If you "prefer" to listen to the podcast... "Gratitude is NOT "either-or"

Allow this Heart to Remind "you" 
Not sharing answers, sharing a perspective
From the road traveled to this day
 
 
For this Heart,
it is an Exercise "daily" from a Heart that knows "Gratitude Robs Regret"
 
 

When some Hearts share a...
Word
Phrase
Theme
"For Some, It is not with the intention of "one size fits all"
For this Heart...
It is a "heart buffet" to allow your heart to sample, consider
 
 


From a Heart who is not guessing
Sharing from one who knows "firsthand"
Gratitude allows you to Rob Regret



Dear Friend, 
Please "hear this heart"
It is not a "pass" from what life delivers...
Moments that will bring Grief, Tears, Challenging Moments
But
It will allow “in the process” of Healing to not be left with Regret
 



For the Hearts...
Who are suffering present day “with regret”
The next step is to get the Help your heart needs
Don't live with what you can't change....



Please, 
Do the work to live releasing those things
The work with help if that is what is needed
Not tomorrow…Today

 


Gratitude is NOT an "Either-Or

Thank you for sharing this "heart journey"



"Making Gratitude Contagious"
infecting as many hearts as possible
is the only option
For This Heart. ​

Hugs,
Donyale

Want More...

"Mountain View Reflection"

What is your View?!

This heart shares what is lodged within...


This thought has been weighted
Which for this Heart means...it has to be released
and
When that is the flow
Allow me to say
Before this Heart continues...


"Everything is not for Everyone"



This is for the Heart who has landed here
For the Heart who is listening
For the Heart who was asking
For the Heart who knows what just....

​"Mountain View Reflection"

From this Heart to Your Heart
We all get moments
We all get chances
Opportunities

That "allow us" to make a Decision

​"Mountain View Reflection"

Thank you for Being Here
Thank you for Sharing This Heart Journey
This Heart Does Not Share Answers
This Heart Shares a Perspective
From the Road Traveled...to this Present Day

​"Mountain View Reflection"

For the Hearts
Sitting atop the Mountain...The View really is so Beautiful
What a Wonderful Season
Such Beautiful Moments
The Season where all things are flowing in the right direction

​"Mountain View Reflection"

As this Heart Share comes to a Close
Allow This Heart to ask...



Asking Your Heart to Consider
Taking a Moment to Reflect on the Road Traveled
The Decisions that You Have Made
and
The Opportunities that Moments Presented






Consider
"If and When Things Change"




Nothing Remains the Same
No Matter
No Matter
Where you currently Reside




We Don't Own Space...We Only Occupy
This Heart considers we have Moments that we can Embrace
We Have Moments that ask us to make decisions
Every Single Day




For Some Hearts
We Measure the Cost 
Of
What
Those Decisions can potentially mean




For Some Hearts
We Live with the Understanding
That

"No One Promised Us Tomorrow Will Look the Same as Today"

​"Mountain View Reflection"

Did Someone Say Easy?!




This Heart doesn't share Easy
and
Not Focused on being Hard




This Heart Shares 
Whatever is lodged within 
This Heart...The Heart of an Artist
Who Just Wants to Deliver
What is lodged within
What is weighted inside
To the Heart who is Listening






and



Dear Friend,

From This Heart to Yours
Where it Goes
Where it Lands

​
For This Heart
Is and Always will be 
"​God's Business"

​"Mountain View Reflection"

"Until Next Time"

​Hugs,
​Donyale

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To Continue
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Peace Within...
Calmness allows an opportunity to consider your options

Who Is in the Room...Who is Looking?!

A great question for "your" Heart...

A very easy Reflection


Do You Give
Do You Do 
To Show

or

To Just Give
To Just Do


Consider,
What Really is Your Heart Intent?!


Allow this Heart to Share...
Applause will always be Temporary
The Same who will Applaud You
Will be the Same
That Will Critique You 


In Fact...
A Special Delivery to the Heart who cares
The very people "you" invest so much time into 
Always Concerned on what they Think



Consider,
Most would not cross the street for "you"
Would not "really" be there for you when and if needed

​Who Is in the Room...Who is Looking?!

This Is A Heart Share...
For those Hearts who never considered...


Who are you really living for...
Is the Focus
Who is in the room?
Who is looking?



A Heart Share
Sharing words that were lodged within to be released to the Heart who...
Never really asked the reason behind Why
Never considered 



Not Sharing Answers
Always Sharing a Perspective 
Sharing Words to Consider

For Those Hearts
Who never considered really considered

Who Is in the Room...Who is Looking?!

Until Next Time...

​Hugs,
Donyale

​​Want More...
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"Thank You"

​​This Heart's Book that allows the Conversation to Continue
"Live Heart Inspired" by Yvette "Donyale

​Have you seen...

"A New Day..."

