100 Days of Gratitude – Day 47

So grateful today for some very exciting mail… especially for the sender!  Julie Woods, That Blind Woman, from New Zealand, launched her book recently, and popped a couple in the mail to me.  How exciting! The book covers Julie’s first 10 years of blindness, and explores her learning along the way.

Julie has featured in our newsletter a few times – so this book will come as no surprise to many of my readers.  I’m grateful to Julie for not only sharing the journey of the book with me, as her coach, and now her friend, but I’m grateful that Julie is who she is.  One page will have you laughing hysterically, the next will smack you in the face with profound insights that could just change your life.  One of the key ways Julie has impacted my life is by her incredibly creative approach to problem-solving, and the way she explores the learning in everything she does.  She’s one incredibly inspiring woman with a story worth sharing!

Love Kerrie

Inspiring Quotes

I’m taking a big step this week – launching myself out of the comfort zone and becoming an author!  I am creating a journal, which includes a guide to effective writing and support for achieving goals and I’m including some of my favourite inspriring quotes, not only from the very famous, but also from people in my world, who will most likely be famous one day.  Well their words will be in print!

I thought I’d share a few of my favourite quotes now, why wait for the journal to be printed?  Today’s a great day to encourage someone!

1.  Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase. – Martin Luther King Jr.

Okay, so I’m doing that…  and sometimes I trip on the stairs in my excitement or inexperience, but I get up and keep moving, learning from each experience.

2.  I want to know God’s thoughts. The rest are details. – Albert Einstein

Wow… what’s to be said here?  It’s worth pondering every single day…

3.  Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think I’m doing okay with this one too… Lyndon was just reminding me last night that I am quite unusual. (I see things so differently to how most people would)  It’s not a bad thing, probably a good thing, but something to be aware of – I can’t guess what people would be thinking!!

4.  Change your thoughts and you change your world. – Norman Vincent Peale

I absolutely, wholeheartedly agree!  I love the question “How could I think about this differently?”  I love that I can be proactive, notice my thinking and change it!  I’m in charge of my brain!  If I leave it on autopilot it might take me down the wrong path!

Well I’ve enjoyed sharing these thoughts, and I’m now getting back to pulling my journal together so it’s out before Christmas.  Hope you’ve enjoyed this too.  If you’d like to send me your favourite quotes, the life-changing ones, please do!  Especially the one’s you’ve made up yourself – gems from your heart and mind.   You never know where they’ll go.

This one comes from a lovely, inspiring client of mine from New Zealand, who went blind as a 30+ mother of two boys. Check out http://www.thatblindwoman.com to be really inspired.

5.  To lose my sight may have been considered tragic  but to lose my sense of humour would have been catastrophic.  –  Julie Woods – NZ speaker and coach

Julie’s sense of humour is delightful and puts people at ease when they’re around her, unless they’re in stitches from laughing!

I’ll leave you with one that fell out of my mouth last week, and Lyndon wrote it down.

6.  To journal is to be courageous, because one comes face-to-face with oneself.  –  Kerrie Phipps

Have a wonderful day, focus on thoughts that are useful, inspiring and motivating,

Cheering you on,

Kerrie

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World Gratitude Day

World Gratitude Day is tomorrow, Sunday 21 September, another opportunity, as everyday is, to reflect on how much we have to be grateful for. I’m so excited to be able to introduce you to someone in my world I’m grateful for. Julie Woods, “That Blind Woman” from New Zealand, has been preparing to launch her blog on World Gratitude Day, and I know we’re in for something special. You’ll hear more of Julie! I’m so thankful for the opportunity to be her Coach, supporting her on a most amazing journey. I’ve discovered an incredibly inspiring woman who has a story to share with the world… which she will do – stay tuned!

As I was typing this, an email came in which described a possible scenario in Heaven… the Receiving Room was buzzing with activity, with Angels handling lots of requests, the Package & Delivery Room, also very busy sending out all the blessings requested, but the acknowledgment room was very quiet as not many Thank You’s came in. The email continued with these words…

‘If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep you are richer than 75% of this world. If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish, you are among the top 8% of the worlds wealthy.’
‘And if you get this on your own computer, you are part of the 1% in the world who has that opportunity.’
‘If you woke up this morning with more health than illness…. you are more blessed than the many who will not even survive this day.’
‘If you have never experienced the fear in battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation … you’re ahead of 700 million people in the world.’
‘If you can attend a church without the fear of harassment, arrest, torture or death you experience a freedom three billion people in the world don’t have.’
‘If your parents are still alive and still married …you are very rare.’
‘If you can hold your head up and smile, you are not the norm, you’re unique to all those in doubt and despair.’

Happy World Gratitude Day!!!

Ideas for making the most of World Gratitude Day (or any day!)
List 10 things you’re grateful for.
Smile.
List another 10 things you’re grateful for.
Smile some more.
List 10 more things you’re grateful for.
(You can’t help but smile now)
Share your list with someone.
Tell someone why you’re grateful that they’re in your life.
Stick your list where you’ll see it regularly.
Add to your list everyday.
Notice how much you’re smiling now…
And how many others are smiling with you!

Cheering you on,

Love Kerrie