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#262| Enjoy The Sunshine!

September 19, 2015 By Michelle Matthews-Calloway 7 Comments

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine.

Morris West

Join in the Fray: Hopefully you’re enjoying a sunshine-y day. What are you up to?

The Swirl World Team is committed to sharing 365 days of inspiration in 2015. Our goal is to help you stay motivated and inspired by bringing you positive, uplifting images and corresponding thoughts.

We’d love to FEATURE YOU in one of our Inspiration Daily posts! If you’d like to be featured, please send a nice, clear photo to InspirationDaily@TheSwirlWorld.com.

#260| Go Hard!

September 17, 2015 By Michelle Matthews-Calloway 5 Comments

The Urban Dictionary defines go hard as “doing something to its fullest; doing something well.”

Based on that definition, what do you believe would happen if whatever we did, wherever we went, we did it with all our heart?

What if we didn’t do things or go places as a matter of routine, but in anticipation and expectation?

What if we willingly and wholeheartedly put ourselves into the things we do – into the places we go?

What if we immersed fully into the moment?

What if we decided to go hard – everyday?

Today’s photo features blogger and freelance writer Williesha Morris and her husband Jason. Be sure to visit Williesha’s blog, Nerdy Thirty-Something Life. Find tools and resources for “the writer’s life” at her website, My Freelance Life. To read one of Williesha’s guest posts for The Swirl World, click here.

Join in the Fray: It’s Travel Thursday – where will you go to immerse yourself in the moment – and go hard?

We’d love to FEATURE YOU in one of our Inspiration Daily posts! If you’d like to be featured, please send a nice, clear photo to InspirationDaily@TheSwirlWorld.com.

Copyright ©2015 Michelle Matthews Calloway, ASwirlGirl™, The Swirl World™, The Swirl World Podcast™, The Swirl World Inspiration Daily™, Swirl Nation™, All rights reserved. Feature photo Copyright © Jessica Messer Photography. Used with permission from Jason and Williesha Morris.

#253| It’s Better To Stay At Home

September 10, 2015 By Michelle Matthews-Calloway 5 Comments

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home. –James Michener

I love to travel.

If you say, “Let’s g—,” I’m saying, “When?!” before you even get the sentence out of your mouth.

Though I’m big on advocating the advantages of traveling, even I can think of a time when it’s better to stay at home.

I agree with James Michener – if you’re going to go somewhere and reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.

In other words, if you’re going to be negative, fearful, critical and insensitive, keep all of that to yourself and Just. Stay. At. Home.

And you know what? Michener’s sentiment holds true if you hold those kinds of feelings concerning people of a different ethnicity or culture than you.

We live in a global society, which means we’re all interconnected – whether we like it or not.

I love living in a global society – how about you?

Today’s photo features the Smiths on vacation in Stockholm, Sweden.

Join in the Fray: How do you feel about living in a global society?

We’d love to FEATURE YOU in one of our Inspiration Daily posts! If you’d like to be featured, please send a nice, clear photo to InspirationDaily@TheSwirlWorld.com.

#247| What Else Do You Need?

September 4, 2015 By Michelle Matthews-Calloway Leave a Comment

Hmmm . . . I believe Einstein was onto something.

Now, feel free to substitute the words table, chair, fruit and violin for the things that make you happy and bring you joy.

For me, the table would be exchanged for a book and the fruit for some chocolate or ice cream, yet for the most part Einstein is pretty spot on.

For our featured couple, Daniel and Niki Jarzynika, it looks like a beautiful natural setting and each other’s company is the ticket.

How about you?

Join in the Fray: With the exception of the basics of life (food, clothing and shelter), what else do you need?

We’d love to FEATURE YOU in one of our Inspiration Daily posts! If you’d like to be featured, please send a nice, clear photo to InspirationDaily@TheSwirlWorld.com.

#246| A Fantastic Find

September 3, 2015 By Michelle Matthews-Calloway Leave a Comment

When we think of a “fantastic find,” a fabulous pair of shoes or a gorgeous dress we found on a shopping expedition may come to mind.

A bibliophile thinks of a good book; a music fan covets an album or cd; a foodie drools over the perfect restaurant.

Whatever floats your boat, on this Travel Thursday we want you to consider Ed O’Brien’s assertion that it’s fantastic to be found in a foreign country – not only for the sake of travel, but also for the sake of helping others.

Today’s featured couple, Alida Wright Sharp and her husband Tom, formerly lived in Russia with their two sons. Alida and Tom now live in Belize as missionaries and volunteers for CDF Belize, an organization focused on assisting sexually exploited women and children.

