I am 100% confident that every one of you reading this article has heard the phrase ‘Work-Life Balance.’

Let me just confirm what this means.

My favourite definition is from About.com which states:

“Work-life balance is a concept that supports the efforts of employees to split their time and energy between work and the other important aspects of their lives. Work-life balance is a daily effort to make time for family, friends, community participation, spirituality, personal growth, self care, and other personal activities, in addition to the demands of the workplace. “

Alas it seems that a majority of you struggle to create the perfect balance, and spend a disproportionate amount of your time working.

It seems to you that you can’t avoid this unbalance in your life. The bills need paying and your job requires you to put in these crazy hours. I’ve heard so many times people say how great a good work life balance would be in a ‘perfect’ world but today’s economic climate is anything but, so the pressures are enormous and that’s why our lives are out of balance.

All of which I really do understand. I doubt there are many who put in longer hours than me and my business partner. Today is a perfect example, we’ll be in the office till midnight. We started at 9am.

But one thing I know is that you cannot get the full benefit out of life when things are out of balance. Focusing some of your effort and time on ensuring you strike a better balance will in fact provide you with so many benefits, both on a personal level as well as a business one.

You need to realise that working yourself into an early grave, or at least down the road of exhaustion and ill health just isn’t the sensible thing to do.

You need to start helping yourself to find the time, or more specifically make the time for the joys of life.

I know I’ve admitted to working long hours. At least in the first place I’m doing a job I absolutely love. But also I make the time for rest, relaxation and family. So this week I’m putting in 4 hard and long days, then I’m taking Friday through Sunday off, staying in a hotel with an awesome gym for me to work out, and that’s only 15 minutes from both my parents and daughter, so I’ll be able to spend lots of time with them. A few good meals particularly if Rachel remembers the name of a rather wonderful wine we had the last time we stayed there will be a nice way to further spoil ourselves. You see in my mind, put in the time and effort, and take it out to, you get the right balance.

I don’t believe that you have to spread your time equally throughout the week every week. I know my business is way too important for me to keep dropping everything I’m doing to just get away, but I also know I’m way to important not to give myself time for that much needed rest and relaxation.

I believe we can always find time to do those things that are important. I’m now playing badminton twice a week, and going to the gym daily. I want to do both, in fact I know I need to do both, so I make the time. When I return to my desk I am refocused and energised.

Today let me make things simple for you. If you want to establish a work-life balance it doesn’t have to be that hard. It is also easy to tell if you’ve been successful. If you feel you are achieving a lot and at the same time enjoying life as well as feeling great and healthy then you can probably say you’ve got a balanced life.

Remember – life is a marathon, not a 100-meter dash! Pace yourself. Thank you to @FrancisYong for that quote.

Whatever you can’t complete today, there’s always tomorrow.

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Healthy Lifestyles Living - For those wishing to improve the quality of their life

The subconscious mind is your filing system of past experiences, your culture and everything that makes up you. It is all stored away. It is a true memory bank of everything that you have been exposed to. It uses all that information to steer you in the right direction. It is said to be programmable and needs direction from the conscious mind to function the way you want it to. Otherwise it tends to have a mind of its own relying on the habits of a life time to sort things out.

Wayne Dyer in his book ” Wishes Fulfilled”  claims that the subconscious mind is busy at work right throughout the night while the rest of you is sleeping. He goes on to explain that the subconscious mind is working hard for four hours on the last thoughts you have before you enter the land of nod.

What are the implications for the conscious and subconscious?

The implications are that you have a choice on what thoughts you take to sleep with you. You can choose to reflect on the negativity and frustration that made up your day. You can choose to think of the wonder that you will experience tomorrow. It’s your choice.

This is where it gets really interesting because when you make one of the above choices you are signalling to the subconscious that you want more of it?

So what is it that you want more of?

What is it about the subconscious mind that gives it so much power?

The subconscious mind’s power comes from its ability to tap into an infinite source of knowledge. It begins with your own and somehow draws upon the information it needs to make things happen. Now the interesting part is that this can be either negative or positive depending on the way you feel.

