Show your love in actions cause they yell while a text is just a whisper.

Today is great.  you have facebook and twitter.  You have blogs like this one that anyone can get their message out to people.  You have simple text messages that you can use to have whole conversations.  You Can talk and see family all the way around the globe.  It has created connections that before would have never been possible.  It is amazing to learn and see things that the generations before us could never do.  We learn more from the couch then ever before.  They can put a camera in a womb and see a baby grow.  WOW.  What a time we live in truly one of the greatest times in history.


I bet you could see this but coming couldn't you.


What has this done to us.  I truly believe it has made us a weaker people.  addicted to instant gratification and afraid to get out of our homes.  I am addicted to text messages myself.  Think of it you send one and want a response when you don't get one from that person you feel hurt and offended.  Then you get mad at them for not paying enough attention to you.  Then you send another then another.  it is an addiction.  Then you have facebook and other social media where you can log on and see what your"friends" had for lunch and what their babies look like without ever breaking beard with them or even seeing those small babies.  You can learn so much about people just by looking at their profile.  But we don't pick up the phone and call a friend and say i love you we text it.  We have lost the ability in a lot of ways to go and find those friends in real life.  Technology has changed everything about society.  Form the beauty in a handwritten note to the awesome feeling of talking to the girl or guy you are crushing on for hours.  The things we are loosing are beautiful and they shouldn't be lost.  Don't get me wrong technology has helped us reach more people and helped in so many ways.  But don't ever forget how to love someone face to face and express those feelings other then a text message or on facebook.

My you have a blessed day.  Call someone that you love and tell them today.  Or better yet go see them.  take them to dinner.  Show your love in actions cause they yell while a text is just a whisper.

Gratitude

I haven't posted in the eddvate brand in a long time.  To be honest this is because i have been doing some major soul searching.  I am not going to discuss that here for all to hear but i believe sometimes it is good to move yourself away from things to see where you truly are.  There are times where i have issues with gratitude and i focus on what i don't have.  I know this can be an issue for a lot of the western world.  I found this awesome list today that put things is perspective for me.  I hope it does the same for you.

Even in uncertain times, it’s always important to keep things in perspective.

1. You are alive.

2. You are able to see the sunrise and the sunset.

3. You are able to hear birds sing and waves crash.

4. You can walk outside and feel the breeze through your hair and the sun’s warmth on your skin.

5. You have tasted the sweetness of chocolate cake.

6. You didn’t go to sleep hungry last night.

7. You awoke this morning with a roof over your head.

8. You had a choice of what clothes to wear.

9. You haven’t feared for your life today.

10. You have overcome some considerable obstacles, and you have learnedand survived.

11. You often worry about what you’re going to do with your life – your career, your family, the next step, etc. – which means you have ambition, passion, drive, and the freedom to make your own decisions.

12. You live in a country that protects your basic human rights and civil liberties.

13. You are reasonably strong and healthy – if you got sick today, you could recover.

14. You have a friend or relative who misses you and looks forward to your next visit.

15. You have someone with whom to reminisce about ‘the good old days.’

16. You have access to clean drinking water.

17. You have access to medical care.

18. You have access to the Internet.

19. You can read.

These are beautiful things that i and a lot of us take for granted.  We may not have what we want but if we focus on lack you will always have lack.  I will be writing another blog later today and posting tonight or tomorrow.  Have a blessed day.  And HUg someone.  

eddavate: Thoughts are things

eddavate: Thoughts are things:                                                                     Wow What a last few days Eddie has had.  It is amazing ho...

Thoughts are things

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What a last few days Eddie has had.  It is amazing how one mindset change that has been holding you back can change your outlook.  Reading think and grow rich has really showed me the power our thoughts have.  We limit ourselves in so many different ways in our lives.  The human spirit has so much strength in it and we just accept what we think we see.  We let others control the happiness of our days when it is the very lens we see life though that causes our days to be the way they are. 

We let our current situation define what our futures will be.  We let our current bank accounts define our future earnings. How much could we achieve if we truly knew that everything we think becomes something if we nurture it and let our subconscious mind marinate it and bring it into reality.  If we will just give up the fear that life and people have taught us over the years and just believe that the universe has our back.  If we could just learn that God gave us fear to push us though new situations.  We could achieve so much in life and have such a better experience on this little rock in space if we just gave up the fear and went through it. 

    Until the past few months I lived a life that I only saw the negative.  I was never going to have enough.  I was never going to be enough.  Money would run out.  And I brought a lot of this to reality.  When I would date someone I wasn’t enough for them so it would end.  I would think they are not interested in me and really they were I just read the wrong story by their actions.  It is amazing how much time and energy I have given the negative in my life.  I have always believed I wasn’t good enough to do anything in life because I hadn’t done much already in life.  That others were better because they were still married or they had a nicer car or whatever.  I would always find a reason I was not good enough.  But in the past few months I have learned that the very thoughts that I was not good enough was making me not good enough.  I truly believe I had to achieve to have the confidence to be able to achieve in my life.  That is Bull shit.  We must first love ourselves and believe we are worthy of love, abundance and all the juice that life has to offer.  I will a kick ass life to quote someone that has helped my journey a lot.  But only I can make it kick ass.  Only you can choose to have a kick ass life and to be happy every day.  I truly have found my calling in everyday life of being a day maker and helping other find happiness and though that I truly find an inner peace and happiness. 

