Smiles are Free to Give Free to ~ Smiles and Inspiration 2012 04/15/12

Smiles are Free to Give

Free to Receive

April 15, 2012

Smiles and Inspiration 2012

Yes been taking a break from the keyboard.  I think of you all often and I do thank you for all your kind words and thoughts.  My life has been turning for the good and I believe that my patience, my gratitude spoken, my prayers of thanks and positive outlook played a big role in this.  I am a huge believer in the fact that we design or destiny.  No one else just ourselves and our actions.

Years ago I set out to develop a community and a web presence and called it Make Me Smile Online.  The mission was clear and I will repost it here :

Provide a place on the Internet to promote, share, develop, entertain and educate its visitors and members that the simple yet powerful result of happiness the "Smile' can change the broken hearted, the lonely, the sad and help to change not only their world but the world of others.

One Smile at a Time!

Our goal to develop an online community to help and conquer the stress that this imperfect world produces. 

The human spirit that we know can and will produce idea's, inspiration and energy that will carry it through these tough times.

One Smile at a Time!

That was the mission then and that is the mission today.

The human spirit has the ability to choose to do good, share that simple smile and entertain not only others but ourselves.

A quote about the smile: 

“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile,

a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment,

or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential

to turn a life around.”

: o ) Leo F. Buscaglia 

So what is your plan to give and receive the simple power of a simple smile?

May you give one to you each morning, each afternoon and each evening.

May you along your path share one with another.

May you spread the power and this simple web site along your journey.

Dream big, Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish and live with Passion :)  Smiles to you this day and everyday : )

The New Affirmation for the month of April 2012

Today I will start fresh, will look to the heavens in prayer, rise from bed with joy leaping from my heart.  Today I will take time to love a little more, be kinder to complete strangers and be a friend to nature.   Today I will be more for when I become more I will become stronger, wiser and more significant for the world.  I will ensure laughter is part of my daily routine.  I will also find something to move me to tears.  Because when laughter is a part of the day and tears are also part we have indeed lived a more full day.  I will dream more, love more and always live each day with a positive attitude.  So this month will be filled with days like this.  This pattern begins now.

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PRAYER FOR THIS MONTH

GOD THIS PRAYER IS SIMPLE AND MY HEART YEARNS TO BE CLOSER IN MY WALK

THIS PRAYER IS SIMPLY TO SAY THANK YOU!

THANK YOU FOR THE NATURE THAT SITS OUTSIDE MY WINDOW.

THANK YOU FOR THE LIFE THAT EXTENDS MY POSSIBILITIES.

IN THE SIMPLEST OF TERMS I SAY THANK YOU

AMEN : )

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Fun Links to have

Daily Countdown to Spring 

Sound Cloud 

A cool Time piece for the web

Next Full Moon 

More to come ... Enjoy : ) 

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Sharing a smile ~  Sending you love ~  Pass it on

: )

brought to you by Make ME Smile Online

written by Victor Yakin copyright protected 2011* 2012

Easter Wishes Sent Your Way ~ Smiles and Inspiration 2012 Day 99 of 366

Easter Wishes Sent Your Way 

April 08, 2012

Smiles and Inspiration 2012

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.) Matthew 28: 6

He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.

King James Version (KJV) John 3: 16

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

He is Risen !  The true meaning of the Easter season.   Not the colored easter eggs, or the special chocolate rabbits.  Not the sharing of the easter baskets or the jelly beans.  No not even the ham and trimmings.  The true meaning of this holiday is the empty grave  and the knowledge that he is risen! 


How blessed we are to know this.  To have knowledge that God even after all of the transgressions and faults that we as children have chosen to fall into.  That he sent his son so that we may have everlasting life.    Awesome news : )


So it has indeed been a while since my last post.  I think of you all daily and much has been going on.  Happy to report that it is all good.... no all great.


My life has been flowing into a positive direction.  My goals are slowly starting to form into objectives, tasks, progress is at my feet and I continue to step into a good direction.  A direction for me and my family that feels and is by my choice.


Thank you for all your prayers and kind words.


Sure I know that life is a series of waves, and I am sure you know this as well.


We are either riding a wave head held high or being crashed by a wave.  But still can we hold are head high?  I say yes.  I know we can.  We can look in the mirror and know that we have all the "right stuff" to handle any and all crisis that may befall us.  We can, and we will.


