Inspiration Friday 2025.01.03

Inspiration: Happy Friday!
Today is the 3rd Day of 2025.

We have $3,000.00 today.
10% savings = $300.00
40% taxes = $1,200.00: This year my tax dollar contributions continue to focus on National Parks. There are 63 National Parks in the United States. This week I am expressing gratitude for these tax dollars being spent to support the Crater Lake National Park. Located in the state of Oregon. The Crater Lake National Park was established in 1902. You will find among other wonders the deepest Lake in the United States, a sleeping volcano, Vidae Falls, Plaikni Falls and Duwee Falls to explore. Learn more here.

How will you be spending the remaining $1,500.00 today?

HERE IS MY PLAN: Be a Better Me

“You won’t know everything at the start. But surround yourself with smart people, get all the help you can, and ask lots of questions. Every day, you’ll learn a little more. You’ll never learn it all, but one day, you’ll find yourself in a new situation and realize that you know enough to find your way to the right answer.” Dan Oshinsky

This is the first Friday of 2025. It is my custom at the beginning of each New Year to start a fresh account in the vibrational checkbook game that we play. I am living the life I dare to create. As we play the checkbook game together, self-awareness is likely to expand in unexpected ways. Prepare for expansion, fun, wonder, learning adventures and thought-provoking points sprinkled here and there as the year meanders forward. I am delighted to be sharing my experiences with you. Try it; be amazed at how practicing conscious choice reveals your authentic self. What action can you take today to respond with love and be a better human? Humanity is a choice.

How are you showing up in the world?

$100.00: for self-care. This daily practice reminds me that I am responsible to put myself on the priority list of life.  Choosing to care for myself is a key factor in expanding contributions for Earth and others.   It is a gratitude practice grounded in the accountability of choice.  Today I am spending this self-care money to buy fresh fruits and vegetables. I am fueling my body with healthy foods. And I love that!

$0 Priceless: Something about life that does not cost money, but intrinsically makes the quality of life richer.

“You don’t need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for 20 minutes and watch your heart start beating” — Barbara Sher

I invite you to start now. For example, today I am setting intentions for living life with more heart moments in 2025. Feel good. Be you. Expand joy. Practice gratitude. Amplify kindness to self and others. Find your inner peace and calm. Embrace wellbeing. Contribute towards a better planet. Consciously connect with friends and support their Living Intentions. Participate in events that help you create meaningful relationships. Make more time for people who matter. Connection is key. Respond to life with love. Repeat. What would it take?

$400.00: This is the fifth year that I am donating dollars to an underground neighborhood pop-up food bank located in the Smith family garage. I know about this food bank because it was created in response to COVID mandates for isolation in 2020 and continues to support local people with a little extra kindness. Neighbors helping neighbors is something we can all do. How open are you to living in a better world in 2025?

$1000.00: for a date with my husband. Each week on Friday I dedicate a thousand dollars to our relationship. This practice has heightened my awareness of choosing to spend quality time together. We are on each other’s priority lists. And I love that! This week’s date includes cooking dinner together as we define our couple’s “Happiness Project” categories for 2025.  Click here to learn more about Gretchen Rubin. We focus together on a playful, supportive, loving marriage!

How much love can you stand?

Flow Five Friday: Current “real” life expressions of gratitude, love, and contribution to wellbeing.

This practice began in 2015.  I wanted to experience giving, sending actual dollars infused with love out into the world. Do you know the intrinsic value of a five-dollar bill? A teacher once told me that every time you receive a five-dollar bill in change, it is a message of abundance from the Universe. She suggested that we keep those five-dollar bills. In the keeping of these five dollars bills you activate conscious choice in receiving and spending money. I can afford to buy things or experiences because I have a stash of fives. The “I cannot afford it” statement is replaced with conscious choice. Now, I am choosing to spend or not to spend. The five-dollar bill is a money magnet that can multiply. Long story short, I decided to put an actual five-dollar bill into the world each Friday. The practice of giving money weekly with no attachment to the outcome has ironically generated an overflowing connection to hope in my daily awareness. And I love that! Sometimes the five-dollar bill goes to a stranger, sometimes to an organization and other times to a specific person.

I am choosing to be the energy of what works in life.

$5.00: this week’s five dollars were sent to the United Nations to support World Peace. The mailing address is 405 East 42^nd Street, New York, NY, 10017.  I am choosing to be the energy of what works in life.

Five Increments of Time: In addition to putting a five-dollar bill into circulation, I also plan to acknowledge at least 5 increments of time spent with or for someone else each week.  These deeds can be in person, on the phone, in writing communications or acts of service. I found that this practice is usually a random opportunity that presents itself for me to amplify kindness. There are 1440 minutes in each day or 10080 in each week. Whether it is money or time I am choosing to be a conscious, active philanthropist this year. Today, on this first Friday of 2025, I write and send out this message to you. I am grateful for each of you that showed up to read my heart musing. Namaste. How are you “Flowing Five” this week?

Well-Being: Something that I am doing or not doing for self-care in real time.

I start each New Year by reading a favorite childhood book. It is called “The Little Engine That Could” by Watty Piper. This story reminds me to “think that I can!” Wonder what I will create this year?

What are you doing or not doing for self-care?

Planet Awareness: Contributing to the health of Earth.

Each week I pay attention to how my choices impact the environment. Sometimes I share best practices, sometimes new research findings on the state of our planet, and sometimes I share random ideas.  I start the year with an idea from Danielle La Porte who invites us to: “Remember to put the planet on your vision board in 2025.”

What are you doing for the health of our planet?

Hold Space or Contribute to a Friends Life Intention: In this section, I write about holding space or contributing toward the well-being of one of my friends’ life intentions each week. This conscious practice contributes to a better world for all by supporting another’s desire to manifest one of their personal living intentions. This week I am supporting my friend, international bestselling author Peter J Hughes whose intention is to “manifest a New Year’s Evolution” by inviting us all to reclaim our humanity. His new book has been recently published. It is called At-One-Ment: More Tools and Insights for Reclaiming Our Humanity. Here is a link to learn more about both his books as well as the companion card deck.  If you have been listening to our podcast show, these are the tools we often use to start our weekly Conscious Conversation. Learn more here.

Choose joy. Be kind. Love others and strive to be a better human. What would it take?

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: