☆ Earth Hour 2012! ☆

Reminding everyone to turn their lights out for at least one hour, Saturday March 31st 8:30pm-9:30pm in your local time zone. Participate in this year's Earth Hour! Add your voice to the movement! :) 

"In March 2007 Earth Hour began in, Sydney, Australia when 2.2 million individuals and over 2,000 businesses turned out their lights and took a stand against climate change. From just one city Earth Hour quickly became an annual global event. More than 5,200 cities and towns in 135 countries worldwide switched off their lights for Earth Hour 2011. Earth Hour 2011 also ushered in a new era with members going Beyond the Hour to commit to lasting action for the planet. Without a doubt, Earth Hour has shown how great things can be achieved when people come together for a common cause.

Earth Hour is organised by the World Wildlife Fund and a dedicated network of volunteers around the world."

Find out more about Earth Hour and events happening in your community on their webpage!

And don't forget to keep your commitment to earth going and join "A Billion Acts of Green" for a fun way to get involved and get ideas on how you can be doing more for the planet. :) Can't wait to hear about how you all celebrate tomorrow! Feel free to share ideas here! 

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☺ Motivational Mondays! ☺

First Motivational Monday post of 2012!! Exciting stuff I know! So, let's start the New Year off right shall we? :) 

☺ Stay Positive! The first few days of the New Year tend to be greeted with either excitement and joy, or negativity and disappointment. Perhaps your New Year's Eve was not what you wanted it to be. Maybe you've given up on your resolutions already or are feeling upset that the New Year isn't already fabulous. Well, I say it a lot, but it's true; Life is what you make it! Resolve right this moment to be Happy and to always seek out the Positive. Maintaining that Positive Mental Attitude all year long will be what makes it amazing.       

☺ Spread love and joy! This week it is your mission to start the New Year off right! For yourself and for others! Call people you know to wish them a Happy New Year and to tell them you love them. Hug everyone you meet. Smile at strangers. Give people compliments. And practice random acts of kindness all week long!    
☺ Make your List of Intentions for 2012! These are not Resolutions! Resolutions hold onto an expectation of success so if you don't follow through then you're setting yourself up for disappointment. Set your list of Intentions instead, and make sure they're positive! Read up "Say Hello to the New Year right!" and "Goodbye to 2011, you were lovely" for more on Intentions vs Resolutions. :)

☺ Eat junk food all day! Give yourself one last day to eat crappy food, get it out of your system (or in rather ;)) and get ready to be healthy again. Sometimes it's nice to give yourself an excuse to eat what you shouldn't and the holiday season is that time of year when we tend to seriously slip. For me, "bad" food is what most people actually eat from day to day :p, like sugar and gluten, but whatever your vices are, get ready to get back on track to eating healthy. After all, a healthy stomach is a healthy mind. Remember that everything in your body is connected and therefor to treat them all with respect and balance and care.   

☺ Learn to put Yourself first! Again, one of those things I say again and again, but I really want this to sink in with you! Putting yourself first is not selfish… well, it is, but that's a Good thing! You want to be selfish! You need to be happy, to love yourself, and to respect your own needs and wishes first. 

☺ Come to terms with your Past! Yes, I wrote the article "Release the Past to live in the Present" just yesterday (if you haven't read it, read it). But this week, it is your task to make sure you have properly dealt, learned from, and can let the past lie where it should so the rest of your year can be magical. Get to it now! ;)  

☺ Pick up the 365 Day Bucketlist! I mentioned this last week and it will be available to order or download at ReLove Plan.et by the end of today (or sooner) :). It will be a list of 365 things that you should complete this year, from minimal small things to larger step-out-of-your-comfort-zone type tasks. ;) It will be very exciting and my way of giving you an extra kick this year towards blissful fun and Happiness. 

Hope you can look back fondly on 2011, take all the things you learned from it, and have an even more fabulous 2012! Your continued love and support and kind words mean the world to me! I truly mean that from the bottom of my heart, you are all amazing and I love you and am excited to share this next year with you! 

Much Love and Positivity! 

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☺ Say Hello to the New Year right! ☺

It's that time of year again, time to set those New Year's resolutions right? 

Saying Goodbye to the past year may be a good thing, but I think many of us do it the wrong way. Somehow we believe that when the clock rings in the new year, the past year somehow just vanishes and we never have to look back at it again. It doesn't work that way. And if you're wondering why you can feel so passionately that it will but then act surprised when the new year comes in and in that very first day you may already be feeling like nothing has changed… well it's because nothing has changed. 

Life is life. You choose what it is going to be at any moment. It doesn't magically change the first day of the new year or because you think you're armed with all these resolutions. Resolutions don't usually work because, one, they come from a place of neglect to the past, and two, a lack of consciousness as to where the things you want to change came from in the first place. Usually bad habits are a result of unhappiness within yourself, and so committing yourself with resolutions to change those bad habits aren't going to be successful unless you first address yourself, your emotions, feelings, and attitude.  

Making Resolutions Successful.

Any change has to come from within yourself, by getting in touch with yourself so that you can make those positive changes. Again, it's not as easy as flipping a switch on New Year's day. Change takes time. Change also takes patience, commitment, perseverance, and love and respect for yourself. What will help your resolutions become reality will be the right attitude and addressing the things you need to address in order for those resolutions to be a success. 

The Right Attitude: If you read ReLove Plan.et at all then you know already the emphasis I place on having a Positive Mental Attitude. I kid you not when I say this is the key to achieving just about anything you want in life. Being Positive means focussing on the good side of things instead of constantly dwelling on the bad. It also means finding the positive in any situation, no matter how negative it may seem. There is Always a Positive side! Always always! You just have to choose to see it. So in order for your Resolutions to be a success, arm yourself with a Positive Mental Attitude (PMA). It will probably take you some time to always seek out the positive so just be patient, keep at it, and give yourself a reminder to seek out the positive. 

