Happiness Is.....

 

"Happiness cannot be traveled to owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude"

- Denis Waitley

Happiness is a gift we allow ourselves to experience.  What is the alternative after all? 

A smile shared with you this day and everyday : )

Reasons

 “Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough” ― Oprah Winfrey

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“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive—to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love — then make that day count!”

― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being

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 “Love is made up of three unconditional properties in equal measure:

Acceptance

Understanding

Appreciation

Remove any one of the three and the triangle falls apart. Which, by the way, is something highly inadvisable.

Think about it — do you really want to live in a world of only two dimensions? 

So, for the love of a triangle, please keep love whole.” 

― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

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“The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

Practice Gratitude - Embrace Gratitude

Once you get good at living in Gratitude you will indeed wonder why you didn't start sooner!

- Me 

Smiles Shared : ) 

Starting Everyday on a Positive Note

A resource to start this morning and any morning to launch into your day the right way !

Having Gratitude and a Great Attitude 

Yes your worth it take the time and make the time for you the best gift for the day for you and for others : )

Smiles Shared : )

Each and Every Day

This Day

Today

Everyday

It all starts with your perception and reception of each today.  Make it amazing, make each day a gift to your spirit.  It is in your control!  Your thoughts and your beliefs are yours and will dictate your experiences.

Make your thoughts and beliefs the very best you can.  

This is a wonderful day!  Enjoy it and make it yours!

Smiles shared with you this day : )

The Best Things In Life

The best things in life are not only free, 

they are mostly invisible.

Thaddeus Golas

When we life in a state of gratitude on a consistent level of awareness we will notice a big shift in what truly annoys or effects us.

The annoyances drift away because they are not permitted by our state of mind and spirit to bother us. The become smaller and indeed less significant.

Gratitude is more than a state of mind it is started in the spirit of our soul that is when it becomes most effective. It is a way of life.

Start with the gratitude affirmations spoken throughout the day.  The gratitude journal or notes are another way to embrace the process into your spirit.  The more you use, speak and share gratitude the more it will become part of your spirit and daily process.

Be grateful

Be mindful

Be kind

Be appreciative 

Be in your moment

Be faithful to the process

The process of being one with gratefulness.

Sharing this smile with you today : )

Four A's

Thursday Thankful Tips

Take the time and learn of some ways to express gratitude and live in a better place a better place of gratitude.

Take the time and make the time to live with the sense of what you have instead of what you do not.

Make the time to feel and believe what truly could be the best 7 minutes of your day.

Sharing the smile : ) . Have a blessed day

The Journey to More

Success is getting what you want, Happiness is wanting what you get.

Dale Carnegie

Wanting is ok, in fact wanting is a normal desire. Wanting the best for ourselves, our family and our loved ones.

The path in gratitude is to be grateful and appreciate what is already here.

Being happy for what has come our way. Even the not so good in our life has a message, a lesson that teaches us and inspires us for more.

It is fun to chase 'more' to aim high, to vision a life with more in it.  The key is to be appreciative to what we already have.

Health

Family

Friends

Connection

Achievement

and so much more .... when you take the time to list it all.

So strive for more?  You bet just make the time, to be happy for what is already here.

Smiles shared this day and everyday : )

Grateful indeed!

Vision

Visualization is a big part of gratitude for what we truly are grateful for we cherish

Sunsets and sunrises are incredible sights we often see and marvel its colors and majestic beauty.  Sunsets give reflection to the day gone by and the anticipation of the day from a sunrise can be breathtaking.  Both are incredible visual sights both we are grateful for.

Vision is a very important part of our gratitude for what we cherish and value we hold close to our heart and embrace.

A vision board helps to keep focus of our dreams, wishes and helps attract these very things we post upon them to reality.

A gratitude board helps us to keep focused on things we cherish, our pets, our family, our past accomplishments, our favorite feelings that bring beauty to our day.

Encourage your senses with a vision board and a gratitude board it truly will bring joy and happiness and a drive to not just trudge through your day but stride with happiness and love and incredible gratitude for what we have accomplished this day and what is yet to come.

Smiles shared this day and everyday : )

For more on building a vision or gratitude board click here.

Wishing >>>>

It starts with our wishes and our direct intentions and finishes 

when we are open to receive.

