No time like the present!…

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My Monday message is harsh but said with LOVE

……. Would you just get on with it, stop focusing on what isn’t, clarify what it COULD be and start TODAY! Would love to hear what this means for you, so share yourself around and declare your actions below.

See you very soon…Video blogs literally a few weeks away!

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  • http://www.facebook.com/melaney.schusterbernhardt Melaney Schuster Bernhardt

    I’ve started doing this recently and it’s amazing how fast things are happening.  I am a holistic health & nutrition counselor and I just decided to start running workshops to get myself out there.  I put it out there so it has made me focus and work toward my goals.  I am attracting clients at an amazing rate and having a blast doing it!  I had to get past the fear but now it comes so easily!  I am committed to running at least 2 workshops per month.   Because of this post I just sent out e-mails confirming my dates for February.  Thank you Vashti for all that you do!  You are such an inspiration to me!

    Much love,
    Melaney

    • Simon

      Had a health check last week as part of a work initiative. Was definitely a kick up the bum as my own approaching 40 had meant an expanding waistline. 1 week later, reduced portions, mini workouts and walking to the station and I’ve lost 3 pounds in a week.

      I’m not procrastinating about tomorrow, I’m DOING.

      Incidentally, the positive to come from my health check was a high muscle mass. Totally inspired by watching Spartacus and me thinking I needed to get off my arse. My body isn’t quite ready for a loin cloth and baby oil yet but it made me smile :)

  • Rivke

    I put on weight, a decent amount, I dont fit any of my clothes, I keep saying ‘Tomorrow Ill start exercising!’ but tomorrow comes and I still doing nothing. Still not motivated despite how crappy I feel about myself because Im so focus on the fact Im not my usual weight that Im not focused on actually doing something about it.

    I think I just need to get on with it, stop complaining and actually do something about it.

    • Simona

      Cara Rivke
      siamo nella stessa situazione!! Prima o poi ce la faremo!!
      Un Abbraccio
      Simona

      • Rivke

         E ‘difficile, ma sì nel tempo ci arriveremo e trovare un posto in cui siamo felici con noi stessi. (sto dicendo che correttamente?) :) Spero che tu e la tua famiglia stanno bene. Deve essere freddo in Italia adesso.Grazie per la risposta al mio messaggio.Tanti abbracciRivke

        • Simona

          Grazie a te Rivke,
          qui fa un freddo “polare” ma ogni tanto c’è un pallido sole!
          In verità, parlo per me, è difficile nella lista nelle priorità della giornata, trovare un posto per me! Pazienza attenderò!
          Abbracci.
          Simona

  • Uxama9

    pues personalmente el momento actual esta bastante feo, asi que voy a esperar otros momentos presentes, este, que estoy viviendo intensamente porque me obligan las circunstancias, lo mandare a un mundo paralelo para poder encontrar un poco de alegria. seguro que lo consigo

  • Susana Matos Nunes

    You’re so right! We always think about what we want to have – “future”!! But to have anything in future we must do something on present! Things just don’t fall from heaven! By the way, love the pic’s message; so true!
    well, what I do:
    I had already started my change of weight, 2 and half month and just ajust my lunch time; now I eat 6/7 times/day and not hungry so when I eat it is few not many food!
    I do everyday my best on my job to be proud of my work on the end of the day and try to keep it, because it is very difficult times here.
    Try to help anyone who needs around me in the way that I can.
    Try to enjoy the best my days with all the good things I have around me and enjoy my beautiful family and friends the best I can every day…

    With Love and a Big Kiss, anxioulsy waiting for the video blogs
    Susana

  • JWPearl

    As I was opening your blog this morning I felt almost desperate for something I literally thought, Come on Vashti, give me something to go on today.  Let me jut say, you did not disappoint. I’m a successful, healthy person with an amazing family and I’m wallowing – I should be so full but I feel so empty. Turning 40 next month – its killing me. I don’t know why – I never though I’d be that person, but I am.  I can’t seem to get out of my own way, but your right… Just get on with it, stop focusing on what isn’t. I have so much. This means the world to me. This reminder was so needed. Thank you.

