
I’m a great catcher!
Cheers to your mighty dreams.
Stay special.
Love,
Clarabelle
Cheers to your mighty dreams

I’m a great catcher!
Cheers to your mighty dreams.
Stay special.
Love,
Clarabelle
When hope met my dreams

Today, I felt like being around “the people“. To feel their energy, their vibe, their liveliness.
I don’t always feel like that, but today was special.
Today, was my breakthrough day.
Today, I felt my power.
Today, I trusted myself and my future.

Today, was my day for FEELING ALIVE and TRULY GRATEFUL.
Today, was the day when HOPE met my DREAMS.
Today, feels like how LIFE should be – how life WANTS to be.
Today, feels FREE.
Today, feels MAGICAL.
Today, I realised my potential.
Today, gifted me with the fruits of my labour.

Today, was all about, SHOWING UP, DOING MY THING and PERSEVERING through the storms.
Yesterday’s challenges MADE ME STRONGER.
I see that now….TODAY!
Today is a celebration of KEEPING GOING!
Today is EVERYTHING going forward.
TODAY IS THEE DAY!
I hope you will have your TODAY…..EVERYDAY!
Magically yours.
Clarabelle
Your untapped potential is eager to be set free

To all the “tryers” out there – I love you for it.
If you try and KEEP GOING, you’ll eventually get somewhere, but if you try and then stop trying, you’ll only go backwards.

Just like a beautiful flower, you are meant to flourish and blossom. Look to nature, to be your guide. Nature always yearns to grow, to dig deeper roots, to bloom and bear fruits. It’s your duty to personally develop and move yourself forward.
To thrive is a forever gift.
Do all you can to enhance and nurture your natural talents and you’ll evolve in this world.
Your untapped potential is eager to be set free.

Let the best of you flow out and it will find a way to connect and light up.
Your positive energy is more powerful than the sun.
Your inner glow shines brighter than the stars.
You are a sweet miracle.
Believe you have what it takes to dream it and do it.
Don’t wait for the opportunity, seek what you deserve – the BEST!
You are loved for YOU.
Remember that!
Clarabelle
Our strength is not always obvious at first

I didn’t know or believe I had that much power, until I took myself on a dreamlike journey to faraway lands.
Wonderful places of inspiration, hope, nurture and nature.
Self-challenge has taught me a lot about life – mainly, that the magic you seek “out there” is actually not there, but the real miracle lives within you.
A beautiful life therefore, is an inside job.
Too often we search for the meaning of life in all the wrong places.
We never have to travel very far to experience the “magical“. Your inner light and very being, holds that specialness.
In pain, passion and purpose we become invincible – please read that one again!

Our strength is not always obvious at first; usually we become aware of it, as we look back on life; when we recognise the difficult barriers we have overcome.
Sometimes you have to reach “rock bottom” to ignite your super powers – for that’s where the heart of true resilience and the real spirit of determination beats.
An achieved life is usually treasured more greatly, after a significant fall. I call this “peace of mind“.
If you’ve never fallen, you’ll never really know how AMAZING you are.

I remember, many years ago, I cried for help…..”out there”. It took me, for what felt like a lifetime, to realise it was ON ME to truly help myself.
My choices, my decisions, my actions, my thinking, my feeling….ALL OF ME.
When you take accountability and responsibility for where you’re currently at – you can make HUGE progress from there.
If however, you are playing the “blame game”, you’ll never really be able to self-actualize your unique power.

There is one quote by Christopher Gardner that ignites a fire in me like no other…
“The cavalry ain’t coming”
There is just something about this quote that always motivates me into immediate action.
If you want to change something in your life for the better – it’s ON YOU my friend.
If you want to blame anyone for your current unwanted situation – blame yourself.
That’s just how I have always responded to challenges in my life. I need and want to take accountability, then I go about changing it, like there’s no tomorrow.
That’s my drive – the power to know I can change things for the better.
I often think, “if they can do it, so can I”.
So take a look at your life – what’s stopping you from achieving self-greatness?
Where are you part of the problem?
Where are you part of the solution?
I know you know.
Stay ON IT my friend.
Get into your power today.
Clarabelle
I see you there

In 2023, change your world with better thoughts, words, actions and commitments.
Imagine the new world you want to thrive in and make your greatest plan to achieve that.
I see you there, standing tall, surrounded with abundance and sharing your happy heart.
May 2023 be your best year ever!
Clarabelle
Opportunities are everywhere

May your thinking rise higher than the morning sun.
Today, think big things! Think so big you even astound yourself.
When you raise your thinking to another level, something extraordinary happens and you become connected to a new field of opportunities.
The higher your thinking, the more tremendous the opportunities.
Rise high wonderful you and make 2023 your best year yet!
Clarabelle
Be truly inspired
Welcome to Fantasic Friday and that means Clarabelle Podcast day!
Today’s podcast is spoken word poetry entitled, I STAND HERE TALL
I invite you to listen below and be truly inspired.

