What’s Better: Rushing or Waiting?
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Good Afternoon and Welcome to Mini Miracles from Minor Moments where it is the seemingly minor moments that bring us the potential for great joy and insight into our life.
This is Podcast # 76 on What’s Better: Rushing and Waiting? The topic actually created itself beginning with a minor moment last night.
It had been a full day with lots of the usual chores packed in around work, cooking, and taking the dog outside. I was delighted to get in another long walk out in the country for some enjoyable exercise. It was cool and pleasant, but the sunshine was an invitation to move.
Last night a glass of ice water accidentally fell into an open filing drawer. Chaos erupted as we ran for towels and started separately files. Drying and discarding what we could, the room suddenly had piles of papers scattered about to air dry. We rushed to blot away any water that was standing.
Ironically, I had just commented that I wanted to change the way I was filing paperwork and return to an approach that we used many years ago. I had remarked that it was easier to find things quickly in my older method. Well now thanks to this little unexpected glitch, the new filing system will go into effect this weekend. I have already set up new file folders this morning. I like to be inspired to get jobs done, but this was not the ideal way to prioritize reorganizing.
The End of Day
It was at the end of the day as we were winding down and saying goodnight when this incident erupted. Needless to say, I stayed up afterwards to relax before heading to bed. I took a few moments to connect with my daughter as I usually do at nighttime. Our families are the most precious things in life and even the smallest practices of connecting with them are essential to our well being. With that I finally went to bed.
This morning I was in a store and found the clerk rushing me. I did purchase one of the things I needed, but recognized that I would have spent more money if she had not been so quick to exit me.
Then at lunchtime, the news came on and the newscaster talked so fast that I had to really listen to catch what was being said. No wonder everyone is so anxious. I shut the radio off to slow down.
On the other side of the spectrum is the issue of waiting. Almost every doctor’s appointment takes longer than necessary because one has to wait. Sometimes after being in their main area one is escorted into the patient room where the door is closed and one has to wait some more. It is easy to grow anxious. The doctor flies in, asks his or her questions, and exits. One of my clients tells me that often she has not had the opportunity to ask her doctors her questions, because of this practice.
Often getting an appointment takes forever. Several people close to me are waiting for scans, and specialists to get them in for evaluation. All the while, conditions may worsen because they have to wait 3 weeks or more.
I understand that waiting gives us options on how to respond. It allows us time to investigate the choices we’ll make like for treatments or costly home repairs. Waiting gives us time to find bargains, compare services, save money or talk to others for insight. So being delayed isn’t always bad.
Learning to balance the rushing and waiting game has become a challenge to me personally. I find it is easy to become impatient when I have to wait. On the other hand I actually schedule in slow down time. Time to walk and think. Time to pray, meditate and filter my concerns by writing. This has come through lots of hard work and a conscious desire to slow down and savor the best of each day.
Next week I will be at a Next Level Workshop with Cliff Ravenscraft and a dozen other people learning more to share with you.
That means that I will be here with you in two weeks from today to bring you an episode “Less is Best” with my Joy-filled friend Kate.
I pray for you my listeners, and for all those I coach to enjoy the minor moments of your life today. “One single step may put YOU on the escalator of success!”
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Failure Can Lead to a Brilliant Outcome
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This is Mini Miracles from Minor Moments with Kate Halma and Linda Gullo. Welcome to Podcast # 75 on Failure can lead to a Brilliant Outcome?
Kate and Linda share on the value of failing. The lesson here is not to worry, because the trials you face may lead you onto the escalator of success.
As a small child, Linda shares how she worked hard in school. Spelling was something she really excelled at so when she misspelled the word “during” she shares how she felt. The lesson of the story is that she never forget how to spell the word during, nor did she forget the value of making a mistake. It is indeed okay for all of us to make mistakes, because there is a silver lining in doing so.
We all must learn. Roy T. Bennett in his writing The Light in the Heart says, “Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.” It is a concept that we must all embrace.
