this blog going. So I decided I'd join the Challenge. The goal of the challenge is to post 31 posts in the month of January and to get more traffic to my blog and to other blogs. This is post number 14. For more info or to join the challenge check the link below.

Rites Quotidiens ~ Rituals of Every Day Life

So right now I'm reading French Women Don't Get Fat. So far I am really enjoying the book. All the things she says about weight gain/loss make sense to me. Some of them make weight loss sound sooooo easy. Things like eating more fruits and vegetables, exercising (not like a mad man or woman, but sensibly (20 minutes a day)), staying away from processed foods and enjoying the things we love like bread, baked goods and chocolate in small portions; just enough to satisfy.

One of her chapters talks about rituals and I'd like to share a bit of it with you.

Saint-Exupery's Let Petit Prince is a book all French people know ell. It can be read in an hour but is packed with timeless wisdom. In Le Petit Prince, the fox explains to the little prince, "Il faut des rites" ("We need rituals"). As the French know well, ritual is how we give meaning to different aspects of being alive, including the most elemental: birth, marriage, death and through it all, until the end eating. There are, of course, holiday rituals, like the galette des rois eaten on the twelfth night of Christmas to commemorate the three kings. But there are also rites quotidiens, the rituals of everyday life by which a civilization defines itself, like le pain quotidien, our daily bread, or even brushing our teeth. Whether aware of it or not, we spend  most of our wakening hours performing our daily rituals.

In a world in which everything continues to change ever faster, these rituals are a frame of reference as well as a source of comfort and reassurance. They are also key to our well-being, part of our cultural programming about what is right and good, the norms around which we form our own tastes. Americans have some superb gastronomic rituals. . . .

And . . .The French enjoy eating out in a special way, knowing that what they savor today may never again appear on the menu. they treat every meal as something special, and this is what you must learn to do.

What about your other rituals?  Do you meditate? How do your prepare your meditation space? Do you use sage to smudge your office, room or home? Do you cut the ends of the roast off because that is how your mom, aunt, grandma did it (not for any specific reason; but because it was the only way it would fit in the pan when grandma cooked it)?

This post is part of the Ultimate Blog Challenge. I am going to really get this blog going. So I decided I'd join the Challenge. The goal of the challenge is to post 31 posts in the month of January and to get more traffic to my blog and to other blogs. This is post number 13. For more info or to join the challenge check the link below.

Our Favorite Blogs

Still feeling cruddy . . . and lacking ideas for posts.  I had until recently been ahead of the game with my blog posts and they came really easy.

Today I'm going to share some of my favorite blogs. Not all of them are on topic with what I usually post, but they are all ones I read pretty regularly.

Zen Habits ~ From the About page "Zen Habits is about finding simplicity in the daily chaos of our lives. It’s about clearing the clutter so we can focus on what’s important, create something amazing, find happiness."  Zen Habits is written by Leo Babauta.

mnmlist ~ Another blog by Leo Babuta. From the about page "It’s about minimalism, and why it’s important today. It’s about stuff, and how it has come to overwhelm us. It’s about distractions and commitments and a neverending task list. It’s about the culture of more, of bigger, of consumption. It’s about how less is the answer."  Both of these blogs are uncopyrighted which means that Leo Babauta, has released all claims on copyright and has put all the content of this blog into the public domain. No permission is needed to copy, distribute, or modify the content of this site. Credit is appreciated but not required.

Seth Godin's Blog ~ Seth's blog has a lot of posts about marketing.  As do many of his books. 

Tip Nut ~ Tip Nut is a fun blog. They have patterns for different crafts and recipes for food, gardening ideas and all sorts of good stuff.  

Be More With Less ~ "Be more with less is a blog about simplifying your life and really living. Here, you can learn how to create a life with more savings and less no debt, more health and less stress, more time and less stuff, and more joy with less obligation."

Up From Splat ~ "This is a site about turning the downs in life into springboards to the ups in life.  It’s about finding power in the low points and creating more and more high points. It’s about focus.  It’s about triumph."

I could probably go on and on. I have about 40 blogs that I subscribe to.  I love most of them even if I don't read every post. With the Ultimate Blog challenge I have started following several more blogs a few of them I'm sure will become some of my new favorites.

This post is part of the Ultimate Blog Challenge. I am going to really get this blog going. So I decided I'd join the Challenge. The goal of the challenge is to post 31 posts in the month of January and to get more traffic to my blog and to other blogs. This is post number 9. For more info or to join the challenge check the link below.

Guilty Pleasures

A few weeks ago we watched the Sing Off on NBC; a great show (sort of American Idol like) with groups singing without musical instruments. They had a themes for each evening they sang. One of those themes was Guilty Pleasure songs. To me the majority of the songs picked weren't what I thought of as being Guilty Pleasures. Like the B-52's Love Shack; it's a classic, one of my all time favorites and definitely on my top 10 Road trip songs.  Anyway the show got me thinking about Guilty Pleasures.

