P365 – A Year's Journey

As individuals, we thrive on hope. We lean into it for answers and results. We depend on it, we trust it and we even aim towards it.

Sometimes when we least expect it hope rises. Ideas come into play, things actualize and what we have been aiming for, hoping for and dreaming of comes to life.

When this happens. Be ready to act as it may be a small wave which will take you further than you could ever imagine!

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On a special day like today, full of passion, love, and gifts… there are literally 2 types of people.

Single & Taken.

Regardless of your status today, there are a couple of things I want to remind you of.

For those who are single – this primarily goes out to you – but it is just as good for those who are taken.

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. ~Thich Nhat Hanh

• Remind yourself today of who you are. Single? Yes. But that’s OK.
• Remind yourself that any sense of love is found within and you are that love.
• Remind yourself that the love you dream of should be a mere enfolding and reflection of your own affection and appreciation.
• Remind yourself of your passion, of your heart. What is it you love to do?
• Take away your money and your job and what is it that you would do each day, every day?
• Remind yourself to breathe. To relax. Let go into the calmness.
• Stop fighting against yourself by thinking and desiring people and events in your life should be different.
• Own your potential. Love yourself enough to know you have opportunities at every corner.
• Take action today and create a beautiful life for yourself. You should have this already.
• Do what honors and respects you. Don’t do the things that bring you down.
• Remove the toxic from your life.
• Focus on the positive. It makes all the difference.

If you are keen to spread some love today, you don’t need to be ‘taken’ or have a Valentine to do so.

Do this by:

• Smiling
• By a coffee or meal for someone – a stranger even
• Give when you haven’t been asked to
• Believe in making a difference and do so
• Have faith and believe in someone’s dreams
• Encourage
• Compliment from the heart
• Forgive the grudges – Let it go!
• Spend your time. Spend it wisely

With this in mind. Every day we have a chance to be the someone you are, to make an impact on the world.
You have a chance to attempt to be better, to make a difference, to follow your dreams, to take action.
If you fail – well you may have to start again. But you still went for it. Now you can do it again, but better.

We all have love, we all have passions. This love and passion, doesn’t need to be a valentine.

You can express love through doing your passion. Do it and do it wholeheartedly!

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We all have the times that things won’t and don’t go as planned.

We will have setbacks, delays, and hurdles to conquer, but this doesn’t mean it is the end.

All these should be seen as opportunities.

Opportunities to reach out and discover new ways of doing and approaching the very things we do each day, and the things we are learning to conquer.

When you fail – don’t lay on the ground waiting to be picked up.

Pick yourself up and get back to it. Get back to it better than you were before.

Come back with an attitude, determined to be better.

You can either be a setback or you can use it as a launching pad into something more.

Something great. Something greater.

When you struggle with trying to capture the results you are looking for, the best approach is to identify that you have hit a point requiring a change.

Accepting defeat and realizing the battle is lost, is OK… only if you accept that you need to make come back and fight and push harder.

This will be a step closer to becoming a greater you.

Let me remind you:

You may never be the best. But you can always be your best.

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Are you who you say you are?

Are you the same person you are everywhere you go?

Are you lying to yourself? What do you have to prove?

I know it is a common cliché these days to say “be yourself” but seriously… What is wrong with being yourself?

You are unique and special in your own individual way. Don’t be shy to shine that light of yours.

Don’t wish to be someone else, as the grass is always greener on the other side – and once you change from being you.
You’re only going to find being yourself was greener!

Our crazed up society has people setting the expectation of who, how and what someone else should be.

I love being myself, but I also love getting to know others myself too.

I may be slow, I may be odd, but I know for sure my ways are effective and true;
– especially in representing myself.

If I was who they told me to be, there would be more of them and less of me.

I’m no one important to the world, but I am making a dint and a ripple.

Be the change that you wish to see in the world. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

You are making a dint and ripple.