I STAND HERE TALL
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Today’s podcast by Clarabelle, I STAND HERE TALL
I stand here tall,
mighty and strong,
confident in spirit,
all day long.
I stand here united,
together as one,
breathing in light,
embracing the sun.
I stand here brave,
courageous in mind,
fighting each demon,
treasures I find.
I stand here proud,
giving my all,
believing in me,
I stand here tall.
By Clarabelle


Do the work.

Imagine what’s beyond your dreams – visualise it now!
Please don’t wait for dreams to happen for you, you’ve got to do the work day in and day out.
You may not feel like working towards your dreams everyday, but believe me, that’s how you will achieve them.
Keep on dreaming but keep on putting the work in daily.
You’ve got this my friend.
Clarabelle – 1 December 2022
Don’t just make it a dream my friend.
It’s Friday and that means Clarabelle Podcast day!
Today’s podcast is a reminder to never stop dreaming and believing.
DREAM ACHIEVEMENT – don’t just make it a dream my friend.

DREAM ACHIEVEMENT
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Today’s podcast by Clarabelle


It’s all up to you
Imagine what’s beyond your dreams, I mean once you have achieved them – visualise that right now.
Think yourself into that zone of dream achievement – isn’t it such a wonderful happy place?
I love this quote by Walt Disney, “If you can dream it, you can do it.” – it says it all to me really.
It’s great to dream, but even better to live out your dreams and it’s all up to you.
I have dreams, lots of wonderful dreams and I believe that they will come true for me one day. I don’t sit around waiting on them to happen – that will never work. I truly go to work on my dreams everyday.
So I ask you today, to think about the dreams you want to make happen and I encourage you to take tiny steps each day into achieving them.
Wishing you a sensational day, dreaming, doing and more importantly, LIVING.
Clarabelle
how to make it work for you
By Clarabelle, London, UK
Created on 9 August 2022
Posted to Blog on 3 September 2022

This is your year, I just feel it for you, I know great things are on their way to you, feel how good that feels, visualise yourself in that place you are aiming for, your spirit is high and you are shining like the brightest star. You are the brightest star in the sky….remember THIS IS YOUR YEAR, go make it happen!!
Clarabelle
Things not moving fast enough for you? Then I guess the Universe feels you’re not quite ready yet for the amazing success that is chapping at your door.
“But I’m ready to answer, right now” I hear you say. Well what are you going to do about it? What?
You know there is always something you can do, I know you know that. Go on then answer, but please make sure you open the right door.
“How will I know?”
Because it’s the one that you are most excited about opening, the one that makes you truly come alive inside…….yes, that’s the door you must open.
Open the door to your dreams.
Love, Clarabelle
Celebrate how far you’ve come and welcome the journey of tomorrow. Today is your blessing, today be grateful for everything you have achieved so far, you’ve done good you know, you’ve done real good!! This poem’s for you.
Do It With Pride
The bells’s ringing,
I’m ready to go
Are you with me?
Bring on the show.
Smiles in your pocket
Hope on your back
Plough through all weathers
Get back on track
Start where you are
Think always good
Be kind to yourself
Don’t say “should”
Come on my friend
You’re almost there
One more step
A little more care
Concentrate, focus
Have faith in your stride
Go a little further
Do it with pride.
By Clarabelle

