Battle at Kruger

Sorry five days with out blogging! I was intending this to be daily but I've slipped up this last week (I'm new to the positive thinking game and I fell off the wagon! Please forgive me!)

Today I have re-read the book SUMO (that i mentioned in a previous post) and am feeling filled with inspiration, my next blog will be a list of my goals.

I've been searching the web today for something that inspires me and I've found the perfect video on you tube. Its eight and a half minutes long, but well worth investing the time in watching because the end is absolutely INCREDIBLE!! So I suggest watch it, then come please come back and read why I find it so heart-warming!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU8DDYz68kM

Okay, welcome back. I hope you found that as amazing as I do!

Here's why I love that video....

1. From the calf's perspective it shows that however bleak the future looks, there is ALWAYS hope. I bet that calf was saying it's prayers and ready to give up on life, never imagining that help was on the way! It also shows the lengths a family will go to protect one of it's own.

2. From the heard's point of view it shows that even against impossible odds, if you stand together you can triumph. When something is important enough to fight for (no Cheryl, not this love) then we must rally around and stand against it.

3. Imagine for a second that Buffalo could understand human speech (weird I know, but go with it) and they could hear those people in the truck. As the herd approach the lions everyone is yelling 'they're to late'. Now clearly we know that these people are wrong, as less that two minutes later the calf staggers away still very much alive. I wonder, if the Buffalo had stopped to listen to these ignorant people's opinions, would it have affected their determination to retrieve their lost calf.

I think that that's the most important lesson that I have learnt from this video. I take in so much of what people say to me. So far on my journey towards my dreams I've been told that I don't have what it takes and that I wont make it. But I realise now that those people have no more knowledge of the future than the spectators of the buffalo fight did. Just because people tell me my 'calf' is dead doesn't make it so. So from now on I'm going to try to ignore people's negative speculations and just keep fighting towards my dreams until the very people that have tried to discourage me are the ones cheering me on!

I believe my calf is alive, and I'm sure yours is to, as long as you're willing to fight for it!

Thanks for reading

Love Peter xXx

Todays postive quote comes from one of the smartest young men I know, Omar:

We May Not Be Able To Change The Past As We Wish, But We Can Easily Change The Present To Create A Better Future For Everyone :)

I have confidence!

Hi Guys,

Sorry for not blogging for a few days - I've had a fantastically busy fun packed weekend!

I'm now more convinced than ever that the universe is responding to my improved mood and attitude. Those of you that know my mother will be more than acquainted with the fact that she is always late for everything, so I was heading down to Kent on the train on Friday fully expecting to be waiting at the train station in the wet and dark for at least 15 mins! However it turned out that mum actually got there ten minutes early, which totally made my day. Thanks mum.

On Saturday I spent the evening with my lovely aunt, uncle and cousins. If you read this, I just want you to know that I love you and had a great night!

I cant think of anything else to say in this blog, so I'll just post the positive message for the day, which today is the lyrics to 'I have confidence' from the sound of music! I was listening to it today, but it felt like I was hearing the words for the first time! I really think I should make it a priority to develop this level of confidence.

Thanks for reading!
Love you
Peter xXx

What will this day be like? I wonder.
What will my future be? I wonder.
It could be so exciting to be out in the world, to be free
My heart should be wildly rejoicing
Oh, what's the matter with me?

I've always longed for adventure
To do the things I've never dared
And here I'm facing adventure
Then why am I so scared

A captain with seven children
What's so fearsome about that?

Oh, I must stop these doubts, all these worries
If I don't I just know I'll turn back
I must dream of the things I am seeking
I am seeking the courage I lack

The courage to serve them with reliance
Face my mistakes without defiance
Show them I'm worthy
And while I show them
I'll show me

So, let them bring on all their problems
I'll do better than my best
I have confidence they'll put me to the test
But I'll make them see I have confidence in me

Somehow I will impress them
I will be firm but kind
And all those children (Heaven bless them!)
They will look up to me

And mind me with each step I am more certain
Everything will turn out fine
I have confidence the world can all be mine
They'll have to agree I have confidence in me

I have confidence in sunshine
I have confidence in rain
I have confidence that spring will come again
Besides which you see I have confidence in me

Strength doesn't lie in numbers
Strength doesn't lie in wealth
Strength lies in nights of peaceful slumbers
When you wake up -- Wake Up!

