Wednesday Wisdom

Seed tomorrow with wise dreaming today!

I’m working in Atlanta this week, and yesterday, woke up to a message that read:

Always trust your dreams, Marilynn. They’ve chosen you, as much as you’ve chosen them.

Of course, I know of no scientific way to prove that to be true; however, it’s worth contemplating. Perhaps we have a symbiotic relationship with our dreams. Maybe they seek us out as much as we yearn for them. After all, nothing magnificent ever happens without a dream first. So, today, I’ll “sit” with my dreams and ask them to speak to me, rather than do all the talking.

The message I received above ended with this tagline:

Thoughts become things . . . choose the good ones!

If that’s true, our thoughts can either create what we desire as reality or take us down paths far from that truth. I pray to cherish and protect my thoughts today and always. And, I implore purposeful action towards those dreams to follow.

Life is calling . . . Today’s the day . . . Make this moment matter!!

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Wednesdsay Wisdom

Seed tomorrow with wise purpose today!

We watched the movie Hugo last week . . . wonderfully delightful. Near the end of the story, young Hugo Cabret tells his friend, Isabel:

Everything has a purpose, even machines. Clocks tell the time; trains take you places. They do what they’re meant to do. Maybe that’s why broken machines make me so sad. Maybe it’s the same with people. If you lose your purpose, it’s like you’re broken.

Words worth pondering from a very young lad. When Isabel questions her purpose, Hugo responds:

When my dad died, I looked out this window and imagined the whole world as one big machine. Machines never come with extra parts. They always come with the exact amount they need. So, I figured if the entire world was one big machine, I couldn’t be an extra part. I had to be here for some reason. And, that means you have to be here for some reason too.

That means you have to be here for some reason too . . .

Life is calling . . . Today’s the day . . . Make this moment matter!!

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Wednesday Wisdom

Seed tomorrow with wise learning and serving today!

We return from Puerto Rico with memories of kind and passionate people, scrumptious food, spectacular beaches, and a magnificent Old Town San Juan filled with savory aromas & tastes and intriguing bars & shops.

On our drive down a mountain in the El Yongue Rain Forest, leaving a hiking adventure to a waterfall, our daughter’s beau spotted a sign attached to a fence that read:

Live to learn and learn to serve.

What an appropriate message from the rain forest! They are ecological and environmental wonders that offer benefits to humans that can’t be found anywhere else in the world. Local indigenous people near rain forests use the products they supply to sustain their families. To the rest of the world they provide medicine, reduce carbon dioxide and help moderate the temperature of the Earth’s atmosphere.

According to Raintree Nutrition, Inc. approximately 25 percent of the world’s pharmaceuticals originate in rain forests. And, only 1% of rain forest plant species have been tested for medicinal properties. So, if the rain forests disappear, potential cures for serious diseases could be lost.

It seems the forests know their purpose and fulfill it naturally, even in the face of danger, disaster and destruction. As humans, how would life be different, if we served each other so purposefully?! So, thank you El Yongue Rain Forest, for reminding me to learn – and most of all, and to provide value by serving.

Life is calling . . . Today’s the day . . . Make this moment matter!!

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Wednesday Wisdom

Seed tomorrow with wise adventures today!

Today, to continue my 60th celebration, I’m off to San Juan, Puerto Rico with people I love the most in the whole world! The anticipation of adventure is always as exciting as the explorations themselves to me!

Week ago, with songs from West Side Story resonating in my mind, I started researching. The island was originally populated by indigenous aboriginal peoples known as Taínos. In 1493 Spanish colonists arrived making it the second oldest European-established city in the Americas. Like places all around the world that have been “discovered” by outsiders, pressure to change followed. Puerto Rico has experienced the strain of colonization for the the last 5 centuries. In a speech given to the United Nations General Assembly in 1964, Che Guevara he said:

And yet, despite this assault on their will and their historical destiny, the people of Puerto Rico have preserved their culture, their Latin character, their national feelings, which in themselves give proof of the implacable desire for independence lying within the masses on that Latin American island.

Grateful to the people of this island for preserving their heritage, we venture out to experience and understand as much as we possibly can. So, people, culture, food and sites all await us! Take advantage of one of the best ways to learn . . . get into this wonderful world and explore!

Life is calling . . . Today’s the day . . . Make this moment matter!!

Learn Lavishly. Live Significantly. Leave a Legacy.

Visit http://www.The Success Studio.com
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