Happy Valentines Day
By Kevin Nations Posted on Feb 14, 2010
It’s the day of LOVE,
I want to celebrate and share this special day with YOU!
This is such an AMAZING day for me! My daughter is at home with me.
I called my grandmother yesterday to wish her a happy birthday (Her birthday is also on Valentines’ Day).
As we’re all celebrating LOVE in our own ways (and I challenge you to take this opportunity to celebrate LOVE today!), let’s not forget the impact of LOVE in our business.
Last month we had an entire event in Las Vegas celebrating LOVE as an asset in your business! I want to share with you some of the principles from that AWESOME event. So that on THIS day as you’re celebrating the impact of LOVE in your business and your life, you’ll realize the following.
- The degree at which you choose to LOVE your business will determine how your business transitions from your master to your loving servant.
- The degree to which you LOVE your mission will determine your IMPACT in lifting this universe higher and becoming a force for good in YOUR own world – in YOUR own way
- The freedom that you choose to show LOVE to your clients will set the tone for that relationship with them – are you the GURU that they admire from a distance or the MENTOR that they aspire to celebrate and to emulate!
AND finally – MOST IMPORTANTLY!
- The choice to LOVE YOURSELF is the most imperative and often overlooked choice in our world. Treat yourself to a HEAPING helping of LOVE today and every day. Today’s ‘Valentines Mission’ that I want to leave you with is the charge to write down ways that you can love yourself with an even greater unapologetic abandon than ever before.
You Deserve it!
Your Business Deserves it!
Your Mission Deserves it!
Your Clients Deserve it!”
Here’s a statement of celebration for you to adopt, adapt and to LOVE by – on this day of LOVE and every day!
“Today – with CELEBRATION – I choose to LOVE myself with ABANDON. Looking for ways to pamper myself rather than to refuse the beauty of Earth. I choose to drink in from life with the BIG STRAW, not in sips but in gulps. To serve my mission without apology -to embrace the existence of my friends and
foes alike without fear! Because in the AWESOME ABANDON of this energy called LOVE – Life becomes SO much more fun than playing small”
Have an AWESOME Valentine’s Day today and Much LOVE every Day After!
Kevin
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limewire
Apr 29th, 2010
lmao sweet stuff dude.
Liliana
Feb 17th, 2010
Thank you very much Mr. Nations for reminding us how important it is to care about everything we do in the sense of adding love to our thoughts, words and actions.
Vladimir
Feb 16th, 2010
Dear Kevin,
Thank you very much for your revelation.
Your simple principle is near to my program
“Discovery with the admonition”.
This principle is that I give my advertising
on site and customers give them comments.
The best customers get a big prize.
Your Vladimir
Pam Thompson
Feb 15th, 2010
Hi Kevin,
Thanks for sharing your insights and wisdom on love, business and relationships. Thanks also for your warm valentine wishes. Wishing you and your family a belated Happy Valentine’s!
Pam
valery satterwhite
Feb 15th, 2010
Kevin,
Happy Valentine’s Day!
“What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love” – Don Juan deMarco
To the degree we struggle is the degree to which we have held back our love for ourselves and others.
Thank you for your wonderful and poignant Valentine’s Day post.
Love,
valery
Elsa
Feb 15th, 2010
I remember the old Beatles song – Love Is All You Need. (Anyway, I think it’s from the Beatles.) Well, maybe it’s not all, but it sure is essential. Thanks for reminding us – love in so many directions.
Ingrid
Feb 14th, 2010
Thank you for this profound message Kevin.
One lives a life filled with Love and ready to share it not only one day out of the year. One lives Love and shares it always.
Happy Everyday with Love
Ingrid
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Feb 14th, 2010
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Kathy
Feb 14th, 2010
Thank you for the statement of celebration – inspiring! The more we can love ourselves, the easier it is to love others, come from our heart of passion, be compassionate and blaze a new path that will change and rock our world. Thank you for your message. Happy Valentines day!