The way you feel triggers off a myriad of thoughts through your mind. These are always emotionally charged and they can exist at different stages of awareness. The subconscious mind will file these away according to how much emotion is present with every thought that you have. Highly charged thoughts jump to the head of the cue and are dealt with immediately. The others have to wait for their turn.

Successful people seem to be highly energized.

It has been my experience to observe and listen to successful people at work. One of the inescapable conclusions I come to is that they all posses a high energy output. Their voice is clear, loud and strong. They seem to be able to accomplish so much in the same amount of time as everybody else. This high energy is all about the way they feel. Success obviously agrees with them and their thoughts are highly energized to continue to succeed and achieve. That is all the subconscious needs to know. Those highly energized thoughts jump to the front of the cue and get dealt with immediately.

You can make this happen.

You too as you read this post can begin to put feeling and energy into the thoughts you want dealt with first. Yes you don’t have to be a passenger to this process. You can take the reigns and control it. The starting point is to plant in the subconscious mind what it is that you want. The way to do it is to state in the present tense. I am ”   living   a life of abundance” you can insert whatever you wish in the quotation mark.

• Say it just before you are about to nod off
• Say it with conviction
• Feel it as if it is already yours
• Have faith that you will receive it
• Be patient as you don’t get to decide when the time is right
• Remove self doubts
• See yourself as having achieved what you stated
• Engage in win win situations
• Allow love to be the message that you spread

The benefits of adopting this way of thinking, feeling and living are the ability to shape your life into what you want it to be. It will not just happen for you. As you can see from the above list there is quite a bit of work involved. If you are a thinking person as we all are then why not put your thought processes into achieving the life you want.

Since you are doing it all the time anyway why not take control.

It is easy to do but also just as easy to not to do as Jeff Olsen quotes in his book The Slight Edge. If you have tried the above process share your experiences with our readers.

Did it work for you?

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Healthy Lifestyles Living - For those wishing to improve the quality of their life

Before I headed back to my home in the North East I went to visit the resting place of my sister Jan at Waltham Abbey Jewish Cemetery. Every time I stand at her graveside I just feel the emotions well up inside of me. This time was different.

It was a glorious sunny afternoon. I had been in  London for four days mixing some business with family time spent with my youngest daughter Carly.  It was time for me to return North but I couldn’t come to London without going to make sure everything was ok at the grave.

So there I was standing by her stone and any onlookers would have been surprised by the sight of a big strapping giant of a man crying his eyes out like a baby.

In fact I do have a baby to blame for my emotional outburst.  You see this was the first time I’d had the opportunity to visit the grave since becoming a grand father.  So I was standing there looking at my sister’s gravestone and felt the need to get my iPhone out, go through the picture library and start showing my sister the collection of photographs of my granddaughter Amelia-Mae.

That’s all it took. My first thoughts were why aren’t you able to be here and share the joy and to give  the love that you always gave in such an overflowing way. I saw the multitude of gifts she gave that first time she came back into the life of my two girls and to this day no matter how young they were at that time they remember what a special person she was.   I thought to myself but in a way speaking to her, you are so badly missed, and I wish you were around to enjoy the wonderful things happening in my life.

My sister was very special. Such an incredibly talented and beautiful person both externally and internally. She had the world at her fingertips. As a dancer and actress she had many big moments, the opportunities were always there, the possibilities endless.

But she passed away so young. Far too early, well before her uniqueness was able to impact the world. If she’d fulfilled her destiny I have no doubts the legacy she would have left would have been amazing.

In addition to her talents and warmth of nature and loving disposition she was also unbelievably caring, particularly about animals. Stray dogs would never be left on the street. She would put her life in danger to rescue them if need be, take them home, tend to them, care and look after them. At one time I remember her having something like 8 or 9 dogs and 4 or 5 cats. Whether animal or human being she would never see another creature suffer and would do everything in her power to help them.

So there I am standing at her graveside pictures of Amelia-Mae now shown, and I’m asking myself why the tears. It’s 12 years since her passing.  Enough time to grieve, to say my good byes. Amelia-Mae after all carries her middle name and ensures she’ll never be forgotten.  I kept asking myself ‘Why?’

I heard from within words that I created long ago, your sister’s life meant something. Through those words I’m convinced she had delivered to me a message that I needed to be reminded of.

