Encouraging Excellence Blog

Category: A – Z Of Getting The Life You Want

  • Z – Zoom your Zeal

    Z Zoom your Zeal Are you passionate about anything? Is there something you have a burning desire to do, learn, explore or develop? Are you following that passion or is it simply a dream, something that you might someday get around to, when you’ve stopped hiding behind all the excuses you’ve got stacked up in…

  • Y – Yank your Youness

    Y Yank your Youness What is it about you that makes you different to everybody else? Apart from the obvious answer of “your fingerprints” can you say what it is about you that seperates you from everybody else on the planet? Despite being alike as human beings, we are all individuals, we are all unique,…

  • X – eXcel your eXcitement

    X   eXcel your eXcitement Do you get excited by your life? Are you glad to be alive? Have you even thought about it or does it take something else to trigger a thankfulness to even be alive? Maybe watching something tragic on the news like the recent earthquake in Haiti, or hearing of a…

  • W – Wither your Worries

    W Wither Your Worries Are you a worrier? Do you find yourself realising that you’ve not been worried about anything and begin to worry that something is wrong with that? I used to be a worrier, if I had nothing to worry about I’d get worried and I’d stay worried until I found something better…

  • V – Vanquish your Vagueness

    V Vanquish your Vagueness Are you one of those people who when asked something says “Mmm…..we’ll see” or “Let me think about that” or “Can I get back to you about that?” and promptly file it in your “Let’s Forget All About It box”, because you don’t want to make a decision? You might be…

  • U – Understand your Unconscious

    U Understand your Unconscious We all have a conscious mind and an unconscious mind. Our conscious mind is the bit we are aware of, hence “conscious” mind. Our unconscious mind is the bit we are not aware of, hence “unconscious” mind. Our unconscious does so much for us and of course until we are made…

  • T – Test your Truths

    T Test your Truths How often do you accept what other people say to you without questioning it? Are you one of those people who would “swallow a brick” as we used to say when we were young, the type of person who trustingly believes everything they are told? I used to be like that…

  • S – Set your Standards

    S Set your Standards What’s your bottom line? The line below which you just won’t go? Do you know what it is? Do you have one for different parts of your life? I have! For work my bottom line is cleaning and prostitution, they are the two professions I point-blank refuse to evenconsider doing. They…

  • R – Realise your Resourcefulness

    R Realise your Resourcefulness How resourceful are you? If you don’t have all the information or skills you need to complete a task do you give up and give in, or do you go looking for the information, leaving no stone unturned until you get it, or get the training required, then continue with your…

  • Q – Queue your Qualities

    Q Queue your Qualities If I was to ask you to write down ten things you don’t like about yourself, I’d guess that you would be able to do it fairly easily. Some of you might struggle with the last one or two, but in general it would be easy enough to do. Now on…