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SOAPBOX® mini-motivation: the game of greed

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Tis the season for shopping til you’re blue in the face (or until someone pepper sprays you!)… stockpiling your baskets and SUVs with stuff many of  you really cannot afford , let alone even need… and, ultimately, stuffing away your Grinch-like feelings of greed and receipt-laden guilt.  But who’s to blame for your frenzied, Black Friday addictive actions?  

“Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.”   – John Lahr, drama critic

Surely not the scheming stores and malevolent marketing execs… for YOU bought into the game again!  YOU drove yourself to the store at 3AM!  YOU are still trying to top last year’s gift giving.  YOU still have your priorities out of whack.  Yup, I said it. 

Remember: too much will always be too much.  And the goods ain’t so good  if they only bring out the bad  in us.        ~  KD

http://youtu.be/qveFdQ7D_aY 

 

Copyright 2011 by Kimberlie Dykeman.

Shop SOAPBOX® products & SUBSCRIBE to FREE feed HERE! “Pure Soapbox” book, KINDLE and audiobook are available nationwide . A portion of the proceeds of all book sales is donated to LIVESTRONG.

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SOAPBOX® mini-motivation: thanks takes to flight

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“To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.”     ~ Victor Hugo, poet, novelist & activist
 
Indeed, I am a Christian who cherishes Christmas and Easter for their innate awesome events and subsequent movements throughout the world.  But there is nothing quite like Thanksgiving.  Tis the most meaning-full holiday of the year, I believe…a truly holy day…  that crosses all boundaries and binds all faiths and followings.  It is a simple opportunity to gather without agenda, without guilt, without gaudiness and overpriced ticket items, without marketing schemes or madness. 
 
Pure in nature and message: GIVE THANKS for all you have in your life and FOR YOUR LIFE!  And share that with one another.  That’s it, folks.  A day that beckons you to drop your minutia-filled week and come together to connect and share and show love.  Not as difficult as some of us seem to make it.  And even if miles separate your loved ones, you’d be amazed how far your thoughts and prayers of peace and positivity can travel.  So this year, friends, with full heart I wish you all a simple, pure, love-filled and blessed Thanksgiving.  Further, I pray that you continue to give and show thanks every day thereafter.  It’s not that difficult.        ~  KD
 
 

Copyright 2011 by Kimberlie Dykeman.

Shop SOAPBOX® products & SUBSCRIBE to FREE feed HERE! “Pure Soapbox” book, KINDLE 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: NO means yes?

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“Never take NO from someone who can’t say YES.”     ~ Anonymous

NO.  Such a simple word, but for some it’s the knee in the gut that leaves them gasping for air, cussing like truckdrivers and taking two steps back on their paths to prayed-for success.  Being an entrepreneur hustling a living in the monstrous industries of entertainment and publishing, the word NO comes practically with every square meal each day.  And sometimes more.  Aaahhh…but that doesn’t mean I turn around and hide my head.  Hell, NO!  And neither should you.  Regroup, reload and refire, my friends.  ~KD

http://youtu.be/Q-eob6khYX8

Copyright 2011 by Kimberlie Dykeman.

Shop SOAPBOX® products & SUBSCRIBE to FREE feed HERE! “Pure Soapbox” book, KINDLE 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: how ironic!

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“Irony is God’s way of reminding us who’s really in charge.”      ~ Kimberlie Dykeman

Very few things can smack you upside the head in such a way that you let out an involuntary cartoon-like sound as your little brain rattles to find its balance again.  Being on the God Squad, I KNOW I ain’t the captain… yet I can recall plenty of times when I thought I was at the helm, egotistically assuming the turns in the road.  And then…SHAZAM!

Invariably, I try to figure out the “how” and “why”- even piss and moan a bit- but eventually surrender to the truth.  I mean, that’s really the only peaceful play for any of us.  Right?  After all, who’s to say that the thing that happened or didn’t happen was the perfect gamechanger, wake-up call or seed to be sown that you never could have choreographed, let alone anticipated.  Gotta love that.  Indeed, life is not meant to be dissected, like a butterfly on the wheel…it is to simply be lived.

Copyright 2011 by Kimberlie Dykeman.

Shop SOAPBOX® products & SUBSCRIBE to FREE feed HERE! “Pure Soapbox” book, KINDLE and audiobook are available nationwide . A portion of the proceeds of all book sales is donated to LIVESTRONG.

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SOAPBOX® mini-motivation: m-a-g-i-c

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Folks, it’s been a hectic couple of weeks…and I allowed my SOAPBOX-ing to take a back seat for last week. Thank you to those you elbowed me to make sure I was still alive! I am…I was just buried in a little research-time and travels to Minnesota 🙂 My opportunities as an on-camera personality have expanded, to wonderfully include another spokesperson role -representing killer cosmeceutical line Dermelect on ShopNBC! – but I’m back on track now. Today’s little SOAPBOX® ditty ironically spotlights a quote I had written on the gel case of my video reel when first prospecting for roles as a host… and the magic still rubs on. So, for you who are perhaps grinding the pavement looking for jobs, new customers and opportunities to plug in your entrepreneurial wits, believe that you may very well be the sparkle to someone else’s candle. It just takes time, faith, unyielding optimism …and, of course, good ole fashioned chutspah!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKmx-9z4kvk

Copyright 2011 by Kimberlie Dykeman.

Shop SOAPBOX® products & SUBSCRIBE to FREE feed HERE! “Pure Soapbox” book, KINDLE 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: practice makes perfect-sense

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Just a few simple words…

Stuck thinkin’ ?  Start doin’ !  Application brings satisfaction of getting your hands dirty, getting your heart pumping, and giving your noggin a break.  Cheers to breathing life into your learning, friends.    ~ KD

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

Copyright 2011 by Kimberlie Dykeman.

Shop SOAPBOX® products & SUBSCRIBE to FREE feed HERE! “Pure Soapbox” book, KINDLE 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