Let's have a....

They say moment..... 

They say 'Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans.' So, if you want to enjoy life more, should you stop making plans? No. Experiences are usually richer when our days contain a little space for spontaneity. Plans, though, can be rewarding to make and enjoyable to stick to. We just have to remember that they won't always work out and that we need to be philosophical when they don't.

If your plans are unravelling a little. Don't worry. Just reweave the threads.

The hardest battle you are ever going to have to fight is the battle to be just you.   (Leo Buscaglia)

Each breath....

....you take is an affirmation of your own existence... and of your own importance. Fortunately, you don't need a license to breathe. Nor is there a tax on this process - well, not yet anyway. It's about the one process in your life that nobody can boss you around over. So enjoy it. Allow yourself that luxury. And then, having granted yourself the right to do that much at least, look around at what else is happening.

You matter. You count. You have a right, at all times, to be heard... to be respected, to be proud of yourself.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

A little more...

....than 100 years ago, an amazing event took place amid the carnage of the First World War. At Christmas, British and German troops stopped shooting. They went over to each other's trenches and exchanged seasonal gifts. Some even sang carols and played football. The next day, they got back into their positions and continued with the carnage. Stories like this often leave us wondering whether to laugh or cry.



Through our choices and our actions, we can take what is bad and make it good.

Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up 

in order to exist at all.      (William Faulkner)

History is peppered....

....with tales of famous battles. Those who compile the chronicles, name the winners and the losers with great certainty. But that hardly does justice to the immense sense of loss suffered by either side whenever they incur so much as a single casualty. In war, there are no winners. Indeed, the outcome of any conflict can only involve stress and sorrow for every participant.

The only true victory is a compromise, one that allows all to feel as if they have won something. Something we should always remember.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

Let's discuss....

....a hypothetical question. You are a passenger in a vehicle. The driver is reversing round a tight difficult corner. You can see what they can't see, a wall very close to your side. So, should you keep quiet and be polite because you don't want to be a backseat driver? Or attempt a quick, gentle word like, 'You have noticed this, haven't you?'






And if the wall does get hit and you have not said a word, whose fault would it be?

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.  (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

May I ask a favour....

....from you?  Please find a mirror. Stand in front of it. Close your eyes. Open them again. See that person looking at you? Say hello. Smile. Make friends! Oh, by the way, you don't know them as well as you think you do. There's more to them than meets the eye! They've got hidden depths. Talents as yet undiscovered. Abilities just waiting to be developed.

That person you are looking at could be someone very different, surprisingly soon. All you have to do is help them.




If you spend time being down on yourself or doubtful of your own entitlement to a happier life.......Well, now I need another favour......I need you to ask yourself why.

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

(Ralph Waldo Emerson)

It can be easy....

....to forget that when people say, 'Oh, I don't mind how things turn out. I'm easy-going and relaxed.' This isn't always true. It may be better heard as a statement of aspiration. They may be saying, 'I wish I could develop a more laissez-faire attitude. Or it may be that they feel socially awkward about expressing deep desire and determination, so they try to cover it up.

Success can often involve refining the ability to distinguish between what someone is saying and what they really mean.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else 

is the greatest accomplishment.     (Ralph Waldo Emerso)