You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.
Jan Glidewell

Keep Going!

Do you know when you just want to give up, throw in the towel and call it a day? When all your efforts seem to be going no place fast or so slowly you can't equate your efforts to the results?

Keep Going!

Even though it is the most challenging of circumstances, that sense of putting in all the hours without a shift occurring, keep going. The shift is happening; you just can't see it yet. The universe is busy doing its thing and it needs you to remain positive and in action. 

Too many people let go of their dreams just before the dream is about to explode into life. Why? Because they aren't seeing the results they expected in their time frame. The vision starts to blur and the only feeling left is that of time having been wasted. 

The truth is when you commit to a goal, a dream, it is imperative that you press on in faith. The path may change, the steps you need to take may alter but if your heart is in the dream you must dig deep to keep going and see it fulfilled.

If there were no challenges, no moments of doubt, it would all be too easy. But in truth would you really learn the breadth and depth of lessons you do when you have to confront difficulties? Would you truly experience your full potential in solving issues? One of the basic human needs is to grow and the challenges you face certainly provide you with room for that!

So if you are in a place right now where things seem difficult and you doubt the possibilities, refocus on the dream; feel it, see it, taste it and live it. Bring your goal to life in colour and become a solution focused person.

And you know what? When you reach your goal, not only will you be able to celebrate the achievement, you will also realise that every step was put in place to make you the stronger more enlightened person you are...

Live Blissfully

YvonneB

One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us.
Michael Cibenko

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill

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The Gift of Life...

Okay, I'm a little late on the blog this week but with very good reason!

As a confidence and life planning specialist most of my time is spent working with wonderful women who have made a decision to change their life, to create the life they truly desire so that they can be role models to their children, to other women and at the other end of the scale, know that when they leave this world they will leave it empty... empty because they will have lived their dream not died with it locked deep inside them. They will have used their gift of life...

This weekend I was given the opportunity to experience the gift of life up close and personal. My very dear friend Chelle and her partner Mark invited me to be with them at the birth of their child; an honour along with being asked to be the godmother! I remembered the birth-day of my own son, the joy and feelings of love that overwhelmed me, the amazement of having been able to create a new life. Of course I didn't get to see him 'being born' so this was going to be a different experience, another take on the gift of life.


A few things really hit me whilst watching the actual child birth; for those of us that have or want children there is this burning desire to see our new born, fit and healthy and we want more than ever to shower this new life with love, unconditional love. I heard it repeatedly during my friend's labour both with her partner and the midwife. There was little if any concern for her own well being, her pain, just the safe arrival of her baby... it meant so much more to her.

This led me to think about the changes that often follow. As our children grow up we start telling them to meet our expectations and too often spend time highlighting their shortfalls instead of glorying in their achievements and encouraging them. Long forgotten is the pure joy of them coming into existence. Granted there is a need to instill good behaviour, respect and manners into their growth but what about the joy of simply appreciating that they were born at all?

So I took away a healthy dose of reminders to self:

• My child is special and precious, not just in the moment of his child birth and youth but everyday of his adult life
• My unconditional love for him represents an appreciation of his life being a gift - it doesn't represent lack of boundaries or accepting poor behaviour
• The importance of celebrating his achievements, big, small and everything in-between
• Saying 'I love you'... daily 
• Giving a hug of gratitude that reminds him I am thankful he is here in the now

What will you do to show your child they are a gift of life?

Live Blissfully

YvonneB

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