Random Acts of Kindness

If you want to see more kindness in the world, give it out…

I was recently on my way home after speaking at a conference and drove through the village where I live. I went into the corner shop to pick up some bread and milk and there was a boy of about five or six years old in front of me in the queue. He had a bottle of pop in his hand and the lady who was serving frowned and told him in a loud shout to put the pop back as he was 5p short. I watched the child’s physiology crumble in embarrassment as he went to put the pop back on the shelf and behind me the queue was growing with very impatient people.
Then it was my turn to pay for the milk and bread; I asked the woman to take an extra 5p from my change and pay towards the little boy’s pop.

As I walked out of the shop I could see the little boy’s eyes fill with delight when the woman shouted to him to go back and bring the bottle of pop back to the counter.

Where in life can you pay forward for someone else and make their day?

Random acts of kindness can change a life…

Do the Difficult Things First

Have you ever heard the phrase, ‘do the difficult things first’?

What if for the next thirty days you started the day with what you found difficult in life.  I tried the experiment in September.  I got up every morning and started with what I had most resisted in my life… EXERCISE!

I had resisted exercise so much so that at first I felt allergic to it.
The excuses I used were:

• I hate gyms.
• I am far too busy.
• I don’t want to have a bad hair day.
• I will start tomorrow.

Well tomorrow never came until the 1st September, 2010, when I got out of bed at my usual 5:05am, took the jogging pants out of the wardrobe and met my new personal trainer.

Looking back I could barely walk after the first few sessions. However after about four weeks something began to shift in me. All my excuses began to fall away and I didn’t see exercise as difficult any more.

What’s difficult right now in your life?

Tips on How to Overcome It

• Make a decision to do the things you have been most resisting.
• Run towards the fear of what has been stopping you and leave your comfort zone.
• Every morning that you awake, start with what’s most challenging.

It is now nine weeks since I started exercising and here are the results:

• My BMI has dropped 9 points.
• I have now to date lost 21lbs in weight.
• As for feeling good, I have much more energy and clarity in my thinking.

I encourage you today to start doing the difficult things first in your life.

Intellectual Constipation

Life is meant to be simple.  However, in this fast changing world we sometimes complicate life and add too much fluff.  We become emotionally constipated which can lead us to feel de-motivated and often feelings of self-doubt can creep in.

I encourage you to let go and simplify work to eliminating any destructive inner conversations that you might have with yourself.

• What is it that makes you happy?
• What do you really want to do?
• Why do you do what you are currently doing?

Most people are not living the way they want to live.  Why?  Because their lives are very often about how can I get more.

What if from today you changed that mantra to how can I be more?

Be the best you that you can be…

What’s All This Busyness About

As the last months of 2010 pass by, this is the time of year when I take time to reflect, press the pause button and stop.

Business wise and family wise it has been a successful year.  Why? Because I stopped being busy all the time on what didn’t matter and became busy with what’s most important in life.  For me it has been family health and developing a world class business.  The only person you impress with your busyness is yourself.  In fact, in life we can become addicted to being busy achieving nothing, yet all the time the clock ticks by.

Imagine being told you had seven days to live and you suddenly realised what you had been doing wasn’t all that important.  No one wants to get to their last days and realise they wasted their life.

Molly’s Top Tips

• Stop the clock.
• Question all your busyness.
• Let go of distractions in your life.
• Say no to others, so you can say yes to what matters.
• Start to build your legacy.

The Power of Passion

Are you currently living a life where you are excited to get out of bed each day? If not, why not?

I recently saw a short video of Les Brown and he spoke about the two best days of our lives. The first being the day you were born and the second being the day you knew why you were born and what you were here to do.

Life is really about being the best that you can be and that inspires everyone else you meet to be themselves and find their passion.

• What do you love to do?
• What is it that makes you happy?
• What is it that makes you shine?

I encourage you to open up to the possibilities that have yet to unfold in your life. Go out and find a mentor who can see the gifts in you that you cannot yet see in yourself.

Most people are not living the way they want to live, don’t be part of the crowd. Find your passion and create your own life.

Smash the Rules That No Longer Serve You

What rules in your life hold you back? What rules no longer serve you?
To dream big and play big in life, we have to let go of what no longer serves us.

While speaking to a great friend and business associate Louise from Minneapolis recently, we were talking about the baggage of life. She had been to a seminar where she heard a great saying…
'That as human beings, we often carry baggage and cargo.'

Baggage is all to do with our own experiences and limiting beliefs in life. However, cargo is very often the stuff people carry that is not even their own. Imagine for a moment, how much more clarity and focus would be in your life if you let go of any old rules that no longer serve you and stopped carrying any cargo that is not your own.

Smash the rules, life is too short to do guilt.

Watchfulness

Have you even thought about watching yourself? It is all about observing and getting yourself involved in the right thinking.

I first learned about watchfulness when I lived in the west of Ireland. One of my greatest mentors in life was a priest called Fr. Jimmey O’Connell who taught me the gift of observing and being silent to your own presence.

I encourage you to spend one day…

• Watching your thoughts.
• Watching and being awake to what you do in the world.
• Watch what and who you are listening to.
• Watch who you spend time with in the day.
• Watch what you read.

Then sit and write what you have learned about yourself.

Too often in life when we are not watching, our mind becomes wide open to suggestions from outside sources. Only get involved with the right thinking.