The Daily Do

Helping others helps yourself in a 'win/win' way to the freedom of 'all is good'. Nothing interrupts the strain of overthinking self like thinking of someone else and not you. This release from the contortions of going round and round ourselves again can come in a simple shop visit for a neighbour, or a call to a weary friend. The most profound antidote to wallowing in the too much self of "Who am I today?", is to reach out to someone else with kindness and give some of that self away.

Nothing is more powerful in your life than YOU waking up to what YOU want, thinking clearly and setting your intentions. This shines the spotlight on all the reasons why you can and confirms the evidence you’ve got. Set your intentions as you wake up, before being bombarded by news and social media. Set the course of your day unfolding before your day unfolds, live the life you have imagined, you’ve decided, not your phone.

All the GREATNESS in you is in the NOW of what you’re pursuing. Our ability to live a productive today whilst staying open to our fluid tomorrow sums up mindful practice, the power of now in action. We can control what we do but not all the results of our doing and that’s good because......all the greatness in you is in the now of what you’re pursuing.

Freedom from thinking the whole world is watching comes in the tough form of "they’re not"! If you’re holding yourself hostage to “What will they think?” it’s time to accept that they won’t. This is the real hard hitting release from the prison of ‘everyone’s watching’ when they don’t. People are busy living their lives, so jump in, get going, and breathe. Get going, keep going, you’re free.

Taking yourself too seriously to fit your 'grown up' stance will stop your replenishing, joyful font of success so kick off your shoes and dance! A lifetime of wrongly learning that all the important stuff is serious and the fun stuff is not can throw us off the scent that in fact a heart full of happiness and passion will lead you to a better life.

Think of how often you do things to numb, to avoid unknown feelings but then what you do in those moments you become. So you have not chosen a huge part of your actions, they were all chosen for you by fear and distraction. Imagine replacing those ticks with some stillness, without numbing behaviours your whole life then changes. So when you notice you’re about to do something to numb, use this escape hatch to stillness and see what you become!

Hard work can seem daunting but ‘HARD FUN’ terms it best if you’re aiming to do what you love. Bring passion to all that your hand turns to today and the work part will simply dissolve. “It’s all on me” can feel tough to take on but in fact it empowers our day, then see effort as part of the path to your best, the hard fun, then push forward today.

Do WHAT you love for YOU, need no approval and you are free, to blossom, prosper in humble talent, lived confidently. Take the burden of living for others firmly from your back, and know they’ll only ever want a loving smile, to love and smile at back. Do what you love for your potential to be realised today, for the smile in you to others and the love you can then give away.

There is probably one thing that you’re avoiding and it’s blocking you from moving on. You’re putting it off until all that fear has gone. But it’s the 'not doing it' where all the fear comes from! And then we’re stuck in overthinking, making it all emotional and psychological when we could just do the thing instead. Do it, that one thing that’s in your way. Take a breath, count down from 5 and do it now, today!

Winners are winners before they have won, the winning is just the result. And much like the badly injured soldier who then goes on to marathon run, the fall often happens before the truly heroic climb’s begun. The hardest journey often brings out the strong heart in us and it’s from there that we find the strength, this power undiscovered until we were pushed to go past the norm to our best.