LAFOLOT

I AM: Helen Szollosy, O.S.E. (Outlook Shift Engineer!)

In an effort to downsize and focus more on my LAFOLOT.COM business; I accidentally incurred a $13,717.00 tax debt to the IRS, State and Local municipalities!

Outllook shift! I have such excellent credit, I was able to instantly get the loans needed through my credit union to pay the debt, with great interest rates! YES!

Outlook shift! I recent aquired 2 separate part-time jobs; which are enabling me to stay ahead of the debt! YES! Outlook shift! continued … the one job is SO flexible – as long as I put in a specific number of hours each week; I can work them around my LAFOLOT.com gig schedule! YES!

Outlook shift! My one job didn’t give me the expected number of work hours this week. I was momentarily blindsided; but when I went into my OTHER – limited hours – parttime job this week! YES! OUTLOOK SHIFT! The CEO of the company was coming to visit the next day; so the manager ASKED if I could put in ADDITIONAL hours to help ready the store! YES!

Outlook shift! After putting in 5 hours at my parttime job today, upon arriving home – with dark, rain clouds looming overhead, I commented to a neighbor: ‘I FORGOT I had hung out my laundry! I’d better go bring it in!’ I had to walk to get my mail; then unload groceries from my car; headed out the back door; went to take the laundry off the line and – JUST AS I WAS TAKING DOWN THE LAST FEW ITEMS! The RAINDROPS started!

Perfection in motion! What TIMING!
Lookout! It’s Life! With a PHRESH OUTLOOK!

Need to orchestrate/engineer an Outlook Shift? Just contact Ha Ha Helen Szollosy of LAFOFOL.COM!

Living Life in Ah! Mazement! What a DAY OF PERFECTION IN MOTION!

Live Life! Laugh Often!
Ha Ha Helen Szollosy
www.lafolot.com

I was blessed with a singing gig at a local assisted living center, this past St Patrick’s Day. While my last gig there on Labor Day had a ‘robust’ audience; this one was subdued. Being a performer, THE SHOW MUST GO ON!

So, I gave it my all! After I was done, I mingled with the senior residents a bit and met a woman named MAXINE. Yes! Maxine! I could have SWORN she was the MAXINE the cartoon is modeled after! What a W.O.W! Woman of Wonder!

I note at the top of my website: ‘A Little Kindness Goes a Long Way …’ Well, MAXINE was not only a spunky, W.O.W. woman; but full of compliments and kindness!

Maxine was just visiting for the day. She had come by to spend time with her husband, who is a resident there, and to ENJOY THE Helen of Lafolot show!

Maxine informed me she had taken piano, and voice lessons for a good many years and later BECAME a voice teacher. So, when I walked over and Maxine FREELY piped up: ‘You have a BEAUTIFUL voice! You have a very BROAD range!’ I was dumb struck!

I said to Maxine – WOW! YOU not only MADE MY DAY – you MADE MY LIFE! She responded with a smile and further affirmation. When she told me her background; I told her about my ‘little kindess goes a long way’ affirmation. I told her I had been feeling doubtful about my talents and struggling with ‘getting gigs’. I told her it meant SO MUCH that she had felt free to TELL ME how she felt about my singing.

Then she said: ‘I TELL IT LIKE IT IS!’ A TRUE Maxine!

I told her of other meetings I had with people where I had only met them for a matter of seconds or minutes; and how they had GREATLY impacted my life. I told her about Mary Cop – the Cart Lady from Harrisburg – another W.O.W.! woman I talk about in my Bea Gaude’ video. I told her about another woman I had met, who recently died of cancer. When I had met this woman months before, she never mentioned she had cancer. She was full of kindess and praise and booked me for an event! I didn’t find out till December that she had passed. I wrote a blog about her. She left a lasting impression on me, just from a few minute meeting!

I let her know I would never forget her. We talked about how we can go through our entire lives not knowing how STRONGLY we impacted another life. I wanted her to know she had made a big impact on me!

Here’s to all the MAXINE’s in the world who TELL IT LIKE IT IS!

May you be FREELY FLOWING with your compliments and have an instant impact on all those you meet, in a positive way! Just like MAXINE!

Ha Ha Helen Szollosy of LAFOLOT.COM
O.S.E. – Outlook Shift Engineer
Living Life in AH! MAZEMENT!
Live Life! Laugh Often!

