SOAPBOX® mini-motivation: you’re not excused

Posted on July 11, 2011 by admin

Soooo… last week I got sucked into watching snippets of a reality show about unabashedly, morbidly obese folks who engage with some self-proclaimed “guru trainer” on-and-off for one full year to lose weight (i.e. not continue to drive themselves toward the Grim Reaper with food). Ironically, the priceless nugget of wisdom which I gleaned came from the angst-filled contestant…not the expert!

“Until you run out of EXCUSES, you’ll never become the best you can be.”

Perhaps it was one of those right-time, right-place, right-words…RIGHT NOW scenarios…but it got me right in the gut, like a good ole Yogi Berra-ism. I took out a neon green sheet of paper and wrote the profoundly obvious statement down, as if it were a canon of eternal success! Too many of us interchange valid reasons with lame excuses, letting the victim in us get off scot-free. It’s not until we have to pay the piper that reality reveals to us the devastating results of ignorance, laziness and apathy.

Welcome to Monday…and this face-jam of truth. You deserve it. I deserve it as well. And we all can benefit from assessing and addressing our UN-reasonable list of excuses. Cheers to your success in burning that pathetic list and grabbing the bull this week….and next!

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SOAPBOX® mini-motivation: Feel FREE to forgive!

Posted on July 5, 2011 by admin

Let me guess…”FREEDOM” to you meant FREE to take off for the weekend; FREE to eat and drink to your heart’s content; FREE to sleep in and take it easy; FREE to see friends you haven’t for a while; FREE to do the American Dream “thing” and coast through a long weekend.

Hopefully, in spots and spells, though, you respectfully reflected on the significance of July 4th…perhaps even mulled over the expansive definition of FREEDOM. Indeed the onomatopoetic power of this simple word sings of open fields, endless choices, lawless future, and flight of the imagination.

It also offers to drop our own chains of that which holds us back…which we have allowed to hold us back. FREEDOM urges us to let the past go, but never forget its value. For countless nations, including ours, FREEDOM comes from forgiveness of faults, fumbles and fights. If our country can do it…perhaps you can stand up and do the same.

~ KD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df-n7ZOlE6k

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SOAPBOX® mini-motivation

Posted on June 26, 2011 by admin

Back from a reprieve and feeling like a million bucks… a glorious difference from last week. And yet even with the build-up of fatigue …from stress, too-many-a-late-night, juggling countless projects, missing my family, and too much running and yoga (yes, it’s apparently possible?)… I swept it all under the rug when talking to folks and put on a strong front. Even kept the “good stuff” inside as well. WHAT THE HELL FOR, I ask myself?!

Sound familiar, folks? Be honest, now. And while you’re at it, imagine just how much more resilient you’d feel and how much more robust all of your relationships would indeed become if you did open your proverbial piehole and let out the emotional good, bad and ugly. Keeping it all isn’t an example of creative composting…it’s more like land-filling, friends. So speak on and speak up and perhaps you’ll smile a bit more. What a concept! ~ KD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCMpR4ZZB64

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SOAPBOX® mini-motivation…pura vida

Posted on June 20, 2011 by admin

“Es una historia sobre vidas en estado puro. Es pura vida.” ~ José María Mendiluce, award-winning novelist of film entitled Pura Vida

“It is a story of lives that are in a pure state. It is pura vida.” What could that obscure little verse possibly mean to Americans…I mean, U.S. folks. (After all the land from which this precious and ironically omnipotent phrase blooms is also in America. South America. The land of Costa Rica.)

Pure vida is the breakfast, lunch and dinner of Costa Ricans…and I am en route this week to sample the menu. Mind you, for most of us, our spirits are frazzled from stress; our minds fractioned from too many decisions; our bodies poor examples of health in a fast-food-nation mocked by assembly-lined plastic surgery shops. But there is another way of thinking and, therefore, doing…living. With ease and fewer expectations and gratefulness of the little things.

Pure vida is the seemingly out-or-reach, beautiful butterfly of joy, peace and optimism we find ourselves chasing after, albeit with super-sized net and insect spray…once we realize the clichéd “American Dream” of the 19^th century doesn’t really hold its punch. The promise of the possibility of prosperity and success indeed wipes out the more admirable pursuits of life and happiness, when too many entitled folks use freedom to a fault. Perhaps PURE LIFE is is just dying to pursue us.

Pure vida, then, is my prayer for you… for me. Your “good life” in its most truthful properties and meaning…is good for me. After all, what goes around…!

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SOAPBOX® mini-motivation…with Pooh

Posted on June 14, 2011 by admin

We’re always told it’s the little things in life that really matter...keep us going…reveal the greatest importance…and leave the most memorable mark on our fleeting memories. Chances are we have that 2-second a-ha moment every other day or so. But with the buzz of an obnoxious alarm, another day-o-decisions smacks us upside the head, and, admittedly, many of us wake and grunt through another seemingly nightmarish day (though it rarely is) towards our artifically flavored, pie-in-the-sky American dream.

I suppose an alternative habit might be to create your own a-ha moment upon waking… I mean, it’s called WAKING UP, right?! Perhaps a Pooh-ism might put you in the mood of change… ~KD

“When you wake up in the morning, Pooh,” said Piglet at last, “what’s the first thing you say to yourself?”

“What’s for breakfast?” said Pooh. “What do you say, Piglet?”

“I say, I wonder what’s going to happen exciting today?” said Piglet.

Pooh nodded thoughtfully. “It’s the same thing,” he said.

From Winnie the Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner by A.A. Milne

Copyright 2011 by Kimberlie Dykeman. Shop SOAPBOX® products & SUBSCRIBE to FREE feed HERE! “Pure Soapbox” book and audiobook are available nationwide . A portion of the proceeds of all book sales is donated to LIVESTRONG. Book KIMBERLIE to confetti your company with OPTIMISM! info@puresoapbox.com

SOAPBOX® mini-motivation

Posted on June 6, 2011 by admin

The power of suggestion… what does that really mean? After all, depending on the suggester, sometimes the prompt had a little more ultimatum attached, especially as a kid. Think: authority figure. And you probably gave a good fight. But even now, when you’re the target of egging-on, you still stand your ground… due to ignorance, ego or just plain laziness. So when the tables are turned, and you’re the instigator, perhaps you’ll remind yourself of the battle within. So trust that even though the ball’s not in your court, if you keep serving… your “opponent” might just volley back a YES! ~ KD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVABWBJyni4

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SOAPBOX® mini-motivation…pura vida

SOAPBOX® mini-motivation…with Pooh

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