Yes, you!

At the end of a day who is going to be with you as you close your eyes and go to sleep? Maybe your partner, a young child snuggled up with you or even a furry companion. Yet there’s been someone there from the very beginning. You. Your thoughts. The good old brain.

You would think with the amount of time that we spend with our thoughts that we would have a pretty good grasp of them and maintain control! Right? Somehow it seems to be one of the things that escape many of us.

As a facilitator as Green SuperCamp Australia, we talk about speaking with good purpose to the campers. What does that mean? When we present it to the campers, we explain to them to speak honestly and kindly. Additionally, they should think before they speak to make sure the intention behind the words are positive and sincere.

There is however one part of this conversation with the campers that I have on a regular basis, outside of camp, with the people I encounter in my day to day life. These words have power and we need to be aware of what we say and we have to stay aware of what we let stick to us from other people’s words. If someone walking down the street calls us an idiot, we can choose how hurtful that will be to us.

The one thing we will never run into walking down the street is our own thoughts. They somehow have this power to be the exception to the rules. If we think negative thoughts about ourselves, we seem to just accept it as fact. Our brain has a goalie looking out for everything that people verbally
kick in our direction, but why does the goalie go to a time out when it’s just us?

This isn’t something we can turn around in just a few minutes because unfortunately, this has all been going on so long that we’ve let it become a habit. Have no fear!! This can be changed, by a new awareness. Similar to when on a diet, we stay very alert to what food we put into our body and the changes it might have on us, we need to look at each of the thoughts we have relating to ourselves and our abilities. A few negative thoughts might slip by, but that’s okay, this is the creation of a new habit to find those negative thoughts as they show their head and put a new spin on them.

For every self-doubt that appears, if you can find the opposite or positive affirmation to it you can make the transformation for your brain to speak with good purpose to yourself.

When we focus on our gratitude, the tide of disappointment and uncertainty goes out and the waves of love and reassurance come crashing in.

This is probably the easiest way to sum up a truly life changing experience that the Extensive Facilitator Training in Stanford has been for me. But in order for you to understand why I needed this to happen to me and for our communities of young champions, let me paint the picture. From the age of 12 (the age of our young cohort of Juniors at camp) to the age of 16 (senior forum cohort) tragically I would lose 3 mates to suicide. From 16 through to 26 I would continue to lose a further 5 to something that I consider so preventable when it’s at the root cause of mind and behavioural health.

It’s not something that affects and impacts me once then never again. It’s not something you get over 6 months down the track. These lives of my mates replay through my mind every single day and haunt me, a flashing slideshow of the faces I’ve lost and I’d do absolutely anything I possibly could to bring them back and show them how beautiful and meaningful their life could’ve been, the same way mine is now, but we can’t. But what I could do as one of the lucky ones, a suicide survivor is use that pain and grief and channel it to make a difference, to help young champions of tomorrow tap into their own inner strength and the strength of those around them so that they can be the young hero of their own story. To be who they dream of being and not who the world pushes them to become.

Fast track from that decision I made, sitting 15 rows back, 4 seats across in the last funeral I attended of my mate I lost. I have been extremely fortunate to of told my story to hundreds of thousands of people in 32 states, 3 countries around the world, but none as influential as the time I found myself in the company of Heather Yelland.

The day I met Heather will always ring thick to me. For me, a bloke who continuously struggles with the thoughts of failure, worthlessness and being a burden. I had no special way to articulate my pain and what I wanted to achieve to her, I simply said ‘I don’t want to sit up the back of any more funerals and I don’t want anyone else to feel what I’ve had to’. Heather paused me immediately, ‘you are the type of young man I have been looking for, for a long time’. It was that reassurance that I have always longed for that straight away made me feel like something special was going to happen or that I was in the presence of someone who believed in not only me but something greater for everyone else. I felt seen, heard and got. Funnily enough, this was the mantra for Heather and ‘Elevating Families’.

Fast track less than 9 months down the track, after spending one day with Heather, Skye, Jodi, Matty, Liam and the family at a Connection Zone event, I was in. Anything they were doing, I wanted to be part of it, because it wasn’t just me that felt like this, it was everyone. A rarity to feel like you belonged in such a short amount of time, but that’s what it is. A family of people with a common goal and a heap of heart!

