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Relax and Be Present With This Simple Ritual

2014-11-24 By Monica 19 Comments

There is no trouble so great or grave that cannot be much diminished by a nice cup of tea. ~Bernard-Paul Heroux

Last week I had the Monday of all Mondays. The kind of day that gives Mondays a bad name; when everything that can go wrong does go wrong.

First, my car wouldn’t start. I had to take it to the shop, which caused me to forget I had scheduled coffee with a friend. My phone died, so I wasn’t able to work at the repair shop. Then I spent the day trying to catch up, feeling frantic and frenzied. We’ve all had one of these days. [Read more…] about Relax and Be Present With This Simple Ritual

Filed Under: Celebration, Love Your Life Tagged With: being present, celebration, happiness, joy, luxury, present, relax, ritual, stress, tea

Reflecting On Your Year

2013-12-26 By Monica 2 Comments

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”  Søren Kierkegaard Quote

I always love the new year, it feels like a fresh start and an opportunity to make the upcoming year even better than the year before. Because of this sense of renewal, New Year’s Eve is definitely one of my favorite holidays. I don’t spend it out celebrating. Instead, I choose to spend New Year’s Eve in quiet reflection, looking back at the previous year and planning for the new year. Over time, I have compiled a process for reflection and have found the process to be invaluable. Here are four simple exercises followed by a reminder to celebrate your year: [Read more…] about Reflecting On Your Year

Filed Under: Celebration Tagged With: accomplishments, burning bowl, celebrate, celebration, gratitude, joy, New Year, obstacles, overcoming, reflect, reflection

Simple Ways to Bring More Joy to Your Holiday Season

2013-12-21 By Monica 11 Comments

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart." Helen Keller Quote

The holiday season can be hectic, and at times, even stressful. If you want to take some of the stress out of your holiday and replace it with joy, here are 18 simple ideas and tips for gift giving, meaningful traditions, and caring for yourself. [Read more…] about Simple Ways to Bring More Joy to Your Holiday Season

Filed Under: Celebration Tagged With: Christmas, gifts, giving, gratitude, happiness, holidays, joy, meditation, nurture, present, self care, silence, simplify, stress

21 of the Best Gratitude Quotes & A Simple Way to Practice Gratitude

2013-11-19 By Monica 3 Comments

"If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough." ~Meister Eckhart

Thanksgiving is almost upon us and is a great reminder to practice gratitude for all the wonderful things in our lives. Feeling gratitude is not only a nice thing to do, but studies show that it can improve our health, reduces feelings of depression, anxiety and sleep disorders, it improves our relationships, and increases feelings of happiness and well-being. A pretty powerful tool by any standard.

So what is the best way to practice gratitude?  [Read more…] about 21 of the Best Gratitude Quotes & A Simple Way to Practice Gratitude

Filed Under: Celebration, Inspirational Tagged With: A.A. Milne, best gratitude quotes, Brene Brown, Cicero, Deepak Chopra, Eckhart Tolle, Emerson, gratitude, John F. Kennedy, journal, Meister Eckhart, Oprah, quotes, thankful, Thanksgiving, Tony Robbins, William Blake, William James, Winnie the Pooh

50 of the World’s Best Quotes on Love

2013-02-04 By Monica 4 Comments

Best Love Quotes

Valentine’s Day is my absolute favorite holiday. From the gourmet chocolates to the roses to spending time with loved ones, Valentine’s Day is a wonderful way to feel and be in love. Here’s my gift to you – 50 of the World’s Best Quotes on Love. If I missed yours, please share it in the comments below. Happy Valentine’s Day!

1.) “You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”- Dr. Seuss

2.) “We accept the love we think we deserve.” – Stephen Chbosky

3.) “A simple ‘I love you’ means more than money.” – Frank Sinatra

4.) “Love consists of not looking each other in the eye, but of looking outwardly in the same direction.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

5.) “Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.” – John Lennon

6.) “If I know what love is, it is because of you.” – Hermann Hesse

7.) “When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you’re not here, I can’t go to sleep. Praise God for those two insomnias! And the difference between them.” – Rumi

8.) “Where there is great love, there are always miracles.” – Willa Cather

9.) “To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.” – Bill Wilson

10.) “Unless you love someone, nothing else makes sense.” – E.E. Cummings

11.) “Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.” – Dalai Lama XIV

12.) “In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.” – Rumi

13.) “If he loved you with all the power of his soul for a whole lifetime, he couldn’t love you as much as I do in a single day.” – Emily Brontë

14.) “The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved — loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” – Victor Hugo

15.) “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” – Maya Angelou

16.) “When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.” – William Shakespeare

17.) “Love is a friendship set to music.” – E. Joseph Cossman

18.) For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.” – Judy Garland

19.) “When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.” – Albert Einstein

20.) “You don’t marry someone you can live with – you marry the person who you cannot live without.” – Unknown Author

21.) “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

22.) “Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, and the senses.” – Lao Tzu

23.) “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you…I could walk through my garden forever.” – Alfred Tennyson

24.) “When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” – Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