Yes…a New Day is Heart before Us

"Heart Thought Moment" 

Victory…A New Day is before us

What will be our Heart Focus?!

Life is a celebration

and
A New Day should not be taken for Granted

​
Hugs,
Donyale 

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Have you seen...

"A New Day..."

Be On Alert…There is a “terrorist” on the prowl

Heart Sharing for “awareness”


There is a “terrorist” that prowls around looking to build on the fears that are usually heart associated with “what if this or what if that…”


The alert is showing that the Terrorist’s “covert operation” is focused on “our thoughts” Please be on notice, this is not a small thing to “heart share”


When you go through a Tragic, Dark moment
When you have or are currently walking through a challenging time
When plans or a blueprint has been torn up for the road ahead

These are covert operations of this prowler

Why?!


First…allow this heart to be clear
Not Sharing answers
Sharing a Perspective 


There are “familiar” sounds, memories of when something happened in our life, along the road traveled and this includes the story of someone else that we may know, it creates vulnerability, it allows familiar things to create a present-day story, a potential story…that has no foundation “but” is very familiar to the road behind us. 

And


The Thought Terrorist knows…
With these “familiarities” 
The heart will wrestle with…what if this is what if that?! 
The hope will be battling will this time be different
The question persists can this happen like the last time…
The Heart’s Peace within is trying very hard to maintain

​Be On Alert…There is a “terrorist” on the prowl

My Dear Friend,
This is not leading to Answers
From a Heart that leans on and exercises daily on Faith
This Heart’s Faith is not dependent on religious rituals
This Heart exercise from the “familiar relationship” of my Creator
This Heart draws from that time before 
When
How
God walked me through difficult places
Reminds me that this heart can’t see over the Mountain
This Heart does not know the “full plan” of where puzzling pieces are being placed. 
Firsthand experience of Peace beyond knowing how to share it
Experience of God’s Grace and Mercy that words
That words can’t really express

Not sharing to convince or to persuade
Sharing what this Heart Exercises daily



The Focus creates the View
This share is not about being Easy
And 
It is not centered on being Hard

Be On Alert…There is a “terrorist” on the prowl

Instead
It is sharing 
The Exercise of what we choose to Focus on
Focus determines our view
Focus can build upon Peace within
Or 
Focus can allow our thoughts to Race with Fear

Your Focus
My Focus
Our Focus that “we choose daily” matters
It is what reminds, builds upon, and allows us to View the day before us Including the Hopeful Road Ahead


Focus allows us to appreciate, to be grateful for what we have 
And 
Just to remain in that place, exercising being grateful 



The Focus will determine the View
This Heart has not mastered things shared


Dear Friend, that is why it is a reminder for the Heart
Focus Matters
Exercising Gratitude Matters


This Thought Terrorist is prowling around to steal our peace, to overwhelm our thoughts

But

In Those Moments 
If we’ve been exercising
Our Reflex will go into overdrive
And
We will draw on ‘what matters’
Instead of the rabbit hole of being focused on “what if..”


We choose our Focus
We continue our Daily Exercise
Choosing “what really matters”


We all are given a daily choice
To choose to Worry and to Swim in the waters of Fear
Or
We can exercise Living Inside Out
Building upon our Peace
Exercise that becomes our reflex


The only Result from the View of what this Heart Can see
Is that whatever is on the Road before Me…will be there
But
This Heart draws on the “relationship” my Creator has Shown Me
This is a Walk
A Relationship
And
Every Single Day
This Heart Chooses the View of “what really heart matters’



This Heart has decided
That the choice made will
Will show up in Every Conversation
Will show up in Every Action 



This Heart will choose
To Dance
To Laugh
To Love
For Every God-Given Moment afforded to this Heart


Moments Matter
Gratitude Matters
From a Heart that Knows
Every Moment offers “each of us” an opportunity to…

​
To Embrace It
To Make Every Moment Count

​Be On Alert…There is a “terrorist” on the prowl

Not Sharing Answers…if only I had them?!
Sharing
A Heart Perspective
From this Heart…


The Secret I’ve located
Is to choose to take the Reigns and “Make Every Moment Matter”



When not If 
Anxiety, Anger, Irritation, or Frustration “knock”
Take a Pause
Get Your Oxygen…
Then
Continue Forward


Don’t allow the Terrorist to “steal your focus”
Adding Such Pressure
That you join in the party of  ‘terrorizing” even those who surround your life


In closing,


Dear Heart,
Please Remember, this Heart doesn’t share answers
This Heart “just knows”
That life can change “In An Instant”
A Heart exercise, that chooses to do something with that information 
And
My Heart just hopes that ‘your heart’
Can
Become Aware, become alert to this Truth


From a Heart that knows Firsthand
And
Works every single day “exercising Gratitude"
Whether ‘easy or not’
I promise you…
Gratitude Robs Regret

Hugs,
Donyale

You Are Never Walking Alone...
 