I then told her something that had happened to Carly at a Spiritualist Church last week. Yes I started speaking to her as though she was there with me. I felt she was.  I then said I know you already know but you spoke to Carly last week and gave her a message telling her not to give up on her dreams of acting, reminding her that acting talents ran through the family. I thanked her, both for such an encouraging message and for watching over my daughter. I then asked her to please carry on and I’m sure she is already, but also watch over Laura-Jayne and Amelia-Mae.  Carly was so excited when she told me this. It had made her so happy.  It had made a big difference for her.

Then again I heard, your sister’s life meant something. Through you let it be so. Make the difference, you know how!

I don’t know if you’ve experienced a moment like this but you start looking around to see if you can suddenly see this person you feel you are speaking with. ‘Where is she?’You then remind yourself, she is no longer here, and a coldness touches you, and you feel this sadness that’s so hard to describe.

How dare I feel sad. Any sadness can only be for me, because my sister’s life may have ended to early but the way her life was going at the end, I have no doubt she went to a better place. Secondly, how could I be sad when In some way it was now obvious, I hadn’t lost her, she was in a way still able to touch my life and communicate with me.

And the message she had given me was precious. A reminder of everything that was important to me, that could so easily be lost in the excitement and workload of building our new business.

I now knew without any doubt I had to complete my resurrection. I am now on the last leg having built a phenomenal business from the ashes of what went before. Completion isn’t far away.  I have to be the success I am destined to be using my skills, talents and passion for fitness and sport, build the ecommerce sites and relaunch a big name in the nutrition and supplement market and get a great man to the top where he is meant to be. Mind you I hope his not reading this unusual piece of writing by me. . This is all meant to be, a path I had to take. From there, for the first time I clearly now saw what else I had to do.  Bring my coaching skills, love of personal development and bring the lessons I’ve learnt and teach the ‘never give up’ philosophy.

These words came flooding into my mind … show them what your sister never learnt, how not to give up, the one thing you have demonstrated time and again throughout your life.

Then the memories came flooding back of me being constantly taken to specialists, and then the words ‘Remember you’re the kid they diagnosed would be in a wheelchair before 13.’ It was my love for playing sport and never giving up to the pain that proved those doctors and their diagnoses completely wrong.  I had not thought about this for at least 20 years.

I now knew without any doubts that my story and what I have had to contend with through my life, the way I never gave up, would be an inspiration to others. And that is the meaning of the journey I have been on, the destiny I have to fulfil.

As I draw this to an end please realise I find what I have written here as hard to comprehend as you probably do to believe.

When I deliver what it is I must, one thing you can all believe is it will be totally free because the only payment I’d ever want is to know I’ve inspired someone to fight, never give up and achieve success. Then we both can say thanks to Jan and know her life meant something.

This really was Larry Lewis, thank you for reading me today!

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Healthy Lifestyles Living - For those wishing to improve the quality of their life

So here am I sitting in Costa Coffee in Loughton, Essex. It’s so strange how different, things become over the years. This used to be part of my local area, after all, the woman I was married to for some 20 something years comes from around here. Yet sipping my skinny late and waiting for inspiration to strike for today’s impromptu blog I can’t help but overhear all the different conversations taking place around me. Two things are very noticeable. How much louder people from Essex are, and how distinctive their accent is. I would never have noticed this ten years ago, it was the norm, but now I find it quite strange. What I find even stranger is whether I perhaps now find the North East accent the norm. You have to be English to understand how strange that may be. As a Londoner once upon a time not only would a North East accent stand out from the crowd, it would be the one I wouldn’t have been able to understand much of what was being said.

I think this goes to show how the brain becomes accustomed to things. Over time you can get your mind to accept what is normality. Maybe that is why negativity is so dangerous. When we keep allowing negative thoughts to enter our mind, negative factors to influence us, then it becomes the norm, what we expect, just the way things are.

I’m here today at the end of a brilliant week. Not only have I further developed a genuinely exciting business relationship with Bio-Synergy but also to take care of my youngest daughter Carly who has had examinations this week. In fact while I write this she is sitting at Epping Forest College taking her last one for this week.

