I’m late posting this today but it’s still an important topic. One person really can begin a change. If you want to see more kindness in the world, begin to express more kindness. It is definitely contagious and will impact not only the one(s) you’re being kind to but also those around them. Try to recall a time when someone was nice to you. How did that impact your feelings, thoughts and actions at least for that day? Did it make you think that you wanted to spread more niceness as a result? I know that has happened with me.

This time in our nation is one in which I think we need to try to be a force of change regarding tolerance and acceptance. I know that may irritate some people but when I see some of the latest “recommendations” on how to keep people in or out of our country, I just can’t believe it. I do understand that some of it is emotional reaction and some of it is political posturing but who am I to decide who should or shouldn’t be here. How can we be so mean and prejudiced during this holiday period. Where will the “prevention of entry” end? What if someone doesn’t like a certain group of people and gets a bunch of people together and starts a “movement” to keep “them” out? Where does it stop? What happened to the “Land of the Free?”

I didn’t mean to get off on this but just as I began to talk about being a positive change, this concept also applies in the negative manner too. It simply takes a few loud mouths to start something that is not a positive change. It’s unfortunate that we can’t begin to make positive changes as easily.

I just want folks to realize that they can impact the world even though they are just one person. Be nice, give people gifts, give them a smile, give them information if that’s what they want, give them advice if they ask for it. Help in any way. If you wish more people were volunteers, go volunteer. Think about how you may have had the help of a volunteer in your life. How much more would you have to pay at certain events or locations if there weren’t volunteers and they had to pay a staff (hospitals and state parks come to mind)?

Don’t sit idly by. If you want the world to be happier, see what you can do to help people be happy. Of course, this also means you have to be happy too.

Be the change!

Terrie

You know that once a year I write about St Jude Children’s Research Hospital because my local radio station has a radiothon to raise money for this wonderful organization.  This year is no exception.

And you know what? Every year I learn something new. But it always comes back around to the fact that no child should have to suffer! And I believe no family should have to endure what the families of children with cancer have to endure. Of course, I feel the same way about anyone who has cancer or cancer is in the family somewhere. However, to me, children are such precious beings that have done absolutely nothing wrong in their lives and have not had any time to develop defense mechanisms to deal with the fear and pain that accompanies such a diagnosis and the treatment (and/or prognosis).

There is no great meaning to today’s post. Just an encouragement to look beyond yourself and see who you can help in whatever way you can. If you can give a few dollars to St Jude or some other charity that would be phenomenal and it will make you feel good too. You never know what a few bucks might do to help a child with cancer. Why am I so “into” St Jude? Not only because of the great research they have done with children’s cancer and AIDS and other catastrophic diseases but also because no family ever has to pay at St Jude. All their needs are taken care of. St Jude simply wants the family to focus on their child and getting him or her better. No insurance worries, nothing. When you have to drop everything in your entire life to take care of your child, you need help. Help from friends, from family and from strangers. Being essentially alone in this life, I know what the fear of not having anyone around to ask for help is like. I always feel as if I’m imposing on people if I ask for help. St Jude and all its contributors want to offer those families help without asking.

I’ve been to St Jude and I can tell you that there is nothing but love and joy that exudes from the walls there. Even the children who are suffering are smiling. They run around the halls pulling little red wagons with their IV/chemo packs in the wagon. Nothing seems to stop them. The doctors, nurses and patients all eat in the same cafeteria. They all cry together, they laugh together. They are one. Isn’t that the essence of what we all should be?

To be what they call a “partner in hope” is only $20 a month. Look at your expenses and see what you don’t really need and could give up to help a child fight against this horrible disease. Do you eat out? I bet that you could not eat out once a month and that would be your $20 a month. What about your beer money, your pizza money, your daily Starbucks? Maybe you’re fortunate enough to not be touched by cancer (although I don’t think there are very many people who haven’t had their lives touched in some way). But do you know what’s around the corner? No, no one does. What if your $20 a month was the tipping point for finding the cure?

Think about what you can give to others, whether it’s St Jude or not. It will make you feel really good. Think about it.

