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‘Help’ sung by the Beatles was a smash hit. In those days they rolled one hit out after the other. Today, I read a wonderful article about how difficult it is to ask for help?

Today as our culture becomes more and more entrenched in being Independent and yet not so far away there are school leavers, young graduates, middle aged and old struggling through mounting debts, struggling to pay mortgages, rent and bills through lack of jobs. How far do we need to go down the road before we need to ask for help? As a divorced single parent, I learnt the lessons some years ago on humility with dignity.

Here are some of my ideas to help us through some difficult changes. To help us grow through the changes.

Do Good and Feel Good.

Face your fears – You can grow through them! Write down a list of what help you need.
Talk over your fears with people who care for you and are trustworthy..
Stop blaming everyone else. See changes as a challenge. Take on the challenge.
Be Pro Active.
Eat well. You can’t get over your fears if you have bad habits, especially when it comes to food.
Start eating healthy today and fuel your body for fear-busting. Have patience. You’ll get there
Take in plenty of fresh air. Walks in the Parks at lunchtimes.
Get together with friends, networks and form buddy support groups..
Write down your plan. Keeping a notebook of ideas, lists and goals is great for overcoming fears. It’s fun to cross off your accomplishments too.
Smile if only it is at yourself in the mirror. It’s good for you.
Enjoy fun and laughter – Pets and Children are great tonics!

Finding out all over again what we are good at and supporting each other, through changes in both work and life, can only be good for the spirit. Giving and Receiving, Serving and Volunteering. ‘Do Good and Feel Good’
What kind of help do you need?

And finally to thank our family and friends and colleagues who do help and make us feel good.  Thank you ecademy owners for this platform in being able to connect with so many others.

Who made you smile today? Here is another.

Warm Wishes, Carolyn

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Kari Henley wrote ‘While we may want to slow down, most of us cannot shut the madness off. It is as if our collective CPU’s are running on overdrive, and our brains are whirring like the fans behind the home computer on a hot day. We are working harder, faster and without stopping for so long, the idea of just shutting down is barely comprehensible’.

How do you combat being “Busy” these days? We connect on Facebook, Linkedin, Friendfeed, Bebo and the likes.
I know we are all … ‘ searching for connection. We want connection to people – ourselves, our family, our community, our friends, – to food, to place (where we live), and to life. We want connection to all that it means to live – we want to live a connected life’

Kari Henley.. continues .. …
“Americans in the 21st Century devote more technology to staying connected than any society in history, yet somehow the devices fail us: studies show that we feel increasingly alone,” they write. “Unfortunately, talking about loneliness in America is deeply stigmatized; we see ourselves as a self-reliant people who do not whine about neediness.”

In my work here in the UK I too see this …
‘Clients are coming with a powerful experience of loneliness, yet it is a state they barely recognize, and are reluctant to share, as if it were somehow shameful. It is more acceptable to be depressed than to be lonely-yet loneliness appears to be the inevitable byproduct of our frenetic contemporary lifestyle’.

If you’re NOT busy, are you a loser, or in a slump?

Last night at 10pm I joined @AskSharifah on her wonderful BlogRado Show for an hour with her American BlogRadio listeners giving hints and Tips for that extra #Sparkle in Business. An invite from Sharifah in addressing that obsession we have with ‘being busy’. One of my intentions is to help you #Keep that Sparkle. To encourage that connective Sparkle, I have invited John Cassidy @UKHeadshots to capture #SwanseaSmiles on camera. I met John during my Amazing #twunch date at Oriels in Chelsea, where we had fun exchanging power words with Tantalizing Thomas!

John’s power words were *Inspiring and *Confidence and mine *Aspiring and *Sparkling. I then set up a #Twunch Club so that people could meet and connect over ‘Twunch. Hopefully that bonding session will encourage you to have fun in sharing your desires and aspirations. I’d like to inspire you and capture that #Sparkle. Capturing those ‘moments’ on camera is something I have discussed with John. Hopefully you will get an opportunity to #Sparkle at my next #SwanseaSmiles on Aug 21st.

Who made you smile today? Carolyn

Keeping you fighting fit for your business

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