Today’s exam is in her least favourite subject. From the minute she was awake she was a completely different girl from the one I said goodnight to. Gone was the chirpy, bright, infectious chatterbox and in her place was this edgy, frightened, quiet zombie who knew she was heading to disaster. You could tell that she was constantly repeating things to herself such as ‘this is going to be a complete nightmare..’

Negativity is destructive, damaging, and downright devastating to anyone’s success as well as to their happiness.

It is easy to fall into the negativity trap. Complaining about others seems to be human nature, seeing our circumstances as being the result of external events the norm. .Once in the trap it is almost impossible to get out of it since it acts like a prison to our mind. It pulls people in and keeps them there.

Negativity can work as a virus “infecting” everything in your life, all that you do and what happens to you. It can sabotage your future.

The best antidote I can prescribe is a very simple one:

Be Positive, Remain Optimistic, Don’t Let Negativity Fog Your Thinking, when a negative thought enters your head replace it immediately with a positive one.

Whether it is a thought, an event or another person we will always find negativity that can easily influence us and create a life we don’t want to live if we let it, but we have to refuse to let any of these negative forces influence us. You are your best protector, so start protecting yourself and raise your shield to negativity.

I don’t often enough provide links, but as todays entire post is just off the cuff over a cup of coffee I may as well go with how I feel. So here is a great but simple article of things you can do to defend yourself against negativity on the brilliant marcandangel blog site:

10 ways to defend yourself against negativity

As my finishing thought we all know that are minds are constantly thinking about something, we are never without a thought or idea. In fact, it is our thoughts that define our happiness, our emotions, the way we live our lives, yes in my mind they’re that important. My success and happiness is 100% down to my ability to retain a positive mental state no matter how difficult at times circumstances may have got.

I’m not saying I was a happy, smiley chappie 24/7, after all I’m only human. I’m sure every one of you has heard of the 80:20 rule. It applies to everything, and is a sensational concept to use throughout your life. In this context I am an ultra positive person 80% of the time, the other 20 I call it my time to visit the dark side. I can assure you there’s only one side worth being on.

I hope you enjoyed today’s article, Now be positive and say, Larry it was great, and mean it! Start now and don’t let negativity in.

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Healthy Lifestyles Living - For those wishing to improve the quality of their life

I love this quote by author Alan Watts

“Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way.”

Life has to be about living. You have to set out every day to enjoy what you are doing, and to experience happiness.

Too many people put their life on hold while they try and climb what they see as the ladder of success. They have this notion that when I get to the top I’ll have both the time and money to now enjoy what I do. To these people it’s all about the destination, and the journey is their means to an end.

This is no way to live!

No matter what you do in this life, no matter what goals you reach out for, one of the most important things you must do is live every day as though it could be your last.

It’s so easy to get caught up with day-to-day living, the need to make a living or the necessity to survive in a difficult economy that you never seem to find the time to actually enjoy life.

Of course it’s unrealistic to expect every day to be full of exciting moments, but how often do you allow yourself to be adventurous or spontaneous creating exciting times in your week.

There’s a famous saying I’m sure we’ve all heard before that “Life’s not a dress rehearsal”. Life gives us one journey and it is senseless not to make the most of it. Of course you should be ambitious but at the same time enjoy life at the same time.

I admire every one of you who wants to be great. Who works long hours to make an impact in the world. Who wishes to be remembered and leave a lasting legacy. I know I do. But you have to strike a balance, with one eye on your future the other has to be with the here and now.

This week is the perfect example and has reminded me that at times I forget about the here and now. So much has been happening within the business, such great stuff that I’ve been totally absorbed, happily burning the candle at both ends. But this week I’ve come to London on business. My day times as usual have been hectic, but I have found the time to eat out with my daughter on three occasions. We have probably got to know each other better over these few days than ever before because of this time. It has been wonderful. But if I’d been at home I wouldn’t have had that time I’d have been working away. So I have come to realise you have to make the time for yourself and give those loved ones around you more of you than they’ve been getting. After all ’ all work and no play’ is another apt saying.

Work and success will always be important to us, but when we remember to Live every day as though it could be your last we are bound to enjoy the process of living far more.