Whilst going for your dreams, you are always being tested by life. But there is much beauty and true wisdom in the lessons we learn from “going for it” on this journey.
You have to stay super focused amongst the everyday distractions and this is when you can really tell if it is your true burning passionate desire to achieve this goal. If it wasn’t, you’d most certainly be very tempted to give up as soon as it gets a little tough. It is at these times, a super passionate person would dig in even deeper, put in extra effort to really stay on track or take things up a level. A determination like no other will spur you on to keep going and you will stay resilient towards achieving the goal in hand.
This is me and I want this to be you too. This is where I am at and I am telling you, nothing is going to stop me and I want you to feel the same about your dreams and goals in life. I am building up serious momentum each and every day and I am starting to feel the spark lighting up inside of me. I want the best ever life for you and for me and I do hope your focus, determination and inner strength is as strong as mine and if not even stronger.
If I can do it, You can do it, We can do it – Let’s do it!!
Happy days to you,
Clarabelle
Listen to me, I want to tell you something, something very important in the transformation of your life………you must say this, say this out loud, right now, you must mean it and say it with conviction, let this affirmation live and breathe through every cell in your body, are you ready?…here goes:
“I BELIEVE IN ME”
That’s it, those 4 little words, when you live by those words, your dream is practically yours……say it again, smile, enjoy that positive feeling moving around you, because you now have the key to all your future successes.
When you believe those words are true for you, then it’s just a matter of time for the results to appear.
BELIEVE Clarabelle
The imagination is such a wonderful thing, keep on creating and continue to exercise that beautiful muscle.
See in the mind’s eye what you want to achieve in life, envision that so very powerfully in your mind and live and breathe your desire. It’s got to come to you, your everyday behaviours will help you achieve that. So choose wisely in what you do daily and ensure you are putting your energies in the right direction.
Let your imagination come alive and fuel your desire for success today.
You can do it,
Break the cycle of bad habits by focusing on a completely new awe-inspiring habit and by using this simple strategy, it will help you to lose the bad habit for good.
You see, to make a permanent change in life, you really have to break the current cycle, shake it up a little or better still shake it up a lot!!
Your new cycle awaits……jump right on it today.
Happy cycling, Clarabelle
How do you know you are strong, how do you really know, have you tested your inner strength recently? Why not test it again over the next few days, weeks, months?…I encourage you to set yourself a goal, a goal that will challenge your inner being, a goal that when you reach it, you know that you are even more stronger that you could ever imagine.
Make a commitment to yourself to be brave, to release your courageous soul into the universe and let it unleash your greatest potential to fight for that goal. Make sure it’s a goal worth fighting for and if it is……well I already know you’ve made it, I already know and you do too.
Test your inner strength…….and enjoy the journey.
Love Clarabelle
Let’s get going, yes you, yes YOU and me, let’s get going with our life, our wonderfully inspiring beautiful life…….now smile, you’ve made it.
You’ve Made It
Wow, I think you’ve made it,
I always knew you would.
You faced your deepest fears,
Turned bad times into good.
When all in life seemed lost,
And very troublesome too,
A huge wave of inspiration,
Got hold of the person in you.
You’ve come so very far.
Be proud and feel rejoice,
Your empowering creative spirit,
Released its encouraging voice.
Now your amazing success,
Is so easy to see.
All the hurt and pain,
Guided you to be free,
So celebrate this happy,
You deserve all it brings,
Because you are a fighter,
And inspire all great things.
By Clarabelle
It’s easy to feel frustrated that things are moving as fast as you would like them to, that progress seems slow or non-existent at present. However, have faith and patience that the results will come and that you will achieve the right outcomes for you. Frustration can be a good thing, it just means you’re ready, you’re ready for CHANGE……and once you’re ready, well anything can happen, believe me….and it positively will.
Don’t rush the process, because in time the rewards will come, so keep putting in every effort to the little things and big changes will appear.
Positive change is on it’s way for you.
Love Clarabelle
A motivational poem for you:
Let’s Get Going
Let’s get going,
Don’t you stop.
Keep your head up,
Beep beep bop.
See the goal,
In your eyes.
Feel and believe,
It’s your surprise.
So soldier on,
Break through it all.
Imagine your life.
Over the brick wall.
At the rainbow’s end,
Celebrate your glory,
This is your life,
This is your story.
By Clarabelle.
Let’s get going my friends, you and me, let’s get going today!!
Love Clarabelle

I was speaking with a good friend of mine this evening who is highly successful in their field of elite health and fitness and I wanted to share with you his four D’s of success. Below is what he considers to be the basic foundations of his extreme success to date in this industry:
He explained to me how he applies these basic success principles in his daily life and how good this makes him feel. I just felt it was really good to share with you his thoughts, to help you learn and apply these principles in your daily life.
It certainly inspired me and got me thinking about the principles that are missing from my daily life and for me “Discipline” is the one I need to work on.
It’s great to share this knowledge with you and add a little bit of value to your life.
Keep on, keeping on.
Clarabelle
If you don’t know the answer……it’s time to think, make a plan and take inspired action!!


