EASTER FLOWERS

DINNER

Creamy Parmigiana Lemon Risotto with Peas, Carrots and Ham! 

Yummy

EASTER

MARCH RIDE

TULIPS

DOOR STEP SURPRISE

My Little Miss Mayberry isn’t feeling well today. Grammy was hoping for some playtime on this early Friday afternoon. But instead, I took her balloons and cookies and left them on her front porch to find after her nap. 

LAST DAY AT MY DESK

I will miss most of my co-workers and many of my clients. But as sad as it is to leave a decade long work experience, I’m so excited for a change. So here is to my last day at the office, and to a pivot point into the next chapter! Hooray!!!

LOVE WHO YOU ARE

Life Disclaimer:

Most of the time (98% of the time) people treat you a certain way not because of who you are, but because of who they are. 

Defensiveness comes from insecurity. It comes from low self worth and self-confidence.

Becoming an unbothered version of yourself is about learning how to react to things or which things are worth reacting to.

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Be you, be the best version of you, every day. 

Then let others say what they will. 

Loving yourself, being your best self, means not needing anyone else's approval. 

BON VOYAGE

Yesterday my coworkers surprised me a Bon Voyage party. 

I was so delighted!

It was wonderful!

Old coworkers stopped in and called, and the president of the company and his crew even flew in from Cali for my send off. 

Super nice way to end a

 decade of achievements.

IT IS PLAY

 This is the real secret of life - to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

I CHOOSE STRENGTH

ON THE BIKE

“ I know I’m alive. 

When I ride, 

even the familiar 

seems strange 

and glorious. 

The air has weight.

As I push through it, 

It’s touch is as 

intimate as water 

to a swimmer.”

Dave Karlotski

OPEN THEM ALL

STOP

We suffer more often in 

imagination than in reality. 

There is nothing in this world 

that can trouble you 

as much as 

your own thoughts. 

STOP OVERTHINKING!

PURPLE

GOOD STUFF

AND THE MEN WEAR KILTS

THE ROAD

The Road Not Taken 

BY ROBERT FROST

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

 

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

 

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

 

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

 

DAILY LIFE EPISODES

Be the main character in your life journal. 

Learn to see the adventure in everything.

Document it!

DELTA KING

This is what I saw when I looked at my son’s location. So I messaged him to get out of the water! He is in Sacramento, California this week on a business trip, and he was out to dinner on The Delta King Paddle Boat. 

T.A.R.G.E.T.

Tangible, Affirmative, Realistic, Gain, Evidence, Time

Tangible

One of the most important characteristics that an objective must have in order for you to achieve it is that it can almost be touched, that it can be measured.

For example, if your goal is to get more customers in your company or business, specify exactly how many customers you would like to have, what is the ideal number of clients you want to get?

Affirmative

It is very important that our objectives are ALWAYS positive. Focus on the idea of affirmative goals. Our mind does not understand no, nor does it distinguish between the negative or positive emotions that automatically invade our mind when we read something.

That is why it is important that our goalsreflect what we want to achieve, not what we don’t want.

This may seem like a no-brainer, but believe me, we make this mistake more than we think.

We write that our goal is to stop being fat, instead of being fit. The goal is to stop eating junk food, instead of having a more balanced and healthy diet. See where I’m going?

As we said before, when our mind reads a negative sentence, it automatically fills with negative thoughts and creates that image that we want to avoid, whether we want to or not. So always remember to write your objectives in the affirmative.

Realistic

The second characteristic to consider when setting new goals is to make sure that they can be achieved within the time limit you have set for yourself (a step we will soon talk about).

The perfect balance for a resolution to be realistic is that the goal can be achieved in the time frame set, but at the same time we can maintain that idea of a challenge.

In other words, you have to establish a realistic deadline but your goal should still seem like a challenge.

Another thing to keep in mind to make sure that the goals we set for ourselves are realistic is to take into account your ability or rather the skills you need to accomplish them. The answer to this question also conditions the time we will need to complete our resolutions.

So ask yourself: what skills or abilities do I need to achieve my goals?

If, for example, one of your goals is to eat healthier, the skills you will need for this are not only cooking oriented, but also to the discipline needed to follow a plan if you establish one, or to say no when you feel you have to.