To learn more about Alida and Tom’s life in Belize, click here.

Join in the Fray: What foreign country would you love to be found in?

We’d love to FEATURE YOU in one of our Inspiration Daily posts! If you’d like to be featured, please send a nice, clear photo to InspirationDaily@TheSwirlWorld.com.

#242| Family Is Everything

August 30, 2015 By Michelle Matthews-Calloway 11 Comments

Whether by blood or by affinity, family is everything.

We trust you will have the opportunity to spend quality time with your family this weekend.

And for those family members living in other places, thank goodness for Skype, Face Time, Google Hangouts – and good ole telephones!

Join in the Fray: Which family member or friend will you spend time with (or contact) this weekend?

We’d love to FEATURE YOU in one of our Inspiration Daily posts! If you’d like to be featured, please send a nice, clear photo to InspirationDaily@TheSwirlWorld.com.

#232| Get To Happy!

August 20, 2015 By Michelle Matthews-Calloway Leave a Comment

It’s not only Thursday, it’s Travel Thursday!

If you live in a part of the country where you are yet able to take advantage of warm weather, get up, get out there and enjoy it!

Heading to the beach, fishing at the lake, hiking (or biking!) new trails and sitting around campfires are but a few activities we can engage in to get to our happy.

Don’t care for the outdoors? Well, there’s always a library, museum or bookstore you can retreat to.

Whether you have time for a full-blown vacation or a quick day trip, traveling – across town or across the world – helps you to “get to your happy.”

Today’s post features the Harrell family. For them, the beach represents an ideal place for getting in some much-needed family time. That carefree family time gets them to their happy.

Find a place you love, get there, and get to happy!

Join in the Fray: Where do you go to “get to your happy?”

We’d love to FEATURE YOU in one of our Inspiration Daily posts! If you’d like to be featured, please send a nice, clear photo to InspirationDaily@TheSwirlWorld.com.

I’m A White Man – Raising A Black Daughter

June 1, 2015 By Michelle Matthews-Calloway Leave a Comment

Rod, a White man married to a Black woman and living in Birmingham, AL, was a recent guest on the podcast in an episode entitled “Swirling, Southern Style.”

Today, Rod returns to the show with his wife Stephanie.

Stephanie discusses how much time she took to introduce Rod to her 12-year-old daughter (who has a Black father). She also shares the steps she took to ensure she was making the right relationship moves for her and her daughter.

Rod shares his thoughts on the process, and tells what it’s like to raise a Black daughter.

This powerful, enlightening conversation is a “must listen” for any Black woman with children desiring to date and marry interracially – and for any White man who wants to date and marry a Black woman who has children.

If you can’t see the podcast player, click here for the direct download or here for the show’s permanent link.

You can also listen to this and other episodes on Sound Cloud.

If you can’t see the Sound Cloud player, click here. You can also head over and listen to the show on iTunes, Stitcher Radio or PlayerFM.

The shout out for this episode goes to Shimeka Williams of the Design The Life You Want Podcast.

Shimeka equips you with the tools to Design The Life You Want and escape cubicle captivity.

Download her Escape Plan by clicking here.

To listen to the podcast or learn more about the show, click here.

Follow Shimeka on Twitter @Shimekism.

Want to be a guest on the podcast, or know someone who should?

Send an email to Podcast@TheSwirlWorld.com.

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Copyright © 2015 Michelle Matthews Calloway, ASwirlGirl™, The Swirl World™, The Swirl World Podcast™, Swirl Nation™, All rights reserved. Photo of interracial couple property of The Swirl World™. Photo of Shimeka Williams obtained from Twitter.

#135| A Story To Tell

May 15, 2015 By Michelle Matthews-Calloway Leave a Comment

I believe in love. I believe in good stories. I play really hard on the weekends because I like to have those stories. My wife and I go off and do craziness all the time. We’re just like, ‘What can we go get into this weekend?’ Then we have other ones where we just sit and do nothing and then we have work that we do. It’s all memories.

~Channing Tatum

It’s Friday, which means the weekend is about to launch!

Whether you’re solo, part of a duo or have a family in tow, get out there and make some memories – and you’ll have a story to tell.

We’d love to FEATURE YOU in one of our Inspiration Daily posts! If you’d like to be featured, please send a nice, clear photo to InspirationDaily@TheSwirlWorld.com.

#70| You Look So Much Better . . .

March 11, 2015 By Michelle Matthews-Calloway Leave a Comment

You look so much better. . . when you smile!

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