Sharing a moment, with the words lodged in my Heart, for "your" Heart to Know...

​

Sharing Resources:
~Please add to your contacts~

Recommended / Trusted Local Church, access to  "Pastoral Staff" that can pray with you

National Hopeline, available 24 hours - 7 days a week:  800-273-8255 


TEXT... (the word) HOME to the number:  741741 
​Website that offers more information: CrisisTextLine.org

 
From My Heart to the Heart who Receives This



PLEASE KNOW...
 
"You are Never Walking Alone"
 
Hugs, 
Donyale

​You can't outrun Yourself

For the Heart who is always running to the next page...
At Top Speed
The Heart who never has an opportunity to write a page
For,
The day "your heart" is residing in "this day, this moment"



For the Hearts who "at any cost" has a destination in sight
From a Heart Share
Who is not providing "answers"
This share is  "words" to consider for your journey



Wherever you land..
Including "if" it's that place that you envision



Please be mindful, 
You will celebrate and you should, if your hard work landed you there
You deserve to enjoy "every moment" of it...



The Share...
Just Measure the cost along the process
Wherever you land which really in the scheme of things will be a  "visit"
You will not "possess" that moment forever



The Share...
Life changes...
Take Time to Intentionally enjoy the "moments"
Always aware of the cost, always "measuring the cost"
Of 
The Price you're willing to pay in "those moments"
Of
The Choices "you" will make, that you will choose along the way
The choices are located in "words, time and actions" 



Measure the cost before...



Please know "before...if that or this happens"
Know the price "you're willing" to pay "especially" in those moments
This should NEVER BE DECIDED by...
Those who surround your life...This is and always should be "YOU"
Before. . .Wherever. . .Whenever. . .


​
As the hopeful road continues
Wherever "you" Temporarily Reside
Wherever...
Your Heart Lands in every single moment..."YOU" will always be there


That "really" Heart Matters
NOT
An Answer, a Share from a Heart who knows Firsthand
That 
GRATITUDE always Robs Regret


​
Love Matters...

You can't outrun Yourself


​Hugs,
Donyale

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Thoughts can lead a heart to...

What a dance…Thoughts

No matter who we are, where we are, or what we are hoping for, we all engage daily, in a dance with our thoughts

Every single day, we walk out, our day with Thoughts

This is why it is vital for “this heart” to exercise daily walking in my Faith, taking intentional time in devotion, being still, and being intentional.  This foundation has allowed and allows “this heart” to be reminded, to learn more, and to rest more in my Faith.  A daily exercise that allows this heart to have “oxygen” to start the day “intentional” hopeful and girded for  the day before this heart. ​

Thoughts can lead a heart to...


Thoughts allow our hearts to “locate peace, to locate beautiful” within a new day,  to “Rest” in being Grateful for just being able to Inhale, to Exhale, to appreciate those who surround our life this day in thought, and including moments shared from reaching out to. 

Thoughts knock on our hearts throughout our day…

When Hearts prepare Intentionally to start and close out a day, it allows us to be aware and to know what thoughts to open the door to and what to intentionally ignore, disregard, and continue forward.


This heart has shared and will continue to share…
Not sharing easy and not focused on it being hard
Not sharing answers, sharing a Heart Perspective from the road traveled until sharing in this “moment” with you


A Heart Buffet…
Take what can be an asset
And 
Simply leave the rest behind
If your heart does not resonate with this village
It is okay to agree to disagree 
And
This Heart sends “continued best” for the road before you..

Thoughts can lead a heart to...

Bring gifts of peaceful silence
To be engaged in a space, in a conversation, in a room, and to be open to flow filling it with love, with laughter


This heart recognizes
Many words, phrases, and images can be repetitive and so easily overlooked and taken for granted. 


This heart instead “intentionally lives” knowing what precious moments mean. Every single moment, every conversation, text, email, letter, event, or gathering offers us all a MOMENT that WILL become a MEMORY

Not Maybe…
A Fact, A Truth


This Heart instead chooses to live every single moment “very alert” to that and including those moments, places, where there are no words, there is nothing to add, and no reason to respond…whatever a moment offers, this heart will not intentionally be an added weight, will choose to be alert to the words being used and actions that are taken, to intentionally live with the awareness that in the scheme of things “what really matters” including and especially when the same courtesy is not offered back this way, to this heart. ​

Thoughts can lead a heart to...


To Consider
To Exercise 
What Really Matters…Every Single Day
This Heart recognizes this may never be mastered but the focus remains the same, is to “exercise, exercise, exercise” being Grateful for “what is”

To Intentionally Love on those who surround my life this day, those I encounter, and even those I don’t know sharing “what I can” when I can, even a smile can be an asset to another heart.


