Shake it off and Step Up

A story is told of a farmer who owned an old mule. The mule fell into the farmer's well. The farmer heard the mule 'braying' -- or whatever mules do when they fall into wells. After carefully assessing the situation, the farmer felt sorry for the mule, but decided that neither the mule nor the well was worth saving. Instead, he called his neighbors together and told them what had happened and asked them to help haul dirt to bury the old mule in the well and put him out of his misery.

Initially, the old mule was hysterical! But as the farmer and his neighbors continued shoveling and the dirt hit his back, a thought struck him. It suddenly dawned on him that every time a shovel load of dirt landed on his back: he should shake it off and step up! This is what the old mule did, blow after blow. "Shake it off and step up... shake it off and step up... shake it off and step up!" he repeated to encourage himself.

Reflection:

No matter how painful the blows, or distressing the situation seemed, the old mule fought "panic" and just kept right on shaking it off and stepping up! You guessed it! It wasn't long before the old mule, battered and exhausted, stepped triumphantly over the wall of that well! What seemed like it would bury him, actually end up blessing him. All because of the manner in which he handled his adversity.

May you have an incredible week of unlimited opportunities, if anything pulls you down, just ‘Shake it off and step up’ as a hindering moment is a blessing dressed in disguise, only revealing itself once you avoid panic.

Darren Zwiers

A champion is someone who gets up, even when he can't!

 

The Fence

There once was a little boy who had a bad temper. His father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, he must hammer a nail into the fence. The first day the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence. Over the next few weeks as he learned to control his anger, the number of nails hammered daily, gradually dwindled down. He discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into the fence.

Finally the day came when the boy didn't lose his temper at all. He told his father about it and the father suggested that the boy now pull out one nail for each day that he was able to hold his temper. The days passed and the young boy was finally able to tell his father that all the nails were gone.

The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence. He said "you have done well, my son, but look at the holes in the fence. The fence will never be the same. When you say things in anger, they leave a scar just like this one." You can put a knife in a man and draw it out. It won't matter how many times you say I'm sorry, the wound is still there. Make sure you control your temper the next time you are tempted to say something you will regret later. 

Have an incredible week!

Darren Zwiers

This weeks quote...

Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...its learning to dance in the rain.

Do Not Resist Chances

Take them like vitamins.
Let go of the brakes. 
See what happens if you go five more miles. 
Footbridges be damned, find your own way across. 
Don't worry about the bumps and bruises. 
Your body can take them. 
Don't steer around the bits that scare you, go over them, go through them. 
Do something the guys in the bowling league would be terrified of. You feel your chin rise up from your chest, and you'll be able to see what's around you. 
What's ahead of you. 
And there will be one less thing you cannot do. 
JUST DO IT.

How Do You See the World?

What do you immediately see when you see the below phrase?
Do you think its time to reframe your thinking or are you on the way to success?

OPPORTUNITYISNOWHERE

Powerful Beyond Measure

I want to open this weeks article with a beautiful quote taken out of Marianne Williamson’s book “A Return To Love:”

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.”

Don’t be afraid, don’t be nervous to achieve the things you believe are right. There is no need to feel inadequate and there is ALL the need to push your potential beyond measure. Some people are afraid of not achieving their potential in this world, they are in actual fact afraid of themselves and this make them feel week, it plugs them to their comfort zone, forgetting about their greater picture.

Don’t do that! Don’t think that someone else will fulfill your destiny for you by being complacent. Your potential wants to explode, it yearns for it. you need to work hard on activating your destiny and identify your talents, the things that make you truly happy, the things that when you doing it you feel connected to the core of why you really are doing it.

You need to believe in yourself and even more important believe in the people around you. Give them the push to open up their awesome chest of treasure.

Look at your family, your friends and indulge in their dreams and passions, give them the strength to assist in their beliefs, they just need you to say “you have the potential to fulfill it... go get it”.

You were born to make manifest the glory of G-D that is within you.

It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

May you have a radiant week of complete fluffiness, may you identify your dreams, juice up your potential and satisfy your place in this magnificent world.

Forget the Monday Blues

So it has been a while since I have sat in front of a computer an taken the time to share tiny bits of inspiration with you all. I do apologise for the inconsistency. I'm back and I am about to share something with you that should make your week positively awesome...

Don't we hate the Monday blues? The weekends over and back on the grind we go, following the routine and at the beck and call of our colleagues, clients and bosses. Oh dear, we have a whole week of painful work ahead of us. The schmuck I have to see on the way to work and damn it i'm late again, darn the traffic, the tube the busses my week is a wreck already. aaaaaahhhhhh!!!!!

Here I am telling you it doesn't have to be that way, of course not otherwise what's the point of work... whew a sense of fresh air.

We spend about 80% of our adult life at work, so quite the moaning and start to embrace the reality that you as an individual are alive, awake alert and enthusiastic, every tiny contribution you make whilst working ads a large amount of the worlds positive progression. Imagine all of us stayed home for a week, things would fall apart.

Do what you do with love, do it with passion and do it the best that you could possibly do. There is nothing better in the world (besides me inspiring you) than results created out of passion and love for the game.

Forget about the negative things that occupy your mind things like ratty bosses, being underpaid, hard colleagues, painful clients, traffic, the list could go on. It's time right now to realise all these emotions are only created by yourself to sadly make you feel better, it's easy to complain, to gossip to curse and to stick your nose up. What rubbish! They make the situation worse and poison your awesome engine, limiting you from becoming a being of pure potential and talent. Think about this: without these negative emotions what would you be doing and where would you be today?

Make a point right now, today to smile at the person that irritates you most, engage in a friendly fashion with them, say hello to that random person you see everyday and see your current position as the greatest role in the world. You are truly a superhero in your own developed way. it is you who is going to make the world that much better for everyone. You are the one that's making the small differences setting an example for the ones around you spreading contagious inspiration and in turn bringing love and passion back to society.

So, I wish You a dynamic week full of all the desires and successes you deserve and may the pure essence of your ultimate existence bring you joy happiness and beauty, filling the earth with your very own signature radiant light

Positive Power: Pushed from behind

We are told that there is nothing limiting us, no force that holds us captive--other than a fiction of our imagination, an apparition of our own fears. But what then of the forces of nature, the limitations of a human body, the hard reality against which we smash while trying to walk through walls?

Yes, they are real. Often, they cannot be ignored. But they are not the brick walls they seem to be and you are not their prisoner.

Rather, they are devices to elicit the limitless powers of your soul. As you pull forward, they pull you inward, towards your deepest, strongest self.