Fortunately for me, I have been the lucky recipient to be put through my paces as part of FIT training. A month-long trip to California, USA to acquire an extensive skill set of 300+ hours of Quantum Learning strategies and practices that will help me engage with young champions not only through Green SuperCamp but in my daily advocacy. Facilitating learning that allows them to flex their muscles of their emotional struggles and find the uniqueness of who they really are based on their own values and truth.
So, the experience itself. AHHHHMAZZZINNNGG!! 

I’ve been lucky to gain a wealth of experience from public speaking spanning over 5-6 years now, but to be pulled from those comforts of delivering from my heart space and storytelling every day, to learning to speak in alternate directional sets, learning to lower my walls of an alpha male (by speaking in a female voice for hours) and being even more comfortable with that inward step to vulnerability were some of the biggest learnings that I desperately needed being away at California State University.

I was always a kid at school that spent much of his time in the school corridor or the principals office, it didn’t teach me anything, often I was out there because of my inability to concentrate but also from a lack of ability of the teachers to understand the mind and behavioural challenges I was experiencing. It was hard enough to sit still without throwing monotone and mundane learning techniques amongst it. To see the ways in which this training engages the learning of every young kid is truly inspiring and something I wish had existed for my friends and for me, when we bounced through the system and out the other side to the wrong belief system or life path.

I land back in Australia with a greater appreciation of the SuperCamp experience and exactly what it means for our country and the young people who ache for something better than what they see day today. I can’t wait for Junior Forum in September where I will get to utilise the skill set I have been gifted with to help positively impact the lives of 100+ young legends. For them to learn in the style that suits them, to gain long lasting friendships as a result of being open to them and not shut off to the world, to acquire the belief in themselves and the value of who they are so they can thrive through life situations and challenges, not just survive but grow into the person their meant to become.

I am incredibly blessed to be alive, to be anywhere in the world, but to be walking this path. And to walk it with the incredibly compassionate and caring team at Green SuperCamp & Elevating Families gives me endless amounts of energy and drive that I will continue to tap into and grow from for years and years to come. The difference between what we do and what we could be doing is the change this world needs.

Nobody out there deserves to wake up feeling exhausted by their own thoughts, feelings and emotions and I refuse to sit up the back of any more preventable funerals. Thank you to Heather & Jodi, for gifting me an amazing experience to help become the best version of me, the continual guidance, wisdom and opportunity that they so freely give to everyone that crosses their path, will help to live the difference I was born to make.

Thank you to Zoe & Liam for sharing in this experience to America with me, you both have helped hold the space for me to grow and gain the most out of this incredible training.

From one believer in recovery to another. From one believer in something better for our kids, our future to another. We all are loved & worthwhile.

We live in a culture that greatly values knowledge as a means by which to solve problems. It has been demonstrated many times, for instance, that the best way to assist people to move out of poverty is to provide knowledge, to educate.  

Then, at some stage in the development of our culture, we came to value action.

Thomas H. Huxley once said: ‘The great end of life is not knowledge but action.’ This has been extrapolated to a widely used expression that ‘knowledge is not knowledge until it is turned into action’. So, we set out on our path to find knowledge and then apply it, such that it braids through our action and increases our motivation– the knowledge comes to life through action and the action builds our motivation.

When the action we take enables us to achieve more and we begin to build a sense of momentum, we are more motivated, we learn more and we are then enthusiastic about taking greater action. This creates a cycle where knowledge applied becomes action… and then, in turn, the action creates greater success and learning, which motivates us and feeds the knowledge… which then generates more action. So, the cycle looks like this:

This can be a very effective way to create movement and generate change. And, indeed, this principle is at the heart of a great deal of teaching in so many aspects of our lives, from the education of our children, through business development and change management, to popular diets and personal growth.

If you stop and think about it, it’s a core principle at the heart of so many different aspects of our lives.

My concern is this; motivation is a form of movement AWAY FROM, so this is effectively ‘problem solving’ thinking. At the heart of this way of being (or should I say DOING!) is problem thinking. Now granted, we all have a few problems to solve, so you may be wondering why you feel like there’s a ‘but’ coming.

Let me be clear that this is not a principle I think is fundamentally flawed.

However, somewhere along the way we become so focused on and fascinated by our ability to gain knowledge, take action and increase motivation that we work ourselves into a frenzy of gathering knowledge and taking action in order to increase motivation and eventually we enter into what I call the Action Vortex.

