Fun sayings, positive affirmations and powerful quotes:

When we can begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

-Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923)

New Zealand writer

You can’t fake listening. It shows.

- Raquel Welch

American actress

Light tomorrow with today!

-Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1851)

English poet

The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow

because it is important to them;

there ought to be as many for love.

- Margaret Atwood

Canadian writer

This is one of my favorite positive affirmations statements:

If you find yourself in a negative situation with someone in your life, take a few minutes each day to feel love within your heart for that person, and then send it out into the Universe. Just doing this one thing helps to remove any resentment, anger, or negativity towards that person.

Remember that feeling resentment, anger, or any negative emotion attracts it back to you. Feeling love attracts love back to you. What you are feeling for another, you are bringing to you.

-Rhonda Byrne

Creator of “The Secret”

Here is an excerpt from Deepak Chopra M.D. book,

Creating Affluence~Wealth Consciousness in the Field of all Possibilities

~”E” stands for exulting in the success of others, especially your competitors and those who consider themselves your enemies. Your competitors and enemies will become your helpers when you exult in their success.

“E” also stands for the principle that expectancy determines outcome. So always expect the best and you’ll see that the outcome is spontaneously contained in the expectation.

Noah St. John, Ph.D, inventor of Afformations®, author of The Secret Code of Success, shares some thoughts;

We humans can only love with conditional love ~ the lowercase i.

I don’t care how nice, sweet and wonderful you are; you love conditionally. Every one of us has conditions on our love, but God does not. Can you see how this can be a huge block in your Spiritual Environment?

That’s why I want you to believe that miracles CAN happen for you, too~not just for other people. I want you to realize that, not only can miracles occur for you, the fact is this:

You are a miracle.

~This is a powerful affirmation to try on:

"why is my life totally filled with Love?"

Have a beautiful day,

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Joy,

Rena

www.talktotheturtle.com

Feng Shui and your Health

I recently was at a social gathering with some women and we were all enjoying our conversations on decorating with Feng Shui and the importance of having a balanced harmonious home. Over the course of the luncheon one of the gals made mention that I eat a lot and never seem to gain weight.

My response was “I eat in The Zone”.

I have always led a very active lifestyle filled with exercise. It makes me feel good.

However as we age, things do change and it is really a blessed coincidence that I had the book, The Zone by Barry Sears Ph.D, to take me from an area of guessing what makes me feel good with food, to having a working knowledge on how I can be healthy with food.

I bought The Zone book in late of 1995, hard to believe I can say that, and just only started using it a couple of years ago. Funny how these things happen and if you are in your twenties or thirties reading this, and have the inclination to buy a book that you feel inside that you may not be ready for it, go ahead and buy it and the day will present itself when you are ready for the information.

The thing I love about Dr. Sears' book, is that I read it like a novel. I then took my post-it notes, (Oprah taught me this) and flagged the pages of importance and after I finished reading it, I revisited those pages. For someone who has a degree in nutrition it is very easy to understand proteins and carbohydrates and fats and how biochemically they regulate your body. A student who was fortunate enough to study nutrition in depth would know that the main focus of nutrition is to keep the body in an anti-inflammatory state so that disease cannot proliferate.

For the other 99% of the population it is a by guess and by golly that we manage our food groups. I just think of the years of looking at the pyramid food groups on packaging and thinking I understood it, and I would try to eat healthily, but I just did not have enough of the information that I needed to make informed food choices.

The basis of the book is to empower you with knowledge so you are able to work with food as a fuel and a drug and to balance the ratio between the two. It did take me more than one reading of the proteins and carbohydrates and fats charts, and I was a little frantic thinking how am I going to get away from visiting those charts in his book. Yes, I did end up photocopying the book pages charts thinking I would not be able to download all that information. In hindsight I needed to take a big breath and stop being so impatient and just be grateful that I got the information at all and how blessed I was all those years earlier eating and exercising in ignorant bliss.

If I have any regret it is that I didn’t open the book fifteen years earlier.

As children we all grow up dependant on our parents to educate on how to feed ourselves. However, the information floats off into the air when you finally do leave home to go to college, or just move out and integrate into the work force and forge your own way. This book would be an amazing gift for parents to give their children when they are leaving home. As a parent you could read the book yourself first so you could be up to speed as it is life changing how your health is changed for the positive with this life altering information.

The wonderful thing is that it is really easy and now I have a working knowledge of what is a protein, a carbohydrate, a mixed protein/carbohydrate combination and fats. It has really been the most amazing experience to have this knowledge and all I had to do was open the book and read it.

This book is endorsed by all the major health organizations and is so powerful. If you have someone you love, who is struggling with food and you do not know what to do start by educating yourself. Then you can share with your family and friends the importance of having a quality life filled with empowering food choices.

A huge thank you to Barry Sears Ph.D for writing The Zone and you can visit his website for further information. Visit the "ABOUT" page and check out his time line of contributions to educating and healing people through what we put in our bodies.

It is just a click away…. enjoy! www.drsears.com

Have a beautiful day,

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Joy,

Rena

www.talktotheturtle.com

Inner charm of happiness

We all need someone to lean on when it comes to wisdom. Just recently I found some handwritten notes of mine from Napoleon Hill’s 17 principles of purpose.

It seemed like a chore at the time to handwrite them out, but I realize now re-reading this most insightful list, that I learn a lot more by actually writing out important teachings rather than just reading the material. It really does help to write out passages of work from books and in that act your own inner charm of happiness develops into its own muscle.

Napoleon Hill was born in Virginia in 1883 and died in 1970, after a long and successful career as a consultant to business leaders, a lecturer and an author. Think and Grow Rich is the all-time bestseller in its field, having sold 15 million copies worldwide, and setting the standard for today’s motivational thinking.

Here are the 17 principles of purpose by Napoleon Hill:

1. Successful people move on their own initiative but they know where they are going before they start.

2. No man can become a permanent success without taking others along with him.

3. You can do it if you believe you can.

4. The most successful people are those who serve a great number of people.

5. It is essential that you develop a pleasing personality - pleasing to yourself and others.

6. Today’s employer usually is yesterday’s employee who found opportunity waiting for him at the end of the second mile.

7. A positive mind finds a way it can be done…A negative mind looks for all the ways it can’t be done.

8. To be enthusiastic – act enthusiastically.

9. Direct your thoughts, control your emotions and ordain your destiny.

10. Truth will be truth, regardless of a closed mind, ignorance or the refusal to believe.

11. Keep your mind on the things you want and off the things you don’t want. Remember the old proverb: “Be very careful what you set your heart on, for you will surely achieve it.

12. Harmonious co-operation is a priceless asset, which you can acquire in proportion to your giving.

13. Remember: every defeat, every disappointment and every adversity carries with it the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

14. The imagination is the workshop of the soul, wherein are shaped all plans for individual achievement.

15. A sound mind in a sound body, is a short but full description of a happy state in the world.

16. Tell me how you use your spare time and how you spend your money, and I will tell you where and what you will be ten years from now.

17. You are where you are and what you are because of your established habits, thoughts and deeds.

If you haven’t picked up a copy of Think & Grow Rich, I highly recommend it goes on your list of things to do and read for 2011.

Have a beautiful day,

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Joy,

Rena

www.talktotheturtle.com