Why should anything that puts a smile on our face and joy and happiness in our heart make us feel guilty? If we like a song, an artist, a dessert, comfort food or whatever shouldn't we just admit it and enjoy it?  I'm not saying we should eat the whole cake in one sitting, I'm just saying that when you have it enjoy it, savor it and don't feel guilty about it.

We all deserve the things that we find joy or pleasure in. Anything that puts a smile on your face is nothing to feel guilty about. So go out today and dance to the music that moves you and enjoy the things that bring joy and happiness to your heart.

This post is part of the Ultimate Blog Challenge. I am going to really get this blog going. So I decided I'd join the Challenge. The goal of the challenge is to post 31 posts in the month of January and to get more traffic to my blog and to other blogs. This is post number 6. For more info or to join the challenge check the link below.

I Am ~ The Two Most Powerful Words in the World

"I am - the two most powerful words in the world, for whatever we put after them becomes our reality." ~ Susan Howson

It is really important for us to listen to how we talk to or about ourselves.  How many times to you catch yourself saying "I am an idiot", "I am stupid", "I am fat", and on and on.  How does that self-talk make you feel?  Does it make you feel empowered? Or Good about yourself?  No it makes you feel kind of crappy.  The easiest way to change this is to stop saying these negative things about ourselves.

Change that self talk to something positive.  Say instead, "I am Beautiful", "I am Intelligent", "I am Healthy" . . . fill in the blank.  If you start doing this on a regular basis imagine how you will feel.  Every time you catch yourself saying "I am" anything make sure it is something that will make you feel good about yourself, something that you truly want to be. 

This post is part of the Ultimate Blog Challenge. I am going to really get this blog going. So I decided I'd join the Challenge. The goal of the challenge is to post 31 posts in the month of January and to get more traffic to my blog and to other blogs. This is post number 5. For more info or to join the challenge check the link below.

Thank you

Today I'd like to simply say Thank you. Thank you to people who post on our Facebook page. Thank you to all you comment on those posts, Thank you to those who like the posts and Thank you to all who sit back in the shadows who simply are just there reading and enjoying.

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.

How often do you simply Thank someone?  Anyone, the Universe or God for all the gifts that we are given every day. Gifts like the tree that was cut down and split into firewood for our wood stove; to keep our home warm or for the husband who can get a fire going to take off the morning chill.

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity . 

It can. Turn a meal into a feast a house into a home a stranger into a friend. It turns problems into gifts, failures into success, the unexpected into perfect timing and mistakes into important events. 

It can turn existence into a real life and disconnected situations into important and beneficial lessons.

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow. 

~ Melodie Beattie The Language of Letting Go

This post is part of the Ultimate Blog Challenge. I am going to really get this blog going. So I decided I'd join the Challenge. The goal of the challenge is to post 31 posts in the month of January and to get more traffic to my blog and to other blogs. This is post number 4. For more info or to join the challenge check the link below.

Gold Star Syndrome ~ Via Up From Splat

"Lean too much on the approval of people, and it becomes a bed of thorns." ~ Tehyi Hsieh

"The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval." ~ Denis Waitley

One of the blogs I enjoy reading is http://upfromsplat.com/blog/.  She posts text blogs and sometimes she posts videos.  This one is about Gold Star Syndrome.

I think many of us suffer from Gold Star Syndrome. We have been brainwashed into believing that we need the approval of others. Some one outside of us to tell us that what we have done is good and right.  

I make beaded jewelry, I enjoy making beaded jewelry. There is something really gratifying about taking a pile of beads and creating a beautiful piece of jewelry that I can wear or even pass on to  someone else to enjoy. I enjoy the feeling when someone thinks a piece of my jewelry is beautiful, but I don't make it to get that pat on the back. I make the jewelry because it makes me feel good to create something.

I can see how we come to rely on this approval as the basis for our self-esteem; it feels good.  But as Ande says in this video we have no control over someone else.  We can only control ourselves, our own thoughts, and our own actions. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9j1T85YuuI

This post is part of the Ultimate Blog Challenge. I am going to really get this blog going. So I decided I'd join the Challenge. The goal of the challenge is to post 31 posts in the month of January and to get more traffic to my blog and to other blogs. This is post number 2. For more info or to join the challenge check the link below.

Unplugged

Recently I've read several blog posts about unplugging from facebook, email, texting etc., for at least one day a week.  The posts have talked about how this will help us connect more with the people we love and the things we love to do.

I'm on the computer probably more hours a day than any one person ought to be.  It is one of the first things I do in the morning and one of the last things I do before I go to bed. I use it for entertainment, for communication, for reading, for business . . . in fact today I have already been on the computer for about 3 hours (it's 11:30 am right now).  I will most likely spend the majority of my work day using the computer. Checking email, maybe doing some actual work (I'm my own boss . . . most of the time) and probably just passing the time; playing games on Facebook or watching something on Netflix. When I get home from work I'll probably fire up the computer again for more games on Facebook and probably some blog reading (There were a lot of posts written while I was unplugged for a few days).

