GRATITUDE AND LOVE

The best gift you can give to someone is the gift of Love and Gratitude.

Please take one minute to watch my gift to you!  I hope your 2014 has been as magical as mine has.  I look forward to the New Year and all the amazing adventures and sparkling surprises it will hold. 

Thank you for all of your love, kindness and support.  May you and your family enjoy a grand holiday and a healthy, happy and loving New Year!
                                   Much love, 
                                                   Pennie 

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Pennie’s Life Lesson:
                  “Love is the energy of life.
                     Strengthen your energy 
                             by loving more!”
                                                     ~Pennie Hunt
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My intent in sharing this with you is to encourage you to  express gratitude and love to those you care about. 
How can you show love, be love and receive love in these last few days of the year?

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When it comes to love, Anything Will Help!

I turned the corner to head home after doing my weekly errands.  I noticed at the street light ahead there was a man holding his cardboard sign that read,
          “Anything will help.” 

Pulling up next to him I rolled down my window and handed him one of my coffee shop gift cards that I carry just for occasions like this.  I explained to him where the coffee shop was and that he could get something hot to drink and eat on this cold day.

After he said, “Thank YOU,” for the third time our eyes met and I believe in that second he felt love.  

In that moment I felt love.  I felt the love being returned from him and I also felt love for myself for showing kindness.  

Love works that way.

If we don’t see love we can’t be love.  In the moment he looked at me he understood that the gift card held more than a cup of coffee and a sandwich, it held love.

When he looked in my eyes and saw love, he mirrored the love back to me filling me up with love from him and magnifying the love I hold inside of myself.  Once we see love, we can BE love.  

How many times do we have the opportunity to show love for others to see?  The answer is constantly!

Love is not just for special celebrations or certain holidays.  Love is for every moment of every day.  The more love we show, the more love others see, the more love they can be filled with and the more love they show to others.  This is the pay-it-forward of the heart.  

We see this mirrored magnification work all the time…. If you show anger, others show anger and it spreads.  If you see fear, you become fear and it grows.


Why would we want to waste our time on that?  

Become what you want more of.
Become Love.
Show love.

It’s easy to show it with flowers, gifts and in big ways.  It is harder to show it in every moment in small ways.


Be the love that others see.
Even showing small amounts of love will be mirrored back to you.
When it comes to love, Anything Will Help! 
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Pennie’s Life Lesson:
      “When you become the love that others see  love will be mirrored back to you.” 
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 My intent in sharing this with you is to encourage you to  think about love during this holiday season.  How can you show love, be love and receive love in these last few days of the year?

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THREE ABILITIES THAT DETERMINE YOUR SUCCESS AND HAPPINESS


Are you searching for the secret to happiness?

Do you wonder why other people seem to be more successful than you—even if you believe that you work harder than they do? 

It comes down to three attributes. 
Here it is 1 – 2 – 3! 

1. The ability to accept and adapt to change.

2. The ability to believe you are Good Enough to  love
      and be loved.

3. The ability to express gratitude.

Let me break these down for you.

I learned as a little girl growing up in a military family to make friends on the playground or stand alone.  I learned that I needed to accept the changes that occurred when my father received orders that moved us to a new community and that I needed to adapt to my new environment, make friends and enjoy the new normal.

This has served me well through career changes, divorce and grief.  While others live in the Who-Moved-My-Cheese stagnation unable to accept that their life has changed and unable to adapt to the new adventures ahead of them, successful, happy people hone the ability to accept and adapt.  You may not always like the event that spurred the change, but cultivate the ability to bloom in the space you find yourself – no matter what!

We are bombarded with the message that we are Not Good Enough!  We all protect that space inside where we believe we are not thin enough, smart enough, rich enough…the list goes on and on.  The newest guilt inducers verified by the over 300,000 self-help books on the market are that we are not happy enough, healthy enough or holy enough.

Here’s the thing – WE ARE ALL GOOD ENOUGH!!  Just by the pure biological chance that we were created proves this –it is no accident!  We were all meant to be here! I can tell you this all day, but YOU must do the work on this one.  YOU have to believe right down to your inner core that YOU ARE GOOD ENOUGH!

It doesn't matter what trauma you had as a child or what wrongs you have committed, you must come to a place of knowing that you are Good Enough to love and be loved.  If you don’t believe it no one else will believe it of you.  Relationships, love, happiness and success will avoid you—after all you are sending off the vibe that you aren't Good Enough and don’t deserve it!

Lastly, you must express gratitude.  You will never receive more if you are not grateful for what you have.  If all you have is a pair of shoes and a burger to eat, be grateful for that! Be grateful for every step, every breath, and every moment you are given and for all that your life is filled with.

Don’t just say, “Thank you,”  feel gratitude with every cell of your body.  Tell others why you are thankful for them.  Write thank you notes, make phone calls, journal, pray, sing, dance – whatever moves you to a loving place, do it!

You cannot hold on to a negative like hurt, anger or fear when you are filled with gratitude.  Practice the ability to express gratitude until it becomes your DNA. 
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Pennie's Life Lesson:

“To be happy and successful cultivate these three attributes: The Ability to accept and adapt to change; The Ability to believe you are Good Enough to love and be loved; and The Ability to express gratitude.” ~ Pennie Hunt 

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 My intent in sharing this with you is to encourage you to practice these three attributes until they become part of your daily living! Monitor how this positively affects your life! 

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 BOOMERANGS

Do you remember playing with a boomerang?


You know the concept-- you hurl it into the air believing that you are throwing it far away and in seconds it is coming back aimed straight at you.

How does that happen? 

We all have personal boomerangs; those pesky habits, patterns or cycles that repeat over and over again in our lives.

We love our boomerangs. We have a collection of them that we display in our mind’s trophy case.   We polish them and engrave them with our favorite story. 

Imagine a sparkling, bright, red lacquered boomerang with gold embedded words that say, 

     "I have played hokey-pokey with the 
       same 10-15 lbs of weight and just can't 
       seem to keep it off."  

Can you see the shiny boomerang whooshing through the air as it is thrown with might and determination?
The weight goes down.
It feels great!
Then out of that same clear air this boomerang appears spinning straight back with precision accuracy and hula-hoops around the waist.

((PLUNK!))

 There it is again that familiar 10 lbs. 

How does that happen?

The story is verified and the game of hokey - pokey begins again.

What does your boomerang say? Is it engraved with words like- 
     "I am always sick,"
     "I will never finish school,"
     "I end up in the same dead end job all the 
       time,"
     "I can't trust any man (or woman) that 
       I'm in a relationship with." 

Do you see what all of these boomerangs have in common?

They are engraved with negative power and thrown with anger and dissatisfaction.  We become so attached to these Boomerangs and the stories they carry that we keep polishing them and throwing them again and again. 

And every time we are surprised when they come targeting right back to us.

What if we changed the story?

What if we changed the engraving to a positive message?

What if we threw our boomerang with love and kindness? 

It would come back to us - they always do - but this time with the perfect weight, the job of our dreams, or an amazing partner. 

We will wonder --  how did that happen.

Start throwing!
Throw love!
Throw kindness!
Throw hope! 
Then wait.  It will come back.  It always does.
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Pennie's Life Lesson:
"You can throw your life boomerang with love and kindness or anger and dissatisfaction- either way it will come back to you—it always does. The choice is yours!" 

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 My intent in sharing this with you is to encourage you to think about how your life boomerangs return to you in the same way you throw them.  Are you throwing them with love and kindness?

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