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Hello friends and family, Please nominate me as a speaker for TEDxMileHigh! THANK YOU.Here is the link for the website to submit a nomination: CLICK HERE Speaker’s Information:Nominee’s Name Shannon Buckley Title Inspiration coach and public speaker Organization SSPositive Email Address Captain at SSPositive dot com Phone Number three oh three- 875-two six seven seven Tell us briefly about the speaker: Occupation? Honors and distinctions? Recent work? Why are you recommending them for TEDxMileHigh? Occupation: Inspiration coach and public speaker, Honors and distinctions:For a list you can choose from: CLICK HERE, Recent work: www.Findingshannon.com, www.youtube.com/user/captainsspositive. Why are you recommending me? I don’t know… but go ahead and share your heart on this one Have you heard this person speak publicly? If so, where? Probably not.. but maybe you have? Please provide links to any online audio or video featuring the proposed speaker. Please describe this person’s speaking style. Inspirational, high energy, story-telling, heart centered, transformational How do you think this person would best fit with the theme of TEDxMileHigh 2012: Risk & Reward? Risk & Reward: I walked away from everything comfortable because it didn’t feel in line with my purpose and I was tired of getting the same results over and over again. I took a risk by finally listening to the voice inside which was different than anything I had done in the past. It was also risky to learn to trust that voice after so long of trying to silence it and through that process I learned about my self and my purpose through self-awareness and intuition. Then the reward has been discovering my purpose, stepping into abundance, having a healthy mindset, winning relationships, getting to do what I love each day! What is this person’s connection (if any) to the state of Colorado? Colorado Native baby!!!!
• Nominating a speaker does not guarantee that they will be approached. While driving back to work after my husband’s doctor appointment this morning, I was praying to God with gratitude and thanks that my Joe is still in remission with his Lymphoma. I started thinking about just how many things I refer to as mine. I often say this is my car, this is my job, these are my clothes, and this is my opinion. I talk about how I plan on spending my money, or how much I enjoyed my vacation. I often say this is my friend, my family, and I refer to my spouse as “my Joe”. I even describe my overall wellness as “my condition.” I use the word “my” so frequently I somehow forgot that many of the things I describe as “my” or “mine” don’t actually belong to me at all. These things were given to me by God to guard and protect. We all have the responsibility of going to the doctor and following medical advice and for avoiding anything that would harm our physical bodies; including that piece of chocolate cake and fried food we just love to eat. Keeping up to date with regular screenings like mammograms, heart and blood pressure checks, diabetes and cancer evaluations, is a great way to warrant early detection and a way of honoring the gift of life that God gave us. Another way of honoring our own being is to avoid the “conveniences” that society has a tendency to market as “Acceptable”. I am speaking of the conveniences of the fast food industry. Instead of shopping for healthy, fresh foods we can prepare at home, many of us exist on a diet of “convenience”. Fast Foods are high in carbohydrates/ sugars, preservatives, and ingredients we can’t even pronounce. One would think that with the time we saved on preparing our meals, we would be investing that extra time into our physical exercise options. Negative ghost rider… Instead of eagerly seeking opportunities to give our bodies the exercise we need to stay fit and trim, for “convenience,” we drive short distances and take elevators to avoid climbing stairs. All for the sake of convenience. So not good… Our lives are not a convenience, but a gift we should guard and protect. Taking personal responsibility for our own wellness plan is the outlook we need to adhere to. I have personally struggled in the past with my weight and overall health. Always putting my own health on the backburner. By doing this, I only harmed myself and prevented my true self from performing the way God intended it to be. I have found that by having a healthy lifestyle what an exciting and rewarding journey with commitment and perseverance it can be and how happy God is about me. We also must prepare for struggle because good dietary habits and regular exercise are not easy. There will be times when we’ll fail and fall short of our own expectations. But picking ourselves up and walking the hard road again is worth all the rewards that will surely come with a fit body and a