FODAC or Friends of Disabled Adults and Children in Georgia is fantastic and deserve Friday fanfare.  This organization states: “We seek to enhance the quality of life for people of all ages who have any type of illness or physical disability.” In recent months, due to the illnesses of my neighbor or others in my care circle, I have first-hand awareness of what they do and I have gotten to spend time with the staff.  Let me tell you, they have gotten their mission right.

The volunteers and staff at FODAC do awesome, life enhancing work without Medicare funding. Mostly, they provide durable medical equipment and supplies for those with disabilities for a suggested donation. The stories of caring, and the tangible evidence of how much the workers extend themselves, is inspiring.

FODAC is fantastic!

One-to-one, there is a direct relationship to life success and how you live your life.

“You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who can
do nothing for them or to them.”
~ Malcolm Forbes

Private rage cannot be kept private. What you do in secret eventually comes to light and can be manifest in many forms. What inevitably becomes illumined, that is unstoppable as long as there is rage, deception, or other poor character exhibitions towards others, are potential health and social issues.  Anger, maltreatment and attitudes of superiority show up in many forms.

Public inconsideration is a measurement of character as well.  When the ego poses you as more important than others, the correlation is equally as destructive.  I saw a perfect example of this in the bank a few days ago by an outwardly appearing successful man. Four of us were patiently waiting to talk to someone in customer service when he came in. He promptly went to the desk and interrupted a customer sitting there to ask how long it would take to be seen. After he was told that we were waiting, he went into a rage. My heart sank for him because I knew the long term consequences that correlate to this type of angry behavior. I could see instantly why he showed outward signs of ill health.  My image of him shifted quickly from seeing a man of success to seeing a man of distress.

The good news is that there is a correlation between treating others well and life treating you well. Take time to notice with me the character traits of those you know or see who take the time to share their talents with others, those who are kind and receiving, and those who are caring towards others.  Pay attention to those who lovingly care for a parent (I know many examples of this) or an ill spouse or a child you needs extra attention and care.  Watch their demeanor. Listen to their outlook. Feel their energy. See how seemingly effortless they get things done without a spew of anger and vain importance.

Observe good will. Practice good will. Then, you will easily witness the difference a healthy presence of being correlates to a healthy life.

Bob Proctor says he can tell the success quotient of a person within one hour. All he needs to do is observe, listen to, and ask a few questions before he can accurately access the type of person he is dealing with and determine the success path of that person. Truth be told, we all can do the same. There is just something about the attitude and “talk” of a person that indicates their persona. Malcolm Gladwell in Blink makes a similar case when he talks about “thin-slicing” in his book.

Bob and Malcolm know there are many measures of success. The subjective identity of success is as varied and unique as fingerprints. But, what is common to all is the correlation that each of us governs to the outcomes (good health, happiness, service, high integrity, finances, etc.) that present itself in both private and public showings.  There is duality in all of us, but each of us can control and make best correlations for the well being of ourselves and others.

Three Tips for Building Better Correlations

1. Evaluate your temperament. Temperament is the combination of mental, physical, and emotional traits of a person; natural predisposition. According to David Fontana, author of Know Who You Are: Be What You Want, it is the :raw material which forms the potential from which our personalities, with all their ultimate strengths and weaknesses, will develop.
   

   ASK: What is my temperament?

   Angry, distrustful, rude, intolerant, impatient, excitable  OR calm, accepting, adaptable, sensitive, affectionate

2. Examine your life script. Write a description of your life. Make it an honest reflective word picture of who you are both in public and private life.
3. Identify the change(s) you want. After writing your life script, character and behavior changes may have bubbled up (many did for me). Well, along with this fresh, clean acknowledgment be clear about what changes you want to make in your life that build better life correlations for you.

 

All three of these Tips/Steps are in your domain. You can change the state of your correlations (if necessary). If matters little what meshed into your experience in the past. What does matter most is the present power that you have to create the change to positive correlations that you want to be and see.

Make each of your life correlations pathways of promise and bounty.

Be sure to mark your calendars (for those living in the Atlanta area) for Saturday, 3 March @7PM. This screening tells the truth about the incessant persecution of Baha’i friends in Iran.

I’ll always love you, thank you for loving me.

“Life is here for our joy. Following the path of what you love means letting go of your concepts of what is best, and trusting that you are being led to what is best, not only for you, but for everyone else.” ~Chris and Janet Attwood (from the book The Passion Test)

“May the rain wash away your worries.

May the breeze blow new strength into your being.

May you walk gently through the world and know its beauty

all the days of your life.”

~Apache blessing

It does not matter how short-lived laughter and happiness are, it opens the heart to goodness.

Of course there is pain, injury, suffering in the world. That is understood. But, dwelling on these unpleasant things of life blocks one’s true life purpose: to be happy and to love.

