Goldilocks » opportunity http://goldilocksblog.com Living Your Life - Just Right Mon, 21 May 2012 11:07:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Opportunity in Change http://goldilocksblog.com/2011/07/opportunity-in-change/ http://goldilocksblog.com/2011/07/opportunity-in-change/#comments Fri, 29 Jul 2011 19:13:55 +0000 Goldilocks http://goldilocksblog.com/?p=969 When change presents itself, either voluntarily or not, it’s these little adjustments in your life that can create big shifts.   Take the opportunity, to make the change into something great. Go after what you want.  It’s your life, and your duty to yourself, to live a happy and fulfilling life. Live passionately, and go [...]]]> When change presents itself, either voluntarily or not, it’s these little adjustments in your life that can create big shifts.   Take the opportunity, to make the change into something great. Go after what you want.  It’s your life, and your duty to yourself, to live a happy and fulfilling life. Live passionately, and go after what your heart is calling you to do. You are in charge. You have the ability. You get to decide. You get to act. You have total carte blanche to do what you want with your life.

So go and create your “just right” life.

Just a thought…

 

Love, Goldi

]]> http://goldilocksblog.com/2011/07/opportunity-in-change/feed/ 0 Alive With Endless POSSIBILITIES http://goldilocksblog.com/2011/04/alive-with-endless-possibilities/ http://goldilocksblog.com/2011/04/alive-with-endless-possibilities/#comments Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:17:59 +0000 Goldilocks http://goldilocksblog.com/?p=865 With every breath we live. With every breath we welcome another moment for what is possible.  A chance meeting, a job opportunity, a kind word, and an opportunity for us to not only receive good, but to give it.  It’s all these little moments that add up to something big.  So breathe, and take in [...]]]> With every breath we live. With every breath we welcome another moment for what is possible.  A chance meeting, a job opportunity, a kind word, and an opportunity for us to not only receive good, but to give it.  It’s all these little moments that add up to something big.  So breathe, and take in with that deep breath, an awareness that you have everything right now that you need.   Appreciate the air and the ability to feel the warmth or the cool against your skin.  Appreciate the sky in it’s darkness or light that brings us the growth that sustains us.  Appreciate everything and everyone around you.

Remember You are alive and The possibilities are endless.

Just a thought…

Love, Goldi

 

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]]> http://goldilocksblog.com/2011/04/alive-with-endless-possibilities/feed/ 0 A Good Beginning http://goldilocksblog.com/2011/01/a-good-beginning/ http://goldilocksblog.com/2011/01/a-good-beginning/#comments Mon, 10 Jan 2011 21:32:15 +0000 Goldilocks http://goldilocksblog.com/?p=775 A good beginning is one that is altered by the end, and with the ending of 2010, another yearly cycle has begun. We have lost the ability to direct or change the ending, to our year in 2010, but we have the great opportunity to begin this year in a way that makes us proud [...]]]> A good beginning is one that is altered by the end, and with the ending of 2010, another yearly cycle has begun. We have lost the ability to direct or change the ending, to our year in 2010, but we have the great opportunity to begin this year in a way that makes us proud of the ending we create for 2011.

Imagine what your life looks like a year from now?  What do you look like? Where are you? What are you doing? How do you feel? Now imagine living this life everyday, being joyful, happy, fulfilled, and at peace. Feel the gratitude of truly living your life. Imagine looking around you each and everyday, and being grateful for all you have. You see only the possibilities and the opportunities around, because you know what you want, you know where you want to go, and you know what you need to do to get there. Allow yourself to be and have everything you want. You deserve it.

Just a thought…

Love, Goldi

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]]> http://goldilocksblog.com/2011/01/a-good-beginning/feed/ 1 Moments in Time http://goldilocksblog.com/2010/04/moments-in-time/ http://goldilocksblog.com/2010/04/moments-in-time/#comments Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:43:25 +0000 Goldilocks http://goldilocksblog.com/?p=611 “I held a moment in my hand, brilliant as a star, fragile as a flower, a tiny sliver of one hour.  I dripped it carelessly, Ah!  I didn’t know, I held opportunity.”  Hazel Lee

Beautiful quote but…,Forget about it… Move on… were wasting time!  The possibility is always here that the day that lies before us, [...]]]> “I held a moment in my hand, brilliant as a star, fragile as a flower, a tiny sliver of one hour.  I dripped it carelessly, Ah!  I didn’t know, I held opportunity.”  Hazel Lee

Beautiful quote but…,Forget about it… Move on… were wasting time!  The possibility is always here that the day that lies before us, absolutely anything may happen. Do what you want to do.  Do what you love to do… live fully the life that you create.  If you’ve missed an opportunity, create another one.

