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Knock on new doors

24 Friday Mar 2017

Posted by in Advice, Change, Fear, Life journey, Success

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Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if I had done things different.
How different would my life be if I had said yes instead of no or no instead of yes.  What could have happened if I had taken a different career path?

Even the smallest decisions can push your life on a different path.
Meeting someone randomly, being in the right place at the right time, being in the wrong place in the wrong time, choosing to stay home, taking a different route…
Everything has potential consequences – and they could potentially be life altering ones.

You can’t drive yourself crazy with could haves and would haves and what ifs.  There is no way that we could ever know if things were meant to happen because of fate or by pure chance.  And we definitely have no idea about the consequences that our actions in the present are going to have on our future.
But you do have the ability to knock on new doors and to expose yourself to experiences that maybe you wouldn’t have tried before if you are open to the fact that every thing that you do could be an opportunity.  Don’t let fears from past experiences stop you from creating new opportunities.
Don’t be afraid to try new things, meet new people and step out of your comfort zone.
Be prepared to kick that door down and shout out “Life! Here I am!”

Beating down your own path

12 Thursday Dec 2013

Posted by in Attitude, Being brave, Creativity, Freedom

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I stumbled on this quote the other day when I was looking for something suitable to put in my son’s barmitzvah invitation:

“The future belongs to the curious.  The ones who are not afraid to try it, explore it, poke at it, question it and turn it inside out”

I love this quote because it is so appropriate for my son who always questions things and wants to understand things before just doing anything.  He is not afraid to stand up and voice his opinion or to go “against the crowd”.  But the quote also resonates so strongly with me.
In fact, I think that most people reading this will identify strongly with it.  Otherwise, you wouldn’t be reading this, you would probably prefer reading some random financial blog. (If you do, please let me know.)
That is because most of you are thinkers and believers, you are willing to push boundaries and think out of the box.

The problem is that we are frequently told how to behave, and what to think.  Who we should be and where we should be going.  But none of us are going there on a lovely straight and uncomplicated path.  We are going on a crazy, convoluted, sometimes uncomfortable journey of discovery.
As long as you are open to the idea of learning and discovering in order to keep growing, every single step that you take, whether it be on the right path or the wrong; forward or backwards, will be the perfect path for you.

Time waits for nobody

14 Thursday Mar 2013

Posted by in Attitude, Coping skills, Life journey, Positivity

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Does it ever feel like you are never going to get through the day? Or that you are never going to cope with what life is throwing at you at the moment?
Time is an amazing thing though, it passes whether you like it or not.  And like the late, great Freddy Mercury said, “Time waits for nobody”.
Sometimes time seems to speed by and other times it goes too slowly. That perception is all a reflection of what you are going through at the time.
When I look at my baby and realise that he is almost 10 years old, it is difficult to imagine where that time went.  Yet when he really was a baby, those endless sleepless nights seemed to last a lifetime.

The thing is that no matter how difficult your life seems to be at the moment, this too shall pass.  I know that sometimes you can’t even start to imagine ever feeling happy again, or ever coping again.
But you will!
How do I know that you will?
Because everybody gets better, everybody eventually copes.
Don’t worry about the how or the why or the when.
Allow yourself to be in the moment.  To say that right now I don’t feel like I am managing but I know that this is not going to be forever. And it is OK not to be OK because not being OK is not going to be forever.
And when you are happy again, and content with your life, please don’t worry about when that will pass.
Just be, just let life take you on the journey that it is meant to take you on.
For most of us, that journey is going to be one big, scary rollercoaster ride. But if we are it, we might as well ride it!
Let’s do it!