From my Heart to the Heart who is engaged in This Moment…

Dear Friend
Moments Matter
From a Heart who knows I promise you the journey “will include Valleys, low, disappointing, very sad moments” and “Mountains, peaceful, joyful beyond measure moments”  


Both will leave our Hearts Tattoed and we want to reflect on what we added to those memories and not subtracted from those moments. 

Thoughts can lead a heart to...

For the Heart who hears this and maybe wrestling with what was
Get the Help that you need from a local church, a therapist that comes with recommendations but don’t allow another day to be stolen with what can’t be changed

For those who have never considered the value of a New Day
Now you have been made aware and it is “your choice” to Exercise Being Grateful “to add” to every day, moment afforded to your heart.
To Live Intentionally as “an asset” and not “a liability”
Always a choice. 


Life is continual…It will always change



From a Heart that knows Firsthand 
Starting from a very young heart
That Love really does matter 
And 
Exercising Gratitude will Rob Regret


Not sharing what I think
Sharing what this Heart has learned and Knows Firsthand


Thank You God for this Moment
Thank You for an Opportunity to just Share a Moment
To Just Share this Heart’s Buffet


Grateful for more than words know how to express
With a hopeful heart that it is an asset to the heart that is listening
​

Thoughts can lead a heart to...
​

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As the Sun begins to Set...


​Reflection...
Reflecting on the Day afforded to this Heart 


"Time Matters"
Each new day afforded reminds this heart of this priceless commodity
and
This Heart will continue to...
Exercise
Reflect
Embrace
Share
Just how important this really is


Many Hearts already know this
and
Some Hearts have now awaken to what these words really mean
and
Some will be visited to learn this lesson firsthand


​Reflection...

Not sharing Easy
and
Not Focused on being Hard


​Reflection...
A Heart Sharing what really matters...To This Heart
A Heart who knows Why
A Heart who recognizes what really matters
A Heart who shares a "Heart Buffet"

​Reflection...

Please Take from this "Heart Buffet"
What Can be an asset to your heart and to your journey

To the Hearts who Already Know
"Making Gratitude Contagious" is the Building Blocks in this Village

A Heart 
Who Knows Firsthand
"Gratitude Robs Regret"

Decisions...What Will our Heart Decide?!


We are and always will be presented with Decisions


Consider, 

That our "Heart Decisions" can determine the next step,
in where our road will lead,
Not just in our lives,
But "for some"
will include the lives that surround us. 



This Heart is...
Not providing answers
or
Providing questions for you to decide in this moment



This Heart Share
Is
Choosing
To Take a Pause
To Take a Moment that allows "This Heart"
and
Offers An Invitation
To "Your Heart"
to Consider...
Our Decisions



Why...
Allowing a moment, a pause to Decide
What Really Matters
Can Cost Us
Can Determine
The next steps along our Journey



Decisions...What Will our Heart Decide?!



Sharing to Consider...
Measuring the Cost of every Decision that "our heart will decide"
By 
Allowing a Pause
Allowing a Moment
To Measure the Cost of those "little or big" decisions that our Heart will Make
Measuring the Cost of what they can potentially mean along this Journey



Again...
Decisions...What Will our Heart Decide?!
In the small things
In the large things



Whatever it is...
A Decision will be the next step
Will determine where the road will lead



This Heart does not Share Answers
Instead
Shares a Heart Perspective
From the Road Traveled



An Invitation
For Your Heart to Decide
With
This Heart

What Really Matters...
What Really Matters in every Decision that is and will be Made

​

Hugs,
Donyale

Choosing to "Live Heart Inspired"
Exercising Gratitude Daily
Not Mastered
A Daily Exercise 

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Out of the Heart Flows...

What a difference a day can make. 

This Heart, was recently reminded on how vital it is to "Guard our Heart" it really matters. 

What does it mean to Guard our Heart?!

This Heart doesn't share answers, it shares a Perspective.  This Heart Buffet, puts words on the table, and your heart can decide what to receive, what to consider. . .



Out of the Heart Flows...

We often speak out of the abundance of our heart.  The  abundance that flows out, comes from what is within.  What is within comes from what we allow, by the things that we watch, the things that we listen to, that we read.

Those are the places that are allowed within the Gate of our Heart.




Out of the Heart Flows...

This past week and really a few times this past year, that has been some major stories associated with bad behavior, crossing personal space boundaries, court cases that grabbed my attention.  In many ways, like you, I don't live in a box, and I'm connected to major stories that grab headlines, which is usually for this Heart, moments of engagement, of just viewing and moving on. 

For this Heart, it wasn't the Headlines, or the Court Case clips, the issue for me came when the "rabbit hole" opened up and the Algorithm brought more feeds from numerous places, to view.  This Heart, accepted the invitation, opened the Heart's gate, continuing to watch and find new feed, most of this was negative feed, or negative commentary, venomous comments which included a lot of  He Said, She Said.  Old clips of stories past associated to those involved in these current stories.  Just Toxic. 

