Facilitating Individual, Organizational, and Community Empowerment While Fostering Personal and Planetary Sustainability and StewardHeirShip With Mindfulness, Meditation, Gratitude and Successful Living Skills


Helping You Live Each Day Feeling Mindful, Grateful, Successful and Blessed!




Which Resources Would Be Most Valuable for You?

We, cofounders Leslie Riopel and Charles Betterton,  represent several nonprofit organizations and affiliated cause-oriented benefit corporations and our initial offerings are from them. They include resources for Mindful Successful Living and Solving Life's Ultimate Success Puzzles from Planet Blessed, Ultimate YOUniversity for Successful Living, CENTER SPACE (Center for Spiritual, Personal, And Community Empowerent/Enlightenment), Ultimate DestinyLand, and StewardHeirShip, Inc.

Mindfully Blessed

Home of the Mindful Blessism. Blessisms Take Everything You’ve Learned About Positivity, Visualization, and Mindfulness to a Whole New Level Helping You Manage Change in a Healthier Way. In order to heal the world and to start healing the Planet, we must first start by healing ourselves. Blessing yourself and the world around you can have a profound impact on your life. Blessisms help you shift your attitude from frustration and negativity to acceptance and enthusiasm.  

Ultimate YOUniversity

Introducing 12 major programs for Solving Life's Ultimate Success Puzzles including several forthcoming publications and courses. The Ultimate YOUniversity for Successful Living evolved out of the University for Successful Living that was incorporated in 1995. Both of those nonprofit organizations are members of a Strategic Marketecture established to help Expand the Circle of Success Education, Empowerment, and Entrepreneurship. This work is based on over 40 years of successful and award-winning programs featuring world-class authors, trainers and other experts on Successful Living Skills including recipients of the Ultimate Destiny Hall of Fame Awards

Planet Blessed

At Planet Blessed, We’re on a Mission to Bless the World With Positive Intentions! We are Committed to Promoting Personal and Planetary Sustainability to Help Individuals and Communities SurThrive in Challenging Times While also Raising Individual and Collective Consciousness on Spaceship Earth through Mindfulness, Mindful Successful Living, Positive Psychology, and Mindful Blessings aka Blessisms. 

Gratitude 365 Podcast Network

Our Gratitude 365 Podcast Network has almost 400 Episodes and 4 amazing shows: Gratitude Project, Mindful Gratitude, Abundance Mindset, and Sleepscapes. All of the rich content is designed to help you harness the power of stress and live a more peaceful, healthy, happy life.

Charles Betterton, MSCED

StewardHeir of "Acres of Diamonds in the Rough" consisting of nonprofit and cause-oriented corporations, programs, and publications in various stages of completion. Background 15 years civil service in disaster relief, turn-around-management, and community development, 25 years in intentional communities, masters in Community Economic Development (people-centered focus on self-help, empowerment, & capacity-building). I resonate deeply with Bucky Fuller's vision of betterment for 100% of humanity and seek to help Expand the Circle of Success Education, Empowerment, Entrepreneurship.

Laughter's The Best Medicine Site

Laughter's the Best Medicine

Join us each day as we share powerful healing stories, with a little humor! If you feel like you are taking life a little too seriously, you are going to love this site! These charming short stories are based on Blessisms! We are dedicated to educating people in mindfulness and meditation through conscientious teaching and heart-centered practices, and of course, humor!  Join us in some meditation and mindfulness humor, through the power of stories on LaughterstheBestMedicine.com.

Leslie Riopel, M.A., Psychology

Leslie Riopel, M.A. Psychology, "The Gratitude Coach" is a Certified Mindfulness & Meditation Teacher & Accredited Integrative Coach, Podcast Producer & Host, Entrepreneur, Psychology Professor, Creative Writer, & Voiceover Artist. Leslie's goal is to help you make your biggest struggle your greatest blessing. My Mission is Simple - To Help Others as I Help Myself. I Believe Each of Us Can Heal the World, by First Healing Our Own Trauma & Pain. - Leslie Riopel

Initial Courses

We have many courses, one of which is the Finding HOPE Course - Building Resilience in a Stressful World.  Finding HOPE is a 7-Week Interactive Program to Help You Explore the Connection Between Mindfulness and Healthy Living. This Program is Designed To Help You Turn Stress and Anxiety into Growth and Resilience Using Tools Such as Mindfulness, Gratitude, Positive Psychology, and Successful Living.  Our transformational programs are designed to help encourage and motivate you in those pivotal moments in life when you need guidance and encouragement. These courses can help you shift your focus, boost your self-healing abilities and help you overcome obstacles; so you can live a happier, healthier life.

Mindful Successful Living Guides

The Mindful Successful Living Guides for 2023 are designed to help you live your best life. These monthly guides, each based on a unique theme, are filled with Mindfulnes Exercises, Blessisms, and Affirmations.  

