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Weekly Wings Challenge 15 - Celebrations

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Weekly Wings... a weekly coaching challenge to motivate and inspire you to realize your dreams and achieve success! Join in the journey, and if you wish to share your work, post it on your blog, and then leave a static link to the exact page in the comments section.

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Shine On!

This week's challenge is short, but very sweet, based on some inspiring words I recently came across:  The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more in life there is to celebrate.  So I ask you...

What do you praise and celebrate in your life?

Explore your life's bounty... in words or images or in any other way you wish... and have a beautiful day!

Namaste,

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The Power of Gratitude

It is difficult to move forward in your life if your energy is focused on the negative aspects of the present and you see the future as a place of escape.  On the other hand, when you apply positive strength-based approaches to change, you start from a strong core and shift your energy in a powerful way that allows you to enjoy the present as you move towards your vision of the future.

In her book, Appreciative Living - The Principles of Appreciative Inquiry in Personal Life,  Jackie Kelm offers a host of simple but effective exercises for applying positive approaches in your daily life.  Many of her exercises take only a few minutes a day, and can easily be incorporated into your schedule.  The time investment is small, but the pay-off is big!

Daily Gratitudes

One exercise that is simple but powerful is to keep a gratitude journal so that you can "shift automatic thinking to see the good" (Kelm 162). I suggest you include this in your Journey-Journal as it will help fortify the work you're doing on the Weekly Wings challenges.  Jackie provides two approaches, either of which should only take 1 - 2 minutes each day:

• Write at least three things for which you are grateful.  Do this every day, choosing something different each day.

• Focus on a person or persons and write one gratitude for him or her each day.

A New Habit

If you find that you tend to see the negative aspects of certain people or situations, creating daily gratitudes around those people or situations is an excellent way to shift your thinking and create a more positive habit.  Simply meditating on your life in general in order to observe things for which you are grateful will open you to receive the bounty that surrounds you, and you will then be coming from a place of personal power and positive energy.

Work Cited

Kelm, Jacqueline Bascobet.  Appreciative Living - The Principles of Appreciative Inquiry in Personal Life.  Wake Forest: Venet Publishers, 2005