In this viewing journey, that really began as more of entertainment, of observation of the messiness that other lives can so easily become entangled into, it subtly became more engaging, including the many conversations from various sources sharing perspective which was not always healthy. 




Out of the Heart Flows...


This Heart, found that more toxic was flowing in, and less of what really matters was not being exercised.  It showed in up in subtle ways by personal words, minor actions, irritations, negative comments, or minor debates, just not a peaceful Heart.  

The Heart Alarm, went off and I'm very grateful.  It allowed me to become aware it was time to shut it all off, to return to my daily Heart Gratitude Exercise, my daily devotion of my Faith Exercising to Focus, to continue to build upon "Peace Within".  

This Heart wanted to share with "you" immediately, once I recognized "the subtlety" the 'minor distraction", the rabbit hole that runs as deep as you allow your Heart to Travel.

To make you aware, in case your heart has become weighted, or easily irritated over the simplest things that really don't matter.   

We don't live in a box, but we can be "Heart Alert" to what we connect with, what we observe, view, listen to, how much of it.  We can be aware of what is around us, but we need to be mindful of where that leads, and how much engagement is necessary, in any given area, and if at all.



Out of the Heart Flows...

Out of the Abundance of the Heart, the mouth speaks...

What was flowing from my mouth, required a Heart Check, and regaining my Focus, Bracing, Taking Captive my Thoughts and Casting Down Wild Imaginations.  

Let's be mindful 'out the abundance of the Heart' the Mouth Speaks.  The Abundance is what we are allowing to flow "within".  

It is the Subtleties, the small Distractions that can so easily Rob the Heart's Focus of What Really Matters.  

Out of the Heart Flows...

A New Day, a New Opportunity. . . to Live Heart Inspired.

Hugs,
​Donyale

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A Daily Exercise...
​What is My Heart Focus?!

We have to choose our Mental Health Exercise. . .
"Daily"

We Exercise choosing the Thoughts that we choose to allow to travel alongside with us...
To Entertain
To Adopt
To Believe
To Receive for this day, for this or any moment "gifted" to us

​A Daily Exercise...
​What is My Heart Focus?!

Gratitude is not a small thing
It is not a play on words, or some kind of Heart game

"Many Hearts already live and know the Truth of these Words"

Exercising Gratitude
Is a Mental Awareness
of 
"What Really Heart Matters"



Gratitude will decide
If we will live fully in this day "gifted" to us
"We were never promised that Tomorrow will Look the Same as Today"
Exercising Gratitude
will. . .

Set us up for Heart Fulfillment
Moments that will be Become Priceless Memories

or 

Set Us Up for Regret
Better choices that we could have made by the "words or actions" 
That 
We Chose to Take or Not

Always a Daily,
​Heart Moment's Choice
​

​A Daily Exercise...
​What is My Heart Focus?!

Our Heart Focus
Is Intentional


We Exercise Gratitude "This Day"
With the Intent
The Plans
To Do the Same
"Tomorrow"


It's not a small thing
to decide daily
What we will allow
The Whispers, the Subtleties 
That Visit of
Negative or Defeating Thoughts
Not a Game
Real Deal
We have to be ALERT
We have to be aware
Of
What is Allowed "Within" 


Words are not Magic
If defeated, negative days visit MORE "than" Exercising Grateful Days
And
They are continuing to Multiply
STOP right here and...
Find the Help that Your Heart Needs
That is more important than just reading words of Encouragement



When this Heart Shares on this Topic
I always remind to do whatever is needed to be Mentally Healthy
To Not allow "another" moment /day to Rob You
Go to your Local Church
or
Trusted recommendations for Therapists
or
If you don't where to start or ask
There is a National Hotline 24 hours / 7 days a week
Just Call Now, the Focus is that you're Mentally Healthy:  ​800-273-8255

A Daily Exercise...
​What is My Heart Focus?!

Not sharing Answers
Sharing a Heart Perspective from the road this Heart has Traveled

Not Sharing Easy
and
Not Focused on Being Hard

Sharing from a Heart that Knows Firsthand
that 
Gratitude Robs Regret

​A Daily Exercise...
​What is My Heart Focus?!

Want More...
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​​My Book:
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Thank you for being Here
Thank you for Connecting
Thank you for traveling this "Heart Journey"

Hugs,
Donyale

Let's Take a Road Trip. . .

Thank you for Connecting
Thank you for being Here

For the Hearts that want more...

"Live Heart Inspired" Inspirational Journal
Always offering "love conversations" to continue "without obligation" 

For the Heart who is asking. . .
To Preview

Exercising. . .Calmness within allows

A View in the Midst of
The Many Doors that offer 

Daily Opportunities
Daily Options
​

​Exercising. . .Calmness within allows

In the Midst of. . .

