Finding the joy!

For most of you who have followed me for the past few years, you know that I'm always on the lookout for simple effective strategies to improve the quality of life for myself, my friends and family, for students/teachers and those I teach both in my seminars and online. The  good news is there always seems to be more to learn and share.  Here's the latest...personally tested as always, simple and effective as promised.

What is it?  Be on the lookout for joy.  What?  Joy? Yes...things that make you happy.  As you drive to work, look for things along the road you like.  For me now, the green of the trees after a long winter, the flowers everywhere, a car I like, maybe a beautiful building. Or it's a song that comes on the radio or my CD or for me another strategy on a motivational CD that helps me see life in a totally new and inspiring way. Those are mine.  What can you collect starting now?

Basically you're like the opposite of Santa.  Instead of giving great gifts, you're collecting them. You're collecting things you like in your mind and as you collect them, you feel better because your brain is focused on appreciation.  So instead of all the things that annoy you about your significant other, all the things you don't like at your job, all the things you don't like about yourself, you're thinking and enjoying and collecting what you do like. Since, your brain can't think of opposite things at the same time, it's perfect!  Make sense?

Try it.  Try it starting first thing in the morning if you can.  This is positive thinking at its best because you're training your brain to look for the what's good, to send out spirit lifting hormones that make you feel even better. You start a chain reaction just like when you start the day on the wrong foot and say something like, "It's going to be a bad day." And then it is. Same idea, bad momentum. We've all done it.

I woke up early today but happy and inspired after a week of putting this into practice.  I couldn't wait to share it with you. 

Sending and wishing you lots of joy!

Glad it's spring...not yet summer

Brr...it's spring!  So happy it's finally here even though we've had some very chilly mornings in New England.  I'm just happy it's not winter!  It's also not summer yet and I'm happ about that too because once summer hits, it seems tofly by and before you know it, we're approaching winter again.  Let's not rush that!


Glad we have spring to gear up our anticipation for summer, get the things done that summer days pull us from and that winter days didnt' allow.  Glad there is green everywhere, that beautiful soft green that's only around in the spring.


Love all the new growth as the clutter of the winter storms is swept away by the new shoots sprouting out of the ground...and of course, a lot of dedicated yard work!


Declutter, grow...I'm paralleling that process as well.  Are you?  It's the perfect time for that before it's too hot.  For me, I spent the winter learning and creating so that my new ideas could blossom in the spring.  Luckily the timing worked out perfectly. My very first online course just got published this week!  Yay!


I based it on my most requested seminar topic - Financial Literacy - from my Strategies for Success program.  It's not a program for new couples - engaged, married or living together.  It's all about the financial math you probably never learned in high school or college, math never learned until years later.  Simple financial math we should all know - and teach our kids early and often. 


I'm so thrilled it's finished, I'm going to give the course away for free for the first 50 people who sign up this first weekk.  Feel free to check it out or share it while they last.  Although it's directed towards new couples (45% of divorces are because of lack of money), there's plenty of information there that's perfect for you too.  Click here for the link.


Keep enjoying every delicious moment of spring - every bud, every ray of sunshine, every warm breeze!


Til next time!


ps...I heard recently that if you start the day thinking something positive, it will set off the whole day in the right direction.  How?  When you don't even ant to get up?  Say, "I love my life!" when your foot first hits the floor.  Or do what I do.  Set your ring tone to "Happy" from Pharrell Williams.  Perfect!