Don't be so hard on yourself! Things don't change immediately, these things take time. This isn't because of you, it's simply because change takes time. You are reprogramming old thoughts, habits, and attitudes and these things take time to rebuild. Be realistic; you are going to stumble, fail, make mistakes, feel down, and get emotional. But what you do need to understand is that all of this is okay! Being human and experiencing life requires these things in order for us to grow, learn, and become better people. The part that will make those lows easier will be understanding that they are going to happen but not to hold onto them. Let it go. Feel, experience, learn, and let it go. You will feel fantastic again in no time so long as you allow the low moments to pass by, instead of dwelling on them and beating yourself up over them for happening. Be kind to yourself and be patient. At the end of every day, Just do your Best.  

Address the Source! Bad habits and attitudes come from somewhere! They do, they do! Find out why you feel a certain way, and where the attitude or bad habit comes from. Try to be conscious of when you turn to those bad habits, or feel negatively. I say it time and time again, if you need to see a councillor, do it! In fact, if anything, that should be your New Year's Resolution; see a councillor (or therapist, psychiatrist, etc.)! You won't change anything until you come to peace with your past, and we often need help to do this. It's not a shameful, embarrassing, or self-defeating thing to seek out help from another. And so I will say again, if you want to change anything start by changing yourself. You can't ignore your past or where feelings or habits come from, because they will rear their heads even if you choose to ignore them. Find the source so that you can actually change and live the life you want to live. 

I think at the end of it all, I just want to say that Change comes from Within Yourself. New Year's Day is just a day like any other (usually with a whole lot of partying and excitement around it of course). Changing yourself and making your life awesome has nothing to do with a "New Year." If you want your life to be awesome and amazing, then instead of making New Year's "Resolutions," start by making changes within yourself. Once you do that then those resolutions will probably come about on their own anyway. After all, what more does anyone truly want in life other than to be Happy? 

Happy New Year none-the-less! If nothing else, mark the New Year as the beginning of a change in You. Make it the beginning of excitement and amazement with changes and progress that comes from within. Because everything you need to live the life you want and to be the person you want to be already exist within yourself. 

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☺ Motivational Mondays! Last of 2011!☺

The day after Christmas! Wow, it went by fast ;p. Hope you all had a lovely time however you celebrated the Holiday season. More importantly, however, the New Year is fast approaching! I have some exciting things coming along very soon that I can't wait to share with you all. I mean I am literally jumping in my seat with excitement. Are you?! ;) Anyway, more on that later, now is time for the last Motivational Monday post of 2011!!! Whooooaaaaa sayyyy whattttt?!!! ;D And so because of this, I am setting the tone of this week to welcome the New Year off Right! 

☺ Reflect… upon this past year. Revisit memories, events, emotions, lessons. What would you do differently? Learn from the past but don't get stuck in it. "Mistakes" are only experiences that help us learn, so regret absolutely Nothing! All of life's experiences are there to learn from so that you can live better in this moment today. So, revisit the past to learn from it and so that you can tell yourself what you want to do differently in the coming year. And remember the importance of the Now and always return to it.      

☺ Learn to Laugh at Yourself! And don't take life so seriously. I think they are amazing words of advice that have helped me out time and time again. Life is meant to be enjoyed, to laugh and to smile. No matter what happens in life remember to laugh at yourself and have a sense of humour. Life should not be taken seriously. Being silly is a ton more fun than being serious. Come on, you know you enjoy my silliness, you simply must get in on this silliness as well! It's nice to act the way you want and not care what others think. So be yourself and enjoy every bit of it, stop caring what others think, and stop taking yourself and life so seriously.      

☺ Be Honest with Yourself… Deep down you know exactly what it is you want, so start listening to your heart more. Be honest with yourself and do whatever it is you need to do without fear or resistance. If there are changes you need to make in your life then now is the time to get on it so you can start the new year Fresh and Alive and full of Happiness!   

☺ Get Clear about what you Want! Kind of to go along with the above, but this is the time to get clear about what it is you want in life. Once you are clear about What you want, the answers as to how those things will come about will naturally begin to show themselves to you. 

☺ Read up on the Law of Attraction! It works it works it works! If you are still skeptic, get over it and get in touch with the Law of Attraction--after all, it is happening whether you believe in it or not. I have had so many personal experiences where the Law of Attraction works, and heard many other stories of it in action, both online and people I know in real life. So learn about it so that you can use it to your advantage and actually get what you want out of life instead of being an eternal pessimist. 

☺ Don't be so Hard on Yourself! Just do your best! Life is life, everyone stumbles, climbs up high, stumbles some more, has ups and downs, gets emotional, and experiences heart-breaks. But everyone also can experience blissful happiness, joys, smiling, laughter, and love. Success comes from trying and stumbling and going up and down along the path of life. Don't be so hard on yourself when things don't go as you wanted, planned, or hoped more. You a beautiful success no matter what you do in life. Have patience and be easy on yourself. 

☺ Pick up the 365 Day Bucketlist! This is something that I am very excited about and will have available at ReLove Plan.et hopefully in the next couple days :). It will be a list of 365 things that you should complete this year, from minimal small things to larger step-out-of-your-comfort-zone type tasks. ;) It will be very exciting and my way of giving you an extra kick this year towards blissful fun and Happiness. 

Have a wonderful last week of 2011! Hope you all have a fantastic New Year and set some positive intentions for 2012! Thank you for your continued love, support, and visiting ReLove Plan.et! Much Love and Positivity! 

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