This is the beginning of the ‘hamster on the treadmill’ syndrome.

We gain knowledge and apply it to action – when that works, our increased motivation has us simply rinse and repeat until we are captured by our own Action Vortex. Once we enter this Action Vortex, it becomes increasingly difficult to see how we can possibly do things differently and so we simply keep on with generating more action.

How many times can you recall talking about how busy you are and how much there is to do and how you never seem to have time for things you once enjoyed or loved and how you’re always on the go and there are not enough hours in the day and how quickly the year is flying by… and so on?

This is the ‘talk’ of someone caught in the Action Vortex. This is also the ‘talk’ of an entire society caught in the Action Vortex.

We are working longer hours than ever before – and still can’t get ahead. We have a huge array of supposedly time-saving household appliances and office equipment – and we still run out of time. The fact that we all seem to be doing it doesn’t make it right, useful or central to the development, let alone the elevation, of the human experience.

So, what’s the alternative?

Imagine a continuum which at one end is all about KNOWLEDGE, ACTION and MOTIVATION – problem thinking – and at the other end is all about WISDOM, ATTRACTION and INSPIRATION – creative thinking. Let me explain.

In this context, knowledge generally comes from an outside source, whilst wisdom is a form of inner understanding. While both are valuable and have their place, by far the more powerful is to be in a state of INSPIRATION. At this end of the continuum, there is a strength of understanding of one’s own inner truth and wisdom – a sense of certainty about who we are and what we stand for. This then generates a level of congruence and energetic resonance that creates ATTRACTION to other people, opportunities and experiences.

The greater the wisdom, the stronger the attraction, and the more the attraction, the more certain and powerful the wisdom…and so the cycle goes generating INSPIRATION, which is a force TOWARD. The force toward which we are drawn through inspiration is LOVE, the elevation of the human experience! The more inspired we are, the more connected and loving we feel – to ourselves, each other and the world around us.

We have all met people on our journey who seem to be really ‘lucky’, in that good things just seem to come to them and all the right people and opportunities seem to just fall at their feet. That’s not LUCK unless we create our own luck! That’s ATTRACTION!

When people sense our wisdom (inner knowing and certainty) and see our attraction, they too become more inspired.

So, find your place of balance on the Action/Attraction continuum and create a life fashioned by inspiration, attraction and service.  You were born to make a difference in this world and the greater the inspiration and “flow” you experience, the greater the legacy you leave.

Challenges in life are inevitable, if and how we deal with these challenges is up to us. Resilience is a buzzword on social media and trumpeted as a critical key to persevering our goals in life. But what exactly is Resilience and how can we develop it:

Resilience is our ability to bounce back when we experience challenges in life. 

Differently said, the stronger our resilience, the quicker we get up and continue moving to our goals.

There are three fundamental keys to developing resilient action.

1. Inspiring Goal

First of all, we need to have an inspiring goal, something that propels us forward. If we don’t set goals that excite us, why would we even do the hard work in the first place?

To develop inspiring goals, we need to become emotionally invested in what we want to achieve. What is it exactly, who else is there, what will we see that is different, what will we feel and hear, etc.

The more specific we can feel and experience our goal, the more attracted and inspired we feel to achieve it.

2. Empowering Story

Challenges will come, but it is how we deal with them that defines our ability to bounce back quickly. A major problem many people experience is that they get lost and see their challenges as permanent, immovable objects.

For example, someone might get rejected for a job. And then it happens again, and then, again.

What often happens is that person starts to believe: “nobody will hire me, I am unwanted” or something of that nature. 

However, that is the STORY they make up in their mind. 

It is so important to be able to distinguish FACTS from STORY. 

FACTS are what a video camera records, they are indisputable. It is what we hear, what we see, and what we feel.

The FACTS are: “I applied for 3 jobs and I did not get hired”. That’s it. 

Notice how different that would feel compared to “Nobody wants to hire me”. 

Since we make up stories anyway, let us make up stories that empower us. 

For example, let’s change the FACT of “I applied for 3 jobs and I did not get hired” to an empowering STORY that makes us feel good:

• “The universe has a much better role waiting for me”
• “Every time I didn’t get hired, I learned something new that will help me with my next application”

3. Trust Circle

The third critical key for resilience is to establish a ‘Trust Circle’. A Trust Circle is a person or a group of people who genuinely care about you and your success. They believe in you, they want to help you and they know that you will be successful.

