As I was reading a comment from Mike on yesterday’s blog, I realized something. Men just don’t really talk about how they feel very much.
I really don’t share things like this with you guys too often, but I want to tell you that every morning I wake up and I thank the universe. I thank the world for letting me be a part of it. I’m really appreciative of all the things in my life.
Every morning when I walk Daphne on the beach, it gives me a moment to reflect. It’s funny how you reflect in the morning when you’re so tired, but I do it every morning. I stand on the beach and think about how life is so great.
I think how happy my dog is as I watch her run, hang out and play on the beach. I look at the water and I watch the waves break. I look toward Malibu and the Venice pier, and I see the mountains and the pier, and all I can think is how the morning is so beautiful.
I think about my girlfriend downstairs in our room getting ready for work, and I thank the universe for putting me together with her. I thank her for the love that we share. Every morning I thank the universe for everyone who is in my life.
Now as I’m sitting in my office writing this blog looking at the view from my office of the mountains and the ocean, I think of the Louis Armstrong song “What A Wonderful World” . . . because it really is wonderful. Every day I wake up and I thank the universe for allowing me to be a part of this incredible journey called life.
For what are all of you thankful every day? Do you wake up feeling positive? Do you wake up really embracing life? Do you wake up thanking the universe? If you do, amazing things will happen to you every single day.
Concentrate on the good. Thank the world for being the amazing place it is every day. Do these things, and you’ll see everything change in your life.
I am going to end this blog from a quote from a friend of mine.
As Wayne Dyer always says.
“When you change the way you look at things the things you look at change”
Todays video is for the women readers. Do you want to know just how simple it is to get men to approach you? Not the annoying men but the right kind of men.
I am grateful for my friends and family who are always there for me. At the end of the day, they are the only people who really matter to me.
Great she approached them with positive energy, but if I was her I would put my sunglasses up on the head like the blond girl. Walking inside a store with your sunglasses on signals you are putting a space up between you and the rest in there. You miss the eye contact opportunity, and by just putting them on your head creates a movement from you that could be used as a “distraction” to get their attention, smile and say hello. In southern France most store owner will not pay attention to you if you do not enter their store with a Bon Jour, they will see it as insulting. Little off from the universe. Yes I bless the life I have been given, and the times I forget to do it is when I am down. Maybe those are they days I really should try to remember and I would not be down anymore.
Mantra said before leaving the house each morning…usually at the front door before going out into the world…”Something good will happen today”! I say it out loud and there are people who probably think I’ve lost it, but it works for me! Great film – must remember to take sunglasses off inside – I’ve noticed that smiling at someone even in passing makes me feel so good – hope it lightens their day as well. BTW, I’m having a really bad day today so this blog just helped me to remind myself to smile and that something good WILL happen today. Thanks all!
Well I will send some postive warm thoughts your way Elle, hope they can be of some use on this bad day of yours. Great thought everyone and pass them on.
This is a great blog! I woke up this morning with the sun just sneaking through the window. I rush out of bed and threw the curtains fully open, as if it was a premier to a broadway musical. Hands wide open and the stage lights beaming onto my face i thought to myself: “Man I am hungry for life….Let’s eat!”
Great Blog David
In the morning I wake up here comes the negativity how do I combat. Sometimes I wonder if what we dream effects our day. But what I do is thank my Lord up above by waking me up by his clock. That man made piece of shit alarm clock u want to throw out of the window may one day not wake you up.
When I get up in the morning I decide whether or not I want to go to work or just play hookie? But I have to take my daughter to school and get ready and off I go.
I am thankful for each day our Lord Jesus gives us and live for the moment.
Marina: are you from southern France? i am curious….
btw.. D. I love that song by Louis Armstrong. The lyrics is just amazing. The more I go back listen to the oldies, the more I see how some of today’s music just crap.
Anyhow I am appreciate of how far I come along this journey and of all the peoples life i have come to touch.
I just love life.
One of my favorite quote is: I think D. told me this one once,
Live the life you love, and love the life you live.
David
Does the book of Go Get Em Woman ring a bell? Especially when it comes to the vengenance of a woman. Hey did you finally get through the approach anxiety? That is what I am going to put in practice which blog do I found that on. Oh what about meatloaf? Yes I was playing traitor last night and was listening to Chris Carter’s CD Inside the Mind Of A Man I believe you are on cd seven.