Enjoy every moment now!

Just a thought…

Love, Goldi

Creating my perfect life in a perfect world…

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]]> http://goldilocksblog.com/2010/04/moments-in-time/feed/ 0 An example of why living our “just right” life not only helps ourselves, but helps the world! http://goldilocksblog.com/2009/10/an-example-of-why-living-our-%e2%80%9cjust-right%e2%80%9d-life-not-only-helps-ourselves-but-helps-the-world/ http://goldilocksblog.com/2009/10/an-example-of-why-living-our-%e2%80%9cjust-right%e2%80%9d-life-not-only-helps-ourselves-but-helps-the-world/#comments Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:04:56 +0000 Goldilocks http://goldilocksblog.com/?p=324 Today I woke up in a great mood! I had to clean but I was doing it joyfully while listening to music.  I started wondering if the twenty year old family member, who mows my yard, was going to arrive.  It has been three weeks [...]]]> Today I woke up in a great mood! I had to clean but I was doing it joyfully while listening to music.  I started wondering if the twenty year old family member, who mows my yard, was going to arrive.  It has been three weeks since he had last mowed, and we have had an unusually large amount of rain, so it needed it.  I decided to call, and I realized as we talked that he had not even thought about it, but he said that he would figure it out.  About an hour later he called and in an angry and resentful voice he said “is it raining there, because it is raining here, and I do not want to drive all the way out there if it is going to start raining?  There is nothing I hate more than to be mowing in the rain.”  I immediately became defensive, feeling like I have given him an opportunity to earn money, and selling his service to two other neighbors, I also feel a little responsible. It has always been a struggle to get him to come, and when he does arrive, he does not seem to care about the job that he has done. He just rushes through with the effort of a man who would rather be anywhere else,  and wants to see how quickly the job can be done, and be out of here.

When I got off the phone my mind started wandering to other things that make me mad, and it was not just about the mowing or this person.  My mind was racing out of control and every wrong that had been done to me, every negative person or event, and every fear that I had, was springing up!  Then all of a sudden, I did something different, I said wait!  This is not the day I want.   This is not the relationship I want with this person.  This is not the attitude that I want!  What happened, and how can I change this?

So I started thinking… that here I am trying to do him a favor and he may be thinking that he is doing me one, and by doing something out of obligation he has become resentful, and now, so have I.  If instead of trying to help, if I would of allowed him to find his own way, and live his best life, he may have chosen to do something that he enjoyed, or at least felt grateful for.  Instead he became angry, then I did.  In the past I would of continued to be angry around all who I became in contact with today, which would of affected them, and then this single act of two people who were trying to help one another, would of instead spread anger.  So, I gave myself an attitude adjustment, and when he arrived I told him thanks for coming, that the next mow would probably the last of the season, and that he should do all yards to perfection, and then for him to possibly tell everyone that this would be his last year of mowing.  That he needed to find and do what brought him joy!  He agreed, and said that he had told himself that last year, but yet he still mowed.  Which confirmed to me my assumption as to why he was resentful.

So I hope you get where I am trying to lead you… that when we do what is best for ourselves, we bring joy to our lives and to those around us.  Then the joy grows and grows and grows, and that is what we all really want!  …and spreading joy, that is what is best for the world!

Just a thought!