healthy outlook that we’ve earned through hard work. Setting goals, which are within your reach, can be very motivating. You might even be amazed at all the things you can accomplish that are within your reach. My Joe’s good health report reminded me to think about my own gift from God and how I need to start looking at every day of my life from God’s perspective. Having his devoted and compassionate perspective always leads to positive and productive changes in our lives. I have a lot of things I want to accomplish while I am on this earth. I need to continue to honor the gift of “ME”. Won’t you join me on this journey to wellness and honor to God? By avoiding the “conveniences” we gain so much more. Learning to view your life through God’s eyes is a beautiful experience. You’ll probably be amazed to find out what God actually thinks about you. PEACE & BLESSINGS
You will enjoy the new insights that Rick Warren has, with his wife now having cancer and him having ‘wealth’ from the book sales. This is an absolutely incredible short interview with Rick Warren, ‘Purpose-Driven-Life ‘ author and pastor of Saddleback Church in California . In the interview by Paul Bradshaw with Rick Warren, Rick said: And I respond: In a nutshell, life is preparation for eternity. We were not made to last forever, and God wants us to be with Him in Heaven. One day my heart is going to stop, and that will be the end of my body– but not the end of me. I may live 60 to 100 years on earth, but I am going to spend trillions of years in eternity. This is the warm-up act – the dress rehearsal. God wants us to practice on earth what we will do forever in eternity. We were made by God and for God, and until you figure that out, life isn’t going to make sense. Life is a series of problems: Either you are in one now, you’re just coming out of one, or you’re about to go into one. The reason for this is that God is more interested in your character than your comfort; God is more interested in making your life holy than He is in making your life happy. We can be reasonably happy here on earth, but that’s not the goal of life. The goal is to grow in character, in Christ’s likeness. This past year has been the greatest year of my life but also the toughest, with my wife, Kay, getting cancer. I used to think that life was hills and valleys – you go through dark times, then you go to the mountain-top, back and forth. I don’t believe that anymore. Rather than life being hills and valleys, I believe that it’s kind of like two rails on a railroad track, and at all times you have something good and something bad in your life. No matter how good things are in your life, there is always something bad that needs to be worked on. And no matter how bad things are in your life, there is always something good you can thank God for. You can focus on your purposes, or you can focus on your problems: If you focus on your problems, you’re going into self-centeredness, which is, my problem, my issues, my pain.’ But one of the easiest ways to get rid of pain is to get your focus off yourself and onto God and others. We discovered quickly that inspite of the prayers of hundreds of thousands of people, God was not going to heal Kay or make it easy for her – It had been very difficult for her, and yet God had strengthened her character, given her a ministry of helping other people, given her a testimony, drawn her closer to Him and to people. You have to learn to deal with both the good and the bad of life. Actually, sometimes learning to deal with the good is harder. For instance, this past year, all of a sudden, when the book sold 15 million copies, it made me instantly very wealthy. It also brought a lot of notoriety that I had never had to deal with before. I don’t think God gives you money or notoriety for your own ego or for you to live a life of ease. So I began to ask God what He wanted me to do with this money, notoriety and influence. He gave me two different passages that helped me decide what to do, II Corinthians 9 and Psalm 72. First, inspite of all the money coming in, we would not change our lifestyle one bit.. We made no major purchases. Second, about midway through last year, I stopped taking a salary from the church. Third, we set up foundations to fund an initiative we call ‘The Peace Plan’ to plant churches, equip leaders, assist the poor, care for the sick, and educate the next generation. Am I going to be driven by pressures? Guilt? Bitterness? Materialism? Or am I going to be driven by God’s purposes (for my life)? When I get up in the morning, I sit on the side of my bed and say, God, if I don’t get anything else done today, I want to know You more and love You better. God didn’t put me on earth just to fulfill a to-do list. He’s more interested in what I am than what I do. That’s why we’re called human beings, not human doings.
