Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.” ~Eckhart Tolle Does everything in our life have to be categorized as either “good” or “bad”? How about if things just “are”. Can we just accept things as they come and experience them as they are, without expectations? Expectations only leave us [...]
Archive for April, 2010
Living Lightly, No Expectations
April 29th, 2010 
Tracy Matlack 
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Tags: bad, Eckhart Tolle, expectations, good, judge, Lightly, Living 
No Comments »Why Do I Need A Facebook Fan Page?
April 24th, 2010 Tracy Matlack Facebook has become one of the most addictive social media phenomena to sweep the world! It has over 400 million users to date and is growing every day. These days Facebook is growing at the rate of 450,00 to 600,000 new users per day. That was around 700 new people while you were reading this. [...]
Posted in Facebook, Marketing, Social marketing, Tracy Matlack Tags: businesses, database, Facebook, family, fan page, friends, link, logo, news feed, SERP, social media, URL, viral, website No Comments »Earth Day Last Minute Ideas
April 22nd, 2010 Tracy Matlack Did you forget today is Earth Day? Actually, today marks the 40th anniversary and countries all over the world are celebrating. President Barack Obama is hosting an Earth Day reception with environmental leaders in Washington. There are so many things we can do to help our environment. To learn about some last minute things you [...]
Posted in Health, Living, Tracy Matlack Tags: 4oth anniversary, celebrate, earth day, ecosalon, environment, go green, nature, nature conservancy, preserve, world 1 Comment »Senior Prom Night
April 20th, 2010 Tracy Matlack What an awesome sight! My son Mark all dressed up in a black tuxedo. As I have mentioned in previous posts, Mark is a senior in high school and we are experiencing all of the wonderful yet scary things that happen during that last year of high school. He has been accepted to the college [...]
Posted in Living, Tracy Matlack Tags: adventures, blessed, dancing, dinner, Enrico's Italian, friend, high school, junior, memories, princess, prom, senior, trip, tuxedo 1 Comment »American Idol’s Elvis Night Results
April 14th, 2010 Tracy Matlack Finally! Andrew Garcia has been voted off American Idol! Forgive me for sounding so excited, but I just never could understand how he made it this far. He always sounded pitchy and off tune to me. His slowed down rendition of “Hound Dog” was boring Tuesday night. I just don’t get Andy. Katie Stevens was [...]
Posted in Entertainment, Music, Tracy Matlack Tags: american, andrew garcia, Crystal Bowersox, elvis presley, Entertainment, gospel, in the ghetto, katie stevens, lee dewyae, lee dewyze, mike lynche, voters 10 Comments »Enjoy the Moment
April 13th, 2010 Tracy Matlack Do you find that you are rushing through life and not stopping to enjoy the very moment you are in? Lately I have so much on my mind that I am continuously thinking into the future. It’s like I am wishing my life away, hoping and dreaming of what is next. I really want to [...]
Posted in Living, Tracy Matlack Tags: attitude, believe, Dr. Wayne Dyer, dreaming, enjoy, experience, future, judgment, moment, positive, wisdom No Comments »Brazilian Rooftop Jam Playing For Change
April 8th, 2010 Tracy Matlack Another great Episode from Playing For Change! While recording in Barcelona, the PFC crew heard some amazing music coming from the roof of a building. Curious, we hauled our gear upstairs and were greeted by a Brazilian party! Together we all enjoyed an afternoon full of music and dancing, food and amazing energy! We are [...]
Posted in Tracy Matlack Tags: brazilian, dancing, energy, episode, food, Music, party, playing for change, song No Comments »Take Responsibility for Your Life
April 7th, 2010 Tracy Matlack I read this article by Dr. Wayne Dyer and it completely changed the way I have been thinking. It gave me a new understanding and hope for my future. Things don’t always go as planned, I will be first to say that. I have had many things in my life fall apart at the seams. [...]
Posted in Health, Living, Tracy Matlack Tags: article, attitude, blame, blaming, Dr. Wayne Dyer, experiences, faith, foster home, future, gifts, God, happiness, Health, pity, positive, self-reliance, success No Comments »Release the Kraken! Clash of the Titans
April 2nd, 2010 Tracy Matlack My son Mark and I are fascinated with Greek mythology, and now my daughter Haley is reading Homer’s Iliad. This makes for great conversation around the dinner table. We are learning the names of a lot of the gods and we are discussing the stories the Greeks used to explain things. One of my favorites [...]
Posted in Entertainment, Tracy Matlack Tags: Argos, Clash of the Titans, demi-god, Echo, gods, greek mythology, Greeks, Hades, Homer, Iliad, Kraken, Liam Neeson, monster, Perseus, Ralph Fiennes, Sam Worthington, Titans, war, Zeus No Comments »Erika’s Social Media Kick in the Pants
April 1st, 2010 Tracy Matlack My great friend and Social Media Marketing mentor, Erika Rich (now that’s a mouthful!) wrote this post the other day. It is full of great information for the Internet Marketing Newbie like me. A small excerpt: I came across a pretty good blog post this morning looking for permalink do’s and don’ts from my pal [...]
Posted in Marketing, Social marketing, Tracy Matlack Tags: blog, Internet Marketing, marketing, newbies, permalink, social media, webinar No Comments »
