The Happiness Connection

In every situation there is a gap, 

a fraction of a second where you decide 

how you are going to respond. 

This small gap can be your happiness connection.

What if...

you use this small gap to change your thought, to respond to someone in a better way, to listen to what is really going on here?

What if...

instead of racing ahead and reacting, you use this fraction of a second, the gap between action and reaction and create something positive?

What if...

when a negative defeating thought comes to you about yourself or another, you use the gap to create a new uplifting thought?

What if...

this was your new way? In every situation you decide to respond with self appreciation, with confidence in your ability, you give feedback that is worthy of you and of great benefit to another. 

What if...

without doubt, you know your happiness is not dependent on others for you to feel better. You know that you are the beginning of your happiness connection. 

 Unlock your best future

My words are centred in the desire and intention to help people bring about their best and connect to their best future.
http://isucceed.info

5 tips for good choices

Are you taking your choices for granted?

Your choices be it small or big are entwined with your freedom

Are your choices shaping your life?

You come to many crossroads, choice leads to consequences

What goes in to your marinade for choice?

Are the ingredients giving you your best life banquet?

I was thinking marinade is a great analogy for what goes into how to make the choices in my life.   

To marinate you need the best ingredients, know your flavours and what will work together to give you the result you are after.   As I marinade I think about what herbs and spices, oils and vinegars I know and what I know of their taste that would make this meal special and delicious.  I choose from what I have tasted before or look up a recipe to try something new.   I ponder the 'what if' and imagine the finished meal.  

It's a simple lesson for looking at choice, it's not meant to be so hard that you freeze and don't know what to do next and leave the choices to others to make for you. 

Here is a different, fun way to look at making choices and how to marinate your choices.

1. Key Ingredients 

Just like a great marinade you need the key ingredients. The choices you make are based on your wants, desires, needs.  You need to know that you have a mix of ingredients and keep this as your focus if you want the best.

2. Begin with the end in mind 

How will these choices help you to make the most of what you want and what you attract into your life? Imagine what it will look like, what it will feel like and how you will act when the choice has been made.

3. Courage to make your own "marinade" it is your own unique blend 

Believe in yourself, how you have done it in the past, what you have learnt and look at the possibilities of something new for you. 

4. Keep practising

The more you keep making choices that have the key ingredients, know what you want and the courage to stick with it, you will be throwing out the old "I don't know", and the "I can't do this"

flavours.

5. Time

It takes time to marinade, sometimes overnight. It is best not to rush or be coerced into choices that may not bring out your best. It's ok to say "This choice needs my careful consideration and I will have an answer that will be good for me."

Bon Appétit! 

what does unlock your best future mean?

This all started for me when I made the decision to get out of my employment and wow, that was a big step. The job was comfortable, I was good at it, it was secure, I was in a routine that didn't take much effort.  The clues for me to get out and make the shift took me a while to hear, it had to start shouting at me to take action and start seeking. 

I was seeking more for my quality of life and creating more of what I wanted to be and to do.  

For me when I coined the phrase "unlock your best future" it meant that it is already there and waiting for you to make the choice and it means encouraging your sense of self and respecting your unique contribution, to live more in your present and be purposeful about your future.


My best future was to jump right out of my comfortable zone and take some risks. To go on a discovery tour of what is
possible and learn, learn, learn.  I wanted to give more back and in return I knew I would gain so much more.

Remember - Your entire life revolves around CHOICE.

Ok, I admit there are some days, it would just be easier to go back to the way it was. Take that step back away from my best future because it is hard, it is sometimes lonely, you have moments of doubt and what I am learning is not always good to hear - it is for my benefit but my ego doesn't like it.  What has helped is the encouragement from my coaches, my mentors, my friends and my teachers to continue, one step at a time and know that what I am doing is powerful.
I can't keep it to myself, it must be shared as everyone is entitled to seek their best future.

I love the Vincent van Gogh quote

 " When the little voice inside you says you cannot paint, just go ahead and do it anyway"

After some quiet reflective times to work out what it is I want to do. I knew it was important to start my own training business.   I knew from my organisational development background that sending staff to management and leadership development programs that it would end with little return and change in the workplace. 
My belief is that your personal development in the life skill areas, such as overcoming procrastination, self esteem, the challenge of change are the foundations to getting the most out of those programs and see the benefits in the workplace and more importantly to unlock your best future.

By taking that step forward to unlock your best future you believe in your worth to step up and say I want better, I deserve better, I want my future to be fulfilling, exciting and joyous.

More information about my business at http://succeed.info

Turning Challenges into Victories

You Choose.

I am in a place now where I am very blessed. I feel I am on top of the mountain looking at those challenges below me and can see where there has been victory along the way.







You would not wish a divorce, a loss, an injury or any kind of disappointment on anyone, the truth is where would your life be, if those challenges were not in your life.  You were able to exercise profound moments of truth to choose how you will act.
Without your challenges you would find your circle of comfort would get even smaller, no place for learning, no place to grow and certainly no place to nurture yourself or anyone else for that matter.

The quirky thing is, if you are not kicking out and making the most of your life you will still face challenges because we will invent them anyway.



We are wired to seek out challenges and stretch our thinking, build up our survival muscles. We all want to conquer something in our lives. It is up to you how you want to deal with it.

You Choose.  Victim or Victory

You Choose.  Give Up or Get Up

You Choose.  Lose it or Learn from it

You Choose.  Darkness/Despair or Strength & Willpower

You Choose. Anxiety or Determination

You Choose.  Poverty or Abundance

What I know to be true - the world is heaven and hell and we have a choice to choose which life we want. We are a community, we all want the same - to be acknowledged, to know love, to live with purpose, to see and feel joy and beauty in all creation. My life has a destiny, I am in it now, right now the present I am at my best. The people I meet, the places I go are here to help me for my divine purpose and just as I am here for you.

All about my business at http://isucceed.info