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Inspiration: Happy Friday!
Today is the 96th day of 2024.
We have $96,000.00 today.
10% savings = $9,600.00
40% taxes = $38,400.00: This week I am expressing gratitude for these tax dollars being spent to support the Shasta-Trinity National Forest. It is in the state of California. This National Forest was established in 1905. You will find among other wonders Mount Shasta and five wilderness areas to explore. Learn more here.
How will you be spending the remaining $48,000.00 today?
HERE IS MY PLAN: This and That
“If we were good at everything, we would have no need for each other.”- Simon Sinek
How are you showing up in the world?
One of my friends was visiting her sister to connect and teach holiday family traditions to another generation. The daughters and granddaughters were visiting their mom/grandmother to prepare special foods, make holiday sweets, and dye eggs. It just so happened that the neighborhood association was hosting an Easter Egg hunt that day on the clubhouse lawn. Grandmother and her sister gave the moms a break and walked the three little girls down the block to participate in the fun. The children were invited to play with other kids their age for this egg-hunting adventure. However, the three little cousins wanted to stick together and joined the 7-year-old’s hunting game. When the game was complete, two little boys noticed that the three-year-old only had one egg in her basket. She told the boys it was hard to find any eggs. Without hesitation or prompting from an adult, each boy shared several items from their “loot” to fill the three-year old’s basket. Look for the helpers and you will find them. Hope for humanity is alive and well. How are you showing up in the world?
$100.00: for self-care. I am allowing my creative self to play by making homemade cards with new art supplies. And I love that!
$0: Priceless: Contribute peace by being kind to a stranger. Yes, give and receive random acts of kindness with an open heart. What can ordinary people do about world peace? We can respond to life with love. Acknowledge all our feelings and then choose to be kinder to ourselves, love others and strive to be a better human. What if it is that simple? Respond with love. Repeat. What would it take?
$46,900.00: I am contributing to solutions for food access with the World Central Kitchen. Founder Chef Jose Andres says that “when you talk about food and water, people don’t want a solution in a week or a month from now. The solution must be now.” What are you contributing to live in a better world in 2024? Learn more here.
$1000.00: for a date with my husband that includes celebrating our wedding anniversary. I am grateful to be in a happy, healthy, marriage. It is full of joy to be in a partnership built mostly on telling each other what’s right about our relationship. How loved can you stand it?
Flow Five Friday: Current “real” life expressions of gratitude, love, and contribution to wellbeing.
$5.00: This week’s five-dollar bill is inside the book called Enough to Go Around: A Story of Generosity by Kristin Johnson. The book was placed in a Little Free Library. I am choosing to be the energy of what works in life.
Five Increments of Time: This week I made time to listen to a ten-year-old practice her piano recital piece over zoom. I was in an audience of one, witnessing the creative expression of a young musician. Being there. How are you “Flowing Five” this week?
Well-Being: Something that I am doing or not doing for self-care in real time.
I am participating in a 100-day health challenge with friends. Each of us decides what challenge will support our wellbeing. My choice for these 100 days is to Move My Body More! What are you doing or not doing for self-care?
Planet Awareness: Contributing to the health of Earth.
April is Earth Month! Earth Day is April 22nd and this year’s theme is “Planet or Plastic”. For the last several years, prior to making a purchase, I ask myself this question “planet or plastic?” This practice has heightened my awareness of product packaging, impulse buying and improved my overall creative approach to spending money focused on backing a better life for all. I am consciously being kinder to Earth when I consider what I am buying and how. “Planet or Plastic?”
What are you doing for the health of our planet?
Hold Space or Contribute to a Friends Life Intention:
This week I am supporting my friend Hank who is surprising his wife Annie with a trip to see their daughter in Australia. One of Hank’s Living Intentions is to be a loving husband, father and now grandfather. You can help support Hank’s living intention by imagining Annie holding her new grandson. How loved can you stand it?
Choose joy. Be kind. Love others and strive to be a better human. What would it take?
Connection Project 360 Podcast Episode this week:
Living Intention or Bucket List?
This and That
What if everything you ask for is possible?
What actions would you take?
I am in a happy, healthy, marriage. And I love that!
How are you showing up in the world?
How are you spending the remaining $48,000.00 today?
I am grateful to have each of you in my life.
I am supporting your work and life intentions.
Love to you.
Mare
Choose to feel good. Be Joy.
Practice gratitude. Amplify Kindness. Expand Generosity.
Ask, Receive, and Give with More Ease.
Respond to life with Love.
PS: If you have been playing with me for several years, below are the current daily deposits in other years Vibrational Accounts:
2014 today is the 3740th day giving us $3,740,000.00 to spend
2015 today is the 3393rdday giving us $3,393,000.00 to spend
2016 today is the 3011th day giving us $3,011,000.00 to spend
2017 today is the 2650th day giving us $2,650,000.00 to spend
2018 today is the 2286thday giving us $2,286,000.00 to spend
2019 today is the 1921stay giving us $1,921,000.00 to spend
2020 today is the 1557th day giving us $1,557,000.00 to spend
2021 today is the 1291st day giving us $1,291,000.00 to spend
2022 today is the 824th day giving us $824,000.00 to spend
2023 today is the 461st day giving us $461,000.00 to spend