Thank you.

Terrie

So how far have you gotten in writing your 2016 script for your life?

Have you defined what it is you want for the upcoming year? In this previous post we discussed taking an inventory of your 2015 life and what you were happy with and what you weren’t. You’ve also identified themes and should be able to see the ‘what ifs’ and how the Law of Attraction came into play in your 2015 life.

Once you’ve taken the inventory, you’ll have created some idea of what you want to happen in 2016. You can call these goals if you want although I don’t encourage that. The word “goals” has too short lived a life for me. It’s a term that’s thrown around willy nilly these days. I would rather you talk about your plan or even better – your script for 2016. The word “script” more accurately defines it too because you will actually be writing down what you want to happen.

So for this section of 2016 preparation you take out a pen and paper (or computer). You can write down themes you want to see in your life next year based on what you’ve reviewed for 2015.  Maybe you want more of what you’ve already gotten and maybe you want the opposite. Perhaps you want to go down a completely different route.

1. Put one theme on each page (work, family, relationship, work, love, money, health, etc).  Put the header at the top.
2. In the first part put the title – e.g. “I am healthy and whole and happy – my body is a fine tuned machine” or “I enjoy going to work every day and each day is very rewarding at work. I influence others in so many different ways. And I receive a promotion.” or “I have found the love of my life.” or “I have more time for things I really want to do, things that make a difference in the world”. Write things as specific as you can but remember that this is the title (the end result so to speak). You will be putting plenty of the details in the script. Remember to use the present tense and also positive words or phrases.
3. Start writing about your success and even how you get there. Let’s use my coaching program as an example. “My website is up and running and I add content twice a week. I have installed a membership site for clients. I hold weekly webinars to explain to people what mind-body-nutrition and eating psychology are. I advertise on Facebook and ask my friends and Getting Unstuck, LLC readers to spread the word. I offer intro sessions for people. I have an ongoing support/mastermind class that starts at the beginning of January where people who have joined can get support and information in a weekly call. I book clients every weekend (and am able to coordinate these calls with my running events). By the end of 2016 I have an income of $xxxx from Dynamic Eating Psychology Coaching.”  Now, in my own journal there were be many more details but see how I am getting specific about my website and Facebook and even the days of the week I do my coaching. You just simply write out what it is you want to happen.
4. Do this for each theme. If you are tired, don’t write. You are likely to rush through it and not get the details down that you want. Write when you’re rested and feeling as positive as possible.
5. You can edit and add to or delete from any theme at anytime you want.
6. Reread these themes at least weekly.
7. Review them monthly and edit where needed.
8. Record your progress monthly as well.

The most important thing is to get started. Writing down what you want will get the Universe working in your favor and will get your vibrations heading toward the up and up.

Take some time to do this now. Don’t go into 2016 not knowing the specifics of what you want that year to bring. And don’t rely on New Years Resolutions. You know how those work.

Good luck and get started NOW!

Terrie

Today is both World AIDS Day and Giving Tuesday! How grand a combination.

Here’s the essence of “Giving Tuesday” (taken from their website): It’s a simple idea. Just find a way for your family, your community, your company or your organization to come together to give something more. Then tell everyone you can about how you are giving. Join us and be a part of a global celebration of a new tradition of generosity.

AIDS is no longer front page news but it still is a significant problem in the world. Here’s some statistics from the CDC about HIV: About 36.9 million people are living with HIV around the world, and as of March 2015, around 15 million people living with HIV were receiving antiretroviral therapy (ART). An estimated 1.2 million people died from AIDS-related illnesses in 2014.

What can you do today to make a difference? Whose life can you touch by giving something, anything? It may be in support of HIV research or it may be in support of something like St Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Or, maybe you can just give a dollar to someone on the street; or give a ride to someone who needs it.  You can give of your talents. You can volunteer. It doesn’t have to be big. Just the act of giving will get you in the spirit. It gets you out of yourself as well and then you feel so much better about yourself.

Try it, you’ll like it! Let us know what you did today – write it in the comments below!

Terrie