There are lots of things I’m sure every one of you would want to do through your lifetime so doesn’t it make sense that you started doing some of them so as to tick them off your list.

So let me finish with a few questions.

To live as if TODAY was your last day:

What are you going to do?

Who do you need to call?

Who do you want to be with?

Now go and do each one of these things.

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Healthy Lifestyles Living - For those wishing to improve the quality of their life

Everybody has a dream at one time. A burning desire to do, be or have something. They think about it all the time, but do nothing about it.

Does this mean the world is full of dreamers but not doers?

Everyone has the potential to fulfil their dreams so why do so many people do nothing about them. A major reason seems to be the possibility that “you can’t” succeed rather than “you can” stops people from even trying. Fear is an overwhelming obstacle that we allow to build a huge barrier in our minds.

For this reason it seems so many people are putting off their dreams forever just so as to avoid the possible embarrassment of failure, and even worse stopping themselves completely from setting out on the path to making their dreams a reality so to avoid the ridicule they fear it may bring them.

No one said that it was easy to make your dreams come true, but if you can first believe that they are possible you are one step closer to having them become a reality.

I’m a firm believer in dreams. You have to believe you are capable of achieving anything you set your mind too. You can be whatever you want to be. You need to believe in the possibilities. It’s what can make life so magical.

Here am I living a life where my passions are driving me forward, and my wildest dreams are becoming a reality. But yesterday I met someone who reminded me that a big part of my journey involves me inspiring others to believe in their own dreams.

No matter our age, we all have inherent dreams and desires we would like to see come forth in our lives and it is essential we make every effort to bring them to fulfilment. . Our dreams are what we are put on earth to do.

I spent time yesterday with someone very talented who believed it was easier to just give in and give up on her dreams. She said that she needed to live in reality, and that meant foregoing her dreams. She wanted to be a singer. It was all she had ever dreamed of since leaving nappies. Her whole life she wanted nothing more than to sing. She would constantly visualise herself singing on stage, seeing the audience loving her every word. You couldn’t count the number of times she’d lock herself away in her bedroom and sing her heart out.

But would she tell a sole? No she wouldn’t. She wouldn’t want to face their ridicule, hear their discouraging words. Instead she had to convince herself that it was a foolish notion, an impossible dream, one that she best forget about. She kept reminding herself that it would be a fruitless endeavour if she ever did try to make this dream a reality. She would conform and ensure nobody could criticise her voice by making sure nobody heard it. Yet I know how beautiful it is.

Rather than achieving her dream she set out to receive the acceptance and approval of her peers. To live up to the standards she felt feel society had set for her, which meant burying her dreams. But to forego our dreams comes with a price.

Life becomes a daily grind one that is both difficult and stressful. You become tired and worn out with all areas of your life and your energy just drains away. You believe that this is how life is meant to be. It breaks my heart when I find someone young with their whole life in front of them taking an approach that leads to sadness rather than fulfilment.

Well I didn’t want such an incredible talent to be hidden from the world so I told her that achievers are believers: they believe in themselves and in their great dreams. Anything that you can dream can be totally achievable you just have to take action to achieve those dreams. Start by setting a goal towards the dream and keep moving! Life is a blank canvas and you are the painter.

We’re in so much control of the end result, we just don’t realize it. We each have so much brilliance within us; it often just doesn’t shine through. It’s time to remove your hurt, resistance and fear to become who you’re meant to be, and let your talents whatever they may be, shine.

Here is what you have to do to stop killing your dreams.

1. Start Believing

Believe in yourself and others will be forced to believe in you. Believing in yourself is all about being sure that you are going to do whatever you want and knowing you will succeed, no matter what.

“If you can believe, all things are possible to those who believe.” Mark 9:23

2. Create A Vivid Vision For Your Future

Build a vision for the future, captivating your entire heart, spirit and soul. Allow yourself to see a vision, a dream of what your life could one day stand for.

“Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.” –Jonathan Swift

3. Overcome Fear

Do not be afraid of failure. Take small steps and build your confidence up to take bigger steps. Stop the negative thinking and build positive pictures in your mind, of what your success will be like. Never be afraid of going for your dream, just know that you will regret never trying far more.

