What happend on a day of pure fun and celebration (not to mention a few surprises) laid on my K for my 30th.
Continue readingA wonderful weekend to start a new decade of life
Monthly Archives: May 2012
Weekend Inspiration EpII: A note on dedication
In this week’s Weekend Inspiration, Steve Kamb of NerdFitness.com shows us all what you can do with a little dedication and a great idea.
Continue reading30 Things I’ve Learned in 30 Years
My life has been filled with love and laughter, triumph and tragedy. I will always be grateful for every day I am given.
Continue readingWeekend Inspiration
My weekends are usually spent chilling out with K or visiting friends and families. Sometimes I lose my motivation for the things I’ve been doing during the week, whether that’s work, play or fitness stuff.
So I thought I’d maybe start sharing some of my favourite inspirational videos each Saturday to keep myself motivated and, hopefully, to offer a little kick-up-the-backside to anyone else who often gets deflated by the break from routine that weekends provide.
Don’t get me wrong – I love my weekends: chilling, relaxing, catching up on a bit of TV and not thinking about many of the things that clog my wee brain during the week. But I do need a quick jog to get back into it on a Monday morning.
Here’s the first in the series, Casey Neistat’s kind-of-commercial for the Nike+ Fuelband. The thing I love about this video is that not only is it kinda cool and inspirational, it’s also a brilliant commercial (undoubtedly intentionally) because by the time it finishes you have no idea what a fuel band actually is, but you want to go buy one.
Check it out, be inspired:
Why being passive gets you nowhere (or why you should take action today)
An over-heard conversation leads to considering why so many of us are so reluctant to take action. And a new way of approaching your actions that can keep you motivated, happy and help you achieve more.
Continue readingGetting up and going. Again.
One of the few blogs that I follow posted a great piece this week about get-up-and-go. When we’ve had too long a break in what we’ve been doing, it gets harder and harder to get ourselves started off at it again.
Something I’ve very acutely aware of this week.
It doesn’t bother me if I have an occasional off-day—I can’t be perfect—but I notice that if I let it go too many days in a row, it starts to get easier and easier to make “off” the new normal. Then, I have to fight hard to get the drive back; it isn’t easy anymore.
Tyler Tervooren, Advanced Riskology
CF Week: Don’t Just Inhale, Make Sure You LIVE
Over the life of this blog, I’ve written quite a lot about CF, it’s affects and my life as well as the lives of others with the incurable condition.
I’m one of the lucky few to have survived and thrived after a double-lung transplant that saved and transformed my life four-and-a-half years ago, but this week is CF Week in the UK and I wanted to see if I could tell a different story.
On Sunday night, a wonderful adopted-Aunty of mine posted a heart-felt, inspiring and moving message to her Facebook friends about her daughter, who has CF. I immediately asked her if I could re-print it on the blog to share with everyone who’s not connected with her.
Happily, she agreed. This post is her words, in full, which are far more eloquent, emotive and impactful than I think I could have managed and, as you’ll see at the end, they sum up everything that SmileThroughIt represents.