Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Introduction by Jim Haisler (thanks to Jim!)
Welcome to Mini Miracles from Minor Moments where small achievement may become big accomplishments. Our small steps and habits can still take us to far away places by repeating them.
Hopefully, here at Mini Miracles from Minor Moments, where you’ll find of insights and knowledge about yourself. My plan is to help you like yourself and love life. It is meant to help you recognize the gifts you have been given. We all have these gifts and until someone or some experience shows us, we often miss seeing them. Instead we get caught up seeing our less admirable behaviors.
Hi, this is Linda Gullo and every week I share a few thoughts with you to inspire and get you thinking about your own life. Today, I’d like to ask you the question, “What does Success Sound like to you?”
When children are little, a mother listens to hear laughter and silly banter between the children playing nearby in the yard. She listens to hear if there is a problem and keeps a keen ear open to any distress. For her, success is hearing the children having fun and playing.
A few years ago there was a fun song called What Does the Fox Say? (by Ylvis) It was a creative and imaginative song that we all were listening to and singing along with on the radio. I guess hearing animals of prey in the distance to prepare encountering while on a camping trip would be successful in keeping everyone safe.
Last night on our local PBS station (WTTW in Chicago) we listened to Andrea Bocelli who paid tribute to songs from famous movies like The Days of Wine and Roses. I watched and listened to a man who is blind and yet so comfortable in singing and playing the piano. During the break the Host of the Show on PBS said she had been to one of his shows and that he was so relaxed singing. His ability to hear the notes and duplicate them was for sure with practice, but also with hearing it well. That is success spelled with a big S.
On an everyday level though success comes at the basketball game or the weekday practice on the school grounds. The sounds of “cheering” on friends spells success to those on the field.
Maybe success is communicating with another person who you needed to share some important things with for a better understanding of what is happening. It may simply listening and being together to heal an old misunderstanding.
After the power goes out in our home from some major power problem, it is unusually quiet for we have a well that also shuts down. When the power returns, it is the sound of having running water again. That is an awesome sound we take for granted.
Years ago we had a big, fawn colored Boxer named Lord of Regal Domain. He was fearless until it came to the overhead Hot Air Balloons that would come over our house in 3’s. As the balloons let out air to raise up the sounds could be heard in the distance and he would head for the back door of the house. To him it was ominous and threatening. To me it spelled success that the balloons were working and in the area.
Tomorrow I am heading out to the Geneva area for one of the Productions of the Wizard of Oz. I am told it is a very long production and yet great. In the past when I attend these singing and dancing theatrical presentations, the kids long for the responses of the audience (which by the way is right there next to them–it is performed in a very small space), the expressions of the audience are watched by the children and they light up when the clapping takes place. It puts smiles on their faces.
In business, success sounds like the phone ringing with a new client or the sound of someone walking into the office. It may be that you have just done a live presentation and it was well received with applause.
If you drive a car, the sound of the car starting is strangely a good feeling. It lets you know you are able to proceed on the way to your destination. If the sounds coming out are odd or rumbling, it may likewise tell you to get service.
In the event of a problem, sounds tells us that help is on the way, when you hear an ambulance or fire truck arriving.
The taking off of an airplane engines is a relief when you’re going up and the sound of the landing gear touching the runway is a relief upon arriving. That is success spelled in the way of joy and a big sigh that you have reached your destination—namely the ground in a safe way.
So it is as we proceed thru life that success can take on many different dimensions. Do you spell success in a different way? Next time you are thinking you are not a success, just think of all the sounds that are around you and encouraging you to step ahead.
Listen carefully from now on and see how sounds around you can make you feel better. Listen to the people speaking for clues of acceptance or rejection. Follow your gut when things sound oddly wrong. But then delight when things are happy and empowering.
Please join me here regularly at Mini Miracles. Each episode is based on simple and real stories. These short podcast episodes are jam packed with upbeat and encouraging tidbits for you to take along for the week.
There are so many things I’d like to provide for you. If this is your first time listening to me, you know that this is a treat for me. Podcasting allows me to reach out of the 4 corners of my office where I work as a Counselor and Transitional Life Coach. If you would like either service you can call our office at 815-459-5161 during the week or email me at linda@delightinliving.com I want to be part of your day as inspiration. I invite you to like yourself and enjoy life. Our Coaching services are available in different packages on line and over the phone to serve your needs when it comes to Changing Jobs, The Loss of a Loved One, the Empty House Syndrome, or just learning to feel your best at any stage of life. Mini Miracles provides handouts and encouragement while we serve you.
Have a fruitful week of Successful sounds and emerging joy. Bye for now and see you next week.