  • RhondaW

    Everyday I open my eyes and the light comes in,I thank the Lord he has given me another chance to make things right.To lose anger,to love more,that positive slips out my mouth,to be patient,understanding,caring,to help another,to charish moments,the now!There is no past,there is no future,there is now and only now,until I close my eyes,and awake to a new day a new now a new chance.

  • Lan

    Happy Monday to you Vashti!  Your message couldn’t come at a better time.  I did not had any sleep last night, part of it was due to trying to get over a cold and majority part of it was thinking non-sense in my head!  UGHHHH!!! I feel like a zombie today but it will be different tonight because I am determined to get a good night sleep thanks to your wonderful message reminder so I can snap out of it and move on and live!  Thank you.  Have a great week and looking foward to the Video blogs!  HUGS.

  • Susan_Mangan

    Great advice Vashti! Despite our best intentions we can all find it difficult to get motivated sometimes.  Dreary winters tend to do it for me. I go into hibernation mode and just want to curl up and wait for Spring. 
    But I’ve decided, not this year!!  Having already past the 40 milestone, and having rapidly arrived at 41 while wondering how the hell I got here so fast I have decided that life is indeed too short and I refuse to waste another minute. So plans are being made, lists are being written, challenges are being thought out and classes are being signed up for.

    So thanks for the kick up the bum.  It’ll help me along nicely….

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000203917220 Norbert Süss

    One of my dearest friends has to return for cancer treatment tomorrow after she was a survivor for only 3 months…I’m already thinking about what it could be and will try my best to help her through this tough time, giving her as much strength as I can to make every day that comes a special day for her. For her tomorrow is full of fear, but together we will try to manifest hope…and be here now.

    • Susana Matos Nunes

      Hi Norbert,
       wish everything will be ok with your friend… You’re a good friend doing what you said so keep doing that. Be Here Now, definatly! Wish for you all good news… positives thoughts! Give her my strenght too.
      Susana

  • Gholbrook

    Poignant! So easy to wish away our lives, always wanting more, different, ‘better’ (whatever that may be)! That kind of thinking clouds all that is GOOD and HOLY and TRUE and we spend our time bound up in lies. Thank you for this perfect reminder Vashti, to stop being stuck in what is NOT and make what IS the best “IS” it can be! :) )

  • Simona

    Grazie Vashti,
    grande riflessione..
    Per me è un tempo “si stare a guardare”…. non riesco a trovare la motivazione giusta per darmi una mossa… non sono triste e depressa, ma troppo monotona e statica.
    Forse sto cercando qualcosa che ora è più grande di me!!
    Forse tra un po’ di saprò rispondere.
    Un abbraccio
    Simona

    • Rivke

       Si si!!  Trovare la motivazione è così difficile. Non sono triste o depresso, io … beh non lo so … non riesco a scendere il culo. :)

      • Simona

        Ciao Claudia
        grazie per aver risposto. E’veramente bello poter condividere delle opinioni diverse. E grazie proprio ad una persona che con la sua anima bella ha dato qualcosa a tutti noi.
        Non disperiamo tante volte basta un sorriso in più, una parola buona!
        Buona giornata.
        Un abbraccio.
        Simona

    • http://www.facebook.com/claudia.curci.33 Claudia Curci

       Ciao Simona e Rivke,
      è bellissimo scoprire che la diversità di lingua non impedisce di condividere, e non smetterò mai di ringraziare Vashti per questo miracolo.
      Anche per me la maggior parte dei giorni passano “stando a guardare”, ma nel mio piccolo posso dirvi che ci sono invece dei giorni in cui improvvisamente tutto assume un senso ed in quei giorni si può ricominciare a vedere la vita a colori.
      Un abbraccio, Claudia

      • Rivke

        Ciao Claudia, e ‘così meraviglioso che Vashti e la tecnologia ci permettono di interagire e condividere tutte le belle parole, indipendentemente di dove viviamo e le lingue che parliamo. Il mio italiano non è sempre buono, ma cerco così ti prego di perdonarmi se le mie parole non sempre un senso. :)

  • OscarL

    Today meant I could take a mum her son surfing for the first time together! Both in their absolute element.. Jess and Vashti, kicking goals like there is no tomorrow!

