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Another hard life lesson

Since the blog post about my painful life lesson it seems that life has taken me on, seriously.

The life lesson was that I need to listen to my inner voice and trust it more and to give voice to what it is telling me.

Since the workshop, life has been placing me in situations that have caused me to have to look at my childhood and how it is influencing how I am now.

As I went back in time I revisited the abuse I'd suffered as a child that had robbed me of my voice. Suddenly, every day became filled with an issue that related to my "lack of a voice" and the pressure has become immense on me to change.

So today I am taking back my personal power. I have decided twice today what I do and do not want to accept into my world and I have grabbed hold of my voice and started to use it again. It has truly been liberating.

If you are reading this and you relate to what I am saying, please leave a comment. Every day we have the power to decide how our world will be. I do not need to be that voiceless child that was disempowered. I can be an empowered adult who is able to say no to things that are not positive in my life.

Preparing for the rain

If you know that it is going to rain, you prepare for it. You do your washing, you do your gardening, you pack away everything that might get ruined in the downpour. Why is it that when you know there is going to be a deluge of activity in our lives we are less diligent in preparing for it and are often caught out in the rain?

I have spent most of my early evening, contemplating the thunder storm that they have forecast for tomorrow afternoon. As I was hanging out the washing in the early afternoon, I was remembering how yesterday had been a really sunny day and I could have easily done all my washing yesterday and would have been pulling in dry clothes, instead of hanging out wet ones in such conditions.

As I saw the clouds slowly start to roll across the sky, I was internally berating myself. Procrastination - an old friend - had rendered me ineffective again. However, when I realised the weather report, the threat of impending doom motivated me to action.

Isn't our lives sometimes like this? We are forever looking back at the good old days and wondering what happened. We see our now sagging breasts, spreading middle and hips and are left wondering why we didn't make the most of the golden days of independence when our bodies were up to the challenge. Or we only get our act together when we are faced with the negative consequences of our procrastination.

I guess the rain must fall in all our lives. The question is, do we have to wait for an impending deluge to get ourselves motivated? I think not. We have choices. We can take action today to secure a happier tomorrow.

It bears thinking about!