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bluidkiti · 11-01-2016, 06:21 AM

Being A Grown-Up

Grow up! Well, what does being a grown-up mean to you? Emotional maturity, wisdom, being responsible for your actions, following through on your commitments....

Does being a grown-up mean giving up being childlike? Do you feel like a grown-up? Or do you feel like you have a lot of growing up still to do?

bluidkiti · 11-02-2016, 07:17 AM

React or Respond?

When our buttons are pressed, we often react. But we can, if we want, respond instead. Respond rather than react, to make a situation better and come out better off.

If you want to respond, pause before you react. Pause to understand, then calm your reaction and choose your response. Are you reacting or responding?

bluidkiti · 11-03-2016, 05:12 AM

While the Kettle Boils

While you're waiting for the kettle to boil, what do you do? There are so many different things we could do, in those precious few minutes. Here's a suggestion: do a mini workout.

While the kettle boils, you can jog on the spot or do jumping jacks, or you can do tension relieving stretches. What will you do while the kettle boils?

bluidkiti · 11-04-2016, 04:22 AM

Before You Help Others

We've all heard the flight attendant say, "Put your oxygen mask on first, before helping others." When we help ourselves first, the help we give others will be more helpful and empowering.

Help yourself by not neglecting yourself. Honor your health, time and energy. Nurture what matters to you and help yourself to grow and thrive.

How will you help yourself before you help others?

bluidkiti · 11-04-2016, 04:28 AM

November 5

Expressing Feelings

How are you feeling? What are you feeling? Often we’re a little out of touch with our feelings and not able to articulate them.

How about getting in touch with your feelings and expressing them? If you can’t do it verbally, do it creatively. Paint and give shape and color to your feelings. Draw, doodle, scribble, sketch or write a poem.

Express your feelings in a healthy way and increase your capacity to understand yourself, other people and situations.

bluidkiti · 11-04-2016, 04:29 AM

November 6

Feel Like Running Away?

When you're going through a difficult situation and feel like running away from it all, replace run-a-way with runway.

Use the difficult situation as a runway to take a leap of faith in yourself and in life. Take off and face the situation or move towards creating positive change.

bluidkiti · 11-07-2016, 03:31 AM

'L' before earn

Do you go to work to earn? How about, adding the letter 'L' in front of earn, and learn as you earn.

No matter how skilled or confident you are in your work, there's always more to improve and learn. Keep learning, and every time you learn, you earn. You earn new skills, experience, understanding, and improve the way you work.

Just remember to keep the ‘L’ in front of earn.

bluidkiti · 11-08-2016, 04:29 AM

Don't Take It Personally

"Don't take it personally," how often have you heard this? When you don't take things personally, you are better able to protect yourself from feeling: hurt, disappointed, let down... So be more thick skinned and let things roll off you, like water off a duck’s back.

Remember, it's not all about you, so don't take things personally. But it is about ‘you’, isn't it, because it is your life and your feelings, and so it will always be personal. Take things personally or not?

bluidkiti · 11-09-2016, 03:34 AM

Capturing and Organizing Ideas

Ideas can pop up anytime, anywhere. Now, you don't expect yourself to remember everything, do you? Capture the idea on paper or on your phone, and your mind is then free to expand on the idea.

But not every idea is going to be good, so you may want to filter the ideas and only keep the best ones. And, not all ideas need to be turned into action right away, right? Organize the ideas to create an idea bank, in a format that’s accessible and easy to refer to later.

How do you capture and organize ideas?

bluidkiti · 11-10-2016, 04:46 AM

Blessings to Give

We are blessed and we have blessings to give. Count your blessings and give blessings.

Blessings are thoughts filled with great love and kindness, and they can travel long distances. So generously and freely give blessings. Give blessings to people you love, as well as to people you don't get along with. Give blessings and the blessings come through you first, so you become blessed in the process. Bless and be blessed.

bluidkiti · 11-11-2016, 05:05 AM

Resilience through Humor

Humor not only makes you light hearted but it also makes you more resilient. How? Well, humor helps you to stop blowing things out of proportion, find the funny lining in a situation, and put things in perspective. This enables you to stress less and handle the situation the best way you can.