Wow, I am so very delighted that this blog has now received over 26,000 visitors since it all began in April 2012. Now 26,000 people, that’s a lot of people and I would like to thank you all for joining my journey and showing an interest in my articles.
I think the key to a successful blog is to truly write about things you are passionate about because I feel this shows throughout your writing. If you stick to that, then you want to and look forward to writing blog posts, you are excited about sharing your thoughts with the world. In this mode then, there is no need for the “push” effect because it’s “pull” all the way, like a magnet, a strong attraction to continue to write and share.
So if you’re thinking about starting up your own blog or wanting to stay in the “pull” effect, write about your passions, because when you write about this stuff, you will feel good and readers will also feel good reading it too.
This is just one key to building a successful blog and having people camp out in your blog for a while. Thank you and Happy Camping!!
Lots of love,
Clarabelle

Well today is the first day of the Clarabelle 90 Day Challenge that I spoke about in yesterday’s blog post. I do hope you are going to join me on the journey because I would love success for you too. So today I am super focused and super motivated and I hope you’re off to a great start too!! I’ll be updating my Clarabelle Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/clarabelle.org everyday on what I’m up to and the successes I am achieving towards my music career goals, so please feel free to head over there and get involved.
Thank you for being here and I do hope you take on the 90 Challenge for yourself – YOU CAN DO IT!!
Lots of love, Clarabelle

As you know I love to share my poems with you and whilst in reflective mode this morning I wrote the one below……..and even though I know you know this one is about me, I feel it is also about YOU, because we’re all connected in a beautiful way. Be the “happening” of your dreams today. Lots of love Clarabelle.
She looks beyond,
the stars above.
She feels her passion,
she embraces the love.
For all she has,
is all she dreams.
Reaching out,
to glittering sunbeams.
A twisted fate,
a serendipity goodbye.
Moves her on,
many tears she did cry.
But she is hope,
ambitions from afar.
She sees the light,
as she raises the bar.
No more hurt,
no more pain.
Will she make it?
singing in the rain.
By Clarabelle, 26 January 2014


Sometimes we can all be our own worse critic, saying things like “I can’t do this because it’s not perfect.” Life is not perfect, nothing is and if you honestly think you have to wait and get going until everything is perfect, then you might have to wait a very long time……then, my friend, you may have missed the boat!!
I have said this before on this blog and I will say it again, “perfection is in the imperfections”, just like “beauty is in the eye of beholder”. Please don’t put your life on “hold” because things aren’t “perfect” right now, think of baby steps towards progress.
If I had waited to start this Clarabelle Blog until everything was perfect in my life and in my posts and poetry, I would never have started it and you wouldn’t be here, reading this right now. 🙂 If I had waited to release my own songs until everything was perfect then you wouldn’t have the opportunity to listen to them right now. I heard someone say the other day that it can take the best part of 20 years to master something, wow 20 years is a long time, I can’t wait that long, can you?
Start where you are, NOW, hold that vision in your head and do something everyday to move you closer to your goal. It’s amazing the new people and opportunities that cross your path when you just decide to, go for it.
I love this motivational video, below, which I came across on Youtube yesterday, the words ring very true for me and it is worth the 7 minutes to listen to it and be inspired.
Keep it real, keep it true to your heart and believe that you WILL do this.
Have a super inspiring day my lovely friends and thank you for being here.
Love Clarabelle

Progress
I set specifics goals for myself at the beginning of 2013 and I review their progress every 3-4 months together with some fine tuning of these goals. All these goals are also directly related to my Vision Wall that I created in the spring time of 2012, please see the Vision Wall page here on this blog for more specific details around the process I followed specifically for that.
Today I want to share with you the process I have carried out in creating my Focus Goal Cards as this is something you may wish to do for yourself.
I have seven specific Focus Goal Cards that I completed for myself.
Each Focus Goal is written on an A6 size piece of white card (see photos below) with the following details:


Below is a photo of an example for you:

The A6 size Focus Goal Cards are for my office desk so that I can read them often when working from it.
I also wanted to be able to keep my Focus Goal Cards at hand, so that I can read them when I am out and about, so I decided to create a miniature version of each Focus Goal Card, beginning with an “I Am” statement for e.g. “I am in perfect health”.

