Catalysts for success

 

                                                                                       Edition 392 Monday 14/08/17

 

Hi,phase two Operation “August Birthdays” moved into top gear as we built up for the 5^th birthday extravaganza at the Muriwai Fire Station!I have never watched and listened so intently to so many weather forecasts!In the end we just felt the fear and went for broke anyway.Fortune favoured the brave, the weather gods smiled on us and nothing but ‘kid chaos’ reigned supreme.Twenty x four and five year olds turbo charged with sweets,fairy bread,marshmallows,chocolate cake and cheerios took control of the place!

Fletcher reckons,the bouncy castle was a winner,closely followed by the ‘old school’ sack races and an ambitious attempt by his Mum to get teams of hypo kids to build structures with marshmallows and toothpicks!...amazingly successful I have to humbly concede!!

Something funny about stress is we waste endless amounts of energy worrying about things we cant control when we should focus on what we can and let the other stuff just happen anyway….easier said than done but very true (don’t sweat the small stuff??).

We were blown away by the help we received from friends and the generous gifts received,we have a lot to be grateful for and need to focus on that more at times when we may too easily think we are hard done by, we need to ask ourselves…compared to who???

So what now?....on to the old fellahs birthday….the less fuss the better I say!!

Have a great week being grateful for everything you do have…………Cheers Jonesey.

 

Kate Henderson reckons the left over sausages and cheerios were a winner! J

 

 

“Inspiration acts as a catalyst for success”. Sam Veda

 

Life is a series of events that happen or are caused depending on various catalysts.

For example if we are disorganized then we typically achieve less in a day/week/year.

If we don’t get enough sleep we don’t perform at our peak, we struggle.

If we don’t exercise we are lethargic, apathetic and slow off the mark.

 If we have a negative attitude we live in denial while criticizing and blaming others!

All of the above examples provide catalysts for poor performance or failure.

So in order to avoid that outcome what can we do to create catalysts for success?

The first amd most obvious thing we can do is the opposite to all of the above!

Get organized, have a plan(written) and follow it, tick things off as you do them.

Get at least eight hours sleep a night, exercise for 30 minutes daily which only needs to increase heart rate not take it off the scale eg; a simple walk on the local park/beach.

Develop a positive attitude (‘Upbeat’) to life by being grateful for what you have rather than moaning about what you don’t have.

Getting simple things like these right sets us up for the best catalyst to succeed.

Easy to say but hard to ensure that we get the basic building blocks in place however it is achievable as long as we focus on them daily.

We have talked in the sizzle before about the importance of planning,planting daily fire starters and listing three things every day we are grateful for but what else can we do?

I have started listing a couple of things I know I am good at daily and combined this with some self talk….like “I am going to have a great day today because I like talking to people”.

I am going to have a successful day today because I like helping people regardless”.

Or how about this one “I am going to have fun today lauging at myself because Im funnyJ”.

Lets face it the sky is the limit, have fun creating your catalyst for success….good luck!!

 

“Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change”.Wayne Dyer