One Awesome Community: With Gail Foley, sharing life lessons to help you on your success journey! | Motivation | Inspiration | Success Tips |

One Awesome Community: With Gail Foley, sharing life lessons to help you on your success journey! | Motivation | Inspiration | Success Tips |

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  • OAC 337 Lots of Things Bear Repeating!

    In this crazy world of ours and I am grateful I got this done in February!  People are getting spring fever as they pray for spring fever.  And today's show is about just a few things I truly believe need repeating. If you have kids you will definitely relate to the title.  Listen in or watch the video version :-)    Watch Here :-) Hope to start doing 2 a month - so stay tuned and let me know if there is anything you feel bears repeating. Passing On A Smile, Gail 

    17 min
  • OAC 336 Celebrating 6 years!

    Wow, wow, wow!  I cannot believe it's been 6 years since I accidentally launched my show.  Originally I called it, 

    "Gabbin' With Gail   grows YOUR business"The Gail Foley Show

    And it was all pink tones and a caricature of me on the site!  Until a new author suggested no one would take me seriously.

    Listen in to hear about the twists and turns that navigated me to adopting the name I have today! Crazy how we evolve, but it's the way we grow and stay fresh in what we do.  With a bazillion podcasts out there to choose from...THANK YOU for taking time to listen to mine.

    If you've been with me from the beginning I cannot thank you enough and if you're my newest subscriber, WOW you make my heart zing, too!  And I appreciate each and every one of you from the bottom of my heart!!!

    Passing On A Smile,

    Gail 

    P.S. Here's my first show: 

    http://bit.ly/GabbinGail

     

    17 min
  • OAC 335 Why Do Geese WALK Across The Road?

    I'm really curious about this because they can FLY!!!  Wouldn't you fly everywhere if you could???  I'm thinking I would.  But then I started to think about it. You know my perspective is always a bit twisted, but I think if you listen to this show you might get some insight too.  Sometimes Mother Nature can give you some great ideas.  This is what the geese surprisingly did for me. 

    Going to an event I saw them waiting on the side of the road to cross - half a flock, I swear!  So I started pondering :-) Here's the audio version - video is getting some captions added and then I'll post that on FB, LI and of course on OAC!   I wanted to express my heartfelt gratitude to you for listening and maybe sharing a show or two.  My plans are to bring you more in 2020 - so stayed tuned as I ramp it up! Have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!  I will see you then! Passing On A Smile, Gail 

     

     

    17 min
  • OAC 334 Likes or No Likes, WHAT?!

    I'm sure you've heard by now that there are BIG changes coming to FaceBook and Instagram.  I was lucky enough to stumble across a webinar by Sammie English  with the scoop.

    Now I have to admit most of it was over my head, but I believe I got the jest of it.  So I hope you listen in to my take on it and would love your comments and insight.  

    Do you prefer what's coming?  Do you think it will make a difference on your activity on social media, increase or decrease your time commitment?

    Will you be able to target your niche better to get the interaction that moves you into the news feed more? 

    See lots of questions?  Here is the link to learn from this one expert: www.mafsb.com

    Please share this with those you feel might need to know.  If you like this Episode I will appreciate it, even if it's just me that sees it :-)

    Passing On A Smile,

    Gail 

    16 min
  • OAC 333 Forgive and Move On!

    This is a message that has been popping up in front of me for almost a month.  A personal situation has pushed me to acknowledging what evidently I need to hear.

    The Episode picture is of a card I was given at a 'Brainstorming event' recently.  And then I saw a post by my dear friend Lisa Bechtol that really was the pivotal point for me and why it became the title of this Episode.

    Because as her quote said, "Forgiving does not make it okay.  It simply means you're moving on."

    So today, I hope if you are dealing with conflict of the heart this will speak to you or you know someone that needs to hear it.

    Thank you so much for listening.  It means to the world to me.

    Passing On A Smile,

    Gail 

    16 min
  • OAC 332 Are You Hearing Crickets?

    Common courtesy is all I'm asking for here!  That's what this show is all about.  How often are you left waiting and waiting for a return message?  Do you wait so long that you turn into a stalker trying to get a response?

    Well, I have and I don't like being that person, but I also hate hearing crickets!  I mean does it really take so much of someone's time to just answer back.  In all my many years of business practice that is the one thing I believed, at one time, was just a given.  

    In sales, I had to be the consistent itch to my advertisers making sure I got the ad, the new copy, the proof, the payment, etc.  Because I was responsible to the publication and wanted a paycheck for all my hard work.

    But today, and for the past 14 years I report only to myself.  As a network marketer I get a commission when I complete the sale, as in most sales position.  However, I don't have to report in to someone else first nor am I responsible for someone else's deadline or bottom line.  