I then keep these smaller cards, with less information on them, in my Focus Goal Card Wallet in my handbag and read them throughout the day, as much as possible.
Subconscious Mind
What I am specifically doing here, is that I am consciously and deliberately making an effort, with repetition in mind to shift these goals from my conscious mind into my subconscious mind so that I will then automatically do things every day that are in support of me achieving these goals.
Focus Goal Journal
In addition to the above I also have a Focus Goal Journal (photo below) where I continually write each specific goal on the notepad journal, line after line after line, filling up each page – again this is so the goal moves more quickly from my conscious mind into my subconscious mind.

Bespoke Process
So there you have it, that’s the Focus Goal Card process that I am currently going through. I am fully aware that this is the final quarter of the year and I wanted to step it up a level in order to ensure I achieve what I want, so this is what I decided to do to achieve that. Together with my Vision Wall I feel this makes a dynamic goal achievement process that is bespoke to me and I know what works for me. For yourself, it may be a completely different process but I guess you won’t know until you try it for yourself and if you do, please let me know how you get on, I will certainly let you know how I am getting on in a future blog post.
After all, “What you think about, you bring about” and I want YOU and I to do everything we can to support that process.
Know what you want and just you go for it and please do whatever works best for you.
Lots of love to you today, Clarabelle


“Where there’s passion, there is pull.”
I just thought I would share that one with you today. No matter how many bumps on the road there are, when you are passionate about doing something, it never feels like you have to really force yourself, you never need to fully push because the passion that you have for that thing indeed pulls you forward.
Choose a goal in life that you are passionate about, one that is in alignment with your values and watch yourself soar.
Remember: “Where there’s passion, there is pull.”
Much love to you today, Clarabelle

Clarabelle Journey 🙂
“Lightning may strike for a good reason.”


Photo by Clarabelle 🙂
Inspiration is Everywhere
I wrote this song because I wanted the lyrics to inspire people to really believe in themselves and go for their dreams and goals in life. The song is entitled, “I Am The Greatest” and I want the person singing along to it, to really believe that they are and to feel encouraged and empowered by the words from within. Inspiration is everywhere and I do hope you find some of it in this song. Below is the Youtube video of me singing it for you. I am still working on the backing tracks but I didn’t want that to stop the process of me sharing this with you. 🙂 Wishing you a day filled with love and inspiration, love Clarabelle.
Happy Friday everyone, here is a sweet little beautiful, uplifting poem that I created this morning just for YOU. I am very happy and I want you to be too. Lots of love Clarabelle

Be Happy
I am so happy, life is so good
Spirits high, upbeat mood
All is well, all seems right
Stars shine, on me each night
My life is amazing, wonderful and true
My life is abundant, I want this for you
I want you to know, you have the power
To achieve your wishes, in this very hour
Start with your thoughts, keep a positive mind
Marry them with great feelings,treasures you’ll find
Like attracts like, remember this today
Be happy, stay strong, your happy life’s on its way.
poemsbyclarabelle, 16 August 2013


Just Believe
Sometimes you just have to believe that YOU are the greatest, you have to believe in yourself, you have to believe in your abilities, you have to believe that you are capable of achieving so much more. You have so much potential, there is so much more of you to unleash, so much more of you to share with the world. Now I want you to hold onto that thought and I want you to flip an imaginary switch and when you do, you 100% believe in you, now watch what you are doing, look at who you are talking to, What changes are you making in your life? What are you doing differently? Just believe, just believe, just believe in YOU. I wrote the lyrics, “I Am The Greatest” (see below) last month because I was strongly visualising myself being the greatest songwriter of all time and then I wrote it down (picture above).
Vision
I believe, I have faith in the unknown and I know the Universe is working in my favour and bringing it to me. I made the decision, I made the commitment and I acted upon it, I now treasure every person and thing that I attract into my life that moves me closer to my vision.
YOU
Now I want you to believe in you, believe in it all, believe and have faith in the mystery of the unknown, that once you commit to doing something, once you commit to achieving that goal, it’s going to happen for you, sooner or later it is going to happen for you. You are the greatest and I want you to believe that.
Below are the lyrics to my song, “I Am The Greatest”, this will be released as part of my Album, “The Becoming of Me”, I think the melody that goes with this song is really great, it is really uplifting and empowering, definitely a song to be listened to first thing in the morning or when you are feeling down and want a little boost, the song will definitely do that for you.
“I Am The Greatest” by Clarabelle created on 22 July 2013
Verse 1
You’ve gotta put the hard work in
And let your mind know
In order to catch the falling star
You’ve gotta move and go
Time it will not wait for you
Life moves very fast
So step it up, get going
Live it up, get showing
Say I Am
Chorus
I am the greatest
I’ve changed my ways
I’ve reached the rainbow
Happy sunny days
For I am the greatest
So watch me fly
I am the greatest
This is why
Verse 2
Times are tough I know sometimes
Keep going until the end
To reach the top you have to go
Be real do not pretend
You can be the champion
You can have it all
So live it up, get moving
Play the game, get grooving
Say I Am
Bridge
I feel my heart
I feel my soul
In changing moments
This I know
Chorus
I am the greatest
I’ve changed my ways
I’ve reached the rainbow
Happy sunny days
For I am the greatest
So watch me fly
I am the greatest
This is why
This is why
I will fly
I want you to fly today, I’ll be watching you, love Clarabelle


