Sometimes life can be overwhelming. You have so much to do and accomplish so that you can live the life of your dreams. Sometimes we reach the stage of expansion overload. When you reach this point you have to take time out a little to allow space to open up again for your continual growth.
Usually we feel guilty and afraid to stop everything and breathe. We feel as if everything will fall apart and slide backward if we take time out to just concentrate on rest and regathering.Your work and progress will slip backwards if you don’t take the time out for rest and rejuvenation. It is vital for your success. Ditch the guilt, ditch the work and just take time out from everything. Let it go.
When you let it go you remove all the pressure and you give your brain and creativity time to expand once more. I’ve had to do this recently. It all just got a bit too overwhelming for me and I felt pushed to my limits. So I retreated for awhile. Yes! I did feel guilty and worried that everything would fall apart. But it hasn’t and it won’t. It was so worthwhile as now I feel more refreshed and energized to keep moving forward.
The trick is to make sure even while you take a break, every day you just take a small step forward. Just do one small task a day even to keep you on track. This way you get your much needed break but your eye is still on the goal and you continue to move forward, no matter how slowly.
Don’t let life push you around. Stand up for your dreams and don’t move from them no matter what. Take strength from Will West’s “I shall not be moved”, our song of the week. Even when the bombs of your life are going off around you, be firm, be resolute and don’t move from the focus of your goal. One of my favorite sayings is:
Life without music would be a mistake
Music gives us so much to our life and our song of the week has really helped me to power through the challenging times and to not be moved from the desire for the beauty of my dreams. This song helps me to believe in a better tomorrow.
The Principles of Taoism tell you to be like nature. Be like water, be like a tree. Stay firm and strong so you can’t be moved from your purpose. Keep your branches flexible though so you can learn to bend in the wind but still maintain your firmness
Watch todays’ daily inspirations as Craig tells a time in his life when he had to swallow one of his biggest fears teaching English in Bangkok. When you chase and swallow your fear you empower yourself. You take back the fear’s power and claim it for yourself in a positive way. It launches you to a higher comfort level where you can achieve greater things.
I’m starting with the man in the mirror. I’m asking him to change his ways. No message could have been any clearer. If you want to make the world a better place take a look at yourself and make a change- Michael Jackson. Man in the Mirror
Your outer world is always a reflection of your inner world. If you want your outer world to change you must first change your inner world. Gandhi said it best
“Be the Change you wish to see in the world.
As did Michael Jackson with ‘Man in the Mirror’ our song of the week. Start today by thinking about the world you wish to see and live in. Do you want it to be more peaceful? more loving? more positive? happier? Take the time to look at the man in the mirror and ask him/her if it is doing all it can to be this change.
You have to start with yourself. Don’t be afraid of what you see or ashamed. The beauty of it all is that you have the power to change your future and that is so exciting.
Be the Change you wish to see in the world and start with the man in the mirror.
You only get one and you need to take care of your body temple. Sport is a great way to do that, to keep active and get involved in a community.
With anything the first step is the hardest but you just have to start somewhere. Start and build some momentum. Caz and Craig are currently whipping our body temples into shape with Jillian Micheal’s 30 day shred. We prefer to play sport and exercise in nature but it’s a little cold for that now.
We understand though that the body is a temple and to look after yourself, you need to first get conditioned. Not just physically but mentally. Realize that the mind is the athlete and the body is just the physical means to perform the activity. This the Power of One working to help you push through barriers, realize what you are capable of and get you in peak physical condition.
The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay is my favorite book. I’ve read it over and over again and I still learn so many golden nuggets every time. It’s a fictional story of a young boy, Peekay, growing up in Apartheid Africa and his quest to become the welterweight champion of the world as well as his struggles to rid his country of apartheid. It’s a beautiful story of hope and courage; a book of immense inspiration, friendship, overcoming obstacles and self discovery.
Here is an inspirational quote about the Power of One:
The power of one is above all things the power to believe in yourself, often well beyond any latent ability you may have previously demonstrated. The mind is the athlete; the body is simply the means it uses to run faster or longer, jump higher, shoot straighter, kick better, swim harder, hit further or box better. Hoppie’s dictum to me: ‘First with the head and then with the heart,’ was more than simply mixing brains with guts. It means thinking well beyond the powers of normal concentration and then daring your courage to follow your thoughts.
Watch todays free daily inspiration. Each new day brings new beginnings. Each new day is a blank canvas for you to create and paint anything you like. Be as creative and adventurous as you like. What happened yesterday does not have to have an impact on your painting for today.
Some Inspirational Quotes to help start your day with a bright canvas
You don’t have to be great to start but you have to start to be great.- Joe Sabah
Even if you’re on the right track you’ll get run over if you just sit there- Will Rogers
Take the initial step today, create momentum and use the law of inertia to keep you moving forward to your dreams. Learn a les
son from the kangaroo. The kangaroo is always moving forward. It is physically unable to move backward. It’s for this reason it was chosen to be on our national emblem. Skippy is always moving forward even when it’s going around in circles.
In times when it appears you made mistakes or poor choices on some level of being it was the best you could do at the time and in the
long run it’s going to prove to be a step forward.
Take a step forward today and paint a bright canvas for your future.
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!
Video Daily Inspirations With Sports Saturday is sharing some inspirational quotes from Vince Lombardi and Muhammad Ali quotes. The greatest boxer of all time and the greatest football coach of all time believe that the will to win and the willingness to prepare to win are the qualities that make a true champion.
Muhammad Ali: The Will to Win
“Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep insid
e them- a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill. – Muhammed Ali
Bobby Knight says ” Everyone has the will to win, but few have the will to prepare to win.”
What most people see from a champion is them running onto the field on a Saturday with the will to win, and many take this as these athletes as having natural talents or skills(just lucky in other words). What they fail to see is how they prepare to win by training off field every day of the week, all day.
The Will to Win
A true champion plays their best and that’s what winning is about.
” The only time I can reconcile a loss is when every individual on that team has played to the best of his ability.” Vince Lombardi
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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