Don't tell me you're bored

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About half of you didn't receive Thursday's message - apologies - but my email carrier decided to impose a mail send quota on us for the very first time. So I will include that message as part two of today's - well I know what you're like, if I ask you to go to the website to read it - you probably won't. But the message is important - and directly related to that last sentence. You cannot live life behind a pane of glass, you sometimes do have to experience it first hand in order to reap the benefits.

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Today's daily dose: Don't tell me you're bored
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Boredom fascintates me. Why can't some people get off their rear end's and do things, whilst others are like the energiser bunny - and keep going and going and going?

I think it is one of the fascinating aspects of human nature, as you and I know - what motives you today, may not motivate you tomorrow and what motivates you, may not motivate me. But one thing I do know is this - if you really want something and you have set yourself a goal (or target) to reach it, then you will have no trouble with boredom or motivation.

Given that today is a Saturday and a day off work for most people, I want to set you a challenge. I want you to reevaluate your "bored" moments from last week - and I want you to think about your goals for next. With 3 months left to go to the end of 2009 - yes it really has come around that quickly, I want to ask you to complete several of those "must do" items before the end of the year. Then let me know how you get on.


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The Daily Dose from the 17th September 2009 - You just had to be there
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Note: Thursday's message - carries on from the one before -  "pictures can speak a thousand words" entry - along with some appropriate wording to go with each picture: if you haven't seen them - well you will have to go to the site, attachments are a real no-no, they take forever to send AND most mail services think they're junk. But even if I do say so myself, I believe worth the minute to read.... http://www.motivateme.info/daily-dose-ezine/2009/9/16/lessons-i-have-learned.html
Whilst pictures may inspire you to say - I will do that one day, I will go there. You will only truly get the benefit if you experience things first hand.

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Looking at life through someone else's pictures is like looking at life through a window. You can see it's windy, but you can't feel it, you can't experience the force of the wind as it combs itself through your hair, or feel the cooling breeze on your skin or the frozen ice on your lips.

You can stand at the top of a gorge with a set of binoculars and say you've "seen" it. You haven't. Some things you have to feel, breathe, live and experience in order to experience the growth that comes from participating in the experience.

You won't feel the burn in your legs from the physical climb or the sweat running in rivulets down your back, nor will you appreciate the unexpected that lies just out of your line of sight.

Life is like that, saving the best kinds of experience for those people willing and able to participate. When people say you just had to be there... you know what - they're absolutely right.


With many thoughts
Elle