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SOAPBOX® mini-motivation: penny-pinched possibilities

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“Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.”
~ Norman Vincent Peale, minister & author 

Give me an “R“!  Give me an “E“!  Give me an “C“!

Give me an “E“!  Give me an “S“!  Another “S“
…and an “I-O-N“!  What’s that spell?? 
 
OPPORTUNITY!
 
I’m not blowing sunshine, folks.  Just stating the facts.  Millions upon millions of people had or have it worse than you in their financial lifetimes.  Yup, the sound of two pennies rubbing together has echoed in their sensitive ears, startled their hearts, and rattled their once-unshakable foundations.  Yet of those countless, there is a glowing population of do-ers who refused to let their lack of green create a life of blues.
 
With relentlessly determined minds and passionately beating hearts, these folks chose to believe in themselves enough to find OPPORTUNITY amidst tragedy.  Opportunity disguised as spending time with family and friends, learning a new trade, receiving help from neighbors, turning a hobby into a small business, becoming disciplined and free from wants, and strengthening one’s faith. 
 
Our country’s current reality doesn’t need to dictate, dump-on or destroy your future-perfect!  Rethink what you’re doing wrong and what you could be doing right…  with your mind and spirit… and your perspective can indeed change to reveal perhaps that the best damn POSSIBILITIES are right in front of you.
 
 
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SOAPBOX® mini-motivation: tell me the meaning of life

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“We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone, we find it with another. ” ~  Thomas Merton, author and social activist

It’s that time of year.  Don’t deny it, folks.  Every single one of you could attest to finding yourself wondering, albeit for a minute or a whole CSI Miami marathon, how this year will be …DIFFERENT.  How you will be different.  How your situation will be different.  How your goals will be different.  How your priorities will be different.  How “things” will be just be DIFFERENT.  Well, you will not find the answer inside your tightly wound, analytical little noggin, I theorize.  Nope.  For answers and meanings and fixes and fresh ideas and new perspectives can only take their quintessentially divine shapes if shared with another person… or, heck, a hundred others.  Think about.  Now …DO something about it.  Life ticks by with or without the ball dropping in NYC.  Find your meaning… your purpose, your peace and joy… by simply opening up and sharing. 

Between you and me: this is something I realized a looooong time ago.  It may still be a work in progress… but the progress is incredible!  So, the quicker you “get it”, the quicker you can bring more meaning into your life!  Amen.      ~KD

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SOAPBOX® mini-motivation: pop a wheelie!

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“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”      ~N.D. Walsch, author

      I don’t know about you, but if this premise rings true, then many of you can identify this past year (let alone the past five!), as a time  in which you have truly lived. It seems that as we careen forward into our collective 21st century future, our boundaries of ease, familiarity and honest-to-goodness comfort are severely truncated, causing us to freak out, freeze up, fumble, fail and fight back tears. 

 Proudly acknowledge though that you have also strived and survived the confounded labyrinth of potholes and prop doors. And with mosaic-ed prayer and possibility in hand, you have deciphered the message to unfold an irrefutably timeless and timely fact: Training wheels are meant to be taken off.

 So, as I take my place at the helm of this little ditty, I say, “Comfort, shmomfort.” Roll up your sleeves, toss on a helmet, kick up the stand, and pop a wheelie down the open road of adventure. Start the coming blessed year with the wind in your face and your hair on fire and see where the journey takes you!                        ~ KD

 

 

Copyright 2011 by Kimberlie Dykeman.  An edited excerpt from “Pure Soapbox …a cleansing jolt  of perspective, motivation, and humor”

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Kimberlie Dykeman Inks LIVESTRONG as Beneficiary of Pure Soapbox Book Sales

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Kimberlie Dykeman signed on as a new Grassroots Fundraiser for the Lance Armstrong Foundation, choosing LIVESTRONG™ to be the sole beneficiary of a portion of the proceeds from all book sales of Pure Soapbox.  Having been both intimately affected by cancer and seen friends also go through the trauma of this deadly disease, Dykeman views this as a one-of-a-kind opportunity to directly help this world-renowned charity and further inspire the global community to donate to the fight against cancer. Additionally, Dykeman’s websites, including www.puresoapbox.com, www.kimberliedykeman.wordpress.com will have a direct link to her own LIVESTRONG™ Fundraising URL so visitors can freely post their own donations online, both in honor and anonymously. 

For more info: www.LIVESTRONG.org

Official Book Release and Signing of Kimberlie Dykeman’s PURE SOAPBOX

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A personal note from Kimberlie Dykeman… 

Get on your SOAPBOX™, folks! The official release is on the books, as is the signing party of long-anticipated book, Pure Soapbox … a cleansing jolt of perspective, motivation, and humor.  BookPeople, Austin’s renowned one-of-a kind bookstore, has inked in June 25, 2008 at 7pm as the celebration of my book debut. As a go-getting TV personality and entrepreneur, I  can now add “Published Author” to the list of hats I am blessed to wear, but more importantly: I can cross it off my childhood “Bucket List”.

Those in attendance can expect a memorable night filled with the colorful surprises and, of course, signature motivation with a swift kick in the pants from me… the SOAPBOX™ Queen herself. 

Pure Soapbox will be available at BookPeople, Barnes and Noble, Borders and other independent bookstores; online at DaltonPublishing and Amazon. This is the first release from Wiggy Press, a new imprint of Dalton Publishing.  For the whole ball o’ wax: Kimberlie Dykeman Media Room