I do A.D.D. morning exercise routines.

I start by stretching and then focusing on stuff I need to clean and organize,

I get into BALANCING-the checkbook &

then I start to rearrange the furniture and *pfew! what a workout!

Maybe I should write a book? )

Ha Ha Helen Szollosy of LAFOLOT.com’s morning unroutine?

Live Life! Laugh Often! and have a FREE-SPIRIT – go with the flow kinda day!

HEY! HEY! ;o)

As a motivational, inspirational speaker – I look at life from different perspectives. It helps me, and this is what I teach, to look beyond appearances; and get out of ruts with set thinking.

Today’s date: January 24, 2011 also written as 1-24-2011 (mm-dd-ccyy format)

I say it’s the day to RESOLVE Issues and toss both arms straight up into the air and announce YES! YES! I am now moving forward and letting go of an old way of thinking about an issue!

WHY?

If you add the numbers in the date: 1 + 2 + 4 + 2 + 0 + 1 + 1 = 11

The first 5 numbers add up to 9. 9 added to any number cancels itself out – so the RESULT (RESOLUTION) is the remaining number to which it is was added.
In this case, 11!

So 9 ALLOWS us to RESOLVE to the two ones which can look like two arms reaching upward in a YES! I CAN RESOLVE ANY ISSUE ON WHICH I AM STUCK!

YES! I NOW SEE THIS ISSUE IN A NEW LIGHT, FROM A FRESH PERSPECTIVE!

YES! I CAN MOVE FORWARD!

YES! I SEE YOU ACCOMPLISHING THIS TODAY!

1-24-2011 a day of RESOLUTION!

W.O.W! It’s a WORLD OF WONDER!

Highlighted Ha Ha Helen Szollosy of LAFOLOT.COM
Living BOLD and in Italics!
Living Life in AH! MAZE-MENT!
Live Life! Laugh Often!
Toss those arms up in the air and Laugh, opening those lungs, taking in fresh air and release it with a healthy, laughing breath outward!

I chose to have a day of GRATITUDE!
I stated, recently, “I need to move forward in the alphabet and move from ‘F’ear to ‘Gratitude’ resulting in ‘H’appiness … ‘I’ say!”

Well! it’s been hellish dealing with family challenges these last 2 and 1/2 years (and prior – but it’s all growth opportunity!). The past two years, my brain damaged sister Dolly (hit by a drunk driver at age 19 – now 63) started to fail. I became her Power of Atty and worked with other family members – dealing with hospitals, vacating an apartment she had (what a mess), more hospitals, doctors, social workers, etc etc etc. Then my mom – the last 8 years – but more recently – failing fast. The last month – hospitals, rehab, vacating an apartment, moving her to assisted living, back in the hospital, rehab, hospital and now hospice. Now, vacating both the apartment (finalizing that) and vacating the assisted living. WHEN WILL IT STOP!? Is what you want to scream at times – but you keep on going!

Thank God for my 12 Step Program background, one on one and group counseling, self-help and Ah! Ha! moments! GRATITUDE and recognition of growth amidst it all is a blessing.

Well, while walking out of my mom’s apartment where I had just finished helping my younger sister finalize the cleaning. I was walking across the parking lot and this is what I saw! LIVE LIFE! LAUGH OFTEN! (www.LAFOLOT.com) on the back of a BIG, SHINY, NEW, YELLOW PICK-UP TRUCK parked next to space number 21! (that’s my birthday in February).

LAFOLOT Bumper Display

Moments before, I ran into a resident at the Assisted Living building. I complimented her on her RED jacket, telling her it was HER COLOR! She said: When’s your birthday? I said: the 21st of next month. She said: Mine’s the 22nd! George Washington’s Birthday! WHAT A COINCIDENCE!
Was an ANGEL sent to put a smile on my face?

Then to see the bright, black and yellow magnetic bumper display for my motto and business on the bright yellow truck! WHAT A GIFT!

WHY? Because I had taken it off my mom’s refrigerator and placed it in the low income apartment housing’s social room for WHOEVER to take. I figured it would end up on someone’s refrigerator – not giving me advertising – but at least making someone happy.

WELL! I COULD HAVE CRIED TEARS OF JOY! It’s been tough – letting go EARLY of a very lucrative State Government job due to stress of dealing with my sister’s needs. It’s been tough trying to get my business off the ground.