Kate shares the story of her husband’s successful business as a Dog Trainer at K-9 Motivation which he developed after he is was forced out of a job. She also shares of her own story about receiving a “pink slip” and how this turned out to be a blessing.
Life can be “rocky” at times, but become a solid foundation for us!
As Kate talks about her nieces learning to drive, it reminds Linda of her taking a driving test at the age of 16 in a snow storm. The reality of not passing the test, may have in the long run saved her. She ended up learning the skills of driving in sleet, snow and inclement weather! Trials often lead us to having a triumph and a greater perspective.
Our discussion led us to the understanding that giving up doesn’t always mean you are weak; sometimes it provides a means to becoming stronger and smart enough to move on.
Linda defined failure for us. Failure is the state or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective.It is a perception that can fuel us for success. It automatically rules out options and clarifies facts from fiction.
This is noted from a Forbes newsletter. “Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary tour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.” — Denis Waitley
Is it from a failure to anticipate, perceive, or carry out a task?
“You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It wont happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, ‘I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how disappointed I am, I’m not going to let this get the best of me. I’m moving on with my life.” Joel Osteen
Samuel West who opened the Museum of Failure in Sweden focuses on how we can all learn from failure, tells us to Accept failure as an essential aspect of progress & innovation!
How to Keep Your Balance
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Keeping your balance is sometimes harder than at other times. Linda shares a short story of a man falling over the side of a fishing boat. He wasn’t hurt, but his pride probably was wounded. Thankfully he was plucked from the 42 degree water, dried off and proceeded to go fishing. When we are 80 + years it is harder to bounce back than when we are 42. Balance isn’t always physical in nature. We need to balance our friendships, our times of business and pleasure. We need to weigh our choices, the time we give to others, and the time we read and nurture ourselves.
Linda Gullo offers a few ideas on keeping your balance when you need to make a decision. Don’t rush into a quick decision. As it is, we are rushed to answer e-mails, and things every day. We all need to slow down and think things through. Read magazines, listen to friends, make younger and new acquaintances every day. Ask people in the know for help. Keep abreast of ideas from reading and those who travel.
Let one single thought filled step put you on an escalator of continued success.
Check out: Linda Field www.http://coachbyyourside.com
and Amy Hoogervorst www.http://amyhoogervorst.com
Join Kate Halma with Linda next week for The Value in Failing
Continual Learning is YOURS FOREVER
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Enjoy the topic of Continual Learning and how to embrace it with Kate Halma and Linda Gullo. Welcome to Mini Miracles from Minor Moments Episode # 73 on Continued Education. Kate starts the episode by quoting her father about education being yours forever. The ladies discuss opportunities to learn and how we share our knowledge. Learning is ongoing and there for everyone.
Did you know the an MBA is also the abbreviation for Mind, Body Adventure? Well here at Mini Miracles we direct so much attention to developmental opportunities for growth and change.
Kate talks about Leadership Greater Mc Henry and how it helped her continue her education. Linda refers to the Incubator Programs that our local schools are engaging in and how people are able to be involved in teaching. In the process of sharing and teaching what we know, we continue to learn.
We are learning even when we play. Maybe it is in being with others as we learn social skills, or when we get triggers to learn about something specific. It is never to late and it’s something no one can take away from you!
Are you a visual, auditory, or kinesthetic learner? How did you get your education? The ladies discuss how and why it is important to know how you learn. Engaging with others, listening, and storytelling help us bring to a fullness in life.
Over the last decade Kate talks about careers and how they have changed. In the process people have had to go back and learn new topics or career opportunities. Business, community, and needs change for us and open up doors for advancement.
Remember that “A single step may put you on the escalator of success.”
Check our the book Kate talks about called Optional Optimism by Deirdre A. McClarin
and also Erasing Adversity by Linda Gullo. Both books are available at www.Amazon.com
Join the ladies in 2 weeks! Next week is our 10 minute Podcast with Linda.