This is the type of person who, whilst you are speaking with them, just seems to uplift your energy and state. 

We don’t need many people in our Trust Circle, but we do need someone who is there for us when the going gets tough. 

Think about this, who do you trust to share your wildest dreams and ambitions with? Who is that person you know will support you and help you and truly listen to you when you need it most?

Ideally, this is also a person you have easy access to, preferably in person, but in the worst case, via telephone.

Your Trust Circle can contain a mentor, a coach, a friend, your partner, or a family member. It doesn’t matter who, as long as you trust them and know they uplift your energy.

These are the 3 fundamental keys to developing resilience and your ability to bounce back from challenges. Applying these keys in your life, and you will be able to create magic in your life. 

There is something in each and every one of us that calls us to create a life of inspiration, to dream big and walk powerfully toward that dream, to make the difference we were born to make – even just to live a life less ordinary seems a given.

We are born with a natural capacity for and focus on, love and the world is a rich tapestry of possibility, enchantment, creativity, imagination, learning and magic. It’s as if there’s a homing signal inside each and every one of us that calls us toward a full and evolving sense of who we really are at our essence; the discovery of our own unique truth and the fullest expression of that truth with those we love and the world around us.

Then, one day we realise we have lost contact with that calling, that inner knowing and possibly even the sense of our truth altogether.

So, what the hell happened?

Where did all our dreams go, when did we stop drinking beautiful wine, walking on beaches and sharing our thoughts and feelings with others well into the tiny hours of the day? What happened to the quest to know our own heart and the heart and soul of others as well as we know the road to and from work or the children’s school gate? When did we stop BEING and start DOING and let that way of life become so much the norm, that when we meet someone who’s heart is wide open, we either find it startlingly attractive or a little annoying?

These are questions we all need to face on this beautiful, inspired and disturbing journey we call life.

The difficulty begins when we allow ourselves to be sucked in to the ‘vortex of action’ and take up residence there, such that we don’t even realise we have lost the sense of possibility, let go of our dreams, disconnected from the people we love, squashed our sense of wonder and magic, and lost contact with the essence of who we truly are.

Then, little by little, our activity levels and the consequent pace of life, creeps up and up, until going flat out becomes normal. It certainly was in my family and community, all of whom were unwitting victims of “creepage”. This is the insidious force that paves the way, indeed courts and seduces us, into the sticky trap of the action vortex, where the art and joy of simply being seem beyond our reach, even if we are conscious enough to know we have lost it.

We have been taught to value certain things, to think and feel certain things, to strive to achieve certain things by which our family, community, profession, religion or culture define success. Yet, if you sit at the bedside of a dying friend, rarely will you hear them express regret that they didn’t buy that house on the water, drive that Ferrari, work longer hours or take the promotion. If there is regret, it will be about the amount of times they didn’t say I love you to the people nearest, the hours they didn’t come home early from work, the energy that went into the business or promotion and not into family, the inner journey that never received adequate attention, the time not spent with children, and so on. Meaning doesn’t lie in things or material possessions – it lies within us and within our relationships!

It is my firm belief that all any of us really wants in this life is to love and be loved and to be known, loved and ‘got’ for who we truly are. In the final hour, little else matters!

So, no matter who you might feel has authored or influenced your journey, you have choices – indeed you’ve been making them all along. Consciously or otherwise, YOU have actually authored your life to this point, no matter how much you may wish to point the finger at someone else!

That realisation can feel like a bitter pill….AND the road to freedom all rolled into one!

You may not want to take full responsibility for the life you are currently living, but let’s face it, something in you made you pick up this book – and you have read through to this point!

So, maybe the still, small voice inside you that knows there’s MORE TO LIFE is still there and is patiently (or desperately) urging you to sit up and pay attention. The challenge is to know how to change things so you can once again rediscover the truth of who you are and live into all you were born to be. It is knowledge of the SELF that has the greatest bearing on an abundant, fulfilling and meaningful life.

If there’s one thing I recommend as a central and fundamental life lesson it is this…

KNOW THYSELF!

Invest in discovering the truth of who you are and share it boldly with the world.

Find the difference you were born to make and give your whole heart into the service of that difference, so you can impact the greatest number of lives in the most sustainable way and leave your true legacy.

I’m planning a garden. Several actually.