Then, to see where my business advertising bumper display had ended up!

I have to shake my head in AH! MAZE-MENT! It’s truly a W.O.W.!!! World of Wonder!

BIG THANK YOU OF GRATITUDE for whoever is ‘looking out for me out there.’

Highlighted Ha Ha Helen Szollosy of LAFOLOT.com
SPEECHLESS
LIVE LIFE! LAUGH OFTEN!

Today is January 20, 2011 – if you write the date as MM/DD/CCYY it ends up being SEEN as: PERFECT VISION DAY!

1-20-2011 – SEE the 20/20 in the middle!

It’s a great day to enVISION a PERFECT World on a PERFECT VISION DAY!

Well, I’ve been TELLING EVERYONE ABOUT IT! I SEE IT as a BEAUTIFUL thing!

So, when I went to lunch at YOUR PLACE – a local stromboli/pizzaria place – for their ‘low cost’ buffet I shared the information.

There is a WONDERFUL man there who works in the kitchen; but also keeps all the windows in the restaurant clean and clear. He creates perfect vision!

The first time I saw him as I was walking out; I said: YOU MISSED A SPOT! He laughed openly and smiled!

The 2nd time I saw him, he was cleaning a another window and I said: I’M NOT GOING TO TELL YOU YOU MISSED A SPOT THIS TIME!

He laughed openly and smiled.

TODAY! I saw him come out with his supplies. I said: Are you familiar with the term 20/20 meaning perfect eyesight?

He said yes.

I said: Do you know today’s date is 1-20-2011 – it has 20/20 in the middle and I’m declaring it PERFECT VISION DAY!

He laughed openly and smiled and said: YOU thought of that? That’s great!

I said: I’ve decided a GREAT nickname for YOU should be 20/20 man since YOU create PERFECT VISION for folks looking out the windows!

HE LOVED IT!

HERE’S TO enVISIONING A PERFECT DAY – NO MATTER WHAT DAY IT IS -

AND TO ’20/20 MAN!’ HELPING TO CREATE PERFECT VISION, EVERY DAY – HIMSELF!

Mr. 20/20 - a TRUE VISIONARY!

Ha Ha Helen Szollosy of LAFOLOT.com

Live Life! Laugh Often!

Living life in AH! MAZEMENT!

Living BOLD and in ITALICS! with a VISION OF PEACE and HEALTHY SOCIALIZATION IN THE WORLD!

I like to ‘sparkle’ so I wear glitter on my face every day, as well as 3 pierced earrings in each ear, every day. Lately, I’ve been wearing my Christmas Tree earrings, faux crystal box cut dangly earrings and gold dangly accents. I consider it a COLLAGE for my EARS! ;o)

When I went to the chiropractor the other day, I took my earrings off in the car and set them in a container in the shift box area of my car between the seats; to keep them safe.

Well! Disliking having to wear so much bulky clothing in the winter, I had an afterthought and took my coat off, scarf, and fur head/ear protectors and tossed them on the passenger seat. I get tired of all the bulk, and just parked near the doctor’s office door.

When I got back to the car after my appointment, I noticed only 3 of the earrings were there!

I have LEARNED NOT to get overly upset about ‘the small stuff’. I have enough ‘bigger stuff’ to deal with, than to get upset over earrings (a brain damaged sister in a nursing home – due to being hit by a drunk driver at age 19, now 63 – for whom I’m her representative … as well as other challenges).

So I chalked it up to an ‘OH WELL …’ maybe I’ll find them on the floor of the car, later.

The next morning, I put on a freshly washed sweater, slacks and shoes to go out and START MY EARRING SEARCH – between the seats, etc. It’s pretty cold and windy here, so I had to REALLY want to look.

I talk about SEEING WITH NEW EYES, REFLECTING ON THE GOOD, SHIFTING ONE’S PERCEPTION, RE-LOOKING at Situations, etc. – from a positive persective.

Well! Because I can’t stand winter, all the bulky clothes, and getting ALL TANGLED UP every time I take ‘all my stuff on or off’ when coming or going (I wear my eyeglasses on a chain around my neck)… I had noticed – earlier in the week – I had lost the little plastic piece that helps the glasses rest higher on the nose. Only one side! So my glasses had been lop sided!

