Chuck's Lemonade

A recipe for Inspired Thinking and Living

Chuck's Lemonade

A recipe for Inspired Thinking and Living

About Me

& My Story

Hi, I am Chuck, and I am the chef of a recipe I call Chuck’s Lemonade, a recipe for inspired thinking and living, for finding gifts when life gives you lemons, and for turning your lemons into lemonade.

I live on a beautiful little island (Hilton Head Island, South Carolina), and I live here with my wife Renee. I am also the father to three grown and wonderful children, Jonathan, Brett, and Alyssa. I am also a son, a brother, a brother-in-law, and a friend to many wonderful friends that are like family...

Book:

Chuck's Lemonade

A Recipe for: Inspired Thinking and Living, Finding Gifts When Life Gives You Lemons, and Turning Your Lemons into Lemonade!

Book:

Huxley The Aquarius

One Dog's Lemons To Lemonade Story

Book:

What Would Make Today Great?

A 30-Day Journal Challenge!

Book:

What Am I Grateful For Today?

A 30-Day Journal Challenge!

While walking on the beach recently, and listening

While walking on the beach recently, and listening to some music for inspiration, I listened to one of my favorite young artists, Trevor Hall, and to one particular song, “Wish Man”.
Hey, wish man, tell me what's your wish. Close your eyes, all we got is this! Angels speak of a thing called bliss. Close your eyes, all we got is this, yeah!

All we got is this. All we got is here. All we got is now. Yesterday is the past. Tomorrow is the future. Today is "this". Don’t waste today on anger, anxiety, blaming, boredom, chaos, complaining, conflict, drama, fear, frustration, guilt, pity, regret, resentment, stress, or worry. Instead, do what you can to make today great. For you. And for others around you.

Angels speak of a thing called bliss. What’s your bliss? What are you grateful for today? What would make today great? What are the answers to your Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How questions? What are you going to do about it? What are you waiting for?

What’s your wish?

Make it a great day!

Make lemonade!

-Chuck

PS. I’ll never forget that it was my son Brett who introduced Renee and I to Trevor Hall while we all were in Costa Rica (opening a branch office for the company that I had ownership in when we lived in Texas.) It was there that we first heard Trevor Hall’s song “The Lime Tree'', and years later it was the song we chose for the first dance at our wedding. Thank you Brett!
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Let your hard times make you, rather than break yo

Let your hard times make you, rather than break you.

What do you do when life gives you hard times, and lemons?

Is it possible that your hard times can make you, rather than break you?

The answer is yes!

A chapter in my book, “Chuck’s Lemonade, A Recipe for Inspired Thinking and Living" is titled “Sometimes the best gifts don’t come gift wrapped.” In this chapter I share stories about some pretty hard times in my life, and times when life gave me some pretty serious lemons. One story is about not getting a job that I thought I really wanted, and having to return to a job that I really hated. Another is about a time when my son Brett stopped talking with me. Another is about the night I hit rock bottom (and feeling worse than any other moment in my life.) And one is about my business partner lying, stealing, and causing the failure of our business. Talk about lemons.

But I also share perhaps the most important thing — what I did next. Rather than let my hard times (my lemons) break me, instead they made me. Because rather than give in, or give up, I reached as deep and far inside myself as I could, and I turned each lemon in lemonade.

At the time I didn’t even realize it. But today’s eyes know it. Today’s eyes — eyes that live more gratefully, gracefully, and eyes that practice H A B I T S, the ingredients in Chuck’s Lemonade: Honesty. Acceptance. Beach. Inspiration. Trust. Service — know a gift when they see one.

Today’s eyes know that sometimes the best gifts don’t come gift wrapped

Is it time to get yourself (or someone you know) a copy of “Chuck’s Lemonade, A Recipe for Inspired Thinking and Living" and to turn your lemons into lemonade”?

Visit www.chuckslemonade.com to learn more.

Watch your life change (in a good way.)

