Get Your Own Attention

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Get Your Own Attention

Today it seems as though we are bombarded with
so many things trying to get our attention.
Sometimes Life is really trying to get your attention.

But you must get your own attention in order to change.
Sometimes you do this through a divorce, an illness, or
a failed job. If you're not being loving enough, you might
get a divorce to teach you to love more. Hold on!
Before you say, but it was his/her fault, hear me out.
It might be that you were not loving yourself in a
relationship and the "loss" was given to you to teach
you to love YOU more. It all works for you - if you let it.
Allow it.

Nothing in my life changed my life more quickly than
changing my beliefs. There is a good way to do that
and it is very easy. It's much easier than struggling
with an old belief and trying to force it to leave. It won't.
I struggled for a long time by analyzing and fighting
my beliefs. But you don't change them that way. In fact,
you often reinforce exactly what you don't want.
The way to change a belief is to go to where the belief lives.
Seduce it out and "burn" in a new one into the DNA of
your subconscious. You burn in a new belief by
putting high energy into it.

High Energy has no sharp edges.
Nothing pulling at you.

Energy that stops, feels sharp, cuts, or gets stuck in
your body is usually associated with a negative thought.
You don't want that. When you think a "worry" thought
and feel its sharpness, smooth it out. Let it flow through
you instead of get stuck in you. Change the thought
from an icicle to a water form. This will prevent negative
energy from lodging in your body. We all have negative
thoughts come into our awareness. Like in bad weather,
just shut the windows.

HERO ACTION:

Do the Energy Circle
Send out your dreams from your heart in a circle around you.
Specifically place each dream to float like a planet in orbit
right from the center of your heart. Then send the dream
out to the world. Know that it is circling and lining up
things for you in the universe.

Remember who you are!
Terri Marie


Copyright 2009 White Wing Entertainment

My Dad the Hero, A Father's Day Message

MY DAD THE HERO
A “Roy”al Father


It’s time to write
about the first man
who inspired me,
my father,
Roy Thorson
He’s definitely a hero.

It’s far more challenging to
write a story about one of your parents.
They’ve known you since you were in diapers and
that’s pretty humbling.

But they’ve done their best to give YOU their best.
For that gift, we, in fact, owe our very lives to them.
That, in all its imperfection, is a pretty big thing
to be thankful for.

My father has an amazing sense of humor and a unique
ability to come up with sayings out of the blue.
I’m sure his influence didn’t hurt my writing or
speaking career.

My Dad worked at a Ford station, first in service.
Later he sold cars. There was a big sign on the overhead door.
The guys added a “d” at the end of “tire” to see if anyone
would notice. It now read “Felker’s Tired Service.”

Girls used to come down and hang around the station.
Back in those days it was safe to do so. Well, maybe not
with my Father around! Dad would ask the girls if they
wanted to ride on the hoist. The girls thought that was
cool so they agreed. Dad put the girls on the hoist and
raised it up. Then Dad and the other guys would walk out
like they were going to wait on cars and leave the girls
there. Not forever of course. Just enough time to get the
girls scared or mad. It worked.

Roy loves people, which made him perfect for sales and
later advertising. When he started out, he had printed
on the back of his business cards sayings like,
“Thanks for being a customer of mine, in the year of ’59.”

Dad always made me feel part of the conversation whenever
I was in a room full of adults. That trust in me, helped
me develop confidence in talking to people - another
important trait in doing business and documentary work.
Dad always believed in me and knew I could succeed. If I
ever forgot, a call to him would remind me.

Two days after President Reagan died, I unexpectedly wrote
the song called Reagan’s Ride, I called Dad and told him
I wrote a song about Reagan and asked if I could read him
the song. It touched him emotionally. Dad told me to do
something about the song and he said firmly, “Do it now.”

Later my Mother told me that Dad came over to tell her about
it. He was so choked up about the song, he could hardly speak.
Finally he got out the words, “Terri wrote a song for President
Reagan.” Dad knew what that song meant. It meant that I had
burst through. I was on my way to success. Five days later,
I had my first public performance of that song at the Nixon
Presidential Library. The song is not about politics. It’s a
bout the amazing bond Reagan shared with his beloved Nancy.

