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  • Daily Spark: All is Fundamentally Well

    When having a day like the character in the book, “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day”, it helps me to use as a mantra, “all is fundamentally well”. So I encourage us all today to repeat the mantra, and set our INTENTION to believe it and see it: all is fundamentally…

  • Daily Spark: Daring Adventure

    Helen Keller said that “life is a daring adventure or nothing at all!” Today I choose to focus my attention, and my intention, on deliberate creation, through the conscious  cultivation of noticing the good that is present in my life!  And when I do that, I do in fact move in the direction of my…

  • Daily Spark: We Find What We Look for

    I have set my intention to find the good that is around me and to focus less on all the negative stories I sometimes so love to tell!  When I look for the good it is amazing how often I truly do find it! This stuff really does work, if we practice it!  And today…

  • The Meaning I Give It

    Abraham Lincoln is attributed with saying “we are as happy as we make up our mind to be”. When it comes to happiness, do you make a conscious decision and intention to choose “happiness” today?

  • Daily Spark: Power of Gratitude

    In the past four episodes I have been talking a lot about gratitude. Imagine my surprise when on a business trip to Brazil, a JW Marriott hotel gives me a piece of paper on my pillow, discussing the Power of Gratitude and leaving room for me to make a gratitude list!

  • Daily Spark: Poverty Thinking

    I have found truth in my life regarding this quote from Wallace Wattles, “Without gratitude we cannot long keep from dissatisfied thought regarding things as they are.” Gratitude brings more joy and peace into my life when I practice it.

  • Daily Spark: The Basis for Abundance

    Eckhart Tolle said, and I quote,  “Acknowledging the good you already have in your life is the basis for all abundance!”  Think about this, really consider it – the BASIS of ALL abundance. While we may agree with this thinking, and KNOW it at a deep level, if we question ourselves honestly, do we really…

  • The Biggest Gap

    Bob Proctor stated that “the biggest gap” is between what we KNOW and what we DO.  We all know a lot about gratitude, but outside of a rote gratitude list done here and there, do we really practice gratitude in a meaningful way?  That is, In a way that creates a foundation for all abundance?

  • Daily Spark: Is Gratitude Out of Fashion?

    Gratitude can seem like an old thought, so last-year, tired, not original. But knowing about gratitude is not where the magic is. Unless I do it, I don’t have an experience of it… KNOWING  about it is just not enough!

  • The Perfect Gift

    Love is the perfect gift.  And the love of a good dog, in its simplicity and unconditionality, is a shining example to show us humans the way.