From my heart:
Today my family and I went to visit my daughters grave. I was going to bring an Amethyst with me., but when I looked I saw I only had 4 left pieces left. I had gotten these Amethysts when she was in the hospital; I was going to sell them to raise money for her to pay some bills when she got out but when she passed away my family and I placed some at her grave site to be with her forever. The Amethyst for me represent a piece of her and I wasn't ready to give up another piece of her right now, so I when to her grave site with a heavy heart and an empty hand. The stones we had placed there before have been long gone, at least we had not seen them in 3 years. As we sat there, we began to clean off her headstone and as I move some grass over I found the amethyst I had placed there 4 years before, I couldn't believe my eyes!
My daughter taught me another lesson, she gave me what I needed, a little piece of her. Her message to me was; Don't worry I am always with you and when you feel like you don't want to give up a piece of me, you won’t because I'll replace it. She placed that stone there for me to see. I was thinking in lack and she showed me that she would always be there. It was her way of saying dad I love you and I'm happy with what you are doing, just stop thinking in lack, there is plenty to go around. There is always enough even if you don't see it, so live your life it abundance the rest of your days.

I have things in my passed that I don't put behind me, I use them as motivation to keep myself focused on what I want in my life. If you take them and turn them into something positive they are no longer a burden, they are now a vehicle, used to bring Happiness into your life. Use your passed to enhance your life, don’t see the mistakes, see the gifts, just don’t forget to open your gifts or they will go to waste!

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How to heal your heart Part 2

Ok, well, here it goes! I’m both excited and scared about what I’m doing. I’m excited because I know that I will be helping people and I’m scared because I’ve never done this before. Yes I’ve shared my story but not with everyone and not on the internet. I’m going to put this out there with all my mistakes and maybe miss spelled words, but it’s coming from my heart, so please bare with me.
I’m going to bring you back a little over 4 years. I had a company that was doing pretty well. I was in the construction field for over 25 years and had a crew of 9 men. My dream was to begin a career in speaking, but I could never speak in public. I had a problem, I was too scared to get in the front of the room and if you want to speak, it hard to get people to listen when your behind them. Funny how that works, huh? Well I had a few things I needed to take care of, before I could get my new career going. Who was going to take care of my business? And the last time I tried to speak, I froze so badly that they had to throw a rope around me and drag me off stage!
But I was not to be denied! When you have a dream you have to take action!! The first order of business was to bring in that trusty person that I could hand over the business to and know it would be in safe hands. Yes, I know, I know, but I did it anyway. I brought in someone that was very close to me, I trusted them with my life, “but this was my business”, oh well, I should have known better. I gave them 50% of the business, thinking that because this is half theirs, they would take care of it. Now this is isn’t their entire fault, after all I didn’t feel the need to look over their shoulder, so I do take responsibility for not being more involved. I’m not going to get into the details of everything that happened (this is not a book…). Hey thanks for the idea, a book  I like it!
Before I get into what happened with the business, I need to cover what happen with the public speaking, you will enjoy how I broke my fear! I will share that tomorrow. This blog will be a 2 part blog and what I mean by that is I will be telling about the business side and then about the everyday life side. It will be a running story, my intent is to write everyday and share my story of how one man has been through the gates of hell only to return a better man for it. I hope this will help out many of the people that are struggling right now. Remember to keep the smile on your face no matter what and if you don’t, don’t worry, just remind yourself to remember to smile and make it a habit.

Smile and Wave, Eddy

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Dealing with real life.

Well its 68 days to event time and still no main sponsor. I’ve been doing a lot of thinking and one of the things I’ve found is that I was losing sight of why I’m holding this event. The intention of this event is to bring people together, to help to connect people at a time when people are lost because of all that is going on in the world. You see one of the things that they may see is that they have lost something, they may believe that it’s their job, or it’s their house maybe even their wife or husband. Well yea, maybe they lost those things, but what I really believe is that along with those things they have lost themselves. They may no longer know who they are. They think that maybe they are this person that is out of work and has nothing to contribute. Or maybe they think that they are no longer the person they used to be because they will never be able to recover from all that was taken from them, so they will never get back to normal and that there is no hope.


Well I have to tell you that it’s true. They may not get back what they lost, but maybe they can get something better. They may not be the person that they once were, but they can be better. They may not love the way they once did, but their love can be stronger. How can I say this? Well it’s because I’ve been through it and I am still going through it. I have heard people say don’t ever tell everyone what you are going through because they will judge you and you will never make it as a speaker. Well you know what, I am going to commit speaker suicide! I am going to tell everybody what I’m going through right now, because I believe it will help people to see that you can lose everything and still be happy! That it can look like nothing is going right and you can still get things done! What you need to do is believe, believe in yourself, believe in what’s around you, and believe in what you are doing! My name is Edward Rodriguez and I am going to share my story now when it’s needed, not later when it all over with. In 68 days my dreams of the last 5 years to help people and my dreams for the last 2 years of holding the event Happiness in the Park will come true and I am going to share this story with who ever will read it.

Tomorrow I will start the story of how I came to lose all that I lost, where I am now, how I have been able to cope with it, stay focused on creating happiness and healing my heart. If you know of people that are going through bad times please pass this along to them so that we can grow together!
Smile and Wave, Eddy
Healing your heart, no matter what your loss. The healing process starts and ends with you. How you view what has happened and how you deal with it. I will be sharing my story and how I deal with everyday life, so that I can give hope to those who are struggling right now. This will be a 68 day story leading up to the event Happiness in the Park.

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Life is like a rollercoaster? You can scream in terror through its up’s and downs or you can throw your arms in the air and scream, because it so thrilling and great to be aboard! Which do you choose? Edward Rodriguez
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Heading out to Zo's Summer Grove Basketball Game where I hope to meet some of the players and in vite them to Happiness in the Park! Wish me luck.

July is a rough for me in 9 days it will 4 years since my daughter passed I needed a lift so I went to US1 and Kendall Dr 2 busy roads I held a sign that said “Hi” and I Smiled and Waved at traffic giving helps to heal my heart Love you all

"Life is not easy for any of us, but what of that? We must have perseverance and
above all confidence in ourselves." - Marie Curie
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"Life is a series of problem-solving opportunities. The problems you face will
either defeat you or develop you depending on how you respond to them." - Rick
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Hi Everybody,
It’s 74 days until Happiness in the Park and I said I would start blogging about it. Yesterday I was up early working on getting some sponsors and I had to start work at 11PM, I got so busy I forgot to get some sleep before I went to work. Well I finally went to seep at 7AM this morning and at 10 AM I get a call, they wanted me to come in so they could go over what had to be done tonight, but I didn’t want to go to sleep again without starting this blo ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ, what? Oh, huh? Sorry where was I………….ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