In my personal growth, I owe a great deal of credit to the power of having God in my life. I have found that starting my day with prayer and thanks to God provides me with the support I need to make it a great day. On the flip side, if your day begins with anger and pain, judgments, an unspeakable outlook, then how do you think this will translate and unfold into the rest of your day? You owe it to yourself to be heart centered as you start your day. The power of prayer is truly amazing and God will bless your day with much grace and blessings if you give him just a few moments of your day. Some of you may say, “I don’t know how to pray…” My dear friends, praying is much easier that you are imagining it to be. Envision sitting on a park bench with God and simply talking to him like you would your best friend. Present from deep in your heart the gratitude for all you have. If you have some trials you are experiencing, share them with God and ask him for his assistance. As any friend would want to listen to them, so too will God. His love and guidance is always there embracing us and showing us the way. If you are still struggling with how to embark on a prayerful life, may I suggest that start with something as small as a kind gesture? Give forgiveness to someone who might have offended you or caused you sadness. Lend a hand to someone you would have once not paid attention to. Offer a smile to someone who appears to be having a bad day. Give an honest complement to a person you might not have noticed before. Let someone into your driving lane when sitting in traffic. Allowing our souls to reach out and touch another human soul is also a way of having prayer in our heart. Eventually you will come to an understanding of all the countless possibilities for miracles in your day from having prayer in your heart and God in your life. PEACE and Blessings to you. The second S in RSS stands for Service.Service all: God, Self, Others  Who will you light a candle for today? R= Responsibility The first S in RSS stands for Self.Self-awareness to be more specific R= Responsibility The R in RSS stands for ResponsibilityA key factor in turning the direction of your life is to take full and I do mean FULL responsibility for it. No more blaming others, no more playing victim, no more allowing circumstance to control your experience. Personal Responsibility is actually a gift! PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY IS NOTHING OTHER THAN THE FREEDOM TO CREATE OUR OWN LIVES.
In fact, once we become clued into the magnificent abilities we possess to create a lasting and meaningful impact while we are alive, personal responsibility is absolutely a blessing. R= Responsibility Most people run from responsibility–that’s why they’re broke. Rich people are willing to take on big responsibilities–that’s why they’re rich. ~T Harv Eker Is my cell-phone a tool to expand my life or a crutch to stay in my comfort zone?
****The other day.. God stole my cell phone! And Ashley’s too!!!He gave it back later. He stole Ashley’s phone for nearly 3 hours a month ago, and he stole my phone for 10 hours two days ago. Ashley and Shannon have been known to get distracted and fall into patterns when they really need to be creating together.. A month ago, after book study Ashley and I returned to her house to pick up some paperwork and she felt that she left her cell phone at home.. we couldn’t find it anywhere. We had just spent the last 2 hours praying for all sorts of things… and our agenda became meaningless upon return to Ashley’s house. We spent the next 2.5 hour learning, sharing, praying, praising, loving in friendship and sisterhood. This is the type of thing Ashley and I create when we spend time together. Ashley dropped me off at home a couple hours later and when she pulled up to her house, she realized where her phone was.. in between the seat.. in the crack
Now, you’ve gotta hear this story about him doing it again! Except this time it was with MY cell phone! I had been using it to watch youtube videos before going to sleep on Monday night (the same situation.. after the book study) and in the morning I received a call about 9:30am to meet up with my friend’s dad to take some runs on the mountain. My phone had a charge of about half battery.. and right before we were about to finalize our plans, my phone just turned off. Black screen. Nothing. Iphone 4 says Nada. I plugged it in for an hour, hard reset it, left it plugged in.. Nada. I also had plans to meet up with my friend Mike later. It was going to be a good day according to MY plan.. well I think God had a different idea in mind- he wanted it to be an AMAZING day. So he stole my cell phone. I deserved it frankly.. I proceeded to the mountain and on the bus to the gondola, a couple guys were discussing how my entire snowboard outfit is perfectly coordinated and we started a conversation, they invited me to go meet up with other friends of theirs too! I ended up riding with 5 new friends who are followers of Christ and it was a fabulous feeling to be able to include that conversation and energy into my day of snowboarding, both things I enjoy very much.