We will not try to handle it.  For to try is to not even do.  As Yoda said there is no try only do or not do.


So today, this Easter Sunday know the following:


He is risen !
He is sitting in heaven at the right hand of God !
He came so we may have everlasting life !


We are created to be happy and filled with joy and love.
We are created to share in that happiness, joy and love.


We have 2 eyes to see, 2 ears to listen, 2 hands to reach out.
We also have 1 mouth to speak, and 1 heart to love and 1 mind to utilize all of our choices.


Choose wisely.
Love deeply.
Care always.
Pray everyday.
Smile forever
Live with it all.

Dream big, Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish and live with Passion :)  Smiles to you this day and everyday : )

The New Affirmation for the month of April 2012

Today I will start fresh, will look to the heavens in prayer, rise from bed with joy leaping from my heart.  Today I will take time to love a little more, be kinder to complete strangers and be a friend to nature.   Today I will be more for when I become more I will become stronger, wiser and more significant for the world.  I will ensure laughter is part of my daily routine.  I will also find something to move me to tears.  Because when laughter is a part of the day and tears are also part we have indeed lived a more full day.  I will dream more, love more and always live each day with a positive attitude.  So this month will be filled with days like this.  This pattern begins now.

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PRAYER FOR THIS MONTH

GOD THIS PRAYER IS SIMPLE AND MY HEART YEARNS TO BE CLOSER IN MY WALK

THIS PRAYER IS SIMPLY TO SAY THANK YOU!

THANK YOU FOR THE NATURE THAT SITS OUTSIDE MY WINDOW.

THANK YOU FOR THE LIFE THAT EXTENDS MY POSSIBILITIES.

IN THE SIMPLEST OF TERMS I SAY THANK YOU

AMEN : )

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Fun Links to have

Daily Countdown to Spring 

Sound Cloud 

A cool Time piece for the web

Next Full Moon 

More to come ... Enjoy : ) 

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Sharing a smile ~  Sending you love ~  Pass it on

: )

brought to you by Make ME Smile Online

written by Victor Yakin copyright protected 2011* 2012

Putting it all Together Day 7 of 7 Goals/Objectives and SMART ~ Smiles and Inspiration 2012 ~ Day 91 of 366 ~ 3/30/12

Putting it all Together 
 Day 7 of 7

Goals / Objectives and SMART

So here we are, day 31 of March and we covered much ground.  Today we wrap it up in a few words.  May your April 2012 be full of love, many blessings, spoken gratitude and joy. : )

It is my hope that you take the time to put it all together.  I am a firm believer in the power of love.  Love of self is the utmost love one can give and even more so to be able to give love you must love yourself first.

Live in the present, not in the past, not in the future and live in the here and now.  Don't try to do everything at once.  We must live in a task oriented life, one step, then the next and then the next.  So on and so on until our Goals and objectives our met.

Don't think about your goal or tasks as coming to an end.  For they are not, as you go on after death so does your goals and objectives as they are completed.

Believe and follow your dreams.  Turn your dreams into goals and your goals narrow down into objectives.  Follow your dreams  and your heart will always be filled with love and hope.

The process is now yours, the goals and dreams are yours alone. 

I hope you have enjoyed the last 31 days. I hope you can reflect upon your love, your beliefs, your faith, your dreams and believe in all of them.

Enjoy and I will be back tomorrow and my smiles will be back as well.  : )

Just some thoughts and as always smiles sent to you this day and everyday.

New Affirmation for the Month of March ..... Use it daily and feel the change in you.

I walk with confidence and understanding towards success.  Born into a perfected state I strive to achieve my intended purpose, to love, to share and care for self and for others that come in contact with me.  I choose to be happy and share laughter.  Making a difference in another persons life for the better gives positive and ever flowing energy into my world.  I am focusing on my goals, the this moment goal, this day, my weekly goals and monthly goals I achieve because of my spirit and focus.  

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Quote of the Day 

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.

: o )  Erica Jong 

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Today in History (on this date)

1889 – The Eiffel Tower is officially opened.


1906 – The Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (later the National Collegiate Athletic Association) is established to set rules for college sports in the United States.

1909 – Construction of the ill fated RMS Titanic begins.

1917 – The United States takes possession of the Danish West Indies after paying $25 million to Denmark, and renames the territory the United States Virgin Islands.

1918 – Daylight saving time goes into effect in the United States for the first time.