 ”Purpose and laughter are the twins that must not separate. Each is empty without the other.” ~Robert K. Greenleaf

Love and happiness-the twin pillars that shoulder purpose.  When external events or situations confound our emotions, the best remedy is to search for that moment of inner joy and purpose to restore your power.  Gabrielle Bernstein, founder of Her Future (www.herfuture.com) is on to something.  She uses social media to connect, inspire and advise women to retain their power regardless of the simple, temporary  pain that may scare, confuse, or depress them. The same advise is useful for me. Maintain your power by hooking into purpose and laughter.

Joy gives us wings.  Fly to the realm of  indomitable spirit.  Use the invisible, but omnipresent, string of hope and inner resourcefulness that ever connects you to purpose, power, and laughter. Stay in-joy so that you can enjoy life. Stop right now and make a declaration-I AM A JOYFUL AND HAPPY BEING.

Make laughter a part of your Monday Miracle.

The Tuskegee Airmen, who numbered close to 1,000, were the first group of African-American fighter pilots in the United States and the only group of African-American fighter pilots in World War II. Their bravery led President Harry S. Truman to order the desegregation of the U.S. military in 1948.  Not allowed to practice or fight with their white counterparts, the Tuskegee Airmen distinguished themselves from the rest by painting the tails of their airplanes red, which led to them becoming known as the “Red Tails.”

Redtails

Here is a synopsis: (taken from Yahoo.com/movie)

1944. As the war in Europe continues to take its toll on Allied forces, the Pentagon brass has no recourse but to consider unorthodox options — including the untried and untested African-American pilots of the experimental Tuskegee training program. Just as the young Tuskegee men are on the brink of being shut down and shipped back home, they are given the ultimate chance to show their courage. Against all the odds, with something to prove and everything to lose, these intrepid young airmen take to the skies to fight for their country — and the fate of the free world.

“Through war with honor

Through adversity with courage

Through it all with each other.”

What are you worth?  In the creation of Monday miracles, the subject of worthiness or validity probably comes up for you at random times and in all probability your answers to that question of “worth” is manifested by behaviors that support your belief or self valuation.   This means then, that having an accurate sense of your worth is of defining merit.  This question and the answer you equate with it parallels the age old seminal question: Who am I?

Your calculation – far beyond numerical digits – of your worth can canalize or give direction to discovering perpetual happiness, inner acceptance, quiet resolve, and illumined grace.  Thus, determining what you are worth is significant.

How do you determine what you are worth?

Here are a few ways to consider worth: (please modify and add to this short list)

• How do you feel about your contributions in life up to now? Are you excited, ready to contribute more because what you do has made a difference?
• Do you feel respected and valued for what you do and who you are?
• What do others say about you that speak to the worthiness of who you are?
• When do you feel most worthy?

These questions are meant only to probe your inner psyche about how you perceive worth. That is the  true measurement of miraculous worth. I’ve often repeated the title of one of my favorite books by Terry Cole Whitaker, What You Think of Me is None of My Business; the reason being is because what others think of you is measureless compared to what you think of you.

What you think of yourself is the true, telling point of self-valuation.  Nothing more, nothing less. What you believe or perceive and accept about yourself tells it all.

If you cannot accept your noble worth and power, then no one else will.

A healthy sense of worth does not signify arrogance nor does a lower sense of worth signify humility or servility. Neither extreme is your lifeline.  What is more likely when you probe deeply the questions, is a balanced symmetry of traits and actions that fluctuate in measures of impact.

We are all WORTHY. There is not one worthless person alive. The honor is to recognize our worth and to acknowledge the worth in others. It matters not the measuring tool you use nor the size of our measurement, what matters is the acceptance of who you are and then loving that special worth within yourself and in others.

“There are four questions of value in life: What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for? and What is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same-only love.” ~Johnny Depp

You are worthy, priceless estimations of joy and love.

Tell us how you determine your worth. Let’s start an open conversation around the question: How do you determine your worth?

Rainn Wilson

Actor Rainn Wilson, star of the television series The Office and creator of the cool blog website Soul Pancake which asks readers probing questions that make you think with an expanded vision that they deluge with creative answers, is fantastic because he cares.

Recently, Rainn Wilson decided to help 2007 CNN Hero Aaron Jackson with his organization Planting Peace.  Jackson’s project has helped de-worm millions of children around the world thorough Stomp the Worm.  Wilson got involved by helping Jackson raise money for the children’s homes and schools they have built in Haiti. In addition to introducing Aaron Jackson to other celebrities and increasing the profile of Jackson’s project, Wilson has toured Haiti and Africa to be with the children that Stomp the Worm has helped because he cares.

Caring is free and caring can set many people free. It only takes a fantastic heart.