4. Develop a Success Consciousness

Develop a ‘refuse to lose’ attitude. A positive pattern of thinking, a great attitude to have, which will propel you down the road to success. This attitude can make the difference between success and failure during difficult or challenging times.

5. Never Give Up Mentality

Persistence and determination will pull you through and past any obstacle. Dedicate your life to fulfilling your dream. Be unstoppable. Do not be frightened of challenges. Focus on how to get past your challenges. Never throw in the towel. Your dreams are to precious.

6. Stop giving other people’s opinion power:

Don’t let the opinions of others influence you, and uinder no circumstances let their words hurt you. These are your dreams, and those that attack them are only jealous that you had the heart to go for yours where they threw theirs away. Believe in yourself that’s all that counts.

So get going and discover the awesome power of your dreams, and fulfil your destiny. Stop killing your dreams as though they don’t matter because you know they would be everything to you.

In the comments below I want to know-have you held yourself back from following your dreams and if so, why?

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Healthy Lifestyles Living - For those wishing to improve the quality of their life

Ask yourself that question, what is it you’ve always wanted to do? One day you will have left it to long to do those things you’ve always wanted but never got around to doing.

Have you lived life to the full, doing everything you’ve wanted when you’ve wanted?

A study claimed unless you have travelled to at least 25 foreign countries, are fluent in two languages and have performed live on stage, you have not lived life well. Researchers questioned 2,000 adults aged 18 to 65 before creating a list of the 50 things essential to do to have lived a “full” life. (Resource: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/10041055/Have-you-lived-life-to-the-full-Study-lists-activities-Britons-need-to-do-before-they-die.html)

So I want you to start thinking of the things you’ve always wanted to do, but never given yourself the opportunity to do them.

Maybe a question that would resonate better in your mind is:
If you didn’t have to worry about money, what things would you want to do?

Give yourself the permission to explore the possibilities.

What are they? List them now.

Why, oh why do so many people have the habit of delaying things until a future time. We’ve all heard the expression ‘I can’t afford to have a child’ or ‘I’m too young to get married. They then wait for this mystical right time, that perfect moment when they just know now ‘s the time.

Life’s too short to take the chance on the perfect time arriving because chances are it never will.

Life is just too short and precious to feel miserable about work or do something that you don’t care about. I believe life has to be lived, 100%. Life is about making dreams come true for yourself and people around you.

I’m not saying you need to go after these things right this very second, but I want you to let them wander around in your mind instead of burying them so that you can forget them. I want you once again to get excited about the things we could do in our lifetime, and then get around to doing something special on a regular basis.

You have to make time to do the things you want and enjoy the happiness they will bring to you.

Let me share with you my bucket list of the things I want to do before I die.

• See the Northern Lights
• Drink a beer or three at Oktoberfest in Munich
• Enjoy Carnival Time in Rio
• See the Great Barrier Reef
• Go on Safari to see wonderful creatures living in the wild
• Take the Orient Express From Venice To London
• Watch an Ashes Cricket Match at the Gabba
• See my 2 daughters develop into wonderful, happy and successful women
• Learn Spanish
• Live in Spain
• Run a marathon in under 4 hours
• Write the novel I know I have waiting inside of me
• Mentor others on the road to happiness and success
• See my grandchildren grown up

I hope that one or two of these inspire and encourage you to push your boundaries and cram as much into your life as possible.

So what is something you have always wanted to do?

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Healthy Lifestyles Living - For those wishing to improve the quality of their life

Its a small world suddenly flashed through my head today as I sit here on my computer talking and working with my business partners in the UK.

Neil Haywood is on my computer screen as if he was looking over my shoulder and Larry Lewis is in the office typing away. Meanwhile I have just woken up at 6.30am on the other side of the world in Melbourne Australia.

Our task today is to build an Amazon Shop for our website slim express. This is a health site that we want to transfer over to Australia.

I reflect on how this is possible?

The opportunities out there are just breath taking. Technology is at our disposal to the point where it is only limited by our imagination. Yet we here doom and gloom all around us.