    But it still stinks when someone cannot take time to answer back.  To return the proposal, to call you back.  I would much rather be told I am not interested than leave me hanging with a maybe.  Or have someone sign up for your service or product and never let you follow through on how to use it.  So why sign up? This has baffled me for a long time, but even more so as the skills of personal communication have been transferred to Social Media posts, likes and group interaction.  How about you and me, one on one?  All I'm asking for is common courtesy to respond in like.  If you were on the tennis court or playing pickleball or any game - would you not feel compelled to return the ball?   Passing On A Smile,

    Gail 

     

    16 min
  • OAC 331 It Takes Just a Little Shift!

    Since it's the 4th of July you may put off listening to this wild broadcast - but I truly believe you'll enjoy my point of view.

    I am so excited to send it out without any show notes - cause you only have time to read or listen!  And I'd much rather you listen.

    Passing On A Smile,

    Gail 

     

    18 min
  • OAC 330 Words and Memories!

    I had written down several subjects to talk about today, but I researched my channel and oops, found out I talked on them way too many times already!

    So I went through my file of collected ideas.  Articles that spoke to me, ideas I had jotted down.  And the one article that grabbed me today was featured in the Sunday Morning Parade Magazine on March 15, 2015.  March 15th was my parent's anniversary - the Ides of March.  I should share that story some time :-)

    But today, it's about what this article shared in the power of our words and how they stir memories and bring back our past.  Some letters have changed the world.  In fact, that was the name of the article "Letters That Changed Our World."

    And I speak about it from my own personal perspective that hopefully will help you consider your own viewpoint on the subject.

    I've collected and kept cards and letters for years.  My mother and I, and now my daughter and I, get excited when we buy an old book and find a letter or note inside.  Or even that special inscription written in the book.

    It's a practice I've had forever when giving a book as a gift - I always write an inscription.  And so many books given to me, have been given with a very special message written inside.

    So this topic brought some good and bad memories to me, but I had to share how powerful they were for me.  And today I appreciate the difference between that heated email exchange and the softer words written in a note.  Have you ever written back in haste and anger and regretted it?  How about a letter?  Sometimes we cool down and don't send it or just feel relief that you wrote the feelings out?

    I'd love to hear what experiences you've had with words, the good, the bad, the ugly.  They all shape our worlds, some more profoundly more than others.

    Passing On A Smile,

    Gail 

     

    16 min
  • OAC 329 Gearing Up!

    Let me share with you first why this title! 

    This quote spoke to me:

    "Life is like a ten-speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use."  ~ Charles Schultz

    And boy do I ever fall into that category!  So many gears I do not use.  But I also realize it's because I'm not always in alignment with my joy.  

    Joy shows up when we are in a place that align with our souls, our values, our dreams.

    I heard 2 speakers today that brought all this profoundly in front of me and helped me realize my own very recent journey.  You may have seen what I've been sharing on Social Media for about 3 weeks!  Facebook  and LinkedIn 

    When you're in alignment with what you do life works.  Cynthia and I always talk about you have to love what you do to be successful.  And so you have to define what success is for you.  Is it feeling joy at the end of the day?  Feeling of knocking it out of the ballpark?  What is it that brings you true satisfied feelings of total accomplishment?

    These are the questions I  pose to you on this show.  I've had many ups and downs since starting this podcast 5 years ago.  My passion for what I was doing at the time was waning and I had hoped to reinvigorate it with this show.  What I found was an entirely new passion!  And ironically, 5 years later the reason I got this started in the first place is finally reinvigorated thanks to a new company!!!

    So check out my pages, or simply visit me at HeyCardLady.com

    And as always, please share this, someone is needing to find that alignment, maybe this will encourage them.  One never knows :-)

    Thank you for listening.  I appreciate you so very very much.

    Passing On A Smile,

    Gail 

     

    16 min
  • OAC 328 The Dynamics of Our Lives!

    Wow!  After I finished this one I knew there was so much more that I wished I had said...

    My daughter said the title sounded like a soap opera, got me thinking.  Maybe I'll do part II. Love to know what you think on that subject!!

    What I talk about in this episode is how we're happy in our lives, in the relationships, the job, etc and then someone new comes along.  That new 'awful' boss.  That new addition to your friend's group that just rubs you wrong.  Oooh, you get the picture, I'm sure!

    It is never fun to have the dynamics of our lives shifted because of someone or something else suddenly entering into your picture.

    I talk about my dynamics being disrupted and how I literally had to move on, for my own sanity.  And this subject has come to me because someone who has been absent in my life for a very long time has decided to come back into it.

    It's been a peaceful few years, now unfortunately this one person will change my life's dynamics with tension and anxiety.  If I allow that.   

    I can't and I won't, so I share some of my strategies and perspectives on this subject that might shed some light on what you are dealing with.  It can literally be life altering as it has been for me.  Many have left me heart broken, but I continued to be me and found a way to learn and thrive in spite of it.

    So I hope this gives you some coping ideas.  And if you can, I'd love for you to share your ventures into the world of disrupted dynamics.  You cannot be in this world without that happening.  Hiding and hoping to keep them at bay are not sufficient to keep them out.   

    Thank you for listening :-) Passing On A Smile,

    Gail 

     

    14 min

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