To be less stressed and more resilient, bring more humor into your life.

bluidkiti · 11-11-2016, 05:07 AM

November 12

Re-contact and Reconnect

As life happens, it's all too easy to lose touch with old friends. So, if you've been meaning to reconnect with someone you've lost touch with, procrastinate no more. Today, re-contact an old friend.

Send an email, a text, a card or a Facebook message. Or simply pick up the phone and give them a call. Get in touch and reconnect. It'll make you feel good and you may just make their day.

bluidkiti · 11-11-2016, 05:07 AM

November 13

Being An Ambassador

Be an ambassador of life. Faultlessly polite and dignified. Building bridges and forging connections. Always interested, never bored.

You may not be an ambassador of a country, corporation, or a brand, but you do represent the human race and you're always representing yourself. Be an ambassador of humanity. Be an ambassador of you.

bluidkiti · 11-14-2016, 03:54 AM

Fix it or Declutter it

Do you have things that are lying around broken, waiting to be fixed? Well, if it's not being used, it's not useful, it's just clutter, taking up space and draining your energy unnecessarily.

This week, look for things that need fixing, from clothes to appliances. Fix and repair things, if you can’t, find someone who can. And if it's not worth the time or money, recycle or throw it away. Declutter and breathe, and relax

bluidkiti · 11-15-2016, 03:58 AM

Needs vs Being Needy

Can you recognize the difference between having needs and being needy?

Recognize what your needs are, and how to get better at a) honoring your needs, and b) communicating your needs to others.

Realize when and how you are being needy, and how to get better at a) becoming more self reliant, and b) considering the needs of others.

11-01-2016, 06:21 AM	#1
bluidkiti Administrator Join Date: Aug 2013 Posts: 73,858	Thought For Today - November Being A Grown-Up Grow up! Well, what does being a grown-up mean to you? Emotional maturity, wisdom, being responsible for your actions, following through on your commitments.... Does being a grown-up mean giving up being childlike? Do you feel like a grown-up? Or do you feel like you have a lot of growing up still to do? __________________ "No matter what you have done up to this moment, you get 24 brand-new hours to spend every single day." --Brian Tracy AA gives us an opportunity to recreate ourselves, with God's help, one day at a time. --Rufus K. When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. --Franklin D. Roosevelt We stay sober and clean together - one day at a time! God says that each of us is worth loving.

11-02-2016, 07:17 AM	#2
bluidkiti Administrator Join Date: Aug 2013 Posts: 73,858	React or Respond? When our buttons are pressed, we often react. But we can, if we want, respond instead. Respond rather than react, to make a situation better and come out better off. If you want to respond, pause before you react. Pause to understand, then calm your reaction and choose your response. Are you reacting or responding? __________________ "No matter what you have done up to this moment, you get 24 brand-new hours to spend every single day." --Brian Tracy AA gives us an opportunity to recreate ourselves, with God's help, one day at a time. --Rufus K. When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. --Franklin D. Roosevelt We stay sober and clean together - one day at a time! God says that each of us is worth loving.

11-03-2016, 05:12 AM	#3
bluidkiti Administrator Join Date: Aug 2013 Posts: 73,858	While the Kettle Boils While you're waiting for the kettle to boil, what do you do? There are so many different things we could do, in those precious few minutes. Here's a suggestion: do a mini workout. While the kettle boils, you can jog on the spot or do jumping jacks, or you can do tension relieving stretches. What will you do while the kettle boils? __________________ "No matter what you have done up to this moment, you get 24 brand-new hours to spend every single day." --Brian Tracy AA gives us an opportunity to recreate ourselves, with God's help, one day at a time. --Rufus K. When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. --Franklin D. Roosevelt We stay sober and clean together - one day at a time! God says that each of us is worth loving.

