If you’re green you’re growing, if you’re ripe you’re rotten!
On this Sunday Funday Team Makepeace are getting organized and creating some improved changes to our daily inspirations blog. Whatever you are doing in life organization is key. This helps you to know what you are doing with a plan and to have all your filing and paperwork neatly organized. This is such an empowering task as it clears up that negative energy that hangs around with clutter. It also lets the Universe know that you are ready for unlimited wealth to appear in your life and you are making space for it.
So yesterday, we bought our filing cabinet and comfy office chair. And we are all set for serious business.
We are putting together a plan for the future of Wake Up With Caz and Craig and we’d love your input.
We are going to mix up our video posts with some other inspirational videos, either submitted to us through our readers or what we find ourselves on the net. We also want to include some written blog posts as well, reviews and interviews. So each day will be a different format. We are still wanting to keep our song of the week, some travel stories and sports inspiration!
What would you like to see on Wake Up With Caz and Craig? How can we best inspire and motivate you to live your best life?
Leave a comment in the box. Change means you are evolving and growing and evolving means you are still alive and flourishing! We love to live and would love your help to continue to do so!
Sunday is funday! We have a quote from the Dalai Lama on today’s video inspiration which teaches you how important
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it is to not worry and live your best life now.
If there is a problem and there is a solution then don’t worry. If you have a problem and there is no solution then what is the point of worrying.
This is one of our favorite Dalai Lama quotes and quotes of all time. This comes from the Dalai Lama’s book “The Art of Happiness” Craig and I highly recommend this as a must read for someone who wants to live their best life now. It will provide you with much inspiration and wisdom for living an inspirational life.
Funday Sunday for us today is all about playing in the snow with Kalyra. It’s a little chilly but it’s fun and an enjoyable part of nature.
“Feedback is the breakfast of champions”- Rich Tate
Today’s daily inspirational video asks for a little help from you. To grow and become all we want we need honest feedback from people. We want to make Wake Up With Caz and Craig as best as we can for you. So let us know what you’d like. Provide feedback in the comment box below or you can even leave feedback through the email found on the contact Caz and Craig page.
Let us know your thoughts on the following:
1. What do you like about the daily videos and how does it help you?
2. What don’t you feel is effective?
3. How could we make it better? What topics would you like to see discussed on the daily video message?
4. What area of your life do you feel you need most help with?
We are striving to be your ‘Yes-Sayer!’ Someone who can inspire you, empower you with positive messages and inspire you to live your best life as you deserve it! Help us to help you!
“A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do you have limiting beliefs about money? Do you believe it’s wrong to be rich? Do you think that all rich people are evil and they steal from those less fortunate? These are common misconceptions about money and I can understand where they come about from. Usually they are there to offer us an excuse as to why we are not living our best life. They hold us back from being abundant human beings living extraordinary lives. Being rich, being abundant is our birth right and it’s how we can best serve others and the planet.
Let’s think seriously and intelligently about this.
Think about poor you and what you contribute and then think about rich you and what you contribute. Totally different story right?
I know because I’ve been in both places.
Here’s poor me: Totally depressed and stressed out. Fighting with my partner, creating an unhealthy environment for myself and child to live in. It’s difficult to live my life on purpose because every spare dime I have goes to not even covering my bills. I have no life, I can’t contribute or help anyone else because I can’t even help myself. The energy I send out to the world is so negative,limiting and depressing. Nothing grows as a result. You can’t grow a plant on soil that is not rich!
Here’s rich me: Life is totally on my terms because I have options. It’s not the actual dollars that makes the difference, it’s what I can now do with my time and my available resources. I am unlimited, I am free and I am happy as a result. I can live my purpose and truly make a difference. I can reach into my pocket and donate thousands at the drop of a hat. I can live my heart;s passions, I can do whatever I want, when I want and with who I want. I enjoy abundance, I share abundance, I love life through abundance. Lack is not in my radar. I send out positive, uplifting energy and make a difference as a result. Growth is tremendous in my soul as it’s rich!