A Podcast on How to Live Fully
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Welcome to a short, but “jam-packed” episode on How to Live Life Fully. To bring anything into your life, Richard Bach says that we need to imagine that’s it is already there! Every step of our lives is a journey and keeps on changing. In this episode of Mini Miracles from Minor Moments, Linda discusses a few ideas that you might want to journal on this week. Maybe these are things that you want to imagine are already there.
“If you’re like me, you have a pretty busy schedule. It is a schedule that has a time frame revolving around work, appointments, deliveries, and sleeping.” Linda shares about how sleep is the first thing to be sacrificed when she has a lot on her plate for the day! Sleep is that important commodity to be removed and replaced by other priorities.
Our daily obligations and commitments to others can be a great source of enjoyment. Today’s short story is tucked into a 3 hour window. Linda spends time with an older Granddaughter that she realizes couldn’t have been spent in any better way. It is the unexpected visit in this daily moment that one feels so invigorating. She was thankful to encounter this brief time in her day. This spontaneous visit was indeed one of those remarkable times. It was nothing special, but yet it was so important in being close to those we love.
Hope you enjoy the Podcast. These photographic sites are from Oregon and taken by Debbie Smakal Davidson who shares her photography with us. 
Can You Ditch the Hamster Wheel?
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Welcome to Mini Miracles from Minor Moments as Kate Halma and Linda Gullo discuss the essence of being productive. Can you ditch the hamster wheel syndrome? It’s a lively and fun discussion that helps the small business owner and individual move on to the next level. Join Us! Sign up for up and coming information on Mini Miracles from Minor Moments.
A Few Books to help you BE productive & “Ditch the Hamster Wheel”
PRODUCTIVITY isn’t about how much you get done, but what you’re doing and why! It is about following through with our agendas and trying to grow as an individual. It doesn’t have to be hard.
Here are a few clues that Linda and Kate share:
1- Create a worthwhile focus and follow through with your goals.
2- Ditch the hamster wheel; get off of it and be productive.
3- Start managing time. Shut of the phones, the emails, and the extra things that interfere with us
4- Stop multitasking- everything will get done better.
5- Keep things orderly to keep you on task.
6- Start developing systems that will provide for us to be consistent and regimented in daily tasks. Michael Hyatt suggests designing a morning and evening ritual that sets you up to win.
Systems (sweet systems)
7- Get rid of the Office Monster! You’ll have the opportunity to hear about a Webinar on him!
8- Put a DO NOT DISTURB sign on your door.
Turn off your cell phone.
Unplug you office phone.
Shut down your email and social media apps to focus better.
Increase your ability to focus on things things are important to accomplish.
Suggested readings and websites:
YOUR ONE WORD by Evan Carmichael
5 SECOND RULE by Mel Robbins
www.leadershipmanagement.com
In two weeks, join us for Continual Learning! The ladies conclude with:
“Remember just one step can put you on the escalator of success.” and
“No matter how you feel today, get up, dress up, show up, and never give up!”
Until next time, this is Linda and Kate wishing you a super and productive week!
Resilience Comes with the Support of Other People
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Welcome to this weeks Podcasts on Resilience and being encouraged to heal. We all need support from one another. Often it is the trying times that come out of nowhere, like natural disasters, that remind us of that. Healing and trying to move forward is hard. Daily issues are hard enough, but the major things put fear into us and paralyze us. Those moments of being frozen and unable to progress calls for the reinforcements of other people.
God has given us all so many wonderful talents and opportunities to use our gifts. We need to share them. Linda quotes Mel Robbins from one of her recent talks. “If you have a problem that can be solved with action, you don’t have a problem!”
So this weeks Podcast “Resilience” hopefully will help you to take action and resolve your current problem. Our yard was in complete chaos this week as we had word done to break down and remove a waterfall that was in place for over 40 years. It was built with rebars, mesh, and concrete. Along with many boulders, the pond was dismantled and removed. Today you would not recognize the spot or the gardens around it.
As it progressed, I kept thinking of all the rebuilding that goes on constantly around the world. We all contribute to enhancing our world or making it a better place. Enjoy this short podcast and blessings for resilience!
Peace for you day and have a great one.
