I have been shaking my head over the fact that I have not blogged in a long while, and the only answer that keeps coming up is that I was too busy traveling and doing other things in life and in business. I guess a little part of me was also subconsciously nervous that I would not have anything relevant to say on a week to week basis. What I have finally realized is that my experiences meeting people, as I demo at various stores and salons, offers up so many opportunities to share and to educate. I'll do my best to keep blogging regularly from now on.


People. We come in all shapes, sizes, haircuts, skin types, clothing choices, education, experience, relationship, physiology and so on. I have had the pleasure of scrubbing/massaging hundreds of these peoples hands, and learning a bit about each one of them along the way. What always makes me smile is the change in one or both of us, after only 2 minutes or so of conversation and engagement.


I always wonder who I might meet on a particular day and what will make that person stand out. Once it was an older couple, who started with " I'm too old for that stuff, and wound up buying a jar after the demonstration. They were my "people of the day" as I realized that I hoped to live out my words to them. I said, "you are never too old to take care of yourself, nor your skin, because you are important enough everyday." Then there was the time I was pondering about something in my life, and the woman I met had a career in counseling. She helped me with my dilemma on the spot. A favorite was the 6 year old girl who called her dad over and said, " Do it dad, cause your hands are too rough!" She then asked me if I were married! :-)


Sometimes it has been a "hit me in the face" type of meaning, and other times it does not hit me till I am driving home. All I know is that it's worth it, we're worth it, and life is too short not to engage with each other on a daily basis.

Who will you meet today?

I fell today. Hard. I hit and scraped my knee so bad it ripped through my favorite jeans and made a bruise and a cut about 2 in in diameter. OUCH!   The first thing I thought of though, as I slowly got up, was how grateful I was that nothing seemed broken or torn.

It reminded me of this past summer, when I was inline skating on a particularly rocky patch, and a pebble caught my wheel. I fell in "slow motion", remembered every nano second of the fall, and made sure my teeth and camera were safe before I arose.  I got up from that fall saying the same thing I said today. I was so grateful it wasn't worse.

As I think about it now, I realize I am quite lucky to have been born with an attitude that always leans toward the positive and not the other way around.  When given the chance, I always say,  "life will throw all sorts of garbage at you and the only thing you have control over is the way you deal with it."  To me, being grateful on a daily basis is at the top of that control. It's how I maintain a relatively worry free attitude because it continually reminds me to keep perspective.

When you remember what you do have, as opposed to what you don't, it makes dealing with life and all its foibles a whole lot easier.

What are you grateful for?