Do things that make you happy!!!

Let’s get grateful for where we are in our lives.

As soon as you wake up in the morning put on your iPod or walkman choose you favourite music and take a walk. While on this walk get really grateful for everything every wonderful thing that you have in your life. Think of your family, think of your friends, think of your health, think of your opportunities, notice the trees, the fresh air, the children playing, the sun rising, the birds singing in the trees, the look of the season, the sound of the milkman, the scent of the cut grass, feel your heart beating and your legs moving - what a miracle your body is! What a miracle your body is to keep moving without you even noticing. Take a deep breath and realise the freedom and the choices you have in your life then start to tell yourself everything that you love, everything that you love about you, everything you love about your life I mean it. Say it with a passion, say it with belief.

What do the army do when they go for a run when its dark and its wet and they have done six miles they've still got 11 miles to go what does the sergeant say to them that they need to do? That’s right they start to sing, they start to chant, they start to chant positive giving cantations over and over again. What do we do when with our friends - we start to sing. What do we do when we are feeling great? We start to sing. Why do the army sing over and over again? It’s because the army have to do the stuff that works to save lives, and you know what if positive singing is good enough for the army then it should be good enough for me. It should be good enough for us. See your brain does not know the difference between what it vividly imagines, and what is reality.

Your brain does not know the difference between what it vividly imagines and what is reality, in other words first thing in the morning tell your brain what it wants to hear and it will start to believe it. Tell your brain what it wants to hear and your brain will start to believe it.

Let me share an example of this with you.

Do you remember Pythagoras theorem from school, no neither do I. Now here is another question, do you remember Jingle Bells? Sing Jingle Bells yeah of course you can sing jingle bells, which came first in your life Pythagoras or Jingle Bells? Well of course it was Jingle Bells, and how long we are going to remember that nursery rhyme for? Why do we remember Jingle Bells over Pythagoras? Simple we sung Jingle Bells over and over and over again and we enjoyed the process so you remembered it and you felt great about it, and one needs to guess that Pythagoras did not have the same effect when you first learnt it then Jingle Bells did.

How would you feel you walked along the road for the next 24 hours and you called yourself a loser? Over and over and over again you called a loser you complained about the weather? You get too many emails, your football is awful, they could do better, that you could do better that it is raining that’s not fair and why did they do that me and why did they do that them. That your team in work are incompetent, that everybody is an idiot, what chances do you have of success when we tell ourselves that we are losing the game of life. How many of us tell our brains the right stuff everyday so we get really grateful for our lives. Let’s start knowing that we are truly blessed, because when we are grateful we are RICH.

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