New Year Blessings

We always approach a new year with anticipation, excitement and hope, setting out our plans and goals, detemined that this is the year we will succeed.

Only to find that within a few weeks the plans, goals and excitement have been forgotten as daily life takes over. 

But, it does not have to be this way, if we remember to include these important steps in our goal setting.

• Happiness
May the new year be filled with endless joy and laughter, together with the ones that you love,

• Abundance
May 2024 be the year where all of your hopes and dreams materialise.

• Prosperity
May you achieve the success and financial independence that you desire in all aspects of your life

• Fulfilment

To do what you are truly passionate about is the greatest blessing of all.

So, once you have written down your goals, keep them where you can read them everyday, include them in your daily meditation and to emphasise your goals even more build a vision board.

And, if you find yourself wavering during the year, do not give up, you have not failed. You just need to rekindle the excitement and anticipation that you felt when you first created your goals, then pick yourself up and move forward again.  

Have fun planning the steps to achieving and maintaining all of your 2024 goals.

Happy NewYear 

The Strain Of Relationships at Christmas

Posts have been very sparse this year, now is the perfect time to rectify that.

As we come to another festive season, the media and Christmas cards paint a blissful image of excited children waiting for father Christmas to bring their presents, togetherness, happiness, laughter, tables laden with food, family and friends but for so many people especially Christmas 2023 that is far from the truth.

Christmas is for many expensive, overwhelming, stressful and a time of dread. The frantic rush of presents and food to be bought, family gatherings to be arranged. It is therefore a time when relationships are fraught and foremost on their minds.

However, for some, it is a time of deception, when the printed words of peace and love are in direct opposition to what they really feel inside.

And for others the Christmas period, especially Christmas day is a time of tears, sadness and loneliness as all they have to look forward to are memories of days filled with love, laughter, happiness, family and friends long gone.

“At this time of year, any relationships that are under strain may totally split asunder. As families gather together old animosities and rivalries can bubble to the surface. The mature approach is to just let them go, but it is not easy. It takes two people to have a disagreement. If one of them (you) decides that life is too short and makes a personal commitment to let the real happiness and peace that is Christmas become a reality, then there is no argument to be had. There is no point in winning a series of battles if you can simply end the war. All it achieves is ruin the Christmas festivities for everyone else around you.

Now is the time to be bold and review the relationships at home, work, and in a social environment, to create a strategy for repairing any relationships that are suspect and terminating those that are beyond repair. It takes inner strength to make the decisions and the commitment. Even small achievements can create the motivation. If you use your energy to perpetuate a feeling of grudge, envy or hurt, then you are using energy that could, and should be directed to more positive things, like building yourself the life that you truly desire”.

When repairing relationships there is no blame, no right or wrong. There is simply an outcome or result that arises from an action. If you can learn the actions that create harmony and peace, then the joy of Christmas really will, as the cards say, stay with you throughout the rest of the year. If you want to change somebody else the only place you can begin is with changing yourself. And, the only time you can start is right now.

Wishing you all a happy, harmonious festive season

 

The Promise Of Easter

 It has been a while!

This is great time of the year to look back at those New Year resolutions, to review progress and to take any corrective action needed.

The changing of the seasons can affect our feelings and attitudes.

The chances are, that you made those January resolutions in the midst of a cold, grey and wet winter, that probably made your emotions and optimism pretty cold, grey and wet too.”

But, when the natural world is bursting with the promise of a glorious spring and the warmth of summer, this is an ideal time to decide that you too will start over and put right anything that you feel needs correction in your own life.

Unless humans interfere with nature, it has its own graceful balance.

The old and used makes way for the new and the vibrant.

Anyone can do the same with their own thoughts and attitudes.

Perhaps those fondly held beliefs that served you well in the past are due for an overhaul. s it is time to restore your own natural balance.

Balance means harmony rather than discord.

This should include a brief but thorough examination of all the areas of your life, relationships, career, health, finances, leisure and talents.

You would have to be a very cold individual indeed, to totally ignore the promise of Easter.

So take some of that promise for yourself and then make sure it is a promise that is delivered.

You deserve nothing less.

Happy Easter!