Just as you'd be better equipped to tackle an assault course if you'd been training and working out in a gym for months, you're also better equipped to find that inner place of calm in a crisis if it's been your daily practice for months to get into that 'bigger part of you' space. There are many ways to get into that space; do whatever works for you. Currently I like to use meditation twice a day, but once you're practised at getting into that space it takes little effort to get there, and you Continue Reading
Getting the balance right
How do you know if you've got the right balance between flow and discipline? It seems to me that you need a balance between letting life unfold before you, and forcing your way through things that stand as obstacles between you and your goals. How do you know you're not forcing something that was never meant to be, or that you're going to be unsuccessful in? How do you know you couldn't have achieved more than you did because you spent too much time just letting life happen, instead of making it Continue Reading
Keep believing and knock down the obstacles
I never gave up hope of getting my education one day, hence it appeared on my vision board. Knowing that I needed to take practical steps to make it happen. I started looking at my partially completed OU degree again and I realised that the subject matter was not what interested me any more, nor was it relevant to my life. I had been doing a Psychology degree, with a view to becoming a child psychologist eventually, but now I owned an IT company and wanted an IT degree, that would be useful to Continue Reading
Believe and act
Faith without works is dead - The Bible, James 2:17 And so too is vision without action. It's not enough to merely believe, daydream, meditate, make lists or vision boards, and I'm not criticising the value of any of those things, I do them all. But there has to come a point where you start to act as though you believe that the things you're hoping and dreaming for, are going to happen. You have to push the doors and see if they open. About 15 years ago I'd created a digital vision Continue Reading