I can do more for the world rich than I can poor and so can you. The world needs you to be abundant. Wealth is the only path for growth. Life needs to expand and flourish. You deserve wealth and abundance. When you Change your thinking, you change your world.
Today’s daily inspirations for better living discusses how you can write your own eulogy and change your life story. As morbid as it might sound this is a very powerful strategy for you to create the life you love to live. There’s no better time than now to think how you would like to be remembered after your time on Earth has passed.
Did you create your own life or did someone create it for you? Were you a kind and loving person or did you choose otherwise? Did you stand up for your dreams and do whatever it took to achieve them? or did you remain stuck in your comfort zone too afraid to take chances and live life and so let it slip away from you? Did you fulfill your purpose and live your best life?
Your life is not a dress rehearsal. You get one shot. Live like you are dying. Understand that you can change your life now! You can forgive your past and change your future!
Complete the task I set for you: Write your own eulogy and change your life story!
Watch today’s daily inspirational message on how to live your best life now. To live your best life you must forgive yourself. Self forgiveness is the only way you can leave behind your past, shed those limiting feelings of guilt and shame and move forward to a brighter future.
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Our Song of the Week is Tennessee Line by Chris Daughtry. It is a great song on forgiveness. Listen to the words and allow yourself to open up, forgive yourself and move on to a better you!
Are you living your dream life? Are you living it on your terms? This is your life and you’re dying one minute at a time. The time will never be perfect for you to start living your life. Stop waiting for the right time and stop making excuses. The time is right now. Just Do It! Start living your life like you’re dying! Now! 123 Jump!
As the Chinese Proverb says: ‘A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.‘
Read more of Caz’s article ‘Just Do It’. It was chosen to appear on the front page of http://www.Selfgrowth.com the number 1 self-improvement website on the net!
My name is Caroline, or Caz for short, and I’m married to Craig and we have a beautiful 2 year old daughter named Kalyra. The meaning of Kalyra’s name might give you a little insight as to who we are.
Kalyra Wineries, California
Kalyra at 18 mths
Her name is an Australian Aboriginal name that means ‘a wild and pleasant place.’ We discovered it on our travels through the USA at a vineyard in Santa Barbara. We stumbled upon “Kalyra Wineries” on the tour and found out it was owned by two Australian brothers.
We immediately loved the name because it’s unique, it came from our traveling experiences, it’s from our country, and we are all about living a wild and pleasant life. (oh and she’s named after some very nice wine, I might add!)
Craig and I love to travel. I threw the backpack on the day after I graduated from Uni, did a little trekking around Indonesia and then headed to London to start my teaching career (in the worst section of London!). I had a wild time in London for two years, traveling the UK and Europe and living in a house of 12-25 crazy international backpackers. From there I did a summer season in the bars of Dublin, Ireland (working that is-for the most part!) before traveling through Vietnam and Thailand on my way home.
Monument Valley, Utah
I was hooked on travel and knew that this was the life for me and was ready to go on my next adventure. That was when I met Craig, who shared the same passions as me. Craig spent the early part of his teens and twenties playing a Professional sport in Australia called Rugby League, until he retired due to injuries. He fell into a career in construction, but the passion just wasn’t there and he wanted to go on an adventure around the world also.
Three days after we got married, we headed off for a 5 year honeymoon working and traveling across the globe. We taught English in Bangkok, Thailand for 6 months and traveled all over Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. We then lived in Dublin, Ireland for one year. From there we traveled throughout the UK and then backpacked East Africa, from Kenya to Cape Town for 5 months visiting 8 countries along the way.
Koh Lipe, Thailan
However, the money started running out and we were getting ready to move to the USA for our next working adventure, so to earn some more income, we worked on a Pearl Farm in a remote location off the coast of Broome in Western Australia. We had to catch a sea plane to the farm, where we would live and work everyday at the crack of dawn for 5 weeks at a time. It was backbreaking work but we were prepared to do whatever it took to get us to our destination.
