{"id":8238,"date":"2013-12-09T00:00:48","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T05:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/haveamagnificentday\/?p=8238"},"modified":"2013-12-08T20:07:03","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T01:07:03","slug":"stay-calm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/haveamagnificentday\/2013\/12\/stay-calm.html","title":{"rendered":"Keep Shining Your Light"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"dove<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

No matter how dark it may seem, there is always hope.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>When you believe, hope springs eternal in spite of anything – even the most powerful evil.<\/span><\/p>\n

Faith is seeing the invisible and believing the incredible.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>Trust your heart for it is your true eyes and ears.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>Focus on the light, focus on the truth inside your heart.<\/span><\/p>\n

The truth and proper principles are still here for those who seek it.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>Instead of accentuating the problems (fear), concentrate your energy and resources on the solution.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>What is it that you want to create?<\/span><\/p>\n

Good or God always prevails over evil in spite of the most horrible tragedies.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>The light always obliterates the darkness.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>All it takes is one candle and darkness is no more.<\/span><\/p>\n

Even when the world around you makes no sense.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>When people do the strangest and most hurtful things.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>Hope is here and love and kindness is the way.<\/span><\/p>\n

You can create anything you want, regardless of your present circumstances.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>It requires vision, faith and belief.\u00a0 It requires taking action in a positive direction consistently.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>Let your love shine through and follow your heart.<\/span><\/p>\n

Acknowledge all of the blessings that you have.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>Acknowledge the wonderful things you want to create.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>Know that if you can dream it you can achieve it.<\/span><\/p>\n

G<\/span>o forward toward your dreams.<\/span>
\nGo total!<\/span>
\nDo it with love, do it with joy!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