The first step was getting rid of all the weeds that had taken over. That took several goes. Now the plans are emerging for the planting. Mostly vegetables to sustain us through Summer. You know the good old homegrown staples that you gleefully harvest in those warm afternoons, ready to share as a bountiful feast with family on the table that evening.

But there are also some areas where I am planning gardens which have never had anything planted in them. Wild ground. Hard ground. And I know I want a garden, but do I want to grow roses or wildflowers? Trees? No, I have enough trees. Maybe rambling ground covers? No! Maybe succulents? All I know is that I need to decide what to plant or the garden won’t know what to grow! And if I don’t decide, it will just stay wild hard ground. With weeds.

You probably know I’m not just talking about the garden.

This garden is most definitely internally me!

The work on the “weeds” (my self-limiting beliefs) will always continue. You know how weeds are! They have a tendency to come back! But turning my back on the weeds will not produce a clear patch of soil. So on with the boots and off I go to the garden!

This process is now familiar, and I know of the results, I have had some success and can make plans to replicate what I have done before.

But the new garden, the hard, wild ground, what do I do with that? How do I start? What should I grow?

These are my new internal garden beds! The prospect of looking out and seeing them in full bloom excites me, but until I can see the picture clearly, I won’t be able to see what I have planted. Right now I am metaphorically leafing through seed catalogues to find what I want to harvest. And the planting of that seed is critical. If I want roses but I plant pansies I cannot really be surprised by what grows.

And so I ponder. And Winter is good pondering time. What do I really want to harvest? What blooms do I really want to grow? Until I can see myself standing there surrounded by the garden I grew, be able to smell the sweet perfume of the flowers, hear the lazy bees feeding on their nectar until I can truly be there in my heart and soul, I will look at the hard wild ground.

If your garden looks anything like mine, a few recurrent weeds, new beds in the planning, I feel the excitement with you! But if it becomes overwhelming, don’t hesitate to bring in a master gardener, a mentor who knows which plant is which!

I am meeting with my mentor this afternoon to get some clarification on my seed choices.

Stay tuned to see what she helps me to grow!

What is the most important mistake to avoid when leading a team?

Take your approach to successfully manage one person in your team to be the be-all and end-all to managing everyone else.

Everyone is unique and different and prefers a different style.

Exceptional leaders are able to tailor their approach to what each team member needs most.

How to do this?

Have a direct conversation with each team member and discuss things like:

• What support do you need from me to be successful?
• What guidance works best for you?
• How will you know when you are stuck or being unproductive?
• What expectations and agreements can we both set for the best outcomes?

The more you understand each other’s styles, the better you can both set manageable expectations and agreements for success.

Over time, the more we get to know each other, and work better together, we create a safe space in which trust and overall performance accelerate!

 

 

My name is Sarah Rowe and I feel so lucky to be part of the amazing Green Supercamp family.

I began my journey when I saw the director of Green SuperCamp Australia, Heather Yelland, speaking at an event. Heather’s passion and drive was inspiring. Heather spoke about this wonderful program called Green Supercamp, it sounds awesome and I wanted in. I applied to be a team leader, was accepted and rocked up to Cave Hill Creek in my chalkboard car. My life has never been the same since. The words I would use to describe my first experience would be of love, understanding, connection, growth and joy. To not only feel the transformation within myself but see this within the young people who experienced this program was beautiful, emotional and made me burst with pride. Over the years I have been a team leader, facilitator and camp co-ordinator. I was fortunate enough to work for Heather and The Elevation Company as the Elevate Children co-ordinator and loved it.

Before getting involved in the program I had completed a course in Neuro Linguistic Programming and was excited to learn the Supercamp program was built on NLP principals. I love the way in which this camp incorporates positive language and ensures young people experience small successes to build confidence and a deeper appreciation for themselves. When undertaking my Supercamp facilitator training at Stanford University, I was also completing my Bachelor of Psychology; I love the brain and what it is capable of. I learnt that pioneering neuroscientists such as Marian Diamond with her theory of enriched environments inspired the way in which the program was put together made me even more excited to be involved. Everything within the Supercamp program is so purposely put together, from the position of the affirmation posters on the walls to the types of music being played during certain activities and the way in which movements are used to help remember the strategies.

One of the elements about the program that I find the most exciting is that by creating a space in which young people can be successful and allow them to be completely themselves we are able to draw out ideas from them that are constantly surprising to the young people and leave the facilitators in awe of the young leaders of the future.