New York City
Once we gathered enough money we moved to Raleigh, NC in the USA and worked for 2 years. We loved living in the States and road tripped from sea to shining sea. We thought we were ready to go home to settle, and so moved back to Queensland on the east coast of Australia, but not without spending a couple of months in China, Laos and Thailand first. It was at this time that we realized we wanted to start a family.
We knew that we could never give up travel, it was what we lived for – the passion, the excitement, adventure and freedom of it was deeply entrenched in our soul. But we knew backpacking just couldn’t be done with a child so we began to explore other options to create the money needed to travel more in style. During this time we had our daughter and also decided that we wanted to relocate back to Raleigh to live and so here we are now.
We made some mistakes along the way and realized we had some work to do on ourselves to raise our
Sand Dunes, Namibia, Africa
attractor-factor.Our focus had switched from adventure and freedom to ’settled and paying bills’. If only we knew then what we know now – we got what we focused on that’s for sure! We didn’t understand a lot about business and personal development and never really had a great teacher to learn from.
I guess you can say we always had the entrepreneurial spirit though without ever really realizing it. The life we led was brave and daring, and it was a path that we carved for ourselves. Life was totally on our terms. We decided where to go and what to do. We know what it takes to make dreams happen.
Also, previous to our travel adventures, we had purchased two real estate properties, and ended up doing very well out of them, even though we didn’t really have experience in that field. We just acted on “gut” instinct and it paid off!
Life as a backpacker can be very tough and challenging. Traveling for months on end, living out of a backpack and a tent, riding around on local transport (ie: on the back of a pick up with twenty other people, chickens, bikes, sacks of rice and potatoes) and living like the locals. You have to be made of strong stamina to survive it. But the rewards are so worth it.
We witnessed some incredible sights and did activities through 33 countries…
Gorillas in Uganda
Massai Worriors in Kenya
Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe,
Angkor Wat in Cambodia
Safari’s throughout Africa
Octoberfest in Germany
Running with the Bulls in Spain
3 month Road trip through Europe
Magnificent Beaches
Whitewater Rafting the Nile River
3 month Road trip through the USA
Hiked the Grand Canyon
New Years Eve in New York City
Rock Climbing in Thailand
Hiked the Yangzee River in China
Nelson Mandela’s Robben Island home in South Africa
War Tunnels in Vietnam
War Memorial sites in Gallipoli-Turkey
St Patrick’s Day in Dublin, Ireland
Snorkeling amazing reefs
Partied Hard
and met some AMAZING people.
Campsite, Malawi, Africa
We learned that if you want something bad enough, and if you are willing to withstand the challenges, it will come to you and it will be so worth it!
This is what got us through the bad times and we’ve now come to realize through the help of many great teachers that we have got what it takes. We have since learned about entrepreneurship and now we think and act like entrepreneurs. Our travels have taught us so much about life and the enjoyment of it. We have learned many lessons along the way through our struggles also. We’ve experienced a deep and rewarding life and wish to impart our wisdom to others so they can do the same.
Craig and I knew that we had so much within us to share and we weren’t doing that. After much soul searching we finally
Rocky Mountains, Colorado
understood thatall the knowledge and insight we gained through traveling was done for a purpose. Not to be hidden within our souls but to share with others so that they may see a brighter future and a bigger more powerful world. Our mission is to help each individual grow to their full potential. In doing so our precious planet that we have grown to know and love so much will benefit. A better, happier you means a better, happier community, and a better, happier earth.
Craig and I know how to live life to the fullest. We are great at inspiring others to live their best life, and showing them how to enjoy all the wealth and happiness this amazing planet has to offer.
Live Your Best Life!
