Make every second count!

Imagine there is a bank account that credits your account each morning with $86,400. It carries over no balance from day to day.

Every evening the bank deletes whatever part of the balance you failed to use during the day. What would you do? Draw out every cent, of course?

Each of us has such a bank. It's name is TIME.

Every morning, it credits you with 86,400 seconds.

Every night it writes off as lost, whatever of this you have failed to invest to a good purpose.

It carries over no balance. It allows no over draft. Each day it opens a new account for you. Each night it burns the remains of the day.

If you fail to use the day's deposits, the loss is yours. There is no drawing against "tomorrow."

You must live in the present on today's deposits. Invest it so as to get from it the utmost in health, happiness and success!

The clock is running!! Make the most of today.

To realise the value of ONE YEAR, ask a student who failed a grade.

To realise the value of ONE MONTH, ask a mother who has given birth to a premature baby.

To realise the value of ONE WEEK, ask the editor of a weekly newspaper.

To realise the value of ONE HOUR, ask the lovers who are waiting to meet.

To realise the value of ONE MINUTE, ask a person who just missed a train.

To realise the value of ONE SECOND, ask someone who just avoided an accident.

To realise the value of ONE MILLISECOND, ask the person who won a silver medal at the Olympics.

Treasure every moment that you have! And treasure it more because you shared it with someone special, special enough to spend your time with. And remember time waits for no one.

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why its called the present.

Change Your Life- 13 FREE coaching sessions! No catch!

I'm a qualified coach who hasn't practiced for a year due to taking time out to be a mother http://www.happyyoucoaching.co.uk/your_coach.html and I'm looking for a lovely female volunteer to get back up to speed. If you are interested please e-mail me Sophie@HappyYouCoaching.co.uk. 

Please tell me exactly why you'd like to commit to coaching in a few paragraphs so I can gauge your reasons & keenness to change for the better and I'll pick one lucky person and help them change their life for good, once they embark on the coaching sessions I'm trained to facilitate.

All you'll need to give me in return is your commitment to 13, 1 hour sessions (one per fortnight) and the cost of the phone calls. Then a photo and testimonial at the end of the programme. 

I'm also looking for a two or three volunteers to test out my new online coaching. So when writing to me state if you'd prefer phone or emailing coaching.

You need to be ready to start Online and Telephone Coaching at the end of June 2011.
http://www.happyyoucoaching.co.uk/index.html



Sophie Brading

New Challenges Keep Us Alive!

The Japanese have always loved fresh fish.

But the waters close to Japan have not held many fish for decades.

So to feed the Japanese population,

Fishing boats got bigger and went farther than ever.

The farther the fishermen went, the longer it took to bring in the fish. If the return trip took more than a few days, the fish were not fresh. The Japanese did not like the taste.

To solve this problem, fishing companies installed freezers on their boats.

They would catch the fish and freeze them at sea. Freezers allowed the boats to go farther and stay longer.

However, the Japanese could taste the difference between fresh and frozen and they did not like frozen fish.

The frozen fish brought a lower price . So fishing companies installed fish tanks. They would catch the fish and stuff them in the tanks, fin to fin.

After a little thrashing around, the fish stopped moving.

They were tired and dull, but alive. Unfortunately, the Japanese could still taste the difference.

Because the fish did not move for days, they lost their fresh-fish taste.

The Japanese preferred the lively taste of fresh fish, not sluggish fish .

So how did Japanese fishing companies solve this problem? How do they get fresh-tasting fish to Japan? If you were consulting the fish industry, what

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Here is How Japanese Fish Stay Fresh:

To keep the fish tasting fresh, the Japanese fishing companies still put the fish in the tanks.

But now they add a small shark to each tank. The shark eats a few fish, but most of the fish arrive in a very lively state. The fish are challenged.

Have you realized that some of us are also living in a pond but most of the time tired & dull,

So we need a Shark in our life to keep us awake and moving?

Basically in our lives Sharks are new challenges to keep us active and lively.  Some times blessings come in disguise!

A Chicken Soup for The Soul Story : You Know Your A Mom When.....

This wonderful story is close to my heart. I have just finished a year off with my daughter, who started school this week. 



"Maa-maaa!"  My two-year-old daughter, Alex, called from her crib. I bounded up the stairs, excited to have the whole day to play with her.  I was now, officially, a stay-at-home mom. Lucky enough to have the option, I'd made a tough decision and quit my job as a registered nurse.

"Ready for some fun?"  I picked up Alex and gave her a tight squeeze, grateful to finally have the time to conquer all the "mommy-and-me" projects I'd collected from parenting magazines. I could never get to them on weekends, and I was ready to catch up. Alex and I would make animal masks out of paper plates in the morning and homemade Play-Doh in the afternoon. For lunch, I'd use cookie cutters to make edible figurines out of American cheese slices. After her nap, we'd make gift wrap using Alex's handprints. My life could finally be full of the magical moments I imagined filled up the days of stay-at-home mothers everywhere.

While singing nursery rhymes, I poured pancake batter into heart-shaped molds, a breakfast that literally showed my love. As I handed Alex her plate, I took a deep breath of satisfaction; she looked so sweet in her new dress and matching hair bow. The day was ours to enjoy. I turned my back for only a second and was shocked to turn back around to find Alex covered in syrup. I'd imagined pushing my princess through the grocery store in her new outfit, while white-haired ladies nodded approvingly over their shopping carts. The fantasy would have to wait. By the time I changed her clothes, cleaned up the breakfast mess, started the laundry, changed a stinky pull-up, and answered two phone calls, I was already way behind schedule. When would I have time to fit in my list of magical moments?  On my way out the door, I noticed a note from my husband telling me to please Express Mail the important papers he'd left on his desk to our accountant.  The note went on to say that he needed his shirts from the dry cleaners for tomorrow's business trip, and since I no longer worked and had the whole day, could I make his favorite pot roast for dinner?

