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In this episode, we dive into the essential steps of how to be genuinely kind, fostering a world filled with empathy and understanding. This thought-provoking episode explores the importance of embracing compassion and offers practical tips on how to cultivate kindness in our daily lives.

[00:03:03] Continuing to live with humility, partnering with God to align with His heart.

[00:06:43] Uncertainty and persistence in faith-based industries.

[00:10:02] Importance of integrity and gratitude in business.

[00:13:24] Don't start a new business with $10K/month, focus on bigger goals.

[00:16:50] Faithful team, surround yourself with believers.

[00:20:16] Prayer for abundance, multiplication in business. Thank God.

Happy Valentines Day!!! 

I love Valentine's Day! And I always have!!! I simply love LOVE!!!! I agree that we should be celebrating love all year round and telling the people we love that we love them despite a holiday!  But it is a month when we can remind ourselves about the love around us. It's all about REFRAMING the way you look at things! 

Don't forget to tell the people that you love, that you love them!! Hug them!! Make it known how you feel about others because no one can read your brain!

I also shared very little about my SELF-LOVE JOURNEY and how you can start others 

• Roller coaster 
• Love yourself first 
• Fill your own cup, and let them fall in love with the overflow 
• Looks different for everyone! You need to figure out what works for you!
• Stop comparing yourself 
• Ask yourself questions: 
  • What do I enjoy?
  • What fulfills me?
  • When am I the happiest?
• Start doing more things you love 
• Making space for all the parts of myself! Befriending all parts of yourself! 
• Positive affirmation 

Happy LOVE day!!!

Happy Valentine's day, or as we say, Happy Heart Day!

In today's episode, we will discuss 14 ways we can express love in our family!

Have you heard about the different love languages?
#1: Words of affirmation
#2: Acts of service
#3: Gifts
#4: Quality time 
#5: Physical touch

The ways you express your love may be an indication of the love language you like to receive. 
We should also try to learn and understand the love languages of our partners and our children to be sure to fill their love buckets!

TUNE INTO TODAY'S EPISODE TO HEAR SOME FUN AND IMPORTANT WAYS WE CAN CONNECT AND LOVE ONE ANOTHER!

1.Spend time together having fun!

2.Eat meals together.

3.Smile and say it’s good to see you upon your return or theirs!

4.Say I love you. Often.

5.Leave little love notes.

6.Be generous with your hugs and gentle touch.

7.Listen attentively, practice being curious and interested

8.Have special day dates (episode number five “Funday dates“)

9.Surprise your loved ones with small gifts or cards – just because!

10.Limit your use of phones or devices. Practice being fully present.

11.Play board games together – once a week family nights!

12.Being an authoritative, nurturing, parent means having clarity of expectations and consistency, which allows family members to feel safe and love. In a an environment of that is safe and secure. Love is possible because love requires vulnerability. And vulnerability requires feeling safe.

13.Pitch in! Share household and family tasks together.

14.Create and practice, family traditions, something you can rely on, and enjoy every year, or every month, or every week even. They can be cultural, religious, or spiritual, or heritage-based traditions, or family traditions, that you create (like your family games night, for example)

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Original music ©Lisa K Sigurgeirson 1986

VALENTINE’S DAY IS COMING!

Get ready for valentines day, or heart day, with these activities. Can be given as a gift to mommy, daddy, sibling, or friend.

This weekend we have a love song, cute heart crafts, and a lovely book to share with you!

SONG
SINNAMARINK 

ACTIVITY
HEART-SHAPED LOVE COLOURS COLLAGE

For this art activity you will need:
-Heart shaped doilies - OR cut out large hearts our of coloured construction paper OR both!
-Glue stick/glitter glue
-Kids scissors 

Suggestions for a Selection of fun bits to glue in REDS, PINKS, PURPLES & WHITE: 

• Coloured pencils, crayons, felt pens
• various types of paper in these colours cut into tiny bits, random shapes are fine 
• Various sizes of hearts cut out of different coloured paper 
• Scraps of yarn, coloured string, ribbons
• Confetti <3. Sparkles - can create hole punch confetti! 

BOOK
A TOUCH, A KISS AND A HOLD Written By Linda K Leavitt

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My whole quest is to find the Happier me.  I think one of the key things is self-awareness and self-acceptance.  One of the ways to be self-aware is knowing how to ask for what you need.

How do you know what you need?

One of the ways you can know what you need is by knowing your love language.  I’m no expert in this, but my husband and I read The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman around 20 years ago.  I have been a self-improvement person for many, many years.  We read this back before we really had a major argument in our relationship.  I think that reading this book together and being able to talk about what is important to us helped shaped our relationship.

For many years I gave the Five Love Languages book to friends and family as wedding gifts.  I think the gift of communication is the best thing you can give any relationship, especially marriage.

Why am I talking about it on the Happier You podcast?

If you don’t’ know what you need to communicate and feel loved in your closest relationships, then how can you set boundaries and ask for what you need outside those relationships?  The five love languages concept isn’t limited to couples.   For instance, once we had our son we continued on and delved into the 5 love languages of children.  Likewise, Dr. Chapman has also written books specifically for teens, singles, men…and I even saw one for military families. 

This is particularly important right now during COVID 19.

As we are currently all mostly stuck at home with our closest family, or conversely, alone if you are single or circumstances have you living apart from your family, we need communication more than ever.

Once you are able to communicate what you need to feel loved and valued to the people closest to you, you will then be able to do that in all relationships.

Its not just a one-way road though.  If you can look at the people closest to you and communicate your love in their language, your most precious relationships become stronger.  I am a total believer in this!

How do you figure out your love language?

You can go online to www.5lovelanguages.com and take the quiz.  There isn’t just a quiz for couples.  You can take the quiz for singles, teens and children.  I actually retook it because I suspected mine might have changed and it did.  My number one and two switched.  It could be just the phase I’m in right now…I’m not sure, but either way, my top two were still my top two.

How full is your Love Tank?

One way you can check in with your loved ones is to ask them “how full is your love tank?”  If you think of your love tank like a bank account or gas tank of a car, you need to continually make deposits because the money/gas constantly gets used up as you go through life.  Checking in and asking how their love tank is doing will give you an indicator of whether you are making enough “deposits” in your loved ones account or if you need to make more and maybe even change how you are doing things.  It gives you any easy check-in of how well you are communicating your love.

Knowing how to effectively show love to the people you care about and how to ask for what you need is a great communication too.  I don’t think the power of communication can be under valued in any relationship!

What is your Love Languange?