You live and you learn

When times seem difficult they usually are for a purpose. We learn from our mistakes – or at least we should do. Robots may be programmed to be perfect but human beings have their imperfections, but it’s those that make us beautiful and unique. If we were all similar the world would probably be a boring place, and we would never learn or grow from other people’s imperfections.

That is a process I tend to follow on a regular basis: I watch others discreetly and see the way they live their lives and I try to learn from their hard times. There may be things another person does that you don’t necessarily agree with but to judge is to be critical of another being – and we all our own person so that should be respected.

Disturbing and traumatising past experiences can sometimes come back and become haunting, which may be a reason for why criminals never learn from their mistakes. They are surrounded by bad omens, but the wonderful thing is it is never too late to change and step up to the life you want and deserve.

What it all boils down to is number one: you. Lead by example and be the best possible person you can be and watch others around you admire and follow in your direction…

Don’t let your mind play games

“Listen to your heart and not your head.”

 This quote that I have picked up ‘Along the Way’ means an awful lot to me. In fact I feel its relevance in almost every aspect of life. We all get the feeling of intuition but we can ignore it at regular intervals because we let our head take over. Have you ever had the feeling when you are driving along and something inside tells you to take a certain turning or to not go somewhere and you realise that it happened for a reason afterwards? In a film I watched called The Secret I saw this guy who said that 90% of the time he can think about a parking spot in a particular place where he would like to park, and just by focusing on it happening and believing with every part of him – it happens.

It can be very easy to get caught up in other people’s habits and rituals – the bad ones I mean – that they influence you to be or act in a certain way too. Deep down we all know what is right and wrong for us, so we should be headstrong and follow our hearts – do what we think is BEST for us rather than what feels good at the time.

It’s like when a lot of Britain’s living in the UK watch the news – the news is so injected with false and negative emotions it instantly arouses like-minded signals in the viewers. Next thing we know is we are doubting the world, we are doubting the reporters viewpoints and we feel dubious about all of the messages we get from it. Yet the media provides a window to the world that otherwise wouldn’t exist, so we have to be extremely grateful for it. 

That is why we need to ‘absorb what’s useful, reject what’s useless and add what’s specifically your own’ – Bruce Lee.