Thank you for taking the time to stop by! I am VERY excited you are here. I hope to use this page as a way of sharing some thoughts and stories in a way that might just get us to stop and reflect for a moment in the midst of our busy day to day lives.

We often tend to focus on the same thoughts and the same stories in our minds over and over until they become so deeply ingrained that we have a hard time even considering there might be a different perspective in which to see something or different choices we can choose. In essence, we get stuck. Life is an ever changing flow of constant motion, twisting, turning and growing along the way. There are always new things to learn and new ways to grow. Everyone has learned different lessons while traveling down their own path due the unique life experiences they have encountered. My hope is that we can join together as a team offering support and encouragement to one another.

I invite you to join me down my Pathway to Passion and Purpose by helping each other down theirs through unwavering support and the sharing of the wisdom you have obtained while strolling down your own unique path.

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Friday morning – what a great feeling!  I love Fridays, as I know that when five o’clock rolls around, it is the weekend and I will have two-and-a-half days to do as I please.  Plus, we get to wear jeans to work on Fridays, which always helps the what-am-I-going to wear-today day, but that is a story for another day.  As I walked into work today, I did so with an extra spring in my step and a wider smile on my face.  It was shortly after this that I was hit with some news, unrelated to work, that really hit me like a brick wall, upsetting me and hurting my feelings.  I still feel justified in how I feel.  They are, after all, MY feelings.  However, I should not have allowed them to affect my good mood.  Shame on me.

We cannot control what other people do or say or how they treat us.  We can, however, control how we react to these situations.  I ALLOWED myself to leave my state of well being and for what?  What good did that do me? Absolutely not one thing.  However, it very well could have affected my co-workers as I was not happy and fun to be around.  Did it affect the people that offended me?  Not in the least.

In addition to altering my current state, I was also putting a damper on what good would come to me in the future.   Everything in our world is made up of energy, including our thoughts.  When I went from my smiling and happy, glad-that-it-is-Friday self to a teary beaten-down version, my energy shifted from positive to negative.  I can’t say that I am all that knowledgeable in the field of science, but I do know that like attracts like.  In other words, my being hurt and sad (negative energy) can only attract more of the same negative energy into my life.  However, if I CHOOSE to let these hurts slide off by back, like a Slip N Slide, I can remain in my good mood, (positive energy), and then can only attract more positive energy, aka happiness, opportunities and positive experiences.

Thank goodness I have the ability to CHOOSE how I react to all situations.  I can choose to be a victim or choose to look at it from a different perspective and possibly learn something.  I don’t know if I have the lesson figured out yet, but I am going to choose the positive side of life.  Have a great weekend and keep smilin’.

Big Hugs,

Leslie

My girlfriend called me this morning and told me that she heard on the news that tonight is the night we need to bring in all our plants that have been enjoying the unfiltered warmth and light of the sun and beautifying our patios and decks the past few months.  Yes, the air definitely has the crispness in it, and the days are getting shorter.  In fact, it is almost time for the ghosts and goblins to come out and play.

As I thought about it, I became a little sad. Fall has always been my favorite time of year, but now that my kids are older, I have not partaken in the ritual trips to the apple orchard,  the pumpkin patch or the haunted house, nor have I even pretended to have any talent in a flag-football game  while listening to the rustling of  the golden yellow and vivid orange leaves underneath my feet while running for the pass.  What have I possibly been doing with my time?  It is almost Halloween for goodness sake!!

Then it dawned on me – I have been acting like a grownup.  I wondered why.  No one told me I had to.  It is not like things I am accomplishing can’t wait. Why am I putting off enjoying life and letting the little girl in me have her fun?

It is very important to live in the now and appreciate what is around us.  Sometimes, we get very focused on the task at hand until someone or something gives us a swift kick in the tush to open our eyes and see what is going on at this very moment outside of our current focus. Fun and connecting to nature are integral parts of life and support creativity.

So, at this moment, I am going to call that very same girlfriend back, whom I just told I could not come out and play, that I am on my way.  Life is way the heck too short to not do the things that we love to do and let our inner child out.  My child is going to run through some leaves!!!!   Do you know where YOUR inner child is?

Happy Fall,

Big hugs,

Leslie

“Enjoy life’s puddles. Make cheerfulness, outrageousness, and playfulness new priorities in your life.”. -Anthony… http://bit.ly/aHSTwY