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A Will, A Way.

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Posted by Irene Ephraim in Lessons Learnt, Life

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61e5e7a5-db4a-413c-90cf-3df76b6e053cI have been willing myself to complete a post for weeks now to no avail. Five different topics with a beginning, a middle and no end. Huff.

As I finished writing that last sentence, a thought came to me to just post one as is, and that’s what I’m going to do.

Too often we let perfectionism block and stop us from showing up, believing that we have to present a completely finished & polished product, and truthfully we don’t. What’s much more revolutionary than that is being your authentic self and simply showing up the best way you know how, rough edges and all.

So here is one I started a month ago and haven’t edited or completed.  And maybe I will, maybe I won’t.

” Remove and Replace

Whatever expectations you’ve had for your life for the last few years or decades, perhaps it’s time you let up and release them.

We can get so caught up in what we think it should be and forcefully try and make things happen, that we actually miss out on the opportunities right in front of us.

That doesn’t mean never getting the things you want, it’s more about adjusting your lens to capture what already exists and making it better.

I was having a conversation with a friend about life and its fragility and because of that, again I thought are can we really afford to get stuck on the things that haven’t worked? to hold grudges? to wallow in self-pity? to allow negativity?  Sure, its easier said than done. And yes it’s something to be practice and there is no time like the present.

So many of us give up on the first try, because we’re so stuck on how we envisioned it happening that we haven’t stopped to consider other options.”

Xo

Don’t Sleep on Yourself

21 Friday Jul 2017

Posted by Irene Ephraim in Dreams, Experiences, More Action, Motivation

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I was looking through Instagram as you do and I came across the fabulous shoe designer Monika Chaing. After browsing through a few of her pictures, I was transported back to 2010 when I had aspirations of creating a shoe line that would represent all the different sides of me-I love shoes!

That same year I was at a club with Jon B (yes the Jon B) and he commented on how he loved my shoes and that his wife would love them too.  A tiny piece of me died inside, talk about missed opportunity. The shoes I was wearing at the time were not my own design, there were a pair of Kurt Geiger shoes, but just imagine if they were? Ugh.

Thing is I had been working on the shoe line but was yet to have a product in my hand. I thought to myself if only I had a little bit more time I could have passed on my details and the rest would have been history.

Needless to say that over time I became weary and stopped trying.

Looking through Monika Chaing’s feed reminded me of that and all the other ideas (there have been many) that I had started, made progress on and then shortly gave up on. Where would they have been now if I persisted? What could I have created within the last 10 years if I had stuck through all the obstacles that I would have faced? I don’t even want to think about it, but I do know there’s a high chance I wouldn’t be sitting behind my work desk typing this.

What I hadn’t realised at the time was that dreams do not manifest overnight. They are like babies, they have to be nurtured and attended to constantly. Did you hear me? Constantly!

Now I’m not about to be all self-deprecating after all I have blogged for 3 years and that for me is an accomplishment!

Do something now that your future self will thank you for. It could be in any area of your life, great or small. Start and persist with it and remember Rome was not built in a day.

You owe it to yourself to live out your dreams to the fullest.

Xo

Is There A Better Time Than Now?

06 Wednesday May 2015

Posted by Irene Ephraim in Life, Motivation, Self-Development

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Is there a better time than now?

Have you ever looked back at a picture and thought ‘man things were good then’ or ‘It wasn’t even that bad’. I’m sure we all have, and pondered why we did not appreciate that period as much as we should have.

So many of us live for the future and end up missing out on the beauty of right now. We try  to schedule ‘living life’ the way we want to for another time, rather than enjoying the present moment and all it has to offer. 

We are either living in the past or living in hope of the future, whilst completely disregarding what it is immediately before us.

If there is something you want to do, do it now! and if it’s something that cannot occur immediately then prepare for it. Stop waiting on someone or something to happen before you begin to relish how good you have/had it. 

Stop thinking about what you want to do and start doing! Irrespective of how big or small it may be,make haste as tomorrow isn’t promised to anyone and any day lived is as good as it gets. 

I’ll leave you with a few quotes to ruminate over…

And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years- Abraham Lincoln 

I’m less interested in why we’re here. I’m wholly devoted to while we’re here-Erika Harris 

I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find out that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well-Diane Ackerman

Yes I pinched them off the internet, but they are quotes that resonate with today’s message.

Carpe Diem!

Till tomorrow…

 

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