Inspirational Words

Since today is the very first day of June 2011, and June has 30 days in it, I thought this piece would be appropriate.

How will your life be different in only 30 days from now? What will you have accomplished? What intentions will you set and where will you put your focus?

If you could close your eyes and open them on June 30, 2011, where would you like to find yourself?

What if you choose to be totally present and conscious for the next 30 days, not walking around in a daze, but aware of each precious moment, taking nothing for granted, counting each blessing, savoring each encounter, relishing each experience, feeling grounded to the earth, perhaps for the very first time, viewing it all from a higher place than before.

What new people, experiences, habits, will you welcome into your life and which ones will you have finally let go of and how will that make you feel?

What one thing can you promise yourself to do every single day, for the next 30 days, and keep your word about it, and how will it feel at the end of the 30 days when you have completed it? It could be writing an article a day, or dancing or exercising every day or simply remembering to keep your word. Keeping your word is a big one. If you did that alone for one entire month, you life will have changed dramatically.

Where will you be on the thirtieth day, what will you have accomplished, what will you have done with this precious thirty days that you have been given and what impact will that have made upon your life?

Love and blessings, Veronica

Email: veronicahay@telus.net

May there be a miracle in YOUR life today and may you have the EYES to see it.

“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take” – Wayne Gretzky

How many shots have you not taken?

Like many of us, you probably have a list of things you have been wanting to do but have never gotten around to. Like writing that book, going to Paris, asking the cute girl with the green eyes in your office for a date, starting your own unique business. And you probably have your reasons for not attempting to do so. Fear of failure, disappointment, or even sheer embarrassment. And whether you think these reasons are valid or not is irrelevant. What is relevant is that another best seller is yet to be born, Paris awaits you with its french cuisine and side walk cafes, the cute girl in the office just might say yes and another Apple, Facebook, or Amazon story is waiting to be told.

Failure isn’t missing the shots, Failure is never even trying in the first place.

And this brings me to another relevant quote:

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison

Where would we be if Thomas had given up, or worse yet, not even taken his shot. We would all be stumbling around in the dark.

It’s time today to take your shot. You know the one I am talking about. You know it very well. You have known it for a very long time.

Today, right now, do one single thing that will move you in the direction of your dream. Make a phone call, send an email, do some research online, join a mastermind group for support, just one simple thing to get the momentum going.

Remember “Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.”  ~ Goethe

Yes! Dear heart. Begin it now!

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Copyright © 2011 by Veronica Hay

Stay tuned for more inspirational words to come…

“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow” ~ Mary-Anne Rademacher

So true, more often than not I believe this is the case.

There are many words for courage. I looked it up in the dictionary and came up with the following: bravery, fearlessness, nerve, audacity, boldness, grit, gallantry, guts, spunk, moxie, balls, valor, determination.

And then I began to think of how many situations life presents us with every day where we have the opportunity to respond with everything we’ve got, in a courageous way. For example.

Choosing to do things our way when the world is telling us to do something different, takes guts.

Telling the truth in spite of the consequences, takes nerve.

Never giving up on your dream, even when things appear to be hopeless, takes determination.

Doing the right thing, taking the high road, when it doesn’t always feel comfortable, takes valor.

Believing in yourself when no one else does, takes balls.

Sharing yourself with the world in an honest, authentic and even vulnerable way, takes spunk.

Walking out on a limb, doing something you’re really afraid to do, with your knees knocking and your hands sweating, takes fearlessness.

Being proud of who you are in spite of the fact that others think you’re different or weird or even crazy, takes audacity.

Offering your gifts to the world, and doing it with everything you’ve got, in every way you know how, takes boldness.

Giving the other person the benefit of the doubt when you know you are right, takes gallantry.

Believing you are gorgeous, brilliant, talented, amazing and acting accordingly, takes moxie.

Choosing to keep your commitment to yourself and do the work you promised you would do every day, takes grit.

Opening your heart again even though you may have been betrayed, let down, even abandoned, takes bravery.

So my dear friends, where in your life today will you be bold, audacious, spunky, balsy, fearless, brave, daring, gallant or determined and what are you waiting for?

Copyright © 2011 by Veronica Hay