There Is Always A Way

 There Is Always A Way

“Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless”.

Nothing is impossible!

When we sit down and think about things, especially something we really want, most things are possible.

There is always a way!

Especially when we Believe in Ourselves and our own Abilities.

Have you ever just sat down and ‘imagined’ a scene that you would love to be a part of?

By using our imagination (in this way), we soon come to realise that all things are possible.

That teaching career. To become a nurse. To get married. That very highly qualified job. The list is limitless, just like our imagination is

Also, have Trust and Confidence in Yourself.

LIVE AND LOVE LIFE!

What About You And I?

 What About You And I?

“You can see many smiles every day, but you can never know whose world is actually upside down”.

“Keep Smiling!”

When we go out first thing in the morning to work or college or even shopping, everyone of us smiles and says: “Hello”, when we meet other people, whether we know them or whether they are total strangers.

The truth is, none of us know what the other is ‘going through’.

The lady at the bus stop may have just lost her mother to cancer but she smiles on her way to the funeral parlour. 

The gentleman on the train may have just been made redundant from his place of work, and is so worried about how he will support his family, but his “smile still stays on” (as the song goes).

What about you and I?

LIVE AND LOVE LIFE!

Never Forget Your Needs

 Never Forget Your Needs

“Be there for others, but never leave yourself behind”.

We have all done this!

We’ve been so busy helping other people and ‘being there for them’, that we have completely forgotten about ourselves and our personal needs.

Don’t get me wrong, it is very commendable to always be thinking of ways to help our loved ones, and ‘put these into practice’.

It is also a good example for the younger generation to follow.

However, all of this will be of no use if you are ‘on your last legs’, with no food in the fridge and you still haven’t done your own washing.

These are very practical things that need doing, and with good planning, can be achieved.

Your friends and loved ones want to see you happy and healthy, so never forget about your personal needs.

LIVE AND LOVE LIFE!

Inspire, Encourage, Support

 Inspire, Encourage, Support

“Success isn’t just about what you accomplish in your life. It’s about what you inspire others to do”.

We are surrounded by people.

Whether we live on our own or with others, there is always someone in our life — a health professional, work colleagues, student friends and / or family loved ones.

What ‘example’ do we show them?

How do they ‘feel’ when they are with us and when they leave us?

How do we Inspire them?

We always appreciate a smile and a few Positive words from others, so why not ‘mirror’ that, and then others will always be pleased to see us.

Another word for Inspire is Encourage, and to Encourage means to Support, all of these words are Positive.

Let’s ‘give back’ by being Positive in Supporting others.

LIVE AND LOVE LIFE!

The Gratitude Journal

 The Gratitude Journal

“Bring your mind back to how blessed you already are. There’s always something to be grateful for”.

When you are starting to feel depressed and negative thoughts start to creep into your mind, open your Gratitude journal and have a look at what has made you grateful in the last few days.

The negative will soon be pushed out by the Positive.

If you don’t have a Gratitude journal, why not get one? A notebook you write in every day, committing to paper the “good” things that have appeared in your life that day.

We just have to ‘open our eyes’ and see or look for these good things.

Sit down, close your eyes and use your mind’s eye to put these Positive memories into your mind.

You’ll be surprised at how much there is to be Grateful for!

LIVE AND LOVE LIFE!

Appreciate Life Today

 Appreciate Life Today

“Don’t ever save anything for a special occasion. Being alive is the special occasion”.

“I’ll do that tomorrow” and tomorrow never comes. How many times have we said this ourselves?

We work so hard, saving money (if we’re able to), making sure everything is ‘perfect’ for tomorrow, that we totally forget about today and miss so many “special memories” that are happening now.

It is so true — “being alive is the special occasion”!

When someone has had a terrible accident, which could have been fatal, he or she appreciates life ‘today’ and treasures every hour of life they have.

Being alive every day really is their special occasion.

Let’s learn to Appreciate life today (before any accident happens).

LIVE AND LOVE LIFE!

Train Yourself

 Train Yourself

“When a negative thought enters your mind, think of three positive ones. Train yourself to flip the script”.

This takes practice!

When we sit down for 10 minutes, every day, and write in our Gratitude journal all the things that we are grateful for, this will eventually become a part of our daily routine, and Positive thinking will come to the ‘front’ of our minds.

We need to build ourselves up Mentally to help “Protect” our Mental Health.