Distractions
Worries
Discomforts
Uncertainty

Like the Hallway shown in the Image Above
It can be overwhelming for Some
or
The View provides options that are possible

Exercising. . .Calmness within allows

Not Sharing Easy and not Focused on being Hard
Sharing
In the Midst of. . . 

What options does "this day" offer
What will be the Focus for this heart "this" day?!

Consider,
This "moment" is what we posses

​Exercising. . .Calmness within allows

What will this Heart "choose" to Exercise "this day"
In the Midst of...

​Exercising. . .Calmness within allows

Thank you for being Here
Thank you for connecting and traveling alongside "this heart"
A Heart
Who 
Is
Daily 
Choosing and Exercising 
"To Live Heart Inspired"

Hugs,
Donyale

Moments Matter

Moments Matter

It is so easy to allow words to become a “cliché”
To be just flung around or embraced “for seconds” and then so easily tossed
Returning to routines or accepting what can be weighted, miserable,
or just business as usual. 

Moments Matter
That is why this Heart Exercises Gratitude 
Why is Gratitude the Intent?!
Yes, I like some have plans, intent,
hopeful prayers for long life,
and
all that it includes


This heart considers…
Wherever I land and or arrive amongst plans made, goals set and achieved.
Those landing places are moments that allow “wonderful celebrations” 

But
I recognize they will be a Moment
they will never become a place where I can reside forever


Life is continual
It is always changing
And 
The power of Gratitude is that your Heart can decide to allow it to travel alongside
Allowing it to become your focus
Exercising until it becomes a reflex
This Heart recognizes this journey
Is
Not a destination, life is continual, always changing

​
The observation I’ve made is that some of us have that stair on a staircase that we are focusing on that when we arrive then this. . .then what?!

You know, many of us also get “stagnated” because we may have that list of when things are like this, or life offers more time for this.
That it will be come this. . .
Become what?!
​

​Moments Matter

​Dear Friend,
the gift of Gratitude, is like creating a bracelet adding different charms,
different ones are added one at a time. 

That to me is why “moments matter” it takes one added charm, a moment,
appreciating the beauty, the uniqueness
or something special
that represents a moment being added to that bracelet being created.  
A bracelet filled with charms being added
from 
Every Moment


Moments Matter


Moments are not destinations,
they are moments that are offered to us every single day
in very minuscule ways and at times in a much larger way
they are conversations
they are encouraging words
they are peaceful moments
they are peaceful silence
they are reflections
they are doing just to do
they are saying Thank You for...


Moments that when they are all gathered at “some point” this road traveled
will become 
a Priceless Journey
of
The many wonderful moments of what Gratitude has provided
At Least
for 
​This Heart

​Moments Matter

From a Heart that Knows
Exercising Gratitude allows Beautiful Moments
and
Beautiful Moments allow ‘us’ to Rob Regret

In closing,
If you are hurting,
please get the help you need,
get the oxygen first
so that you can help others breathe
Gratitude Matters


This Heart doesn’t share answers,
it shares a Perspective
Take what can be an asset from this “Heart Buffet”


My sharing of “anything” is always without obligation. 
My ask, for the heart who is asking. . .
If something pierces your heart, or means something to you. . .Simply Share it!
Simply support or spread it

Hugs,
Donyale

It Just Heart Resonates. . .

It Just Heart Resonates

This Heart doesn't pretend to have it all figured out and is very clear from those things experienced don't expect to...

Not sharing answers, sharing a Heart Perspective 

What this Heart has gained “to date” is the road that has been traveled and chosen lessons from what is behind and choosing to carry forward for the road before me.  

Living Intentional, exercising being alert to choices before me, and knowing it is much more than just about me.  

It Just Heart Resonates

To be engaged and embrace the moments by “taking part in” conversations, singing the song, sharing the story, listening more than just talking, appreciating the beauty that unfolds in a “shared moment” with the hearts that this heart has the privilege to engage in any given moment and on any given occasion. 

Along my daily travels being aware of those around me, knowing there is always time to scroll, create, write, read or watch something later. Instead choosing to observe my surroundings, alert to expressions and faces that outwardly wear thoughts within.  

To be peacefully present while waiting in line until it’s my turn

To push my basket back into the carrier instead of leaving it wherever it lands

To call the person who God continues to place on my heart 

To accept I may not know why or if it even made a difference but to  “just do” because it was on my heart to


It Just Heart Resonates

My Dear Friend,

We have now and anything else is just speculation

A big stepping stone is moving past “intend to” and just taking the first step towards…

Don’t wait until this. . .  
before you take a family vacation
Or spending time with your children
To spend time with a friend
To place a call or send a text “just because”

We may master many things but what can we do with what we have learned?!

