Happy New Year

As long as I am able, I will be out there, focusing my energy on one more adventure, one more mountain, one more dream." Live in the moment, make a fresh path - and discover the possibilities a New Year can bring YOU.

Better Being

Be a better being in this world. How can you make the world a better place? Start doing that today.

Living Authentically

Living authentically is not always easy. It can be hard work, but the rewards are worth the effort. It requires the courage to ask yourself the hard questions and be completely honest with yourself about what is truly important to you in life and how you can live your Highest Good. It's following your heart's wisdom, living your Truth, and being real in every sense. When you are living an authentic life, you are contributing your soulful nature and gifts to the world and, thus, creating a better, more authentic and soulful life experience for us all.

May peace and joy be yours, as you discover and honor your authentic self.

Words by Kaoru

Accepting of Differences

Be Accepting of differences – be it different people, different thinking, different lifestyles, different cultures. For they add variety and color into our lives. If everyone is the same, life will be bland – monotonous, even.

Life Has No Smooth Road

Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim the very roughness stimulates the climber to steadier steps 'til the legend, "over steep ways to the stars," fulfills self.

Keep On Saying . . .

If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance it will be.

Be A Positive Role Model

Self-Image

Your self-image is yours alone. Decide how you wish to see yourself, and let that be your self-
image. Then start living that image, because that is who you are and who you want to be.

Focus On The First Step

I don't 'feel' like it", is a common chant we often say to ourselves or to others when we're tired,
not in the mood, or simply procrastinating. The next time you're not feeling "in the mood", either
change your thinking or simply say to your mind, "thank you for sharing". Then focus on only
taking the very first step to get started, then take another, and another. One step at a time until the
law of momentum kicks in. By then, chances are you'll forget all about not being "in the mood",
and will be well on your way to completing whatever it was you needed to do...and feeling great
about it!

You're Doing Everything Right and Still Can't Win

When you're doing everything right and still can't win, be patient. No matter how good we are or
how hard we struggle to make the right decisions, life often makes us wait.

Two Simple Phrases

Say “Please” and “Thank you.” –– These two simple phrases make demands sound like requests, and they inject a friendly tone into serious conversations. Using them can mean the difference between sounding rude and sounding genuinely grateful.

Challenge People

Challenge people. Many of us have had teachers who at times seemed more like tormentors than mentors. They challenged us to do our best, and we were better for it. Practice "carefrontation" — the careful and caring confrontation of others.

Purpose

When you are inspired by some great purpose,

some extraordinary project,

all your thoughts break their bonds:

Your mind transcends limitations,

Your consciousness expands in every direction,

and you find yourself in a new,

great, and wonderful world.

Dormant forces,

faculties and talents become alive,

and you discover yourself to be a greater

person by far than you ever

dreamed yourself to be.

-  Patanjali

Change Your Thoughts and You Change Your World by KAORU

Positive

Everyday I lift myself up and go! Consciously I drum up all my POSITIVE energy and thoughts and carry on . . . I move forward gracefully, freely and lightly with my life, work, visions, creations, goals and dreams. I depend on ME, my own determination, self-motivation and self-love. I am my own ROCK. I am my own POWER. I am IT. Obstacles are the challenges that make me stronger and wiser.

Attachment

Attachment is the source of unhappiness and disappointment. Knowing this I live with the notion that “this too shall pass,” good and bad.

Meet the Love of Your Life by Kaoru

The Past is Over and Gone

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

A Beautiful Day

Wishing you a beautiful day, my friends with lots of happiness without end and even though we are far apart You are a good friend to me. May many blessings come your way

and may you always walk in joy. Peace and Happiness, Kaoru

A Hard Teacher

Experience is a hard teacher because it gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Discharging Sadness Releases the Energy

Our sadness is an energy we discharge in order to heal. Sadness is painful. We try to avoid it. Actually discharging sadness releases the energy involved in our emotional pain. To hold it in is to freeze the pain within us.

Paint Success

When you paint success pictures in your mind, you initiate an inner process whereby your attitudes, hopes, aspirations, and enthusiasm are elevated in response to an image of a more promising future. People who aspire must first sell themselves hope, the promise of a better life.

Necessary Changes

What steps are you willing to take to make necessary changes happen as you transition through this life in which we have been given? Just how far are you willing to go to be the best that you can be? Have you found your "path?" How do you know its "your path?" Are there verifiable signs, if so what are they? Hard Questions? Let me hear from you!

