Dream what you want to dream;
Go where you want to go;
Be what you want to be,
Because you have only one life
And one chance to do all the things
You want to do.
May you have enough happiness to make you sweet,
Enough trials to make you strong,
Enough sorrow to keep you human and
Enough hope to make you happy.
The happiest of people don't necessarily
Have the best of everything;
They just make the most of
Everything that comes along their way.
The brightest future will always
Be based on a forgiven past;
Treat every 'failure' as an opportunity and
Embrace heartache as proof of your ability to love
And good will follow you all the days of your life.
When you were born, you were crying
And everyone around you was smiling
Live your life so at the end
You're the one who is smiling and everyone
Around you is crying.
- Anonymous (plus a little rewrite by CJ)
Sunday, June 29, 2008
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Poz Body-Talk #5
Self Mentored
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Mentors guide, instruct and support personal growth. Collect names and articles of celebrity or famous mentors of poz body-talk. For example:
Newsweek, Oct 30, 2006: Movie star Kirsten Dunst is quoted as saying, “I would never fix my teeth—if someone asked me to, I wouldn’t work with them. It’s part of me. Messed up teeth are character.” Now that’s Poz!
As for me, I fondly remember Cher’s early crooked teeth as a mark of beauty--maybe because my own are not picket fence straight!
Start a list of famous people with ‘character.’ Add Kirsten to that list.
As you find more, add them to our blog or email them to Claudia@claudiajean.com and I will share them on future Post-its.
Post-it cue:
‘Character’
Dunst
Re-focus ~ Re-frame ~ Re-gain Self
Put one Post-it on your computer screen, one on your bathroom mirror,
one on your frig and one anywhere else you may spend repeated time during the day.
The act of writing imprints the truth on your mind.
Every time you see your handwriting again, it further imprints your mind.
To increase the value of this process, smile when you see a Post-it.
Smiling signals your mind to increase endorphins and imprint what makes you smile.
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Mentors guide, instruct and support personal growth. Collect names and articles of celebrity or famous mentors of poz body-talk. For example:
Newsweek, Oct 30, 2006: Movie star Kirsten Dunst is quoted as saying, “I would never fix my teeth—if someone asked me to, I wouldn’t work with them. It’s part of me. Messed up teeth are character.” Now that’s Poz!
As for me, I fondly remember Cher’s early crooked teeth as a mark of beauty--maybe because my own are not picket fence straight!
Start a list of famous people with ‘character.’ Add Kirsten to that list.
As you find more, add them to our blog or email them to Claudia@claudiajean.com and I will share them on future Post-its.
Post-it cue:
‘Character’
Dunst
Re-focus ~ Re-frame ~ Re-gain Self
Put one Post-it on your computer screen, one on your bathroom mirror,
one on your frig and one anywhere else you may spend repeated time during the day.
The act of writing imprints the truth on your mind.
Every time you see your handwriting again, it further imprints your mind.
To increase the value of this process, smile when you see a Post-it.
Smiling signals your mind to increase endorphins and imprint what makes you smile.
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Poz Body-Talk #4
Self Affirmed
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Whenever you start to think or say something unkind about any part of your body, shout STOP! If you are in public, I suggest you only think STOP! at the top of your internal lungs! Or whisper STOP! STOP! STOP! to yourself.
For those more advanced, use the STOP! tactic every time you judge another woman’s body harshly.
Expect your conscious mind to argue with you but it is ‘not the boss of you,’ your body, mind and spirit combined are YOU.
Finally, borrow a tip from Kitty Carlisle who each night would look directly at herself in the mirror and say, “I forgive you.”
Post-it cue:
STOP!
I forgive
Re-focus ~ Re-frame ~ Re-gain Self
Put one Post-it on your computer screen, one on your bathroom mirror,
one on your frig and one anywhere else you may spend repeated time during the day.
The act of writing imprints the truth on your mind.
Every time you see your handwriting again, it further imprints your mind.
To increase the value of this process, smile when you see a Post-it.
Smiling signals your mind to increase endorphins and imprint what makes you smile.
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Whenever you start to think or say something unkind about any part of your body, shout STOP! If you are in public, I suggest you only think STOP! at the top of your internal lungs! Or whisper STOP! STOP! STOP! to yourself.
For those more advanced, use the STOP! tactic every time you judge another woman’s body harshly.
Expect your conscious mind to argue with you but it is ‘not the boss of you,’ your body, mind and spirit combined are YOU.
Finally, borrow a tip from Kitty Carlisle who each night would look directly at herself in the mirror and say, “I forgive you.”
Post-it cue:
STOP!
I forgive
Re-focus ~ Re-frame ~ Re-gain Self
Put one Post-it on your computer screen, one on your bathroom mirror,
one on your frig and one anywhere else you may spend repeated time during the day.
The act of writing imprints the truth on your mind.
Every time you see your handwriting again, it further imprints your mind.
To increase the value of this process, smile when you see a Post-it.
Smiling signals your mind to increase endorphins and imprint what makes you smile.
