Daffodils line the borders and all manner of flowers and foliage are beginning to make their delightful appearance as the days get longer.  I admit, I hadn’t realised how much enjoyment I would experience from watching the changes day by day and the pleasure I take in discovering what types of plants are growing all around the garden.  Climbing roses are having a growth spurt and the jasmine and honeysuckle promises to provide a delicious fragrance for summer afternoons on the lawn.  The BBQ eagerly awaits its first outing!

Speaking of BBQs, everyone enjoys fresh, home-grown produce, so at the weekend I made a start on the veggie garden at Cherry Trees Farm.  With the sun shining I joined the many hordes of folks at the local garden centre, enjoying the prospect of a lovely day pottering outdoors communing with nature.

Aided by a wonderfully helpful and knowledgeable chap, I purchased the necessary seeds, compost, seed trays and a 72 cell propogator all in preparation for the afternoon ahead.  At the check-out, a lovely pair of gardening gloves caught my eye, so I added them to my bounty and headed back to the farm (I am becoming more and more like Barbara from The Good Life every day!) for the serious business of planting.

Once home, I read the instructions on each seed packet, cross-referenced them with my Grow Your Own Veg book and realised that there is more to this gardening malarky than meets the eye! 

Each seed requires different things; a different type of compost to grow in (PH levels, manure preparation, composting and wetness all seem to count) and need to be planted at different depths.  Then, there’s how far apart (or how close) they like to be - who knew that sweet corn, when it reaches seedling stage, needs to be planted close together so that the male and females are within easy reach of eachother for pollination to occur and for the cobs to grow?

Thinking about corn led me to thinking about our Design Your Fabulous Love Life weekend retreat - you’ve got to get out there and be in environments where you can get close enough to members of the opposite sex to meet someone - sitting at home in the hope that the thai or pizza take-away delivery man/woman will be the love of your life really does reduce your chances of happily ever after with Mr or Ms Right.

Like the seedlings, everyone is unique - we all need different levels of space, light and nourishment (in all its forms) to grow.  One of the first steps in finding the person for you is being really clear about who you are and what you really want in life.

Join us on the weekend of 17th - 19th April to spend quality time discovering your unique relationship needs, wants and values are and learn ways in which you can meet the partner who is just right for you! 

Once I carefully ensured that each group of seedlings had their own unique planting requirements met, I labelled them “Sweet Corn”, “Broccoli”, “Lettuce” and so on.  And in the same way that in life, you don’t plant tomato seeds expecting leeks to grow, being really clear about what you want and the ways in which you can go out and get it means that you’ll always reap what you sow.

Happy Springtime xx

www.designyourfabulousfuture.com

    Clear the Clutter!

Okay, are you ready?  Here is your mission for this week.

Clear the clutter!  That’s right - take time to go through your wardrobe/books/cupboards/bathroom cabinet/linen press/that special hiding place under the bed and take one of three actions with the items you find:

1.  Bin it (only if someone you know or the local charity shop can’t use it) Note: food, past its expiry date, with a fungal growth, must go in the bin or compost heap

2.  Give it away (see above)

3.  Put it back (neatly) after having repaired/cleaned/taken action to ensure it’s in fab condition and you’ll use it again soon.

Remember, with clothing, if you:

a) haven’t worn it for 12 months

b) think you’ll fit into it again once you’ve lost xyz pounds

c) believe that in a few years it’ll be classed as “vintage” so you’d better hang onto it

d) have more than three of the same item - you know, black tops do suit you, but do you REALLY need 8 of them?

e) don’t feel comfortable in it

Then please, please, please take action and give it to a new home! 

Tip: grab a friend and take turns at helping eachother to clear the clutter.  Put your favourite music on the stereo/ipod and chill your favourite wine/beer/champers for later in celbration of your newly tidied home.

Next day, feel the pleasure of giving things to others. 

For ‘big’ stuff, visit www.freecycle.co.uk where you can offer your unwanted things free to good homes (called ‘gifting’).