Kathy
Kevin Nations
Feb 14th, 2010
The second commandment in the Judeo-Christian faith… Love your neighbor AS you love yourself.
Self-Love is a PRE-REQUISITE for all of the old-school commandments/ or new-age current principles for success.
Judith & Jim
Feb 14th, 2010
Hi Kevin,
Good to see you joining the movement to bring love into the marketplace.
As you know, we published our book in May 2009,
“The Heart of Marketing: Love Your Customers and They Will Love You Back”
on just that theme.
Yes there is an evolution going on in consciousness that will bring love deeper into all quarters of our lives. And the marketplace needs that love more than any other sector so we can all live better lives.
As our slogan goes, “market with consciousness and conscience,” caring for your customer and yourself as you build your business within the community that supports us all.
Because It’s All in the Connection
Judith Sherven
Jim Sniechowski
http://www.theheartofmarketing.com
Kevin Nations
Feb 14th, 2010
Judith and Jim!
GREAT to hear from you! YES I even just conducted an event called LOVE your Clients, LOVE your Business, LOVE your Life! It was so much fun. ALSO many people don’t realize that love is much more than the soft, caressing emotion – and also encompasses a commitment to confront with TRUTH and to commit to nakedness and transparency rather than to pretense and facade!
I’m so grateful for your wonderful spirit and example to follow!
Kevin
Bryn Johnson
Feb 14th, 2010
This statement really struck me- it is almost exactly the way I describe to people why I left a corporate job that I adored to start my own venture.
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The degree to which you LOVE your mission will determine your IMPACT in lifting this universe higher and becoming a force for good in YOUR own world – in YOUR own way
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Thank you for sharing your thoughts in the blog. I never want to be a GURU- I always want to be a MENTOR. Everyone gets the choice. I choose connection to the Universe, to my purpose, and to the people around me.
krishan.chand
Feb 15th, 2010
hello.sir.thanks
Kay Fontana
Feb 14th, 2010
Kevin – That was BEAUTIFUL! Your inspirations are always a reminder to celebrate our passions, serve our missions and love ourselves. Thank you and have a most awesome Valentine’s Day!
krishan.chand
Feb 15th, 2010
hello.sir,thanks
Kim
Feb 14th, 2010
Hi Kevin,
What a beautiful post. Your passion and commitment in your business is evident and inspirational.
I’ve experienced the necessity of self-love. Balance is key — to take a step back from the business and rejuvenate, so that I can have a positive impact with my clients and grow effectively online is invaluable.
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Kim
Dave Robson
Feb 14th, 2010
Hi Kevin,
Love from the UK, on it’s way!
When you visit Normandy & Brittany (Northern France), they bring you your cappuccino in a tall glass topped with gorgeous whipped cream and a long straw! At first I thought “how bizarre” but when I drank the coffee through the straw I understood – you get the full delicious flavour directly onto your toungue. A wonderful experience and a great metaphor for life, or what????!!
Those French people know a thing or two about love – they even put it in their food.
Enjoy,
Dave
Kevin Nations
Feb 14th, 2010
Yessir Dave!
“Getting the full delicious flavor right where we can enjoy it most!”
That is life – some want to defend why it ISN’T happening for them. I say – JUST GO FOR IT!
Thanks for your comments!
Brenda Hyland
Feb 14th, 2010
Thanks for the reminder Kevin!!!
Today is the day to stop and smell the roses. Appreciate the small things in life that enable us to live in such a large way.
Loved the idea of drinking it all in with a straw as to devour. People tend to exist and constantly are on the look out for happiness – it doesn’t work like that. Live each day and tell the universe that you are psyched to welcome the gifts it will bestow on you.
Thanks for the mile high questions – thought provoking and insightful.
In Health
Brenda
Kevin Nations
Feb 14th, 2010
Hey Brenda -
Thanks for your response – DEVOURING all that is awesome what a Powerful concept!