The Blame Game

Refuse to play the "Blame Game." Often people stay stuck in "what ifs" because they can not let themselves "off the hook." They see even their present difficulties such as misbehaved children or being suddenly unemployed as further evidence that they are to blame for all their misfortunes! They think "If only I had…………then this would not have happened"" As the bestselling book "When Bad Things Happen to Good People" by Harold Kushner emphasizes, the world is not always fair and sometimes really good people get real bad breaks just because life is not often fair, not because you deserve it.

Take Responsibility for Your Happiness

Happy people know and understand that they are 100% responsible for their life. They take responsibility for their moods, attitude, thoughts, feelings, actions and words. They are the first to admit when they’’ve made a mistake.

Begin today by taking responsibility for your happiness. Work on developing these habits as you own. The more you incorporate the above habits into your daily lifestyle –– the happier you will be.

If Onlys

Realize that to be steeped in "if onlys" is to be stuck with unproductive regret. Regrets can be productive if you learn and grow from them. Differentiate between productive and unproductive regret. Unproductive regret keeps you focused on how the past would have been better, and productive regret helps you make better decisions and choices now as you immerse yourself in the present and look towards the future.

A Big Smile

A smile is a way of writing your thoughts on your face, telling others that they are accepted, liked and appreciated. So here's a big smile just for you.

Give People Motivation

Motivation disappears when we start seeing ourselves as ‘ordinary’. We begin to see every day as a routine, cooking, laundry, cleaning, working –– everything starts looking monotonous after a while. Yes, variety is the spice of life and who says we should not live a spicy life? Get inspired to get motivated. Think of ways you can sketch your day in a more colorful way, take a break from what you do continuously and thank your Higher Power for not giving you what you never wanted, be a giver rather than taker and if you can’t give anything else, give people motivation, love and peace.

Between a 100,000 yesterdays and a 100,000 tomorrows, there is only one today and I would not let this pass without saying thanks to all my followes.

To Be Disturbed

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.

True Greatness to Life

Pour the fullness of your love and positive purpose into each little moment. By calmly and positively living a moment at a time, you'll bring your true greatness to life.

Educate Yourself

To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kind that will stand behind the action. Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for the good, which is directed at you. Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.

- Albert Schweitzer

This Is Your Life by Kaoru

Wishing For Others

Wishing for others doesn't cost anything. What is needed is just the willingness to make a difference in others' lives and help them feel better and happy. We wish for ourselves countless times a day. But if we wish for others just once then a big difference can be made in others' lives.

To Understand and Be Understood

Ralph Nichols once said, "The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them." Simply put, if one person dominates the conversation, how can that person truly understand the other person? Communication is a continuous process, not a "your turn, my turn" game.

Push Your Negativity Aside

Push out all feelings that aren't positive. Don't let negative thoughts and feelings overwhelm you when you're feeling down. Even if it's only for a few hours a day, push your negativity aside and only focus on the good things in your life.

Practice Gratitude

Choose to look for the good news rather than the negative ones. Also choose to look at life half-full instead of half empty. Practice gratitude.

Shift Into Delight, Bliss and Joy

If you want to experience more magic in your life, then you will need to infuse your moments with joy. Just think about what usually happens when magic takes place. We hold back our breaths and as we witness the transformation that magic brings, we shift into delight, bliss and joy.

Infusing joy can be made in a variety of ways such as singing out loud, saying yes to a new adventure and dancing on the streets. The idea is to capture the positive feelings of bliss and joy. With sustained joy and by virtue of the Law of Attraction, you attract the vibrational match of the same in your desired outcomes.

Smile

Smile at least 10 times a day and start to count that. Smiling is a sign of honesty and power. Everybody can cry over a disaster but only the most powerful can take bitterness with a smile. Exercise that power. And then try to go for 20 times a day.

Be Grateful for Something

Be Grateful For Something 5 Minutes. Point your mind to something you’re really grateful for and stay there. Might be your family, your wealth, your health or just your present moment. Feel grateful for it. There’’s nobody between you and that thing, there’s nobody watching or listening. You’re free to feel grateful
and happy. And then start your day as usual. It’s only 5 minutes, yet the impact of such a day starter is overwhelming.

Writing Goals

Mornings are very good for writing goals. I especially like that time of the day for writing goals because I have very few interference from the outside world. Which makes me much more authentic. I value more the goals written in the morning because I am less influenced.

