True Beauty

Yesterday I couldn’t wait to slice up some of the most perfect and beautiful strawberries that I’d have ever seen.  Every strawberry in the carton was perfect; large, red, and perfectly shaped with the greenest and healthiest caps, stems, and leaves attached.  And, as I sliced each strawberry into half, displaying its internal structure, one after another my disappointment grew.  The strawberries were mostly white; I bravely took a bite. Yes, I had definitely been duped by its packaging.

I’ve also fallen victim to people with pretty packaging, and have noticed that a lot of people have done all of the work on the outside of themselves, can be pretty blank on the inside; and also like strawberries, people who have totally let them selves go on the outside, are also usually decaying on the inside as well.  Then there is the ever perfect organic strawberry, with a little more time and effort may or may not be the largest or the most perfectly shaped, but in it’s own authentic way, is both beautiful on the inside and out.

Must remember to stay organic! Just a thought…

Love, Goldi

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Mothers Day Story

e-mail from a friend…

“The other day I was looking thru a box of old papers.  In it I found a card made from yellow construction paper.  In red crayon, are the words Happy Mothers Day.  On the outside of the card she drew hearts, lips, stars and flowers.  Inside are the words “my mom always kisses me.  I like it.  She is the best mom.  Love Samantha”.  I cried, and put it on my refrigerator.  … Just in time for mothers day 15 years later.”

She also wrote; “I am sure I loved it the day she gave it to me, but yesterday I loved it more.  It reassured me that I have shown her how much I love her.”

Words really do echo endlessly…

Just a thought…

Happy Mothers Day!

Love,

Goldi

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Nothing Lasts Forever-Enjoy-Live!

“Nothing is permanent in this wicked world—not even our troubles.”- Charlie Chaplin

When I turned 29 I worried for a whole year about turning 30.  Thirty was my scary age.  Seems kind of funny now, but I was frantic everyday for a year.  I asked myself questions like; “What have I done with my life?”  “Am I heading in the right direction?”  Questions upon questions until the day of my thirtieth birthday where luckily reality hit me, that day, was no different from the day before.  I had wasted a whole year, worrying about turning an age that I shouldn’t have been worried about.  The gift it gave me however, is that I’ll never worry about another birthday, and I will forevermore not consider myself old. Well, at least until I’m about 90.  😉

Unfortunately though, I didn’t learn the whole lesson, and was reminded again with the loss of love, and my financial future; sacrificing to accumulate, and reinvesting to prepare, trying to protect myself from what I didn’t think I could handle.  But,…when life happens, you do…, you handle it.

You learn to adapt and move on, and yes, you can make it harder on yourself by saying “why me” or “poor me”,  I know because – I did.  But, does it really serve us?  Do we really “own” anything? Our cars, our homes, our jobs, our loves, our life, isn’t it all temporary?  Yes, we can do things to “try” to protect ourselves, and we should; Like exercising to stay healthy, educating ourselves for the better job, loving and spending time with who we love, maintaing our homes and cars. But what we really need to do is RELAX-enjoy the moments.

Live your life doing something that you love, or something that allows you time, to do what you love.  Don’t give anything to much weight – the highs and the lows. Be extreme in your passion only, where by doing it gives you joy. Everything else in life should be done with moderation – no extremes.  Remember the best is “Goldilocks Way” somewhere in the middle.  Not my middle, or your friends middle, but your middle of what’s “just right”  for you, in every area of your life.

Just a thought…

With Love, Goldi

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