But David still love ya though. You and Chris have helped me to figure out what kind of woman I am and what kind of guy I want. Lets make this year the best and hopes maybe one day I can get my claws into the guy I am interested in.
Great Topic David! First, I would like to say thank-you! Thank-you for giving from your heart! I can feel how much you love what you do and that is helping others. For me I too love what I do and have learned that when you love what you do you become very good at it.
I do and feel very blessed to have the creative talents to produce art for other’s to enjoy. I believe we are all blessed with gifts and should know and use them. For me this is happiness and what life is all about.
Yes! I do thank the Universe everyday for the love I have for life and especially all things in nature.
Now, at a young 61 I wish from the bottom of my heart that some day God will send me the man I can love until the end of time.
After two marriages the first was 14 years (we lost our son and our marriage) the second marriage lasted 23 years. With some deep soul searching I realized I found and fell in love with two needy men both had problems with alcohol.
I’m not looking for someone to fill my very empty heart. I am trying to “be” the person that I want to find.
I have worked for years to be like God wants me to be. To be like him…But I just can’t seem to find the right person that is rich in mind, body and soul. I’m not a church person..I do have my own spiritual path.
I lived in the 60’s that forever changed my life. I am today.. of the same mind set and still will wear flowers in my hair. Awww, the Haight and the Filmore in SF were the days I still cherish.
What I did today is how my tomorrow will be….
Bless the Universe…….
Dyan Mai (Diane) (May)
Have you ever seen the movie “James and the Giant Peach”? In the beginning James and his parents are cloud watching on the beach and he can’t see an image that his mom can see in the clouds, so she tells him “Just look at it a different way”. For some reason that has always stuck with me, and I remind myself to look at things in a different way when I need to.
I love what Darren wrote ~ such a nice visual!
DAVID KNOWS WAYNE DYER!
His first book “Your Erroneous Zones” is one of the first CBT counselling books on the market and one of the best boks I’ve ever read.
I usually give my thanks at night but doing them in the morning is going to start off the day with positive energy. That is good advice. I’m also going to try your line Elle ”Something good is going to happen today! sound’s a bit like ”the secret” which help me kick start my personal developement in second gear.
Like marina said here’s some positive warm thought’s for you.
Bonne nuit tous le monde! Continuer votre approfondissement.
I think that Vince and Marina are the good things that happened for me today…so many nice words! Et tu aussi!
Yes! I am thankful everyday! It is IMPORTANT to make time to be thankful and appreciative!!!! You are so right when you said it will change your perspective. I wish I could say it while looking at the beach but hey I am thankful for the tall trees that surround my yard and the stars I get to see without any streetlights while walking my dog, Spirit!
Thank you for the reminder about positive energy and talking to everyone. I needed that reminder!
Each morning before I wake up I push that stupid ol snooze button hey I am not finished dreaming here. I just wonder if it is my woman’s curiousity at work. Then what happens I am reminded of that stupid dream I had during the night. Then I go to work half asleep. Someone says something I say too early in the morning with a smile. Now here I am at the register this customer comes up and says something I say I just got here now I have to realize that it is time to go to work. But on my drive in I think about things that come to mind it is like doing away with my thoughts one by one. Then I praise God that I am still here.
In the morning when I go down to take my daughter to school oh by the way she graduates high school this year. I am greeting by four cats one cat likes to play midnight attack on the hood of my car and wonder hey come on feed me. When I get out of the car I am greeted by Tomisena, Darla, and Squirt (Mitzi) and sometimes scardie cat. All greeting me as I dread the cold of the morning feeding them. That is what makes my day. Then I go to work and think about the good times I have with my friends and joking with them. Then I come home sometimes with groceries that I had to pick up for my parents and kiss them good night. There are times when I will talk to Becky. Then when I go on the computer and my daughter Kathy sees the mom radar she usually calls me. That is what I embrace in life. Then when I see my close friend in person or either in passing I am thankful that life comes full of surprises especially when things come to reality.
Kheim
lol
How come I got the feeling u r ignoring me for some reason? I have a question off the topic?
Ah! Louis Armstrong has always been a personal favorite. I remember my parents LPs…sigh…
Yakub, check out Nat King Cole’s more obscure stuff, if you like Louis, I think you’ll like him too.
