I haven't been posting at all lately but am now focused on posting this blog weekly! I will review some items too that may be of help with the topic such as books I have read or other articles of interest! The discussions will generate thought along with making your day brighter hopefully raising your vibration!
Do you ever find yourself overwhelmed as life seems to go by faster and faster the older we get? Do you ever have some days "flatter" than others? A secret that I have found is to focus first thing in the morning on our blessings and expressing "Gratitude"! Take time out in the day to express it also along with at night which helps you shift to sleep better!
As we approach the 4th of July I have posted a link below for a video that reminds us to not be afraid to show our gratitude by thanking our men and women that protect our countries giving us the option of "freedom"! We should share and thank our friends or a clerk or others whom we encounter that may make our day a little better with their smile or service! "Gratitude" is such a simple way of expressing and yet can shift our whole energy field! Try it this holiday week and see how many lives you can affect with your smile and sharing of "Gratitude"!
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Freedom On This July 4th Weekend
Freedom! What a great word!
Aunt Milly served her country as a Lt. Col. nurse in the Air Force to help us have the freedom we have today! Milly had a squadron of nurses that reported to her with all kinds of stories that dealt with "Freedom" in their relationships with their partners, their co-workers, and their God and their country! Her husband John was a Colonel who flew planes fighting to keep our freedom for our country and also oversaw a base in Korea! This weekend with all the celebrations going on has given me time to reflect the true meaning and how it plays a part in all phrases of our lives. The current situation with many troops overseas still has an impact on all of us.
I do want to share a few thoughts about "freedom" with our minds and our words and our thoughts! Are you imprisoned by your ego or your thoughts that keep you chained to the past?
My belief is by staying in the present and not the past it gives you freedom. Negative thinking and choice of negative words keeps a person in chains versus positive thoughts, words and feelings allows flow and ultimately freedom.
We also have freedom to choose the relationship we are in too! Relationships whether at work or home, should be respectful of each other so that allows the freedom for a person to feel that they can express themselves without being judged! Relationships give us opportunity to love and show compassion and give others freedom. Does this describe your feelings or do your words used indicate a sense of ego and control more than "freedom" with unconditional love? After all we are all one and we are spiritual beings in physical form.
So this weekend and every day as you take time out to reflect about "freedom", express gratitude to all in your life! Take time out to include a special thanks to those who have served our country! Reflect on your choice of words and thoughts and how you use those words around others. Stay positive and not judge so that a person can truly feel free enough to express themselves and have freedom of choice with their thoughts,words and beliefs! After all we have been to war to have "freedom"!
Have a great day and thanks to all the veterans that have served so we can have our freedom today!
Aunt Milly served her country as a Lt. Col. nurse in the Air Force to help us have the freedom we have today! Milly had a squadron of nurses that reported to her with all kinds of stories that dealt with "Freedom" in their relationships with their partners, their co-workers, and their God and their country! Her husband John was a Colonel who flew planes fighting to keep our freedom for our country and also oversaw a base in Korea! This weekend with all the celebrations going on has given me time to reflect the true meaning and how it plays a part in all phrases of our lives. The current situation with many troops overseas still has an impact on all of us.
I do want to share a few thoughts about "freedom" with our minds and our words and our thoughts! Are you imprisoned by your ego or your thoughts that keep you chained to the past?
My belief is by staying in the present and not the past it gives you freedom. Negative thinking and choice of negative words keeps a person in chains versus positive thoughts, words and feelings allows flow and ultimately freedom.
We also have freedom to choose the relationship we are in too! Relationships whether at work or home, should be respectful of each other so that allows the freedom for a person to feel that they can express themselves without being judged! Relationships give us opportunity to love and show compassion and give others freedom. Does this describe your feelings or do your words used indicate a sense of ego and control more than "freedom" with unconditional love? After all we are all one and we are spiritual beings in physical form.
So this weekend and every day as you take time out to reflect about "freedom", express gratitude to all in your life! Take time out to include a special thanks to those who have served our country! Reflect on your choice of words and thoughts and how you use those words around others. Stay positive and not judge so that a person can truly feel free enough to express themselves and have freedom of choice with their thoughts,words and beliefs! After all we have been to war to have "freedom"!
Have a great day and thanks to all the veterans that have served so we can have our freedom today!
Monday, April 6, 2009
Do You Remember When?
I was thinking the other day how the earth is spinning faster and faster. Each day of the week seems to fly by as do the weeks, months, years. Do you feel this way? Are you living life with passion for what you do each day?
