Photo Friday: Lightning Over Honolulu

In honor of the lightning, thunder, hail, power outages, flooding and otherwise crazy stormy weather we've had in Honolulu this week, today's photo is a gorgeous picture of lightning over Honolulu by Aaron Yoshino.

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Happy Friday!

Stress is a Choice: 7 Rules to Simplify Your Life

I love Simple Truths Videos!
This one comes from the book, Stress is a Choice and offers seven helpful rules to help you simplify your life and live with less stress.

1.  Choose to set your priorities.
2.  Choose to leave the past behind.
3.  Choose to be a victor.
4.  Choose to discover your magnetism.
5.  Choose to be less if-fy.
6.  Choose to know your purpose.
7.  Choose to slow down in order to go faster.

All Great Changes are Preceded by Chaos

TED Talk Tuesday: Keep Your Goals to Yourself

This seriously goes against everything I've ever learned.

You always hear:

"Write down your goals, and then tell them to someone.  Tell them to lots of people.  The more people you tell, the more accountability you'll have."

Derek Silvers believes this is wrong.  That it's actually better to keep our goals secret.  He presents evidence in his short (3-minute) TED Talk that shows that telling someone your goal actually makes it less likely to happen. Interestingly, when you tell someone your goal, your mind is tricked into feeling it's already done.  Because it feels the satisfaction, you're less likely to get it done.

What do you think about his theory?  Is it better to tell others our goals, or to keep them to ourselves?

Motivation Monday: What's Stopping You?

Oh that's right.  Nothing.

Photo Source: 365Q

So why in the world aren't you doing it?

Photo Friday: On the Edge

There's a fine line between scary and exhilarating when you're living on the edge.

Source: http://magicalplaces.tumblr.com/

Letting Go Takes Love

This morning, a good friend gave me this great poem (thanks, Tom!).  It immediately struck a chord with me and thought you'd like it too.  Enjoy! 

LETTING GO TAKES LOVE

To let go does not mean to stop caring,
it means I can’t do it for someone else.
To let go is not to cut myself off,
it’s the realization I can’t control another.To let go is not to enable,
but allow learning from natural consequences.
To let go is to admit powerlessness, which means
the outcome is not in my hands.
To let go is not to try to change or blame another,
it’s to make the most of myself.
To let go is not to care for,
but to care about.
To let go is not to fix,
but to be supportive.
To let go is not to judge,
but to allow another to be a human being.
To let go is not to be in the middle arranging all the outcomes,
but to allow others to affect their destinies.
To let go is not to be protective,
it’s to permit another to face reality.
To let go is not to deny,
but to accept.
To let go is not to nag, scold or argue,
but instead to search out my own shortcomings and correct them.
To let go is not to adjust everything to my desires,
but to take each day as it comes and cherish myself in it.
To let go is not to criticize or regulate anybody,
but to try to become what I dream I can be.
To let go is not to regret the past,
but to grow and live for the future.

To let go is to fear less and love more.

Remember: The time to love is short.

— author unknown