I think the walking on the beach or forest with my Bud makes me more thankful than usual. Its a little difficult to be so incredibly thankful at four-thirty in the morning before work. I’m always a lot more thankful when I make that stop at my favorite coffee shop before work.
funny u should bring up this topic of thanks it is a must and i do it in the morning and evening before sleep… it really brings u to an a great state of gratitude. its funny how things play out good and bad and if you are thankful for all the things that happen than how can the bad ever get you down? your state of mind will always b looking for the next best thing right?, well to me this is my outlook on thanks not only in the morning but all the time.
I am thankful that Marina noticed the effect my sunglasses had by wearing them on my head:) Seriously though, great observation! It all goes back to the idea of being open and present in the moment which will attract people around you. When you are positively focused which includes being thankful for what you have today, people will be drawn to you! I mean look at the effect Daphne had on that other dog…she is a bundle of positive energy!
When someone shakes me out of the middle of a busy task with an offhand remark to engage me in conversation just because…, I admit (ok, this is terrible) that I am eternally grateful that I never married any of the guys that I dated or had kids with them. I’m glad that I met them and learned from the experience of knowing them but hoo-wee, Thank God! Too many great people out there (and here) to experience and I might have missed them otherwise.
I am also grateful that I have been able to be the kind of friend to those in my circle of acquaintance that they could rely on in good times and bad. I attended a memorial service last Saturday for the college son of one and her sobbing was tough to hear in a crowded auditorium. But her words that someone read for her were clear – despite the tremendous loss, she would not have traded the experience of that child for the world…even with his untimely departure. Yes, I am thankful for pretty much everything and have been for as long as I can remember.
David, thank U for posting a video for women. I have been viewing your video library and it is helpful to SEE how to attract the Scooby Doos. ~Scooby Dooby Doo, Where Are You?~
David,
Thanks again for everything! Wayne Dyer has some of the best teachings. The Universe is all us …it is everything, it is love
Keep it up!
-Dan
Well Elle you don’t have to offer free candy to get sweet thoughts. Hope you are off to a great start today.
Now Yakub, maybe I am but then again I might not be French. Do your homework reread the friend/boyfriend blog you will soon discover chances are slim I was ever French. Three numbers will reveal it all. Besides it appears the girls were looking for advice from either you, the other coaches or David.
Kimberly, that is the great thing with breeds of dogs, Labs know for their positive energy, if only we could label the men the same way not having go through all these hurdles just to find out he is pitbull.
La mattina di dio a tutti, un altro giorno un’altra avventura
Marina,
Perhaps your ideal man is like a french poodle; small, delicate, hiperactive and with a high pitched voice!
The universe treated me with a Stranger who made me smiel. Thanks J-dude Can’t beat that for a morning wakeup.
Thanks but no thanks will take a Scooby Doo anytime just like princess.
Woof Woof
Every day, reading the local newspaper, I am thankful that I am not listed in that day’s obituaries:-)
And yes the sunglasses must go when you enter a building. And I find the darn phone pieces around the ears, you know the ones looking like out of movies with cyborgs with the white/blue/red light flashing, are an instant turn off, for me at least.
Come to think of it, I have no time to be thankful during the day because I am constantly multitasking:-)
David,
That is a great post and reflects a lot about how I feel these days. I come from a family where it is not acceptable to show emotions. But as a family we have slowly started changing that. I didn’t even start hugging my dad until I was 25. I took all the years of keeping things inside and turned it into a successful writing career observing and emoting how other people and characters feel but I have never been really comfortable talking about my own emotions. Now, at 31 I sometimes feel stunted in my growth, or held back, however you want to phrase it and it causes me difficulty, but I love the progress I have made so far. It makes me realize that the person I want to be is not too far off and I just have to keep looking for him and asking myself who I want to be.
Life is a grand journey and I thank the universe every day for all the new stories I hear and all the ones I get to tell.
Mike
Marina, if women get to classify men into breeds of dogs, its only fair that we get to do the same. I’m tired of meeting those shirll little dogs who won’t stop barking just because someone is getting even remotely close to their personal space. Hurts the ears.
A smile uses less muscles than a frown.
