“If you’re happy, and you know it, share with friends.”

- LoVe LuCy

Do you ever notice anytime you ask people how they are, or what they have been up to, it seems as though their answers can be a little less than excited?

You never really find people jump up, in a thrilling reaction to share all the amazing things that have been happening, and just how delighted they are.

It is not so much that they simply aren’t delighted, and everything is just going the same way as it always does, but more than we feel, as a society we are not allow to be in a state of elation, or we are perhaps being too ego driven.

Wouldn’t it be better for all, if those who had so many amazing things going on, would share, with the rest of us, for us to see just how amazing life can be?

If we feed off each other naturally, wouldn’t it be natural that if our friends are finding life so magical, we can too?

If we only knew?

There is nothing wrong with sharing your passion for life, and your feelings of gratitude for all that you have, and all that is going on in your life.

If you can’t share it, what’s the point?

So, if you are asked “How are you?” “What’s new?” or… “What have you been up to?” and you have something exciting to share?

Do not only yourself a favour, but those around you a favour and be honest. Don’t downplay your happiness for fear other’s will have something to say about it.  Instead share, and let others perhaps DO something about it, with their own lives, because of it!

LoVe,
LuCy sMiLeS

In today’s world, it seems like we are wanting bigger, better, more than ever.

We seem, sometimes, to feel as though the more we have, the better we are.
Focusing on all we have surrounding us, rather than who we have surrounding us, and trying to attract more material possessions to make ourselves feel better, or feel that we are better, because of them, we can overlook the true sense of our true selves.

There is nothing wrong with working hard to achieve our dreams, and reaping all that we have sown.
We deserve to have it all, however we wish, and working with our true purpose to get there, makes it all worthwhile.

However, when we base our self worth, and how much we are worth, on how much we have, we may be making more problems for ourselves, than not.

All the riches in the world will never compare to our uniqueness in what we have to offer the world, from our hearts.
The closer we are to who we truly are, is what will bring us all the inner riches we could ever hope and dream for.

And if that bring in all the riches in our pockets we ever hoped and dreamed for, even better, as we have that much more to give to others.

But always remember, true wealth in life, always first comes from the heart.

Love,
LuCy sMiLeS

“The scariest thing I have ever done was what someone else wanted me to do.”
LoVe LuCy

We can claim that we are striving to make our way to success. We can think of, in our minds, all that we want to attain and all that we know would make us so happy.

It is great to have a vision and it is certainly important to be sure that you are taking steps to reach your dream in your life. We know that we want to be the best we can be and have the best of everything in our lives but why is it that, some times, we look at all that surrounds us and wonder what we are doing wrong that is not allowing us all that we are wishing for?

The answer to life’s complex mysteries, as to why we may feel like we aren’t budging while others seem to effortlessly manifest their dreams, is easy!  You can wish for all the riches, luxuries and money you can handle, but if you don’t have a handle on why you want these things, they will not be put in front of you. It doesn’t matter what you want, you must know why you want it so badly: whether it is a house, a car, publishing a book, or building a successful business, one thing always rings true… If you don’t have the right intentions and clear intentions why you are following a certain dream, the dream will stay just that, a dream.

So be sure all that you desire is all that you desire with a specific purpose. As our purpose here is to serve the world by changing people’s lives in our own way.

Whether it is the dreary Monday morning after a relaxing and very stress free weekend, the end of the month when the bills are due, or two hours before that blind date your best friend set you up with her cousin…

We all have our very own way of looking at things.
We also tend to have a habit of looking at things in the same particular way, no matter what the issue is.

All three above scenerios can be looked at with anxiety, just as much as they can be looked at as a fresh start or a new beginning.

I used to look at Monday Mornings as a fresh start when I had my 9-5  job although many others in my office may have already been anxiously awaiting Friday afternoon. I really did.

Today, admittedly, being an entrepreneur, I have no idea what day it is or sometimes even what month it is – so I use every day as a new day.

In my own recent experience, I can say that not any one day or not any one moment is the same.  Things can change in my own life at the drop of a hat! The same goes for you too.

We can create the best laid plans then something or someone will come in and change every step, just by their presence.

Sometimes we may be fortunate and other times not so fortunate.
Fortunately we have all the control over stepping up or stepping down to the situation.

Look at it this way:
Life may not always be what you wish but it may not also be what it seems.

Use every lesson as an opportunity to see a new blessing.

You’ll be happy you did,
if you look at it this way.

LoVe,
LuCy sMiLeS

As a child, I remember waking up as early as 6 am with my sister, jumping out of bed, bathing suits on with flips and towels, and off to the local park pool we went.

When the 5′oclock city whistle blew and the smell of cooking oil masked the air, back we were for supper.

Meat and potatoes, simple and delicious.
Never forgetting the daily desert, that would range from home made cakes & cookies, to mom’s famous cinammin rolls, or deep fried homemade donuts. Using her thimball for the hole, we would make our mini donuts, or “timbits” for us Canadians.
But it was always something, and something sugar filled and fulfilling.

And off we went, out until the sun would go down.

Our nights were spent playing skip rope, doubledutch, ball and the most favorite game, “hide and seek”.

I remember the familiar scream like it was yesterday…

“Olly Olly Oxen Free!
Free to come out, without worry!
Free, without worry.
That is what it was like.

What was it like for you?
What can you take with you, now, from then, as freedom of life and love without worry?

We can, still, as adults, take the context of this and use it in our everyday lives, today.

