Welcome to "SIMPLY SUSTAINABLE SUCCESS" - Feb 24, 2009:
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Helping You Create What Matters MOST in Life and Work --
With Whatever Life Throws At You!
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Hi All,
Lovely today, here in Victoria, BC. Sunny, warm, bright -- after a record cold night for this area. But, I love the sun, and although it's warming up, rain is predicted for the next five days. So, I'm enjoying the sunshine while I can.
Thanks to so many who wrote in with suggestions and feedback on the newsletter changes. Much appreciated! Many correctly pointed out that the "new" approach is actually the same as I describe on my website. One long post and 2 short posts in rotation. So it's not much of a change.
And the good news is my split run testing shows that nearly half of you dear readers are opening the newsletter or reading it in your browser. Thank you!
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"Exuberance"
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Spring always seems to me a time of exuberance. "Exuberance" means "lively, high spirited," and "abounding, lavish, effusive." I think exuberance is the outward manifestation of an inner passion for life, and living.
On my daily walks, recently, I've been delighted by the exuberance of the returning birds, and the hardy crocuses that appear almost over night in large patches in the middle of fields—in more colours than I can count.
I'm amazed at the exuberance of the 1-year old living above me (temporarily, thank goodness), as she hurtles herself around in a galloping, galumphing motion that in no way can be called a crawl. Her eagerness to explore her environment is astounding.
Kay Redfield Jamison, author of EXUBERANCE: The Passion for Life, says, "I believe that exuberance is incomparably more important than we acknowledge. If, as it has been claimed, enthusiasm finds the opportunities and energy makes the most of them, a mood of mind that yokes the two is formidable indeed. Exuberant people act on the world differently … (they) hold their ideas with passion and delight, and act upon them with dispatch. Their love of life and adventure is palpable. Exuberance is a peculiarly pleasant state, and in that pleasure is power."
I confess that I'm not a habitually exuberant person, but during spring, when exuberance is bursting out all around me, I find it hard not go let a little of the same bubble up in me, and out into the world.
Wherever you are, whatever season it is, I hope you can let go and let a bit—or a bunch—of exuberance bubble up in you. Then set it free into the world!
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Taking A Stand for Your Own Greatness!
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If you're looking for a bit more reading this week, please check out this short article of mine on "Taking A Stand for Your Own Greatness! To access it, click here.
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Exuberance! "Wild Women Don't Have the Blues"
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Here's 1:32 minutes of hand-clapping exuberance that might just put a bit of sunshine into your day. Click here to get yourself rockin'n'rollin'. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yn5cKapgXc
This Weeks Quotes: "Exuberance"
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Exuberance is beauty.
-- William Blake
“Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.”
-- Yoko Ono
I call for a collective adventure in generalized joy and freely interdependent exuberance.
-- Bob Black
Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.
-- Anne Sexton
You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world.
-- Sheila Graham
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What are you exuberant about?
What are you passionate about creating in life and work?
Have a wonderful week! Let that exuberance bubble out of you!
Bruce
PS Just a reminder that there are 30+ articles at:
http://hubpages.com/profile/Bruce+Elkin
and more at http://www.bruceelkin.com/writer.html |
