Healthy Happy Loving Life: Inspiration from Fun Olympics

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Photo by Alex Smith on Unsplash

Photo by Alex Smith on Unsplash

Every day, I look for good news that I can both enjoy and share; good news is good for us!  It shifts our brain and body chemistry.  It helps us feel better and stronger, and our body-mind-spirit systems work better.  I search for reports of progress by research scientists, forward steps by nonprofits, the latest child inventors and prodigies, the youngest new member of Mensa, animals saving humans, fish returning to the Hudson River… You get the idea.

So today, I’m sharing a perfect story:  a couple in Britain, Stuart Bates and Charlotte Nichols, performing Olympic-type games on their own.  To raise money for ALS research.  Now, if you are wondering what ALS is, let’s hope neither you nor anyone you know ever gets it.  Its full name is Amyotropic Lateral Sclerosis, also known in the UK as Motor Neurone Disease, also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease, after the famous baseball player who suffered from it.  Unfortunately, ALS is a progressive nerve disease that will eventually kill the sufferer, after a few months of intense pain.  It’s horrible.  Stuart Bates’s brother, Spencer “Spenny” Bates, died of ALS in 2011.

So along came the 2021 Olympics, with 17 days of games. And Stuart Bates and Charlotte Nichols decided to play 96 of those, just the two of them, with coaches and friends cheering them on.  Every major news outlet covered this audacious yet cheerful project.  According to The Guardian, the couple raised over 100,000 pounds or about $180,000, far beyond their original goal of raising 10,000 pounds.  Stuart and Spenny Bates’ mother commented to CBS News that Spenny was “probably laughing his socks off in Heaven.”  In an interview with Studio London, Stuart Bates said real Olympians were texting their friendship and support from Tokyo. Professionals from many sports fields contributed their support, and for team sports, such as (British) football and rowing, the couple competed within professional teams.

If you want to help celebrate the Spennylympics and the future conquering of ALS, you can give to the cause at Spennylympics.com or mndassociation.org .

Do you feel inspired now?  Thinking of some positive projects of your own? Well, that’s you, being ever more Healthy Happy and Loving Life^sm!

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Kebba Buckley Button, MS, OM, is an energy transformation expert, holistic guide, and award-winning author who celebrates life. She has a longtime energy healing practice and is an ordained minister. Among her books are: Discover The Secret Energized You (http://tinyurl.com/b44v3br), Inspirations for Peace Within:  Quotes and Images to Uplift and Inspire, and Sacred Meditation: Embracing the Divine.  The books are available on Amazon and through Kebba’s office.   To email us, kebba@kebba.com .

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Healthy Happy Loving Life: Rain Transforms

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As we all seek to be Healthy, Happy, and Loving Life, we can notice some simple things transform us profoundly.  Today I share three images:  okay life, life absorbing nurturing rain, and life having absorbed the rain and transformed into fresh life.  Study these blooms and see how they added features as they transformed through the rain.  What would nurture you right into transformation, like these blooms?  What would shift you more into Healthy, Happy, and Loving Life^sm?  Thank you for visiting!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Kebba Buckley Button is a stress solutions expert, holistic guide, and award-winning author who celebrates life.  She has a longtime energy healing practice and is an ordained minister. Among her books are: Discover The Secret Energized You (http://tinyurl.com/b44v3br), Inspirations for Peace Within:  Quotes and Images to Uplift and Inspire, and Sacred Meditation: Embracing the Divine.  The books are available on Amazon and through Kebba’s office.   To email us, kebba@kebba.com .

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Healthy Happy Loving Life: Captain Sir Tom Moore Uplifted the World at 100

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So many have been stressed during the COVID-19 months.  In this strange time, people who do something positive and astonishing can really lift our spirits.  Captain Sir Tom Moore is one such person.  He was known to regularly say, “[T]omorrow will be a good day!”  He lifted the spirits of millions.

A few months ago, Moore was a 99-year old in England, minding his own business while trying to stay healthy in the COVID-19 era.  Moore was a highly decorated WWII veteran, known for his positive attitude and cheery smile.  While the family was discussing how to celebrate Moore’s upcoming 100th birthday, his son-in-law dared him to raise 1,000 pounds (about $1368) for the National Health (NHS Charities Together) by walking 82-foot loops of his garden.  Word spread, the media came, and the nation fell in love with him.  He kept walking and smiling.  Eventually, he raised 33 million pounds (about $45 million) for the National Health from over 1.5 million donors.  He was given military honors and knighted by the Queen at Windsor Palace.  British Airways gave him and his family a bucket list trip to Barbados.

