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!