Welcome to my blog! My name is Mary Ellen Pierce and I want to invite you to Get Jazzed & Joyful about who you are, every day in every way! I believe that no matter what you do in life, it is important to believe in yourself and your goals and to realize it's okay to enjoy the journey and have fun along the way!
Along my journey I have discovered my inner artist to help me create expressions of myself using collage, altered art, mixed media and scrapbook techniques. I have enlisted the aid of my inner cheerleader to keep me motivated to be the Best ME that I can be!
And I want to inspire others to realize that when you get Jazzed and Joyful about being You, then what you do will turn into success, prosperity and happiness!
Believe in Yourself, Anything is Possible!

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Get your Action energy moving!

Get Jazzed & Joyful Thought:

Today's focus is on forward movement. If you have a destination, a goal, a dream, a desire to someday be further ahead, to do better, have more, go further up the ladder in life then you cannot get stuck where you're at right now! If you have become idle and perhaps even stalled out on your personal goals in life then today is the day to restart your engine! You must take action today, motivate yourself with renewed passion and do just One Action Step to get your energy moving in a forward direction. Remember the science of a body in motion continues in motion. So Get Started! You Can Do It! and You Are Worth the Effort!

Affirm:
     Today I propel myself into forward motion and pursue my goals with Unstoppable Action!

Have an Action filled Wednesday!
Mary Ellen
Get Jazzed & Joyful About You, Every Day in Every Way!
Believe in Yourself, Anything is Possible!

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Do you have a support network?

Get Jazzed & Joyful Thought:

Today's focus is on your support network. Who are the people that you can count on to raise your spirits, that support your greatest good, that will tell you the truth, speak from their heart to yours. People that are positive, that cheer you on in your dreams and goals.
People that when you get done talking to them you feel better, you are in a better mood, you feel good about you.
Hang onto those people that exist right now for you and that you feel support you with positivity, truth and love. And then set your intention to draw into your support network more of the same.

Affirm:
Today I look for and seek out people that are positive, healthy and nurturing for my positive support network!

Have a Positively Terrific Tuesday!
Mary Ellen
Get Jazzed & Joyful About You, Every Day in Every Way!
Believe in Yourself, Anything is Possible!

Friday, June 24, 2011

Let your Inner Child Out!

Get Jazzed & Joyful Thought:

Don't let your day today be sooooo serious. Let your Inner Child out today and have some fun! Be as a child, see through the eyes of a child and see your world today from a perspective of wonder, play, laughter, creativity, imagination and sheer joy to be alive, to make this day the best day, the "funnest" day ever!

Affirm:
     Today I will insert some fun into my day,
     by letting my inner child out to Play!

Have an Inner Child Perspective weekend!
Mary Ellen
Get Jazzed & Joyful About You, Every Day in Every Way!
Believe in Yourself, Anything is Possible!

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

the Antidote is Gratitude.

Get Jazzed & Joyful Thought:

Gratitude is the antidote to worry. Worry is fear about the future, what will happen later today, tomorrow, next year. Gratitude is about the right Now. So when you find yourself worrying about anything, STOP! and become grateful. Find gratitude in the small things, the big things, the everyday things, the simple things.
Have Gratitude for waking up today, for having transportation, for having a job, for the sun shining, for the health you do have, for the friends and family that surround you, for food on the table, a roof over your head, a pet that loves you, a child's laugh, the sun glistening off the water, the ability to think for yourself, for fresh air, for living in a free country, for your senses of sight, smell, touch, taste, hearing, a sense of humor, that yesterday is done and today is a brand new canvas.
Today realize that you cannot be worried or fearful when you are thinking and focusing on all the things you are grateful for.

Affirm:
     Today my attitude of gratitude keeps me in a positive and worry free space!

Have a Lots to be Grateful for Wednesday!
Mary Ellen
Get Jazzed & Joyful About You, Every Day in Every Way!
Believe in Yourself, Anything is Possible!

Monday, June 20, 2011

It's A to Z time again!

Get Jazzed & Joyful Thought:

It's time again to play the alphabet game; today as it pertains to your work/career. We all have so many skills, virtues and talents that we use daily at work and in our careers. So whether you work out of the home, for someone else, have home based business or the very valuable job of being a homemaker and running a household, today it's time to tell yourself all the reasons why you love yourself.

Here is my list:

I love myself because I am:
An Achiever
Bold
a Communicator
Decisive
Energetic
Flexible
Gratitude Focused
Hard Working
Intuitive
Judicious
Knowledgeable
Likeable
Make it Happen
a Networker
Organized
Positive
Quick witted
Reasonable
Self confident
Thorough
Unstoppable!
Veracious
Willing to explore
Xstatic (some creative license is ok)
a Yes I can! person
in the Zone!

