What are you most grateful for in your life right now?

Today is ANZAC day, which is a day where we honour the memory of those who lost their lives defending our country.

My great uncle died in 1941 at the age of 19. He was lost when the HMAS Sydney was sunk by the Germans off the Australian coast.

Today is a time where we should consider how precious life is and why we should enjoy each and every moment. You never know when your life will be taken away, like my great uncle’s was.

He never had the chance to experience the joys I have experienced through my life.

He will never know how wonderful it is to be a parent and meet his children face to face the first time – an experience that cannot be matched by any other.

Life is extremely precious and should be valued. We should feel gratitude for all that we have and expect more, if that is what we want.

What are you most grateful for in your life right now?

Change your point of view and you will change your life

My father emailed this story to me and I figured what better way to tell the world than through my blog because it truly is an inspiring story!

This is ‘Faith’.

This dog was born on Christmas Eve in the year 2002… He was born with 3 legs -
2 healthy hind legs and 1 abnormal front leg which need to be amputated.
He of course could not walk when he was born.
Even his mother did not want him.

His first owner also did not think that he would survive. Therefore, he was thinking of
‘putting him to sleep’.
By this time, his present owner, Jude Stringfellow, met him and wanted to take care
of him. She was determined to teach and train this dog to walk by himself.
Therefore she named him ‘Faith’.

In the beginning, she put Faith on a surfing board to let him feel the movements.
Later she used peanut butter on a spoon as a lure and reward for him to stand up
and jump around. Even the other dog at home also helped to encourage him to walk.
Amazingly, only after 6 months, like a miracle, Faith learned to balance on his 2 hind
legs and jumped to move forward. After further training in the snow, he now can walk
like a human being.

Faith loves to walk around now. No matter where he goes, he just attracts all the
people around him.
He is now becoming famous on the international scene. He has appeared
on various newspapers and TV shows.

There is even one book entitled ‘With a little faith’ being published about him.
He was even considered to appear in one of Harry Potter movies.

His present owner Jude Stringfellew has given up her teaching post and plans
to take him around the world to teach that even without a perfect body, one can
have a perfect soul’.

In life there are always undesirable things. Perhaps one will feel better if one
changes the point of view from another direction.

I hope this message will bring fresh & new ways of thinking to everyone and that everyone
can appreciate and be thankful for each beautiful day that follows.
Faith is the continual demonstration of the Strength of Life.

A small request: All you are asked to do is keep this circulating so pass this story onto your friends.

Take responsibility for your thoughts

I currently work in a large organisation and sitting nearby are two people who I find to be extremely negative.

Other staff members have commented about their negativity to me, and have asked how I handle sitting near them!

Lucky for me, I am easily able to block out their negative comments. I see no point in taking it on board and for the most part I just ignore them. In fact, I kind of feel sorry for them because they don’t realise just how much they are jeapordising their chances of opportunities.

Just today one of them was unsuccessful in a role she applied for and the other was recently unsuccessful in applying for another role.

Now, maybe they were unsuccessful because there is something bigger and better out there for them, or it could be that their negativity is coming across in their interviews.

Being an avid believer in the Law of Attraction, I am thinking that they have attracted their bad results through their internal thinking. They however, are blaming management for the fact they were unsuccessful.

I used to be just like them. Everything that ever went against me was somebody else’s fault. It was never mine.

Now, I have learned that what I think about and how I react to situations is totally in my control and I therefore control them quite well.

Like everyone else, I do have the occasional negative thought and how I deal with these is this: I replace that negative thought with a positive thought. It’s not that hard when you think about it.

Also, I am not perfect and I am guilty of judging people on occasion. Not all the time, but sometimes. When I realise I am doing this though, I stop and try to look at the situation from a different angle. It works wonders, and as time goes on, I find I am less critical than I used to be, so I am getting there!

Well, that’s enough waffling for tonight – it’s nearly my bed time! Night everyone!

What to do when feeling uncertain

I was asked a while back if I would mind conducting a tutorial on a subject I have not really taken an interest in for a long time now.  They had nobody else to do it, so I agreed.

The tutorial relates to a subject that has changed a lot in the last couple of years, so I have had to do a “crash course” so I understand it before I teach it!

Because of this, I am a little uncertain as to whether my knowledge will be sufficient to answer the questions asked of me, however this is how I look at the situation:

If they ask me a question and I don’t know the answer, I will note the question down and get back to them with an answer once I have found it myself.

My other option is to make something up, but you can imagine how silly that would make me look!

We all can’t know everything about everything – everybody knows that!  So if you’re in a similar situation, do what you can to get your head around the subject and if you have some questions you can’t answer, it’s not the end of the world – you can get back to them with an answer later.

I am heading off now, to do some study! 

How do you perceive situations?

In the picture here you can see a Rainbow Lorikeet.

I LOVE them! I think they’re beautiful and colourful and I love to sit and watch them as they feed from the flowers outside my bedroom window.

I know many people who hate these birds because they are noisy – but so what?! They only come around first thing in the morning (the best time of the day!) and just before it gets dark and then they’re gone.

I suppose again I’m talking about perception. I perceive these gorgeous birds to be a positive thing and whenever they’re around I feel grateful that I have native trees around my house to attract them.

Someone who perceives them as negative is likely to wake up grumpy and annoyed because these birds have woken them up.

Who is going to have the better day??

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