So the funny part was that I did make my plans for that evening via Facebook before I went out on the mountain for the day not knowing what would come to me… and so I knew I would be meeting someone at the movie theater at 8pm. So I joined my new friends for dinner and when I got back in the car after dinner… My cell phone magically turned back on and has been fine ever since. I am certain that when we pray and ask for things we better be prepared to hand control over to a greater power.. I believe this relates to personal responsibility because when I wake up each day and ask to live a life that will impact many, I must be prepared for what will come with that. If I would have taken a victim mindset in this situation, I maybe would have wasted the day because I might have been afraid to go on the mountain alone, so I maybe wouldn’t have gone… Or I could have been pouting and not aware of anyone else around me- missing opportunities to connect with new people I hadn’t met before. I didn’t do that though. I figured something bigger was going on- and I stayed in the game.. I have created some big goals and I must be prepared to take what comes along with those. If I had everything I needed to reach those goals in my arsenal already, I suppose I could retreat back into my comfort zone.. but would I do that? NO! I would set some more goals and go bigger. What would you do?
On the way home from work yesterday, I stopped at my local gas station to fill up on gasoline. As I proceeded to use my bank card and make the necessary selections, I was given the option if I wanted to get a carwash. Turning around and glancing at my car, I figured it was due for a good washing as it had a lot of winter debris on it from the past snow storm. I drive a 2010 Kia Soul. It sure is a good little car and I guess you could say I treat it like any good car owner would. I take pride by keeping it clean on the inside and outside, I get the oil/filter changed every 3,000 miles, and I always am sure to lock it up and keep it safe. Where I live, yesterday was a nice and sunny day. I’m guessing it was close to 50 degrees out. Driving around to the car wash entrance I discovered I wasn’t the only one with the inspiration to get their car washed. I pulled my car in a line of about 3 cars in front of me. As I sat there and waited, my thoughts began to become profound as they frequently do. I was thinking of how I was patient enough to wait in line to get my 2010 Soul cleaned. Then I thought, have I been patient enough to have my very own soul cleaned? I mean really…. When was the last time I gave my own soul some pampering – and did it need some cleaning? You could say I regard myself as a very good and spiritual individual. I make it a point every day to live my life to the fullest and live the way God intended me to. Going back to the thoughts on my soul…have I given enough attention and pride to it lately? After all, it too is an investment I need to be sure to take care of. Am I in need of an emotional detox? Well, there is no better time that the present for me to continue with my quest. I will do some soul searching to see if there is anything that I have been holding onto that is preventing my spirit from shining bright. Let the doors of my heart open and remove the burden and sin from my life. If I find anything, I need to get rid of it once and for all. By doing this God’s praise will truly echo in my heart again. His gracious glory will sparkle through my spirit giving my soul the light it deserves. There comes a point in all of our lives, when we need to take our souls through the car wash. Whatever it is that prevents us from shining bright with God’s Spirit, we need to get rid of it. Whether it’s a thought, a relationship, a habit, a fantasy, a desire, whatever it is, get rid of it. Whatever lessens our devotion to God, whatever hinders our faith, whatever pulls us away from Christ, get rid of it. Negativity does not belong in your life. God’s Spirit desires to dwell within you. Happy Cleaning!! |
 
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Because my story of transformation is powerful and shows what intention is possible of producing perhaps…
She pulled it out, It had full service and it had zero missed calls.. We called that thing a good 15-20 times.. zero missed calls. You see what I’m saying about God stealing Ashley’s cell phone so we could spend time together and get closer to the things we pray for?
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