Mindful C.R.A.P. Guides

The Mindful C.R.A.P. Guides have all the Daily Blessisms from each month’s campaign. Each guidebook is designed to help you live with Courage, Resilience, Awareness, and Presence, which can also help you "Bless the Mess."

Personal, Spiritual, and Planetary StewardHeirShip

Providing Positive Uplifting Resources for Personal, Spiritual, and Planetary StewardHeirShip including Publications, Programs, Products, and Services for Awakening, Realization of Potential, and Knowledge of How to Fulfill One's Purpose and Manifest your Ultimate Destiny.  StewardHeirShip (coined by Charles Betterton) encompasses Spirit, Service, Stewardship, and Sustainability.

Read What Our Fans Have To Say

I’m blown away by the exquisite elegance, simplicity, and sheer beauty of your magazine. Dare I say it’s by far the most beautiful magazine I’ve ever seen. And one which I’d prefer to dive in and read above any other! No joke! You two must have sheer wizardry in you. My goodness! Not only a clean, uncluttered layout but great captions. It makes me want to stop and read everything. It’s really stimulating the way you have great captioned headlines continually appearing with soothing, enlivening, purposeful pictures accompanying every page. It really gives an uplifting feeling. It’s an easy, healing read because it’s not cluttered, plenty of white space, my fave look. I’m impressed with the total professionalism you two have as gifted publishers. Not to mention the CONTENT!!! It’s just loaded with wisdom and empower-ment!!!! This must be a dream come true for you! Congratulations! All your tremendous work and devotion is really showing up in a product which is a fantastic gift to all those on the spiritual, mindful, loving, environmental path. The advice is solid, concrete, and grounding regardless of what level of advancement the reader happens to be. It gives a tremendous boost and accompaniment which will have wide appeal and to all ages and for all time.

Shannon Peck

ShannonPeck.com

You two are killing it!!! Omg, I get to read/study these every day! Your vibration is so powerful and high with wisdom, love, and principles!!! What an honor to be associated with what you two are doing! Your Blessisms are deep, practical, and angelic! Feeling the love in them and in every email.  There are not enough teachings giving attention to negative emotions and this is the Motherlode teaching. Just loved it!  Congratulations on the immense realizations, inspirations, and depth of your gifts! Wow! Keep it coming- forever!! It’s reaching all corners of the earth as well as the entire universe. I feel it!! This is your BIG work!!! Now being realized! So happy for you both!!! Perfect timing!!!

The Love Center

The Love Center

Check Out Our Digital Magazines!

Mindful Successful Living Life and Mindful C.R.A.P. Guides!

The Mindful Successful Living Guide is a new online publication and digital monthly magazine for 2023 designed to help you live your best life. This self-discovery empowerment journal and Mindfulness Guide has 53 uplifting, inspiring mindfulness exercises, affirmations and Blessisms to help you Bless the Mess! The Mindful C.R.A.P. Guides  help you live with Courage, Resilience, Awareness, and Presence, which can also help you "Bless the Mess."

Planet Blessed, Inc.

Planet Blessed

At our non-profit Planet Blessed we are committed to promoting personal, community, and planetary sustainability and sharing mindfulness resources to help individuals and communities Sur-Thrive in challenging times. Through our initiatives, we want to help uplift the world’s mental, emotional, and psychological well-being. 

Earthism.space

Earthism.space

Our partner site, EARTHism space is dedicated to Loving, Blessing, Honoring, and Protecting Spaceship Earth. EARTHisms are a simple tool you can use to start thinking differently. As Bucky Fuller so eloquently said, "If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking." Earthism is also affiliated with Living.Earth and the Living Earth Movement inspired on his 97th birthday by John B. Cobb, Jr. author of over 50 significant books including the 50th Anniversary edition of IS IT TOO LATE? The Theology of Ecology.

Ultimate YOUniversity

Ultimate YOUniversity

Welcome to Ultimate YOUniversity! The Ultimate YOUniversity Course Line-Up Has Everything You Need to Live An Abundant, Fulfilling Life and a Life In Which You Are Aligned, Empowered, Awakened, and Spiritually Aware. Each Course is Specifically Designed to Help You Learn How to Solve Life's Ultimate Success Puzzles as you Sur-Thrive in a Fun and Informative Way. 

Mindfully Blessed

Mindfully Blessed

 MindfullyBlessed.com It’s Easy to Feel Happy, Grateful and Blessed When Things Are Going Well, But Much More Challenging to Find the Gratitude and the Blessing in the Heartbreak, Disappointment or Struggle. Discovering the Mindful Blessing can help you transform life’s painful lessons into Blessisms giving you a daily dose of good cheer!