Go ahead take each letter and come up with your list and say it out loud to yourself - look in the mirror and say it.
Feel the power of I AM! and the power of Self Love!
Feel the Power of YOU!

Affirm:
     I love myself today because I am all these things and more!

Have an I Love ME because it's Monday!
Mary Ellen
Get Jazzed & Joyful About You, Every day in Every Way!
Believe in Yourself, Anything is Possible!

Thursday, June 16, 2011

Sing your own Praises - it's okay!

Get Jazzed & Joyful Thought:
Did you know ...that You are your most valuable asset!
You ARE talented, creative, strong, skillful, caring, loving, grateful, intelligent, powerful, .... the list goes on and on.
Focus on your talents, skills and strengths today.

Don't wait for someone else to acknowledge your talents - acknowledge them yourself.
Don't wait for someone else to appreciate your efforts-  appreciate them yourself.
Don't wait for someone else to praise your strengths- sing your own praises.
As you go about your day, acknowledge, appreciate and praise yourself!

Affirm:
     I am my most valuable asset and I make a difference!

Have a Self Affirming Thursday!
Mary Ellen
Get Jazzed & Joyful About You, Every Day in Every Way!
Believe in Yourself, Anything is Possible!

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

My View is getting better all the time!

The view from my studio is getter better all the time! Grandkids, daughter in law, hubby and Me have been each adding precious creativity to the newly re-constructed picket fence. I have painted a table, bench that my grandson made, stained the deck, added colorful flower pots, got the Frog fountain going, added plants, chimes and color, color, color! I love the way it is turning out and it brings joy to my heart and bliss to my spirit to sit out here in the morning enjoying my cup of coffee or working on my schedule or doing art.
How blessed am I?!
I am especially grateful to my dear hubby who is a builder extraordinaire! His motto is "If you can imagine it, I can build it!"  And indeed I can imagine it and he builds it! Then I get to paint, embellish and light it up. You can't see in these pics but we have strung up solar lights, and put in oil lamps so the evenings become magical!
Well I am off to enjoy the view and nature while working on more invitations for my Studio Open House on the 26th!

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

What kind of busy are you?

Get Jazzed & Joyful Thought:

Today discern the difference between activity and accomplishment. A daily schedule can be filled with lots of activity, swirls of motion going in many directions. The question to ask is how much is really being accomplished?
Progress and success are not determined by how busy we appear to be but by the number of tasks we get done.

Affirm:
    Today I show the difference between Let's get moving and Let's Get It Done!

Have a 'Git' er Done Tuesday!
Mary Ellen
Get Jazzed & Joyful About You, Every Day in Every Way!
Believe in Yourself, Anything is Possible!

Monday, June 13, 2011

Think a better life story

Get Jazzed & Joyful Thought:

Your thoughts create a story line and your life follows the script. If you are unhappy about any area of your life just examine how you have been thinking about it. Then ask yourself if you keep thinking the same way, the same thoughts will you really have a chance of feeling better, happier?
Notice that you feel better when you think better thoughts. The truth is your Life will change when your thinking about it changes.

Affirm:
    Today I Think a better story line so my Life line can follow the script into a better way of Living!

Have a Mindful Thinking Monday!
Mary Ellen
Get Jazzed & Joyful About You, Every Day in Every Way!
Believe in Yourself, Anything is Possible!

Friday, June 10, 2011

Think big for Yourself

Get Jazzed & Joyful Thought:

Today Think Big. Stretch your comfort zone, expect more from yourself and set your goals higher and stop limiting yourself. Change your thinking from "I don't think I can" to "a firm "YES, I Can Do It!" Every time fear or doubt get in your way STOP! and say "I can do this - Yes I Can!"

Now - go ahead and do it!

Affirm:
     Today my motto is "Yes I Can Do It!"

Have a Thinking Big and Can Do Attitude weekend!
Mary Ellen
Get Jazzed & Joyful About You, Every Day in Every Way!
Believe in Yourself, Anything is Possible!

Thursday, June 9, 2011

Whose Business are you in?

