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Take the Opportunity Today: Accept Help

May 14, 2012 By 12 Comments

 “Life is accepting what is and working from that.” – by Gloria Naylor

 

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By Stuart Young

Take the opportunity today to accept help.

Only when we are able to accept help for ourselves are we truly able to offer help to someone else. It sounds obvious but we can’t help someone who doesn’t want to be helped. Unless they are ready to be helped there’s nothing anyone can do. Heighten your awareness to this by accepting help yourself.

Practise this and you’ll find how and where you are resistant to it, you’ll become aware of the signs and possibly the reasons why in some circumstances you don’t want help. From that standpoint you will more readily notice those signs in others. This will help you decide when to push and when to hold back.

Sometimes it’s those that need help the most that are the most resistant to it.

Take care!

 

!!!!!READERS’  DELIGHT!!!!

Today is the last day for you dear readers  to get a chance to receive a free copy of Stuart Young’s book: ‘How To Change Your Life One Day At A Time’ and also a free bonus of his 90 Day Program entitled: ‘Change Your Mindset, Change Your Life’ which will be delivered directly into our lucky commenter’s inbox.

Only four lucky winners!

So, go ahead – start commenting! The winners will be announced by the end of the day today via our Facebook Page and also on this series. So, be sure to check out our page tonight and also this post for the winners!

 

 

Editor’s Note: Stuart Young writes his thoughts on How To Change Your Life One Day At A Time. He aims to provide a “set of 365 practical little guides which WILL change your life if you commit to implementing as many as possible.” He is also completing his book about changing your life one day at a time. You can check his thoughts here.

WINNERS FOR THIS SERIES!!!!
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Kathryn Eriksen
Harold Millet
Alexandra (Of Act, React, Think)
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Take the Opportunity Today: Write a List of Things You’re Good At

May 7, 2012 By 21 Comments

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. – by Aristotle

 

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By Stuart Young

Take the opportunity today to write a list of things you are good at. The longer, the better!

Most of us find it easy to be critical of the things we think we can’t do when in actual fact there’s a ton of stuff that we do day in day out that we’re good at.

Today let’s remember all those things.

 Make the list as long as you can.

Put it somewhere you can easily lay your hands on it and the next time you hear yourself (or anyone else) say you can’t do something read that list.

Keep the positive at the front of your mind, the negative you can work on.

 Cheers!

!!!!!READERS’  DELIGHT!!!!

Starting today every Monday (only), until May 14th, four lucky commenters will get a free copy of Stuart Young’s book: ‘How To Change Your Life One Day At A Time’ and also a free bonus of his 90 Day Program entitled: ‘Change Your Mindset, Change Your Life’ which will be delivered directly into our lucky commenter’s inbox.

So, go ahead – start commenting! The winners will be announced on May 14th on this series.

 

Editor’s Note: Stuart Young writes his thoughts on How To Change Your Life One Day At A Time. He aims to provide a “set of 365 practical little guides which WILL change your life if you commit to implementing as many as possible.” He is also completing his book about changing your life one day at a time. You can check his thoughts here.

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Take the Opportunity: See the Creativity in What you Do

April 30, 2012 By 14 Comments

“Creativity, as has been said, consists largely of rearranging what we know in order to find out what we do not know. Hence, to think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.”— George Kneller

Photo of Shem-shem Pablo

By Stuart Young

 

Em and I were talking the other night whilst we walked our dogs about
being creative. We debated what it meant to be creative. I was arguing that
in order to be truly happy one must be creating. Even the simple single
celled organisms live only to re-create. Our deep- est desire is to
re-create by pro-creating. It’s the most natural thing in the system we
know as life. Everything that is alive is trying to re- create.

So, maybe if we find ourselves stuck in a job or in a life that isn’t in
a process of creating we become depressed. After all – this is our purpose.
As living entities we are driven to create. Em’s point was that simply by
tidying her desk she is creating – she’s creating a calm space in which to
work which might then lead on to more creative thought processes. We
debated this point for a while until I concede- ed that she was right. (It
often happens that way!)