25.) “I have decided to stick to love…Hate is too great a burden to bear.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

26.) “You are the answer to every prayer I’ve offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don’t know how I could have lived without you for as long as I have.” – Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

27.) “There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.” – John Lennon

28.) “The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that’s what you’ve given me. That’s what I’d hoped to give you forever” – Nicholas Sparks

29.) “So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.” – Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

30.) “One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.” – Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

31.) “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” – Rumi

32.) “Better to have lost and loved than never to have loved at all.” – Ernest Hemingway

33.) “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.” – William Shakespeare

34.) “Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.” – Mother Teresa

35.) “Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.” – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

36.) “There is no remedy for love, but to love more.” – Thoreau

37.) “The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.” – Marilyn Monroe

38.) “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu

39.) “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” – Robert A. Heinlein

40.) “To be brave is to love unconditionally without expecting anything in return.” – Madonna

41.) “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” – Mother Teresa

42.) “People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that’s what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.” – Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

43.) “We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.” – Robert Fulghum, True Love

44.) “Love, having no geography, has no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface.” – Truman Capote

45.) “The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.” -Rumi

46.) “Love must be learned, again and again; there is no end to it.” – Katherine Anne Porter

47.) “Love is, above all, a gift of oneself.” – Jean Anouilh

48.) “You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.” – Sam Keen

49.) “And think not you can guide the course of love. For love, if it finds you worthy, shall guide your course.” -Kahlil Gibran

50.) “People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.” – Douglas Yates

Filed Under: Celebration Tagged With: Antoine de Saint-Exupery, best, John Lennon, love, Maya Angelou, quotes, Rumi, Shakespeare, Valentine's Day

Five Ways to Include More Celebration in Your Life

2012-12-11 By Monica Leave a Comment

Adding Celebration to Your Life

 “The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” ~Oprah Winfrey

You don’t have to wait for birthdays or Christmas to celebrate, you can celebrate daily accomplishments, events, or things you are grateful about. Looking for ways to celebrate things in your daily life is a great way to increase the joy and happiness in your life and in those around you.

“Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.”~Mary Manin Morrissey

Start adding more celebration to your life today with these five suggestions:

1. Enjoy Small Celebrations

A celebration doesn’t have to be a big event. It can be as simple as allowing yourself a warm cup of coffee after a task well done, a moment of quiet reflection after a busy day, a manicure or pedicure, using the good china, buying fresh flowers, or just stopping to take a photograph to record a special time.

According to Merriam-Webster, celebration is “marking one’s pleasure at an important event or event by engaging in enjoyable, often (but not necessarily) social activity.”  Celebration is just making the time to acknowledge and feel joy over events in your life, both large and small.

2. Celebrate Fun Observances

There is a holiday for almost anything – National Donut Day (First Friday in June), National Hugging Day (January 21), World Poetry Day (March 21). Some observances have significance, others are just silly and fun. They are all opportunities to add a moment of joy and celebration to your life.

Last year, my fiance and I celebrated Pi Day on March 14th by sharing a delicious piece of chocolate pie at a local pie restaurant. We had a great evening out, nice conversation, and a break in our regular routine, all because of a mathematical symbol that has the same name as a very tasty dessert. Neither of us had celebrated Pi Day in the past but there is no doubt this will become an annual ritual for the two of us.

There are many websites with lists of fun observances including Brownielocks.com.

3. Use a Celebration Plate

One early American tradition that you can use in your household to observe special events is to have a special plate. When a friend or family member has a birthday, or a just a reason to celebrate such as passing a test, getting a student-of-the-month award, or anything significant, they get to dine from the family celebration plate. It’s a small gesture but one that can go a long way in making someone’s day special.

The plate doesn’t have to be anything fancy, or it could be, depending on your personal tastes. It could be a special color – bright red or yellow, or a fine piece of china. Several companies also make specific celebration plates that you can buy and use, or you could make your own.

Using a Celebration Plate helps recognize accomplishments but also teaches your children to identify opportunities for celebration in their own lives.

4. Give an Unexpected Gift

Surprise someone you care about with an unexpected gift – maybe a movie they will love and a box of popcorn, a book, flowers, or some handmade chocolates. You can also include a short note expressing your feelings.

5. Plan to Celebrate

For many of us, the month of December has many opportunities for celebration – holiday parties, family dinners, tree lighting ceremonies, and special church services.You can add celebration to the rest of your year as well. To get started, take a few minutes to identify ways to add celebration to your own life by creating your own Celebration List:

  • What are some of your interests – favorite foods, celebrities, sports teams? There may already be a holiday for them, if not, consider starting one.
  • Who are you grateful for in your life? Is there a way you could honor them? thank them? surprise them?
  • What days are important to you? Special friends’ birthdays, historical events?

Check back to your list periodically and mark important dates on the calendar.

Celebrating life’s blessings doesn’t have to be expensive, time consuming, or difficult. It’s just a matter of seizing the opportunities that present themselves to us every day.

Filed Under: Celebration, Love Your Life Tagged With: blessing, celebration, gift, giving, joy, life, observance, Oprah, party, plate, quote

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