Laugh

One of my favourite people was my great Aunt Fuss. Her name was Mary but because she was such a fussy baby, she earned the nickname Fuss. After her passing, my dad was given a box of her personal things. Recently, my dad found something special, a bible that had been given to her in 1924. What made it extra special is that Aunt Fuss had written in it, “To Darci from Fuss – 1976” and no one had ever seen that.
My dad brought me this bible, and it had a bookmark in the middle. I was so excited to get this and thought for sure that the bookmarked page would be a passage that would change my life. I thought Aunt Fuss must have earmarked those pages for me to learn something extraordinary. So I read the pages over and over, I researched the passages and nothing.
Then it hit me. The message was not in the pages but in the bookmark itself, “The most wasted day of all is that one in which you have not laughed.”
You are so right Aunt Fuss; it is a wasted day when we have not laughed and smiled.
The last two years have been challenging, and some of those 10%s could definitely cause our smiles to fade. Let’s make a choice today to laugh, smile and not waste another day!

Time to Embrace the 90%

I hope that in a world that has 10%s you are able to wake up in the morning and put your 90% magnifying glass in front of you and see what is good and what you can control every day, something that has radically changed my life.

Now I just finished my fourth book, finally! My fourth book, Embrace the 90%, a book for women, is out today and I am so grateful for this book. You know, yesterday I was listening to a podcast with Michael Singer, the author of The Untethered Soul, and he just finished his second book and he was explaining in the podcast how the book just needed to be written, and I can resonate with what he said. I needed to write this book. Though I have three books already, honest and vulnerable, authentic me explaining the 10%s I’ve been through, this is even a deeper dive.

This book is called Embrace the 90%, How to Slay Fear, Defy Your Labels and Love Yourself. And I am going to explain a very lengthy process I went through to overcome fear and trauma in my life. Then I want to talk about our labels because we were given labels as children. We’re told things by exes and coaches and people we love that just aren’t true. And if you can learn to see what you’ve been told through a 90% lens, you’ll learn that it made you resilient and made you powerful. And then the last chapter is about loving yourself because some of us didn’t learn how to do that, and I’m going to mentally, physically and spiritually fill your self-love toolbox full.

Thank you for all of your support, thank you for being a part of my newsletter, thank you for being a part of my social media. I can’t wait for you to have this new book. Take care.

Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/RLE_6eSXNbs

 

Fresh Air = Fresh Perspective

I was feeling a bit overwhelmed today ! So much going on with the launch of the new book and not enough balance.
So I pushed away from my desk, grabbed Holly’s leash and we went for a long lunchtime walk.
Did I have time, no. Unanswered emails, yes!
Laundry and dishes to do, always.
That hour totally reset me.
Rather than reaching for your phone, sugar or caffeine – go for a walk
Fresh air = fresh perspective.

Be Selfless

As a mom, I want to be around for my kids and my grandkids. I want to have the energy to play with them and be present in their lives. That’s why I’m careful about the choices I make. Every choice I make as a mom determines the kind of mom and grandma I will be.
As a mom, I know that every choice I make determines the kind of mom and grama I will be, so I need to make choices that will allow me to have the energy I need to be there for them. I’m not being selfish when I choose to take care of myself. I’m being selfless!

Quality

The qualities we want from others are often the qualities we need to bring out in ourselves. If we want respect, we need to respect ourselves. If we want love, we need to love ourselves. If we want understanding, we need to understand ourselves. You get the idea.
Take a moment to think about the qualities you want from others. What do you need to bring out in yourself in order to attract those qualities?
What are you going to start working on today, so you can watch your relationships transform.

The Most Incredible Bridal Show

Twenty-nine years ago, I moved to Regina to open my own tuxedo rental store. A week later, I became a speaker! When I called the local bridal shows to buy a booth in the show and put my tuxedos in the fashion show, I was turned down! I was told my competitor had the fashion show spot taken. This was not good! I needed people to see what I had to offer. As you will read in my new book, I am a very resilient person and I was super resilient at 24 years old. So I started my own show.
Well, 29 years later, we made the difficult decision to sell the show. It was our baby and a business our children grew up working in, but it is time for someone new and exciting to take this show over. Meet Angela from Imagine Events! I am very proud to say that Angela is the new owner.
I wish you all the best, Angela, in putting on the best day ever!

Nobody’s Perfect

It’s Mother’s Day, and I just wanted to take a moment to tell all the moms out there that you are doing an amazing job. You are the backbone of our families and communities, and we are so grateful for everything you do. Keep up the good work! ❤️

Redefine Your Future

“The power of the past is that we come with so much baggage. The power of the present is that we can redefine our future.”
– Erykah Badu
The quote above embodies everything I believe in and also serves as a reminder to myself every single day!
Every time I wake up, I face my fears and get ready to take over the world.
We all have the power to create a new tomorrow and to live our best lives.

Work on Your 10%s First

Work on your 10%s first, see through a clear lens, find out what you have to clean off. Where could you be a year after you’ve found the courage to start looking through a clear lens? Where could you be a year after starting to meditate every morning? Where could you be a year after you’ve started working on your 10%s?
The first thing you need to do to double-dip into the pool of clarity is to know what the heck you want. You’ll never improve anything by sitting around and wishing for clarity. Once you know what you want, you can take steps forward and silence those voices in your head that tell you why you can’t.

Change

How can we create a life to do the things that are best for us, what are we willing to give up? I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how many times in our lives we have come to a point where we have had to make a choice that would either change the rest of our lives, or keep it the same. We often dream about what we want, but we don’t do anything about it until we think about it.  But today is the day to lay that sucker out and decide to make the change. What are you going to change today?
“Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it” – Charles R. Swindoll