Mindful Motivation | Everyday Inspiration - Walk and Talk with Avalon by One Minute Calm

One Minute Calm: Walk and Talk with Avalon Episode 106. "Rainy days are good days to relax." There is nothing like a a good rainy day to make you want to curl up in bed a sleep.  Go ahead, relax! You deserve some time to refresh, rejuvenate, and rest. You can also spend this time getting your indoor projects further along...even if you don't finish them.  You can spend some creative time...

One Minute Calm: Walk and Talk with Avalon Episode 105. "Never Forget the Dreams of Your Youth." Your childhood is the impression that you must live with yourself and your entire life.  Keep those promises to yourself to keep the inner child happy.  Share your life's impressions to your children and to other children. Your happy can be relived and your sad or hurt can be fixed in the nex...

One Minute Calm: Walk and Talk with Avalon Episode 104. "The majestic mountains are calling." Get up high are see the world in a majestic, magic, position. Go climb the tallest mountain, take a walk on a trail, read the posted signs.  Learn something outside of your "normal". Learn something about the real world environment. Even if you are in a city, town or plateau region and can't get to m...

One Minute Calm: Walk and Talk with Avalon Episode 103. "Let yourself see the world from different perspectives." Do you remember when you were a child and hung upside down in a tree, on the monkey bars, on the playground, or any where outside?  Let yourself have fun by sitting upside down in a chair or sleeping and putting your feet where you usually put your head. Try doing your everyday ta...

One Minute Calm: Walk and Talk with Avalon Episode 102. "How do you like them apples?" Being clever as an apple a day will keep boredom away.  Learn a fact in this podcast episode and become a better conversationalist.    You don't need to be smug or a know it all, but having a few facts and a few good jokes to go with those facts, can really make you the hit of a conversation. Othe...

One Minute Calm: Walk and Talk with Avalon Episode 101. "Reflect upon your position and move toward positivity." Let's think about what position you are looking to change or enhance.  When you look around you, are you ready to change something about your stand or stance of where you are currently regarded?  Part of moving forward is going to be with a positive approach.  If you hold...

One Minute Calm: Walk and Talk with Avalon Episode 100. "Treat yourself to something special." You deserve to celebrate you and treat yourself to something special.  Take yourself a staycation, where you can stay at a hotel, resort, bed & breakfast that is somewhere nearby your home.  You can sit by the pool, have breakfast made for you, order room service ... and keep working like y...

One Minute Calm: Walk and Talk with Avalon Episode 99. "Appreciate today." You woke up today, that in itself is a reason to celebrate.  You were lucky enough to have a pillow and bed to sleep on, a bed to lay in, and shelter over your head.  Consider yourself fortunate as there are many people on this earth who do not have that at all or every night.  You could wake up and have coff...

One Minute Calm: Walk and Talk with Avalon Episode 98. "Don't wait until tomorrow." First of all, look down in the description and follow the link to the YouTube video and watch for one minute, the calming sunset. Use this minute to reflect on the statement: "Don't wait until tomorrow."  There are so many things to get done TODAY. There are so many people you can see or talk to TODAY.  T...

One Minute Calm: Walk and Talk with Avalon Episode 97. "Everyday is a chance for a new beginning." When you wake up in the morning, you can approach your day with doldrums or excitement. Start organizing your life, make lists, and begin to check them off. Organizing your thoughts will help you move forward AND keep your thoughts, your notes, down in one place.  You can "waste" time by doing "...

One Minute Calm: Walk and Talk with Avalon Episode 96. "Tiny details can hold beauty and inspiration." Stop and look at the tiny details that are created in: someone's life work, an artisan work, a craftsman's work. Antiques have told stories through the ages. These works are often created for the enjoyment of others. Artisans are a lot more rare but are back on the rise with more people working a...

One Minute Calm: Walk and Talk with Avalon Episode 95. "Stop dreaming and do it!" Sounds as simple and it is.  Don't let fear or not being ready stand in your way.  Go get out there this weekend and go visit someplace new, not the places you already know. If you are a planner, look for a room and a new place to visit.  If you are spontaneous, go.  Try a new mode of travel: a bu...