One day while visiting Aunt Milly at the Assisted Living Complex she asked me to lie down on the bed with her. I took my camera and snapped a picture of us. We were laughing and I realized that she might not be around in a year and to ask some questions about life. I now wish I had recorded the conversation. So now having learned from that, I will record conversations with my parents about their memories and upbringing. What about you? Have you recorded any conversations to reflect on after someone has transitioned or to leave for your kids some history?
That day Aunt Milly out of the blue said to me, "Do you remember when you were about 15 and you were a bartender for a party for us?" "Of course" I said. You always looked so elegant and always had a smile on your face Mil. Your neighborhood was there and you all had a great time sharing stories." "Well she said, you didn't know it but I knew that you were sneaking and sipping mistakes that night of rum and coke!" I looked at her and said "You kept that secret all those years!" She had the biggest grin on her face knowing she had shocked me and how we both had a good laugh about that. I thought for years I had pulled a fast one on her. It showed me nothing got by her and how it seemed like yesterday that I was a bartender at that party.
At a certain point she was ready for a nap and I left her, looking at her with a smile knowing that we both had a joyful day. Moments like that are what life is about! Joy, happiness, listening, knowing that the other person appreciates your company. Milly had shown unconditional love and compassion for me back that night I bartended. She was smiling knowing she was observing growth and a moment in time that could be shared later in life!
As I left her that day to take her nap, I saw other elders who were all alone. I stopped and heard some of their stories. Many had relatives that were too busy to stop by. I am not judging those relatives but there is so much wisdom and love that could be shared with a visit to the assisted living complexes. Have you ever taken time to stop by and volunteer to listen or go for a short walk? The treadmill of life goes faster and faster. I believe as kids, the adults in our life watch over us and there comes a time where the favor should be returned. Everything that goes around comes around one way or another. Take time to go within as time goes by so fast! Love up everyone as we are all connected and realize the irritating moments are lessons for us to learn from.
Visnu mentioned " Give your full thought force to love and understanding and tenderness,
for these repeated words are all the keys you need to turn the lock that will give you a fuller meaning to your life on earth." Aunt Milly was a great example of those words with her love, understanding and tenderness! Take time out to reflect and remember when?
One day while visiting Aunt Milly at the Assisted Living Complex she asked me to lie down on the bed with her. I took my camera and snapped a picture of us. We were laughing and I realized that she might not be around in a year and to ask some questions about life. I now wish I had recorded the conversation. So now having learned from that, I will record conversations with my parents about their memories and upbringing. What about you? Have you recorded any conversations to reflect on after someone has transitioned or to leave for your kids some history?
That day Aunt Milly out of the blue said to me, "Do you remember when you were about 15 and you were a bartender for a party for us?" "Of course" I said. You always looked so elegant and always had a smile on your face Mil. Your neighborhood was there and you all had a great time sharing stories." "Well she said, you didn't know it but I knew that you were sneaking and sipping mistakes that night of rum and coke!" I looked at her and said "You kept that secret all those years!" She had the biggest grin on her face knowing she had shocked me and how we both had a good laugh about that. I thought for years I had pulled a fast one on her. It showed me nothing got by her and how it seemed like yesterday that I was a bartender at that party.
At a certain point she was ready for a nap and I left her, looking at her with a smile knowing that we both had a joyful day. Moments like that are what life is about! Joy, happiness, listening, knowing that the other person appreciates your company. Milly had shown unconditional love and compassion for me back that night I bartended. She was smiling knowing she was observing growth and a moment in time that could be shared later in life!
As I left her that day to take her nap, I saw other elders who were all alone. I stopped and heard some of their stories. Many had relatives that were too busy to stop by. I am not judging those relatives but there is so much wisdom and love that could be shared with a visit to the assisted living complexes. Have you ever taken time to stop by and volunteer to listen or go for a short walk? The treadmill of life goes faster and faster. I believe as kids, the adults in our life watch over us and there comes a time where the favor should be returned. Everything that goes around comes around one way or another. Take time to go within as time goes by so fast! Love up everyone as we are all connected and realize the irritating moments are lessons for us to learn from.
Visnu mentioned " Give your full thought force to love and understanding and tenderness,
for these repeated words are all the keys you need to turn the lock that will give you a fuller meaning to your life on earth." Aunt Milly was a great example of those words with her love, understanding and tenderness! Take time out to reflect and remember when?