M
Just like I should not have cared what testimonials are left on this site. Don’t let those little dogs get to you just hush them away, don’t even spend a moment of time on them or are you just trying to wake someone up on the board again, just like with your football comments..
I thank the universe for everyday being able to see the world with childlike eyes,nothing I ever had to remind me off just always been there.
Marina,
“woof”… reminded me of one of my all time movie favorites… “Young Frankestein”!
Marina
Instead of woof how about meow that is what I hear when I go to my parents house they look at me like where is my food and one of the I have to keep out of the garage and the black one likes to sit on the hood of my car. Meow.
Excuse me J-Dude
Sandra,
No problem, my friend.
Hey, j-dude.. Be careful about your French Poodle analogy I have four poodles 2 miniatures and 2 standards. If I could find a man that is anything like my poodles that would be awesome! Their hunting dogs and retrievers. They are the second smartest dog in the world. Oh….and they are not from France… they come from Germany.
Awww, to find a man like a poodle would indeed be a delight. Intelligent, giving, they are always by my side and know when I am happy and know when I am sad. They give unconditional love and sleep with me and use my body for their pillow. When I put on music they love to dance and play. I know if they could they would even do the dishes. I have been working on them to put their toys away. lol
Like a best friend they give to me and I give to them. And they do really dance with me with their paws on my shoulders. What fun we have!
I know j-dude you were just goofing around but I just had to share this with you. Thank-you for making us laugh and smile!
When I am headed into the wonderful world of dream land.. I always praise the Universe for another glorious day. With coffee in hand and pondering my day.. I start with a loving thank-you. But my most important time I am thankful for the Universe is often during my day.
You know when everything just seems to be going your way? One minute all is OK?…and then in a blink of an eye …something happens and your in a negative state and don’t where and what to do? That is the time I give my pain away. I give my troubles to the Universe and then I can freely play.
Do miracles happen in our Universe? I believe if we are open and clear of mind they happen to us everyday. My last post I said: I wished I could find a man that was rich in mind, body and soul. I believe he came into my life last evening about an hour after I sent my post. It’s getting too late and I need to hit the hay so I will keep you informed of my blessing….a gift from Universe.
All things happen when we are ready for them.
I am ready willing and able to give deep within my heart and to always remember to do way more than my part.
Thank-you again David!
I love reading everyone’s positive thoughts on this subject. Thanks everyone!
Rainbows and Sunshine….
Dyan…..
I still remember a religion or a cult, I am not sure, called the Science of Mind. Most of their members are elite person in our counttry. We were once invited and attended one of their session which dicusses about the belief in the power of the universe instead of the existence of what we called and knew as GOD.
Most of their members are from elite society except for some like us who were just sponsored by one of their generous member and who happened to have a business transactions in our Dept.
The speaker was so convincing in explaining about this belief which is somewhat related to the Law of Attraction. The only thing I was turned off about was you can’t ask negative question about these beliefs because you will always hear same answer from her that you are attracting a negative energy.
About the song WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD, it so nice to hear that song. Everytime we think of a song that we like to hear, I always consider this song as one of it.
I think they describe that song as Sunday morning song, so relaxing and refreshing to once mind. A lot of version, Rod Stewart, etc. but the original is the best.
this blog makes me remember a song by Susanna Clark called “Come From the Heart”
You got to sing like you don’t need the money
Love like you’ll never get hurt
You got to dance like nobody’s watchin’
It’s gotta come from the heart if you want it to work
Fuck the Universe
My response to the last post I guess would be….It’s your attitude…not your aptitude…that determines your altitude.
Dyan, who thinks that experience is a hard teacher….It gives the test first…and the lesson afterward. Darn! LOL Have a great night!
lioking, Science of Mind is neither a cult nor a religion. It was founded in 1927 by Earnest Holmes and is intended to add to an already spiritually blessed life. It is about the same subject matter as “The Secret” but told in a much more elequent way. The Secret is like the cliff notes version of Science of Mind.
There is a following of people behind it, but it is not technically a religion. The concept is that the enitre universe is a reflection of one giant all inclusive thought and we, as purveryors of thought, have access to that deep well since it is a reflection of us. Sin is not a punishment, but rather a deviation of the inheritently good nature of the universe.
Stuff like that.
Maybe that is why they called it Science instead of religious term.
Anyways. thanks for the brief info, M.