  • Sally T

    I was going to wait until I got home to do this (I’m currently traveling) but then I realized that that’s exactly what I’m NOT supposed to be doing (ha ha)!

    I’m skiing a blue run in 2 weeks for the first time. I only learned to ski a couple of years ago because my kids/spouse are fantastic skiers & I was tired of being left in the chalet. I have stuck to the greens since learning but I will tackle the big blue monster this time around! Terrified in a good way!

    And I need to learn how to work my new camera. I got a few good shots off this week so I’m getting there, but I need to make quiet time to figure it out and to ask for help if I need it. I’m looking forward to shooting some HD video since the last film I took was with a Super 8 camera.

  • mimi81

    no
    time like today, like this year, this month, to start taking care of me
    = sports time for me, physio time for me, hamams and massages for me,
    some love-love time for my love-love and me, some
    talktofeelgood&better time for me, and then…. stop being scared,
    and try again to climb the freakin ladder towards my “very hard-working”
    dreams :) yey!!  
    have already started, and me telling you…it feels great to be kind to
    yourself…this was spurred thanks to a wonderful person who said to me 
    “how can others be kind to you if you’re not kind with yourself?” start small, but start something :) )

     

  • Wilbur687

    I think if someone asks what my favorite day of the week is that I will say, “TODAY!”

  • http://twitter.com/epgomez8 Paola Gomez

    This reminds me that I always create my moments…my reality.  I choose to either focus on the sadness, disappointment, frustration of a situation in need of change, OR focus on the joy and satisfaction of having this change become a new  reality.  

    Once I truly focus on the positive, things line up easily for me and transform.  I must always pay attention to my present thoughts to assure they are productive & positive ones.

    We have a beautiful circle here of support to remind us to live our ONE life to the max!  : )

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=818507821 Patricia J Tibbits

    Amen Vashti! God I wish I knew how you do it! You are just remarkable! I just recently found out my “mate” of nearly 4 years, cheated on me. Right around Christmas time…Anyway, I am still living with him, because I have no job or money or anywhere to go with my 3 children. He has been doing nothing but causing drama.  So, with that said, by what your post says to me is, get over him, he was NEVER worth my time or love, get on the move with looking even harder for work & move on…I just need a dang job, so I can save up money!! Ughhh!! It’s like he enjoys making my like miserable & I’ve done nothing wrong, but love him! INSANITY, ahhh?? Thank GOD for my kids, they are keeping me sane!  I deserve better!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Stefan-Heikel/93402728 Stefan Heikel

    This message could not have come at a better time for me Vashti! I’ve had a horrible past couple of days and I’ve been needing the push to actually start doing things to change them. I’ve been hesitant to apply for a job that I want because I’m not sure if I can do it. Now I will give it a shot!

  • Madeleine

    Annihilate the Jones’ and be FREE!  free from things that don’t matter, and live for the things that do! Saw a beautiful sunrise this morning and took a few moments to take it in, even though I was a little late for work! it was all I needed to know my purpose and to feel that no matter what we all are going through it all eventually works out for the better and if it doesn’t……then learn to dance in the rain!

