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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

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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

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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

 

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SOAPBOX® mini-motivation: truth be told

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Truth be told…and the truth is the only thing that matters in the end.  Right?     ~ KD

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 Copyright 2011 by Kimberlie Dykeman.

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SOAPBOX® mini-motivation: Feel FREE to forgive!

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     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


 

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