When my Dad had a stroke, my brother, Pat called him up to
ask him a few questions. “What comes after the letter 5?”
Pat asked. Dad said, “Everything but 1,2,3 and 4.
Pat told Dad, “You’re fine.”

But most of all, my Father is famous for his one-liners that
can leave you groaning, chuckling, or holding your belly,
because your stomach hurts so much from laughing.

These one-liners I call “Royisms.”
Let me share just a few with you.

Royisms

• When I told Dad that someone had stolen the bells from the Santa
Isabella Mission in California, Dad said,
“It must have been some ding-a-ling.”

• I’d taken a trip to England. Dad asked how far ahead in time
they were.“ They are 8 hours ahead,” I told him.
“Well, they should be,” he replied.
“They were discovered before we were.”

• Dad went to work one day not feeling quite well. Someone said,
“Roy, you look half-dead.” Dad retorted.
“Well I am! I’m 60… going on 120.”

• “75% of us is water. In some of us it’s 35% and the rest is
something else.”

• Dad was at his doctor’s office. A little boy was looking at the
aquarium and wanted to know which one was the catfish. Dad told
the little boy the catfish was the one with four legs.

• Mom and Dad put some artificial flowers in their yard but
Dad thought about it and said, “I think it’d be better to put
in some artificial snails.”

Dad’s life wasn’t all apple pie and roses, (although he did
marry Rosita, the little rose.) He fell overboard while in the
navy and almost drown. He was fired for refusing to do business
unethically. And later in his career, the company he worked for
shut down shortly before his retirement. He had to start over,
which he did. That takes a lot of character.
That took someone like my Father.

In my Hero column I write about Life Lessons. Dad’s taught me many.

Roy’s Life Lessons
…And Fatherly Advice

1. Be Creative
My father is a creative person. How else do you come up with things
like the line about some Ding-a-ling?

2. Love Nature
Dad taught me to love nature. He talks to squirrels and chipmunks.
He whistles to the birds. And you should see his backyard!

3. Be Who You Are
My mom calls my Dad a “stubborn” Norwegian. Now there’s some
good in that. The good side of stubbornness is persistence. I probably
would’ve given up long ago on the enormous challenges I’ve had in my
life without inheriting some of that. Dad knows. Nobody can be YOU,
better than you can. Revel in it.

4. When the Situation Gets Tense, You Get “Cool”
Dad was uptown one evening after work when two guys were about
to get into a fight. Dad stepped in the middle, sort of acting as a
referee to the men about to fight. Dad said he tries to give one a
little more confidence and deflates the anger of the other. “If they
could only see the strength of the two of them and the power they
would have together.” Pretty good advice when ever there is a disagreement.

5. When You’re Stuck Inside, Dream and Plan
Dad has to do this every Wisconsin winter. He has so many projects,
that when spring does finally sprung, he’s busy the whole summer.

6. You Do What You Can, Then Let Go
When Dad was working very hard selling cars, he went out to the
farmer’s homes. While they milked cows, he talked to them about
new cars. He talked to client after client. He phoned. Still he had no
sales. He’d done everything he could think of. So he just put his feet
up on his desk and relaxed for a few days. Then 7-10 people came in and
bought cars all the same evening. Dad was there till midnight selling
from the seeds he planted earlier.

7. When You Go Overboard, It Can Get Pretty Scary
In anything in life, if we go overboard, it can take us under. Dad got
the chance to do that in the Navy, while painting the sides of the ship.
He and his friend suddenly found themselves head over heels, on the
way down into the deep blue waters. Their youth and a quick thinking
crew saved them. Even though this was an accident, try not to go
overboard in the first place.

8. It’s the First Child That Raises the Parents
That’s what Dad told me. He really believed that the oldest has to
raise the parents and transform them into parents. Now this wasn’t a
lesson I wanted to have, but I found it’s probably true having my own
daughter be so dog-gone smart and “train” me to be her mother.
(She must be another stubborn Norwegian.) Actually parents learn from
all their children, if they're smart and Dad is.

To a man that I admire, respect, and deeply love, thank you Dad,
for giving this daughter life in your family. Looking forward to
many more one-liners and many more days to wish you,
“Happy Father’s Day.”

Lots of love,

Terri Marie