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Sometimes in life, it rains

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It is not possible to only have sunny days, sometimes in life, it rains. Sometimes it is torrential and goes on for hours or even days.

Life is like the weather, there are good and bad days.

We need both the sun and the rain in life, without them, there would be no life. The darker moments and rainy days in our lives serve a purpose too.

They help us appreciate the good things in life more, they help us learn and how we deal with them is a choice.

We can choose to allow the rainy days to bring us down, we can choose to ignore the fact that the sun always returns and we can choose to allow them to influence how we see ourselves and the situation.

Naturally, we can choose the opposite, so we decide what to make to them no one else.

Whatever it is in life, it is never as bad as we programme ourselves to think and it passes.

Cherish the sunny days and let go of the rainy ones.

The costumes we wear

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Yesterday we went to the temple at Uluwatu and watched an amazing show called the Fire Dance. All the main characters in the story being told wore different, very colourful and amazing costumes.

Without these costumes, sure the dance would have still been good, but it would not have been spectacular, the very best it could have been.

The costumes were the finishing touches, the things that made the characters come to life and it completely enriched the story being acted out.

In life and in business, it is the small finishing touches that we add to the things that make all the difference. It is what turns the good to outstanding, the ordinary to brilliant, it is what makes us remarkable or not.

It is often the smallest of things that make the biggest difference.