Life’s Great!!

It is isn’t it?? I really is, think about it, we can focus on all of the crap that comes our way but when you think about it life is great!

When it comes to friends, family, your working life, children, social calendar, it really is great. Truth is if any of those areas aren’t really the way you want them to be then you can do something about it! You have the gift of choice and can choose to make a change any time you want. Now you can start pulling out the excuses if you want to, you know the ones about it’s not your choic, it’s your mums, your dogs, your spouses/partner, you kids, your bosses and everyone and everything else. But the truth is the buck stops with you, it stops with me.

So today I have chosen to see everything that is wonderful about my life, yes there are some serious hurdles to climb over the next six months, but life truly is great. I’m stepping into it today and I hope that you do too.

If you don’t like your job, what can do to change that? How can you approach it differently to get more out of it? What about getting a job that you do like? Taking a course that helps you to move on? There is so much you can do. Same with your relationships, what can you do to make a difference? There is so much you can do, different ways of looking at those who make a difference in your life and different ways of relating to them. One such thing is accepting them for who they are instead of who you want them to be, looking at what is great about them instead of picking at their every word and action.

This goes for your finances and just about everything else? What can you do, what can you change, how can you approach it difficult or view it from a more positive angle?

Life is sooooo short, it really is, so whilst I’ve got mine… life’s great!!!

Poor McClaren

I’ve been meaning to blog about this for days…. Poor McClaren!!

Let’s be honest he never had a hope in hell did he really, but he tried, he really did try. What will England do now? Who know’s… but one thing we do know, McClaren won’t be leading them next season will he now?

Young Minds

For the last three weeks I have been delivering workshops in schools to year 9 and 11 students. For those of you who don’t know that’s 13/14  and 15/16 year olds! It has been some experience as I’ve worked with them on our programme Unlimited Potential delivering Confidence Building and Goal Setting training.  It’s amazing how already the lively positive attitudes that much younger children have has already started to be eradicated.

These young people are creative, fun, intelligent and so much more. As every it has really hit me how positive words, thoughts and actions can really impact young minds. Just by telling a young mind they are going to fail if they don’t buck up their ideas can send them in to complete meltdown where perspective and self empowerment are eradicated in one fell swoop.

I completely take my hat off to teachers who day in day out have to deal with these young inquisitive, feisty, challenging young minds who question everything and sometimes just can’t help but talk incessantly. Whilst challenging they are fun to be with, the potential that I see in the young people I work with never ceases to astound me. Yet our society seems to have forgotten how to motivate them without the over stimulation of TV, PSP’s, IPod’s, Mobile Phones, X Boxes, Ninetendo’s, Wii’s and they every annoying Celebrity this that and the other.

Today I spoke with a group I was working with about a time when TV came on only at certain time in the day and when you find you own stimulation and fun and truly explored the creativity of your young mind. Gosh I remember have outrageous fun with a double mattress that was squeezed on it side between the airing cupboard and the wardrobe in my bedroom, I can’t help but think of that and loose a breath from the many time I completely lost my ability to speak because I was crying with laughter.

… I digress!!

Young minds are impressionable, they need the most positive yet boundary full environment to explore who they are, who they want to be and what life has to offer them. They need positive words of encourage and the tools and strategies to empower and encourage themselves. They need to know that they “can” regardless of the challenges that face them. I know that what David and I do makes some difference. Can you?