Lessons To Be Learnt This Year

Our age doesn’t matter; we all have lessons to learn in life.  Take time this year to look at the people around you and the things that are happening to you and look for what you can learn.

Be aware and open for your lessons this year.

When you take on board the lessons that are around you, it means that next time you find things will be easier for you.

If you are someone who has the same problems or difficulties as you have always had then perhaps it means you are not learning the lessons that you need to learn.

Be open to what is going on in your life, the good and the bad and look for the lessons to be learnt.

Sometimes You Need Patience for Your Dreams to Come True

I was recently told how Chinese bamboo grows.  Young Chinese bamboo is a slow-growing plant.  When you nurture and look after the bamboo, it grows two inches in the first year.

It then grows two inches in the second year, it grows two inches in the third year and two inches in the fourth year.  Then in the fifth year it grows 80 feet!

When I heard this, it reminded me of our dreams.  At times, it can feel like you are working and working and nothing happens.  Then when you are not expecting it, things change, they take off, your life moves to a whole new level.

It’s important to nurture and look after your dreams.  Every step forward is a step in the right direction.  Keep looking after your dreams.  You never know when they will take off.

Daily Decisions Decide Destiny

"Daily Decisions Decide Destiny" 

Kelli Sibbit

How very true.  Every small daily decision is working towards your destiny, your outcomes, you reaching your goals.

It can be as small as getting out of bed when the alarm rings, to what to have for breakfast, to what work to start on for the day.  The idea is that each little decision is a step on the path to your outcomes.

Every decision that you make throughout the day is important, no matter how small or large.  They are all leading to your outcomes.  Give each decision the attention it deserves.

Be the Best Version of You

“I need to stop trying to become perfect and just try to become better.”

Sasha Cohen, U.S. Figure Skater

How often do you want everything to be just right?  To be the best?  To excel?  While they are all good aims, sometimes aiming for perfection stops you from even starting.  Why not just aim to take action, learn, improve and get better?

A mentor of mine often spoke about how she aims for 80% and above.  That she deliberately makes mistakes in what she does to teach others – her message is that it’s all about taking action and not being perfect!  She has an extremely successful business so that is when I decided it was time to drop aiming for perfection and just focus on taking action - no longer waiting for the ducks to all line up – no longer waiting for everything to be perfect.

The difference this one step made to me, my life and my results is amazing.  Think about where you have been chasing perfection.  Change your focus from perfection to daily improvement.

*Photo courtesy of Figure Skaters Online

Abandon Fear This Year

Fear of what might happen is a waste of time and energy. If the thing you are worrying about doesn’t happen, you have wasted all that time and energy for nothing.

Take a moment to think about what it is you fear. Now think about what is the worst thing that could happen. Is it really likely to happen? Is there something you could learn from it if it did happen?

What things did you used to fear? I was walking to school with my daughters today, aged 11 and 8, and we were talking about how we used to fear monsters under our bed when we were young.

Now we are more mature, we know that our fear and the energy we put into it was wasted time and energy.

Think about some other things in the past that you may have feared and how do you feel about them now?

Fear can stop you from trying new things.

A great way to overcome fear is to imagine yourself after you have done it. How do you feel now that you have tackled and overcome your fear?

This way, you get to visualise yourself doing whatever it was you are afraid of. You also get to feel all the emotions of success.