blessings,<\/span>
\n\ud83d\ude42 Lee<\/span>
\nThe MEGA Coach
\n<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt doesn\u2019t cost a thing to smile.<\/span><\/em>
\nYou don\u2019t have to pay to laugh.<\/span><\/em>
\nYou better thank God for that.<\/span><\/em>
\nKeep shining your light.<\/span><\/em>
\nAnd show the world your smile.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 India Aire<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No matter how dark it may seem, there is always hope.\u00a0 When you believe, hope springs eternal in spite of anything – even the most powerful evil. Faith is seeing the invisible and believing the incredible.\u00a0 Trust your heart for it is your true eyes and ears.\u00a0 Focus on the light, focus on the truth…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":229,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,10,1,2,7,3,11,4],"tags":[12,29,13,14,18,15,21,9,17,19],"class_list":["post-8238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acknowledgement","category-communication","category-empowerment","category-personal-growth","category-professional-development","category-relationships","category-success","category-transformation","category-wealth","tag-challenge","tag-faith","tag-fascination","tag-fear","tag-following-your-path","tag-growth","tag-health","tag-inspiration","tag-opportunity","tag-path-to-success"],"yoast_head":"\nKeep Shining Your Light - Have a Magnificent Day!<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/haveamagnificentday\/2013\/12\/stay-calm.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Keep Shining Your Light - Have a Magnificent Day!\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"No matter how dark it may seem, there is always hope.\u00a0 When you believe, hope springs eternal in spite of anything – even the most powerful evil. Faith is seeing the invisible and believing the incredible.\u00a0 Trust your heart for it is your true eyes and ears.\u00a0 Focus on the light, focus on the truth…\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/haveamagnificentday\/2013\/12\/stay-calm.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Have a Magnificent Day!\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-12-09T05:00:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2013-12-09T01:07:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/haveamagnificentday\/files\/2013\/12\/dove-symbol-of-hope.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"The MEGA Coach\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Keep Shining Your Light - Have a Magnificent Day!","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/haveamagnificentday\/2013\/12\/stay-calm.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Keep Shining Your Light - Have a Magnificent Day!","og_description":"No matter how dark it may seem, there is always hope.\u00a0 When you believe, hope springs eternal in spite of anything – even the most powerful evil. Faith is seeing the invisible and believing the incredible.\u00a0 Trust your heart for it is your true eyes and ears.\u00a0 Focus on the light, focus on the truth…","og_url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/haveamagnificentday\/2013\/12\/stay-calm.html","og_site_name":"Have a Magnificent Day!","article_published_time":"2013-12-09T05:00:48+00:00","article_modified_time":"2013-12-09T01:07:03+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/haveamagnificentday\/files\/2013\/12\/dove-symbol-of-hope.jpg"}],"author":"The MEGA Coach","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/haveamagnificentday\/2013\/12\/stay-calm.html","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/haveamagnificentday\/2013\/12\/stay-calm.html","name":"Keep Shining Your Light - Have a Magnificent Day!","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/haveamagnificentday\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/haveamagnificentday\/2013\/12\/stay-calm.html#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/haveamagnificentday\/2013\/12\/stay-calm.html#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/haveamagnificentday\/files\/2013\/12\/dove-symbol-of-hope.jpg","datePublished":"2013-12-09T05:00:48+00:00","dateModified":"2013-12-09T01:07:03+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/haveamagnificentday\/#\/schema\/person\/7449a096ccdc7d8664a8baa38d58ca44"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/haveamagnificentday\/2013\/12\/stay-calm.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/haveamagnificentday\/2013\/12\/stay-calm.html"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/haveamagnificentday\/2013\/12\/stay-calm.html#primaryimage","url":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/haveamagnificentday\/files\/2013\/12\/dove-symbol-of-hope.jpg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/haveamagnificentday\/files\/2013\/12\/dove-symbol-of-hope.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/haveamagnificentday\/2013\/12\/stay-calm.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/haveamagnificentday"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Keep Shining Your Light"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/haveamagnificentday\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/haveamagnificentday\/","name":"Have a Magnificent Day!","description":"Daily Inspiration, Good News, Daily Hope and Encouragement","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/haveamagnificentday\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/haveamagnificentday\/#\/schema\/person\/7449a096ccdc7d8664a8baa38d58ca44","name":"The MEGA Coach","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/haveamagnificentday\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/haveamagnificentday\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/868\/868c7158feeb1701d858503f712298fcx96.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/haveamagnificentday\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/868\/868c7158feeb1701d858503f712298fcx96.jpg","caption":"The MEGA Coach"},"description":"Lee Papier is a business and life coach in the human potential field. For 30 years he has studied what motivates human\/spiritual beings. His life passion focuses on inspiring people to grow, awaken and actualize their divine potential. As co-founder of the Power of Acknowledgement organization in the eighties, Lee and his mentor, Michael Wyman shared a powerful technology to uplift people to achieve their dreams. In 1985, Lee and Michael served as motivational coaches for the New York Rangers working directly with Craig Patrick, who was assistant coach on the legendary 1980 US Olympic Hockey team. Lee also founded Insights to Excellence, Inc., a sales and management consulting and training organization. He developed and presented seminars designed to empower people to actualize their full potential, both personally and professionally. Lee's has two passions. As The MEGA Coach, his focus is to inspire people to live the divine plan of their lives. In addition, Lee is a Wealth Advisor in financial services and retirement planning. He provides effective financial solutions that guarantee protection, security and financial freedom. Lee graduated with a B.A. in Economics from the University of Rochester and an MBA in Finance and Human Resource Management from the University of San Diego. Lee uplifts people to make each day a masterpiece. In his blog, Have A Magnificent Day!, Lee offers daily boosts of inspiration to help you start your day with a ray of hope and positive thoughts.","sameAs":["http:\/\/%20"],"url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/haveamagnificentday\/author\/themegacoach"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/haveamagnificentday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/haveamagnificentday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/haveamagnificentday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/haveamagnificentday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/haveamagnificentday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8238"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/haveamagnificentday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14832,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/haveamagnificentday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8238\/revisions\/14832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/haveamagnificentday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/haveamagnificentday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/haveamagnificentday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}