Live in the moment.

"Carpe Diem! Seize the day!" Written in 23BC, by a Roman poet named Horace.

2012 years later the phrase was made famous again by an English Professor played by Robin William in Dead Poet’s Society.

 
This day is all we have. We make ALL our decisions in the NOW.

  

Will the decisions we make TODAY lead us to better health, prosperity, more time to do the things we want to do with our precious time?

  

Or will they keep us exactly where we are..... (or even leave us worse off than we were yesterday).

Logic agrees – the past is simply an accumulation of our present-moments (NOW’s).

And the past is over….. done with. Moving right along.

  

It's what we do RIGHT NOW that can get us into our groove.

Success at anything…..ANYTHING…..is about recognising your goal as a DESTINATION, claiming it as YOURS and then making a commitment to small and constant improvements until you’ve developed and accumulated skills which allow you to simply reach out and grab it.

 

It's time to blog again.......

Sunday always seems to be a day that I wake up and my mind tends to work overtime.  Maybe, just the reflection on the week that was or maybe, the excitement of the week that is coming.... 

So, I came across this little quote... of course it caught my eye because it was such a pretty pink, then the words sunk in and made me think!!! And, yes I do think sometimes!!!!!

My volume in the divine book has had so many different paths.  It has taken me from major downs to extreme highs.  As I sit and reflect, it dawns on me that yes, I created a mirror, and wow do I have so much power that the universe actually knows I exist????  So many questions out there and so many decisions to be made.  

Time to sit, setup a master plan, and more importantly, once that plan is on paper, to follow it step by step.  I am now realizing if you don't see it you cannot believe it and then you will never achieve it....

Our time is our life

I was sent this article via email.  It is quite profound how messages come to you when you need them most.  I read so many articles everyday and mostly do not have any kind of reaction.  But this one made me sit quite still and read it over a few times before it sank in.  It is strange how we get caught up in our everyday lives, so many hours spent working and making a living, do we forget what it is all about in the end.  Now, do not get me wrong, I understand that while we are on earth we need to make ourselves comfortable and ensure we leave a heritage for our children, but, how much do we actually give of ourselves so that we can go to our forever sleep with a clear conscience, when we lay our heads down do we know that our wealth is more than just worldly goods.  Just a thought.... have an awesome Thriday!!!!  (thanks for that word Vix)...

  The last wishes of Alexander the Great:

On his death bed, Alexander summoned his generals and told them his three
ultimate wishes:

1.  The best doctors should carry his coffin;
2.  The wealth he has accumulated (money, gold, precious stones) should
be scattered along the procession to the cemetery, and
3.  His hands should be let loose, hanging outside the coffin for all to
see.

One of his generals who was surprised by these unusual requests asked
Alexander to explain.

Here is what Alexander the Great had to say:

1.  I want the best doctors to carry my coffin to demonstrate that, in the
face of death, even the best doctors in the world have no power to heal
2.  I want the road to be covered with my treasure so that everybody sees
that material wealth acquired on earth, stays on earth
3.  I want my hands to swing in the wind, so that people understand that
we come to this world empty handed and we leave this world empty handed
after the most precious treasure of all is exhausted, and that is TIME.
TIME is our most precious treasure because it is LIMITED.  We can produce more wealth, but we cannot produce more time.
When we give someone our time, we actually give a portion of our life that we will never take back.

Our time is our life.
 

May God grant you plenty of TIME and may you have the wisdom to give it away so that you can LIVE & LOVE in peace.

Heading in the right direction!

I have been sick, I got up too late, I don't have time, I am too tired, Nobody is giving me a break..... blah blah blah..... 

excuses excuses..... 

NO MORE...... 

Some of those words came out of my mouth during the last couple of weeks, making excuses and losing my reason.  So Friday, of all days, I did what I needed to do, got rid of all the things I get up to in a day that are non-productive.  I amazed myself at the number of excuses I had every single day.  Little things that once lumped together were taking up 3 quarters of my day. 

My number 1 change, is getting up every morning and first and foremost signing into my Robin Sharma programme.  It is called the 30 day life upgrade.  This morning the lesson was so apt to the way I was feeling above, and needed to share it and shout it from my social media platform...

We too often use our circumstances and social standing as an excuse to avoid moving forward, my question today as you read through the amazing lesson from Robin Sharma below is this: why don't you use your circumstance and social standing as a REASON rather than an EXCUSE to set goals and achieve them one step at a time, tip toeing if you have to..... but, no matter how small, take that first step.....

We have 40 million reasons for failure and not a single excuse, Ridyard Kipling...

Your life, professionally and personally comes down to your choices and taking personal responsibility for what you don't like.  World class people don't make excuses, sure they make mistakes, making mistakes is how you learn, how you grow, but they always learn from those mistakes, they don't keep on repeating them.  They keep on moving forward.  So today as you go forward and build a world class life, don't make excuses, learn from life.  Take responsibility, or APR, Absolute personal responsibility for the way your life looks.  And if there is an area that you don't like, ask yourself what have I done to create this, and then set about changing it.  You might just have a lot more power than you give yourself credit for.

Give a little bit.....

This morning while I was doing a little bit of personal development and looking for inspiration to go forward today, I started by opening up my Facebook page to see what I could find.  As I belong to a few inspirational groups I normally find something out of the thousands of posts.  But, this morning it seemed as if everybody was on the same path.  All the posts were whispering the same message.

You see, we get so busy living our lives, fighting for our dreams and striving to be the best 'me' we can be while we build up our teams and grow our business. We tend to overlook the most important part of all of this. 

So today my attitude changes completely. Today I need to focus on what is happening around me and take inspiration from my fellow human beings.  Just changing the words that come to mind before I speak them:

 http://www.wimp.com/powerwords/ 

With eyes wide open today, have an amazing Saturday!!!!!

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