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Poz Body-Talk #3
Self Determined
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Be on fire ~ physically, mentally and spiritually.
“I build my fire for myself. Should you choose to warm yourself by that fire, you may. However, under no circumstances will I allow you to steal my wood.”
Lella Ivey
Action ~ Post-it cue:
My fire
My wood
Re-focus ~ Re-frame ~ Re-gain Self
Put one Post-it on your computer screen, one on your bathroom mirror,
one on your frig and one anywhere else you may spend repeated time during the day.
The act of writing imprints the truth on your mind.
Every time you see your handwriting again, it further imprints your mind.
To increase the value of this process, smile when you see a Post-it.
Smiling signals your mind to increase endorphins and imprint what makes you smile.
______________________________________________
Be on fire ~ physically, mentally and spiritually.
“I build my fire for myself. Should you choose to warm yourself by that fire, you may. However, under no circumstances will I allow you to steal my wood.”
Lella Ivey
Action ~ Post-it cue:
My fire
My wood
Re-focus ~ Re-frame ~ Re-gain Self
Put one Post-it on your computer screen, one on your bathroom mirror,
one on your frig and one anywhere else you may spend repeated time during the day.
The act of writing imprints the truth on your mind.
Every time you see your handwriting again, it further imprints your mind.
To increase the value of this process, smile when you see a Post-it.
Smiling signals your mind to increase endorphins and imprint what makes you smile.
Poz Body-Talk #2
Poz(itive) Body-Talk!
Unplug the tendency for negative self-talk…
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Re-focus ~ Re-frame ~ Re-gain Self
Gossipy putdowns are more about us than of whom we speak. Deadly true. As a kind woman you seldom partake yet focusing on what you don’t like about your own body (self-gossip) remains fair game even though it creates inescapable pain.
Suggested change: Every time you say (or think) something negative about yourself or others take a moment to re-focus and re-frame to say (or think) something positive. The more good you say and think the more good you feel toward yourself and show towards others. Win-win.
Bottom line belief: I embrace all of me ~ ‘as is.’
Action ~ Post-it cue:
Gossip
Self
Others
then cover the word Gossip with a slashed circle.
The GOAL: Self, Unconditionally!
Put one Post-it on your computer screen, one on your bathroom mirror,
one on your frig and one anywhere else you may spend repeated time during the day.
The act of writing imprints the truth on your mind.
Every time you see your handwriting again, it further imprints your mind.
To increase the value of this process, smile when you see a Post-it.
Smiling signals your mind to increase endorphins and imprint what makes you smile.
Unplug the tendency for negative self-talk…
__________________________________________
Re-focus ~ Re-frame ~ Re-gain Self
Gossipy putdowns are more about us than of whom we speak. Deadly true. As a kind woman you seldom partake yet focusing on what you don’t like about your own body (self-gossip) remains fair game even though it creates inescapable pain.
Suggested change: Every time you say (or think) something negative about yourself or others take a moment to re-focus and re-frame to say (or think) something positive. The more good you say and think the more good you feel toward yourself and show towards others. Win-win.
Bottom line belief: I embrace all of me ~ ‘as is.’
Action ~ Post-it cue:
Gossip
Self
Others
then cover the word Gossip with a slashed circle.
The GOAL: Self, Unconditionally!
Put one Post-it on your computer screen, one on your bathroom mirror,
one on your frig and one anywhere else you may spend repeated time during the day.
The act of writing imprints the truth on your mind.
Every time you see your handwriting again, it further imprints your mind.
To increase the value of this process, smile when you see a Post-it.
Smiling signals your mind to increase endorphins and imprint what makes you smile.
Poz Body-Talk #1
I care not that my intelligence may be less than Einstein’s ~
I enjoy tennis even though Vanessa Williams would always beat me ~
Likewise my body is beautiful independent of model Gisele Bundchen’s ~
Bottom line belief: I appreciate and am inspired by the diversity around me but do judge myself by its extremes!
Action ~ Using Post-its, list: Einstein, Williams, Bundchen
(or any set of names you admire and whose greatness inspires your own)
Put one Post-it on your computer screen, one on your mirror,
one on your frig and one anywhere else you may spend repeated time during the day.
The act of writing imprints the truth on your mind.
Every time you see your handwriting again, it further imprints your mind.
To increase the value of this process, smile when you see a Post-it.
Smiling signals your mind to increase endorphins and imprint what makes you smile.
I enjoy tennis even though Vanessa Williams would always beat me ~
Likewise my body is beautiful independent of model Gisele Bundchen’s ~
Bottom line belief: I appreciate and am inspired by the diversity around me but do judge myself by its extremes!
Action ~ Using Post-its, list: Einstein, Williams, Bundchen
(or any set of names you admire and whose greatness inspires your own)
Put one Post-it on your computer screen, one on your mirror,
one on your frig and one anywhere else you may spend repeated time during the day.
The act of writing imprints the truth on your mind.
Every time you see your handwriting again, it further imprints your mind.
To increase the value of this process, smile when you see a Post-it.
Smiling signals your mind to increase endorphins and imprint what makes you smile.
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