It Just Heart Resonates
This heart no longer focuses on what is “easy” and that includes not being centered on what is “hard”

Exercising Gratitude daily, with the intent of it being a Reflex, being a Heart’s first reaction with words and by actions.


God whispers because He is So close when you listen and are led to. . . “Simply Do”
The Why doesn’t really matter, who knows about it, should not really be a concern if it is a “good thing” with a true intent “to do” that “for this heart” is what really matters. 


It Just Heart Resonates
Don’t allow the Mountain, to distract, to hinder, the next “to do”.  Just do is taking the “first step”, it is the first chop at the mountain. 

Until Next Time. . . Take Care


Hugs,
Donyale

Considering. . .
How it is so easy to float in the waters of "discontent"
Of
Worrying
Of
Complaining
Of. . .

Endless Conversations
Filled with all that is "ugly and wrong" along life's journey

"YES"
Those things do exist
Consider. . .
Were those things "existent" before
Will they continue to "exist" in some Fashion
Will they always exist in our lifetime?!

Sunset. . .

Beautiful has a Language

This Heart
doesn't share answers
doesn't have it all figured out
Sharing a "Heart Buffet, a Heart Perspective"
From the road traveled to this moment

This Heart
chooses to exercise "daily" Gratitude
with
An Open Invitation for "you" to join in the exercise with Me

Why?!

For Many Numerous Reasons. . .

For a Heart that Knows
Exercising Gratitude will "Always Rob Regret"

Sunset

Wherever this May Find You
In the "moment" you located this
Peace Within can never be measured
May you have many days "exercising" Gratitude
Focused every single moment on "what really matters"

Hugs,
Donyale

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Words that speak volumes for "this heart"

Making Gratitude Contagious was, is and always will be the Intent

"My Why" is not for Sale

Freedom Is. . .
​

"My Why" is not for Sale

Once you locate “freedom” and recognize this journey started “alone” and will end the same way.  For some, at least this heart, the view has shifted. Perspective "In this Chapter" has been revised. 

This heart is not looking for permission on “Why” I do what I do.  This heart is not looking for validation from anyone. This heart is not looking to convince someone to connect, this is a "Heart Project" shared with Kindred Hearts 'who connect' and are not in need of convincing. 

We all have to make the decisions that we choose to live with, in fact, decisions that we are willing to die on.  Freedom is not selling anyone on a personal belief, or why this or why that.  Freedom is doing what "one heart" is led to do, and I've describe that as the Heart of an Artist, filled with things to share.  This Heart can be filled with things lodged within and simply want to share as "an asset", as an offering on a "Heart Buffet".  The listener, the reader, the observer will decide what to sample and what to feast on, or not.

The Heart of an Artist, finds fulfillment in sharing what is lodged within. Where God delivers it, who will receive it is God's Business.

When You Know Your Why, you "just do", you release what is and that can be defined as fulfillment. 

"We All Have a Choice" and decisions are made daily. 

When we locate something that we don’t agree with.  We have a clear option, to move on, especially when our view is not being asked for or inquired of. If it doesn't resonate with you, it really is okay to not be engaged and to move on to where your heart finds fulfillment.

Freedom is recognizing that we possess a precious commodity called “Time”, a commodity that can so easily be taken for granted by being caught in subtle ways, in  “webs” of someone’s view or discussion.  Distractions are Time Robbers, at least for "this heart" and can be presented in so many ways and can take up so much time, I've often described it as rabbit hole, endless hours spent something that started as a distraction. 

Most of us, have possession of a mirror, and with that premise, who really has time to share a list of what someone else should be doing, when most hearts recognize the work needed resides within.

This heart would venture to share, to consider that who really has their life “all put together”, has it all figured out, respectfully, if that is "you" then please share what that looks like .  


Until Next Time. . .

Consider, 
"Our Why" is not for Sale


Most Know, but this Heart will continue to state, this is Not sharing answers, it is sharing a Heart Perspective.  Take what can be "an asset" from this Village Heart's Buffet, and simply leave the rest behind.  


Hugs,
Donyale

PS:  Thank you for caring by sharing in whatever way that you do, it's more appreciated than words can ever express. 
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​

"Always a Choice"      

"Always a Choice"

Life's Journey...

"Always a Choice"
​
To

Flow in the Waters of Change

OR

Fight the Rocks Along the Shore

Thank you for connecting
Thank you for flowing in the waters of change with me
"Choosing" not to fight rocks along the Shore

Hugs,
​Donyale

The Focus. . .
From This Heart. . .
Is not about being Easy

The Work
Is the Exercise
The Choices that we choose in every single Moment
Every Single Moment that we are presented with



Who promised that “tomorrow” will be the same as today?


