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A Wonderful World

March 25, 2016 By Michelle Matthews-Calloway Leave a Comment

“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.”

~Jawaharlal Nehru, 1st Prime Minister Of India

It’s “Travel Thursday” and we want to inspire you to not just dream about taking a trip or going on vacation this year, but actually do it.

Need some additional inspiration? Click here to listen to a podcast with Dating Coach Lorraine Spencer of Interracial Marriage & Family concerning the importance of traveling.

This year, make sure you have your eyes wide open for opportunities to save money for a trip.

Sure, a new handbag, shoes or jewelry is a great pick-me-up. However, the newness will eventually wear off and those items will become old.

But think about it – the sense of adventure, joys and well-being gained from travel will last forever.

This year, let’s TRAVEL!

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The Swirl World is committed to sharing inspiration. Our goal is to help you stay motivated and encouraged by bringing you positive, uplifting images and corresponding thoughts.

Today’s featured model is Alli Baba.

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Expect More!

March 14, 2016 By Michelle Matthews-Calloway Leave a Comment

I expect more from myself than anyone else.

Today’s featured model, Latasha, hails from Crowley, LA. We’d love to FEATURE YOU in one of our posts!

If you’d like to be featured, please send a nice, high-resolution photo to InspirationDaily@TheSwirlWorld.com. Selfies are welcome – just make sure they’re not blurry!

The Best Way To Learn

March 10, 2016 By Michelle Matthews-Calloway Leave a Comment

And then she realized that adventures are the best way to learn!

Want to have adventures??

Travel!

The Swirl World Team is committed to sharing inspiration in 2016. Our goal is to help you stay motivated and inspired by bringing you positive, uplifting images and corresponding thoughts.

Today’s featured model, Brittney, hails from Dallas, TX. We’d love to FEATURE YOU in one of our posts!

If you’d like to be featured, please send a nice, high-resolution photo to InspirationDaily@TheSwirlWorld.com. Selfies are welcome – just make sure they’re not blurry!

How To Make Progress

March 8, 2016 By Michelle Matthews-Calloway Leave a Comment

Want to know how to make progress?

Consider the sage words of wisdom from the late, great Shirley Chisholm:

You don’t make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

Shirley Chisholm

Whether in life, love, business, personal improvement, spirituality, whatever, making progress involves effort.

It involves putting yourself out there, being willing to get off your seat of do-nothing out of your comfort zone and take risks.

If making progress could be gained by complaining, blaming and pointing fingers I dare say most people would have circled the earth 10 times over.

If we want to accomplish goals and excel, then we’ll have to engage in the same processes legends such as Shirley Chisholm and countless others did.

Get those ideas out of your head, and take action.

Execute.

Implement.

Progress.

Happy International Women’s Day 2016!

The Swirl World Team is committed to sharing inspiration in 2016. Our goal is to help you stay motivated and inspired by bringing you positive, uplifting images and corresponding thoughts.

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Will You Take One Step?

March 7, 2016 By Michelle Matthews-Calloway Leave a Comment

It’s Monday, and today many of us return to full or part-time jobs outside the home. Others are entrepreneurs who are running their own business, or “passion-preneurs” striving to do the work they love.

Regardless of your work status, motivation is paramount.

What’s driving you in the direction of success – and how badly do you want it?

Take One Step

Here’s a suggestion: Today and every day moving forward, take at least one step toward achieving your goals.

(Make sure it’s a tangible step!)

If you start today and hold fast until December 31, you will have taken 299 steps.

299!

Hold yourself accountable. Each day, jot down the step you took.

When December 31 rolls around, we’ll be able to review the year and see just how far we’ve come.

Shucks, in 299 days we can conquer the world!

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The Swirl World Team is committed to sharing inspiration. Our goal is to help you stay motivated and encouraged 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 share your photos, please email a high-resolution photo to InspirationDaily@TheSwirlWorld.com. Selfies are fine; just make sure they’re not blurry.

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Go Forth And Slay!

March 4, 2016 By Michelle Matthews-Calloway Leave a Comment

So, it’s a new month – and we’re already 4 days in.

YIKES!

Have you predetermined what you want to accomplish this month?

Have you written down some daily goals?

Have you mapped out the actions and steps that will enable you to place a satisfactory “check” next to the tasks you intend to complete?

I believe approaching the month and weeks in an “I’m ready to conquer the world” state of mind is half the battle.

Confidence + action = results.

Let’s go forth and slay!

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The Guest Chamber

February 17, 2016 By Michelle Matthews-Calloway 4 Comments

It’s Wellness Wednesday!

A healthy body is the guest chamber of the soul. ~Francis Bacon

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So . . . since a healthy body is the guest chamber of the soul, how does your soul like its quarters?

The Swirl World Team is committed to sharing inspiration in 2016. Our goal is to help you stay motivated and inspired by bringing you positive, uplifting images and corresponding thoughts.

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A Special Invitation Just For You!

January 3, 2016 By Michelle Matthews-Calloway 1 Comment

We have a special invitation just for you!

With great pleasure we would invite you to join us for our FIRST-ever webinar.

Our first-ever, totally FREE webinar!

Adrienne and I have been feverishly preparing for this day, and with great excitement and pride we would like to invite you to join us today, Sunday January 3, at 5 pm EST for a webinar entitled,

3 Steps To Swirling With Confidence!

I could gush and gush and tell you all about it, but instead I’m going to ask you to click the link below, read the juicy details and sign up!

To read about the webinar and sign up, please click HERE.

At the close of the webinar, we’ll be making a special offer:

An invitation to participate in our very first course!

That makes two firsts for The Swirl World in the first week of 2016.

Woot!

Please forward this email to your friends because, well, sharing is caring.

See you this evening on the webinar – thanks in advance!

You're invited to The Swirl World's first-ever webinar today at 5 pm EST! Details at bit.ly/BPEWebinar.

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#364| What Makes You Happy

December 30, 2015 By Michelle Matthews-Calloway Leave a Comment

In 2016, how bout we follow this command:

Do more of what makes you happy!

Caveat: More of the good, positive, non-destructive things, of course!

Do more of what makes you happy!

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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.

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#363| A Going On

December 29, 2015 By Michelle Matthews-Calloway Leave a Comment

A going on.

What a novel way to think of the New Year!

I like the idea of viewing entering 2016 as “a going on,” with me carrying my wisdom and experiences with me.

Going on to living more in the moment; to slowing down long enough to take everything in.

Going on to better and richer experiences.

Going on to become a better person. To help more. To serve more.

To love more.

Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

~Hal Borland

Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. ~Hal Borland

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Join in the Fray: What do you think of the concept of looking at a New Year as a means of “going on?”

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