All posts by Kevin

Keep your head up

No matter what your goals may be there are roadblocks and hurdles. Little things that try stop or hinder you from your goal.

This may go on for 1,2 or 3 months. However, if you keep your intent positive and do the little things that you know will help achieve your goal, you will make it!!

Take the smallest victories on your way to your big goal. If a hurdle pops up, face it with the intent of learning and progressing. By keeping a positive outlook in the face of adversity not only will it make the journey a lot better, but it will make the victory that much sweeter!!

Keep your head up. Have an open mindset every day. Remember. yesterday’s successes or hurdles are in the past. If we truly want to reach our goals we need to treat everyday as new and wonderful opportunity. (Because it is 🙂

Make it the best day!

-K

Listen

In a conversation we are either listening or we are not. We can be thinking about what happened during our day and just waiting for our turn to talk.

Turn your conversations today into one-sided conversations. I don’t mean that by talking the entire time. I mean that by listening and asking thoughtful and intelligent questions.

Listen to what your conversational parter is actually talking about. Don’t wait for your time to speak, but ask thoughtful questions that will further the conversation.

Attempt to listen today. You will be surprised at what you actually hear.

Make it the best day!

-K

Giving with gratitude

Giving can come in many forms. It can be in the form of money, hugs, a verbal thank you. Giving is the best way to raise your frequency and operate at a higher level.

Try to give something away for a whole month. Again, this doesn’t have to be money or some large gift. It can be actions or material objects that express gratitude for small tasks up to large tasks.

Try to raise your frequency by giving one thing away a day for a whole month. Help raise someone else’s frequency and achieve your good feels along the way!

Make it the best day!

-K

Quick pickled vegetables

Summer is a great time to delve into pickled veggies and other tasty treats.

Here is a recipe for a quick pickled cucumber. You can sub almost any vegetable for the cucumber. It can be carrot, red onion, beets, etc.

Ingredients:

  • 1/2 cup white vinegar, eyeball it
  • 2 rounded teaspoons sugar
  • 1 teaspoon mustard seed
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 clove cracked garlic
  • 1 teaspoon dried dill or 2 tablespoons fresh dill leaves, chopped or snipped
  • 1 bay leaf
  • 4 kirby cucumbers, cut into 1-inch slices on an angle

Directions:

Heat small saucepan over medium high heat. Add vinegar, sugar, mustard seed, salt, and garlic to the pan and cook until it begins to simmer and sugar dissolves. Toss the dill, bay leaf, and sliced cucumbers together in a heat-proof bowl. Pour the simmering liquid over the cucumbers and stir to evenly coat. Allow to cool to room temperature or chill before serving.

Make it the best day!

-K

Premier League

Just a great weekend. The English Premier League opened this weekend. That means soccer has started!

This is off topic of the normal posts. However, soccer is back!

It warranted a post 🙂

Make it the best day!

-K

Integrity

Do you operate with integrity with friends, family, co-workers?

Can you be counted on to deliver on what you promise?

Show up on time. Deliver on promises. Operate with integrity.

Make it the best day!

-K

Be Present

It seems everyday recently I wake and say “I can’t believe it’s August already!”

Then I realize all my thoughts are what I am going to do in future, even when I am doing something I truly enjoy.

Live in the moment. It will move past regardless. Savor it.

The ultimate enjoyment will be the ability to look back and know how fully engaged you were in the present.

Make it the best day!

-K

Jump the hurdle

The big deal you have been working on didn’t go your way. What do you do now?

Create a story about why it didn’t happen and bemoan the fact you are back at square one? Continue to sulk until you get enough people to feel sorry for you?

Or

Acknowledge it does kind of suck. Realize it happened and now focus on overcoming this challenge to meet your original goal?

You can create a story and look for pity or you can create a new reality and make your previously set goals a reality.

Too often we get caught up in writing our own stories about an event that happens in our life. We replay that over and over until we have complained to enough people or finally want to move on. That can be a long time.

Regardless of how long that time may be, don’t get stuck in your story. Focus on your end goal and learn from what happened.

This experience won’t define you or your success, how you react to it will.

Make it the best day!

-K

Bring a smile

Give a big smile to the mirror when you wake up or when you start your car.

Make it habit to smile every morning when you brush your teeth. Why look at a grumpy version of yourself?!

You just woke up, you are alive,  celebrate it!

Bring a smile with you into a meeting or on the bus.

We have talked about this before. It’s easy to be grumpy and feel crummy about your situation. Only you have the power to change how you FEEL and that is the kicker.

Do it. Change how you feel. Love how you feel.

Make it the best day!

-K

Connecting

Text message. Sent

Email. Sent

Snapchat. Shared

Facebook post. Shared

When is the last time you made a phone call to someone who is close to you?

We often get caught up in the simple and easy electronic form of communication. Saying we are too busy for a phone call or they probably don’t want to talk anyway.

Connect with your loved ones with a phone call. Especially if you are in a different state.  Reach out and make that connection again. Haven’t talked to a friend in a while? How about a call, not a text.

Make communication personal again and engage with who you care about. You’ll be surprised how good it might make you feel.

Make it the best day!

-K