Love the “You Can Shine” tie-in. Brilliant.

Full disclosure. Barbara, creator of Daily Whisper, and I are friends. But I want to make it clear that I’m not featuring her work here just because she is really nice and pretty and funny nor because I owe her too many favors. Nope.
Barbara and I met about 8 years ago when we got together, along with two other women, on a weekly basis to conduct our own workshop based on the “Heart’s Desire” book by Sonia Choquette. It was an incredible experience. If we didn’t know each other before this exercise, we certainly got to know everything about each [...]

The days are getting shorter, colder, grayer. Besides overloading on vitamin D supplements, some of these sunny-daily-quotes-by-subscription might infuse you with all the energy you would need to spruce up your spirits. Here are some of my favorites…

Hopenhagen. As in Hope for the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen this December 7 to 18.
Hopenhagen is a tool for “the people”, across the globe, to create a strong, purpose-driven, environmentally concerned community that demands a call to action from the world leaders to make the changes necessary to create a more sustainable way of life on our planet.
You can sign the petition here to make your voice heard. There are only four weeks left to get the petition signed before it is presented to world leaders at the conference.
Hopenhagen is change – and that change will be [...]

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Remember my mention of this adorable little online boutique? Shop It Up Chic sells affordable fashions or rents these fashions for a low monthly fee. Great concept. So, we were quite excited when they offered to sponsor this giveaway, a $50 certificate towards the item of your choice.
As [...]

Financial institutions in the US has been battered and vilified. Better banking practices in Canada have prevented a meltdown over there. Even so, one institution up North, Servus, is still looking to build good will… and feel good ripples.
Indeed, this great campaign for Feel Good banking by Servus, a Canadian credit union “was developed to inspire everyone to make a positive impact in their community – today and into the future.  It’s the credit union way of creating harmonious communities and sharing our cooperative beliefs.”

They’re too modest. They are not mentioning anywhere on their website that, to get this process [...]

I know that I’m harping on the subject (oh, just here, here and here, that’s all), but it’s whatever it takes to spread the word about how invasive-ly nasty water bottles are for our environment. We’ve all fallen for the pure-spring-fed-mountain-fresh bozo claims of water bottlers, but NO more.
 
And here in a movie-is-worth-a-thousand-words, is Tapped the Movie, which will help the message sink in:
“From the plastic production to the ocean in which so many of these bottles end up, this inspiring documentary trails the path of the bottled water industry and the communities which were the unwitting chips on the [...]

By BR Thomas, Guest Contributor
Sports Drinks for Hydration and for Taste.
Most sports drinks in the stores are just empty calories, chemical additives, disposable plastic bottles and unnecessary costs. Some of us are drinking bottled water, but that still has the problems of disposable bottles and costs per gallon greater than that of gasoline! We all need to be well hydrated to keep our bodies functioning properly, but what should we drink to achieve that goal?
Sports drinks provide water, sugar, salt and flavor. Sugar and salt in sports drinks are needed only for intense workouts longer than 1 hour to [...]