11-04-2016, 04:22 AM	#4
bluidkiti Administrator Join Date: Aug 2013 Posts: 73,858	Before You Help Others We've all heard the flight attendant say, "Put your oxygen mask on first, before helping others." When we help ourselves first, the help we give others will be more helpful and empowering. Help yourself by not neglecting yourself. Honor your health, time and energy. Nurture what matters to you and help yourself to grow and thrive. How will you help yourself before you help others? __________________ "No matter what you have done up to this moment, you get 24 brand-new hours to spend every single day." --Brian Tracy AA gives us an opportunity to recreate ourselves, with God's help, one day at a time. --Rufus K. When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. --Franklin D. Roosevelt We stay sober and clean together - one day at a time! God says that each of us is worth loving.

11-04-2016, 04:28 AM	#5
bluidkiti Administrator Join Date: Aug 2013 Posts: 73,858	November 5 Expressing Feelings How are you feeling? What are you feeling? Often we’re a little out of touch with our feelings and not able to articulate them. How about getting in touch with your feelings and expressing them? If you can’t do it verbally, do it creatively. Paint and give shape and color to your feelings. Draw, doodle, scribble, sketch or write a poem. Express your feelings in a healthy way and increase your capacity to understand yourself, other people and situations. __________________ "No matter what you have done up to this moment, you get 24 brand-new hours to spend every single day." --Brian Tracy AA gives us an opportunity to recreate ourselves, with God's help, one day at a time. --Rufus K. When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. --Franklin D. Roosevelt We stay sober and clean together - one day at a time! God says that each of us is worth loving.

11-04-2016, 04:29 AM	#6
bluidkiti Administrator Join Date: Aug 2013 Posts: 73,858	November 6 Feel Like Running Away? When you're going through a difficult situation and feel like running away from it all, replace run-a-way with runway. Use the difficult situation as a runway to take a leap of faith in yourself and in life. Take off and face the situation or move towards creating positive change. __________________ "No matter what you have done up to this moment, you get 24 brand-new hours to spend every single day." --Brian Tracy AA gives us an opportunity to recreate ourselves, with God's help, one day at a time. --Rufus K. When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. --Franklin D. Roosevelt We stay sober and clean together - one day at a time! God says that each of us is worth loving.

11-07-2016, 03:31 AM	#7
bluidkiti Administrator Join Date: Aug 2013 Posts: 73,858	'L' before earn Do you go to work to earn? How about, adding the letter 'L' in front of earn, and learn as you earn. No matter how skilled or confident you are in your work, there's always more to improve and learn. Keep learning, and every time you learn, you earn. You earn new skills, experience, understanding, and improve the way you work. Just remember to keep the ‘L’ in front of earn. __________________ "No matter what you have done up to this moment, you get 24 brand-new hours to spend every single day." --Brian Tracy AA gives us an opportunity to recreate ourselves, with God's help, one day at a time. --Rufus K. When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. --Franklin D. Roosevelt We stay sober and clean together - one day at a time! God says that each of us is worth loving.

11-08-2016, 04:29 AM	#8
bluidkiti Administrator Join Date: Aug 2013 Posts: 73,858	Don't Take It Personally "Don't take it personally," how often have you heard this? When you don't take things personally, you are better able to protect yourself from feeling: hurt, disappointed, let down... So be more thick skinned and let things roll off you, like water off a duck’s back. Remember, it's not all about you, so don't take things personally. But it is about ‘you’, isn't it, because it is your life and your feelings, and so it will always be personal. Take things personally or not? __________________ "No matter what you have done up to this moment, you get 24 brand-new hours to spend every single day." --Brian Tracy AA gives us an opportunity to recreate ourselves, with God's help, one day at a time. --Rufus K. When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. --Franklin D. Roosevelt We stay sober and clean together - one day at a time! God says that each of us is worth loving.

11-09-2016, 03:34 AM	#9
bluidkiti Administrator Join Date: Aug 2013 Posts: 73,858	Capturing and Organizing Ideas Ideas can pop up anytime, anywhere. Now, you don't expect yourself to remember everything, do you? Capture the idea on paper or on your phone, and your mind is then free to expand on the idea. But not every idea is going to be good, so you may want to filter the ideas and only keep the best ones. And, not all ideas need to be turned into action right away, right? Organize the ideas to create an idea bank, in a format that’s accessible and easy to refer to later. How do you capture and organize ideas? __________________ "No matter what you have done up to this moment, you get 24 brand-new hours to spend every single day." --Brian Tracy AA gives us an opportunity to recreate ourselves, with God's help, one day at a time. --Rufus K. When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. --Franklin D. Roosevelt We stay sober and clean together - one day at a time! God says that each of us is worth loving.