One Minute Calm: Walk and Talk with Avalon Episode 94. "Get inspired by the power of nature." Three of my favorite words: inspired, power, and nature. The one thing that does control us, weather and nature.  We cannot change the seasons; it changes around us. We can not change the rain; it pours down upon us. We cannot change the heat of the sun; it shines down over us.  We adapt and liv...

One Minute Calm: Walk and Talk with Avalon Episode 93. "Slow down and take moment to be a beacon of light to someone in troubled waters." We all have to go through grief and learn lessons  that we take with us for the rest of our lives.  Some of those lessons are not easy and can nearly break us.  Remember you are not alone, there is always someone who will help you, even if it seem...

One Minute Calm: Walk and Talk with Avalon Episode 92. "Ride off into the sunset." Where are you today and where can you ride off to find yourself a sunset tonight? Go enjoy yourself this evening reflecting back on your day.  Celebrate your accomplishments today and let yourself wonder what magic may happen tomorrow.  If you are in a happy place, share that, if you know of someone who is...

One Minute Calm: Walk and Talk with Avalon Episode 91. "A flower bouquet can brighten your day." Brighten your day, go ahead and make yourself smile.  Flowers have a beautiful life cycle that you can watch them grow and change everyday.  Where are you in your flowering life cycle?  Share a bouquet with someone and see how they react and what flowers mean to that person.  What d...

One Minute Calm: Walk and Talk with Avalon Episode 90. "Imagination has no boundaries." You can imagine anything.  You can put a story on something that you can embellish and day dream about in a way any manner you choose.  The mind and imagination is a very powerful thing.  It is a muscle that you need to exercise or you'll lose the power and the strength to imagine.  Imaginat...

One Minute Calm: Walk and Talk with Avalon Episode 89. "Inhale this moment." This moment is for you to take, inhale it.  Where ever you a reading this description or listening to this episode, take a deep inhale and feel this moment.  No one can own your moment, your emotions, or ambition.  Take back your integrity and do something positive for you and others today, because this mom...

One Minute Calm: Walk and Talk with Avalon Episode 88. "The earth is filled with beautiful creatures." Life if full of beautiful creatures, animals and humans. What would life be like 100 years ago or 200 years ago living with the animals? What would change in the way you use and sustain your life from today if you lived a century or two ago?  Animals remain on this earth due to learning how...

One Minute Calm: Walk and Talk with Avalon Episode 87. "Let the good times roll in." What are you waiting for?  Work hard, play hard and it's time to play and laugh!  Invite some friends to do something fun, hang out, listen to music, karaoke (fun for some), have a drink, a dinner party, and LAUGH! Make some new good times.  Be the one to initiate an invitation, with no expectations...

One Minute Calm: Walk and Talk with Avalon Episode 86. "Get out and explore." No more excuses, of any kind, you need to get out and explore.  You need to get on that bus, get on the plane, get on the train, get in a car, and go explore.  Is there a trip you've waited your entire life saying, "I'm going to do it one day..."?  Today is that day to get it started.  You can go and...

One Minute Calm: Walk and Talk with Avalon Episode 85. "Where will you draw your inspiration from today?" Go out and take that walk, go for a drive some where new, go find yourself and get inspired! Feel that life, that tickle from deep inside. Try to capture the feeling for as long as you can and help yourself and get you through the day with that inner joy.  Get your thoughts down of your i...

One Minute Calm: Walk and Talk with Avalon Episode 84. "Dream of the journey you want to take on a boat." Boats are magic floats that can take you any where on this planet currently covered by 71% of water.  You can dream of a journey you want to take, and then take it.  Do you like big ships and cruising, do you like small fishing boats, do you like medium sized leisure yachts? We origi...

One Minute Calm: Walk and Talk with Avalon Episode 83. "What can you learn from someone's life story?" Legacy. Legacy is not just objects passed down but someone but wealth of stories and experience passed down to the next generation.  If that generation pass to the next generation and so on...imagine the wealth  of information that gets passed on down: Historical stories, human timeline...

One Minute Calm: Walk and Talk with Avalon Episode 82. "Animals have something to teach us." The animals teach you when you listen and watch their behaviour.  If you are lost, look for an animals trail and you will eventually find water.  Their survival skills allow them to live on earth and find shelter and food, with what we think of as nature and instinct.  Baby animals watch the...