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Put a spring in your step

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On a day to day basis it is worth pausing and breaking off from what you are doing, and as many times as you want, to look at something funny, something that will make you laugh or listening to some music that will put a spring in your step.

It makes such a difference to all that we do, when we are upbeat, positive and happy. We can choose to be those things and fun helps to make that happen.

It doesn’t have to be for any other reason, other than it is fun, and whatever makes you happy is worth doing.

All too often we get so into our work, that we do not pause or take a moment for a laugh. It is so important to add some fun and happiness into everything that you are doing on a day to day basis.

Remember, there is no book on life, the rules are what we choose to make them. Where does it say that you can’t make yourself laugh or smile or have fun. If you are in an environment that does not value that, then perhaps you need a different environment.

We all too often try to allocate specific times for ‘fun’ – why not make your life fun FULL STOP

A stranger

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We pass so many people in the street, or sit next to a person on a train, plane, bus and over the course of a lifetime, we pass by 1,000’s of people.

I wonder how different our lives would be, if say just once a month we stopped for a moment and spoke to one of those strangers? Someone in a bar, next to us at the bus stop, sitting in a park, or in shop.

Over a year that would be 12 different people that we would have spoken to, and who knows where that may have lead.

If once we’d got into the habit of speaking to a stranger more regularly, perhaps we could even speak to a stranger once a week. A stranger is a weird term, it could be neighbour that we have never spoken to.

That would then be 52 strangers that we could have spoken with.

All too often we say ‘I need more opportunities’ – well maybe we just need to think a bit differently as to how we can create them.