So, my point today is we just need to turn our attention to what we are
already doing and find the creativity in it. Whether you’re an accountant
tapping a calculator all day (creating order out of chaos) or if you are a
road digger (creating the opportunity for something to be installed or
fixed) or a dog walker (creating time to think – for yourself and
undoubtedly for the dog owners too), we are all creat- ing in some way,
shape or form.

If you feel you are in a bit of a rut at the moment find your creativity –

it will reconnect you to your purpose, it may even become your
purpose.

Good luck!

 

!!!!!READERS’  DELIGHT!!!!

Starting today every Monday (only), until May 14th, four lucky commenters will get a free copy of Stuart Young’s book: ‘How To Change Your Life One Day At A Time’ and also a free bonus of his 90 Day Program entitled: ‘Change Your Mindset, Change Your Life’ which will be delivered directly into our lucky commenter’s inbox.

So, go ahead – start commenting! The winners will be announced on May 14th on this series.

 

Editor’s Note: Stuart Young writes his thoughts on How To Change Your Life One Day At A Time. He aims to provide a “set of 365 practical little guides which WILL change your life if you commit to implementing as many as possible.” He is also completing his book about changing your life one day at a time. You can check his thoughts here.

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Take the Opportunity: Help a Neighbour

April 23, 2012 By 18 Comments

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor’s – by Richard Whately

Photo of Shem-shem Pablo

By Stuart Young

It’s a bit of a coincidence that this guide has popped up this morn- ing as I’ve already had one of my neighbours come around today. She was collecting her spare key as we were looking after her cat and rabbit whilst she was away. In our doorstep conversation she men- tioned she didn’t get a job she had recently applied for and was now in a quandary as to what direction to next take. I mentioned I had some pertinent information that might help her clear her mind and that I’d send it to her via email.

That’s my next task once I have finished writing here.

You might find that the opportunity to help one of your own neigh- bours needs to be orchestrated somewhat rather than it have fall in your lap. I urge you to consider it, there might be an elderly or injured neighbour that needs some shopping or their grass cut. Someone might need a lift to the doctor’s urgently, or even as in my case someone to look after their pet for a couple of days. Extend your hand, put yourself out and help. This is how communities are built and friends made.

Take the oppotunity. Help a neighbor today!

 

!!!!!READERS’  DELIGHT!!!!

Starting today every Monday (only), until May 14th, four lucky commenters will get a free copy of Stuart Young’s book: ‘How To Change Your Life One Day At A Time’ and also a free bonus of his 90 Day Program entitled: ‘Change Your Mindset, Change Your Life’ which will be delivered directly into our lucky commenter’s inbox.

So, go ahead – start commenting! The winners will be announced on May 14th on this series.

 

Editor’s Note: Stuart Young writes his thoughts on How To Change Your Life One Day At A Time. He aims to provide a “set of 365 practical little guides which WILL change your life if you commit to implementing as many as possible.” He is also completing his book about changing your life one day at a time. You can check his thoughts here.

 

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Take the Opportunity: Be courageous

April 2, 2012 By 42 Comments

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By Stuart Young

 

Take the opportunity today to be courageous!

This might be in the face of adversity, it might be just being brave about something or it might be something really important like making a difficult decision.

Whether you’re nervous about that speaking engagement coming up or whether you need to muster the nerve to ask someone on a date – dig deep and do it. This one courageous moment could change your life. Forever!

I know this is one of those difficult challenges I spoke about at the beginning of this book but hopefully you have tried enough of the other challenges to give you some habitual momentum today.

Go for it!

 

!!!!!READERS’  DELIGHT!!!!

Starting today until next Monday (April 9th), one lucky commenter will get a free copy of Stuart Young’s book: ‘How To Change Your Life One Day At A Time’ and also a free bonus of his 90 Day Program entitled: ‘Change Your Mindset, Change Your Life’ which will be delivered directly into our lucky commenter’s inbox. So, go ahead – start commenting! 

 

Editor’s Note: Stuart Young writes his thoughts on How To Change Your Life One Day At A Time. He aims to provide a “set of 365 practical little guides which WILL change your life if you commit to implementing as many as possible.” He is also completing his book about changing your life one day at a time. You can check his thoughts here.

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