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Wear Sunscreen: words of wisdom

I love this! Such timeless wisdom. These words encouraged and inspired me so many years ago and I’m so joyful to share it with you all.

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Tips on How to Be A Nice Person And Raise Your Attractor Factor

I speak frequently on this blog about the benefits of being nice and how this can raise your attractor factor. Your attractor factor is all about your ability to raise your vibrational level to attract great things in your life . Make yourself into a magnetic being so that  wealth, love, happiness and more are attracted into your life easily and effortlessly.

A very easy way to raise your attractor factor is simply to be nice. When you are nice, happy and friendly, others wish to be around you. The positive energy you put out there attracts others to you. This then makes others want to help you in many ways. In my every day life I notice a severe shortage of nice people. It seems as if people are missing the very simple, basic concepts of being nice and attracting happy people and circumstances into their life as a result. Being nice works, period! I know from my experience traveling the world and interacting with hundreds of different people. Being nice leaves a memorable impression on others which always returns to you in many positive ways.

Here are my top tips on how to be a nice person:

Smile When You Greet Others and Ask How they Are

Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.  ~Mother Teresa

While this seems pretty simple and straightforward do you know how many people don’t do this one simple thing? Being friendly in this way opens up so many avenues for conversation. You immediately disarm a person when you give them a smile and ask how they are. You let them know you are happy to see them and care enough to ask after them. Smiley, happy, friendly people attract smiley, happy, friendly circumstances!

Use Your Manners

Manners are free and the most powerful way for you to receive great rewards for nothing!! Please and thank you go a long way. I rarely hear people say it anymore, especially our youth. This is something we encourage in Kalyra constantly and we always receive comments from others about her lovely manners. It brightens peoples day when you show them this small bit of recognition and they remember you forever because of it. Manners makes a lasting impression.

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others.  If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter which fork you use.  ~Emily Post

Ask others about their life, listen and respond

If you want others to like and remember you then spend time getting to know them. Ask questions about their life and then listen. Let them know you are interested in what they have to say. Make encouraging comments and smile in your interaction with them. I grew up as a very shy and insecure person. I never knew what to say to people. I overcame this by putting all the responsibility on others. I simply asked a lot of questions about the person I was conversing with and their life. I allowed them to talk and I filled in the gaps. Not only did this develop strong social skills in me but it gave the person I was talking to a sense of importance. People love talking about their lives and they love people who show an interest in them.

Praise and Encourage

Give people simple statements of praise and encouragement. Find something to compliment them on. It’s easy “I like the way…..” “You’re hair looks great!” “That’s a cool way of thinking” “Awesome” Good On Ya” You rock!” and the list goes on. People will remember you when you do small things like this. You will be the one they will turn to when they need a boost of encouragement. You’ll be the one they will want to hang out with as you will make them feel good.

Be Lighthearted

Bring laughter into your conversations with others as much as you can. Laughter equals joy and there is no higher emotion. Make your interactions with others light-hearted and fun. Forget about moaning and complaining about others and your circumstances. This never makes anything better and just drains the energy from those listening to you. Talk about fun and interesting things and just kid around. Life is far too serious, bring some release for others with your positive and light hearted conversations. It’s far easier to praise, encourage  and smile from this state also.

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Embrace the New Day Positive Attitude of Gratitude

Playing to Win
What an amazing day! Appreciate yourself and all the great things that are about to happen for you today.

Positive mindset creates a  manifesting magic day for you. You are setting yourself on a path for great things when you start your day with a positive, embracing attitude. You are telling the Universe, you’re happy to be alive and enjoy all the pleasures that it offers you and you are so ready to accept more.

The Universe loves abundance it loves to give you more but the Universe will only ever give you what you ask for. If you ask for a crappy day with your bad attitude, you’ll get it. If you ask for an awesome day with your happy, positive attitude you’ll get it. Ask:

What do I have to be so grateful for?

I wonder what magic that the Universe is bringing to me today?

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Mark Twain Travel Quote: Tolerance, Acceptance and Open Mindedness

Play the Song of the Week: Dream Catch Me:

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness- Mark Twain

Travel is our passion for these very reasons. Today’s travel lesson talks about the benefits of travel. It has opened up our minds to a whole new world that is full of diversity to embrace and enjoy not to be fearful and prejudice of. Travel gives you the opportunity to experience people from all works of life and understand just how alike we all are. This fosters peace, love, tolerance and acceptance in our world and what a better place it makes it for all.

We know this because travel did indeed kill prejudice, bigotry and narrow mindedness for us and our life is so joyful as a result. It should be a requirement of all people when they leave high school.

Another travel quote on open mindedness that we love:

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only a page

Expand your mind and expand your world. Read the whole novel of life, it’s beautiful, it’s fascinating and each character brings to it it’s own special role of importance and value. Discover a kaleidoscope world viewed through the eyes of commonality

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Joy and Love: The Place Where Magic Happens

Today’s free daily inspiration is about putting you in a space of joy and love as this is where the magic happens. There’s no better place to allow magic to happen then when you experience love and joy. Use every opportunity to place yourself in this space of inspiration. Raise your vibrational level and you will attract so much magic in your life.

Our song of the week Dream Catch me is a great song to put you in a space of joy and love and to remind you to be whoever you want and do anything you want to do. The song is put to video clips of our beautiful daughter Kalyra who always lives from a place of pure joy and love. She reminds us daily how to be free, joyful and just to be yourself.

Spend time with a child and live a truthful life is a post I wrote based on the lessons I’ve learned from my wise little teacher Kalyra.