Love, Goldi

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]]> http://goldilocksblog.com/2009/10/an-example-of-why-living-our-%e2%80%9cjust-right%e2%80%9d-life-not-only-helps-ourselves-but-helps-the-world/feed/ 3 Goldilocks Experiment http://goldilocksblog.com/2009/08/goldilocks-experiment/ http://goldilocksblog.com/2009/08/goldilocks-experiment/#comments Tue, 04 Aug 2009 15:20:03 +0000 Goldilocks http://goldilocksblog.com/?p=214 I feel a surge of love, goodness and hope!  It is funny how thoughts can do that to you. Lately I have been having a hard time writing something that I wanted to publish on my blog.  My original vision of my blog was to always put inspirational words on it, acts of good will, [...]]]> I feel a surge of love, goodness and hope!  It is funny how thoughts can do that to you. Lately I have been having a hard time writing something that I wanted to publish on my blog.  My original vision of my blog was to always put inspirational words on it, acts of good will, and thoughts on how we can live a better life, but sometimes it is hard. Sometimes I feel like I am being a fraud, because I do not always feel so up.  Today I have been contemplating committing to an expensive writing retreat.  It is what I want to do so bad.  I feel it in every bone of my body that this is what I want to do.  I have told you before that I see my life as a traveler, blogger, writer, and also of a person just living in peace at home with family, with friends, and in nature.  My fear today is that I should not spend that money.  That it may be wrong to spend that money on a dream, and as I am writing this, a revelation has come to me.  That if I do not do it my dream may not happen.  It may start a chain of events that limits me and keeps me filled with doubts.  Other opportunities may appear that seem safer.  I may take that road, and then may not come back down this road for years or ever…

My original reason for writing the blog was to get me writing.  To help me to communicate with others, to feel heard, and to keep myself pumped up with positive words.  I had felt myself slipping deep into a depression that I needed to get out of.  I wanted to feel that someone was listening.  I wanted to have hope, and it worked!  I feel so much better.  Down days I look at my blog and read the inspirational words that I need to remember and it has brought me back.

So I am going to do it.  I am going to spend that money because the vision of myself not doing it, make my heart feel like it is breaking.  It seems that if I don’t do this, life would be unbearable, and yet while doing it makes me feel excited and hopeful, it also feels reckless. Reckless at a time in our economy and in my life where future income is an unknown factor, that the money should be save for food, housing and debts already incurred. Not doing it leaves me in that self defeating downward spiral with no hope, and no happiness which I think will lead me to all the places that I do not want.

So I am going to continue this Goldilocks experiment of having the perfect life and living it in a perfect world.  I will not be pushed by my fear!  I will lead with my dreams, and I hope you do the same!  Cheers to our success!

 Just a thought!

 Love, Goldi

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]]> http://goldilocksblog.com/2009/08/goldilocks-experiment/feed/ 6 Possibilities and Opportunities http://goldilocksblog.com/2009/06/possibilities-and-opportunities/ http://goldilocksblog.com/2009/06/possibilities-and-opportunities/#comments Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:07:11 +0000 Goldilocks http://goldilocksblog.com/?p=161 As most mornings go I wake up confused about the day, of where my life is heading and what direction that I should be going.  It is funny when we think about how many different opportunities and possibilities that there are. How one turn, or one hello, or one yes, [...]]]> As most mornings go I wake up confused about the day, of where my life is heading and what direction that I should be going.  It is funny when we think about how many different opportunities and possibilities that there are. How one turn, or one hello, or one yes, or no can make a difference in your life.  I think we often feel stuck in our lives…and may be at some point that is true. Some times we need to stand still until we can resolve issues that we do not want.  Other times maybe it is best to pull the Band-Aid quickly, and make the change.  It all depends on your current situation and the choices that you have made in the past.   What we can do now is to decide what we want… which is not so easy when you have so many possibilities, but decided, be clear, then make your decisions, and look for opportunities based on that.

 

Just a thought…

 

Love, Goldi

 

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]]> http://goldilocksblog.com/2009/06/possibilities-and-opportunities/feed/ 0 Love The One Your With! http://goldilocksblog.com/2009/06/love-the-one-your-with/ http://goldilocksblog.com/2009/06/love-the-one-your-with/#comments Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:57:25 +0000 Goldilocks http://goldilocksblog.com/?p=100 Someone once said to me that Love is a choice, and being a woman with so much feeling and emotion, I disagreed with him. Years have gone by since then, busy running through my life, and now that I am trying to be still more, and have taken a step [...]]]> Someone once said to me that Love is a choice, and being a woman with so much feeling and emotion, I disagreed with him. Years have gone by since then, busy running through my life, and now that I am trying to be still more, and have taken a step back to observe and listen, I think that he is right.  I watch and listen to my married friends, and friends in relationships, and I see that with just a change in perception, a choice, that things including feelings would be so much better. 

