I’ve been an avid fan of Barbara Winter, author of Joyfully Jobless, since I was introduced to her blog over 2 years ago. She writes the most encouraging & sensible monthly emails – she is someone who inspires me, especially since I’ve chosen for over 3 years now not to have a boss (apart from me, that is!).
In her recent email, she wrote about how we often fear change, thinking [...]
12. July 2010
I’ve just been on an amazing weekend seminar here in the UK, called “The isa Experience” (http://www.isaexperience.com/). It helped me begin to see that I truly have SO many choices in my life, and that many things I have learned – habitual “how to’s” and ways of thinking – just don’t benefit me any more.
The over-riding theme behind The Experience is that we can consciously decide to be happy, without that happiness being impacted by events and people over which we have absolutely no control.
And that doesn’t mean being unthinkingly happy (i.e. with a smile plastered in your face, regardless) but being consciously happy… as this video also explains: [...]
7. June 2010
A friend sent me a link to this video earlier today, knowing how I LOVE cute animals… and it made me think about some life lessons too…
What I got from this video (apart from loads of smiles):
It reminds me that we all start from a place of not knowing, & can learn & do amazing stuff
24. May 2010
Hi everyone,
I know loads of people say that social media interferes with work too much – but when I see a blog post like this, it’s absolutely worth it!! http://voiceoftheanimals.org.uk/shake-your-tail-feathers/
Here is the video again: I was crying with laughter 
Have an amazing week!
23. May 2010
I found this video quite by chance a couple of days ago, and on each watching of it, am struck more & more by the awesomeness of our universe, and by the imagination of humans to be able to FIND such distant galaxies. Towards the end I get a lump in my throat (I guess [...]
12. May 2010
One of my regular newsletters had this paragraph in it this morning: “The first step in our journey of deeper authenticity and freedom is telling the truth about what gets in our way. By getting real about this in an honest, vulnerable, and compassionate way, we gain access to a deeper level of truth.” The [...]
23. April 2010
A friend forwarded on a great email this morning, on the topic of fear – and how it can impact out lives. I’m not going to reproduce it all here, but there were 2 paragraphs that really resonated :
21. April 2010
The Universe is guiding me to read/listen to Jim Rohn – I received yet another email with a very interesting quotation from him, this morning:
14. April 2010
(by Jim Rohn) “The problem with waiting until tomorrow is that when it finally arrives, it is called today. Today is yesterday’s tomorrow. The question is what did we do with its opportunity? All too often we will waste tomorrow as we wasted yesterday, and as we are wasting today. All that could have been [...]
13. April 2010
A boat docked in a tiny Mexican village. An American tourist complimented the Mexican fisherman on the quality of his fish and asked how long it took him to catch them. “Not very long,” answered the Mexican. “But then, why didn’t you stay out longer and catch more?” asked the American. The Mexican explained that [...]
11. April 2010
Earlier I was reading an email from a friend, in which he told me about a personal growth weekend he’d been on. He wrote: ” it struck me that that was the week-end when I fell back in love with my life….“. I got goosebumps when I read that – what an incredibly powerful statement [...]
25. March 2010
“… if we “act as if” we already have something we want, “act as if” something is already occurring in our lives (even if it’s not), or “act as if” we know how to do something (even if we don’t) – we create the conditions for it to manifest in our life with greater easy [...]
12. March 2010
This inspiring video was sent to me by a friend, the day after I had an amazing experience of letting go of some debilitating old emotions – this video seems to reaffirm that we’re all on the path to greater emotional clarity and freedom. Enjoy it
1. March 2010
I read an email forwarded on to me today, with some interesting thoughts on stress. Here are a couple of paragraphs: “Some people consider crawling along in traffic an opportunity to listen to their favorite music or relax and do their best thinking. For others, traffic is a nightmare that will ruin their entire day. [...]
23. February 2010
i thank you God for most this amazing e.e. cummings i thank You God for most this amazing day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes (i who have died am alive again today, and this is the [...]
11. February 2010
“Smile, going back to a moment when you felt truly happy and content. Bring that feeling up into your whole body and then use this same smile to smile at yourself. You can choose an area that is giving you trouble: is it your digestion, your back or your shoulder? It could be used step [...]
2. February 2010
These lovely thoughts are written by the sister-in-law of a friend… “I often think that the people we have loved, And those who have loved us, Not only make us more human, But also become part of us. We carry them around all the time Whether we see them or not. In the same way, [...]
29. January 2010
To all my readers : I have added a new Subscription box …. over there … on the right … So sign up, and you’ll get a weekly email if there are new posts. Have a beautiful day! Tracey
29. January 2010
One of my favourite online writers is Chris Guillebeau, whose blog is the Art Of Non Conformity. I’ve just read his recent article “A short collection of unconventional ideas“, which I found inspiring! Far too many of us have, over the years, done things just because we’ve learned that we “should” do them : have [...]
13. January 2010
Many of you will know the Serenity Prayer… but here’s a different version of it that made me laugh! THE SENILITY PRAYER : Grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway,
28. August 2010
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