People have buried their thoughts and energies in what they cant do and how tough everything is. Where as in reality the information age and technology have made nearly everything you can imagine possible.

What your imagination and mind can conceive technology can bring about.

The world has in fact become a global village. The internet gives us the opportunity to forge strong global relationships and build success in many different ways.

Currently at “healthy lifestyles living” we are investing a  great deal of time and energy into building e commerce shops. It is our vision and desire to create a one stop Healthy Lifestyles Living site. You will be able to visit our site. You will be able to assess your needs by reading the very informative information. You will be able to consult with experts. The best part is that you can will be able to become part of a  vibrant health concious community. As a member of that community you will be able to access a plethora of healthy lifestyles living resources.  You can then purchase everything you need to maintain your healthy lifestyle through the brand new e commerce shops that will be launched soon.

Yes there are very exciting times ahead for us all.

Once again upon reflection, how does a venture like this even become an idea. The answer here is that it evolves. You just don’t suddenly wake up and think of it.

The path to arriving at creating a brilliant idea and turning it into reality has many twits and turns. We just didn’t magically say we will have an internet site that can provide for everybody’s health needs.

The beginning of the story is all about building the relationship first. Once you begin masterminding with your team, unbelievable things begin to happen. You see, your idea maybe the beginning of elevating a new stronger version of what you suggest to the group.

This is the interesting part because if you allow this process to be the way you operate, then you can rest assured your thoughts and ideas will be challenged, sifted and sorted out. In the end it will seem like the idea has control of the whole situation. It’s like it is waiting for the group to finally get it.

A word of caution about this process. The mastermind process requires harmony and a shared vision. Power struggles just don’t work. If you are looking to build a mastermind group begin small. Begin with just one other person who stimulates your thoughts and you have a great deal in common with.

Once you establish this strong bond everything you need will begin to surface. You somehow tap into a third mind as Napoleon Hill in ‘Thick and Grow Rich” likes to refer it too. This third mind is a clone of you and your partners ideas with an extra bit of  vision thrown in.

When you begin working in this way. You constantly ask yourself “did I think of that?” Suddenly the discussion takes on a higher level of importance.

I don’t want to reveal too much about the journey we have been on just yet. At  this stage we have a work in progress sign for our vision. I will elaborate as we get closer to launching this one stop Healthy Lifestyles Platform.

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Well I have made a start, today was my first badminton lesson. I made an important discovery today. Readers of this blog will already know that one of my biggest passions is for sport. I have sport in my blood with the fact that if my Dad wasn’t talking about sales and marketing which were his work, then he would be talking about sport.

Ever since I can remember I have played one sport or another. One of my problems has always been that I only play to win. Whatever sport it was that I may have played, I would love the sport, but I’d love winning more.

My business has led me to work very close with Peter Walton a Badminton Coach, as well as Andreas Sievers of Victor International and we are also now beginning to work closely with Carlton, two of the major brands in the badminton industry.

In my mind you can’t spend all that time working in a field and not immersing yourself actively into it too. So I made the decision to pick up a badminton racket some twenty years after the last time I did. With the fact I work with one of the best coaches in North England it was a no brainer for me to ask him to help me ‘improve my game.’

Well today by badminton coaching started. Off to the Virgin Wearside Health and Racquet Club in Sunderland for coaching session number one. It was harder than I imagined it would be. Badminton is quite simply one of the most awesome sports you can play. I’m hooked after just one lesson. What a great way it is to get fit. Despite the fact that I’ve been in the gym daily for the last 2 weeks, at the end of our session I was completely exhausted, but at the same time exhilarated. What I know is that badminton can provide a great, fun way to build upper body and leg strength, increase your flexibility and agility as well as it’s a great fat burning sport to. My legs are already killing and its only been 3 hours since I left the court.

For an hour Peter helped me establish the proper way of holding the racket. He taught me how to grip it for a forehand shot and the different way for a backhand. He also showed me how not to hold the racket as though it was a 20kg weight that if I dropped it, it would smash my toes. You hold it with a light grip, which at first felt so strange. Then he showed me proper forehand and backhand strokes, and how to use my wrists. We practiced hitting shuttlecocks over the net, and he gave me some exercises to do such as bouncing the shuttlecock on your racket head, and hitting the shuttlecock with the racket behind your body. I am sure this one was thrown in to bring me to my knees, and he was nearly successful.

