Kathzoofus

WOW! My passion was active today! I had a tremendous personal victory today - a phone conversation alerted me to huge success in an area I have been spending a lot of time, money and energy on. I was giddy on the phone and didn't try to conceal or downplay my excitement. I WON DAMMIT! Victories are to be CELEBRATED so I made several calls to share my excitement - my passion!! I am so thrilled that my passion was touched today in such a monumental way. This has been a long time coming.

I love being passionate! Things that I care about usually impact me emotionally and I love that I can take my passion for things and turn it into the energy that is needed to create change - change that makes improvements and brings me and those around me into a better space. I love that I laugh and cry and feel the way I do - and while at times I wish I could do a better job of hiding my emotion - I acknowledge that this passion that I have - the emotion that I show - this is ME. It is a part of who I am and I love that.

Have you ever woke up and after a few hours realized that while you don't feel entirely sick, you don't feel entirely well either? That is how I felt this morning by the time I got to the office at 7:30am. Sluggish, maybe a cold coming on. Clearly not feeling well. I wrote "I love my red hair" half heartedly on a post-it note and stuck it up on my monitor and just stared at it in a morning daze when I thought, wow...you know I really DO love having red hair. If I could change it I don't know what I would change it to. Red really suits me - it works great with my green eyes and red for sure is a great match for my firey personality. I focused all day on how much I truly LOVE my red hair and I just now realized that I don't feel like I'm getting sick anymore. I feel GREAT!

I LOVE my red hair!!

Appreciation 1: I have created for myself a tremendous circle of friends – bright, funny, intelligent and supportive – there is no shortage of big hearts and brilliant minds in my world. Benefit 1: I wrote Appreciation 1 in a moment of absolute madness. It was the day that my 2 month old laptop became infected with spyware. I had been banging my head against my desk trying to beat the spyware and I was getting my ass kicked. I took a break to read the email from Babs which challenged me to this 30 day game. I was instantly excited about the idea and without thought wrote my first appreciation about the great people I know. I don't remember if I emailed Yvonne before or after reading the email from Babs but it was later on in the day when Yvonne helped me resolve my spyware issue. I was sooooooooooo relieved. Words cannot express how completely stressed out I had felt all day. Thanks to Yvonne, my computer is virus-free and my appreciation has been validated. There ...

I appreciate my ability to find the lesson…the bright side…in the things that come my way. Optimism is powerful.

"Up for a game?" That was the subject line of an email that I recently received. The person that sent it to me is a friend, mentor and business partner: Barbara Van Deinse, EverBetter Coaching This was the rest of her email: I've been reading this book called " Excuse me, your life is waiting " and one of the key concepts that I like talks about how much of our day is spent in negative (or even neutral) thought and how difficult it is to be in a positive state. To demonstrate, the author encourages you to notice how many times in one single day you catch yourself even just thinking or perhaps saying out loud what it is you DO NOT like, or DO NOT want, or DO NOT have, or criticizing yourself or others, even if in jest. I consider myself to be a very positive person and yet I when I took this on for one single day, I was stunned! Until you make yourself conscious of it, you really have NO idea! So, I took her suggestion and every time I ca...

More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them. - Harold J. Smith