And our Mental Health is so Important!

This will also help to fight off depression, which can destroy someone’s mind.

Watching Positive documentaries, looking at and reading Positive books, and talking about Positive things, will definitely “flip that switch”.

LIVE AND LOVE LIFE!

Respect + Love => Peace

 Respect + Love => Peace

“Respect is one of the greatest expressions of love”.

The word Respect means: “a feeling of deep admiration for someone” or “due regard for the feelings of others”.

The word Love means: “an intense feeling of deep affection for someone” or “to like or enjoy something”.

Put the two together and life will be very Peaceful and Happy.

Even as we ourselves expect, and indeed, deserve Respect, so does every person living on this Earth.

We know the expression: “to treat others as we want to be treated”, and if everyone ‘practiced’ this, we would live in a much more Peaceful world.

When we are in a relationship with someone, do they show they Love you by Respecting you?

Do you show you Love him / her by Respecting them?

LIVE AND LOVE LIFE!

There's Nothing Wrong With Us

 There’s Nothing Wrong With Us

“When a flower doesn’t bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower”.

“There’s nothing wrong with her, we just need to get her away from that bad environment!” Have you heard of this ‘expression’ before?

We always want the best for our children, and we want to keep them safe by keeping him / her away from bad things.

What about us?

Sometimes we may find ourselves in a ‘bad’ environment which may be causing us harm, either mentally or even physically, and we need to ‘change’ the environment.

There’s nothing wrong with us and we need to keep it that way, by making sure that the ‘environment’ doesn’t damage us.

We need and want to be in a situation where we can grow as a person, and develop our skills in life.

LIVE AND LOVE LIFE!

It Is Our Privilege

 It Is Our Privilege

“Our parents were patient when we were young, now it’s our time to be patient during their old age”.

Have you ever had the privilege of caring for your mother and / or father?

Possibly one or both became ill and needed more care than usual, because they just couldn’t care for themselves anymore.

This is a change in routine and in our mindset.

Being Determined to look after our parents (when the time comes) helps us to ‘know what to do’ when they really do need our help.

Think about all of the things they did for us — making sure that we were well-fed, clean and warm, sitting up with us when we were ill, praising our successes — without them, we wouldn’t be here!

Yes, it is a real Privilege and one which can and does give us good memories to look back on.

LIVE AND LOVE LIFE!

What Are you thinking About?

 What are You Thinking About?

“If you don’t leave your past in the past, it will destroy your future. Live for what today has to offer, not what yesterday has taken away”.

This is a very true saying.

It is hard, when we have come out of a difficult situation, to not let ‘it’ ruin (or indeed run) our lives.

It is at this time that we need to open our ‘eyes’ to the good that is out there, surrounding us, and to accept it and embrace it.

The past is limited because it has gone, never to come back, but the future is full of possibilities to improve our minds and our lives.

The “Today” is full of choices and we need to make the choice that will Improve and Strengthen our minds and our lives. 

Remember, it all starts with how we think and what we “allow” ourselves to think about.

LIVE AND LOVE LIFE!

Good, Happy And Positive

 Good, Happy And Positive

“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new”.

Putting all of our energy into the Positive leaves no room at all for the negative.

If we want a much Happier life, it is up to us to put the right energy into changing our life.

Don’t waste that energy by fighting something in your past, especially mentally. Let go of the past to clear your mind for the Positive future you really want and deserve.

The more we fill our minds and lives with Good, Happier and Positive ‘realities’, the more our lives will move towards that more Stable future.

In this way, we will not be allowing the negative to come into our lives, but will be building towards a Strong future.

LIVE AND LOVE LIFE!

"Believe"

 “Believe”

“Believe in yourself and you will be unstoppable”

The word “Believe” means: “to accept that (something) is true or to hold (something) as an opinion”.

In other words => never doubt yourself!

We have little trouble believing other people, so why do we not believe in ourselves?

Only ‘we’ got ourselves this far in life, so we should Trust ourselves, and have Faith that we will go further in our lives.

In this way, we will be unstoppable.

By not letting anyone put us down, or allowing them to make us doubt our own abilities, we will become Stronger in ourselves and our own abilities.

And then no one will be able to stop us.

LIVE AND LOVE LIFE!

Let's Appreciate That Sun

 Let’s Appreciate That Sun

“Be someone’s sunshine when their skies are grey”

A good way to cheer yourself up is to go and cheer someone else up.