1930 – The Motion Pictures Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in film, in the U.S., for the next thirty eight years.


1931 – TWA Flight 599 crashes near Bazaar, Kansas killing 8 including Knute Rockne, head football coach at the University of Notre Dame

1951 – Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau.


1985 – The first WrestleMania, the biggest wrestling event from the WWE (then the WWF), takes place in Madison Square Garden in New York.

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Fun Links to have

Daily Countdown to Spring 

Sound Cloud 

A cool Time piece for the web

Next Full Moon 

More to come ... Enjoy : ) 

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Daily Prayer for March

Thank you for another day in the world you created.

May my spirit inspire, inflate and bring joy and peace to another.

May I always speak my gratitude into the world and share my appreciation.

Guide me today to be wiser, more kind, help me to see deeper into this hurting world and perhaps give a bit of kindness to it.

May I always appreciate the nature that surrounds me.

The wind, the sunshine and the plants and trees that surround me.

Help me to understand that the energy around me is both helpful and strengthening.

In your word I seek peace and solace.

Thank you for another day.

Amen

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Sharing a smile ~  Sending you love ~  Pass it on

: )

brought to you by Make ME Smile Online

written by Victor Yakin copyright protected 2011* 2012

Attainable a Must (SMART) ~~ Smiles and Inspiration 2012 ~ Day 74 of 366 ~ 3/14/12

Attainable a Must (SMART)

The goals that we dream and want to design have some important characteristics.  We are on the letter A and that is attainable.  We can also use words like achievable, realistic, assignable.  Even if the assignee is thee. : )

We can have specific goals with a clear focus and then make it measurable with results along the journey that we can see and attain. But if the goal designed is not attainable then how are we to achieve it?

There are plenty of goals that man has designed and achieved that were thought to be unattainable.  

Goals like flying to the moon got laughed at early on.

Goals like building a box that could entertain people for hours just by turning it on, the radio did that, the television and the computer.    Imagine that first idea and goal that was dreamed from that design. 

Goals like the 4 minute mile were a dream. Runners and spectators thought it impossible but yet the goal was reached.  Current record is just under 3 minutes and 44 seconds.  

Yes a goal must be attainable, achievable and realistic and they should do no harm.

No harm to the person trying to achieve it or to those around them.

I love the thought that if you can not help another person at the very least you should not do any harm.  

If you want to lose a hundred pounds of weight doing it in 3 months is not realistic or healthy for that matter.  But if you redesign your goal to lose a hundred pounds in a 11 months or 12 months then you have a better chance of doing no harm to yourself.  

The dreamers will always push their dreams out into the world and with enough energy and focus and designed, specific, measurable and action filled goals they will turn dreams into reality.

Are you a dreamer?  If so enjoy your dreams and dream big and dream on... : )

Just some thoughts and as always smiles sent to you this day and everyday.

New Affirmation for the Month of March ..... Use it daily and feel the change in you.

I walk with confidence and understanding towards success.  Born into a perfected state I strive to achieve my intended purpose, to love, to share and care for self and for others that come in contact with me.  I choose to be happy and share laughter.  Making a difference in another persons life for the better gives positive and ever flowing energy into my world.  I am focusing on my goals, the this moment goal, this day, my weekly goals and monthly goals I achieve because of my spirit and focus.  

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Quote of the Day 

It's much easier to get motivated when you can see the light at the end of the tunnel. 

So the secret is to make sure all your tunnels are SHORT! 

: o )  Che Garman

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Today in History (on this date)

1794 – Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin.

1900 – The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing United States currency on the gold standard.

1903 – The Hay-Herran Treaty, granting the United States the right to build the Panama Canal, is ratified by the United States Senate. The Colombian Senate would later reject the treaty.

1910 – Lakeview Gusher, the largest U.S. oil well gusher near Bakersfield, California, vented to atmosphere.

1931 – Alam Ara, India's first talkie film, is released.

1942 – Orvan Hess and John Bumstead became the first in the United States successfully to treat a patient, Anne Miller, using penicillin.


1967 – The body of President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery.


1995 – Space Exploration: Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on-board a Russian launch vehicle.


2008 – A series of riots, protests, and demonstrations erupted in Lhasa and elsewhere in Tibet.

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Fun Links to have

Daily Countdown to Spring 

Sound Cloud 

A cool Time piece for the web

Next Full Moon 

More to come ... Enjoy : ) 

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Daily Prayer for March

Thank you for another day in the world you created.

