The Strong Within Affirmation Podcast

Smiling Sundays-#407 February 11th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I Wait Patiently Through Action   "The two most powerful warriors are patience and time." ~Leo Tolstoy The right moment doesn't reveal itself to us as we wish it would. We want things to be perfect, but wants and wishes will blind us from seeing a moment as what it is…already perfect. For in every moment there is perfec...

Synergistic Saturdays-#406  February 10th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I Am Purposeful In How I Want To Feel   "The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls." ~Pablo Picasso Let's face it…we all are living the busiest lives we know. It doesn't matter what anyone else is doing. We still think we have the busiest lives in the world, and if only people understood...

Fantastic Fridays-#405 February 9th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I Follow My Intuition   The only real valuable thing is intuition. Albert Einstein A few years ago I was working out with a good friend of mine. This friend was so energetic, they were such a happy soul, and they displayed so much kindness in who they were…everyday. It was a joy to be around this person, and I was glad...

Thoughtful Thursdays-#404 January 8th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast If I'm Going To Be Anything, I'm Going To Be Useful   "Be yourself, but always your better self." ~Karl G. Maese I wrote this poem back in September of 2016 and I wanted to share it for this podcast I wanted to be a pilot Crashing through the heavens, But I realized that I shouldn't have touched Things that weren't m...

Wisdom Wednesdays-#403 February 7th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I Invite The Burglars In Because What I Have Cannot Be Stolen "Our Intention Creates Our Reality." ~Wayne Dyer A burglar broke into a home. He heard a soft voice say, "Jesus is watching you." Thinking he was just hearing things, he continued stuffing items into his burglar bag. Again, he hears: "Jesus is watching you."...

Tag Me Tuesdays-#402 February 6th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast There's Enough Room For Both Of Us To Pursue Our Dreams   "I think that you have to bear in mind that music is about escape, and it's not unreasonable to think the music business would be based around escapism." ~Peter Hook I'm all about fairy tales. I'm all about asking for more of your life and not settle for being ord...

Mindful Mondays-#401 February 5th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I Make Everyday Feel Like Payday "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." ~Mark Twain A young man left the life he knew in order to study the ways of Zen. He decided that he needed a master to teach him the ways of mastery. He traveled many miles seeking for the answers....

Smiling Sundays - #400 February 4th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I Am Quick To Love I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him. Booker T. Washington   I was listening to a video on anger where Dr. Ryan Fuller talked about what happens to us when we get angry. He said when we are angry the body's response is survival, so it focuses on metabolizing energy, and thus...

Synergistic Saturdays-#399  February 3rd The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I'm Committed To Finding The Best Way   "Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time." ~Thomas A. Edison Sometimes our lives are hard because we make them hard. I was thinking back to my college days where I used to eat a lot of hard boiled eggs. I w...

Fantastic Fridays-#398 February 2nd The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I Remain Focused On What I Really Want "One way to boost our will power and focus is to manage our distractions instead of letting them manage us." ~Daniel Goleman I'll be honest with you, this week, writing has been hard. I've wanted to watch Animal Planet II on Netflix, watching those lemurs fly from tree to tree is...

Thoughtful Thursdays-#398 February 1st  The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I See The Greatness In People "I am suggesting that as we go through life, we 'accentuate the positive.' I am asking that we look a little deeper for the good, that we still our voices of insult and sarcasm, that we more generously compliment and endorse virtue and effort." ~Gordon B. Hinckley   A good friend of mi...

Wisdom Wednesdays-#396 January 31st  The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I Allow What I Want To Come To Me Meditation…who has time for that, and why should I even do it? I get anxious sitting around trying to think about nothing. I mean 5 minutes of breathing and trying to calm myself is way too long for me…I'm a busy person; I got better things to do with my time. I have more productive t...

Tag Me Tuesdays-#395  January 30th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast Kindness Is My Truth "My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness." ~Dalai Lama I believe the lessons in life are patterns that keep popping up until we notice them and find a way to confront them. One of the truths that keeps happening in my life is to speak up when it would be easier to be quiet. When it would...

Mindful Mondays-#394 January 29th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast My Purpose Is Found In Possibilities "The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today." ~Les Brown And that's "but" with one "T," not two. We'll save the rear end discussion for another day. Now this might sound strange to some, and maybe even some will call me delusional for saying...

Smiling Sundays - #393 January 28th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I'm The Architect Of My Life "Whatever good things we build end up building us." ~Jim Rohn Everything in your life is by design. Where there's chaos, there's order. It may seem like randomness, but that's because the patterns have not been spotted yet. And sometimes the patterns haven't been spotted, because the invest...

Synergistic Saturdays-#392  January 27th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I Hold Onto What Makes Me Stronger "Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go." ~Hermann Hesse One of my biggest problems is holding onto things I should let go of. Take for example this podcast; I tend to have a lot of ideas when I'm writing for it, and during my brainstorming pr...

Fantastic Fridays-#391  January 26th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I'm The Best Tool In My Toolbox "If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail." ~Abraham Maslow Dwight D. Eisenhower was president of the United States of America, Grace Kelly and Marlon Brando won Oscars for the best actress and actor, Roger Bannister became the first person to run a...

Thoughtful Thursdays-#390 January 25th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I Have No Enemies Because I Decided To Love Them "In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him." ~Orson Scott Card On December 24th and 25th of 1914 a temporary truce was called. It is famously known as the Christmas truce where Be...

Wisdom Wednesdays-#389 January 24th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I Treat Small Matters With Great Respect "Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary." ~Blaise Pascal Working harder for something doesn't always mean we are working smarter for something. It doesn't always mean we're working in the best way.  Take a moment to think about a time whe...

Tag Me Tuesdays-#388  January 23rd The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast Problems Are Actually Questions Asking Me To Be Better The highest levels of performance come to people who are centered, intuitive, creative, and reflective - people who know to see a problem as an opportunity. ~Deepak Chopra It was a chilly day for San Francisco on October 25th 1964 when the Minnesota Vikings came in...

Mindful Mondays-#387 January 22nd The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I'm The Best Friend I Know "Your best friend and worst enemy are both in this room right now. It's not your neighbor right or left - and it's not God or the devil - it's you." ~Edwin Louis Cole I was invited to give a talk to a nonprofit group called Upward Bound. Upward Bound's mission is to, and I quote this from their...

Smiling Sundays - #386 January 21st The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I Expect Great Things "A desert is a place without expectation." ~Nadine Gordimer There's the famous piece of advice that says if you don't expect anything, you'll never get disappointed. And while that's great advice, it's dime store advice because I don't know ANYONE on this earth who didn't ever expect anything. I g...

Synergistic Saturdays-#385  January 20th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I'm Ok With Being Wrong…For Us To Be Right "In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing." ~Theodore Roosevelt I was in a relationship years ago where I questioned my sanity. Not because I was insane for g...

Fantastic Fridays-#375  January 19th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I've Made Fear My Friend "If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles." ~Sun Tzu I wrote a poem a year ago about a conversation I had with fear. I was going on a journey, and setting my sails to new shores. As my ship was leaving, I was thanking fear for being there for m...

Thoughtful Thursdays-#374 January 18th The Strong Within Daily Affirmation Podcast I Focus On The End To Know Where To Begin "I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe." ~Dalai Lama Maybe I might be oversimplifying how our lives work, but where your focus goes is where your energy flows. Where your concentration resides is what will actualize. Wher...