Dream Big and Don't Listen to the Nay-Sayers

Not everyone embraces a new week, some actually dread a Monday.  I know its hard to believe but maybe you know people like this.  Monday is the enemy, the most hated day of all days.

Fact is it has the same 24 hours in it that Friday has.

So my shared smile goes to you today no matter what day it is.  They all have the same option to be great just like you.  So make your day great and along the way share a smile, leave the ones you care about a kind note.  Open a door or do something that makes another soul's life just a bit easier.  Buy a stranger a coffee or better yet in the drive through today pay for lunch for the car behind you.  

Wishes and dreams are the start of something great.

Intentions are the call to action.  You can intend to have an awesome day today!  However be open to receive it let the energy that surrounds you feel the love to allow your intentions so they can become reality.

As always this smile is shared for you : )

Easter or Everyday Affirmations

This day and everyday find your gratitude, place it deeply in your spirit, your thoughts and your everyday actions. Find grace, find humility and find your inner smile.

Share that smile as this smile is shared with you : )

Today....

Like branches on a tree we all grow in different directions, yet our roots remain as one.

We grow, we move away as time goes on, we live lives as individuals miles and miles apart.  But the bond of friendship and family remains strong, like a strong chain the family love and adoration is very present.

We move back maybe after times as the famous saying there is no place like home often, but not always comes true. There is a familiarity that comforts us and draws us back to what we seem to think simpler times. 

The simpler times were often perceptions made and kept and altered over times but perceptions in fact.

This holiday weekend lets embrace those traditions of family time, family love and the reason for the season.

Embrace and love and remember the familiarity of the season.  Smile and laugh, embrace and enjoy the moments that we all take for granted.

Enjoy the good food and good times and say that one simple prayer to our creator.

'Thanks'

Amen and a smile once again share with you : )

Happy Good Friday!

A special day indeed!

With that said Be Grateful for this day and be blessed everyday !

Smiles shared : )

Being, Feeling and Showing

Being Grateful and Feeling Gratitude and Showing Gratitude 

Three powerful states and actions.

When we awake and our feet touch the floor be and feel the gratitude for being alive, healthy and look at our surroundings and yes take it in and feel the essence of life and the ability to 'be'.

No matter what we don't have, thier are plenty who have less and no matter how less their are many who feel grateful to have what they have.

Showing Gratitude is perhaps the single best action we take for another and it costs little to implement.  Be sincere and show another or tell another or both how grateful you are to have them in your day.

Be

Feel

Show

Make someone's day today and in turn you just maybe making your day even better.

Sending a shared smile your way : )

These 5

Gratitude Tips that surely will cause grateful ripples of positive energy in a unsure and divided world.

Stay in the moment of gratitude 

Stay focused on your attitude

Stay focused on what can we all do better

Read often and Smile Always

Sharing a smile this day and everyday :)

Living with humility

Have more humility. Remember you don't know the limits of your own abilities. Successful or not, if you keep pushing beyond yourself, you will enrich your own life--and 

maybe even please a few strangers.

--A.L. Kennedy

Be confident in your gratitude and be humble in the steps you take.  Focus on what can I do to serve others and your daily focus will be rewarded not because you expect it but because the universe will protect it.

Step by step being humble will keep your eyes open on others and on gratitude.

Here is hoping this day is full of focused steps of service and a smile

Smiles shared with you this day and everyday : )

Happy Monday and Good Morning

It is our perception of the day not the actual day itself that matters

If you hate Monday, guess what?

It just may hate you back!

Don't hate embrace the opportunity to make this day your best day.

Embrace it!

Choose it and make it your best day 

This is your day and it has the same amount of hours and minutes and seconds as the next day!

Make it happen for you not too you.

Indeed happy Monday !!!!!!

Shared smile sent your way : )

This Day (a touching video)

Shared with you this day a hope and a wish you will take the few minutes to be blessed and touched.

A shared smile sent your way : )

Taking and Giving with Gratitude

With each moment we create and share and take in we make simple choices.

Simple choices to be happy or critical.  Choices like listening or closing out.  A choice is made to be grateful or thoughtless.

When the day starts and the quiet turns to noise are we grateful for the ability to be quiet and listen.

Listen to the coffee pour into the cup, or the birds sing just outside your window.

