When Life Gives You Lemons, Make Lemonade

Ref: Action For Happiness
 

Appreciating The Gift of Choices in Life.

Ref:Action For Happiness

Season For Small Acts of Random Kindness

 

Ref: Action For Happiness

Mental Health Awareness Week 2022 - Loneliness

To cope with loneliness and improve your general mental health we need to do things we enjoy that keeps us busy and occupy our mind. Engaging with others and doing some physical activities. Might be worth getting yourself a nice pet like dogs and most importantly subscribing to talking therapies and there are lots of free services available online within your local districts. Be proud of who you are, you may be just be inspiring someone by being you.

Ref:Mental Health Foundation

Keys To Happier Living

Start your day with inside out and not outside out. Allow yourself to be happy; tell yourself you deserve to be happy. Like always attitude of gratitude is key to a healthy lifestyle.

Ref: Action For Happiness

Gratitude turns what we have into enough.

An attitude of gratitude means making it a conscious habit to express thankfulness and appreciation for every part of your life. Having an attitude of gratitude means you operate from a place of abundance, rather than scarcity. 

A young boy from this news link demonstrated how the attitude of gratefulness and passion for what you love can also produce a ripple effect of kindness in return.

Sometimes worry does not change anything, rather a good attitude and proactive decisions can help salvage one from the unknown.

When you think about what impact you can make on others, the universe will also find a way to reward you unprecedentedly.

Being grateful will make you appreciate everything, and express gratitude every day. It will also make you Surround yourself with a gratitude mindset focused on people. It will make you take ownership of your present and also make you commit to a gratitude practice on a daily basis

Ref:

Lucemi Consulting

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Crab Effect on The Human Mindset

The crab effect or crab mentality is a factual concept that can be attributed to various situations and environments.  The concept is well illustrated through close observation of how crabs when stuck together inside a closure with an opening-like bucket tried to ensure none escape from that closure.

Each time one of them climbs up and tries to escape through the opening another will quickly climb up and drag the other down. 

This phenomenon is like a vicious cycle each of the crabs keeps doing this to another to ensure none escape as long as they're all stuck in the same trap. And it's almost like the survival of the fittest and takes luck for one to escape from that trap without others trying to drag you down to the same level as all.

This mentality in psychology is best described as a way to showcase how self-centered and the kind of mindset certain people feel within a group, and can go any length to sabotage the progression of others in the same group. 

Nobody ever rises by pulling another down but we can only rise by lifting others. Crab mentality takes nobody anywhere. The attitude of gratitude and appreciation is the best, looking back and having a self-reflection and appreciating progress you have made from the point you are now. Instead of exhausting your negative energy in focusing on the progression of people around you, you should best channel your positive energy into being grateful and looking for a better way to develop yourself. 

Have a quiet moment of self-reflection and most importantly try to reach out to ask for help from genuine support systems. Ask for an introduction and be determined to focus all your energy on finding a way to help yourself and in return help others. That crab illustration is a typical mindset where everyone in a certain group is after how to escape and abandon others into the same cycle that is why they keep pulling each other down. Your mindset is what is going to take you to other places and into new opportunities, your mindset is what is also going to keep you stuck into the same cycle of myopic and mediocrity way of reasoning.

Ref:Image greatergood.berkeley.edu, compassionkindness.com/all-good-things-come-from-gratitude

Rose, Shamrock, Thistle and Daffodil Flowers

The four nations of Great Britain have their patron saints and flowers associated with them. These has historical or cultural interpretation following periods of war, peace, enlightenment, etc.

Rose flower and St George are symbols of England

Shamrock flower and St Patrick are synonymous with Northern Ireland

Thistle flower and St Andrew represents Scotland

Daffodil flower and St David are symbols of Wales

Ref: Project Britain, great British gardens, historic-uk, myirishjeweler, gardening101

Sunny Summer Day in the Park

In the face of courage never be discouraged.

 

You are what you believe; believe well.

The Beauty of Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity

This artwork is quite amazing with many interpretations. I can relate it to the famous Nelson Mandela quote.' If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. 

It also encourages the beauty of diversity in every environment.

Ref: lemn sissay MBE

Life is more about consistency, Intensity steals the limelight

Live and Let Live

Ref: facebook backround

There is no time limit for success, You get to write your definition of success.

  

Ref: Liz Fosslien and Mollie West Duffy

Personal Development Bridges The Gap

Dunning Kruger effect is a concept that makes people overestimate their knowledge or ability, especially in areas they have little to no experience. When people feel they have no specialized skills they tend to overestimate their skills, 

and it makes them also unable to recognize these skills from others too.

'The very knowledge and skills necessary to be good at a task are the same qualities that a person needs to recognize that they are not good at that task. So if a person lacks those abilities, they remain not only bad at that task but ignorant to their inability'.

Despite the fact we all have a natural endowment in different specialization, the best way to succeed in dealing with underestimating or overestimating our abilities in a particular unfamiliar task is through continuous learning and personal development, liaise with experts in the field, challenging your knowledge, ask for feedback and never be afraid of asking for help and showing up.

Ref: verywellmind

Helpful Tips To Improve Mental Health & Well-being

 Ref: image Mental Health Foundation

Prepare & Someday Your Chance Will Come!

Happy New Year and wishing you a choicest blessings!

Ref: image theguardian.com

Feliz Navidad

Wishing You a Very Happy Holidays & All The Best in The New Year.

Ref: Music Walk Off The Earth & image pinterest

There is enormous power in the ability to be vulnerably Authentic!

Judgment separates us from connection, and it's the number one reason we disconnect from love.

Ref: video TED & gabbybernstein.com

You Will Never Age A Day By Actively Practicing Act Of Random Kindness!

Dogs and animals can help improve our general well being and also more human connection. If you don't own any and also lonely might be worth occasionally visiting a zoo, amusement parks, local park within your areas of residence. 

If you are a dog owner they will regularly get you out of the house.

They are established as man's best friend, they will sometimes help us stay calm and collected.

Pets improve our mood and well-being and watching them playing can be quite fun. sometimes pets like dogs feel deeply connected to our emotions.

Dogs can help improves lifestyle changes ranges from helping you meet new people, to keeping you as a companion.

The benefit of having some of these amazing creatures around or going out to watch them are enormous.

When you actively practice kindness around these animals it will also improve your general view about life and people and you’ll never age a day!.  

Ref: Google, Cesar Millan & Mental Health Foundation

Chester Zoo Cheshire

Chester zoo is located in Cheshire England. It's such an amazing place with so many lovely animals including elephants, cheetah, hippopotamus, beautiful birds, and lions. Animals indeed bring joy and warmth to our lives.