Celebrate your Life This Autumn

1. Gorgeous Goals
   
   The idea of setting gorgeous goals is to set goals that are really attractive and delicious to you. In other words, you will WANT to go for these goals. Whilst setting ourselves goals can be useful, if you are the sort of person who always has more on your daily "To Do" list than you can possibly achieve in a day (ok, so that's probably 90% of mums), then it's inevitable that you will set goals you probably can't achieve. This is almost literally setting yourself up for failure.
   
   So, my message here is simplicity. Enjoy your autumnal Goal Setting. Set yourself no more than 3 goals until the end of the year. Make them action- orientated and make them absolutely achievable without too much of a stretch.
   
   So, don't set a goal that you will "Lose 2lbs a week every week until the end of the year". Why? Because you don't have total control over how much weight you lose. But you do have control over say, eating 5 pieces of fruit and vegetables a day. And even better, you could set yourself a goal of telling yourself you are a beautiful, vibrant being each day.
   
   Cli ck here to share your gorgeous goals with me!

2. Do Something Kind for Others -I've talked about this before, and referred to www.wearewhatwedo.org - a vibrant organisation that helps people to make a difference to the world. Register today and start ticking off their suggestions on your one online tracker. There are currently 1,000 readers of Inspire: If each of us did just one kind and selfless thing to benefit one person today, and each of those people did the same and so on and so on, just imagine how much more kindness and tolerance there would be in the world today! Pick up a piece of litter, open the door for someone and smile, let the other car have the parking spot, tell someone you know something specific about how great they are. Click here to let me know what you did! heard this before and you’re going to hear it again! Imagine you are a fish tank. Where are the holes in that tank? What are you going to do to plug those holes and stop the tank leaking? You must make time for you. If you don’t believe you deserve it right now, then do it for your kids. If you’re happy, they are more likely to be happy. What would you really like to do that you haven’t been allowing yourself?

3. Help your Kids to Pay it Forward - Even better, perhaps you could suggest that your children's' schools or nurseries get involved with the Pay It Forward Movement www.payitforwardmovement.org
   
   There are some great ideas on the website that kids will really enjoy getting involved in and which will fit in neatly with their learning curriculum.
   

4. Share your love Amidst all this celebration, there is disaster and heartbreak playing out in our World and things which make us worried, anxious and angry. I don't pretend to understand the great universal reason why, but sometimes when there are things we can't change, then all we can do is to make a deliberate effort to send warm and loving energy from our minds and hearts and we can do this by praying.
   
   We can't pray for all the injustices and tragedies happening right now, but we can do our little bit. I believe we can all pray whether we are deeply religious or atheist. If the latter, pray to your own inner strength, to the beauty and wonder of the world we inhabit, pray to anything you believe in. I believe that we are creatures of energy and that - by praying - we expand and share that energy in a very positive way with the world.

5. Write a letter to yourself, which you will open and read in ten year's time. Write about the good things and the difficult things that you have in your life right now, what you like about the good things and how you hope to resolve the difficulties.
   
   What hopes do you have for your, your family and the wider world? How would you like things to be in the future? What do you think things will actually be like in ten years? Hide your letter, or, if you think you might lose it or be tempted to open it before the time is up, give it to someone else to keep for you.
   
   It will be fascinating to read your letter in the future. You will be able to compare how things are now, with the world as it will be then. And your current hopes and feelings with those of the person you will have become.

6. Write a List of 100 Things To Do Before you Die.. Each of us only has a limited amount of time before we go! So start making a list of all the things you want to do before you die. Then start doing them today! You can put some "good" things on your list of ways that you want to help the world and others, but you must also include all the things YOU want to do before you die! Click here for an example list; or simply Google "100 things to do before you die" and you'll find plenty of ideas from other people's lists!
   
   Click here to tell me the outrageous and fabulous things on your list!

7. Celebrate Love

   We all have someone who loves us. I am inspired by the elderly couple who have just walked into the café as I write this. They are regulars here - I think she might have senile dementia, or perhaps she's had a stroke, but they both smile a lot. Today they walked in wearing straw hats. He holds her hand and steadies her. He asks if she wants to take her hat off and he is utterly solicitous towards her, but never patronizing. He is patient and he is kind. I don't know much about auras, but if I could see theirs, I'm sure I'd see warm yellow and soft pink. I see love in action. Today, look around you and notice love in action and be grateful for the love you enjoy in your life.