Keep doing exactly that and eventually, the walls will come rushing down and
you will be not known for being something you’re not, but known for being the someone you are. You!

Remove all the labels, the stories, and judgment you put upon yourself. Put these aside and ask yourself this:

“How would I act right now if I had no cares of what others thought of me?”

This will help you naturally identify that who you are without anything else added is perfectly okay.

Perfectly OK because it is you.

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If you really take the time to see what the day is made up of, you will begin to appreciate the details:

• How amazing the world we live in really is
• The people we share it with
• The moments created that we experience

The fact is…
– we become so work orientated
– so focused on the tasks at hand
– so frustrated by the lack of results
– and so exhausted by the ongoing grind…
that we miss the special things all around us.

It’s the little moments which we remember that count and these are the memories we will enjoy.

Take a further look down to the detail:

• Have you ever noticed the clarity of reflection in the window on the train?
• The oddness of how someone can smile without even adjusting their dial?
• Have you noticed how sometimes that the smiles around you bring the brightness, not the sun?
• Have you ever watched and noticed how we all laugh differently
  and see the joy and happiness which is expressed in this action?
• What about how over-tiredness creates this sense of charm.
  A sense which says I’m so over this but I’m going to smile anyway.
• What about how we dance to the beat or simply to the rhythm of our excitement?

These are just some random daily details we can experience or see if we pay attention. 

All I can say is there seems to be more than what meets the eye wherever you go
and there will always seem to be that pretty tone to the world around you.

But then again we see what we want to see.

So if you choose to see the little things, or more so, if you want to, then you will.

Take some time to see these things.
Think about the things around you.
Think about who and what people are doing.
Take care in your thought and you will be amazed at the results.

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The simple fact is – it takes time to get to the top. BUT! In that time you have the opportunity to make the most of it.

There is no point waiting around for someone to do it for you, to help you, to push you or support you.

These people will come as you start. As you make a dint to the world, you will be loud enough and people will notice.

The point is; if things are taking time, continue to pursue your dreams as one day, they will just click and you will be happy you never stopped.

Time will go on regardless, so time wasted can never be found again. Don’t miss out.

A year from now you may wish you had started today. ― Karen Lamb

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Always be yourself no matter what. Stand by it. Live by it. Breathe it. Be all natural. 

Too many times we can confuse, misguided and influenced by not what we are but by what others want us to be. Growth is good, growth is important – but make sure you grow towards your dreams, your lifestyle and towards who are you at the core. Do not become lost, do not lose focus on being you. All natural you. 

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The only way anything is going to happen is if you continue to progress forward and pursue your DREAMS! Obstacles or not, you still need to continue to venture towards your endgame. Up, down, left and right. Whatever it takes. Pursue your dreams. Reach for the stars. Take a leap of faith.

Pick your cliche; we’ve heard them all before. Our minds are flooded with motivational proclamations and anecdotes about following our dreams and accomplishing our goals in life. And inspired we are! And we get excited. We’re going for it this time for sure!

And yet, most of us never move a muscle. We feel compelled to pursue our goals but can’t seem to get past the compulsion. Our hearts are filled with wishes and dreams, but our feet are paralyzed with uncertainty. Great, we have a dream! What do we do with it?

It’s time to stop dreaming and start living; here’s how to do it, as told by one of the most successful Millennials on the planet.

As we grow in maturity, we begin to identify and reflect on how we have lived our lives. Don’t be afraid!

We can begin to clearly see the bad, the good, the great and the many things we have done. Don’t be afraid!

But when it comes to being good or being great – what would you choose? Don’t be afraid!

You see as John D. Rockefeller notes:

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

What this implies to me, is that we identify the good as something great, when really it is the tip of the iceberg of what great really is.

Think of it this way – if you are responsible to deliver a piece of work would you want it to be ‘good’ or ‘great’?

I can tell you – your boss will settle for the good depending on the circumstance, but he would much rather the great.

In my mind – settling for the good, is like saying, I am not going to step it up and go for great.