Arnold Schwarzenegger: WAKE UP EARLY & MAKE IT HAPPEN (EYE OPENING SPEECH)

Reflection Time - Ask yourself

Are you ready for another round of reflection time?

Let's get started:

So for this week, I thought about gratitude. Try to think of something that has happened to you in the past that you consider to be a negative experience which had quite the impact on you.

Is there anything about that experience that you could be grateful for?

Has it maybe led you to change something for the better in your life?

A while back, we had just moved house, with a young toddler and me being pregnant. This being stressful enough as it is, we got into trouble with the previous renter of the flat. A misunderstanding which came down to the landlord telling us one information and the previous renter another. Long story short, the previous renter kept knocking on our door demanding money and even went as far as to send his friends round threatening us. The final straw was that we got an anonymous letter through the post, with cut out newspaper letters and random names inside (amongst ours). Needless to say, this gave me quite a fright and even worse the police refused to investigate.

So there I was, pregnant and with a toddler at home, scared of every knock on the door. 

So, what on earth can you be grateful for, you may ask.

Well, this feeling of helplessness led to my husband quitting his job, fully committing to successfully setting up his own business and us moving to our current house. This would have never happened if it wasn't for that creepy letter.

I try to see the positive in things wherever possible and I am now quite thankful for this, even if it was pretty uncomfortable at the time.

Let me know in the comments below if you found anything to be grateful for in retrospect. I'd love for you to share your success story!

Reflection time - Ask yourself!

So every once in a while, I'd like you to ask yourself a question and delve deeper into your mind and self, in the search of your true self or your best. So here it goes:

In which area in your life are you currently compromising? 

Which part of your life is not getting the amount of attention it should be right now? 

And if you want to dive really deep: Why is that? 

So for me, that would be not taking enough care of myself. It seems all day I'm racing around doing jobs, feeding pets and kids, cleaning them and the house (or attempting it) and generally keeping it together. By the end of the day, it still seems like my to do list isn't even half crossed off. I just keep pushing and pushing, losing my mind on the way. So the breaking points are my hands, my sleep and my attention span.

Why am I doing this? I don't actually know, I probably should be asking myself more often, because I really know better. You cannot serve others fully if your own glass is half empty. I guess I've been like that my whole life "Just get one more job done, then you won't have to do it the next day" But there was always another to-do to fill its place.

Let me know in the comments below what area in your life you could give a little more attention to.

Take it steady, look after yourselves!