Have an awesome day!
Kev-
Brenda Hyland
Feb 14th, 2010
Thanks for the reminder Kevin!!
Today is certainly the day to stop and smell the roses. Enjoy and indulge in the abundance of the universe – the simple things.
Love taking it all in with a straw as though you can’t get enough!!!!
Thank You
Paulo
Feb 14th, 2010
Hi Kevin!
Nice and dangerous insight!
A “fast” reader won’t realise the whole picture, I think.
Some lack of self-esteem and pride in what we are doing won’t provide that food on the table and small tokens of appreciation (bought or hand made) for the loved ones, whenever we want to make it happen.
Happy Valentines Day to you and family, too!
Best wishes,
PT
Kevin Nations
Feb 14th, 2010
Abandon is ALWAYS dangerous Paulo – that’s what makes it SO FUN!
The risk of being ‘on the line’ for what you want is such a dangerous (and delicious) predicament!
Enjoy your day!
Kevin
Jeanna Gabellini
Feb 14th, 2010
YESSSSSS!
I think most people begin their business from a place of passion and then fall out of love when they hit obstacle after obstacle.
They think of leaving their biz but really the love is still there if they just change the way they are DOING their business.
Love is a BEING thing.
A good that the LOVE Doctor is in.;-) Have a fab day, Kevin!
Kevin Nations
Feb 14th, 2010
Obstacle = Opportunity to prove our commitment to our mission. The higher the level of PLAY – the more obstacles we ATTRACT to ourselves!
It’s no mystery that we have obstacles. They are INVITED OPPORTUNITIES to show we’re playing big!
Nickolove Lovemore
Feb 14th, 2010
Thanks Kevin for your inspiring post. It highlights the importance of doing work you love as well as the importance of showering yourself with love.
For love is expansive and so when doing work you love you’ll automatically give more to it giving it a greater opportunity to flourish. And, if you pamper yourself with love then your light will shine brighter in this world making it a better place.
Nickolove
Kevin Nations
Feb 14th, 2010
Nickolove (Dang fine name for today if I say so myself!)
Pampering yourself in EVERY way is the #1 path to wealth. Whether slicing an apple and serving it to yourself on the best china you have or taking that extra moment when the sun hits your face on the way to the car first thing in the morning to stand in the rays and allow it to WASH you with awesomeness.
Pampering is NEARLY free. It only costs a choice here and there to indulge the perfect moments that come up naturally and to invite more instead of just blowing through them as if they aren’t DIVINE!
Sasha Allenby
Feb 14th, 2010
Thanks Kevin, Particularly love the reminder to “serve my mission without appology”. You rock!!
Love Sasha
Kevin Nations
Feb 14th, 2010
Rock on Sasha – so do you!
Caitriona Reed
Feb 14th, 2010
Happy Valentine Day Kevin!
Today also happens to be the lunar New Year.
So …
Happy New Year of the (Metal) Tiger!
I hear that such years are all about clear thinking, creativity, and decisive change.
So this year I am embracing that
w love and gratitude
Caitriona
Kevin Nations
Feb 14th, 2010
Yes Catriona and it’s gonna be a GREAT year for me as a FIRE HORSE! (Glad me and the Tiger are Friends!)
Kev-
Andrea|Empowered Soul
Feb 14th, 2010
Thanks for this article, Kevin! If we don’t passionately LOVE what we do … why do it? Life is too short!
Here’s to loving our biz, life, and Selves!
Blessings,
Andrea
Kevin Nations
Feb 14th, 2010
Do what you LOVE with Abandon – DECIDE to remove the rest!
Deb H.
Feb 14th, 2010
I loved your quote so much, I posted it as my FB status today citing you.
Thanks so much for the fabulous reminder that love truly conquers all…
I LOVE your constant words of inspiration. Would love the pleasure of meeting you in person someday.
Have an amazing day, as they each should be!
deb h.
