Read through to the gift below to share this Thanksgiving. Enjoy!

Are you irritable and bug eyed with the notion there will probably be no vegan dishes at the Thanksgiving dinner table for you? Pissy after driving through the rain and snow for hours to get to Auntie Emme’s house? Worried that cousin Dottie is there this year – loud, obnoxious, in everyone’s business, telling everyone how to live their life? Of course, Joe’s sister will whine about her latest love affair gone wrong and drink too much. Are you registering an “8” on the Crank-O-Meter scale because the Christmas lights are already up on your neighbor’s house – brilliantly? And you haven’t even started your Amazon Christmas list…

Get over it. Most likely if you are reading this, you have a place to go with plenty of food on the table. Vegan be damned! Let’s eat! That’s a good reason to be grateful right there.

Have a happy Thanksgiving and beyond. Choose to be grateful. A few good reasons why it’s better to be grateful than cranky:

  ·  7 Overall positive emotions can add up to 7 years to your life

  ·  Grateful people have 10% fewer stress related illnesses, be more physically fit and have blood pressure that is lower by 12%

  ·  Our youth will have 13% fewer fights and 20% more likely to get “A” grades

May you have a beautiful, loving and wholehearted Thanksgiving! Please enjoy this gift: “The Thanksgiving Reader.” (Thank you Seth Godin.)

This Thanksgiving week and beyond, take a few minutes to breathe, connect eyeball to eyeball, heart to heart and realize the true magic of gratefulness.

Thank you for being in my life.

Darla

“The Thanksgiving Reader” – Make copies, pass on to others and share the big magic of gratitude.

Play is becoming serious business. A few years ago the New York Times had a cover story about play in their Sunday magazine titled “Taking Play Seriously?”. The pictures only show children. Where were the adults?

Somewhere along the way we have lost something in our culture.

Play.

It’s time to consciously and deliberately bring play back into our lives and our culture.
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“I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.”  – Joseph Campbell

I woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning.   I was cranky and totally frustrated with everything and everybody.  As the day wore on I only got more of it.  What’s the point?  What am I doing here?  Why am I here?   Hey – I am only human.

Have you ever been here?

Sometimes we may lose sight of our dreams.  We may get into our heads and analyze what is not working.  We may worry, complain and whine as to why we aren’t moving forward.  We even find reasons and excuses for not attaining a goal or even worse, blame someone or something else for our failure.

But deep inside, there is a voice that inspires us to do our work.  It tells us that we are here on the planet to make a contribution…a contribution only we can make.  It is your heart voice and it speaks clearly.  But sometimes our head gets in the way and clouds our vision of what our true purpose is.  We may accomplish a lot but we are too tired and distracted to enjoy ourselves.  We lose sight of those things that really have meaning for us.  We can’t hear the heart voice – our truth.

We can live our life on purpose by answering the questions that interest us.  The voice of truth inside us will always have the answer so that we can re-connect with the energy to live the life we  are meant to live.

So my question today is :  Am I willing to make the contributions I am here to make?

What side of the bed will you wake up on tomorrow and what question will you ask?