Fun sayings, positive affirmations and powerful quotes:

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

~Anais Nin  (1903-1977)
  American author




Live your life while you have it.  Life is a splendid gift.  There is nothing small in it. For the greatest things grow by God's law out of the smallest.  But to live your life you must discipline it.  You must not fritter it away in "fair purpose, erring act, inconstant will" but make your thoughts, your acts all work to the sam end and that end, not self but God.  That is what we call character.

~Florence Nightingale  (1820-1910)
  English nurse and reformer





If you're ever in a situation where you're not getting served or you can't get what you need, just cry.

~Jane Fonda (1937 - )
  American actress, author and political activist







This is one of my favorite positive affirmations statements:

Another easy way to use the law of attraction for your benefit is this:  Every night before you fall asleep, replay in your mind the good moments of the day, and give heartfelt thanks for each one of them.  Think about the next day also, and intend that it is going to be amazing, that it is going to be filled with love and joy, and that all good is coming to you.  Intend that it is going to be the best day of your life. Then when you wake in the morning, BEFORE you get out of bed, declare your intentions again for the day and give deep thanks as though you have received them all.

~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



"V" stands for values: Truth, integrity, honesty, love, faith, devotion and beauty. The great Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore says, "When we feel beauty, we know it as truth."

Without values, there is confusion and chaos.  When values disintegrate everything disintegrates.  Health disintegrates, poverty attains dominance over affluence, societies and civilizations crumble.

When we pay attention to these values that society has always held sacred, then order emerges out of chaos, and the field of pure potentiality inside us becomes all powerful, creating anything it desires.






A lovely quote by author Louise L.  Hay, Here is an excerpt from her book; Heart Thoughts.


At least three times a day, stand with your arms open wide and say:  "I am willing to let the love in.  It is safe to let the love in."

I am worth loving.





Have a beautiful day,



Photo: 'distant mountains'-freenaturepictures.com


Joy,



Rena


www.talktotheturtle.com

Love what you do as a positive affirmation & Radha Conrad

What if I were to tell you that even though the summer fun is my foreground experience, in the background of my mind I have been in deep contemplation. 

What if I were to tell you that suddenly I had a moment where I saw where I was right now in my life in a different light.  What if I were to tell you that I have been meditating on the thought of "What do I love to do as a positive affirmation."

The thought that came into my mind was where I am with my website business and this blog.  Was I happy?  Was it making me money?  What was my idea of success?  I gave myself the gift of exploring  a few avenue of thoughts that would have been uncomfortable before.  Because I included the context of Love in my thought and decision-making, I was able to actually get to a few places that for whatever reason were closed or blocked to me before.

I created my website with  with the inspiration of happiness and Feng Shui. My  collection of inspirational charms I will always be pleased. However the growth of my company has not equaled my passion for being a Happiness Designer.  There are some patterns in my thinking that are  not serving me and I need to let go of. This letting go will allow myself  to be available for my future.  If I were to describe it in a movie term it would be the scene in The Titanic where Rose is on the lifeboat and Jack is in the water and she has to let him go.  The character Rose does not want to let go but the situation clearly separates them forever.  

I have to date had this notion that I would just focus on the work of my dangle charm creation and when that had satisfied itself on a monetary level I would unfold my business to accommodate the growth.  However, just focusing so much on the dangle has created in me  an emotional level to just focus on the dangle.  I never have started to live the dreams of the ideas of what I have for my website and ultimately my future as a Happiness Designer. 

In short I have not been acting on being in the present moment. 

I will be making some changes to the website over the next coming months and will up the ante as well for the blog.  I will enjoy the time doing the transition work and creating some interesting content  that my website and blog are asking for.  I will be showing up with the desire to be the best I can be, and  share some beautiful  ideas and products with you that will uplift and inspire.

The summer is still here, and I feel just  like a colt who knows that school is just around the corner but I am still kicking up my heels and having fun.

I hope this finds you having fun too.  Know that taking the time out to have some fun can in turn offer up an understanding for your future.

I am sharing this four-part video of Radha Conrad that was filmed in 2008 in Maui, Hawaii, U.S.A.  on the Steven Freid show - Life on Maui.

It is an inspiring, honest expose of a soul living her passion and life purpose to be of service educating our thought process on  inner  happiness. 

Life on Maui with Steven Freid & Radha Conrad

Part one: The entire circle must be complete

Life on Maui with Steven Freid & Radha Conrad

Part two: The singer with the beautiful voice

Life on Maui with Steven Freid  & Radha Conrad

Part three:  One line truths

Life on Maui with Steven Freid & Radha Conrad

Part four:  How do I speak to myself

Have a beautiful day,

Photo: 'horses-land' - www.freebigpictures.com

Joy,

Rena

www.talktotheturtle.com

The unique gift of happiness in skateboarding

Summer is working its way through all of us  now. The August days show up with abundant sun and the unique gift of visiting the river to cool off is once again available.  I have written about this river before and that I wait all year for the water to be at a perfect temperature and depth to dip in and enjoy the energy of the water gently moving around and through me.  It is a healing experience but mainly  a tremendous source of fun and relaxation. 



I showed my friend how to wade out into the river with  water shoes on and anchor your hands onto the rocks on the river bed and bracing your feet and letting the rivers current energy move through your body.  The only part exposed is your head. It took some technical maneuvering as she is much shorter than me and I wasn't quite sure she would master it.  


"Awesome."  "Very cool."  aah..  Oprah should hear about this, she chimed.

 The best things in life are really to be shared are they not?   



This year I took my lifejacket along and I mention this because my girlfriend had insisted that she read that it was a new law that everyone who was within 200 feet of the water had to have a water jacket on.  Not wanting to bring attention to myself of course I showed up with my lifejacket.  My girlfriend showed up with her inner tube and as you can surmise, somehow she got the information confused because there was everyone at the river and in the river and I was the only person with a lifejacket on. 




We laughed about it as we made our way into the river.  My friend's inner tube, 'the river rat', had a rope threaded around it and so I held onto the rope with my fingers. Whoosh and we were off down the river  laughing our heads off. Two grown women forgetting about time and age and surrendering to the joy of the moment.  My lifejacket worked like a charm as a floatation device and fifty yards down the river I giggled to my friend.  "Look I'm floating just like Dollar the dog."  My girlfriend's head was laid back on her inner tube and she was dreamily looking at the sky, as she replied, "What does floating like Dollar the dog mean?"




Summer here in the Northwest is all about having fun and enjoying the beautiful natural energy of the sun.  Skateboarding is something that I look at but I really had no idea of the depth to which this interest is a huge sport.  I have included two skateboarding videos that are completely different but share a common theme.  


Fun. 














Happie the skateboarding goat makes  Guinness World Record. 












It's summertime.  Go outside and play...



Have a beautiful day,




Photo:  PKM




joy,



Rena


www.talktotheturtle.com