We appreciate it when a friend or loved one tries to help us when we are feeling low, so why not try to ‘give back’ some of that cheerfulness.

This is also good for our mental health too, because we feel ‘good’ when we help others.

This also takes our minds off of our own troubles, putting our thoughts onto a more Positive level — which is always Good.

We all appreciate the sun coming out after a dark storm, so let’s be that ‘sun’ when we know someone is or see someone sad.

This could apply to the person we got on the same bus or train with, a gentle smile and: “Hello” can make all the difference to that person’s day.

LIVE AND LOVE LIFE!

We Should Respect This

 We Should Respect This

“You have to do what is right for you. No one walks in your shoes”.

We are all different!

Every single one of us has our own reasons for living in a particular way.

And we should Respect this!

We all have our own experiences in life which determine how and why we do a certain thing or live in a certain way.

If it's not harming anyone, why should we question it?

Only we know why, only we can understand, and (sometimes) only we will ever know.

All of this shows that we are all individuals, with our own personalities and our own ways.

Again, we should Respect this!

We all live on this Earth and we want to live in Peace, so let’s do this in a Respectful way.

And the Earth is a beautiful planet just like you are a beautiful person.

LIVE AND LOVE LIFE!

Yours Is The Only One That Matters

 Yours Is The Only One That Matters

“If it makes you happy, no one else’s opinion should matter”.

This is a good way to show others that we own our own minds and lives.

We need to do things that make us personally happy because of the effect this has on our mental health.

And we must look after our mental health.

Our mental health is vital for our physical health.

So, whatever makes you personally happy, do it and don’t give anyone else’s opinion a thought. If they were a real friend, he or she would be happy that you are happy.

Why not make a list of all the things that make you happy and tick off as you do each one, and you’ll be smiling in no time.

Remember, your opinion is the only one that matters!

LIVE AND LOVE LIFE!

The Right Mental Attitude

 The Right Mental Attitude

“Go to bed knowing you did the best you could”

Let your best be Positive and Strong.

We have busy lives and, because of this, we don’t always remember to put that effort into being Positive. The day just goes by and before we know it, we’re in bed and ready to go to sleep.

What do you think of just before you go to sleep?

Thinking of something Positive before going to sleep means that you will wake up (hopefully) with that Positive thought in your head, which will help to set you up to have a Positive day.

Will we do our “Best” today?

How has what we did today affected us?

With the right mental attitude we will do our best, which will give us the Confidence also to accept who we are.

LIVE AND LOVE LIFE!

"Make It Happen"

 “Make It Happen”

“Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen”.

Which do you want?

To just dream all day and have nothing ‘in your hand’?

Or to get up and make that dream a reality?

The hard work will be worth it and will give you a real sense of accomplishment.

Which will make you Proud of yourself?

We may need to study ‘for our dream’.

We may need to adopt a different schedule (for a short while) in order to ‘see’ our dream.

The beauty of today is that, no matter what circumstance we find ourselves in, most ‘dreams’ can be achieved and come true.

You just need to Believe In Yourself!

LIVE AND LOVE LIFE!

Colourful And Musical

 Colourful And Musical

“Look for something positive in each day, even if some days you have to look a little harder”.

There is always something good to see in (almost) everything.

We just need to ‘open our eyes’ and look for it or see it.

Waking up with the mental attitude that we Will see something Positive that day will Encourage us to ‘look for it’.

Thinking in a Positive way will also help us.

For example: we live on a beautiful planet which is full of life, colourful and musical.

This is Positive.

Listen when the birds sing during the Dawn Chorus.

Stroke your neighbours cat as you go to work or college.

Cuddle your loved one when you take his or her shopping to them.

All of these are Positive things.

LIVE AND LOVE LIFE!

Move Forward

 Move Forward

“Don’t stress about the closed doors behind you. New doors are opening if you keep moving forward”.

I really like this quote.

It’s encouraging us not to dwell on the past, which we cannot change, and to look forwards to the future: “New doors are opening”.

However, to do this, we must “keep moving forward”.

It comes down to our Mental Attitude.

To dwell on the past ‘can’ be a negative thing.

To move forward to the ‘new doors opening’ is a Positive way of looking at life.

What type of person do we want to be?

A negative person or a Positive person?

To be a Positive person is much better for us Mentally and Physically.

LIVE AND LOVE LIFE!