For some today is the end of the year and hopefully the start of a new beginning.
For those more fortunate, it's just another perfect day.
~Unknown quotes
The last day of the year 2011. So many things happened this year for so many. It was not a normal year. History books and journals and prayers lifted to heaven will report that.
This is the last day I publish Smiles and Inspiration, a daily essay and devotion on Gather, Red Gage and Triond. If you want to continue to receive this by email this is the final call for you to send me your email address I will give you 3 months free as my New Years Gift to you. Send your email address to
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So this post I wanted to get somethings off my chest, I don't always do that. Not on here anyway. I write with the intent to inspire someone for the day. I write to have just one person feel that they can breathe easier because I have lived. A quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson ends this way. Its a quote on 'Success' and I will share that often through out the year. It means that much to me. It is an awesome way to look at the word that we all chase in life. Success.
Today I write about 7 New Year Needs that we all can focus on to improve our world and the world of others. I will expand on them this year in January but for now I want you to just let them sink in.
New Year Need # 1
Meditate and pray more on how our actions and reactions effect others. In a more specific way think more before we leap. Walk slower before we run. Stop before we continue on the path and be still and listen a bit longer.
New Year Need # 2
Look at our image in the mirror. Ask the simple question have I smiled at you daily? Have I laughed with you daily? Have I told you lately how much your loved? If you have not smiled or laughed or loved yourself lately, how do you expect others to love you, smile with you or laugh with you? Smile more at you! Laugh more with you! Love more with you!
New Year Need # 3
Dream Big! Stay Hungry! Stay Foolish! Watch Steve Jobs commencement Speech to Stanford each month and trust your instincts. Listen to them they will teach you what to do, think, feel and how to act accordingly.
New Year Need # 4
Be kind more! Treat everyday like its Christmas day. Not in the spirit of commercialism but in the spirit of love. Be kind more! Love more! Share more! Care more! Everyday should be like Christmas and Thanksgiving!
New Year Need # 5
Stop watching bad news and dwelling on it. Start documenting your good news and creating it! Read the news on the Internet if you must. But don't let the talking heads and shouters overwhelm you. Spend more time listening and creating good news! Stop focusing on all the bad.
New Year Need # 6
How healthy do you eat? How healthy do you sleep? How healthy do you exercise? How often do you pray and be still and quiet and listen to nature speak to you? Do it more often, take care of the number one resource you have. YOU!
New Year Need # 7
Talk with words that will build another up and not tear them down. Stop with the gossip and words of hate. We should defend our country and stop policing everyone else. We must educate our youth like they deserve and not worry about what zip code they live in to fund that education. Build a defense that will protect and serve us, I ok with that. But build a mind that will protect and serve the world and we will have power and protection more that we ever have.
We should have a bake sale for our defense department and allocate billions for our education of young minds.
Happy New Year Everyone ! Smiles to you this day and everyday ! : )
The new affirmation for the week fits nicely here:
I am full of love. I am a creation made to contribute and share that which I am full of. I choose to share love. I choose to share a kind word. I choose to share a simple sincere smile today. Tomorrow I will do the same. I am a perfect creation. I have the power within to make a difference. I choose to do make a difference today.
This week 67 words to inspire and to affirm each day. Say these words of magic a few times and allow them to flow into your mind and subconscious.
Watch the power of these words. The power of I choose. The power of now and today.
Use these words to make your day and the day of others a bit better.
Smiles as always sent your way. Today and always. : )
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On this day in history
1687 – The first Huguenots set sail from France to the Cape of Good Hope.
1695 – A window tax is imposed in England, causing many householders to brick up windows to avoid the tax.
1759 – Arthur Guinness signs a 9,000 year lease at £45 per annum and starts brewing Guinness.
1775 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Quebec: British forces repulse an attack by Continental Army General Richard Montgomery.
1790 – Efimeris, the oldest Greek newspaper of which issues have survived till today is published for the first time.
1831 – Gramercy Park is deeded to New York City.
1857 – Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa, Ontario, then a small logging town, as the capital of Canada.
1862 – American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln signs an act that admits West Virginia to the Union, thus dividing Virginia in two.
1862 – American Civil War: The Battle of Stones River is fought near Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
1879 – Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time, in Menlo Park, New Jersey.
1907 – The first New Year's Eve celebration is held in Times Square (then known as Longacre Square) in New York, New York.
1909 – Manhattan Bridge opens.
1923 – The chimes of Big Ben are broadcast on radio for the first time by the BBC.
1944 – World War II: Hungary declares war on Nazi Germany.
1946 – President Harry S. Truman officially proclaims the end of hostilities in World War II.
1951 – The Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than US$13.3 billion in foreign aid to rebuild Europe.
1955 – The General Motors Corporation becomes the first U.S. corporation to make over US$1 billion in a year.
1960 – The farthing coin ceases to be legal tender in the United Kingdom.
1983 – The AT&T Bell System is broken up by the United States Government.
1986 – A fire at the Dupont Plaza Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico, kills 97 and injures 140.
1991 – All official Soviet Union institutions have ceased operations by this date and the Soviet Union is officially dissolved.
1994 – This date is skipped altogether in Kiribati as the Phoenix Islands and Line Islands change time zones from UTC−11:00 to UTC+13:00 and UTC-10:00 to UTC+14:00, respectively.
1994 – The first Chechen war: Russian army began a New Year's storm of Grozny
1998– The European Exchange Rate Mechanism freezes the values of the legacy currencies in the Eurozone, and establishes the value of the euro currency.
1999 – Boris Yeltsin, the first president of Russia, resigns as President of Russia, leaving Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as the acting President.
1999 – Five hijackers, who had been holding 155 hostages on an Indian Airlines plane, leave the plane with two Islamic clerics that they had demanded be freed.
1999 – The United States Government hands control of the Panama Canal (as well all the adjacent land to the canal known as the Panama Canal Zone) to Panama. This act complied with the signing of the 1977 Torrijos-Carter Treaties.
2004 – The official opening of Taipei 101, the tallest skyscraper at that time in the world, standing at a height of 509 metres (1,670 ft).
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Your Daily Prayer
Lord, thank you for today and all its majesty and beauty.
Thank you for this year and another day of life and a chance to make a difference
Thanks for the gift of our free will may we all choose wisely.
Thank you for the gift of family, of love, of understanding.
Bless our families, our friends, those in need of hope and faith may be in some way help to inspire their lives.
May I choose to make a difference in the lives of myself and others.
May I choose with wisdom and discernement and in your will and instruction.
May I share a smile, a sincere smile and perhaps a kind word or deed.
May I give thanks more.
Show appreciation more.
Thanks for the gift of love may I understand that everything was designed with love and only man and his wrong intentions created hate.
To share to be that beacon of light.
To share a simple sincere smile.
To understand the true power that I have and may I use it to inspire, shape and mold my life for the betterment of my self and those I love.
To reach out with our hands and arms to help another person get a foot hold once again.
I give you praise and the glory for all of that
With humility and gratitude I thank you
Amen
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