Move towards joy!

Move towards joy!

Know that it is FINE to have this approach in life. Move towards those things that bring you happiness, love, smiles and laughter. These feelings are precious and do wanders for our entire well being. It can be forgotten by us in an instant when we continue to allow our conscious mind to feed us with the ifs and buts and the stories and the legacy's.

If you need an answer to what to do next and feeling a little stuck from something troubling your mind moving towards joy could be it!

This was a statement someone said to me at a time I needed guidance. I needed someone to just look me in the eye and tell me to move on, that all I could do now was find my joy. It may work for you too.

A reminder for my fellow teachers...

Enjoy your life. Live it!

This is dedicated to all my fellow teachers out there. 

It can be easy to forget that YOU matter too. You focus on others all day and having to take work home means it never really ends. You may find yourself at home feeling like you have been depleted of all your energy and feel like there isn't much space for anything else. 

Whatever you feel about teaching/working know that it is YOUR life. Life has many aspects to it, do not lose your focus on creating a life that, yes includes a career but most importantly includes happiness and good health. You know what will make you happy. Focus on that. 

Teaching duties will never end so you have to make it work for you. Make sure you set time to do other things you love. Live your life and make sure you do not sacrifice the happy, soulful individual that you are.

I have been there. Have a fabulous weekend!

Praise your achievements!

Praise your achievements! Do not doubt them.

You have made achievements and succeeded and yet you do not see this. Recognise them and acknowledge how far you have come. Once you have digested this go grab some more! 

Doubt will always try and take that sense of accomplishment from you. When it does tell it where to go and use the 'but I could still do this or that...' as inspiration to go do more.  

Reach for your own success

Reach for your own success everyday. Soon you won't be able to stop yourself!

Something great happens when you set yourself on your true path. You begin to crave for what you know works. Remember to look out for the small successes because they will lead you to the bigger ones. 

Praise!

'Praising others will not make you any less skillful,

beautiful or intelligent. Letting ego get in the way will 

limit you!

Spread some love'

Hanging with 'Me'!

When you have time to contemplate and free yourself from pressure, tiredness and stress you allow creativity to flow, ideas start to come to you and you realise that when you give yourself the love and attention it needs you gain more.

Hanging with 'Me' in London #1 and #2:

So the pics show breakfast for one in the wonderful Beyond Retro cafe in my home town Hackney, I then had a meeting in London Bridge and discovered a cool pink chair that had HLC written all over it. I walked down towards St Pauls, went to One New Change shopping center rooftop to meditate a little...ahhh London in the morning is great! 

...I had lunch at #Pho, love the food there. Walked towards the #tate and went into the free #banksidegallery. Went to #waterloo had a frozen yogurt from #snog (loved the van!) and came across what I can only describe as inspirational. 

It was a series of photographs by Carol Allen Storey of the Amahoro generation in #Rwanda who speak of the genocide. What was inspirational was that even those who have watched their own families die or even if their fathers were perpetrators of this violence, with the help of International Alert with their peace building project these young people have a new sense of hope and peace for the future. Amazing work! Go and see this!

This is an example of a better way...without this hope what might these young people be doing or thinking?

Make sure you take some time out! Have a great weekend!

Hope for another way

I hope we are always reminded of another way to live our lives. 

If we give in to social, work or family pressure then we can never create a better life. If we never speak up no one will know what is and isn't working. There is no need for any more silence. There is no need to just shrug our shoulders and tell others that is just the way. There can be and must be another way. Even though some things can seem certain and fixed when you see something to be unfair and against your own principles then have no fear, be true to yourself and say it how it is.