Monday, March 30, 2009
Play Your Own Game
What an unbelievable finish to the Bay Hill Classic this weekend with Tiger Woods sinking that long birdie putt on the 18th for the second year in a row to win the tournament on the last hole! It was incredible as he stayed focused on his game. Tiger didn't allow his thoughts to go to competing players but focused on his game and his strengths. What about you and your journey?
Do you allow others to distract you and cause fear based thoughts or do you stay focused on a positive outcome for you?
After losing a ball previously, it would have been easy for Tiger or anyone to have allowed his thoughts to have strayed to the other players games or to have stayed in the negative after losing the ball but he focused on "staying in the now" and on his game and finished strong. A great example for all of us in personal relationships and in business not to give our power away but to be ourselves and play our own game and stay in the present!
Tiger's performance had me reflecting again on life and Aunt Milly. One of the impressive things about my Aunt Milly was that she was "love based" not "fear based".
There were times where she could have judged me. Like the time I had long hair in college where many adults frowned on that at the time. She instead commented that fads happened and how she remembered Gram Prescott talking about the fad of swallowing goldfish! Sure enough that was the fad in the spring of 1939 and many folks judged the students that were doing this. Aunt Milly never showed judgment but would listen and observe and give some input with a smile!
Aunt Milly always had a smile on her face as she played her own game! When Uncle John would get upset over something she would just go along doing her thing showing some empathy but not being pulled into the drama. Do you allow others to cause you to get sucked into their drama or do you listen and stay focused on your own game looking for the positive in the other person?
Many times in life we need to take a break and go inside of ourselves for answers. Sometimes others can try to change us for their own benefit or take away our power in relationships by giving ultimatums or playing control games. I gave away my power in one relationship and realized later in life that had been a mistake thinking I could make that other person happy. They never were and I was always to blame. A lesson for me was to take my own power back and be myself and know that others in my life should take Aunt Milly's advice and not judge others but show compassion. My partner at the time needed to go within and not look for someone outside to make them happy. For me after that experience, not only did I learn not to give away my power again and to be myself but not to judge others either or look for the answer outside of myself but to go within!
For a few years after dissolving the partnership, I was so upset with my partner and blaming them, until I learned to look upon them as a great teacher showing me contrast. My partner in looking back had helped me realize what I wanted in a partner and what I didn't want in one! They also grew up in a different environment with their own perceptions on life which to them made their observations right about doing things their way. The lesson taught me to not to try to change anyone and for me to play my game with respect and unconditional love for any relationship whether biz or personal as we are all connected.What about you? Playing your own game or allowing someone to distract you for their own benefit by playing fear based games? Or is your partner trying to get you to take your eye off the ball on your journey of life? Get back to being yourself with compassion for others like Aunt Milly did by example! An option for all of us is to go with the flow, show respect and unconditional love for others without judging them and play your own game of life while taking time out to go within for answers! Hope you have a great week!
Do you allow others to distract you and cause fear based thoughts or do you stay focused on a positive outcome for you?
After losing a ball previously, it would have been easy for Tiger or anyone to have allowed his thoughts to have strayed to the other players games or to have stayed in the negative after losing the ball but he focused on "staying in the now" and on his game and finished strong. A great example for all of us in personal relationships and in business not to give our power away but to be ourselves and play our own game and stay in the present!
Tiger's performance had me reflecting again on life and Aunt Milly. One of the impressive things about my Aunt Milly was that she was "love based" not "fear based".
There were times where she could have judged me. Like the time I had long hair in college where many adults frowned on that at the time. She instead commented that fads happened and how she remembered Gram Prescott talking about the fad of swallowing goldfish! Sure enough that was the fad in the spring of 1939 and many folks judged the students that were doing this. Aunt Milly never showed judgment but would listen and observe and give some input with a smile!
Aunt Milly always had a smile on her face as she played her own game! When Uncle John would get upset over something she would just go along doing her thing showing some empathy but not being pulled into the drama. Do you allow others to cause you to get sucked into their drama or do you listen and stay focused on your own game looking for the positive in the other person?
Many times in life we need to take a break and go inside of ourselves for answers. Sometimes others can try to change us for their own benefit or take away our power in relationships by giving ultimatums or playing control games. I gave away my power in one relationship and realized later in life that had been a mistake thinking I could make that other person happy. They never were and I was always to blame. A lesson for me was to take my own power back and be myself and know that others in my life should take Aunt Milly's advice and not judge others but show compassion. My partner at the time needed to go within and not look for someone outside to make them happy. For me after that experience, not only did I learn not to give away my power again and to be myself but not to judge others either or look for the answer outside of myself but to go within!
