Dear Difference Maker,

We’ve all experienced the hurt emotional distance differences can bring. By putting love first, somewhere in the middle of our differences, we can meet …

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Reaching out …

Withholding Brings Separation

THE EXERCISES IN NO. 8, Releasing Resentments, allows you to find out what situations you are holding onto emotionally.

In holding onto resentment, we naturally withhold love, affection and regard for those we feel have harmed us or let us down. We do this to protect ourselves from future occurrences.

By keeping our feelings in, we are not protecting ourselves. We are separating ourselves from those we love and care about.

Someone has to make the first step forward, and it may as well be you if you are the one feeling the pain.

Withholding keeps things in a miserable state. It is a game in which everybody stands to feel separation and pain longer than necessary.

Most people
are about as happy
as they make up
their minds to be.
-ABRAHAM LINCOLN

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Dear Difference Maker,

I have written a special message for you about the True Measure of Love that I believe will speak to your heart …

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Reaching out …

Extend Your Reach,
Extend Your Capability

SOMETIMES YOU’VE JUST GOT TO GO THE extra mile. That’s all there is to it. We all need to stretch ourselves from time to time just to feel that we are alive. This is not to say that life needs to be a crisis. Quite the contrary. It means that we are really committed to whatever it takes to accomplish what it is we desire, either for ourselves, or for the health and well-being of another person. Sometimes, it means trying something new, challenging the old ways of thinking and being in the world.

Sometimes, it means getting right out there on your growing edge and challenging yourself from the depths of your being. It may mean a change in career or asking for an advancement with more responsibility. It may mean attending to a relationship that you’ve previously taken for granted. It may mean allowing a new level of intimacy and vulnerability to evolve in the way you choose to be with yourself and those you care about.

It’s definitely a stretch to make a decision to extend yourself in new and challenging ways. So go for it, and let it be fun and exciting.

When you follow your bliss,
you put yourself on a kind of track
that has been there all the while – waiting for you.
And the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
Wherever you are – if you are following your bliss
you are enjoying that refreshment – that life within you – all the time.
– JOSEPH CAMPBELL

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Dear Difference Maker,

Thinking of you and wishing you freedom in all things important to you. 

Take a moment to enJOY and share the patriotic musing of our beloved American humorist, Erma Bombeck with John Schmidt’s This Is America Our Heart & Soul emotionally moving sound track.

I hope that this entire week is a fun and celebratory time for you and your loved ones.  

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Teach Independence

WHEN YOU ARE INDEPENDENT, YOUR sense of well-being is not contingent upon someone or something outside of yourself. Your very presence demonstrates a sense of self that is free from control or influence. You don’t have trust issues with other people because you trust yourself to work through whatever arises on life’s road. And you aren’t dependent on other people to depend on you. It’s that simple. It’s not that it’s easy, but it’s that simple.

Confused? To some degree, we all have the need to be needed. It’s what makes us feel significant and real in the world. We carry out our dependency needs with people to the same extent that they are returned to us. We may find we are trying to be responsible for someone else’s life or problem. You may say, ”I don’t need those jerks relying on me every step of the way.” Great. If this is what you want, let go now, and allow whatever happens to happen. Be independent and see what happens to those you once considered helpless or hopeless. Treat them as if they were fully competent to do for themselves by maintaining your own sense of freedom and competency.

“If you love someone, set them free,” teaches us that independence is necessary in developing healthy, fulfilling relationships. This might bring up a fearful thought such as, “What if he makes it without me and doesn’t need me anymore?” Being independent doesn’t mean that you have to do everything entirely alone or that you won’t matter to anyone anymore. It just means you can depend on yourself to find the right avenues to accomplish the success that you desire. You are the only one responsible for how you experience your life.

It is only when you take responsibility for your life
that you discover how powerful you truly are.
-ALLANAH HUNT

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Dear Difference Maker,

Your opportunity of a lifetime is right now  …

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Refuse to Accept the Negative

PUT ANOTHER STAR BY THIS ONE. We live in changing times. With this change has come skepticism and criticism. Refuse to hear it or to accept the negative. Refuse to believe the negative has to be the dominant aspect of a situation. Refuse, refuse, refuse to let negativity and sell-imposed limitation take root in your thinking. Refuse to accept the negative aspects of others as the only truth about them. See beyond the small picture.

Maybe there’s a silver lining behind every dark cloud, and maybe there isn’t. If you choose to believe there can be, then that will be your experience. Not all people like this idea, for it is far easier to bemoan the fact that life is full of suffering. Yet observe those people who seem to radiate happiness and health. They will tell you they refuse to get bogged down by the negative aspects that life can and sometimes does offer. They will tell you it is worth it to see a ray of light in those moments that appear to be the darkest. They will tell you life is meant to be lived.

When we work with children, adolescents or adults who come from negative home situations, we do them a great disservice if we attend only to their negative drama. We assist them in creating more failure or crisis if we don’t empower them to see other alternatives. So, refuse, resist, deny the negative. Try to shed some light on a negative situation. This is a strategy that opens the possibility of another way of living life on the upswing, for yourself, and for all who come in contact with you.