Think and Grow Rich.

Over the past year i have been deep in personal development and growing in my everyday life.  I have shared a lot of this though this and my other blogs.  From joining isagenix to learning to focus more on the moment i have taken steps for a long time to better myself.  I have always felt held back by my lack of follow though on most subjects.  I tend to really be mean to myself when is comes to stumbling on the everyday tasks that i want to make habits when i don't follow though.  this puts me behind and i give up.  This has always been an issue for me due to my lack of accountability type people in my life.  And i know that if i can get over this hurdle my life would change tremendously and i have learned that i can only depend on myself for this help.  I know that I am not the only one that struggles with this and that's why i wanted to share this with all of your reading.

With that being said i have started reading think and grow rich tonight.  One of the greatest self development books ever written.  This book deal a lot with thoughts and learning to use your thoughts to grow rich.   Whether that be in money or in love or whatever these principles have been in use forever.  I am going to be tracking what i learn and sharing some with you.  I will not commit to writing ever night or even and set amount of days but you will be seeing Blogs about the things i am learning and my results.  I hope that you truly enjoy and can grow with me.

Gifts

When i originally started to think about writing on gifts i had a reason behind it.  Some things that had happened in the past few weeks had really inspired me to write about gifts and the effects that they have on people.  But the things that people said really changed my view on what i was going to write.  It is amazing how when you have the intention how the universe leads you to find exactly what you intend.  

Gifts can be described as many different things.  They are things we give to one another.  They can be talents that we have.  They can be how we feel about the people in our lives.  So there are many ways we think of gifts and what that word means to you.  Over all gifts are a positive thing in our lives that helps us feel the acceptance and love that is our main desire in life as humans.  If a person is a gift to you then they help fulfill that need.  If it is a thing then the giving of that thing helps you feel that way.  In our society giving gifts is so important.  We are taught from a very early age that love is reflected in the gifts that we receive from loved ones on holidays and birthdays.  If these gifts are not given then there is a sadness at time because of what is not given.  This is our society it has taught at least my generation that love is expressed in things. Meanwhile a lot of relgions and cultures teach that the true gifts in life and the people that we touch and that touch our lives.  

When i posted the question what is the best gift you have been given the response i received is not the one i expected.  i got responses like my mother, my children and my friends.  This is awesome to say but it is not what i intended to hear.  These answers are so true in most peoples lives.  The true gifts of the spirit are the ones we are given by the people that we love and they are not always tangible.  In this world it seems that everyone is obsessed with tangible results.  That if you can not count it then it is not true and is not something worth having.  We find this in business a lot that if you don't have a number to up held to then you are not doing your job.  I truly do not believe this to be fact.  I truly believe it is the in tangible things that make humans the happiest.  The things of the spirit are the things that make people happy with their experiences in life.  The intangible things are the true gifts.  The people we meet that don't ask us for anything but go the extra mile for us.  The people that take time to live in the moment and treat us like that humans that we are.  the people that make us feel special are the ones that you want to do business with and have in our lives.  

I truly believe that we get what we give in this world.  So if you give the gift of living in the moment and taking time for everyone that crosses your path.  treating everyone like the amazing person that they are and deserve to be treated as. Then I truly believe you will get that back to you.  And getting this is the best gift that you will ever receive and you are in control of whether or not you receive it.  If you wanna feel special then make others feel special.  If you wanna feel loved then make others feel loved.  The greatest gift you can be given you control whether or not you get it.  

What a wonderful World

This Blog is inspired by my son. His song that we played him while is was in the womb was what a wonderful world by louis armstrong.  It was interesting i was listening to the podcast i listen to every week and David Wood played that song on my sons birthday.  That is amazing to me.

That got me started thinking about how amazing this world we get to live in is.  Every breath that we get to take on this planet is a blessing.  I could die in the next second and I am not taking advantage of the time I have on this planet.  WOW.  Most of us have heard this our whole life yet we still do not squeeze the juice out of this life.  We just go from one day to the next and losing all since of each day and the just melt into each other.  Meanwhile somewhere there is a young child dying and they didn't even get half the days that we have wasted.  Kids are so in tune with this they really don't care what happens tomorrow they live in the moment.  Adults we just live either in the past or the future and loss the moment.  We never achieve our full potential at the fear of failing or having to go without.  Fear keeps us in a sad life not willing to truly live this life.  I do this so much saying no when i should just say yes and let the universe figure the rest out.  I am getting better but we all know of times where we have said no when we should have said yes.  then we beat ourselves up about it.  WOW.

This being said i am setting a goal for myself.  To fight for the moment.  To do mindful things to focus on the moment.  Look at this amazing world we live in.  Don't miss it cause once it is gone it is gone.

Whats on your bucket list?