Feel the breeze blow and the moisture in the air from fresh fallen rain.

Smell the fresh cut grass or the breeze through the pine trees.

See the sun as it brings night to day. Watch the birds look for fresh food for the morning.

It is our choices to take everything we come in contact with and feel grateful or we can let life choose to rush past all the beauty and take these blessed things given freely for granted.

Don't be thoughtless to yourself.  Because in the end along lifes journey you get to be filled with gratitude or you get to be indifferent and thoughtless your choice.

Choose wisely because are you not worth it?

Sending a fresh and warm smile your way 

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Do.... Be.... Do.....

Do the morning gratitude affirmations

Be the light that brightens another's day

Do plan your day and envision your day with greatness!

Do... Be... Do....

As simple as that, repeat it daily and challenge your spirit to act upon negativity that the world seems to thrive on.

Watch as others start their day with the burdens of life instead of the gratitude that life offers you and your embrace and surround and protect your inner self.

Protect your thoughts!  Project your actions of gratitude!  Prosper from positive self talk!

Protect....Project and Prosper

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Gratitude State

Simply put we are in control of our 'state of being'.  We awake and as soon as we are aware of our surroundings that we are present for another day that is truly this moment is our first moment of gratitude.  At the very least it should be the moment that says thank you for another day.

State of being is the present state that we recognize our attitude and our planning our next moments, reflecting our days plans and goals.  Being present in gratitude is the only way to start a day and plan are forward steps.

Gratitude Opens The Door To The Power, The Wisdom, 

The Creativity Of The Universe.

Deepak Chopra

Allow gratitude to walk in your steps as you open your doors, as you acknowledge your wisdom and as you design your creativity in your day, your week, your year and more importantly your life.

Allow gratitude!

Allow the simple smile to grace your heart!

Allow the kind words to flow from your lips as you greet each day.

Allow the flow of the universe and the energy that surrounds our very being to align with your gratitude, your joy that today, this very day you are more than just alive, your more than ready to thrive your grateful that this day will be your very best day to share your gratitude and your joy !

Shared smile sent your way : )

11 Ways To Raise A Grateful Child

One of the most important roles that we can play is one of a parent or a mentor to those with so much to experience and learn.  The young minds are a sponge that take everything in and rank those of importance based on what the see and learn from parents and peers around them.  Teaching and helping with various values and helping the young mind develop and learn is a awesome task that you alone can help with by being a role model that they can see and learn from and a wealth of information and knowledge that you can share.  Some tips for raising a grateful child.

#1.   Use the phrase 'Thank You" often to your child

        Express gratitude for what they do and explain how proud they make you.

#2.   Let them hear you say thank you to others

       Constant reinforcement that you are grateful for others and what good their is in your daily activities.

#3.   Don't give your child everything they want.

       Let them develop patience and value and earned rewards.  Giving your child everything take away from the importance of learning that working towards a goal and helping them to ensure they truly want it by postponing and letting them self evaluate the want helps so much in long term development.

#4.  Provide them with opportunities to earn the things they want.

      Daily chores and tasks teaches and gives them the reward based system to earn things and helps them develop value in accomplishments and goal setting.

#5 . Keep rewards reasonable

     Fair and reasonable and achievable that teaches them value and strong habits with thankfulness and gratitude lessons.

#6.  Call them out when they are unappreciative

    Don't be shy don't be too harsh but if they need taught they need to understand what unappreciative behavior is and why it is counter intuitive to a grateful heart and life.

#7.  Give back to the community

   Simple tasks like yard sales, giving to the Goodwill and Salvation Army.  Help those less fortunate and being a guide as they are helping with these things.

#8.   Help your child see the need around themselves.

  Guidance and eye opening and showing the simple needs that others at times are less fortunate but doing it in a way that builds the gratitude message and a message of helpfulness and compassion.

#9.   Teach your child about developing countries

  Not every country has even fresh and abundant running water, and many other things we take for granted.  Teach the gratitude that we daily can learn and act upon and maybe lead to helping others with much less along the way.

#10 .  Incorporate daily gratitudes into your families routine

  A simple planned time to say a gratitude affirmation or have them practice expressing gratitude aloud or to a friend or relative. 

#11 .  Write thank you notes for them and have them do the same.