Gain

It´s time to seriously ask yourself what you gain and what you lose by achieving that goal. Many times we set goals without considering the consequences they have in our life.

So this is the time to ask yourself really seriously the consequences of your goals and evaluate if you are willing to accept the changes these will have in your life.

Evidence

If you can imagine that goal, if you can visualize it, if you can create it in your mind, it will be so much easier to achieve it. Determine exactly when you will feel that you have achieved your goal.

Create an image in your head so real that you can describe it as if you were living it in real life. The place you are in, the people around you, the smells, the sounds, the way you feel knowing that you have accomplished one of your dreams.

The key is to create or describe the moment in which you have accomplished your goal.

Many times we focus so much on the objectives, on what we have to do, on the day-to-day that sometimes we do not even realize that it is already done, that we have achieved what we have set out to do.

Other times we write that goal or the place we want to get to in such a vague way that we are not clear when or what determines that we have achieved it. As a consequence, that resolution may even seem impossible or unattainable to us.

That is why determining and creating an image of the exact moment when we have accomplished our goal is important.

Not only does it help us to accomplish our goals, but imagining our life at or after we have accomplished our goal makes us vibrate at the same frequency and with the same energy as them.

Time

A goal is a dream with a deadline

– Seth Godin

It is essential to put a date to our purposes for two main reasons.

The first is because we have the bad habit of postponing things when there is no deadline. We procrastinate, we start making excuses, making false promises… Sometimes we even forget about the goals we set after a couple of weeks.

The second reason is that an objective or goal that has a deadline makes it more tangible, more real. This makes the goal seem easier to achieve.

Remember that as Seth Godin, a management and marketing guru, said, what makes a dream become a goal is its deadline.

So review your goals and give them a deadline. Meditate on how long you think it will take you to accomplish your goals and mark them on your calendar or agenda. Write it down in a place where you can see it often to keep it in mind. A goal without a deadline is just words in the air.

Motivation

I want you to think and write next to each goal why you want to accomplish it. What motivates you, what do you hope to get out of it?

Once you have this defined, write it down in a place where you can easily see it: your diary, your phone wallpaper, your reminder board, the fridge… Or just read it every time you feel unmotivated, start making excuses, procrastinating, etc.

Losing the motivation and desire with which you started and letting procrastination win is easier than we would like to admit, so the purpose of this exercise is to regain motivation and remind yourself of why you started.

Divide your goals into to-do lists

This is the key tip that will make the goals you have established have a tik by the end of the year. It simply consists in turning your goals into a longer to-do list.

In other words, start by choosing one of the goals you have set for yourself and divide this big task into smaller ones, including all the necessary steps you must take to accomplish them.

Going back to the previous example of eating healthier, you could divide this big goal into smaller ones by first of all deciding that you´ll include two healthy meals a week.

Then you´d have to research healthy and fun recipes, and lastly buy all the ingredients you need for those recipes.

This step is extremely useful and important because when we set our minds to do something, we may feel overwhelmed or unmotivated because of how big accomplishing this task seems.

However, by dividing your goal into smaller tasks your mind finds it easier to complete them, lowering the chances for you to sabotage yourself.

https://sofia-success.com/how-to-achieve-your-goals/

SO SWEET

My sweet clients sent me a farewell bouquet as I prepare for the next chapter in my life! 

NEW MINDSET

It’s okay to figure it out as you go, just keep moving forward!

TI AMO

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FIRST DAY OF SPRING

Today there will be roughly 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of darkness almost everywhere on the planet.

A BEAUTIFUL THANK YOU

From Jim and Cleone ♥️

CHILLY IN PHX

Today… thank you M.O.!!!

DAY TRIP

The last map is where I saw a white squirrel!!!!!

ST PATRICK’S DAY

I sure love Ireland 🍀♥️🍀♥️🍀

SAYING OF THE DAY

 Deny Till You Die

As in being as old as dirt!

GOODWOOD

We went to GOODWOOD for dinner tonight. It’s located just across from the River Park. The weather was perfect for being out on the patio. Devereux took care of us, and I have to admit, John was right, they have the best Old Fashioned I have ever tasted. The food was great too!