SOAPBOX® mini-motivation: what do you desire?

Posted on May 14, 2012 by admin

“Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can’t even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.” ~ Barbara Kingsolver, novelist and poet

Such a simple question: What do you want?

Hmmmm. What do I want? What do I want? What do I want? What do I want? Any way you slice it, this little puzzler looks deceivingly quaint and harmless, as if it may indeed require little pondering… but it’s all a facade. And as the years fly off our mind-logged calendars, the four-word imp creeps its way into our daily lives…keeping us up at night, zoning us out at meetings, tying our tongues… furrowing our brows and ultimately graying our hair.

All that said, I stand side-by-side with you…without an answer for you, let alone myself. I, too, often want someone to tell me what I should want. But more often, I just seem to tune out the prompt for pondering my true intention and careen past the real source of joy. I let the malevolent minutia of a worldly existence distract me from facing the question straight-on. From diving into the deep end of my soul, welcoming the light, and waiting for the answers to reach out to me. Perhaps being driven isn’t such an enviable quality when the drive is into an abyss full of unanswered questions.

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SOAPBOX® mini-motivation: Earth DAY…WEEK…YEAR…LIFETIME

Posted on April 23, 2012 by admin

Well, Earth Day and Earth Week have come and gone… and now what? Do you go back to your old habits of driving to the corner store instead of walking; tossing everything in the garbage because your apartment complex or office still doesn’t have a recycling program; running the water while you brush your teeth?! Folks, celebrating Earth Day isn’t supposed to be a party that you go all out for and then toss it’s memory into your rusty pile of annual “do-good” days. You should be celebrating what EARTH PROVIDES FOR US and, in turn, making lifelong changes to ensure that this planet CAN keep taking care of us. I hope that sometime very soon, all of us, as a connected human race, will have the ultimate paradigm shift and SEE with truly open eyes what evil we are doing to our planet and what good is IN US to change our mentality to one of appreciation, concern, and action…. every day! ~ KD

Here is a SOAPBOX® mini-motivation from 2008 that still echoes truth today:

“To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.” ~ Wendell Berry, philosopher, novelist and social activist

It’s about time we stopped snickering at Al Gore, the forewarning NPR folks and tree-hugging, hybrid hippies…because they might be onto something! It’s about time we stopped being so selfish and purposefully merged as Humankind for the simple Darwinian hopes of perpetuating our existence by strengthening our collective homebase – we call Earth! For, not seeing is believing. When a species of animal disappears, we must rescue braver. When a strain of plant disappears, we must think greener. When snowcaps are melting, swallowing up islands and life, we must conserve stricter. Amidst the chatter of economics, religion and war, don’t miss the underconversation of environment, culture and interdependent community. My fellow EARTH-lings, we must research cleaner, protect fiercer, commit firmer, explore broader, spend wiser, educate brighter. May we all look back after long, fulfilling lives to proclaim that we are survivors and all did our part. It’s our time to think globally…and act globally.

SOAPBOX® mini-motivation: guts for glory

Posted on March 22, 2012 by admin

“What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight –it’s the size of the fight in the dog.” ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower, politician and former US President

And the political fight keeps going… round after round as the forwearning buzz of the ending bell draws louder, we begin to ask what it really does take to stay in the ring. Is it still really just unabashed guts… laced with rebel-without-a cause fire? Is it ground-to-the-bone perseverance… confettiied with blood, sweat and tears? Or, dare I say, is it just who has the biggest wallet (manpurse, pocketbook, or whatever is comprehensively acceptable!) Do we even remember the names of the already fallen? Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain, Jon Huntsman, Thad McCotter, Tim Pawlenty, and Rick Perry… who presumably spoke for all individually by confidently proclaiming “I full well believe I’m going to win”.

Mind you, folks, I understand the rest of us are not currently in training to hold the revered yet risky title of US President, but perhaps something just as important in our own daily lives and devoted visions is driving us without rest. And we often find ourselves wondering and weighing if we have what it takes… yup, I know the feeling. I, too, have to remind myself that what’s burning and brewing nonstop in my heart and head is what will keep me landing punches…not force, fury or finagling. Just a “fight” for what life can truly be. ~ KD

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SOAPBOX® mini-motivation: true Christmas spirit

Posted on December 15, 2011 by admin

“He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.” ~Roy L. Smith, author

I think that says it all, no?

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SOAPBOX® mini-motivation: thanks takes to flight

Posted on November 23, 2011 by admin

“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

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SOAPBOX® mini-motivation: motivation defined

Posted on September 6, 2011 by admin

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

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