GREAT BOOK TO START YOUR WEEK

I'm a big fan of Robin Sharma. I love his books and his easy, relaxed style. His first book "The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari" was wonderful and last week I read his most recent one - "The Secret Letters of the Monk Who Sold His Ferrari." I was not disappointed.

As in the earlier one, this book takes the form of a modern fable featuring a character who learns many lessons and makes many personal changes during the course of the book. The story is of a journey, not just a physical A to B one but a spiritual, insightful personal growth one too.

You can't help but absorb Sharma's messages along the way. The book can be read at so many different levels and is a treat for both your conscious and unconscious mind. Like all my favourite books it'll be one I'll come back to again and again. If you're looking for an easily readable story to lift and inspire you, I'd urge you to read it.

To cap it all off, after finishing it I tweeted how much I had enjoyed it and got a direct message back from the author himself. Nice one Robin!
Michelle

PASSION AND BELIEF

What are you really passionate about in your life?
Today's new video features Suzanne sharing her passion for her allotment. She looks at how being passionate about one area of your life can be used to extend the success it brings to other areas too.
Here's the link to the video and to the other videos on our You Tube channel.

I'm a big fan of Anthony Robbins. I love his upbeat "Go get 'em!" style.
Live with passion is one of his favourite phrases - you'll find it throughout his books and audio programmes. I love this concept. Find what you're good at, find what you're passionate about, know how this makes you feel and transfer that to other areas of your life.

People are invariably best at doing the things they are passionate about........ so what's stopping you?
Michelle

BLOCK OR BLANK?

Much of the way that we feel about a situation is determined by the way that we think about it. Remember the story about the man borrowing the lawnmower from last week? Today's post was inspired by the fact that when I first opened up my laptop to write this piece, I hadn't known what I was going to write about.

Now I could have seen that as a problem. If it had gone on for any length of time I could have labelled it as writer's block and got myself worked up about it. Instead, I chose to see it as liberating. I chose to think along the lines of - here I go with this and I'm not sure where its going to lead me.

I chose to come at it from a place of inspiration, not one of worry. Seeing this page as a blank canvas on which to create something unique really helps me. Sometimes I find it easier to get out of my own way and just let things flow. Why not try it? You never know where it could take you!
Michelle

DECISIONS, DECISIONS

I'm facing a few decisions in my life right now, as I'm sure are many of you. What I'm asking you to think about today is not so much what decisions you have to make but how you are going to make them. In true NLP style I'd urge you to think about what has happened before and learn from it. Think about a good decision that you made in the past, it needn't have been a major one, just one that you can look back on now and know that you made a good call. How did you make the decision itself? What was it based on? Did you base it on weeks of research or on a gut instinct. Do you like things to look right, sound right or feel good when you are deciding? It's true that most of us will make many of our decisions in the same way, regardless of the content of the matter itself, so it really does help to tune in to what works best for you. Let's say that like me you're a gut instinct person who makes their choice on something feeling right, it's about becoming to recognise just what that right feeling is for you. This will be different for everyone but importantly it will be the same for you each time. Learn to recognise this and know when you've got it. Once you can trust your own subconscious yes signal it really helps take the pressure off deciding. Michelle