For the Christmas Holiday this year we spent 4 days away from out home. Spent Christmas Eve and Christmas Day with our family in the big city (Seattle, we live in a small beach town on the coast of Washington, pop. 4,000).  Then after that we drove to Canada and spent a couple of days in Vancouver.  I chose not to take my computer. At first I wasn't sure I'd make it without it (one of the first things I do in the morning is fire it up). I didn't cheat once and use my hubby's or any of other family members'.  

It was nice taking a break from it. Not sure if I can choose one day a week to just unplug, but maybe I can spend a little time everyday not watching the computer screen. I made it 4 days I can make it a couple of hours, right?

Can you imagine how much more you could accomplish if you just left the computer off? You'd have some time for exercise, maybe you could learn something new (I've only had the guitar for about 10 years, just never had the time to learn to play it), you could bake something from scratch or play a game of Scrabble to prove once again why you are the Scrabble Queen.

This post is part of the Ultimate Blog Challenge. I am going to really get this blog going. So I decided I'd join the Challenge. The goal of the challenge is to post 31 posts in the month of January and to get more traffic to my blog and to other blogs. This is post number 1. For more info or to join the challenge check the link below.

Gratitude

I just wanted to take a moment and thank you all for for being a part of this page.  It is an honor to have you all here and I appreciate each and every one of you.  I am thankful that you share my posts with others and that you invite your friends to join us here.  Thank you for allowing me to share.

Quotes

You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink. ~ G. K. Chesterton  

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ~ Marcel Proust 

You simply will not be the same person two months from now after consciously giving thanks each day for the abundance that exists in your life. And you will have set in motion an ancient spiritual law: the more you have and are grateful for, the more will be given you. ~ Sarah Ban Breathnach  

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. ~ Albert Einstein 

Take full account of the excellencies which you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not. ~ Marcus Aurelius  

Can you see the holiness in those things you take for granted–a paved road or a washing machine? If you concentrate on finding what is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul. ~ Rabbi Harold Kushner 

When we become more fully aware that our success is due in large measure to the loyalty, helpfulness, and encouragement we have received from others, our desire grows to pass on similar gifts. Gratitude spurs us on to prove ourselves worthy of what others have done for us. The spirit of gratitude is a powerful energizer. ~ Wilferd A. Peterson 

Sankalpa

I learned a new word today. The Sanskrit word sankalpa. It means resolve, intention, will, purpose, and/or determination.

From the Sanskrit Glossary ~ Sankalpa: “Will; purpose; determination.” A solemn vow or declaration of purpose to perform any ritual observance. Most commonly, sankalpa names the mental and verbal preparation made by a temple priest as he begins rites of worship. During the sankalpa, he proclaims to the three worlds what he is about to do. He intones the name of the Deity, the type of ritual he is about to perform and the present time and place according to precise astrological notations. Once the sankalpa is made, he is bound to complete the ceremony.

From the Yoga Journal ~ POSITIVE POWER A Sanskrit word, sankalpa means "will, purpose, or determination." To make a sankalpa is to set an intention—it's like a New Year's resolution with a yogic twist. While a resolution often zeros in on a perceived negative aspect of ourselves (as in, "I want to lose weight, so no more chocolate chip cookies or ice cream or cheese"), a sankalpa explores what's behind the thought or feeling ("I crave chocolate chip cookies or ice cream or cheese when I'm feeling stressed or sad. I will set an intention to become conscious of this craving and allow my feelings to arise and pass, rather than fill up on fats"). ~ check out the link the full post on this topic is great.

This post at 5 Seed was the inspiration for this post.  Check out her other blog A Green Spell.

P.S. When I started this blog my intent was to post at least once a week. Its now been a bit over two since my last post. There is no excuse . . . just a seemingly ongoing quest to find Balance between the things I "have" to do and the things I "want" to do. If you all have any tips on finding Balance I'd love to hear them.

Positivity in the New Year

I've been an avid reader for years. I read to relax and I read to learn new things. While in my teens I started to collect quotes from the books I read . . . Many of the early ones I collected have been lost. I began posting quotes on twitter (I've got 2 profiles . . . neither have been active recently; but I will soon use one for this blog).

I was posting quotes that I found inspiring, motivational and inspiring. Things to remind me, that even though the people around me may have a negative attitude or outlook on life, that I can choose to have a positive one.

The Be Positively Inspired page on Facebook is meant to remind me and others to maintain a positive attitude. I love finding new quotes, videos and blog posts to add to the pages. I find a lot of things I'd like to share, this blog is a way to share more of those things and to share them with a wider audience.

I hope that you enjoy. Thank you for reading