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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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SOAPBOX® mini-motivation…with Pooh

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     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

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SOAPBOX® mini-motivation

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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

 

 

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SOAPBOX® mini-motivation

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You got s-k-i-l-l-s?  Really?  Then why are you still harping on yourself for not being able to this…and that… and all of those other line items?   Perhaps it’s time you let loose the suffocated child in your noggin and let it wander back to the land of  “I can do anything!”  Fifty bucks says, you’ve stagnated your system of success and forgot that your current gifts never run out of possibilities.  If nothing is truly impossible then perhap you remove that OVERSIZED word from your adult vocab and look at what it’s been hiding.    ~ KD

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SOAPBOX® mini-motivation

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     And so…..that fabulous Hallmark Day is again upon us.  (Yes, folks, it’s today!)  Of course, some sweethearts are readying to suprise a loved one…some are scrambling to make up for the past year of mistakes…and some are trying their damndest to forget Valentine’s of years past and get through this one, albeit as a solo artist.  It is to these fellow bachelors and bachelorettes that I dedicate this ditty.  Let it sink in and next year may find you CELEBRATING the day of hearts!

~ KD

 

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SOAPBOX® mini-motivation

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So….whatcha made of? What kind of skills have you got? When was the last time you thought about how capable you really are and forgave yourself for that which you just aren’t so hot at? It comes down to two little words: capitalize and minimize, folks. Figure out what that means and you and your DNA will have a field day taking on the rest of your life.

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