February 03, 2009
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In This Issue
Featured Article: Focus on Good News
Audio Tip: Focus on Good News
Announcements
Speaking Schedule
Daddy's Little Girls
Welcome to another issue of Appreciation in Action. I hope that you are doing well and that 2009 is in full swing in a great way for you and everyone around you.
I also hope you are focusing on the good stuff in your life, your work, and your relationships. Gratitude and appreciation are always a choice – regardless of our circumstances!
Thanks for being on my e-zine list. Have a wonderful day and week.
With Appreciation,
Focus on Good News
As someone who is very interested in current events, politics, sports, and more - I pay a lot of attention to the news (sometimes more than is probably healthy for me). I read newspapers, check the Internet, watch TV, and listen to the radio. With all of this news and information, I am often struck by how little of it is “good news,” especially these days.
While there is probably a certain amount of negative stuff that is important for us to know about, if we spend time checking in with most of the “mainstream” press, it’s easy to get the impression that life is really scary, negative, and that there are lots of terrible things happening all over the place.
In recent months with all that is happening around the world and in our economy, there have been some genuinely negative things happening. These things do have real impact on real people – and on many of us personally. However, what about all the good news? There are literally billions of positive things happening all over the planet at this moment…most of them we will never hear about or know about. Think of how much good stuff goes unnoticed, unacknowledged, and un-communicated even in our own personal lives on a regular basis.
What has been happening in our country, our culture, and our world is a reflection of what is going on within each of us. We can get caught up in the “doom and gloom” of the moment, obsess about all of the issues and challenges facing us today, and allow the bad news coming at us from every angle get to us on a personal level…or we can choose something else.
While I am not advocating that we bury our heads in the sand, pretend everything is “fine,” and just ignore what’s happening…I do believe that now more than ever, we must be conscious about what we watch, read, and listen to. Nobody forces us to read the paper or the Internet, turn on the TV or radio, or get caught up in the mass hysteria of how “awful” things are. We each do that in our own personal way.
Here are a few things you can do to focus on more good news and not let the negative news get to you so much:
1) Limit the amount of news you consume. If you’re honest about it, you don’t need to watch, read, or listen to as much as you do in order to stay informed. If this is an issue for you, create a specific time limit per day and have others in your life support you and hold you accountable.
2) Choose news sources that you respect and at some level make you feel good. In other words, notice how you feel personally and emotionally when you watch a particular news show, listen to a someone on the radio, or read a newspaper, magazine, or website. If you notice that after watching, listening, or reading you don’t feel so good – maybe you can find another source for your news. This is about honoring yourself!
3) Seek out good news. Whether it’s in the media or in your life personally, now more than ever we must look for and find things to be grateful for, happy about, and excited about. There’s lots of good news out there; it’s up to us to find the good stuff and also to talk about it to others.
What are you doing or will you do to focus on more good news these days?
Share your thoughts on my blog here.
Focusing on Good News
For some additional ideas and specific tips about how to focus on good news, check out this week's audio clip.
Click here to listen.
Two Great New Books:
Truth Heals, by Deborah King
Truth Heals: What You Hide Can Hurt You explores the powerful relationship between the suppression of painful emotions and their impact on our health and well-being. Through case histories of clients, celebrity profiles, and the telling of her own remarkable recovery from abuse, an eating disorder, addictions, and cancer, Deborah King illustrates how each of us can transform our lives with the power of honesty and expression. For more info about this new book, click on:
http://www.deborahkingcenterpromotions.com/truthheals/
The Soulmate Secret, by Arielle Ford
Is it your dream to find a life-partner who will love, cherish and adore you? With The Soulmate Secret: Manifest the Love of Your Life With the Law of Attraction by Arielle Ford you will learn how to take control of your romantic destiny with proven manifestation tools that will prepare your body, mind, spirit and home for the soulmate your heart truly desires. It works for men and women of all ages. It worked for Arielle, her 80-year-old mother-in-law, and it can work for you! For more info and to purchase copies of this wonderful new book, check out:
www.soulmatesecret.com/promo/
Powerful Workshops:
LoveLaunch Workshops –
presented by Johnny and Lara Fernandez
Continuing the theme of manifesting love in your life and with Valentine’s Day just around the corner, I want to once again recommend the remarkable work of my good friends Johnny and Lara Fernandez. Their LoveLaunch workshops are a powerful, fun, and experiential way to learn effective tools you can use to attract a fulfilling love relationship into your life. For you or anyone you know who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, they have a few upcoming local workshops. If you don’t live here in the Bay Area, you can still check out their website, sign up for their free email newsletter, and benefit from their wonderful work. For info, dates, and more, check out:
www.thelovelaunch.com
Where I’m Speaking:
Below is a list of where I’m speaking for the next few months. Many of these events are for my corporate or organizational clients (i.e. not open to the public). The ones below in bold, however, are public events.
For a list of all of my upcoming public events, check out:
http://www.focusonthegoodstuff.com/publicevents.html
If you live in any of the cities where I’ll be traveling and want to contact me about setting up a speaking engagement for your group or company while I’m in town, feel free to contact me. Thanks!
2/17/09 – Columbus, OH
2/20/09 – San Francisco, CA
2/27/09 – San Francisco, CA
3/6/09 – San Francisco, CA
3/8/09 – San Francisco, CA (Unity Christ Church)
3/9/09 – San Francisco, CA
3/10/09 – San Francisco, CA
3/11/09 – San Francisco, CA
3/13/09 – San Francisco, CA
3/20/09 – Huntington Beach, CA
3/21/09 – Tucson, AZ
3/23/09 – Washington, DC
4/3/09 – Lake Tahoe, CA
4/8/09 – San Ramon, CA
4/13/09 – Walnut Creek, CA (Book Launch Event - TBD)
4/16/09 – Corte Madera, CA (Book Passage)
4/17/09 – Oakland, CA (A Great Good Place for Books)
4/21/09 – San Diego, CA
4/27/09 – Mountain View, CA (EastWest Books)
Again, for a full list of my upcoming public events, check out: http://www.focusonthegoodstuff.com/publicevents.html
“We had fun in Washington DC!”
- Samantha and Annarose Robbins
At the inauguration
