SPEAK UP! Silence is Compliance and I am tired of hearing my retired, white male friends saying they haven't done anything about what is going on in our country.

Our voices need to be heard because

WE, are THE PEOPLE.

"WASTE, FRAUD, and ABUSE" and ILLUSORY TRUTH EFFECT

We start believing in false information simply because we’ve heard it repeatedly. Even if something is incorrect, frequent exposure makes it feel familiar and, therefore, more credible.  It may not be intentional, but repetition forms a cognitive bias. Our beliefs are not always based on fact.

SO is "WASTE, FRAUD, and ABUSE" misinformation or disinformation?

Probably some of both.  Should that worry us? YES.

WORDS MATTER. Meanings Matter and Truth Matters.

How we can practice using the words of Metta - loving kindness, compassion, generosity, and connection to elevate our emotions, our thoughts, beliefs and feelings about the world and people around us.

Metta - a practice to get us through and to overcome.

Resistance! Others want to control us and we can resist their control by starting with the words that elevate us above their control. Resistance begins within.

Does it feel like everyone is talking and no one is listening? On today's episode I talk about Bernie Sanders and Stephen Covey and the importance of listening, in silence, to understand the words of others.

Understanding others and amplifying their voices.

Are you an escalator or an elevator? Recall the infamous ride Trump took down the escalator? That's what he is, an escalator and he takes people down the slippery slope of negativity with him.

Words matter and which we use and how we use them matters. Things are tough and words and emotions are escalated! Meanwhile we have people all around us who need to be elevated. We need to life them up.

Let's elevate, not escalate!

How to write the most important love letters you may ever write. Coming from a single woman with no romantic partner, and no I'm not a stalker! But I figured out that writing love letters every day has changed my life. And it only takes two letters to do it!

You use 80% of your heart for hate.  Hate is already in our heart.  It takes up space without even trying.  But Love requires more energy to fill up our heart.  Love

The WORDS we choose to use are a compass, they guide us in the direction we want to go.

How we use WORDS MATTERS.

Whether it's the ones we say, read, write, or

All others, are just WORDSMATTER

When’s the last time you wrote a handwritten letter?  It only takes one letter to create a word, but it takes many words to

Words are like a compass; they can guide you down the right path or misguide you through a messy life journey.

The power of the written word, THE MISSIVE, is the title for today’s episode and THE THEME FOR THE YEAR! Starting off 2025 with some changes to the format and direction to guide the power of words wisely.

As your WORD GUIDE, adventures are going to be with words. I’ll bring the compass to provide direction, and you just need to bring something to write with and something to write on!