I love the way this program attracts campers and staff for all walks of life from all over Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia and so many more wonderful destinations.

I look forward to April and October every year, where I get to continue to learn from and teach young people. It is such a privilege and honour to be involved with Green Supercamp Australia and all those who have the opportunity to join us. I wish that every young person could experience the transformation that Green Supercamp is able to offer. Thank you to Heather Yelland, The Elevation Company and the Quantum Learning Network for making this program possible in Australia.  

 

A couple of months back I was in awe of the growth in my garden. There was new life springing from everywhere and I quickly grabbed it as a metaphor for my life, hoping to incite new growth and abundance for myself. I was on a high as I walked through watching the grape vines bursting with hundreds of grapes and I convinced myself I was heading in the right direction. This was MY year!

Imagine my horror as I walked out there the very next day to find the vines shrivelled and pale and the new grapes falling from their stalks. A late frost had killed them all. Just like that. Gone.

Now, as I had already submitted myself to the thought of this being a euphemism for my own life I felt devastated. I mourned the loss of what could have been, what SHOULD have been. I felt the disappointment and the anxiety and the anger of having things I believed should have been mine, torn from me. Yet again.

And in line with my life, I picked up and went on regardless, vowing to cover the vines before the beginning of next season.

Low and behold, as I let go of the expectation of what should have been, I walked past the vines last week and…… they had recovered and grown more grapes. No, not as many as before, but it had recovered enough to produce.

Hmm, I thought. These vines really are a lot like me. A lot like us all. Just when we have it all planned out, we get redirected, stopped, directions get changed, and if we focus on the loss we fail to see the gift in the making.

As Heather has taught me it’s all about Flow Vs Force. The grapes didn’t force themselves to grow again. They simply allowed themselves to heal and be who they are and could not help but produce the fruit of their true identity.

 

 

I often think about what I might say if I came across the younger version of myself. What advice would I give, what wisdom would I impart… what might I say that may make the journey easier?

Does the journey even need to be easier? (Hmmmm that’s  topic for another time!)

Let’s say, for argument’s sake that it does. Here are the 10 tips I may share with younger Jodi should I be given the chance:

1. Celebrate your uniqueness. You may feel alienated and misunderstood at times, but that is because you are unique. You are tuned into the fact that you are different and here to make a difference.
2. Embrace the discomfort, celebrate the awkwardness and welcome the challenges. These are all signs that there is something pretty amazing in store for you. The Universe is preparing you with the tools you need to make your special impact in the world and to the lives of many.
3. Welcome change. Without it, we would live mundane, predictable lives with no adventure. If it terrifies you, do it anyway. Stretching your comfort zone is the way to stay joyful and excited. Remember that excitement and anxiety feel the same in the boy, it is the thoughts we attach to the feeling that make it a ‘good’ or ‘bad’ experience.
4. Don’t believe everything you think. That little voice inside your head is programmed to keep you safe… and small
5. Express gratitude daily. Always reflect on the abundance of what you have, rather than the lack. Abundance attracts abundance and lack attracts lack. Simple really.
6. Speak with good purpose. Picture every word you speak or write as energy expelled into the Universe like a boomerang. If all else fails, remember the old “if you don’t have anything nice to say, then don’t say anything at all”. There is much wisdom in this.
7. Your vibe attracts your tribe. You may, at times, feel alone and isolated, but as you grow and really step into the truth of who you are, you will begin to attract other people into your life who are doing and being the same. View friendships and relationships as flowing. As you own your truth, some people with be repelled. Yes, this will hurt… but it will also make space for some pretty extraordinary people to enter your life, and become your new tribe.
8. Don’t settle in relationships. You are worthy of respect, love and support and anyone who cannot give you these things is not worthy of your time or attention. Don’t depend on others to prove you are lovable. You are worthy of your love.
9. Be generous. Collectively, we are human-kind, not human-mean. We are here to give. There will be people who have forgotten this and are out to ‘get’. I have been both versions and I can honestly share with you that the rewards from giving outweigh any getting… immeasurably. Giving is not just about things or money. Giving your time, energy and love are also so incredibly valuable to the world at large.
10. Acknowledge your achievements, your growth and those who have played a role in your journey. Especially those who have challenged you the most. Those people are our biggest teachers. Master the art of forgiveness (particularly of yourself) so you can live a life of gratitude, joy and love.