This is technology at it’s best.. you get free ice cream if you smile! (via notcot)
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The more we are aware of our thoughts, and our beliefs and what caused them, the more we control our own minds.
Be warned. This video has some harrowing images and subjects. Tomorrow’s Great Thinking will be much more lighthearted!!
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I had to share this replay of England vs USA – the commentary isn’t quite the same without my shouting (and ocassional bad word)…..
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Yesterday I gave you a whole load of quotes about thinking.. hopefully I got you thinking..
Now to put it into practice…we’ll start small.
Imagine today is International Happiness Day – everyone is happy. Some people may not show it outwardly but today they are happy. Your job is to start collecting evidence that everyone you meet is happy. You probably should start with yourself ! Decide to be happy, think like you are happy…. 
Spend your day noticing happy, going out of your way to find it.
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It’s going to be a great week. I have no doubts at all.
This week I’m going to write a series of posts about what may be the most vital communication you ever have – the communication with yourself.
What you think becomes who you are:
“As a man thinketh, so is he”
Proverbs 23:7 Bible
“We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.”
Buddha
“Change your thoughts and you change your world. ”
Norman Vincent Peale
“Your life is what your thoughts make it. ”
Marcus Aurelius
So today, notice your thoughts. See where they are leading you, know that you can change them as simply as thinking something else. If you change your thinking you can change anything you want.
This week I am going to examine this in more depth. Today just know that you already know everything you need to, to be the person you are today.. and the person you want to be tomorrow.
After all “If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you‘re right” (Henry Ford)
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Good Morning – Happy Monday!
As they say in bad quote books ‘today is the first day of the rest of your life’ – it’s become corny, but it doesn’t make it any less true.
Today is definitely the start of the rest of my life for me. I’ve decided to take some time to change some things that either aren’t working in my life, or aren’t working as well as they should be – mainly myself.
It’s hard to know where to start so I have decided to spend 7 weeks trying some different stuff and finding out what works for me. At the end of that time I will keep the things that work, and well, who knows… part of this time is about reminding myself to focus on the now.
On the wall of my studio, and on a ring I wear is written “Between Stimulus and Response there is a space…” It’s the beginning of a Victor Frankl quote:
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
It’s the quote that guides my life: I get to choose my response to what happens. I get to choose how I live. For the next 7 weeks, I’m going to be very concious of those choices and what they produce.
I am changing my diet, trying some new things, new approaches. I am kicking up my workouts and making them more important in my day. I have a new coach (more details later) who I am hoping will guide me in the area of my life where I have the most doubt and struggle. I am going to finish, USING PEOPLE, my new book, with a focus that I have been lacking lately. Some new speeches are coming too.
I spent the weekend clearing clutter in preparation. I really find I feel better when my environment is clear. I must have loaded up five trash bags with clothes for Goodwill. I let go of the clothes I didn’t wear and those that didn’t feel like me.
I’m ready. I didn’t sleep much last night, I knew today really was the first day of the rest of my life, or at least the next 7 weeks.
Although this is a private journey I will try and share much of it with you, we can all learn so much from each other.
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From the BBC:
When officials asked for the Welsh translation of a road sign, they thought the reply was what they needed.
Unfortunately, the e-mail response to Swansea council said in Welsh: “I am not in the office at the moment. Send any work to be translated”. No-one checked this statement, and it ended up on the roadsign: 
I’m sure we can all learn a thing or two from this!!!
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I’m still working my way through my 45 challenges, and this is one that means a lot. It means a lot to me, personally, and it means a lot to an 11 year old girl called Madison.
I was challenged to raise enough money ($1,500) to send Madison to Camp Bon Coeur this summer. Camp Bon Coeur is a summer camp for children with heart defects. They get to learn, get to play, get to hang out with friends. Most of all they get to forget they are different for a short time, and remember they are unique.
I’d love you all to meet Madi by watching the video we made together. If you can help her by donating, that would be great, if you can help her by sharing the link that would be great too.
All donors will get a photo taken of Madison, while she is at heart camp this summer. If you donate $25 or more you will also get a ‘wishing heart’ handmade by me.
Thank you. A million times thank you.
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