Caz & Craig Makepeace
P.S…..”The World is a Book and Those Who Don’t Travel Read Only a Page!”
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The ‘Fun-trepreneurs’ HelpingYou to Live An Inspired Life!…
Dear Friend,
Imagine how your day would begin if you watched a 3-5 minute daily video containing….. inspiring quotes, encouraging words, an empowering song, and success tips on How To Live Your Best Life!
What would that do for you? Would that put an extra spring in your step?
We’ve discovered that the majority of people begin their day in a negative way. And that’show we used to be too!We would turn on the TV the moment we awoke to catch the morning news and the disastrous events of the previous day. Then we would read the newspaper or online news stories whilst having breakfast. On our way to work we would listen to further negative news broadcasts or radio D.J’s commentary on depressing stories and celebrity mishaps.
It’s a fact that media is the most consumed product on earth. And let’s face it, most of it is negative! Every where we turn we are exposed to it through the TV, the Newspaper, the Internet, the Radio or in Magazines. Isn’t it time you kick started each day off by watching and listing to a more positive and empowering message to put you in the right frame of mind to have a happy and successful day?
We understand the value of positive thinking and starting your day off on the right foot. To put it simply, we have always lived a fun-filled, passionate, and inspired life.
Got married in 2002 and then took off traveling the world and have since lived in 5 different countries (Australia, England, Thailand, Ireland, USA) and visited over 30 more countries!
Craig played a Professional Sport in Australia for 6 years called Rugby League.
Caz holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Elementary Teaching and has taught in those 5 different countries!
My Students in Bangkok
We have a great marriage; a beautiful, positive daughter; have invested successfully in real estate, and have seen more of this planet than most people would in 5 lifetimes. We attribute our happiness to just always living life with passion; going on adventures; being positive, encouraging and living in joy.
To learn more about us, please visit the “About Us” tab at the top of the page!
We also know what it’s like to go through some difficult times. We know it’s an awful trap and cycle of fear, sadness and self-loathing. We understand the damage negative feelings can do to your life. We’ve been there, done that. And now we want to be a source of inspiration and encouragement to othersso they can see the beauty they hold within them and the beauty that life can offer them.
Through our extensive travels around the world, we came to a deeper awareness and understanding of life and the people that dwell here. We’ve witnessed spectacularly beautiful sights and know that this world is full of so much abundance, joy and happiness for us all to enjoy. We know that deep down each person holds magical qualities and that deep down we are all the same. Life is a powerful force that needs to thrive and grow and in order to do that we need happy, inspired people living on the planet who live their best life.
When you Wake Up With Caz and Craig through our 3 minute free daily inspirations video blog, this is what you’ll be getting:
Inspiring messages!
Motivational quotes!
Success tips!
Song of the week!
A Friendly face!
Daddy and Kalyra
“We’re positive, fun-loving people who are lovers of life and passionate about making it our best. We know that everyone has the potential for greatness and to live an inspired life on purpose. We are committed to being your morning friend and filling your mind with positive thoughts, to give you encouraging words and to help keep you focused on fulfilling your life’s purpose, living your best life.
Let us be the morning kick start to your day. You don’t need a daily shot of coffee to get you moving, a daily inspiration with Caz and Craig will do the trick. It’s not going to take much effort on your behalf, just an open heart and mind and some ears to hear and a couple of minutes each morning.
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Subscribing to Wake Up With Caz and Craig is going to keep you connected directly with all of our messages, updates, and exclusive member benefits such as upcoming interviews with inspired people, webinars and product launches. You never know when you might be selected to be featured on a daily message or as our inspired person of the month!
We’ve got lots of fun and exciting things planned for your morning ‘Wake up with Caz and Craig’. We will always be growing and improving to help make a positive impact on your life. We want you to see that the world holds unlimited possibilities for you and you can Be, Do, Have….. whatever you like!
Mummy and Kalyra
Live Your Best Life,
Caz and Craig Makepeace
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