Tag: joy

  • What Are You Leaving Behind?

    Think about the last 24 hours of your life – where have you been? What did you leave behind? For example, I visited my yoga teacher and left behind a bag of damsons (which was a good thing!). I met friends in the pub and left laughter (because I was so tired I thought someone’s…

  • Pursuing Outrageous Joy

    Somewhere this week, I came across the phrase “outrageous joy”. It has totally caught my imagination, and I’ve decided my new ‘job’ is to find and bring outrageous joy. What does this mean in practice? I have thrown away the ‘to do’ lists, I am not doing any ‘should’s, I am spending more time with…

  • What Lifts Your Soul?

    I was watching the coverage of Glastonbury festival this weekend, half wishing I was there (it’s the mud that puts me off!) and enjoying the special soul-lifting moments that (for me anyway) music always seems to bring. Like Blur (one of my favourite bands in the 90’s) finishing with The Universal. Stunning. “It really, really,…

  • Giving Me Good Vibrations

    Woo, I’ve been feeling GOOD these past few days – I’m cheerful, laughing easily, happy, delighted with life…and the outer circumstances of my life have not changed one bit. So it’s not a new bloke, or a brace of new clients, or 1000 sales of my ebook, or any other outside influence. It’s pure bliss,…

  • Why is Rest a Dirty Word?

    Tell me something: Why is it that we find it desirable to work so hard that we have no time for our family and friends? Why is it that we are impressed by people who are terribly busy? Why is it that our working lives are dominated by stress and tension and no one sees…

  • Waking Up From the Dream

    I was reading a blog post from break the illusion last week about the idea that life is but a dream that we wake up from when we ‘die’. I like to think that when I wake up from this dream, I’ll be really laughing at how seriously I took myself sometimes…and when I think…

  • Your Friday Mission…

    …Should you choose to accept it: Each day of this weekend, remove one thing from your life that brings you down and add one thing that brings you up. It’s the simplest of missions – and actually, what a joyful, happy life would be all about if we paid attention. Instead we are so busy…

  • Is “The Flow” Your Travelling Companion?

    Do you know the phrase “going with the flow”? What does it mean to you to “go with the flow”? Are you going with the flow as much as you would like to? To me, going with the flow means taking the path that’s in front of me, instead of trying to hack through the…

  • Video: Pay Attention to Your Guidance

    Video: How does your guidance come to you? EG Bruce Almighty – the signs are everywhere, and hugely obvious but Bruce cannot see them because he is looking for God to speak in a different way. Someone could be talking to someone else, but their words are also for your ears. How do you know?…

  • A Mirror to Your Magnificence

    Video: Have you any idea how special you are, and how your gifts are needed in this world? Surround yourself with people who can mirror that magnificence back to you, both by being their magnificence and by being able to see yours. Coaches are delighted to be a mirror for your magnificence, to find out…