WHAT IS POSITIVE ENERGY?

To know me is to know I believe in the power of positive energy.  It’s more than just positive thinking, a key element.  Positive energy for me is about the “mood” or “state of mind” you bring to the situation.  Positive energy is a belief system that manifest itself into action and attitude.  It is a spirit in mind that goes beyond "can do".  It is "will do". 

ADVICE

While many of my articles are written in the hopes that you the reader can reflect and take something away from what I’ve experienced or think into your own life, today I want to give you all some straight out advice.  Today’s article is advice.

HOW I CAME TO IT

I recall years ago going to work for a person that I thought was very smart.  He said once, “I can’t work around her; she brings into the room so much negative energy.”  It was then I realized that people affect people in every day life.  Then I thought about how I could affect me with “positive energy”.  

IT MAKES A DIFFERENCE

Positive energy is what makes the difference in your day, situation or task.  One person can make a difference in other people’s lives when they enter a room with positive energy.   In reverse, a person or people with negative energy can bring a whole team of people or a family down.  But that is my point; the energy one person brings into a situation can positively or negatively affect  those people they are direct contact with.  And I like to think that we can make things better, so I take the ...   more »

Family, what does it mean to you?  Memorable moments around the dinner table?  Trips together?  Parents that love each other?  For me family is all this and so much more.  From time-to-time I’m reminded how much I value it.  They say you don’t appreciate what you have until it is gone, I don’t know if that is true.  It isn’t for me. Somehow from a young age I learned what family could do for you and I never let go of that notion.  I recall my brother making fun of me at dinner and me getting in trouble for it, but somehow that never really upset me.  I was glad for that time because at least I had a brother.   I never had a sister but I’m sure that would have had an immense impact on me as a person too.  Who knows what I’d have become had I a sister in my home.  

I recall my older brother bringing girls home when I was about 9 years old, he was 19 and I remember him bragging on my mom’s tacos, “You have to try my mom’s tacos.”  I somehow remembered that always.  Funny thing is my mother cooks some amazing southern dishes, black eyed pees, fried okra, cornbread and more.  Tacos?  But it’s true, she taught me how to cook an authentic taco, deep fried shells with the cheese melted in.  But that is another story.

Eventually I too brought girls home and I too wanted them to try my mom’s tacos.  

Then there is my father.   He was someone I always thought of as SuperMan.  He had a speed boat and he used to take ...   more »

Life is amazing thing.  It doesn't matter who you are, we all want that one friend that will make you feel like you can take on the world and win.   That one person that when you come home at the end of the day will make you feel not just "alive" but 'ALIVE!" 

But to have that person that makes you feel dynamite you have to be worth living for.  You got to get out there and get em!  Every day you gotta bounce out of that bed, you got to open you heart when love comes along and let it fall.

You gotta believe in love.  It doesn't matter who you are.  You can't be too tough for love.  It's a treasure some of us don't get once in a lifetime.  If it's love you want, you've got to be worthy of it.  You can't be worthy of it if you don't open your heart to it.   Love stands out you know... it's like a path full of sunlight.  It's like a moon breaking off the grid for those in a mathmatical life, and it begins to sail across the starry night shining down directly on you while you dance in it's bright light amidst the darkness around you.    Love is strong, stronger than hate, stronger than pride, stronger than bitterness and it offers hope to anyone that believes they don't have to be alone.   But before you can love, you got to be worthy of it.

You have to be all the colors of the rainbow, you can't be just the darks, or the reds.  You can't be just the blues either.  You've got to offer it all, to get it all. 

If you have any hope left, take a chance on love.  You just step out on ...   more »