POST HOLIDAY RE-RUN: What Matters?

Barbara Ward-Finneran

What Matters? What really matters?  What matters today and right now, can change in an instant.  No matter how hard you try to live a good life, follow your conscience and consistently do the right thing, bad things happen to good people.  We have personal failures, relationships implode, people get sick, suffer and die, people die tragically, accidents happen, disabilities exist, people disappoint us, hearts get broken, jobs are lost, finances go to ruin, foreclosures run a muck, the list goes on and on.  WHY?  WHY DO BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO GOOD PEOPLE?

Life can be trudging along of so happily and then in an instant the life that you knew and embraced ceases to exist.  My first taste of this was when my grandfather died.  I was twenty-three at the time and it was the biggest loss of my life.  Little did I know at the time that it was nothing in comparison to what would follow about 18 months later, a few days after my wedding shower, when my Dad went to sleep and never woke up.  The shock was so horrifying

SOUL FOOD

Barbara Ward-Finneran

"Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around."   
-- Henry David Thoreau

The power of your thoughts can overshadow everything.  Harness the magic of their energy to promote all that you want and desire to be.  Focus on the positive.  Believe that you are worthy and deserve it.  You just need to begin. You just need to believe!

Just start.... The rest will follow...

Keep the promises that you make to yourself!

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SOUL FOOD

Barbara Ward-Finneran

Rather then list reasons as to why it can't be - 

focus your energies into finding reasons that it can. 

Believe enough to make it happen. 

That which may seem like an end can easily become a beginning. 

The only time it's ever over is if you let it be - 

the greater the challenge the sweeter the reward. 

Push forward... It's worth it, you're worth it

Keep the promises that you make to yourself!

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SOUL FOOD

Barbara Ward-Finneran

Not every action will produce the desired results. 

Experimenting and making mistakes is part of the process of realizing your potential and dreams. 

Power through the challenges melding your unique talents with that desired purpose.  Be convinced in thoughts, words, and deeds that every task brings you closer to that personal victory and the rest will follow.

Keep the promises that you make to yourself!

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SOUL FOOD

Barbara Ward-Finneran

Nothing great will ever be achieved unless you relinquish your fear of change. For everything you lose is counterbalanced with a gain. Without risk there cannot be accomplishment. You must be willing to die a little to who you are right now, to live in the limitless potential of all you are meant to become.

Keep the promises that you make to yourself!

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HOW'S YOUR HUMP?

Barbara Ward- Finneran

Mine often finds me exhausted.  Hump day hangs in the middle teasingly reminding that the weekend is approaching yet, reality says you are only half way there.  So much chaos of the everyday life left in the week.  Everything so important that it can't be postponed, put off, or pushed aside.  Often finding ourselves going through the motions of an over scheduled exsistence.  Where's the living in this life? When it comes to following our dreams why do they fall to the end of the priority list?

It's all to easy to let life get in the way.  Wife, mother, daughter, teacher, friend, artist, designer, runner, business owner, (insert your own agenda here) all come with a lengthy list of responsibilities.  None of which are easily overlooked.  But where is the responsibility to ourselves?