Think right.

It's been a while since I’ve posted, and for those of you who read and follow me, I apologise. This has been by far one of my busiest years in terms of study and work things colliding and I’ve done my best to make time to post now and then. So yet again, sorry.


I'm reaching out to you this post, because I want you to think. And that's about it. Now it might seem like I’m saying something relatively insignificant, but the truth is that thought is the precursor to what essentially shapes yours and my world. Unconsciously or not.

Now thought is a great and mighty thing, BUT over thinking sucks. And you all know this because you do it all the time. You complicate and riddle your-self with self determined theories of what could happen long before you ever have an opportunity come anywhere near the real outcome, and it's a dream killer.

So what I want you to do if you’re reading this. Sit down, take some time out, and think. Think about an idea, it could be anything, but something to do with your life that might otherwise normally limit you. Now here's the but, and it's a big but. You’re not allowed to put a negative predetermined outcome into your thought. So for example.

If I where to think about finding myself a new house. If I’m predetermining things negatively, straight away I might think something along the lines of “Aw man, I’ll never find a house in this market. Times are just too tough for people and everyone's asking too much...”

That’s a negative pre-determined outcome. And it sets you up to fail. Instead you're going do exactly to opposite. Sit. Develop your thought about whatever your situation may be. But instead of pre-determining things negatively. Make it positive, and then follow the thought for as far as it can carry you. For example, using the same house hunting problem, I may think something along the lines of. “The housing market's ideal right now for me to find a place. I might even be able to snatch up a good deal..." then follow the thought. e.g. “If my new place has a spare room maybe I can use it as an office to start up a home business and build a nest egg. Or maybe I can rent it out to someone" Keep going. Develop your thought as far as they can go and see where they can take you. Perhaps it'll be to greater places.

my homestead story

It's been quite sometime since i've posted anything. so today i'm sharing some of my little tips and tricks that i've come across over the last few months in my own personal development that you can implement in a similar way.

Recently as a recognition of todays changing economical climate i decided to start my own organically sustainable garden. Since then, it's grown larger and larger and brings me more and more joy to see how well it's going. My garden, like many things, started from humble beginnings, years ago me and my family planted, a mango tree, eventually we planted a mandarin tree too, then mulberries,then lemons, and so on and so forth until we had a small range of fruit tree's in the front of our garden. this was all just haphazard planting for the convience and fun of having a few nice fruit to tend to. but as things continued along i realised that it would be really quite easy to start a sustainable garden, on a budget, with a good mix of fruit and veg, which in the end, taste great and save me some cash.

I'm not saying you have to plant a garden, what i am trying to say though is pick something you have always wanted to do, start small and go from there.

START NOW! it's easier than you think to pick up something you've wanted to now and turn it into something you love doing. Emotion is a elixir of life and youthfulness, pick something that sparks it up, and stick at it, not because you have to or need to, but because you want to.

My garden started with one mango tree, now it has over 28 different fruit and vegetables, 5 custom built plantar boxes, a bird house,a organic composting system, a bee box, an underground watering system that i'm in the process of connecting up to a greywater tank, and will soon be joined by a bokashi style composter and small green house, and incase your thinking of doing something similar and don't have alot of space, neither did i but you'll be surprised what you can do when you put some thought into planning out your garden.

get into it, you'll surprise yourself.

Everyday improvements for everyday greatness

So it’s been a long time since I’ve posted anything. I’ve been pretty busy with my uni studies and haven’t had an opportunity to post. So today i wanted to post on a few of the things I’ve been working on or learnt that I think might help some of you out there.

First of all, is what i like to call my “daily change mechanism”. Which is basically as simple as this: Each day you choose to do something that is going to better yourself in some way. This doesn’t mean things like cleaning the house so you don’t feel stressed, although it’s a good idea. What the idea is, is to implement an activity that will result in changing YOU. My main example, (because this is one I’ve been using frequently with a lot of success) is writing with your non-dominant hand. Now this may seem like a simple “pffft” type of thing but studies show that using your non-dominant hand for writing or drawing tasks activates more neural path ways. Why should you care? Well not only does opening up those new neural pathways allow you the opportunity to use them in developing richer and more dense grey matter which will have a carry on effects in everything else you do, but in the interest of motor control it allows you to progressively develop better hand co-ordination and non-dominant hand skills.  Since I started this exercise I’ve greatly improved my non-dominant hand skills to the point of nearly being ambidextrous in the space of less than a month. Defiantly something useful! Not only that, I feel sharper, which made me decide my next “daily change mechanism” was going to take advantage of this improved cognitive ability and learn to speed read. As you can see, the idea behind a daily change mechanism is in constantly improving your skills and yourself into becoming the greatest possible version of you!

So here’s a small one to get the ball rolling:

●Start off writing 5 easy sentences a day e.g. “the cat sat on the mat”

● after you’ve developed that to where it starts becoming easy, move on to writing out the alphabet in lower and upper case

●Once you’ve mastered that, try writing small fluent paragraphs, whatever comes to mind, i recommend using it to document how you feel you are improving

●Next move on to drawing 2- 3 small pictures

● finally try to use your new found skill as frequently as you can during your day so that it feels natural .e.g. writing a shopping list or making notes.

There is a technique in the muscular rehabilitation world known as CIMT, which stands for Constraint Imposed Muscular Therapy. Which works on a very similar basis of supplementing your good limb for using your bad one to try and develop motor control, and is proven to be very effective.

The idea is, pick something you think is going to improve yourself and implement it into your everyday life. Develop the idea that you can always make yourself greater than you are and soon you will find that your goals that used to seem so far away have been well exceeded.

Leave a comment below on methods or idea’s you might have ore have used to improve yourself every day.