    • Rivke

      My last name is Jones….please dont annihilate me! ROFLMAO
      The other day I was the cause of a lot of beeping at the traffic lights, I hadnt noticed they had gone green as I was staring at the sun set. It was pink and so beautiful! The others drivers didnt seem to appreciate it as much as I did. :)

  • Gary

    To me…it’s things are for a reason, and weather it be good,bad,or even sad we cannot dwell only make the best of it and make every day count as you know we never know when life we take the things we love away in a moments breathe

  • Michelle

    I don’t know how I found your blog but I know it was meant for me to find.  I have been up all night googling just about everything I can think of.  I don’t really have a reason I stay up instead of sleep.  I think I’m addicted to my computer.   Yesterday I looked at my cell phone and noticed the date was January 30, my heart dropped.  How did I forget his birthday?… I quickly punched into Google Jonathan Bacon’s date of birth.  For some reason I have never been able to remember if it was the 30th or the 31st of January.  In the few seconds it took me to get to all the links I had a reassuring feeling his birthday wasn’t until today, January 31st.  Thank God I didn’t forget.  That would have devastated me, after all HIS birthday is the day the love of my life, my strength, my best friend, my sons father, my inspiration, my most treasured memories, my breathe, my everything, my “Andy”, my reason for not being scared to die… my JB was born and destined to come into my life and I his.  It’s a pretty significant day.   Last night or early this morning depending on if you wanna get technical I came across your story about Andy.  Right away I knew you knew exactly how I felt and I knew exactly what you have lost.  So I kept going and came across this blog and after reading a few of your posts I decided I would just start typing and I don’t care if I don’t have the writing skills you have I felt like I found your story for a reason.  I lost Jon August 2011 when he was murdered.  I had our 5 month old son with me when I got the call from a girlfriend screaming that Jon had been shot and he was dead.  I know in that moment I died as well.  My heart stopped and life as I knew it and who I was ended.  I know that you understand exactly what that means.  I noticed Andy died in September 2011.  My mind took me back to the horrible beginning and felt sad that at that exact same time you had lost your soul mate to.  For some reason I can still empathize with other people’s loss and feel sorry for them.  I think it’s because I know how bad it is and how deep the pain goes.  Anyway I read a few posts and they made the inside of me long for Jon in the same way I long for him when I’m in bed and its dark in the middle of the night and I close my eyes praying that he will visit me in my dreams.  I just want to be with him.  I then noticed one of your posts on your birthday June 5th.  My birthday is June 5th.  There are a few more similarities and enough to make me think Jon led me to your blogs as a gift for me today on his birthday to find inspiration and strength from your words.  Our son was only 5 months old when his Dad died and I am now a widow in my 30′s with a big ? mark in place of a future that I had all planned out.  The future terrifies me and also inspires me.  I don’t have a choice I have to succeed for our son Lucas.  That’s  the only thing I can do for Jon is give our son the life we would have together.  Only its just me against the world and I was never anything with out Jon and the world can be cruel.  So I carry all the strength Jon gave to me through his love and try to take on the world one day at a time.  Sometimes minutes and sometimes just hours at a time is all I can manage.  I know I will make him proud.  I probably don’t  make sense and I don’t care.  This was for me.  I needed to just write.  Happy 32nd Birthday Jonathan…. I love you and I know you know.  I really wish you were here for me to make a big deal about your birthday even though you never liked it when I did.  Babe thank you for everything… I love you.

    • Susan_Mangan

       A very moving post Michelle.  So very sorry for your pain and loss.  Welcome to MMQ.  Hope you find some comfort here.

  • M_perrault

    Thanks Susan.  

  • Ophelia

    for me it means to let go of the past, and mournfully reflecting on what might have been.  it means looking forward to the future and being okay with where i’m at today, not beating myself up anymore, not regretting any more, seeing what i have, really kind of… WAKING UP.  It’s less a call to action than a shift in attitude and perspective.  It’s an internal experience of shaking off the grief and worry and focusing on what i’m doing, what i can do, right now, and just accepting and embracing happiness again, knowing that i CAN do that… it IS here… and can coexist with whatever sadness i feel… i’m okay with feeling sad… it feels great not to be bogged down in it, like a tar pit sucking me in forever, which is where i’ve been the last 14 months or so.  i can’t remember the last time it felt good just to breathe… it’s like a weight is off my chest.  i feel alive.  there’s not much more i can do right now, except heal and in May I will have the opportunity to make the changes i need to truly emerge from this shell… today is about acceptance and gratitude.  Love, Ophelia