Kevin Nations
Feb 14th, 2010
Thanks Deb – care to share which quote you used as your status?
Kev-
susan kuhn frost
Feb 14th, 2010
Kevin,
Right back atcha!
Love is at the heart of business — the most powerful tool available to meet our most human needs.
We’re waking up from our enchantment with money and looking money and business now in a larger context.
The great monologue The Last Cargo Cult compares Wall Street worship of finance to primitive Pacific islanders worship of lost cargo from Western freighters. Both share a closed-loop kind of thinking that is divorced from larger considerations.
The reality is that business — trade — is more about meeting human needs than it is about dog-eat-dog dominance. (We leave that for politics, war by other means).
Business at its best is a stabilizing force in the world. Trading relationships knit us together. Entrepreneurs innovate and show us new ways to live. Service providers help us increase the value of our time here on earth, in all senses of the word.
The tools to create a business along those lines are now in the hands of the individual business owner, entrepreneur, consultant, coach. Many brilliant writers (Seth Godin, Chris Brogan, Jeremy Rifkin)) are mapping out this nascent iteration in business.
Kevin — you are helping me and many others actually make this vision come to life in our own businesses. You have the gift of teaching so that your students can hear and apply your ideas immediately, in our own way, to fuel our own businesses.
I continue to learn from you and consider you a singularly important mentor in my business life.
Kind regards,
Susan
Kevin Nations
Feb 14th, 2010
Susan – you were missed in Vegas! Can’t wait to meet you in person one day.
Amethyst Wyldfyre
Feb 14th, 2010
Happy Big Love Day 2 U KN – So true we must take care of self Spirit decided to show me importance of slowing WAaaaay DOWN AND SHIFTING FOCUS TO only what is absolutely essential yesterday – I broke my wrist on the mountain at waterville valley – so 6 weeks of being a one handed typer for me and lots of deciding about what needs to go and what can stay Also learned that there is A LOT of HELP that the Universe wants to send me asap and I have to be WIDE open to receive with grace and gratitude – thanks for you help and this exclamation point reminder to take time for self care with abandon yum love lights us peace is in you! hugs and happy v day 2 u Amethyst
Kevin Nations
Feb 14th, 2010
Amethyst, Amethyst! One of the LOVE Diamonds! Can’t wait to see what SIMPLICITY brings you this year!
Tami Close
Feb 14th, 2010
Kevin,
I appreciate your sharing of love in this way. Our foundation is Self-love, and we love our Self as if nothing else mattered. This love is a state of being and requires nothing to do, only that which to be. Love is not something that is acquired, it is a natural flow from our state of being to the so-called activity we’re engaged in…one steady stream from the “big straw” as you say
.
We don’t “do” anything to get love in return for love is totally unconditional. Circumstances don’t matter, only state of being matters. I am love, and from this I am, the synchronistic experiences of the Universe line up.
As Deepak Chopra says, “I appreciate mySelf exactly how I am, and I require nothing different to complete this love because I am already complete.”
Thanks, Kevin, I appreciate your message of love, and allowing me the opportunity to convey what love means to me.
Love, laughter and somersaults on freshly mowed grass,
Tami
Kevin Nations
Feb 14th, 2010
Tami! Long time no talk to! Thanks for your amazing comments on this timeless topic!
Krista
Feb 14th, 2010
This is the heart of the matter. If more people adopted this kind of focus, we’d have a happier/healthier/more peaceful world. Thanks for sharing.
Regards,
Krista
Kevin Nations
Feb 14th, 2010
Thank YOU for adopting this focus. Today YOU are all that matters!
Shiroko Sokitch
Feb 14th, 2010
Kevin, thank you so much for this blog. Its wonderful to have your input. I love your approach that everything we do is about love and bringing love to our work.
Have a happy happy Valentines Day!
love
Shiroko
Kevin Nations
Feb 14th, 2010
Shiroko – Thanks so much for weighing in! It truly IS all about LOVE!