'Get' Yourself

Do you 'get' you?

Do you get how great you really are?

As soon as you do, you are instantly bigger, taller, brighter, more full of yourself. I'm not talking about being conceited, I'm talking about having a healthly level of self-confidence. Giving yourself a bit of an ego boost and revelling in the awesomeness that is you.

I want you to make a list titled 'Reasons to feel immensely proud of myself'. Jot down three things that come to mind immediately. This list tells you how brilliant you already are, how clever, how accomplished, how downright brilliant. Unless you appreciate your worth and value in this way, it is hard for you to use it or make it work for you.

Think of it this way, it is like you have banked all these riches without making them grow or even buy anything useful. Go on. Impress yourself. Have a metaphorical growth spurt in less than five minutes. In our busy lives, especially at this busy time of year, it is easy to lose sight of who you are.

The key to more power is to appreciate your own value. Look at your list. I want you to make this list so good, so thorough that you swell with pride at the sight of yourself laid bare. Fill yourself up with respect. Rise up in your own estimation. Focus on that list every evening for a week. Slowly but surely, you will grow in stature each and every day.

Get into the habit of regular appreciation and admiration for yourself. I promise you, this isn't an indulgence. It is a way of looking at yourself that gives you access to your own power base. The stronger you are within, the more it shows on the outside. Your power and poise should be written all over you.

You are fabulous.

Go 'get' you!

Time Is Money... So Spend It Wisely

I went to the cinemas last night to see the new Justin Timberlake / Amanda Seyfried movie "In Time" - and I found the movie fascinating!

The basic premise of the movie, is a future where people stop aging at 25, but are engineered to live only one more year beyond that - and the currency of society is time. They 'earn' additional time through hard work or thievery, and 'spend' their minutes or hours on purchases like coffee, cars, rent etc.

The notion of time is money is not a new one, but this movie explores that notion in a literal sense. The ghetto was filled with people who were time-poor and living from day to day, not game to waste a minute, living life in the fast-lane. The upper class have centuries to live, but they take life at such a slow and leisurely pace that they never really live a day in their life.

The concept is not really that far off reality. So many of us take time for granted. We act like we've got time to burn. True the vast majority of us are going to live well beyond the 25 years of age that many died at in the movie, but the harsh reality of life is that we don't know which day is going to be our last. As anyone who has lost someone they love to illness or accident long before old-age took hold can attest, you should always cherish today.

Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have - so spend it wisely.

Life is a great and wondrous mystery, and the only thing we know that we have for sure is what is right here right now. So don't miss it. Don't waste it. Get out there and make the most of it!