Take good care until next time

Lara and the Somersault team.

www.somersault-consulting.com

  ]]> http://www.designyourfabulousfuture.co.uk/design-your-fabulous-love-life/feed/ http://www.designyourfabulousfuture.co.uk/blue-trees-vs-global-meltdown/ http://www.designyourfabulousfuture.co.uk/blue-trees-vs-global-meltdown/#comments Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:41:39 +0000 admin http://www.designyourfabulousfuture.co.uk/blue-trees-vs-global-meltdown/ Blue Trees and Global Meltdown ! Whatever you do while reading this blog, I want you to promise yourself that at no time will you think of a blue tree… No, I said whatever you do, don’t think of a blue tree – and isn’t it strange how you can sit minding your own business reading this blog, totally oblivious of the tongue in your mouth until someone comes along and mentions it… Oh did I, are you? sorry, I was just twittering along on the keyboard, not consciously thinking of the effect my musings would have on your thoughts and ultimately your behaviour. You see, the thing with the unconscious mind is it can’t process a negative, so if I …. Well you get my gist.. blue trees and all that. Because the unconscious mind can’t process a negative it has to think of the negative before it can focus on the not thinking of it.. so, if you are told not to focus on a blue tree, the unconscious mind, however fleetingly, has to think of a blue tree before it can think of not thinking of a blue tree. And so it is with our focus … We get exactly what we focus on. We attract exactly what we are focusing on. How many times have you driven out of the from the car showroom in that special limited edition car, certain that this time, in this colour, with this spec, no one else can possibly have one like yours… only to see an identical model at the traffic lights around the corner? Or how many times have you been to that huge concert venue or sports stadium only to bump in to someone from across the street or from the office? The law of attraction dictates that the universe will draw us to exactly what we are focused on. There have always been hundreds of those cars driving around on your journey to work; you just haven’t been focusing on them. In all probability, thousands of people have pushed past you or crossed your path at the O2 before you notice your neighbour. The thing is, you don’t recognise anyone until you see your neighbour, so consciously you believe that the first people you have seen are your neighbours or the guy from the next office.

You see what I mean, we see, or we get, exactly what we are focusing on. 

You can’t help but notice that in recent weeks and months the media have been focusing almost entirely on the doom and gloom of global recession, and guess what, the more we talk about it, the more we read about it, the more likely it seems that we are hurtling ever quicker in to a global economic melt down!! Is there any surprise? In today’s 24 hour news society, the media is immensely powerful in creating and accelerating global outcomes. Simply by generating a sequence of headlines, discussions, debates and column inches then so we begin to create that outcome. The media Cause the circumstances that we choose to Effect our thinking.

Stop and think about it, in reality how different are you to the person you were 12 months ago? And yet how differently do you feel about your current or short-term future today, compared to 12 months ago? Significantly and sadly, when I’ve asked people that question in recent days the majority of replies I get are very much in the negative. Without realising why, the majority of people I talk to today are feeling much less confident about their future today than they were 12 months ago. Why? Because they are choosing to allow the media to place them at effect. The media is causing their effect!!

What if you were one of those savvy people who could choose to Create your own outcomes?

What if you were one of those people who could recognise just how many opportunities remaining in abundance all around you?

What if you chose to always be at cause for your life and your outcomes? While you and others are panicking today, the savvy are Creating their Fabulous Future. We all choose the behaviours we adopt. We all choose how to Internally Represent the external events going on around us and as a consequence we all choose whether to fold or play. We choose whether to Cause our Fabulous Future or to allow others such as media headlines to effect our lives and outcomes.

Just a thought….. Nigel

A while ago, all you needed to make a good business was a shop and a sign in front of it saying what the business was all about. In this respect, business was not a problem. 

Technology and information although extremely effective and useful have sped up our lives so much so that many of us are left scratching our heads and trying to figure out how to know what works any longer and what doesn’t.

Amidst all the gloom, there is good news and an opportunity for you.

You see there is a small handful of savvy business people and entrepreneurs who are thriving during the current economic turmoil.  When investors are losing money, and questioning their financial future, these business insiders are seizing on new found profit opportunities on an almost daily basis.

Join us on January 12th - 14th in Somerset when Somersault Consulting Directors Lara Young and Nigel Lenton will reveal the latest and most powerful strategies for personal and business success to you on their NLP for Success workshop.  There are residential and non-residential places available. 

One thing that remains constant in the midst of these changes is the fact that everybody wants to feel happy, satisfied and fulfilled.  If you can become this kind of person, people will be attracted to you and to your business.  People don’t want anxious, worried and troubled individuals.  They respond well to positive, powerful and in control people. 

Solve the challenges in your thinking and emotions and you have power.  Become the person who comes up with enthusiastic and innovative solutions – we’ll show you how. 

Join us for our Design Your Fabulous Future Workshops, Personal Transformation Retreats, NLP in Business, NLP Practitioner and NLP Coach and Master Coach certification courses.  Spend a day, a weekend or a week with us and transform your personal and professional future.  We’ll put a new spin on success in every area of your life – positive change is guaranteed.