Get Rid of Labels

Get Rid Of Labels. Things are what they are. Don’t use labels anymore, use directly the things. Your notion of "right" and "wrong" are nothing but labels. In a different country your "right" might be "wrong". Don’t charge yourself with this unneeded burden.

The Golden Rule

"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you," or, in the negative form, "do not do to others what you would not have them do to you." This simple moral maxim of live and let live, the essential basis of good will in relations among and between men, in both its positive and negative forms, is called the Golden Rule. It can be traced to the origins of ethical thought in many different cultures, and can be regarded as the most basic rule governing social relationships between equals. It is a rule requiring equal treatment, fairness, a single standard applied to all alike, quid pro quo, something for something, an equal exchange, mutual respect of rights, and reciprocity. Its mutuality means that it is shared in common, granted by all to all. Its reciprocity means that it is returned. The treatment you give to others is returned by others giving the same treatment to you.

Forgive

One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything every night before you go to bed.

- Bernard Baruch

We Are Gifted

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this something, at whatever cost, must be attained.

- Marie Curie

An Extraordinary Thing Is Happening

An Extraordinary Thing Is Happening Right Now. People of various religious backgrounds are in temples, churches, mosques and other places of worship praying, wholeheartedly, for world peace.

Absence of Judgement

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

- Wayne Dyer

Everything Happens For a Reason

A Simple Smile

A simple smile from a stranger can light up your entire day. Laughing makes your worries disappear. Make it a habit to laugh and smile as much as you can, because life is just so much better when you do. Positivity is contagious, and you’ll find that people will like you a whole lot more if you’re always happy compared to being grouchy and cynical.

Count Your Blessings

Make a choice to focus on every good and perfect thing in any and every situation. Count your blessings, not your curses. The good news is that in the end, you’ll look back and realize that even the curses were blessings in disguise.

The Truth About You

When you feel weak, the truth about you is you are stronger than you think. Remember the times when you had to lift yourself back up, the battles you have fought, and the struggles you have endured to be here today. When you allow the truth to move from your head to your heart then the enemy of your soul doesn’t stand a chance –– not one single chance. Whenever you are ready, you can reclaim what has been taken. Listen to the truth. Take it in. Feel it. And then believe the beautiful truth about you.

In Loving Memory of John Lennon (Oct. 9, 1940 - Dec. 8, 1980)

Peace In The World

If there is light in the soul, there will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, there will be harmony in the house. If there is harmony in the house, there will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, there will be peace in the world. ~ Chinese Proverb

A Loving Person

"A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror."

Ken Keyes

Embrace Your Power by Kaoru

Love

Love.
—The Prophets

Opportunity to Learn Through Joy

We will be given every opportunity to learn through joy, and when we deny ourselves that, we will learn through pain. But we will learn. - Marianne Williamson

Dreams Can Only Be Important If . . .

Your dreams can only be important if you make them important - keeping in mind that your brain only thinks something is important if you think about it very often. By habit, people usually only think about problems and potential problems often which only leads to more problems and suffering. The ticket out is to switch what you spend the majority of time thinking about from backward and negative to forward and positive.

Being Negative

When you find yourself being negative, question what you've just said, (or in the case of negative self talk what you have just told yourself). Ask yourself if it is really true that nobody likes you for example or that you have no friends, whatever it is question it and ask yourself to justify your statement. You'll see its not truth but a distorted negative view.

Daily Gratitude

Express your thanks –– Sometimes we do not feel motivated because we are drained emotionally. We let the worries of life weigh on our shoulders. Expressing daily gratitude for all of the good in your life can help with this.

Read My Story in . . .

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The Right Relationship

Life is not about finding the right person, but creating the right relationship, it's not how we care in the beginning, but how much we care till ending.

Focus

Focus on a beautiful, wonderful, meaningful possibility. Feel how you must let go of your limiting beliefs in order to fully imagine and comprehend that possibility.

The Heart

The Heart is the only machine that works without any repairing for years." Always keep it happy . . . whether it is 'yours' or 'others'.

Continued Growth

The changes you are experiencing are not always comfortable, but they are necessary for your continued growth . . .

Imagine

Just imagine if we all spoke our minds. We would know that the people who love us, love us for who we really are.

Feeling Loved . . .

Feeling loved makes us feel good. Who doesn’t feel a bit better about ourselves and our day when somebody tells us they love us? Don’t just leave it as an unspoken assumption. Tell your loved ones that you love them. It will make their day, and you’ll feel better for it to!