A random note to a family member another student, a teacher or even a babysitter.  Teach them the power of a hand written note or drawn picture and how it makes themselves feel when they get one and when they give one. Make it fun and make it often.

Just some tips for the day and hopefully shared across a lifetime.

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Be someone's light

Inspiration develops in many ways.  We all feed off of energy and the world is full of energy in any forms. Some forms are positive and some not so positive and some even down right brutally dark.  Feeding off the energy that is positive will be the signature of gratitude and spread more positive energy around us. A kind word, a simple smile a compliment and open door will in fact lighten our burden and the burden of others.

Try and recognize this concept.

Think back to a time when our light and our energy was dim. Our frustration and our hope we in shallow waters.  Maybe another a friend, sibling or a complete stranger gave us that rekindled spark that lighted our own flame and gave us energy, hope and faith in humanity.  It happens to all of us and it will happen when we give our gratitude to another.  A complete stranger, or a close friend give gratitude, give kindness, give light.

"It is better to light one small candle of gratitude than to curse the darkness"

Confucius

Be someone's light : )

Smiles shared your way 

Everyday Gratitude No Matter the Day

Gratitude no matter the day!

The everyday gratitude is in fact a lifestyle.  A choice a decision made the moment you go to sleep and awake.

First thought of the day:     I am grateful!

The last thought of the day:  I am grateful!

Simple to start and end your day this way, it is the in between time the matter of living in gratitude that can be challenging but not impossible.

Your challenge today.

Make a list of what you are grateful for and take a moment to reflect on the reasons and embrace this list and its reasons.

Sharing a smile with you this day!

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Being Thankful in advance

Well worth the five minutes to sit back and watch! 

Thank you for a beautiful morning!

What if the simple act of active gratitude could change your life?

What if ............

Sharing a smile

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Turning Gratefulness into something more

One of the first habits I have found that works for me after my morning stretches is to say one simple prayer.  That simple prayer is thank you.

Thank you for another morning.

Thank you for my health and creativity to look at things with possibility.

Thank you for my connections made and those yet to unfold.

Thank you for my son and daughter and grandson.

So much to be thankful for to be grateful for.  The does bring into light that we have is more than enough.

So my little small suggestion this day is to find the thank you's that make your day start off with peace and creates a vision for today and the tomorrow's to come.

The road is well traveled in our lives.  Travel today with a peace and a purpose, make the next turn in the road become one of excitement and passion not fear or dread.

Confusion into clarity and chaos into order, it starts with your attitude and your first small steps into each day. 

A step without a hangover, without regrets, without fear, without disorder and with a small step to say thank you.

Speak your decision

claim your gratitude

Allow the forces and energy to allow your day, this day to be amazing!

Sharing a smile an gratitude 

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You Can, Yes You Can

Simply put our gratitude is as simple as believing that you can be grateful even in stressful times.  Life is a series of events, and how we respond to those events makes our reality and perception manifest.  Indeed perception is reality, you have heard that before, right?

Perception or the way an event is perceived is the same for everyone?  Not even close.

We have based this on our lives experiences which often times gives us a certain stance or view of a situation and more than that if, our state at the time is one of anxiousness and fear our view maybe harder to understand than that of someone who tends to be grateful and cheerful at the same time the event or events of life transpires.

Believe you can and you're halfway there!

Believe in gratitude and the power of a kind word!

Believe in a simple yet direct random act of kindness and watch its end result!

Believe in the power of prayer and speaking to the universe that which you desire and it can and will be so!

Believe it and watch the world unfold in a much better way, if not just in your perception of your individual moments as they unfold at any given moment.  The power of belief is dynamic, always has, always will be.  Believe it!

We are born and in the end we will die.

We are awake and alert and we sleep and we dream.

We are driven by our goals and some are controlled by their fears and anxieties.

Last week on Friday night my grandson Matthew was born!  A happy day for my daughter and Matthew's father and me.  My goal for everyone is to share my gratitude and my attitude and belief system that says the world is a very good place, despite the perception of some that it is not so good.  My goal is especially for my family is to leave words that can be reflected upon that gives hope, and faith and promise that we are the designer of our life and our painter and composer of our pictures and music that  we produce for others, those we come in contact with. 

 We are the music-makers and dreamers of dreams.

We always will be that author and producer and actor in our moving picture of life.  We don't give that power to mere amateurs we give it and use it for ourselves.

