I look up at the sky and I'm thinking.....

Well, ain't life a b**ch!! 

God certainly has a sense of humour!!! 

You have got to be shi**ing me! 



All of the above filled my head one day, after a situation occurred where I had to Woman Up and accept some personal truths. 

It began before that, when a thought popped into my head.  I have no clue where it came from. Put it popped!!

This thought was about giving up expectations.  
Simple right??!! 
I'm discovering, The truth always is, Simple. 

I had been pulling my self too and fro because of the expectations I had about situations and people in my life, I ended up pre-empting absolutely everything and was driving myself loca!!! 

Anyway!! so when this thought shook me, 
I loved it. 
The 1st day I let go of my expectations, I had an amazing day. 
I was uber productive and I think it was because I was focused on what I had to do and not anticipating, pre-empting or trying to guess the outcome of situations or even peoples responses or actions.

Just saying that feels lighter, cause that's a whole lot of energy I just freed up.


Then life dropped me a funny one. 
A few different situations where I had to take a good look at some choices I'd made.
How I show up in my relationship with others and how I allowed others to treat me and so on and so on.....

The thing that I love but sometime erkes me about taking total and complete responsibility for my life is, yes, it empowers me with choice.  
No matter what happens I have choice, no victims on this train.
But sometimes, just sometimes I feel;


Well, ain't life a b**ch! 

                                            God certainly has a sense of humour! 
                                        
                            You have got to be shi**ing me! 

 Perhaps that's the old she trying to get a word in;)
   
                           

On refection, It was simply a heads up! 
A keep your awareness up and Be who you say you want to Be.









That's it!!!;o)  

Sunny Days

I consider myself a little solar powered.

I say that because even though I carry/store the sun inside me (so I've been told) I get an extra spring in my step when the sun shines.

There's something about London town and the people who live here that switches, energies even smiles more on a sunny day.

In the cold and rain we just wanna get where we're going and what the hell are you so happy about, is the look I get as I spring down the road.

The only other thing outside of sunshine that made London,  and all who sail in her smiley, energised and a wonderfully pleasant place and people to be around was the Olympics and Paralimpics. 

I believe people were truly inspired on so many levels and I was happy I was around to see it feel it and experience it.  Glad I didn't fly but supported team GB! Actually team JA mostly. 
Jamaica land we love!!

Those sunny days;) 

Self Sabbotage

Imagine you meet your Mr right, your soul mate, I call him; El Sr. Excepcional (Mr Exceptional). 
Of course the Higher She wants an exceptional Higher He;)

It's all wonderful, I mean this guy is ticking all the boxes, hell!! he's ticking boxes you never knew you wanted ticked. 
I did say he's exceptional.

It's a wonderful sunny day in paradise but is it? I get a feeling something has to be wrong with it! 
It's all too good to be true!!!
I hear that a lot in my business "It's too good to be true", as if being "too good" was a problem, a negative. 
Go figure!!
         
     Anyway back to the point. I go digging for problems. 

Life has a way of giving you exactly what you ask/search for.  

Found me some prize problems.

So there I am, like a scene from a movie called Dragon, it's about Bruce Lee's life.
In the scene he's in a mirrored room facing his demon and the glass starts breaking in different places. He then fights his demon.

It's me in that mirrored room, facing my dug up problem, my relationship demon, basically!!! my dumb arse habits that do not and will never serve me in being part of a happy, loving, harmonious couple. 

The wonderful thing, about a life's journey of learning and personal growth is it is continuous and it affects all aspects and areas of life.
If I want different results I have to do things differently. 
Definition of insanity "doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results" 
DUHHHH!! 

So we look at the (dug up) problem together in a calm and loving way.  We move forward and peace and blue skies return to paradise.

The lessons learnt?? oohhh yes!!! 
Be aware of the demon, the crazy habits that show up when in intimate relationships. 

This isn't about being with a perfect man in some perfect relationship.  For me it's about being with someone who loves who I am right now.  
Someone who understands the importance of my journey.  Someone who's also on his own journey and together or trips, will be EXCEPCIONAL (EXCEPTIONAL!!)

Be Water my friend ~ Bruce Lee
Scene from Dragon, Bruce fighting his demon

And for this I am truly Grateful....

I forgot to publish this one;p  Better late than never lol!!!
enjoy!


It's Spring and Spring is my element.  I'm a spring baby, hence my undying optimism I am often told.  As if there was something wrong with being optimistic.


Recently some friends of mine has been through some rough times.  I've been able to help.  Which I must admit felt great because they have helped me in the past and it feels good to be able to be on the giving side for a change.
It has humbled me greatly.  It made me think about giving and receiving and how often as a modern women I want to do everything myself.   If it's broke, I'll fix it!! If I need it I'll buy it! if I'm in need I sort it out and tell you about it once I'm done mmmmmnnnn sound familiar?