It tells me all I trust I lead my heart to
All I trust becomes my own
I have confidence in confidence alone
(Oh help!)

I have confidence in confidence alone
Besides which you see I have confidence in me!

Change your thinking!

Okay my quest of improving my outlook on life is going fantastically, I've started reading a marvellous book called SUMO (Shut Up, Move On) which is helping me understand that for the last year I have had a victim mentality.

I've been blaming the circumstances that were out of my control for the way my life is now, when in actual fact it's my own responses to those circumstances that have put my life so far from the path I want to be on. I've used my 'victim status' as an excuse for putting my life on autopilot and just coasting. Plagued by thought such as "I'll never make it as an actor because of my hideous scar" ......Well no more! I am officially making the transition from a victim to a survivor, and talking back the controls of my life.

As if to encourage me along I got a positive message from the universe today!

Every day on my way to work I take a shortcut through Leicester square. The path leads under about four trees that are usually laden with pigeons and (my old negative self) always used to think 'It would be just my luck to get shat upon.' So guess what... today it happened! Splat! There was only one thing that turned this from a negative to a positive. It was spitting slightly and so I was carrying an umbrella that broke the fall of the pigeon poo! I just feel that the odds of that happening on the one day I'm carrying an umbrella is just to coincidental, especially when you take into account my new quest for happiness! Thanks Universe!!

And thank you for reading this!
Hope you're having a great day!

Peter xXx

Here's today's positive quote:

Changing the world begins with the very personal process of changing yourself, the only place you can begin is where you are, and the only time you can begin is always now. - Gary Zukav

A Big Thank You!

Hi guys,

I feel like now is a good time to thank someone that is very important to me! Last March my best friend Dan asked me to move in with him. Eager to leave Dagenham and move on to greener pastures I gratefully accepted the offer. Life looked to be going great, but as those who know me will already know about two weeks before I was due to move in I got beat up and had to go to hospital.

Obviously I found that quite a hard experience to deal with, and it's one that has changed me considerably. I feel very sorry for Daniel that he has spent the last year living with mopey depressed me. It's almost like he's been short changed. He was probably expecting late night slumber parties, where we would braid each other's hair. But in actual fact what he's gotten is an anti-social, monosyllabic version of me!

But in keeping with this blog's positive mission statement, I'm now going to change our relationship for the better! I'm going to find ways to let Dan know how much his friendship and support have meant to me.

Tonight i started simply by making him a chocolate orange cake, unfortunatly due to the fact I haven't made a cake since last June the first attempt was disastrous (burnt and wafer thin!!) and I thought you guys might enjoy a picture of it!


But I tried again and the second one was perfect!


Today's positive thought is one that helped me personally, let me know what you think of it:

If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to re-commit, to be whole-hearted once again.

Thanks for reading
Peter xXx

Find the funny!

Okay today's just a quick blog, not much writing, I just wanted to share with you a video on you tube. I think that laughter is a very important part of feeling happier and healthier. This video isn't really inspiring, but it did make me laugh big time! Enjoy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7oGx2dImE8&feature=grec

Also I hope no one thinks of this video as rasist, I'm pretty sure the guy recorded this as a joke, so we're laughing with him not at him!

Positive outlook

Hi guys,

Welcome to my blog - Glass half full!

I've started this blog with only one intention, due to certain events, the last year was incredibly hard for me and has seen my previously sunny disposition sink into more meloncholic tones.

However I can feel myself beginning pulling through this bout of depression, and I've made a resolution to start looking at the glass that is my life as half full! So this is the reason I've started this blog. I want this to be a place where I can post thoughts that I find uplifting and inspiring.

I would be grateful if you would comment on my blogs with your own empowering ideas, and together maybe we could fill the glass to the top!!! Cheesy!

Here's todays positve thought:

Today Iwas on the tube. I was looking at the posters as I went down the escalators and there was one on plastic surgery. Someone had placed a sticker over the womans face that read

'You don't need this. You are perfect the way you are.'

Thanks for reading
Peter xXx