May my spirit inspire, inflate and bring joy and peace to another.

May I always speak my gratitude into the world and share my appreciation.

Guide me today to be wiser, more kind, help me to see deeper into this hurting world and perhaps give a bit of kindness to it.

May I always appreciate the nature that surrounds me.

The wind, the sunshine and the plants and trees that surround me.

Help me to understand that the energy around me is both helpful and strengthening.

In your word I seek peace and solace.

Thank you for another day.

Amen

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Sharing a smile ~  Sending you love ~  Pass it on

: )

brought to you by Make ME Smile Online

written by Victor Yakin copyright protected 2011* 2012

  

Being SPECIFIC (SMART) ~ Smiles and Inspiration 2012 ~ Day 72 of 366 ~ 3/12/12

Being SPECIFIC (SMART)

Five days of  SMART for goal setting that may be helped and improved upon.  Today is the S and it is very important to be specific with your goals as you write them out.

When we understand our spirit and truly understand what we want to achieve then the next step is to be very specific in designing our goals.   Being very clear with yourself on what you will need to complete this goal.  Clearly the more questions you ask yourself and better questions that are specific as well.

Questions that start with What and Why and even Who.

What would happen if I achieved this goal.

Why would my life improve if I did indeed complete these tasks to achieve my goal.

Where would I be once this goal was achieved.

Who would I need to work with, or talk with to achieve this goal.

Take the time to be very specific.

Another S word in this is also Significance.  As in describing how significant it would be to get this goal completed.  How significant would you feel?

The truth of  being clear in your intention and design at this early step will help the other steps to flow easier.

Imagine if you don't have a specific plan or understanding of your goal.  Probably would not have much  power or passion or desire to complete the goal.  Would you?  Probably not it would be just another lip service that you gave yourself that fell to the ground just after you launched it.

Your goals need to be like a rocket with plenty of guidance in the plan, plenty of fuel in the engine and plenty of support to get the goal to launch to the destination you truly wish for it.  

Does that make sense?

Here is hoping your goal is specific enough that it makes sense for you.

Just some thoughts and as always smiles sent to you this day and everyday.

New Affirmation for the Month of March ..... Use it daily and feel the change in you.

I walk with confidence and understanding towards success.  Born into a perfected state I strive to achieve my intended purpose, to love, to share and care for self and for others that come in contact with me.  I choose to be happy and share laughter.  Making a difference in another persons life for the better gives positive and ever flowing energy into my world.  I am focusing on my goals, the this moment goal, this day, my weekly goals and monthly goals I achieve because of my spirit and focus.  

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Quote of the Day 

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

: o ) Viktor E. Frankl

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Today in History (on this date)

1912 – The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States.

1918 – Moscow becomes the capital of Russia again after Saint Petersburg held this status for 215 years.

1928 – In California, the St. Francis Dam fails; the resulting floods kill over 600 people.

1933 – Great Depression: Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses the nation for the first time as President of the United States. This is also the first of his "fireside chats".

1964 – New Hampshire Lottery: New Hampshire becomes the first U.S. state to legally sell lottery tickets in the 20th century.

1993 – The Blizzard of 1993 – Snow begins to fall across the eastern portion of the US with tornadoes, thunder snow storms, high winds and record low temperatures. The storm lasts for 30 hours.


2009 – Financier Bernard Madoff plead guilty in New York to scamming $18 billion, the largest in Wall Street history.


2011 – A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant melts and explodes and releases radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after Japan's earthquake.

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Fun Links to have

Daily Countdown to Spring 

Sound Cloud 

A cool Time piece for the web

Next Full Moon 

More to come ... Enjoy : ) 

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Daily Prayer for March

Thank you for another day in the world you created.

May my spirit inspire, inflate and bring joy and peace to another.

May I always speak my gratitude into the world and share my appreciation.

Guide me today to be wiser, more kind, help me to see deeper into this hurting world and perhaps give a bit of kindness to it.

May I always appreciate the nature that surrounds me.

The wind, the sunshine and the plants and trees that surround me.

Help me to understand that the energy around me is both helpful and strengthening.

In your word I seek peace and solace.

Thank you for another day.

Amen

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Sharing a smile ~  Sending you love ~  Pass it on

: )

brought to you by Make ME Smile Online

written by Victor Yakin copyright protected 2011* 2012