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Be Open Minded and Try Something New Today

Song of the week

Today’s daily inspirational message is all about seeing things as they really are and not from the eyes of your past experiences. This is what it means to be open minded and this needs to be your approach to try something new. The daily inspirational message relates to Caz’s experiences learning to love American football. She used to view American Football from her Aussie sports eyes and so just saw how American football was so different to this. As a result she hated it, thought it was slow, boring and for wuses!

Caz slowly got to love football. The only was she did this was to look at football with open eyes and to see the game for what it was. She decided to try something new, be open minded to appreciate it for what it was and now she loves it. It gives her yet another story to tell about her life and makes it more fun and exciting.

Whatever you have been judgmental about in your life, is it because you have viewed it in the eyes of your past experiences? Try something new today, view it for what it really is. Be open minded you just might find a new, hidden treasure and joy for you to love and appreciate as well.

Have fun this Superbowl Sunday everyone. We’re excited! Go Saints!!!

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Greetings from Around the World: Namaste, Wai and Big Bear Hugs

Listen to our Song of the Week here:

Today’s Daily Inspirations on Video: Traveling around the world has given us a great insight into how others live. We feel so lucky as we can pick and choose and adopt what we like. Craig and I really consider ourselves to be children of the world. We love our country, Australia but we don’t feel as if that is our first and only identity. We love to live through an expansive viewpoint of first being a human being who shares so much in common with others. We love to incorporate traditions from other cultures into our life.

There is so much to be enjoyed and appreciated in others cultures. One of these is the various forms of greetings from around the world. We love to see how other cultures respect and honor each other.  In the video we talk about kisses in France and Australia, the great big bear hugs of the US, the wai of South East Asia and the Universal word to show recognition of the divine in another human being.

When you first meet a person the first thing you should recognize and honor is the divine human being in them. Namaste…

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Have A Laid Back Attitude And Enjoy Your Life

“If it’s urgent it’s not God”- unknown

It’s Travel Thursday on today’s free daily inspirations via video. We go to South East Asia where we learn to have a laid back attitude and enjoy your life. People from South East Asia really know how to relax. They have down pat the art of relaxation.

They move through life with an attitude of “Mai Pen Lai” which means no worries. We learned a lot living in Asia and this is one of our favorite places to go for this reason. It’s relaxing and chilled out. You really get to learn that life is just there to be enjoyed and it’s too short to be stressing or getting anxious or angry when things don’t go the way you want them to. Asia really showed me the beauty of life in simplicity.

Here’s an extract from my diary in Laos:

“I am now faced with my most difficult task right now in Laos. I must judge and time the swing on my hammock accurately so that I am able to reach and grab my beer from the small table next to me. This is Lao! This is the Asia that I love, not a care in the world!”

If you have trouble relaxing then go to Thailand or Laos, you’ll soon learn how to relax and you’ll enjoy your life so much more. Why would you choose stress and anxiety over fun, freedom and serenity? Mai Pen Lai! Just develop a laid back attitude and enjoy your life!

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Money isn’t Everything! Are limiting money beliefs controlling your life?

“Money isn’t the most important thing in life, but it’s reasonably close to oxygen on the “gotta have it” scale.”
Zig Ziglar

Watch Craig’s daily inspirational message about contribution through wealth versus through poverty

Do you have limiting beliefs about money?  Do you believe it’s wrong to be rich? Do you think that all rich people are evil and they steal from those less fortunate? These are common misconceptions about money and I can understand where they come about from. Usually they are there to offer us an excuse as to why we are not living our best life. They hold us back from being abundant human beings living extraordinary lives. Being rich, being abundant is our birth right and it’s how we can best serve others and the planet.

Let’s think seriously  and intelligently about this.

Think about poor you and what you contribute and then think about rich you and what you contribute. Totally different story right?

I know because I’ve been in both places.

Here’s poor me: Totally depressed and stressed out. Fighting with my partner, creating an unhealthy environment for myself and child to live in. It’s difficult to live my life on purpose because every spare dime I have goes to not even covering my bills. I have no life, I can’t contribute or help anyone else because I can’t even help myself. The energy I send out to the world is so negative,limiting and depressing. Nothing grows as a result.  You can’t grow a plant on soil that is not rich!

Here’s rich me: Life is totally on my terms because I have options. It’s not the actual dollars that makes the difference, it’s what I can now do with my time and my available resources. I am unlimited, I am free and I am happy as a result. I can live my purpose and truly make a difference. I can reach into my pocket and donate thousands at the drop of a hat. I can live my heart;s passions, I can do whatever I want, when I want and with who I want. I enjoy abundance, I share abundance, I love life through abundance. Lack is not in my radar. I send out positive, uplifting energy and make a difference as a result. Growth is tremendous in my soul as it’s rich!

I can do more for the world rich than I can poor and so can you. The world needs you to be abundant. Wealth is the only path for growth. Life needs to expand and flourish.  You deserve wealth and abundance. When you Change your thinking, you change your world.

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Develop an Attitude of Gratitude

“Everything that’s really worthwhile in life comes to us free- our minds, our souls, our bodies, our hopes, our dreams, our intelligence, our love of family and friends and country. All of these priceless possessions are free.” Earl Nightingale

Watch today’s daily inspirational story on developing an attitude of gratitude. Start by understanding that there is always somebody worse off than you and be grateful for all you do have instead of focusing on what you lack. Craig talks about our travel experiences in Malawi, one of the poorest countries in the world, yet some of the happiest we have met. Malawi is known as the warm heart of Africa because of this.

Read more of Caz’s blog post on greeting the day with awe and gratitude.

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