04/21/2025
"Portable Pep Talks" is a place dedicated to celebrating and uplifting people that we know and love NOW, while they are still living. Too often we wait until an end of life celebration, when that person is no longer here, to shower them with love and praise. I've always felt a sort of regret that the recipients of that affection weren't there to hear it and receive it into their hearts and minds. What a wonderful life-enhancing gift it is to actually hear the unrestrained love and praise that another person has for us! So I wanted to create a platform for that to happen! People gather and party and recall the wonderful memories and love of that person who has passed or has suffered a life altering injury. But wouldn't it be so wonderful if we shared our love and appreciation for loved ones now, while they're still alive? This Page is my attempt to encourage that sort of heartfelt sharing now, in the present moment, when the love and appreciation can be felt, embraced, shared and absorbed completely.
I believe the main reason we don't share our love naturally every day is because it often feels awkward to share our inner feelings, for both giver and receiver. Almost too honest, too intimate. Some might call it weird. And depending on delivery and the recipient's perspective,, sometimes it is. However, the joy and connection that comes from it is so wonderful, that momentary awkwardness should be seen as a temporary inconvenience on the path to great celebration and love. I am hoping that with social media as the platform there is a built in distance that makes this a little easier.
Guidelines for Sharing:
- My invitation on this page is for people to share heartfelt messages of love and appreciation for exactly three different people.
- The messages can be any length but must be 100% positive. I'm keeping the number and length of "Portable Pep Talks" relatively low so it doesn't feel like too much of a task and people actually have time to do it.
- I want to avoid the pressure that sometimes comes with "choosing". I want there to be no pressure at all. You can do this more than once if you have more than three people and enough time but there's no order of priority for whom you choose. You may have 25 people that deserve your praise, but only have time to tackle the three person limit right now and that's OK! You can always come back to it later or not at all. The idea is that I don't want anyone to feel left out just because they weren't included in the first three. This is not the idea at all. And those three people should not be listed in order of priority or preference. You may choose these people based on love or need or recent accomplishment or long-standing impacts upon the community. It could stem from a one time encounter or a lifetime of connection. It could be a total gut reaction in the moment. It could be someone you know well or someone you hardly know, but have watched from afar with appreciation. There are no rules in that regard and my sincere hope is that no one feels left out or compares themselves to others. You can come back and add three more people anytime you want.
- Anyone who receives such a message is then sincerely asked - but not obligated - to pay it forward by expressing their love and appreciation for three people of their choice. You do not have to choose the person that chose you and there is no expectation that you do so.
- My hope is that these positive sentiments will spread exponentially around the globe as a wave of unsolicited love.
- Yes you may include people that are not on social media. but please ask those people to share their love for 3 people with you so you can post it for them. Please tag your people (if you know how) by tapping on your post and typing the name of your recipients so they post on their page and they see it.
- This can also be done posthumously for people who passed before we had a chance to tell them how we felt.
Most of all, have fun with this. This is all about feeling good, expressing our hearts, lifting others up and sharing the love.
One love
One heart
Let's join together and I'll feel all right ❤️