As some of you may already know I have my own Professional Coaching Business, Murray People International Coaching, www.murraypeople.com. I set up the business in 2008 after a wonderful career as a Human Resource Professional and now nearly 5 years later, it is still growing strong…I love coaching. I mainly coach Senior Executives in Global Companies but I also do private one to one Career and Life Coaching, I am fully certified as a Professional Coach. I really love working with people and seeing them achieve their goals in life. I deliberately make a real effort to continually develop myself everyday so that I can use my learning in my one to one sessions with my clients, I know the better that I can become, then the better I will work with them, and the better they will become and get the results they want. Every new coaching tool I learn for clients, I also apply to myself, this helps me to personally evolve and increases my self-awareness. So lately I have been asking myself my own questions about my life, here is the question I asked myself recently:
What do you want your life to be/look like one year from now?
So, of course, I went to work and I looked at each area of my life and in great detail wrote down what I specifically want my life to be and look like one year from now. I absolutely loved this process. I looked at the following areas:
Three pages later and I had a wonderful vision of where I WILL be one year from now because I believe that will happen for me, because I WILL make it happen for me. I have a very good track record, I was thinking of goals I have set myself in the past and fully committed to and I can honestly say I have achieved every single one of them, so this gives me an abundance of self-confidence going forward.
What About YOU?
If you want to make positive changes in your life, I would totally recommend that you sit down quietly with a notepad and pen or type on your computer/iPad and answer that question for yourself:
What do YOU want YOUR life to be/look like one year from now?
What you do after that is your choice, I read my list every morning, so I can get my specific goals embedded into my heart, mind and soul and this helps me to become super focused in achieving that for myself, sometimes without even trying. You see it is like programming my brain to focus on achieving that for myself, so my everyday choices and decisions are in support of those life goals. I am super focused, laser focused, fully committed and fully passionate about making these goals happen for me. I want the same for YOU, I want you to have a better life, I want you to have everything that you have ever wanted, I want the BEST for YOU, I truly and honestly do. It’s your life, GO GET IT!! (I think I may make that my new slogan!!)
May every thought that you think today, be in support of a better you and a better life for you, lots of love, as always, Clarabelle.