Make lemonade 🍋🍋🍋

-Chuck

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Live well. While reading for some inspiration I r

Live well.

While reading for some inspiration I read something about living well. Talk about a broad subject, right? What does it mean to live well? I imagine if you asked 100 different people you might get 100 different answers. In the piece I read, the author mentioned a poem written by English author Rudyard Kipling. The title of the poem is “If.” Kipling wrote the poem after having wealth (only to lose it), raising a daughter (only to lose her to pneumonia), and living a life full of other blessings and challenges. The poem was Kipling’s encouragement for his son on what living well was all about.
I read the poem, and then thought about myself, and if I am living well. I thought about my past, and my present. I thought about my future, my goals, and the life I wish for myself. I thought about others in my life that I care about deeply, and even some others who will not have a place in my life for too many reasons to discuss here now. Disclosure - something I've learned is that others' opinions don’t make them wrong. Their “well” is on them. Mine is on me. Yours in on you. We all have our “well.”
What is your “well”?

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Happy Sunday! Change what you cannot accept. Do

Happy Sunday!

Change what you cannot accept.

Do you know that you can change things that you cannot accept? Yes, you can!

The “A” in H A B I T S, the ingredients in Chuck’s Lemonade, is for Acceptance, as in accept what you cannot change, and change what you cannot accept.

Do you wish something were different, but you know it will never be different?

Do you wish someone were different, but you know they will never be different?

You know, because your gut is telling you (maybe it's even finally screaming at you.)
What is your gut screaming?
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Do you have inner peace? Inner peace, as in feelin

Do you have inner peace? Inner peace, as in feeling good about yourself. Your whole self. Flaws and all. Inside and out. Inner peace, as In being comfortable with your answers to your Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How questions.
So comfortable, in fact, that you choose to live your answers. Inner peace, as in consciously and intentionally choosing to practice H A B I T S, the ingredients in Chuck’s Lemonade. Honesty. Acceptance. Beach. Inspiration. Trust. Service. Tough habits, but great habits. And choosing to because regardless of how difficult they can be sometimes, they help your inner peace. Do you have inner peace?
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Service, Chuck's Lemonade style. As in love and se

Service, Chuck's Lemonade style. As in love and serve, yourself, and others. As in do things that make me smile. As in do things to make others smile. Even better, is when the things I do to make others smile make me smile too. That’s a win-win!

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Appreciate life. Life doesn’t always go as you

Appreciate life.

Life doesn’t always go as you planned or as you wished. That’s life. It’s what you do next that matters most!

And when life "happens", as it will sometimes, I say appreciate life (anyway.)

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Are you carrying around extra weight? As in things

Are you carrying around extra weight? As in things from your past, things that you think could have gone better, things that you think should have gone differently, or things that you wish were better or different? Is that weight (burden) keeping you from moving forward, and moving to a better place?

Life doesn’t always go as you planned or as you wished. That’s life. It’s what you do next that matters most. And sometimes the thing to do next is let it go.

Letting go doesn’t mean that you are okay with these things, or okay with the impact they’ve had on you or on others (knowing those things are the lessons.)

Letting go means that you are no longer allowing the weight of these things to keep you from moving forward, and moving to a better place. Whatever that “place” means to you. That place could be the answers to your who, what, where, when, why, and how questions, or could be any place that you are trying to get to have more calm, and more peace.

Letting go of that negative weight gives you more room to be with good thoughts, and happy thoughts, so that you can see your way to wherever you are going more clearly.

Here’s a few suggestions if you need help with letting go:

Breathe, just breathe. When you feel the weight of those thoughts on you, breathe. Take long and deep breaths, and feel yourself relieving your body, mind, and soul. Breathe, just breathe.

Expect less, and accept more. Expecting often leads to more disappointment (when what you get is not what you wanted.) Acceptance is being okay with what is anyway. Acceptance is no longer pushing or pulling, but instead just being. At peace, and in peace, with what is. Acceptance is a great place to be.
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