I don’t know about you, but I am ready to start over. 

​I started this site six years ago; at first, I wrote almost every day, but I slowed down and, at some points, stopped. While most of my blogs were exciting and gave hope to visitors, they needed more.

This is why I am starting over.

I created this site to share amazing joy and love.  That is what I want to give completely to my visitors.
I have been very fortunate over the years with the joy and love I gave and received.  I have a big family and had a delightful home.  That was until my wife decided to leave us.

That same year I also lost my job and dreams. But, I sucked it up, found a new job, and found the energy to raise my children alone.  Over the years, I gave them all my love, and we had lots of joy.  I don’t tell you this to get a pat on the back, but more so to share my happiness and love with my visitors.

I want you to feel loved and joy every day. So I will start by sharing the words I heard or dreamed of to bring you more joy and love.

Put aside all the sad stories, fear, anger, and any other back feelings. Instead, let’s focus on joy and love and watch it expand.  Every day you deserve the best and amazing joy and love.

​My daughter gave me a painting she recently completed; within the picture was a swing.  As I looked at the picture the swing brought back memories of riding a swing.  Let me share.

Whenever I felt down or burned out I would go to my imaginary swing. It was an amazing swing, deep in the woods where I would be left alone to relax and enjoy the effortless motion of swinging.  I would simply sit on my swing and relax and easily start moving back and forth, back and forth.  Soon I would just imagine each motion was giving me joy and love.  As I went back I would feel joy and when I went forward it was love.  As I relaxed with my joy and love I would close my eyes and enjoy the love I was feeling.  As the ride continued it seemed like someone was pushing the swing and I could effortlessly enjoy the ride on my swing of love.

I continued enjoying my ride and saw all around me a forest full of life and full of love.  There were trees full of leaves and flowers everywhere.  I just relaxed and took in a deep breath and could smell the wonderful smells of the flowers.  I smiled and felt a light breeze continue giving me a ride on my swing of love.  I was feeling loved and so much joy.  I wanted the ride to go on forever, but I decided it was time to take my love and share it with others.  As I slowed down to a stop I felt completely alert.  I felt more focused on joy and love and I felt totally refreshed. 

Give it a try, it’s simply amazing.

​​Much joy and love to you and yours

Remember in the spring when I wrote about planting your dreams like a garden.

Then in the summer I talked about caring for your dreams as you do in a garden, beware of the weeds.

Well my friends I just completely cleared out my garden.

It was a great success we enjoyed lots of veggies from the garden, but now that season is over.  Well to be honest, there has been little growth over the past few weeks and I stopped paying attention to my garden.  Well, yesterday when I went to clear it there were also lots of weeds. 

Are your dreams the same?  Do you get excited with a dream, enjoy it as good things are happening, and then stop paying attention when it slows down?

The garden is over for the season, but not my dreams.  I used yesterday as a wake up for me to clear the weeds and get focused on the success and passion I have for my dreams.  Today I got up early and got really focused on my dreams and took action.  Here is the thing about dreams, sometimes they are just goals, which has an ending.  I have really big dreams with lots of little goals, so when I got refocused I also set new goals and see myself reaching closer to that dream.

​Much joy and love to you and yours
 

Are your emotions holding your back?  Maybe your so numb you feel no emotions?

Either way our emotions do get in the way to your true love.  We over think things, we feel upset for no reason, we just shut down, all from emotional caring.

I know I recently came to this discovery of myself.  All of the issues I just listed were me, I was not a happy person at times and could not figure out why.  The truth is I was never emotionally cared for, in fact I was told not to be emotional.  Oh there were the times I really seemed emotionally happy and excited, with getting married, having kids, great jobs, and the good list goes on.  But in true I was left alone without knowing what emotions really are.

I took this to heart and researched the subject and discovered one solution that helped me.  It from a Psychiatrist and author of Guilt, Shame, and Anxiety explains how to liberate your feelings—and yourself. By Peter R. Breggin, MD
He lays out three steps to release the emotions holding you back.
Step 1: Identify Your Negative Legacy Emotions
Step 2: Reject Any Compliance With These Emotions
Step 3: Triumph Over and Transcend These Emotions
 
Here is the key to me is waking up to emotions, facing them head on, then triumph them with LOVE.  Yes, there it is again Joy and Love always spells happiness.

