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: fight or float?

Posted on March 8, 2012 by admin

“Each day it seems we have a gloriously befuddling choice: battle the wind with our oars, or let it guide us with grace and fill our sails.”

~ Kimberlie Dykeman, human being

Indeed to have the breeze at our backs we must first understand the quandary. Then, of course, we must be willing to surrender…

SOAPBOX® mini-motivation: keeping it weird for love

Posted on February 13, 2012 by admin

“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness – and call it love – true love.” ~ Robert Fulghum, author

And so, as we approach le jour de l’amour …I only hope that you look beyond the obvious to see how love cannot be confined, let alone definitively defined. LOVE exists between you and another when things just ….click. Period. Think about this fabulous “weirdness” that is already living in your life… for it goes beyond you and your sweetheart or parent. It reaches uncles, cousins, friends, neighbors, mentors, coworkers… the list goes on. You know who “clicks” with you… now think of the joy, delight, peace, laughter, perspective and relief which those relationships confetti into each of your passing days.

Sure, Valentine’s Day may be just for lovers, but maybe this year you should break prescribed customs and Hallmark card categories and act a little WEIRD! Choose to tell all of those other folks who complete you on this journey called life… that you love them too! ~KD

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SOAPBOX® mini-motivation: everything happens for a reason

Posted on February 1, 2012 by admin

“ You don’t lose your balance unless your life is out of balance.” ~ Arthur Smalls, jazz cat musician

Well, friends, it’s been a whole month since 2012 rang her bell with a promise to bring “change” into your lives. And so I ask, candidly…is anything different? If the answer is YES, and it’s deeper than simply a new brand of toothpaste, then I congratulate you! Keep it up! Now, if you answer NO, or have found yourself brewing in a mindbog of uncertainty, apathy, frustration or desperation, perhaps you take some time to assess your terrain to see the real culprit weeds that are tangling you up… and then reread my ditty on January 9th. Just a suggestion. ~KD

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