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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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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

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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: 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: you’re not excused

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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!

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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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.

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