This is my mind and what it is full of…IDEAS. Some may say it is full of other things…BUT I am going to go with ideas!

I can find myself overwhelm with so much to do, I do not even know where to start. Of course this leaves me sitting and doing nothing. Just watching TV and hoping something will move me into action. Just sitting there leads me to think more and come up with even more ideas and still I am no where.

Or I can have all these ideas and run around working a little on all of them and never really ever completing any of them. Either way it goes, it is not getting me the results I want so I need to make a change.

A good friend of mind told me of his simple tasks he does. He writes down all his great ideas he wants to put into motion and picks one out of a hat. That is the one he works on. The only one and believes it is fate which moved him in this area.

If any new ideas come to mind, he will just add them to the hat and they will wait until the next pull. This keeps him focused and creates a fun game out of it.

How simple is that, just do 1 thing.

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Sometimes you do not need to say thing. There is a power in silence. It creates a space which allows other’s to think, share or have the spotlight.

Try it today…

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I am so excited!! I have a GREAT opportunity for all of you SEIZE!! It is coming very soon and I just wanted to give you a heads up!

I have a feeling a lot of you will be so EXCITED and will JUMP at this great opportunity.

A lot of you have been emailing me about this and FINALLY I am going to be able to make it happen.

Just get ready…it is on its way…

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When you get your eyes examined, a lens is placed in
front of your eye, and the doctor asks you if it’s
“better…or worse?”

(When I was a kid, this always drove me crazy because
it was never that simple, but I suspect they wanted a
simple yes or no!)

Well, in many aspects of life – it IS that simple.

You are all you have – your life, your body, your
happiness.

So try this: take one area of your life that is
important to you – and do experiments.

Experimenting on yourself? Yes. Too bad science class
was not like this.

Take one area of your life, and try something different
for a few days or weeks. Then ask yourself – better?
Or worse?

You can really experience some breakthroughs in your
life by doing this – in just about any area.

You can test this on everything from dairy products
to boyfriends.

It’s a lot more interesting to talk about boyfriends,
so here’s one way you can “experiment.”

Are you afraid that if you don’t initiate contact
with him, that he might think you’re not interested
and you’ll lose him?  (I hear this often.)

Well, fear is bad reason for making decisions. But
it’s okay to make SMALL changes and see how it goes. Just
put your little toe in that water. Just try it a LITTLE
bit.  Try it for just a week or two.

What you might experience when you see the results is a
greater sense of power. If that happens, it’s very possible
that you have been too quick to contact him – or rush to
the phone when he calls – or return all his messages at
the drop of a hat – because you’re scared of losing him.

What you’ll find out, if you act with confidence, is
that just a small amount of holding back can go a long
way.

If you walk around scared of losing him, you’re walking
into a trap of your own making. However, a little
holding back on your part can put some much-needed
balance back in your relationship.

That’s just one way you can experiment – and your
own creativity will lead you to more ways.

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Guess who is using Twitter now? ME!! Go follow me on Twitter by clicking here!

I wasn’t jumping on the bandwagon of Twitter but after some requests and my friend Nick sending me TONS of messages saying, “Twitter?“, I knew it was time to join the network!

I like to call it Michael in your pocket! It is your way of getting updates about me, my thoughts, my experiences in real time! I will even be posting pictures! How cool is that? You never know when you might get a little dose of Michael in your day.

So take the opportunity to follow me on Twitter and enjoy the journey along the way!

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My friend Solange forwarded this to me and I had to share it with everyone else.

If you look up in the online webster dictionary for marriage, you will find the following:

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I am sharing this once and will never speak of this again…

Justin went away for a week for work. He left on Sunday morning and did not return to Orlando until Friday night. I was so excited to enjoy the time to myself.

I was glad I wouldn’t have to answer all his thousands of questions he asks me a day. “Where are you going?” “What are you doing?” “Are you going to watch that?” “Are you going to eat that?” “Did you hear about what Christina did?”

It was nice because I wouldn’t have to hear him yell at me for making a mess and not cleaning up for myself. I wouldn’t have his grumpy morning attitude when I try to put on a dance show for him in the morning. I wouldn’t have to deal with the fact he won’t sing his part in the “Birdhouse in your Soul” song. He wouldn’t be around to make me eat healthy and roll his eyes when I want Asian food for the third time this week.

It was going to be nice…

When Friday came, I decided it would be best to embarrass Justin by showing up at the airport with a HUGE banner to welcome him back. He would be with his work people so it would be so funny and he would not expect it.

Becky was with me and we waited patiently for him to get off the plane and arrive. We moved around 4 times trying to find the perfect spot. Finally through the crowd I saw him and he saw me and smiled.

I felt butterflies in my stomach…

I had missed him all week and I was glad to see him home. He came smiling up to me and gave me a huge hug and I felt like I was home again.

I will never admit this again and will go back to giving him a hard time but it is moments like this that remind me how lucky I am to have someone in your life. To have someone in my life who loves me even more than I love him. Who I can trust, have fun with, and feel safe with.

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t is that time again!! I have been getting a lot of emails wanting to know when I would do another Ask Michael so here it is.

This is your chance to ask me whatever you want. What would you like to know? What would you like me to write about?

Leave your thoughts in the comments. Some I will answer in the comments while others I will use for future blog posts.

Don’t be shy and ask a question…

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A friend of mine, Tony sent me a message the other day…

“So my friend went to Orlando for a concert and said she hung out with this great guy. He was so sweet and funny. She had a great time hanging out with him and took his picture because she knew he was perfect for me. It was you!”

Tony and I laughed at this. Of course he friend would find the perfect guy and it would be someone he already knew and was friends with. What a small world!

Now, I only spent about 15 minutes hanging out with the girls from NKOTB. That wasn’t a lot of time but I was grateful that she felt I was such a nice guy that she would want to introduce me to her friend. This was a huge compliment and says a lot about first impressions.

When you are authentic to who you are, people learn tons more about you in a shorter amount of time. They don’t have to weed through all the fake stories, self protecting machinisms and polished outside coating. They get to know the real you right away.

I am happy I made an impression on the girls that night. I hope I make a positive impression on all the people I interact with.

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