11-10-2016, 04:46 AM	#10
bluidkiti Administrator Join Date: Aug 2013 Posts: 73,858	Blessings to Give We are blessed and we have blessings to give. Count your blessings and give blessings. Blessings are thoughts filled with great love and kindness, and they can travel long distances. So generously and freely give blessings. Give blessings to people you love, as well as to people you don't get along with. Give blessings and the blessings come through you first, so you become blessed in the process. Bless and be blessed. __________________ "No matter what you have done up to this moment, you get 24 brand-new hours to spend every single day." --Brian Tracy AA gives us an opportunity to recreate ourselves, with God's help, one day at a time. --Rufus K. When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. --Franklin D. Roosevelt We stay sober and clean together - one day at a time! God says that each of us is worth loving.

11-11-2016, 05:05 AM	#11
bluidkiti Administrator Join Date: Aug 2013 Posts: 73,858	Resilience through Humor Humor not only makes you light hearted but it also makes you more resilient. How? Well, humor helps you to stop blowing things out of proportion, find the funny lining in a situation, and put things in perspective. This enables you to stress less and handle the situation the best way you can. To be less stressed and more resilient, bring more humor into your life. __________________ "No matter what you have done up to this moment, you get 24 brand-new hours to spend every single day." --Brian Tracy AA gives us an opportunity to recreate ourselves, with God's help, one day at a time. --Rufus K. When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. --Franklin D. Roosevelt We stay sober and clean together - one day at a time! God says that each of us is worth loving.

11-11-2016, 05:07 AM	#12
bluidkiti Administrator Join Date: Aug 2013 Posts: 73,858	November 12 Re-contact and Reconnect As life happens, it's all too easy to lose touch with old friends. So, if you've been meaning to reconnect with someone you've lost touch with, procrastinate no more. Today, re-contact an old friend. Send an email, a text, a card or a Facebook message. Or simply pick up the phone and give them a call. Get in touch and reconnect. It'll make you feel good and you may just make their day. __________________ "No matter what you have done up to this moment, you get 24 brand-new hours to spend every single day." --Brian Tracy AA gives us an opportunity to recreate ourselves, with God's help, one day at a time. --Rufus K. When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. --Franklin D. Roosevelt We stay sober and clean together - one day at a time! God says that each of us is worth loving.

11-14-2016, 03:54 AM	#14
bluidkiti Administrator Join Date: Aug 2013 Posts: 73,858	Fix it or Declutter it Do you have things that are lying around broken, waiting to be fixed? Well, if it's not being used, it's not useful, it's just clutter, taking up space and draining your energy unnecessarily. This week, look for things that need fixing, from clothes to appliances. Fix and repair things, if you can’t, find someone who can. And if it's not worth the time or money, recycle or throw it away. Declutter and breathe, and relax __________________ "No matter what you have done up to this moment, you get 24 brand-new hours to spend every single day." --Brian Tracy AA gives us an opportunity to recreate ourselves, with God's help, one day at a time. --Rufus K. When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. --Franklin D. Roosevelt We stay sober and clean together - one day at a time! God says that each of us is worth loving.

11-15-2016, 03:58 AM	#15
bluidkiti Administrator Join Date: Aug 2013 Posts: 73,858	Needs vs Being Needy Can you recognize the difference between having needs and being needy? Recognize what your needs are, and how to get better at a) honoring your needs, and b) communicating your needs to others. Realize when and how you are being needy, and how to get better at a) becoming more self reliant, and b) considering the needs of others. __________________ "No matter what you have done up to this moment, you get 24 brand-new hours to spend every single day." --Brian Tracy AA gives us an opportunity to recreate ourselves, with God's help, one day at a time. --Rufus K. When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. --Franklin D. Roosevelt We stay sober and clean together - one day at a time! God says that each of us is worth loving.

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