I think it's fair to say we all want a happy life, some want success, some want lots of money, others just want to get through the day to day, whatever you want your life to be like; I'm sure you want to be happy.

So if you want it so much then why aren't you? I'm not trying to patronise you, believe me I've been there; I've had my dark days, hasn't everyone? It's easy to get swept up into the everyday stuff and before you know it life's flying past you and you're letting negative emotions rule you. Maybe not all the time, but you might have one of the days where you find things difficult, upsetting, frustrating etc.

Now a little while ago I stumble across some information about how you shouldn't let a compliment go to your head and how if you let a good comment effect you emotionally i.e. Make you feel happy, then you would be susceptible to negative feedback, or worst no feedback. In that you expected certain feedback and you didn't get it. I remember thinking "well I guess, I mean everyone does like praise for doing something good", but I had never thought about the opposite.

I hadn't really thought about how the outside world had such an impact internally, or that I could choose not to let it effect me. It got me thinking about my reaction to situations and how just maybe it would be possible to choose how I reacted.

My daily rituals started along side my new 30 day health plan, it all began when I was doing my evening work outs. I had been watching several YouTube videos, some were about fitness, others about personal growth & development. This is where I stumbled across a few videos discussing 'daily rituals', according to these videos a number of people (especially successful people) tend to indulge in personal daily rituals (normally performed in the morning) - Saying this set them up accordingly for the day. So what exactly are daily rituals? In reality they can be whatever you want them to be! In one way you could consider its a bit of 'me' time with a difference.

How much can we learn about life from young children? Some may say nothing, after all what could they possibly know about life? They don't have a job, responsibility or anything that important to deal with and they haven't stepped in to the 'real' world, but that can be a good thing too. Think about it, they are dealing with life as 'naturally' as they know how, using emotions to show their parents how they are feeling and to get what they want.

Obviously the older they get the more they mix with different people, their habits and behaviours develop from there peers. But it takes a life time for them to fully develop bad habits like many adults have.

The last few weeks for one reason or another, reminded me just how powerful emotions are, I've seen first hand in myself and others just how harmful negative emotions can be. Empathising with negative emotion is where the rocky road can really begin, it can start a bad day, lead to long periods of negative emotion and even depression.

So what do you do when those negative emotions seep back in to your life. You know 'those' days that slap you around the face unexpectedly, everything's going well and then for one reason or another something knocks you off balance and you feel low, angry, anxious or something along those lines. 
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Day 5 of my quote week, this is my 4th quote of the week. Yesterday I was so busy with my day-to-day life I didn't get round to posting a quote, but all is not lost... Here's my offering for day 5!

If you start something don't beat yourself up if it doesn't go as planned, I wanted to do a quote a day this week but it didn't turn out as I planned, but that doesn't mean I'm going to give up.

​It's only a small thing but it was important to me, I hope it makes you think about your goals, don't give up because one thing got in the way. What does it really matter, pick yourself up and get on with it.
Peace and love to you and yours.

Holding love in your heart is the only way to be free from the pain life sometimes throws at us... Love is the Answer.

Life is most definitely going to have its ups and downs; being able to deal with the situations that come our way is often the tricky part.

Seen this floating around social media and loved his inspiring words, the post said Keanu posted the picture with the following statement (I can't be sure if the post was really posted by him, but the sentiment is beautiful who ever created it):

Peace and love to you and yours.

Challenges are good they help us grow and develop personally, people ask for their lives to change or complain about how miserable they are with their current circumstances then face challenges and change with the same energy.

What I have learnt is that through every challenge I have faced; good (or the ones that hurt) I have always grown personally and that it changed me, which enabled me to deal with things that little bit better in the long run.

It seems a lot of people suffer day to day with self doubt, depression, anger, fear (or experience intense stages of this). Like most I have had some rocky roads myself and I am glad to say those days are behind me, but I'm still aware of these times and believe we are the ones who can take control of the situation and do something about it. 

Life is for living after all and before we know it time will have run out (rather dreary subject death, but sometimes it's the only way to get through to people). Wake up and realise, this really doesn't last forever and the only person who is genuinely going to make you feel better about you is YOU!