History has demonstrated
that the most notable winners
usually encountered
heartbreaking obstacles
before they triumphed.
They won because they refused
to become discouraged
by their defeats.
-B.C. FORBES

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Dear Difference Maker,

Tomorrow summer is officially here!  I hope you are planning fun things …

“Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August.” – Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty

“In June, as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.” – Aldo Leopold

“On this June day the buds in my garden are almost as enchanting as the open flowers. Things in bud bring, in the heat of a June noontide, the recollection of the loveliest days of the year – those days of May when all is suggested, nothing yet fulfilled.” – Francis King

I hope that this summer is a beautiful and relaxing time for you and your loved ones. Take a moment to take a breath and enJOY your 1st Day of Summer eGreeting Card today …

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Reaching out …

Embracing Brings Acceptance

IT IS DIFFICULT TO ADMIT THAT you have been misguided or wrong in some way. It brings up feelings from childhood of being “little-little,” or “powerless.”

In understanding this, it is easier to accept quickly that you’ve made a mistake. Embracing yourself in these moments heals your innermost fear of not being good enough or being child­ like and powerless.

Embrace yourself for being who you are.  Be gentle with that “little-little” boy or girl inside you who feels shamed for responding to the world in unskilled, unsophisticated or child-like ways.

Embrace yourself, for you have just done what was familiar and what you believed would work. Accept that you can change anything about yourself that you want with patience, perseverance and gentle guidance.

Embrace yourself and embrace others who are striving to heal their lives with the opportunities that life offers.

Your only obligation
in any lifetime
is to be true to yourself.
-RICHARD BACH

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Dear Difference Maker,

Keep finding the love in your dreams …

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Reaching out …

Commitment

HERE I QUOTE FROM A SEGMENT of W. H. Murray’s writings.

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness, concerning all acts of initiative (and creation). There is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.  

I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe’s couplets:

Whatever you can do,
or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius,
power and magic in it.
BEGIN IT NOW.

He who is most slow to a promise
is the most faithful in the performance of it.
-JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU

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Dear Difference Maker,

It’s not where your dreams are taking you, it’s where are you taking your dreams …

“Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Initiate Integrity

DO YOU KNOW THAT integrity really matters? Initiate it, model it, and you will see how dramatically it comes back to you through other people and situations.

When you find yourself in a situation that feels uncomfortable, simply refuse to participate. You can excuse yourself quietly, or you can voice your concern.

Whichever way you choose, when you catch yourself dabbling with a negative, just stop yourself. You will have a greater sense of self-esteem each time you resist the temptation to harm someone with your words or actions.

No matter how indirect or secret you think you are being, you will always know what you know deep inside. It will continue to affect your relationship with yourself and others. All you need do is initiate integrity, and it will have a ripple effect.

The whole of virtue
consists in its practice.
-CICERO

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Dear Difference Maker,

Today is Memorial Day and John Schmidt is here to Support Our Troops and Families, who are the “Heart of America” through his words, his songs, his actions and any other ways and means he can possibly find to support them.

It is his hope that you’ll join us at Heart Productions & Publishing LLC along with many military families, veterans and friends in doing the same. With deep appreciation for the positive difference you are making in the world, we welcome you to forward this movie to your friends, family and colleagues.

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This Is America Our Heart & Soul

While here in America we will break out the flags, hot dogs and red, white and blue apparel to celebrate Memorial Day, we acknowledge that countries around the world have their own days and traditions to commemorate fallen soldiers.

God bless all those who have given their lives that we may live.

Reaching out …

K.I.S.S.

KEEP IT SIMPLE, SWEETIE! GET BACK to what is important, back to the basics; love, peace and human kindness. Slow yourself down.

Every time I get behind a semitruck on the freeway, and it is impossible to get around I begin to feel my agitation increase. The agitation is an excellent reminder that I need to slow it down, take it easy, and know that things have a way of working themselves out. It’s far more important that I “arrive” in life, than not get there at all.

So, simplify your life. Trust that you can be alone with yourself and feel good. Trust that slowing down and allowing simplicity to seep in creates openings and an easy flowing existence.

Know that there is an answer to all questions and that all problems eventually get resolved. Trust the beauty that life has to offer you by allowing simplicity into your life. Remember, making things too complicated and hurried risks success.

Slow down, love yourself, love life and love being in the present moment.

Simplicity in all things
is the secret of the wilderness,
and one of its most valuable lessons.
It is what we leave behind that is important.
I think the matter of simplicity goes further than just food,
equipment and unnecessary gadgets;
it goes into the matter of thoughts and objectives as well.
When in the wilds, we must not
carry our problems with us or the joy is lost.
-SIGURD OLSON

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Dear Difference Maker,

As we come upon Memorial Weekend, I think of my good friend, Jack, and his heartfelt sentiments about the unexpected gifts that life offers us.

So today, I have a real treat for you.  Get ready to take a trip down memory lane with laughter and tears along the way that Jack Schlatter brings you in his talk, Gifts by the Side of the Road.

“Jack Schlatter is a charismatic, consummate communicator who will have you laughing through your tears as he squeezes your heart with timeless truths.”
–MARK VICTOR HANSEN, Co-Author of Chicken Soup for the Soul series.

“Do not pass up the opportunity to be entertained and inspired by this amazing human being.”
–JACK CANFIELD, Co-Author of Chicken Soup for the Soul series.

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Reaching out …

PS …  In the Spirit of this upcoming Memorial Weekend, I think you will enjoy reading John Wayne “Jack” Schlatter’s heartfelt Tribute to the Military Family and Tribute to the Military; I Am A Protector of Peace pages 160-161 from his book, Gifts by the Side of the Road then click here to read as a FlipBook (and/or to purchase as a print book for your family and friends click here).

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