 

I listen to men and women complain about their spouse or significant other, about what they do or don’t do and how it makes them feel.  But what about what they do…  It is very easy a single person to see this, because we do not have anyone doing anything for us.  So women and men appreciate all that your spouse or significant other does for you.  If they bring you so much as a glass of water, or carry your dishes to the sink, or if they have a job that helps support your household, then love them, appreciate them.  If they stay home with children, clean your home, do your laundry, pay your bills, love them, appreciate them. If they are sick or unable to do anything but love you, love them, and appreciate them.  If you’re unhappy still, do not blame your partner, make changes to do things that will bring joy to your life.  Choose happiness, choose to focus and appreciate what you do have. 

 

If you are still not getting it, think about it this way… imagine for a moment that you are alone, homeless, and wondering where your next meal was coming from, really think about how you would feel.  Wouldn’t you appreciate all that you have now?  Wouldn’t you really appreciate all that the other person is giving you now, as a great gift?  Don’t worry about the little things.  They are just that, little things.  If you have a roof over your head, food in the pantry, and someone who cares if you make it home at night… you are blessed!  It is your perception that needs to change.  So choose to appreciate and love the one your with!

 

Just a thought!

 

Love, Goldi

 

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]]> http://goldilocksblog.com/2009/06/love-the-one-your-with/feed/ 0 We Reap What We Have Sewn-Green Shoots http://goldilocksblog.com/2009/05/we-reap-what-we-have-sewn-green-shoots/ http://goldilocksblog.com/2009/05/we-reap-what-we-have-sewn-green-shoots/#comments Sat, 23 May 2009 22:57:02 +0000 Goldilocks http://goldilocksblog.com/?p=96 In our economy, in our lives, in our relationships, in our health, and in our jobs… basically in every action that we take, we are planting seeds for our future! 

 

And nothing is more important for our future harvest than [...]]]> In our economy, in our lives, in our relationships, in our health, and in our jobs… basically in every action that we take, we are planting seeds for our future! 

 

And nothing is more important for our future harvest than deciding what seeds to plant.  For these seeds will determine the reality that we will soon be living, and if we choose particularly well, then some of what we plant, will have the potential to sustain and nourish ourselves and generations to come!

 

Just a thought!

 

Love,

 

Goldi

 

Goldilocks Blog

]]> http://goldilocksblog.com/2009/05/we-reap-what-we-have-sewn-green-shoots/feed/ 0 Green Shoots in Our Economy http://goldilocksblog.com/2009/05/green-shoots-in-our-economy/ http://goldilocksblog.com/2009/05/green-shoots-in-our-economy/#comments Tue, 12 May 2009 17:12:51 +0000 Goldilocks http://goldilocksblog.com/?p=80 Bernanke needs a new pair of glasses! Unfortunately I am afraid that the green shoots that he is seeing are weeds, and yes at least something is growing…  we would not want to see another great American dust bowl!  Yes, it is great that our economy did not totally collapsed, [...]]]> Bernanke needs a new pair of glasses! Unfortunately I am afraid that the green shoots that he is seeing are weeds, and yes at least something is growing…  we would not want to see another great American dust bowl!  Yes, it is great that our economy did not totally collapsed, and that our ground is being held together by something, and yes we should be celebrating that!  But we also need to be planting our own seeds!  Seeds that will help us, our families, our communities, and our world become a better place!

 

When we think things are going well we tend to go along our merry way, functioning without much thought, along with the rest of the status quo.  I am here to remind everyone that this is our opportunity for change!  To start again with thought, and a new awareness!

 

No matter where you are in life.  Do things differently… think of the greater good!  Deep down you know what the right choices are… you may think that they are harder, but in the end the crop you reap will be so much better than you can imagine!  But do something!  Don’t just sit there!  Bernanke needs our help!  So get up, get out, and start working that soil, start sowing the seeds for the life that you want! 

 

…and then next spring when Bernanke puts on his new glasses, he will again see green shoots, but this time instead of weeds the shoots will be those of flowers, or of volunteerism, or of a new business that you always wanted to start!

 

Just a thought!

 

Love,

 

Goldi

 

Goldilocks Blog

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