​Much Joy and love to you and yours

In the process of cleaning up my closet the other day I discovered a few love letters. I sat down and read them over again, I felt so wonderful and so much in love with that person once again.  It is kind of interesting the letter was from a distanced relationship.  After a year of emails, letters and even a few phone calls, she said, good bye.  Our love was huge and we were there for each other during a very hard time, but we also knew neither of us would move.  I have never had any thought about that woman except love. 

However, this message is not just about me and my love affair.  This is about you and I, we both need love and that should be the focus of life.  All too often we allow the flow of life to carry us with actions and we forget to just feel love.

I tell you what I did after I read those letters again and you can give It a try.

Write a love letter to yourself, oh I know you have lots of bad thoughts but put those aside and just write about how much you love yourself. Write this in secret it is just for you to enjoy.  Write about the beautiful sunrises you have watched, write about your amazing actions you have done, write about the love you have in your heart, the trick is just to write a love letter to you.  Make it so full of love and passion you will just smile as you read it. 

You are a wonderful loving person, feel it and put it in words to you.

Much joy and love to you and yours

Last week I spent a wonderful week at the beach and noticed how life can be like the beach.

​My day started early in the morning, I just love watching the sunrise.  I would sit and watch in excitement me as the sun would rise from the edge of today.  I noticed others also watching the event and everyone seemed excited and took lots of pictures.  There is just something special about watching the day start as the sun peaks up over the ocean and rises slowly.  Soon you see the sunlight is beaming a path over the ocean directly to you and it fills me with excitement.

Later in the day when all the family is awake we go back to the beach.  Now there are lots of people having fun in the sand and ocean.  Some play in the waves and get excited with each big wave, some riding those waves some just laughing with each wave.  There are others playing in the sand making castles or digging up the sand to bury someone.  So much excitement and fun during this time of the day.

Soon enough is gets dark and the beach is empty again.  There is a mystery about the ocean at night and some are apprehensive about what is in the ocean.  But all the people went to the boardwalk for other fun and excitement.

You see life is not just the beach, it’s what you make of it.  Wake up each day with excitement and see a new light for each day.  Get out there during the day and enjoy others and ride a few waves of excitement.  Then end each day remembering your amazing joy and love and smile.

Much joy and love to you and yours

There is an old story about a King who listened to everyone around him and he believed he was wearing a beautiful outfit.  He would march around showing off his clothes and all the people would say how wonderful it looked.  Then a young child said, he is not wearing any clothes.

Are you also getting fooled and not sure about your dreams?  That young child in the story is you, your inner child wants to speak up and tell you about dreams you had, but let go. 

​It is so easy to let go of those dreams, we get busy with work, raising a family, kids events, mates and their dreams and the list of distractions go on and on. I say enough, time to get back to your dreams and living the life you love.

Take some time, even 5 minutes to dream a dream of your desires.  Jump into that dream, bathe in the wonderful feelings of amazing joy and love.  Live it and take action.  Just a small step in the direction of your dreams will open new doors for you.  Speak up and say want you want and do allow others to talk you out of it.  Live BOLD and dream again.

Much joy and love to you and yours

As the USA celebrates their Freedom on July 4, let everyone feel free.

Over 230 years a group of men got together and wrote some very strong words for everyone to have freedom.  Here are just some of those words.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

This concept is for everyone to enjoy, we are all free to live a life of Liberty and the right to pursuit of Happiness.  People have also fought hard to secure these rights and freedom, Thank you.

As a person you may have your own battles within you, let them go, today and dream your new life of freedom.  You have been given this right, feel it today and everyday as you move on to enjoy your life. 

​Much love and joy to you and yours

How excited are you really?

I have read many of times, how we spend more time planning a vacation than any other part of life. 

The reason is its exciting and something you really look forward to. 

When I looked back over my life I notice the best times were times I was excited.  Be it a date, a game, graduations, marriage, births, vacations, new jobs, etc.

When I thought more about this I thought, why not get excited more often.  Imagine every day jumping out of bed excited for the day.  Getting excited about work and doing a great job.  Getting excited with greeting everyone you meet today.  It did not matter what I was doing, I was excited and enjoying every minute. 

​It really is up to you to define how excited you want to be.  Get up and out there and enjoy life, it truly is amazing. 

Much joy and love to you and yours