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February 14, 2017 8:42 am
Life looks different when you’re standing on your head. It’s Valentine’s Day so it would be a predictable thing to write about love, so I chose not to, well not specifically but what I will write may have some link because most things come back to love. Those that follow me and read my posts regularly will know I have two children on the Autistic spectrum. MrJK and I aren’t diagnosed but we both definitely sit there too, one more than the other. As a result I often have to see things from a different angle and when I do…
February 13, 2017 8:29 am
No can become NOW if you take the W from Wait. Sometimes we ask for an answer or we look for direction and we don’t get it immediately. I don’t know about you but I used to take that as a No! I would think ok maybe I’m not meant to do that thing. I would think that the dream and a desire that I had was just something of my imagination which was more like a fantasy that doesn’t come true. Well… getting a NO sometimes, would crush my dreams until I realised something… Sometimes the No wasn’t a…
February 10, 2017 6:37 am
Be grateful for life and find reasons to be joyful. I always like to end the words to inspire week with something about doing something for ourselves and being happy. I used to find that I needed constant reminders of that. We spend all week helping others in some way we then continue to put ourselves at the bottom of the heap. This often resulted in me being quite miserable. One way that got me out of that state was remembering how grateful I am for life itself and acknowledging that I have the ability to bring joy to myself….
February 9, 2017 6:43 am
If you want different results try to do something different. Sometimes we have the habit of complaining about what isn’t right but at the same time we’re not prepared to do something different. We want a situation to have a different outcome but we’re still doing the same thing as we’ve always done hoping everything else will make a change and fix up. Or we are not prepared to step out of our comfort zones and we wonder why things in our lives are stagnant. The picture attached is one of my favourites. The photographer asked me whether I could…
February 8, 2017 5:46 am
Don’t ignore the beauty around you. I know I used to do this a lot and in life it’s very easy to do. We get so caught up in our circumstances and what isn’t great that we miss the beautiful things around us. When the photographer took the photo, I was like wow. I have been to that location hundreds of times but never seen it look so beautiful. The thing is, it was probably always there like that but because I have always been on a mission when I have walked passed I must have missed it. Lots of…
February 7, 2017 6:05 am
At one of my jobs, I work with 7 and 8 year olds. They love music so to help them focus I often play background music while they are working. One of them is into the movie Frozen and everything about it so if I need to draw that child in more I play the song, “Let it go.” It works like magic. To them it never gets old and it’s grown on me now too. I’ve actually been using the phrase on some of my work colleagues and friends when their mouths fill up with complaints or they are…
February 6, 2017 6:26 am
Look ahead, focus on the things you do well, not the things you’ve done wrong. When considering this I thought wow this is so important and then in my morning devotion I read the exact same thing in the Bible. When trying to reach a goal in life it’s not always easy and actually I believe life goals and purpose continue until we leave this earth. We’re on a journey with lots of different roads. Some people may look as they reach their destination early but perhaps what they are doing is what I read this morning: “Forgetting what is…
February 3, 2017 6:23 am
Life can be a very serious thing especially when you are an adult. We have bills to pay, we may have dependants relying on us and there are so many demands on us. However, one thing I was reminded of this week in particular was, don’t forget to have fun. Yesterday I had some of the children I work with in proper fits of laughter because I was being my usual wacky self during some of our learning times. This didn’t stop them from achieving the things I wanted them to, actually the opposite, it seemed to have an incredible…
February 2, 2017 6:37 am
One of the most important things for us to do can also be one of the hardest things too – loving ourselves first! When I had this conversation with the young people I coach, I explained that once we love ourselves it’s then easier to love others freely. Some of them understood that but it was a difficult concept for some as it’s not often something that has been programmed here. I used to give my all to everyone and that was great but I now realise I did a lot of it to fill my need to be needed….
February 1, 2017 6:24 am
Following on from yesterday, once we get rid of self doubt, we need to act. It’s all well and good to talk about changing and start believing you can do things, but if you don’t actually take action and try things out, you will still be in the same state. I know this too well. I stop doubting myself in my head and talk a good talk but then I would find reasons not to do it straight away and I would avoid it for ages, at which point the fear and doubt resurrected. Like I did with that young…