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January 3, 2010

Beach Notes: Sandimal 2 – Elma the Elephant

ME Liz Strauss wrote this at 9:31 am

by Guest Writers Suzie Cheel and Des Walsh

In this second of our “Sandimal” posts from the beach, we feature the obviously intelligent Elma the Elephant, who is clearly using her time on the beach to do a lot of remembering as well as sunbaking.

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Elma prompted us to think about how a lot of people at this time of the year seem a bit fixated on bad things that happened last year and using that as some kind of motivation to expect good things this year. We prefer the old NLP technique of focusing on good experiences and successes we have had, whether yesterday, last year or many years ago and using that to put ourselves in a state of high expectation of achieving outstandingly positive results and multiple successes in the year ahead.

Happy remembering!.

Suzie Cheel & Des Walsh





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6 Comments to “Beach Notes: Sandimal 2 – Elma the Elephant”

  1. January 3rd, 2010 at 3:49 pm
    Michael Lemons said

    Remember the positive, and move on from the negative. Great words of wisdom!

  2. January 4th, 2010 at 5:59 am
    Tre ~ said

    I’m thinkin this sculpture says it all: create. now. …surely when I’ve chatted with folks who sculpt or paint, their focus on the present is so alive…probably why I strive so with writing. What a great image. Where is it from or can you share your link to your flickr stream? Would love to share it as well. Here’s to the present wonder of creating.

  3. January 9th, 2010 at 7:49 pm
    Des Walsh said

    @Michael – thanks

    @Tre – sorry, a bit slow in responding: Suzie says she will upload it to Flickr and post the link here

  4. January 9th, 2010 at 7:52 pm
    Des Walsh said

    @Tre

    The picture is from the beach where we walk most mornings, Rainbow Bay, in Queensland Australia – map at http://bit.ly/rbwbay One morning we found this set of animal sculptures we decided to cal “sandimals” and no sign of who had done them. We’ve never seen any, before or since.

  5. January 9th, 2010 at 10:40 pm
    Suzie Cheel said

    @Tre here is the link for the pics http://www.flickr.com/photos/pathway/4261578420/in/photostream/

  6. August 1st, 2010 at 6:01 pm
    Hotel Redondo Beach said

    Great to see inspiration comes in the form of sunshine and sandy beaches!

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