SOAPBOX® mini-motivation: strange birds

“You’ll get mixed up, of course, as you already know. You’ll get mixed up with many strange birds as you go. So be sure when you step. Step with care and great tact and remember that Life’s a Great Balancing Act. Just never forget to be dexterous and deft. And never mix up your right foot with your left.”      ~ Dr. Seuss (aka Theodor Seuss Geisel), author & illustrator

     Strange birds.  Indeed a quirky little tag.  But, perhaps, that’s the most accurate all-encompassing phrase to employ in describing the characters we “get mixed up with” at times in our lives.  You know what I’m talking about.  The “not sure where that second  personality came from” people  who throw you for a loop…leaving YOU wondering how your gut was just soooooo wrong.  Sometimes their oddities or blatant evilness jumps out at you in one fell swoop.  Aaaaannnnd sometimes it takes years.   But eventually their true colors are revealed…and the result ain’t a flock pleasant-looking peacocks, folks.  Nope.  When these wild and wicked  beings fly in your path, they stir up wretchedly pungent airs of stench, speculation and charade. 

     Those “strange birds” are in a category all by themselves, and come to be stewed up with the lot of others you’ve met along your life’s journeys.  (And the more to come, ‘cause you know they’ll be more!)  Though you may not control the flight pattern of these dive-bombing, devilish creatures, you can counterbalance their effects.  It simply means investing more time in focusing on what truly does compliment your life and parallel your values.  Sure it’ll take a little more hard work to ensure you stay on your RIGHT footing, but it’s worth the “good eggs” in the end.

 

Copyright 2011 by Kimberlie Dykeman

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SOAPBOX® mini-motivation: motivation defined

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: take a hike, buddy!

“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…

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: truth be told

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dnwya_J2lt4

 Copyright 2011 by Kimberlie Dykeman.

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SOAPBOX® mini-motivation: you’re not excused

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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