Indeed, “flying is our only freedom”, thank you “A Window of Wisdom” for this blog post. I really love it. Clarabelle
“If we return to what we walked away from, out of fear, and for comfort, our growth will become a vision of the past.”
When our spirit becomes caged by life circumstances; a soft tug from our heart-strings will pull us into our desired direction to where we can be set free. But along the way of our new path, there will be moments of difficulty that will trigger fear, and past reflections, of only happy memories that will try to pull us back into our cage… and if we return, we will find our self sitting in our cage, and reflecting on when we used to fly.
We must keep moving forward to soar higher in flight, by embracing the fears of the unknown future, for they will always try to tell us that the cage was cozy, but in reality, flying is our only freedom.
~ WOW ~
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Below is a post taken from an older blog of mine…..I don’t use this blog any more however I feel some of the more empowering posts from it would be really good to share on here. This post was originally written in 2009, I hope it makes you think a little differently. Go for your goals today. Love Clarabelle.
Today, I was at the beach watching a little girl chase her father’s remote controlled car around in circles. She kept jumping forward and falling on her knees in an effort to catch the car as it skidded by. She did this 31 times and failed. But on attempt number 32, she caught the car. [Makes Me Think (MMT), Marc and Angel]
Clarabelle’s thoughts…..
If only as adults we were sometimes as brave and determined as that young child and then maybe our fear of failure would not inhibit us from our most greatest life successes. How many times have we as adults only have had to fail once and then we never try or do again? What made that little girl not give up after the first time? I think for sure she was enjoying the journey of her learning experience and having lots of fun, fun, fun with her father. I also think she did not care about what anybody else thought. She had no negative thoughts in her mind preventing her from continuing and no limiting beliefs blocking her path. She sounded excited, happy and free to never give up—even after 31 times.
What have you prevented yourself from doing after falling at the first hurdle?
What would it mean for you to get back up, stand tall, be confident and embrace the opportunities that lie ahead?
Surely in every failure there is a lesson to be learned and by applying the lessons second or third time around maybe, just maybe, your outcome would be different every time, and every time I bet you would get closer to your goal.(Claire Murray)
“It only takes one person to change your life—YOU” [Ruth Casey]
This is a post I wrote for another business blog in 2011, I came across it today and thought I would share it with you, there may be some value in it for you and please feel free to share away. I wish you a day filled with opportunities for the taking, it’s your life, go get it!! Clarabelle.
An Exciting Challenge
I was on the phone to my business partner Debbie and we were talking about ‘change’, for me ‘change is opportunity’. Why do I say this? Well as much as some of us might dread the thought of change, I absolutely love it and find it an exciting challenge. I don’t want to sit in my ‘comfort zone’ all my life, it is important for me to get out there, embrace new challenges and live life. If I fail, well I feel I have only learned some great lessons that will strengthen me as a person.
I was sent this wonderful quote last night by my friend Stephen, “if we never fail at anything we are not being adventurous enough” by Peter Huntley, MD of Go North East buses, what a truly wonderful quote that is. I would rather try and fail 1000 times than not try at all. Determination, persistence, passion, consistency, self-discipline and never giving up is the qualities that I feel will get me everywhere. We all know the famous saying ‘Rome wasn’t built in a day’ so I would also throw in some ‘love and patience’ to this amazing mix of ingredients.
What I would say however is that to make change happen you need to know exactly your answers to the following questions:
Change is a choice and once you make that full commitment to change anything in your life you must take ‘MASSIVE ACTION’ to initiate the process. When you start taking meaningful action towards your change goal you will get more and more motivated by the results you start to see – the fruits of your labour.
To change effectively and for the long term you must start at the core, with the root “the roots determine the fruits”. That means change the way you think, which will change the way you feel and ultimately this will change your behaviours and it is in what you do that will help you get real results.
So make that decision today, challenge yourself, be open, flexible and adaptable to change, welcome it with open arms and express who you really are because the only constant in life is change and if you stand still, I believe you are actually going backwards, as others make changes to drive ahead they will most definitely overtake you – so don’t be left for dust, change is opportunity NOW!!
poemsbyclarabelle, Blog post created in 2011
Moving from ‘Stuck’ to ‘Unstuck’
We’ve all had days when we feel a little bit ‘stuck’ and I include myself here, after all we are only human. It is possible for you to go from stuck to unstuck within moments and I believe the process for this is different for every person. When I created the poem below I was feeling in a ‘stuck’ place, but by the time I had finished the poem, I had moved to unstuck…the answer came from within and when I was in ‘creative flow’. What will you do today to help you move from a feeling of being ‘stuck’ to ‘unstuck’? There is a way, there is always a way, silence your mind, open your heart and let the answers flow. Much love to you, Clarabelle.
Today I Was Stuck
It’s nearly midnight, and I’m lying in bed;
I think of my inaction, before I rest my head.
Today I was stuck, I didn’t play the game;
Life got the better of me, unleash this chain.
Many brick walls, are in my way;
Built up by me, getting higher each day.
I kick and I punch, the battle is in me;
I’m fighting myself, this I can see.
So what do I do, to turn this around?
Inside is the answer, this I have always found.
Let go of the fight, it’s not a war anymore;
Staring at these four walls, will not open the door.
Step outside, breathe in the air;
Replenish your spirit, feel the wind in your hair.
Dust yourself down, and put a smile on your face;
Slowly walk down the path, and gradually pick up the pace.
To master the mind, it not about control;
Release that desire, and you’ll discover your soul.
Silence is golden, connect to the now;
The answers will come, and then you’ll know how.
poemsbyclarabelle, 17 April 2012