Join the Positive Postcard Project

Written by Stephanie West Allen


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---------------------------------------- AFFIRM YOUR MOST MARVELOUS TRAITS

The words we use to describe ourselves have much force. When you call yourself lazy or impatient or poor, you invoke two strong, powerful phenomena -- self-fulfilling prophecy andrepparttar 123864 law of attraction -- moving you towards greater laziness, impatience, or poverty. When you call yourself energetic or kind or prosperous, you also invoke those two mighty and unerring phenomena -- and move towards more energy, kindness, or riches.

Here's how Positive Postcards work . . .

First, write down seven positive traits about yourself. Next, obtain seven postcards. Write a note to yourself about each trait on a different postcard. When you are done, you will have seven postcards, each with a note to yourself about one ofrepparttar 123865 positive traits you listed.

You may write a note as simple as this:

"Dear Sally,

You are very imaginative.

Love,

Sally"

Or:

"Dearest, remarkable Sally,

You are wildly and wonderfully imaginative!

Much love and respect and affection to you, girl,

Sally"

THE WHOLE SPECTRUM OF COLORS

Why seven traits and seven cards? Because a musical major scale has seven notes, a week has seven days, a telephone number has seven numbers, a rainbow has seven colors. Seven is a good number.

Speaking of rainbows, it is highly recommended that you get writing utensils that write each ofrepparttar 123866 seven colors -- red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo , and violet. Use one ofrepparttar 123867 colors for writing each of your postcards so you will have a rainbow of postcards when you are done.

Why Not Become a Jester?

Written by Stephanie West Allen


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----------------------------------------MORE THAN DONKEY EARS

Why inrepparttar 123863 world would a person want to become a jester? The word “jester” conjures uprepparttar 123864 image of motley clothes and a floppy hat that originally representedrepparttar 123865 ears of a donkey.

The jester is much more. The jester has a rich tradition in history. That being wasrepparttar 123866 high-spirited character who gracedrepparttar 123867 king’s court long ago and had permission to speakrepparttar 123868 truth -- a truth for which others might be beheaded.

The jester had a unique kind of wisdom. Sometimes it wandered alone outsiderepparttar 123869 king’s court, interacting withrepparttar 123870 people inrepparttar 123871 towns and countryside. Those interactions withrepparttar 123872 jester left people somehow moved, if only to increase their smiles and laughs.

LEAPING OUT OF FISHBOWLS

Some who write about culture have likened a person’s culture to a bowl of water in which a fish swims. The fish (if it could talk) may not be able to describerepparttar 123873 water and yetrepparttar 123874 water is very influential onrepparttar 123875 daily life ofrepparttar 123876 fish. We arerepparttar 123877 same when it comes to our culture, our values, our biases.

The jester can move in and out ofrepparttar 123878 fishbowl. This is part of what makes it so funny. The true comic holds a mirror up so we can look and laugh. The mirror shows our inconsistencies, our faults, our tragic seriousness. The jester (andrepparttar 123879 comic) could not do this if it did not remove itself often fromrepparttar 123880 fishbowl.

By moving in and out ofrepparttar 123881 fishbowl,repparttar 123882 jester has an independence. It can choose when to swim inrepparttar 123883 water and when to breathe inrepparttar 123884 air of freedom outside.

AD-JEST YOUR ATTITUDE

Being a jester is a state of mind. it doesn’t matter how you dress or where you are or what you do. You can be a jester anywhere because being a jester is an attitude.

The jester can create new worlds at will. The jester crosses boundaries and dissolves limitations. The jester revels and dances in a state of freedom and courage. The jester holds nothing, and everything, as sacred. The jesters are still around. They are among us and their numbers are growing.

The jester is important to any organization withrepparttar 123885 goals of increased creativity, productivity and teamwork; and reduced stress, boredom and conformity. Bringing a light heart and wisdom,repparttar 123886 jester also makesrepparttar 123887 best kind of friend, spouse, employee, employer, or fellow citizen of your neighborhood, city, country or world.

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