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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…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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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 of the week: expiration celebration

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“Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”     ~ The Bible, Isaiah 22:13

     Check the bottom of your foot.  Go ahead, I’ll wait.  See anything?  A phrase in permanent ink?  Something like, “Born on…” or  “Good until…” or  “Best when used by…”  No?  No tattooed set of numbers.  Nothing, huh?  Gee, big surprise there, folks.  I think it’s safe to assume that none of us were born with an expiration date, boldly declaring our earthly duration.  And even safer to say that all of us know that our tools, toys, and trash (that stuff that really doesn’t matter!) have longer shelf lives than us.  And even if you play your proverbial cards right, boldly stated, you never know when you’re gonna go!  So, how come you carry on like Father Time is your BFF, and your Bucket List is a hodgepodge of pipedreams you’ll pursue someday just to placate your inner child? 

     People, read the title:  it’s a damn Bucket List!  And if I were you, I’d grab a big red marker and add the following: STOP sweating the small stuff, LAUNCH that business idea, VISIT distant friends and family, CASH IN those vacation days, USE the good China, LOVE that person with ALL of your heart, OPEN that bottle of wine, FORGIVE everyone, STAND UP for yourself!  The future isn’t going to fire a warning shot when “things” are getting close, so  get tangled up in TODAY, forego the judicious forecasts, and reel in real joy, peace, freedom and love.  After all, your life is BEST WHEN USED…right now! 

(FYI: This is the 2nd-to-last “SOAPBOX of the week” as you know it!  The SOAPBOX® mini-motivations videos launch in 2011!)

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SOAPBOX of the week: the defiance of imagination

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“Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.”     ~ Thomas Edison, inventor, scientist & businessman

Remember when you were a kiddo and nothing could limit your imagination or abilities? Even when the omnipotent ogres (named Mom and Dad) interrupted your schemes with a booming NO and a list of chores, you’d soon return to your secret homebase and set to saving the world from evil or concocting a magical potion to fly.  And even though you never reeaally beat out all the bad guys, touched the clouds, nor became the first fifth grade President of the United States… day after day, with invisible cape in tow, you’d drink a glass of milk, punch your fist to the sky and jump off the front porch to have another go at it! Dreaming and trying went hand-in-hand because you just couldn’t sit still with not knowing “what if…?”

So, what about now? When people, politics and predicaments halt your high-reaching, how do you redeem the cape, deactivate the doubting voice, and once again take to leaping tall buildings? Perhaps an ounce of reverse-psychology might do the trick. Imagine where you might be if you had purposefully lowered your expectations of yourself throughout life. Dropped them right to the bottom rung. Listened to naysayers. Tabled your dreams. Never asked the tough-as-nails questions. Never investigated the what-if’s in life. The results would have been completely unacceptable, if even imaginable in the first place. Right? Well, then trust that this magically unyielding childhood curiosity, which steered you clear of a stalled, unexplored life, is still within you, folks!  So, go on! and dig it up, fire it up, and wrap yourself in its power to again move you forward, onward and up, up, and away.

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