When you don’t think you can find the silver lining, and you are struggling just to make ends meet;

Know that there is no end to what you can be!

Olly Olly Oxen Free!

LoVe
LuCy sMiLeS

Whatever will be will be.

Sometimes we want things so much and put so much emphasis on wanting these things, we end up with the opposite.

So you ever notice when you want so badly to fall in love, attain financial freedom, lose weight, get a promotion- you name it, you don’t end up getting it?

We hear it everywhere. “Live abundantly”; “Focus on the positive”; “Say your mantras”; Repeat your ‘I AM’ statements.”

The Law of Attraction tells us we will truly get what we put out there.

And this is true.
However, you can say it until you are blue in the face, but until you believe what you are saying- you will manifest whatever your thoughts are telling you, no matter what your words are.

So don’t just talk the talk- walk the walk.

Through the best of times, and the worst of times- walk with your best foot forward, and know that what will be will be, and will be great, if you believe in the greatness that you already are.

The future is not ours to see- it is ours TO BE.

Que Sera, Sera!

LoVe LuCy sMiLeS

“I had a habit of giving my habits life, realizing they were taking away from mine.”

We all have habits. Some more than others. Some of us have less bad habits than we did before. Maybe we have more now than we ever thought we would.

Maybe we don’t realize what habits have formed that are hindering our health.

Habits are not all bad.
However, we do know of many that are.

I am happy to say I have less than I have had before, but do still have the lingering couple of habits I can do without. Habits I would be better off without.

When wanting to rid of bad habits, we can be better off not by simply focusing on ‘ridding’, but instead ‘exchanging.’

In my experience, by looking at this change as something positive, rather than the negative perception of “losing something”, or “stopping something”- I was entirely and surprisingly successful!

We all have different ways of coping with loss, trauma, and transition.

Even so, try this test of writing down what habits you wish to leave behind- and replace it for a positive change. See what happens, and how you feel!

Supplement for Success!

If you have a habit of having bad thoughts? Exchange them for gratitude, journalling your thankfuls!

If you have a habit of losing your temper? Show appreciation and compliment who you lose your temper to!

If you have a habit of abusing substances?
(and for this, I realize there is more work here to do) Supplement this with a sport or exercise that is in alignment with purity, and health!

Just see what taking positive action in your life does for you, one day at a time.
Give your life the meaning it deserves!

I swear it works!

(Let’s just say you wouldn’t be reading my “smiles” the last two years if I decided not to take my own advice, and take positive action in my own life!)

“Paying It Forward”,
LoVe,
LuCy sMiLeS

“You can manifest anything your heart desires, as long as you have the desire to follow your heart”

Ok. We have talked about it.
The Law Of Attraction.
The Gift of “ask and you shall receive.”
We can spell it out in so many ways.
How we get what we wish, and how we manifest what our thoughts are.

Whether we get it, live it, or be it, all depends on what we think of it.

Do you notice yourself always asking “Why is this not working out how I wish?”

“I don’t know how to do this”, “I don’t know what to do about this”, “I can’t understand why this is happening…”

Whatever we put out, we do get back.
We just do.

What do you put out there?
I know what I do.
I do know I have some work to do.

Do you?

Let’s stop asking if we do.
Let’s know we do.
If we do.

And do something about it.
Knowing is half the battle,

I don’t know about you, but I love the knowing that half the work is done.

Love,
LuCy sMiLeS

“Love is never an issue when you give, with nothing looked for in return

In life, we can gather many things as measurable. Many of us gather everything as measurable. There is the term “give or take” that is used in the human language that many of us hear when we are casually measuring a situation in ‘time, dollars, or items”, depending on the conversation.

For instance, we may hear someone discussing meeting up with another and responding “I will be there at 4pm, give or take 5 minutes..” Or “we can barter off the item at $30.00, give or take a few bucks.”

In a life of measuring things, much chaos can come when we spend so much time measuring how much we have done for others, and not feeling like they have perhaps measured up to our expectations.

This chaos can be conquered when we realize that life is not about “give and take”, but simply about “give.”

Whatever we give always comes back to us, many times over. Not always from the person or people of which we give, however. That is for them to in turn give to others and receive, again, and not from those they gave… Get it?

Good.

In a life of whether or not we feel able to give or worthy enough to take; always take the opportunity to give when you can. And when you get back? Take… It is rightfully yours.

And just remember- keep on giving.
If feels great, makes life worth living, and you will get yours, don’t you worry.

A living through giving! What’s not to love?

LoVe LuCy sMiLeS

“If we can learn to take all the “this and that clutter” not working for us, out of our minds,
perhaps we can start seeing what is right in front of us,
and learn to love it!

It is always something, it seems. There is always that one or two things going on in our lives, that takes the forefront focus, leaving much beauty on the back burner.

You know- the bills, the job, the stress of children’s grades, the issues within our relationships that we wish just wouldn’t be issues.

Just the “this and that” that seems to be “all that” that is going on.

If you look at your life, and what you have going on, and who you have in it, what is your focus?

Are you focusing on all that you wish would be different, or are you loving all that is, right now, for all that it is, which I’ll bet can be looked at, as amazing?
If you would just look up. Look at things as though they are always looking up.

We are not going to be without worry, and without some small fears in our lives. We are not perfect- life isn’t perfect.

However, if we can put our attention on loving what is, rather than focusing on all we don’t have going on, maybe we can finally feel fulfilled.

Our blessings come from what we are blessed with, not what we are not blessed with.

You are blessed.
Yay!
LoVe LuCy sMiLeS