Who said that Tomorrow will allow us to make it better, or to make changes?
To allow us “Time” to Talk about it, to Work it Out
You can Say “I’m Sorry” or not
You can Say “I Love You” or not
You can decide to decide “what really matters” every single day



I don’t know what happened
I don’t why it happened

But
Confusion 
Frustration
Irritation
​Anger
Will never, never, never change it

Did I say Never?!

The decision that we all have is "What to Do With What We Have?!"

For Those Hearts who have traveled a distance
With this Heart 
YOU KNOW

This Heart is not Sharing Answers

This Heart Shares a Perspective
From the Miles Traveled to Present Day
From My Faith
From the Tears, the Laughter, the Change that life has presented to “present day”



From a Heart That Knows
And
Chooses To Share Every Day in Numerous Ways
“Gratitude Always Robs Regret”


When Life Changes
When Life Changes
When Life Changes


Not If 
Not If

  When 
When

When Life Changes

Like a Book
Filled with Many Chapters
Every Day 
Will be another page written
It will be Pages Written from many Moments
By the Words
By the Decisions, We Have “Decided” to Make




Life will Change Many Times
Life will Change Many Times


And

If We Can 


We can embrace and make the most of each day
Being aware of that
Exercising In That 
Making the Best Choices that We can 


We Choose 
To Make Decisions on What Really Matters
“Every Single Day”


These Words when Exercised
I Promise…
Will decide our Words
Will decide our Actions
Will decide if we add oil to a Fire
Or 
Offer Peaceful Silence



If Nothing Else
We 
Always a Choice


We Travel with Many 
But 
We Will Always 
Be Accountable to One
​

Hugs,
​Donyale

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Not What’s Missing. . .What do you do with what you have?!


This share is Inspired by my Baby Brother, of course not a baby, but the endearing words that I’ve attached to him.

He currently resides in a different state located many miles away.
But
We touch base as often as possible
For that alone, this Heart is very Grateful
And 
During a recent check-in 
He mentioned that he had intended to prepare a certain meal 
only to find out 
A certain ingredient was missing for meal Plan A, 
Now because of that “missing item” would shift to Meal Plan B



The Inspiration, the Love that filled this heart, "is the Shifting Factor" 
It is whatever is before us
That allows us to decide what to do with it
What do we do with what we have now?!



My heart was instantly filled with how this fits into what I live on, what I share, what I choose to exercise in. . .

The Focus
The Focus
The Focus

The Focus is not what is missing, it is for this heart
What do we do with what we have now?! 



Instead of FOCUSING On
and
Sharing with whomever is listening
Always about what is missing in your life?!


These words really matter to this Heart
Because
It represents the choice we confront every day, in every moment
“Living Fully” in every moment “gifted” to us



It is not waiting on that certain moment
It is not determined when arriving at a certain destination
It is not being stagnated or weighted by what was
When Hope exists 
IT IS
For This Heart
Connected to ‘right now’ and Exercising Gratitude in What Is Right Now?!



From a Heart that Knows
Living Inside Out, Peace within is priceless
FOCUS
Is not centered on EASY
FOCUS
Is a CHOICE, Always a Choice


This Heart Knows
That the Gift is located in Right Now
The Gift is located in every moment, in every opportunity
To share a smile
To share in Laughter with those we love
Every opportunity "afforded" to us



Beautiful is having a heated debate about any Topic
And
Not allowing that debate to end on walking away offended
We don’t have to agree
The gift is being able to have the conversation
Without being angered or so easily offended
It really is okay 
To Agree to Disagree and Continue Forward



Life offers so many things
It is the View 
It is the Perspective
Recognizing that as we Journey Together
It’s a Choice 
Always a Choice
That while we Travel with Many
Only You
Only I
Only We can decide the ‘choices’ that we will make


We can choose to Celebrate every moment afforded to us
Every Opportunity 
That a “Breath” offers


Not What’s Missing. . .
What do we do with what we have?!


This heart “lived” that way
This heart lives this way


Choosing to Exercise in that way
Not Focused on what is Easy
Not concerned about what can’t be changed “this day”
Intentional Living
Making choices daily of the words
And
The actions that this heart chooses


Dear Friend

This is what allows our Hearts to Rob Regret
Because 
For Some,
We Know What Really Matters
Every Single Day


When Life Changes
Not If
But When



It will not be centered on what’s missing 
Instead a Peaceful Heart that Cherishes all things Experienced
Because we chose our intention daily
We Exercised Gratitude Daily
We Focused on What Really Matters Daily
Living In What Really Matters



That is
What is meant when this Heart Shares
From a Heart that Knows
Gratitude Robs Regret


Not What’s Missing…
What do we do with what we have?!

​

Until Next Time . . .
This Heart Does Not Share Answers
This Heart Shares a Perspective
That allows a Peace Within that can’t be Measured

Making Gratitude Contagious was, is and always will be the intent

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