Choose happiness, Matthew!  Choose joy and love!

Smiles shared with you this day and always 

Be grateful and live your life with a smile and a awesome tune that comes within!

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Thankful on a Thursday with Idea's to Try

Giving gratitude to another may indeed be the best gift you can give

Some idea's this idea to show your gratitude

* Random note of thanks on the steering wheel or mirror giving specific appreciation

* Simple and sincere eye contact with direct message of appreciation

* Mail a simple card, handwritten with the why your thankful and direct to the point gratitude 

* Hold open the door for a random stranger with a direct and simple smile

* Gift the car behind you at the drive thru their purchase

* Make that call of appreciation to a support staffer, random but sincere with a specific message

* Helium filled ballon tied in a sealed box that has a smile drawn on it and a note of thanks

* Small note card with a gift card attached its not about the amount its the message

* Smile at the next 10 people make a sincere effort and watch the change of state with them and you

Just a few this Thursday !  Make a difference and make a stand the world is becoming divided and angry but in fact the change agent is within all of us to say loudly we care about each other.

Pass it on

Share the smile

Make someone laugh

Give with gratefulness

What are you thankful for ?

Journal it, write it out not typed but written there is sincere power in the written word, write it out!

Today, what are you thankful for?

I have my list and truly I am thankful for you.... Make a difference today and everyday its truly not that hard and very little effort but the change can be huge!!!!

Shared smile and gratitude given your way.... Happy Thursday : )

True Riches

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“It is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.”

— Deitrich Bonheiffer

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“Gratitude will shift you to a higher frequency, and you will attract much better things.”

— Rhonda Byrne

Quotes that when taken to heart and lived with intention become true riches to the soul. For every day progress and enhanced overflowing abundance will follow.

Your mission dwell upon the three and truly let them sink into your thoughts.

 Allow the word "Enough" to feel empowering and enhancing to your walk upon this realm that many  tend to exist in.  Begin to thrive in gratitude.

Joy it is all and it becomes joy when we give joy permission to run free within our psyche.

Bring it!  

Bring gratitude and joy and soon you will be counting not only your blessings but counting riches beyond true measure.

Smiles shared, and joy given this day.

My daily practice of this is simple when I serve in my chosen industry of automotive sales I count every interaction joy.  I am truly grateful for the interaction and hospitality I am to give.  To truly make the transaction, simple and clearly laid out and transparent is a pleasure.  Thats my gratefulness to our process and my intention to make it fun and easy to buy or lease for each and every experience.

When I drive as a ride sharing program driver I feel the same sense of service and gratitude to safely get someone to their destination with a shared laugh or smile and a true sense of a blessed moment in time.

I hope we meet again down this road of life and until then 

Share a smile and enhance your day and the day of another soul!

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Finding moments

We awake every day to the awesome gift of life and the ability to share goodness and gratitude. Maybe just maybe its sharing a smile shared the day before or a act of kindness someone passed along your path.

But share we must, it spreads not only goodness and hope but it also can and will inspire the same flow of energy to another in a hurting world.

A world that the media so brightly exposes in its camera's light and audio filters, a world of division and hatred and sadness.

You control the news your mind and energy flow emits

Emit gratitude. Emit a smile.  Emit an actions that produces a thank you and maybe even a gentle river of hope, faith and love.

Today is your day. Emit the radiative energy of gratitude. 

The energy will flow and enhance every second of your life.

Smiles shared this month for a better day of gratefulness.

No Foolin......

New Month and New Gratitude Shared

Grateful for:

My new Grandson and his awesome mother and father.

For my Son the Marine heading off to a tour in Australia.

My Customers/Clients all 47.5 from the first quarter of 2019 Thank you Thank you  Thank You!  I am grateful for your business and I will continue to earn it !

  

 for more click on image to the left : ) Thanks : )

Grateful for a new day and a new month and friends that take the time to text or call or send well wishes on Facebook, you all are indeed awesome.

Grateful for March Madness every year it brings passion and excitement and usually lets me laugh at the pundits and their predictions each year during the brackets and the chaos that follows.

Grateful for you taking the time to read this and enjoy my quotes of the day, almost forgot !

One of my favorite quotes and my only prayer!  Thank you

Have a blessed day