I sighed. "Well, Alex.  We better get moving."

The line at the post office was out the door with only one clerk on duty. Intrigued by all the packaging materials, Alex kept getting away from me to touch everything. I didn't see the harm until…crash!  She knocked over a display of assorted envelopes. I sheepishly cleaned up the mess, thankful a nice man took pity on me and saved my place in line.

From there, we finally headed off to the dry cleaners, but Alex fell asleep in the car. I wanted to run in and leave her napping, but I sensed child abductors lurking everywhere and decided to just go home and let her sleep in peace.

As soon as I turned off the car engine, Alex's eyes shot open and she wailed out a tired cry.  As I carried her into the house, I sobbed with her, my high expectations spilling out with my tears.  What happened to our perfect day?

When did stay-at-home moms fit in all those quality child-parent activities? I wouldn't even let myself think about my other goals to commit to a regular exercise schedule and start an at-home business.  I had really been clueless about this stay-at-home-mom stuff.

Hugging my precious daughter, we rocked and sniffled together. "You're my honey-bear," I whispered, feeling the weight of her sink into me. Her eyes gently shut, and I held her until she fell back asleep in my arms.  I stroked the soft hair that curled above her neck and breathed in her smell, a mixture of sweat and maple syrup. Taking a deep breath, I relaxed for the first time that day.  I was there with my daughter, forgetting about my to-do list, and it felt good.

Still, it took years for me to realize that such moments were the best and far surpassed the ones I tried to invent with heart-shaped pancakes or processed cheese sculptures. The less I tried to create life's magical moments, the more I was able to notice them when they naturally happened.  And they were even more delicious as surprises.

Life Coaching Tool - What's Important?

This tool is also highly effective and helps when you need to make a decision or to help you understand why you are feeling a bit stressed in your life.

Values help us to determine what is important in our life. Some important values may be love, security, health, wealth, family, humour, integrity, honesty, freedom, respect, success, stability, excitement, justice.

Living your life aligned with your values is important for a sense of well being. Living a life which violates your values can lead to confusion, frustration and depression.

For example, if you are a person who values your family but you are working long hours which mean you spend little quality time with them, you are violating your values.

If you value respect yet, at work you do not feel that your opinions and views are listened to or if you value your health but take no exercise, you are living a life which is in conflict with a value.


Knowing your values enables you to be more in control of your actions and your emotions, make better decisions and live a life knowing what is truly important to you.

You will also know what you need to do to feel good!



Values Exercise - Step 1

To see if you are living your life in line with your values; take an area of your life which isn’t quite how you would like it to be e.g. weight loss, career, relationship etc.

Next, make 2 lists: one to list feelings you would like to feel, and the other will have those that you would like to avoid feeling.

Generate the lists by asking “What’s important to you about this area of my life”. “What else”, and “what else”.  Don’t stop writing the list until you have at least 8 – and aim for at least 10.


Values Exercise - Step 2

Once you have done this put them into order.  Putting your most important value first and the most important things not to feel.

This is best done through the Guarantee Game. Pretend that you have a guarantee that one value from the entire list will be fulfilled on a consistent basis from now on. So which of your values would you select? For example, would it be to feel secure, or healthy, or have peace of mind? Or to be guaranteed that you will not feel bored, or ill, or depressed? And pretend that you can only have one guarantee.

Whatever you choose becomes your No. 1 Value.

Now continue the Guarantee Game. Pretend that you have been given a bonus choice. You can keep the
guaranteed No. 1 - and select one more from the list. This becomes your No. 2 value.
Continue this process until you have at least 6 or 7 values listed. This is your values' list in order of their current importance in your life.

You can do this exercise for each important area of your life and you may well find that some values appear in many areas – these will be your core values

Values Exercise - Step 3

Enjoy a life being true to yourself!

 

Lesson in A Touching Life Story

A young man was getting ready to graduate college. For many months he had admired a beautiful sports car in a dealer's showroom, and knowing his father could well afford it, he told him that was all he wanted.

As Graduation Day approached, the young man awaited signs that his father had purchased the car. Finally, on the morning  of his graduation his father called him into his private study. His father told him how proud he was to have such a fine son, and  told him how much he loved him. He handed his son a beautiful wrapped gift box.

Curious, but somewhat disappointed the young man opened the box and found a lovely, leather-bound Bible. Angrily, he raised his voice at his father and said, "With all your money you give  me  a Bible?" and stormed out of the house, leaving the bible.

Many years passed and the young man was very successful in business. He had a beautiful home and wonderful family, but realized his father was very old, and thought perhaps he should go to him. He had not seen him since that graduation day. Before he could make arrangements, he received a telegram telling him his father had passed away, and willed all of his possessions to his son. He needed  to come home immediately and take care things.

When he arrived at  his father's house, sudden sadness and regret filled his heart.

He began to search his father's important papers and  saw the still new Bible, just as he had left it years ago. With tears,  he opened the Bible and began to turn the pages. As he read those  words, a car key dropped from an envelope taped behind the Bible.

It had a tag with the dealer's name, the same dealer who had the sports  car he had desired. On the tag was the date of his graduation, and the words...PAID IN FULL.

How many times do we miss a blessing because they are not  packaged as we expected?