Get Jazzed & Joyful Thought:
There are only 3 kinds of business you can be in - your business, someone else's business or the Universe's business. Many times we find ourselves caught up in someone else's business. Getting involved in what is going on, paying attention and focusing on our friends', family or co-workers business.
When this happens you do 2 things:
-you are ignoring your own business
-you are interfering with the Universal plans for someone else.
So today, be aware of whose business you are getting involved in. And Remember that when you get involved in someone else's business it's like you having your own store front and instead of taking care of your own business, your own customers, your own inventory, you leave your store and go into someone else's and get involved with their customers, the way they do business, paying attention to their inventory.
How do you know what is going on inside your own store? Who is taking care of your customers? Who is watching your inventory? AND how would not taking charge of your own business and staying put in someone else's store help YOUR prosperity, abundance and quality of life?
Doing this would not make good sound business sense or practice. If this routine kept up it would most likely cause your store to go OUT of business, your unhappy customers to go elsewhere, your inventory to become prey to opportunists AND you would get the reputation for being more concerned about running someone else's business than your own.
What kind of example would that be?
Affirm:
      Today I keep my actions and my efforts focused on my own business!
Have a Great Self Business Thursday!
Mary Ellen
Get Jazzed & Joyful About You, Every day in Every Way!
Believe in Yourself, Anything is Possible!
 

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

A Picket a day.

Well the studio changes are coming along. My hubby cut my picket fence in half, which I painted white and then he built a center piece that we stained and put my frog fountain on it. Then my grandson Brandon came over and painted a picket with his own design! His is the red, white and blue Love and I think it turned out amazing!  Mine are the flowers on the end and won't be complete for a couple days when it is cooler! Yesterday it was 95 and today it is going to be close to 100!
Thank goodness for air conditioning!

Have a Win-win Day!

Get Jazzed & Joyful Thought:
Crisis can overtake our lives sometimes. At those times it becomes easy to focus on all the things that are not working in our lives, all the negative what if's, all the fears that get triggered and allow us to become preoccupied with stress and struggle. If we continue on this same path then crisis and fear become a habit of focus. We train ourselves to focus on the drama that is unfolding and all the potential for disaster is supplied by our mind/ego.
These are the times to retrain our brains. To shift our focus, with concentrated effort, to what IS working, to the POSITIVE possibilities that can occur, to summon the COURAGE to forge ahead instead of remaining paralyzed with fear.
The important difference between the two focuses is the difference between Victimhood and Victory. Allowing crisis to Victimize ourselves does not produce a winning solution for anything.
Today keep your focus on turning any crisis into a Winning Solution!
Affirm:
Today I seek Win-Win Solutions and I become a Winner!
Have a Victorious Wednesday!
Mary Ellen
Get Jazzed & Joyful About You, Every Day in Every Way!
Believe in Yourself, Anything is Possible!

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Celebrate You today!

Get Jazzed & Joyful Thought:

You are unique, incredible, wonderful and filled with unlimited talents, potential, imagination and creativity!
Love who you are right now in this moment and know that you are amazing and the world needs you and your Greatness.
So celebrate You Today! You are worth it!

Affirm:
     I love who I am and I matter and I make a difference!

Have a Fantastic YOU Tuesday!
Mary Ellen
Get Jazzed & Joyful About You, Every Day in Every Way!
Believe in Yourself, Anything is Possible!

Monday, June 6, 2011

Your Words and Actions

Get Jazzed & Joyful Thought:

Is what you say, what you do? Today Practice what you preach and walk your talk. Otherwise, you might as well say "Here take my advice, because I'm not using it."

Affirm:
     Today I focus on keeping my words and actions consistent.

Have a Consistent You Monday!
Mary Ellen
Get Jazzed & Joyful About You, Every Day, in Every Way!
Believe in Yourself, Anything is Possible!

Thursday, June 2, 2011

Your Best Friend is You!

Some days you are surrounded with lots of people. Other days not so many and still other days it is just you. Truth is, on ALL days, You are your constant travel companion. Because wherever you go-there you are!  So decide to enjoy your own company and be your own best friend today.
So far, today is a just Me day and I have focused on being my own best company and my own best friend. And I have discovered that I am having a really good day AND I am pretty darn good company - just the way I am.
Try it for yourself. I bet you too will discover that when you feel like you need a best friend and you think there isn't one available all you have to do is look in the mirror.
Go For It! Be Your Own Best Friend!

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Step out of your comfort Zone

Get Jazzed & Joyful Thought:

You were built for success. You were built for happiness. You were built for longevity. You were built for joy. You were built for power, speed and focused purpose.
Now step out of your safe harbor and show what you are really made of!

Affirm:
     I am full of courage and I step out of my comfort zone and into the Go For It Zone!

Have a Take Action Wednesday!
Mary Ellen
Get Jazzed & Joyful About You, Every Day in Every Way!
Believe in Yourself, Anything is Possible!