Power Statements with Kate and Linda
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Mini Miracles from Minor Moments continues to bring you information and insights on how to live your life with joy and fruitfulness. Today Kate and Linda discuss ways to improve your self image and how to develop a power statement. Welcome!
Frank Tyger says, “Ambition is enthusiasm with a purpose.”
“The starting point of all achievement is desire.” Lydia Sweatt
Welcome to Mini Miracles from Minor Moments where you’ll see how the smallest things in life bring you great insight and joy!
www.success.com/article/13-motivational-quotes-about-the-power-of-ambition
Are you looking to create a Personal Power Statements? or a Business Power Statements? Kate and Linda discuss some options for you as a help to develop you style!
Some words that might help you create a power statement include your finest skills or words that define you. Are you personable, a self starter, influential person, persistent, determined, competent, dedicated, accomplished, or creative? Find the words that define you and develop your statement. I am …
“One single step may put you on the escalator of success!” Linda’s own insight!
Winding Down the Summer the “Easy” Way
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Winding down the summer the easy way is one reason to celebrate Labor Day. It has always been the weekend where one tries to get in the last swim of the season, finish outdoor chores, or have an outdoor BBQ with family. Our weather presents these opportunities for outdoor events, because it is usually sunny and nice to be out of doors.
Linda Gullo welcomes you to Mini Miracles from Minor Moments, where it is the small seemingly insignificant moments that make our life’s happy and fulfilling. Please take the time to subscribe to our podcast and/or join us here at lindagullo.com to listen. We want you life to be happy and hope you’ll find a good take away each week. Just tune in.
“Our schools are just beginning and the summer is coming to completion. So I thought I’d talk a little about EASY. Yes, I said easy!”
We want things that are easy. Just look at the latest front cover of magazines and you’ll see:
- EASY MEALS TO COOK (see Volume 10, Number 7 of Food Network magazine for “It’s sooooo Easy!!!”
- EASY WAYS TO CLEAN YOUR DECK
- EASY WAYS TO MAKE MONEY
- THE SHORTCUTS TO CLEANING YOUR HOME
- EASY WAYS TO STORE YOUR CAMPING GEAR.
The reality is that hard work pays off whether it is in studying, cooking, being hospitable, or making money.
Putting in the time, talent, money, and studying pays big rewards. Now I’m not saying that we shouldn’t take short cuts, but usually those shortcuts come easily without directions once we understand and have learned the longer and more complex way of doing things.
Enjoy for weekend and take it easy!
Mindfulness: Be Present in the Moment!
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Being Mindful does so much to help our bodies heal and stay balanced. It is simply the practice of working with one’s mind and body to strengthen our ability to be present in the moment. Mindfulness is about teaching ourselves to be aware and present of each moment. When we practice it regularly, we are less prone to making mistakes. We send “anxiety” off on its own path and become so much more resilient.
On today’s Podcast, Linda and Kate discuss some examples of Mindfulness. Learn about Kate’s new puppy, Linda’s recovery from losing a Birthday card, and a moment from Kate’s wedding. Linda reflects on how she is taking less photos at events and just appreciating the time there. Someone else inevitably will take a photo to share. We are sharing how to connect with the moment and enjoying it more.
Linda shared an Old English Proverb that says, “On a Calm Sea, every man is a pilot.” The ladies agreed that is true of women too. Both chuckled!
Kate shared a time when she broke her leg and it slowed her down to appreciate things more. We agreed that as busy people we need to set reminders to relax. Smart watches, dogs, and exercise resets our focus to be present in the moment.
Kate then shares how she starts her Yoga classes and tuning into our bodies. Linda talks about her centering at prayer. Both encouraged taking the time and finding a way that works for you may be the step that puts you on the escalator of success.
“Don’t just look, observe. Don’t just swallow, taste. Don’t just sleep, dream. Don’t just think, feel. Don’t just exist, live!”
Two resources include: Your One Word by Evan Carmichael
Mindfulness, A Practical Guide by Tessa Watt
Linda and Kate will see you in two weeks. Stay tuned for “Power Statements”