I am sooooo blessed to have amazing family and friends how love and support me but I sometime forget to use that support system,  I don't mean use as in take advantage of. I mean use as in let them help, support and love me.  Life is too short.  I was not put on this planet to be a one woman show.  We are a theatre of charaters, personalities, opinions and dreams.  If we dont stay conected we miss so much of lifes sweetness.


So busy doing that we dont feel, So busy thinking that we dont see, So busy planning that we dont live.


The more I listen, read, learn and grow, the more I realize I dont know.  That excites me, makes me feel that life is always challenging me as I challenge myself and for that I am truly grateful

Staying On Track!!!

So I've got all my goals and dreams and plans.  Plans to get things done.  Things that I've said to myself are important in order for me to get to where I've said I wanna be.

 

Excited! Ready to run! Ready to take on the world :o)

Then what happens?  Well 6, 7 months in I'm not were I said I wanted to be?  Don't get me wrong I am so highly favoured and truly blessed. 
Where I am now is definitely further along, it's a great place on my journey with extra goodies I wasn't expecting. 


But life just keeps happening. You ever heard that one?  
"I was heading this way and life happened"  
"I was coming to meet you and something important came up";)
Funny how the something that turns up is always important.

ANYWAY!!!, so I was on track, taking action that was in alinement with the end in mind and so on and soon...  Then life kept happening and days, weeks maybe even months later I stopped look around and thought, What the hell am I doing here and how did I get here... 

                 Things that make you go mmmmmnnnnn.


Listening to audio's reading life changing books and just staying plugged into positive influences around me is a HUGE part of my Higher She journey.


So one day I'm listening to The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson and I have a " OMG that's totally amazing" moment.  
The chapter's entitled Course Correction.  It talks about an Apollo space craft and how this amazing peice of state of the art techonlogy on it's way into space is off course 90% of its journey and that every 29 out of 30 minutes this massive space craft is correcting it's course. 


I'm listening to it and thinking "that's it"!!!,  if it's good enough for NASA, it's good enough for my life.  
So I've decided that instead of worrying about being off track,  (and BTW, worrying is praying for what I don't want to happen)
I'll just keep correcting my course, readjusting it. 
keep checking myself each day.  My thoughts, actions, the people around me and most importantly for me personally, enjoying the ride, apprecating the awesome views and the fabulous people that I'm travelling with. 
If I stay on this road long enough I'll get what I seek.


Fun Freedom And Fulfilment ;o)

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Go visit:  The Slight Edge 

It's A New Dawn:)

It's the new year babe!!! WHHHOOOPPPIII!! 
For most of us we officially get to start again.  We get to leave the old us behind.  We get to be better, healthier, fitter, sexier, smarter, richer and and and and......
Or do we?
Well for the 1st time in a long time I did things a little differently;)


2011 for me was phenomenal right up until it's very end:). 
Because I've been creating my life by design DUH!!! Lol!

I'd been procrastinating about doing exercise all through 2011, driving myself and other people nuts with my YEAH BUT!! Stories... You know them right?? Your own YEAH BUT stories???


So on Sunday December 4th 2011 I joined the gym. 
Went to Body Conditioning class on Monday,  had a blast, pulled a muscle in my hamstring and hobbled around for a few days. OH JOY;)
I got going anyway.  I was in an aerobics class on boxing day and by Jan 3rd I was on a role and hooked on the new found energy.

Fast forward back to December quickly.  Because I took action on that one thing, I started doing other cool stuff.  
Organised my home, bought some great books and read them, met people I hadn't seen all year.

I wrote my goals, deciding  to create for myself a limitless 2012:) I felt like December 2011 wasn't the end.  I just had unfinished business.
That to me felt sooooo fabulous.


That's the secret sauce I found, once I started taking action I felt
unstoppable.  In quite a relaxing way because it was the Xmas season, I wasn't running my business and my gorgeous son was spending Xmas holidays with his Dad. So Leon's Mummy, became Evette Launica Franklin for two weeks:)


Anyway point being on December 31st 2011 while everyone was saying OK that's over.  New start, know I can be better, healthier, fitter, sexier, smarter, richer and and and......... 
I was at complete peace for the first time in a long while on a New Years Eve night. 
By Jan 2nd I was on the move, in the gym, making calls, connecting for business. Was an interesting day because not everyone was ready yet (bank holiday, hungover, recovery day:)
Well! except the people at the gym and in my packed out Zumba class.


It's all good, we are all living in our truth, on our individual journeys, wearing our coloured glasses (weather, they be rose tinted or not;)


I'm learning that everyday is my new years day, everyday is a new chance to be the higher me. 


"It's a new dawn, its a new day, its a new life for me and I'm feeling good" (EVERYDAY;)

Nina Simone/ Feeling Good     http://youtu.be/h8tuTSi6Sck

Wishing you all a limitless 2012:)


"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." - Gandhi