For a few years after dissolving the partnership, I was so upset with my partner and blaming them, until I learned to look upon them as a great teacher showing me contrast. My partner in looking back had helped me realize what I wanted in a partner and what I didn't want in one! They also grew up in a different environment with their own perceptions on life which to them made their observations right about doing things their way. The lesson taught me to not to try to change anyone and for me to play my game with respect and unconditional love for any relationship whether biz or personal as we are all connected.What about you? Playing your own game or allowing someone to distract you for their own benefit by playing fear based games? Or is your partner trying to get you to take your eye off the ball on your journey of life? Get back to being yourself with compassion for others like Aunt Milly did by example! An option for all of us is to go with the flow, show respect and unconditional love for others without judging them and play your own game of life while taking time out to go within for answers! Hope you have a great week!
Monday, March 23, 2009
Live Each Day To The Fullest
Hi, I am Bob Bicknell and this is my first blog post. The picture taken for my profile was of two of my nephews and myself on top of Mt Abraham in Lincoln, Vermont last summer! It wasn't the best day for hiking but it was some quality time spent with them.
My background includes 18 years in the financial services business with experience in the real estate family business before that. I moved down to Longwood Florida from Middlebury Vermont a little over three years ago. I came to Florida to take care of my great Aunt Milly who was in assisted living at the time.
We had six months of great times and then Milly suffered some mini-strokes and transitioned a month after her 91st birthday. Definitely missed and loved by our family and this first blog is done in tribute to her. So I decided to stay in Florida as love the ocean, the blue sky, and the beautiful weather!
Since I have been down here I have helping small business entrepreneurs with their marketing online and offline. This has expanded to include Social Media coaching on use of Facebook, Twitter,etc. So in my free time, I have become known for facilitating workshops involving anything dealing with energy, healing, spiritual, Native American teachings and dowsing! That is in between the trips to the ocean. Do miss the beautiful mountains of Vermont but not the cold! So my friends this blog will share information with you about me and my interests and friends and family and wisdom gained from our journey.
Aunt Milly left us these words of wisdom:
Live Each Day To The Fullest
Live each day to the fullest. Get the most from each hour, each day, and each age of your life.
Then you can look forward with confidence, and back without regrets.....
Be yourself...but be your best self.
Dare to be different and to follow your own star...and don't be afraid to be happy.
Enjoy what is beautiful. Love with all your heart and soul.
Believe that those you love, love you. When you are faced with a decision
make that decision as wisely as possible...then forget it.....
The moment of absolute certainty never arrives. Above all, remember that God helps those
who helps the,selves....Act as if everything depended upon you,
and pray as if everything depended upon God.
Love, Milly
Thank you Milly. And to my readers this is the start of a great journey together!
Many Blessings and Laughs to you!
My background includes 18 years in the financial services business with experience in the real estate family business before that. I moved down to Longwood Florida from Middlebury Vermont a little over three years ago. I came to Florida to take care of my great Aunt Milly who was in assisted living at the time.
We had six months of great times and then Milly suffered some mini-strokes and transitioned a month after her 91st birthday. Definitely missed and loved by our family and this first blog is done in tribute to her. So I decided to stay in Florida as love the ocean, the blue sky, and the beautiful weather!
Since I have been down here I have helping small business entrepreneurs with their marketing online and offline. This has expanded to include Social Media coaching on use of Facebook, Twitter,etc. So in my free time, I have become known for facilitating workshops involving anything dealing with energy, healing, spiritual, Native American teachings and dowsing! That is in between the trips to the ocean. Do miss the beautiful mountains of Vermont but not the cold! So my friends this blog will share information with you about me and my interests and friends and family and wisdom gained from our journey.
Aunt Milly left us these words of wisdom:
Live Each Day To The Fullest
Live each day to the fullest. Get the most from each hour, each day, and each age of your life.
Then you can look forward with confidence, and back without regrets.....
Be yourself...but be your best self.
Dare to be different and to follow your own star...and don't be afraid to be happy.
Enjoy what is beautiful. Love with all your heart and soul.
Believe that those you love, love you. When you are faced with a decision
make that decision as wisely as possible...then forget it.....
The moment of absolute certainty never arrives. Above all, remember that God helps those
who helps the,selves....Act as if everything depended upon you,
and pray as if everything depended upon God.
Love, Milly
Thank you Milly. And to my readers this is the start of a great journey together!
Many Blessings and Laughs to you!
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