For me then to gauge my level I asked him to allow me to play a game against him. Me and my big mouth. Whilst I was just learning to hit the shuttle in the right direction he was hitting it at speeds that my eye couldn’t cope with, and he had this nasty soft touch where he could just drop the shuttle over the net so it trickles over and hits the ground quicker than I could get there from the back of the court.

My humiliation was complete at the end of two very close games, when Peter finally scraped through by a score of 21 to 1 and 21 to 1. I’m convinced he gave me the point in the second game otherwise I came out with a truly blitzing backhand and it was completely brilliant. The benchmark has been set. I’m hooked. I know me and that silly winning mentality that I love so much. I will not stop learning now till my game improves and the day comes when I beat Peter, not just get two points a game. If you read this Peter, I lay the challenge, but you’ve got to keep coaching me because you’re an awesome teacher. Your passion for the game has definitely rubbed of on me.

So my message to my readers. If you’re a little bit bored with your inactive lifestyle then do something to break the habit of vegging out on the couch. Take up a brilliant game like badminton. From what I’ve already learned it’s a great way to get fit, have fun, vent your frustrations, and make some friends.

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It’s easy for me to say enjoy the ride but life’s journey is not always pretty. At times life will try to beat you down and break you if it can. Things can get pretty confusing, unclear and terrifying. You will face setbacks, breaking points, and failure. Others may question you, some go as far as to doubt you, a few will ridicule you. Yet you must continue going forward, and try to enjoy the ride, and never allow yourself to fall off.

Your path will never be a straightforward one, the road rarely clear, and your destination at times uncertain. Sometimes you will feel lost, abandoned, desperate to find the right path for you. Every which way you turn you seem to find closed doors or dead ends. Well keep moving, keep turning, because you will find the right road.

You need to be an adventurer excited about your journey of exploration and what lies ahead and brave enough to keep taking steps forward, while strong enough to get through the obstacles you meet. None of us know what lies ahead. We have no certainty about where we will come out on our journey. My compass has always been my belief, it knows what I do is right, where I’m going is meant for me, and I make sure I enjoy the ride no matter how bumpy it may be.

Each one of our journey’s is unique. The path I’ve chosen is a different one to you. My heart and soul know this is my path, it just feels right. When I take wrong turns I soon find out because that’s when things go wrong. When I’m back on the right track, magically everything seems to go my way. There is no coincidence in this. .

Don’t allow negativity to stop you in your tracks. You get spend more time thinking and analyzing what steps to take in life than actually taking them. Stop with all this wasted time, and let your spontaneous nature kick in and get moving in life.

In my journey I have had to deal with so much uncertainty. I have met many crises on the way. But what is the point in worrying about the future or allowing it to stop you from moving forwards. If you allow the hard parts of life to get to you, then anxiety and stress will make you feel like you have no control over anything in your life and that life’s just a vicious cycle taking you from one disaster to the next.

Your hands are not tied, nor your legs bound so you are in control of the route that you take. So listen to your own heart to find the path that’s right for you. Momentum is one of the most powerful life forces. A few small steps forward will eventually lead to giant strides, so setting out on a journey now will mean that some time ahead you can reached your desired destination.

It’s always the small things you do that can have the biggest impact in your life.

Your future is not a result of random decisions made. Your future is a specific place that is created first in your mind and then it is created in your actions. The future is not where you go. Your future is the place you create.

~ Darryl L. Mobley

When you set yourself free to go on a journey of your choosing through life you will find opportunities where before there has only been limitations.

I’ve worked hard to get to the point where I’m at, and have had many lucky breaks on my journey. Whether these would have come my way if I hadn’t followed my own path, one around my passions, Im very doubtful. We make our luck, by choosing our right paths.

Your potential awaits you on the road. You just have to get moving down it. There is so much possible for you, but it’s up to you to lead yourself to an exhilarating life fulfilling your potential.

Walk strong and meet every challenge so you create your most remarkable life and let excitement keep you going. Enjoy the Ride!

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