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SOAPBOX® mini-motivation: motivation defined

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Today’s treat is part of a project being started by my pal Kevin McCrudden… the man who pushed to have January 2 established as National Motivation & Inspiration Day!  So I created a few little ditties for him…

Motivation.  Some folks like to toss them into the same basket with a lackluster, clichéd definition of  “that get-up-n-go-attitude”.   Yawn.  Worse still is the scenario, for far too many people, wherein they forgot what a sensation of uplifting drive and unstoppable vision  really feels like.  If you don’t know what a duck looks like, walks like or sounds like…you ain’t gonna find a duck anywhere.  Got it?  Perhaps it’s time you add a colorful and undeniably memorable definition to YOUR picture of MOTIVATION and see just how it takes shape in your daily life.  ~ KD

http://youtu.be/SHTMdWnuA1M  Support Kevin’s efforts at TheMotivationStation

Copyright 2011 by Kimberlie Dykeman.

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SOAPBOX® mini-motivation: grow a spine!

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Feeling like a spoke in the proverbial wheel of corporate America?  Wondering why you always seem to find yourself in the line that just ain’t moving fast enough?  Are you perhaps at the point of boiling over with festering frustration at not getting what you want, when you want it…EVER?!  Well, folks, did you ever stop to think that people and things will treat you the WAY YOU LET THEM treat you.  Act like a doormat and…you get the picture.  Pipe up, pals, and be the revolution you want to see!                                        ~ KD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoHLw0-d1Bw

Copyright 2011 by Kimberlie Dykeman.

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SOAPBOX® mini-motivation: take a hike, buddy!

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“Each day should have a clearly marked emergency exit sign.”     ~ Dr. SunWolf, educator, attorney & author

Ok, folks.  Calm down…it’s only Monday.  Indeed the tsunami of anxiety, emotions, expectations and fears crash on the crown of many of you, drowning you in swill of stress that may very well permeate your ever minute.  And if some annoyingly positive person (i.e. yours truly) tells you that a perspective  shift can serve as your life preserver for the day… you can take the words to heart and fill your half-empty glass.  Or you can tell the world to “stuff it” and take a hike, yourself.  Indeed, sometimes the answer you seek ain’t gonna come through the internet… but it might fall from the sky into your open convertible!     ~ KD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfFzY4zlSQ8

Copyright 2011 by Kimberlie Dykeman.  Video by Hallmark, Hoops & Yoyo

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SOAPBOX® mini-motivation: if only…

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I’d like to believe that if we would sloooooowwww down just a smidge… perhaps downshift even just one gear… we’d screw up a helluvalot less, have more glorious memories, get to know the people who really matter, give due diligence to the work that makes a difference, and make a crapload fewer mistakes!  We’d sleep sounder, smile broader, and drop our shoulders back to where they belong.     Aaaahhhhh  what fabulous lives we’d all lead if we never found out what we prevented.                           ~ KD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4f8bCa0oME

Copyright 2011 by Kimberlie Dykeman.

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SOAPBOX® mini-motivation: GO HOME

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“You’re still here?  It’s over…            Go home.”     ~ Ferris Bueller, a John Hughes film character

 

     Sometimes the most profound messages come from other people’s imaginations.  Don’t hurt yourself trying to figure it out, folks.  Let the meaning find you.  ~ KD

 

 Copyright 2011 by Kimberlie Dykeman.

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SOAPBOX® mini-motivation: ode to family

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“What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life – to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories.”     ~ George Eliot a.k.a. Mary Anne Evans, Victorian novelist and journalist

Ahhhhh…family.  Can’t live with ’em.  Can’t live without ’em.  A visit is a shot in the arm of humility, humor, and honor all in one fell swoop.  Even with all the rerun stories, nagging comments, embarrassing nicknames, old habits, and wildly different personalities, they surprisingly, almost passively, provide the powerful medicine we all invariably need, at just the right time.   Need a pick-me-up?  Talk to Aunt.  Need a swift kick of  the-world-doesn’t-revolve-around-you?  Talk to Sis.  What about a urging to just slow down and have some fun?  There’s Mom.  Or a smack of how amazing creation really is…each and every one of us?  Play on the dirty floor with Niece and, of course, Pooh and Bun-Bun.  And then, there’s Pop… whenever you feel like you haven’t even made a dent in this overbearing, overjudging world- he offers an assuring hug and “ya done good”.

Yup.  Family is it… at least in my little opinion.  And though we may blame many of our faults, foibles and funny characteristics on any (or all!) who share our bloodline… they are, ironically, the ultimate healing element in our lives that will never expire.  Believe in that notion and find peace in the fact that “joined for life” is a blessed thing.  Period.           ~ KD

 

Copyright 2011 by Kimberlie Dykeman.

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