LOOK FOR THE GOOD IN EVERYTHING -

in the process of searching for the earrings – which I found!

I FOUND THE LITTLE PLASTIC PIECE down between the seats! WHAT WERE THE ODDS! [if I hadn't lost the earrings, I wouldn't have found the eyeglass part!]

It could have been ANYWHERE – a restaurant, doctor’s office, on the ground somewhere…

I had to SMILE! My gift for NOT getting upset about the earring possible loss, approaching it with an even temper and positive attitude, GOT ME A PRIZE!

And – to top it all off; when I got back into the house – I FOUND THAT CLING FREE DRYER SHEET THAT HAD FALLEN OUT OF THE SWEATER THAT I HAD JUST PUT ON BEFORE GOING OUT!

Laugh out Loud! *BIG SMILE! (I have many fun stories about lost and found dryer items… but I’ll save that for later!)

So, when you lose something – don’t LOSE IT (your cool, that is) –
take it easy and you never know what your PRIZE may be as a result!

Living in GRATITUDE!

Ha Ha Helen Szollosy of LAFOLOT
Live Life! Laugh Often!
Live Life in A-Maze-Ment!
www.lafolot.com

If you’re still not convinced of the Power of a Positive thought, a shared SMILE or Healthy Laugh; perhaps this excerpt from an article by:

Mark Waldman and Andrew Newberg, MD (Neuroscientific studies at Penn
State University) will help! Amazing stuff!

“This interpersonal Law of Attraction is based on the principle of neural
resonance. When you observe another person’s face and body language and listen
to the tone of voice, your brain begins to MIRROR the neural activity of the
other person’s brain. Psychologists call this empathy – a partial grasping of how the other person thinks and feels.

If we follow (Ernest) Holmes’ advice and EMBODY positive thoughts and feelings,
other people will neurologically resonate to our peaceful, happy state. Neurochemicals that stimulate bonds of friendship and intimacy are released and when this occurs, we become more socially cooperative, responding with generosity, compassion, and fairness. In the field of neuroeconomics, this is known as RECIPROCAL ALTRUISM.”

…FACE uh I mean FASCINATING stuff! ;o)

Smiles, twinkling eyes, holding a positive thought, sharing a ‘light’ moment of healthy laughter, gets shared more than we know …

NOW WE KNOW! ;o)

Ha Ha Helen Szollosy of LAFOLOT
Living in AWE of it ALL!
Live Life! Laugh Often!
www.lafolot.com

I have to laugh at myself! Laugh myself HEALTHY, that is! *wink

Whenever I dislike a chore, I find something silly or fun to make it more bearable. For example, when I when I came in from ‘weed whacking’ the yard, just now; I could ‘smell’ that my cat had used the litter box. *pfew!

So, I went over to ‘scoop’ it out. My cat was following behind; they always like to investigate what I’m going to do with their litter box! ha ha

As I approached to do this ‘not so pleasant’ but ‘necessary’ chore – a CHEER popped into my head!

‘LET’S GO CLEAN THE BOX, LET’S GO!’ *clap clap clap
‘LET’S GO CLEAN THE BOX, LET’S GO!’ *clap clap clap
[it comes from a sports cheer: 'Let's go BIL-LEE Let's Go!' you insert whichever name fits at the moment - for the person about to SCORE!]

There I was, bending over, ready to scoop up cat poop and I’m LAUGHING at this CHEER that pops into my head!

When I was weed whacking a month ago, I shared how; after sweating and dealing with numb, aching arms – I started to LAUGH to relieve the stress by thinking up a Weed Whacking Laugh! Weed Whacka-ha ha ha ha haaaa

I’ve shared in the past, when I have to go grocery shopping [another chore I dislike] I make up a WORD out of the first letter of each item I need – so I remember my shopping list!

Write it down, you say! Oh, that’s so ‘been there, done that!’ ha ha ha
I like the non-sensical words I come up with.
This puts a smile on my face –

then I go to the store and start playing my SMILE CAMPAIGN GAME!

Got some CHORES to do? CHEER yourself through!
Any CHEER will DO! Woo! Hoo!

Ha Ha Helen Szollosy of LAFOLOT
LIVE LIFE! LAUGH OFTEN! and CHEER-O-LOT Too! Yes! Yeah!
www.lafolot.com
[this blog can also be seen at VIBRANT NATION by: Helenoflafolot]