Weekend Musings - Take pride in your achievements

I am feeling rather pleased with myself at the moment. I have completed a number of projects lately, one very large one and some smaller ones.And I am very proud of the results. 

Now this is a turn around for me as I have always had the belief that it was wrong to be proud of my achievements and that they had little value. This is what you call a limiting belief and it has dogged me all my life, making me feel bad about myself. Is this story familiar to you?

To prove that I have changed my beliefs about my self, here are three examples of what I have been doing lately, of which I am feeling proud. 

These booklets can be found at Choralworks Inc.com

1. I have designed some book covers for my friend Val who's  booklets are soon to be published at    Choralworksinc.com I am pleased and proud of how these turned out.

Poster for Choralworks Inc. newsletter

2. I have designed a poster for Choralworks Inc. to be included in their next newsletter. This is another good result and something else for me to be proud of.










3. The largest project I have worked on is co-authoring an eBook with my friend  Fran West.  "Free Internet Marketing for Small Business" has been written to help small business owners advertise their businesses on the Internet at no cost.

 As small business people ourselves, we have had to learn how to market our businesses and we want to share what we have learned with others.

Our Pride and Joy!

Our eBook has turned out really well, we have been given some wonderful testimonials by our original readers. And; our eBook is now published! Hooray!

Our achievement here, is that not only have we written the book, we have created all the graphics including the book cover ourselves; and we have also done all the editing and marketing ourselves. So this is a project that Fran and I are really proud of.

Being proud of who you are and what you do is important for our feelings of self worth. 
We all have valuable gifts and abilities that we can offer and we are all a valuable part of life. 

So if you have doubts about your value and you have some negative beliefs that are holding you back; find a way to let go of the doubts and change your beliefs and you will change your life.


Hilary Thompson
The Out and About Therapist
Facilitator at Flourishing Relationships Retreats

Thursday Musings - Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow

Procrastination - (my definition)  never do today what you can put off until tomorrow. Or better still, next week! 

We all do it. I am actually quite good at it. In fact when it comes to doing things that I do not enjoy, I am a veritable expert at it!

A negative view of clean up day!

I am especially good at procrastinating when it comes to cleaning up around the house. 
The irony is that I can't stand living in an untidy or dirty environment, so there comes a time when I can procrastinate no longer.

Here is what I do to stop procrastinating.

• I make myself an appointment to do the job. Then I am committed to actually doing it.
• I make myself remember how good it feels when the job is done and I don't have to do it for a while.
• Whenever I can I play loud energetic music. The music seems to make the boring jobs like dusting so much more fun and I seem to get it done much quicker.
• I give myself a reward for completing the job. Even a cup of coffee seems to taste nicer when you add the satisfaction of a job well done.

We all have to do things that we do not relish in life, but putting it off seems to make it worse. Our mind makes molehills into mountains and it can seem to be all too hard.

One of the things that I have learned over the years is that the job that I am putting off  never seems so bad when I am actually doing it.

So stop procrastinating, make a commitment to doing whatever it is you are putting off and then just do it! You will feel so much better afterwards.

Hilary Thompson
The Out and About Therapist
Facilitator at Flourishing Relationships Retreats