At last, Captain Sir Tom Moore became ill near the end of 2020, with pneumonia.  He was hospitalized but caught COVID-19.  He died yesterday. Truly, a giant of health care history has passed.

Does Moore’s story lift your heart and inspire you? Is there a difference you can be making in the world, perhaps 82-foot loops at a time? Now you’re even more in the realm of Healthy, Happy, and Loving Life^sm!  

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Kebba Buckley Button is a stress solutions expert, holistic guide, and award-winning author who celebrates life.  She has a longtime energy healing practice and is an ordained minister. Among her books are: Discover The Secret Energized You (http://tinyurl.com/b44v3br), Inspirations for Peace Within:  Quotes and Images to Uplift and Inspire, and Sacred Meditation: Embracing the Divine.  The books are available on Amazon and through Kebba’s office.   To email us, kebba@kebba.com .

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Fresh Inspiration from Others’ Professions

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As a professional stress management speaker, author, and coach, I’m supposed to get my inspiration from other speakers, authors, and coaches.  But I sometimes find myself uplifted, thrilled and filled afresh by people in completely different professions.  Surprisingly, three of those fields that have been inspiring me a lot lately are championship golf, home redesign, and luxury real estate.

My husband and I found professional golf one day, when we went in search of a new place to find really great burgers.  We stopped in at a sports grill and found more than great food.  An array of large screen televisions framed the main room at this restaurant. An international golf competition was playing on several screens.  Soon we were captivated by the gorgeous setting, as well as the culture of quiet, of focus, and of mutual respect.  Courtesy reigned supreme. The golf course landscape was very beautiful, and some camera shots showed the ocean, just beyond the course.  Competitors spoke quietly, if at all.  The winners responded to sports commentators in a quiet and thoughtful manner. Imagine going to work every day of your career, in natural surroundings, with people encouraging each other to focus quietly and each achieve their personal best.  Imagine that the top achievers in your field are thoughtful and soft spoken.  And you get paid to be with these people in this culture of quiet respect.  Just thinking of professional golfers, I feel fresh permission to stop, focus until ready, and quietly make the right moves toward my goals.

My fascination with home redesign began when I lived in an historic district in Tucson, Arizona. Everyone I knew was restoring historic spaces, at little cost, reusing and recycling. My heart always soared when I saw their projects and heard their conversation.  They spoke for love of legacy, historic colors and finishes, and bringing pieces and spaces back to beauty and life.  They inspired me to refinish my antiques and imagine how people lived in the homes now being refurbished. Today, the restoration expert who most inspires me is Nicole Curtis, the “Rehab Addict”.  She adopts condemned historic homes, in mainly Detroit and Minneapolis, bringing them back to their former glory, but with modern plumbing and wiring.  Curtis is a tiny warrior, a stunning triathlete with cascading blonde tresses.  The cameras find her excitedly ripping offending modern panels off of historic walls, and vigorously sanding the most stubborn surfaces, then refinishing them.  Curtis creates a red dress and glams up for a charity ball, then the next day gets paint in her hair and shrieks excitedly: “WHY would anyone COVER THIS UP?”  Curtis is vigorous, passionate, kind, and resource-wise.  Just thinking of her, I feel invigorated.  I feel my own passion rising, and I know any worthy project can be completed, beautifully and inexpensively.

Another surprise corner of modern culture gives me terrific inspiration.  Recently, I found myself riveted to television shows about high-end listings, especially “Million Dollar Listing: Los Angeles.”  These shows could serve as classroom teaching tools.  Through stories about putting together deals, millionaire real estate experts model how to successfully relate to clients and colleagues.  They also teach us how to negotiate relationships, design, and contracts.  One realtor, Madison Hildebrand, is now demonstrating the principle of not getting locked into a single professional groove.  Not only has he pleasantly succeeded in real estate sales, he now has his own brand (“The Beach Guy”), a book, a speaking career, and his own candle line. He even starred on a major television dating show, in addition to serving in community leadership and volunteer roles.  Hildebrand reminds me to stay who I am, be my best, lift my mind frommain tracks, and stay open to the surrounding opportunities.

Stephen Covey said,

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.

And the late Steve Jobs reminded us,

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.

So where have you noticed yourself finding a recharge of your inspiration and your passions?  Do you get inspired in certain places, or activities, or thinking about certain people?  Make yourself an Inspiration List, to review on days when you need a lift.  Soon you’ll be back in your energy, your passion, your imagination, and your success.

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