17/11/21 40 Things Children Can Do That Adults Can't

Hello and welcome to this week's blog post.......

It has been a very strange week and because of that I thought "since that is the way of the week I will do something to help continue the theme!".  

So let us take a look at several things that an adult cannot do (with any degree of success) but a child can

1    Unravel toilet rolls 

2    Ride on a child's trike

3    Throw your food on the floor because you say "I don't like it!"

4    Tell a stranger that they are fat

5    Kick the back of the seat in front of you over and over again

6    Announce an emotion as soon as you feel it

7    Kiss everyone with an open mouth

8    Climb into and out of small spaces

9    Throw Tantrums

10  Be picked up when you are tired of walking

11  Sleep whenever / wherever you want to

12  Take off all your clothes and not be embarrassed

13  Take what you want - when you want to

14  Spit out food that you don't like

15  Question everything (mind you I still do know people like that!)

16  Laugh at bodily noises

17  Wear pyjamas (or nighties) all day

18  Never apologise for anything

19  Sing as loud as you like or however you like

20  Correct everyone - even if you are wrong

21  Ride in, or on, a supermarket trolley

22  Stop dead no matter what you are doing to look at something you have just              seen

23  Ask someone if they will be your friend

24  Get paid for losing your teeth

25  Talk to imaginary friends

26  Scramble round on the floor with toys making animal noises or holding                      conversation with them

27  Start up a roadside business

28  Decide you are fed up with walking and just sit down

29  Pick your nose and eat it (in public)

30  Sing at full volume when they are supposed to be quiet

31  Repeat the same question over and over and over and over

32  Ruin a surprise

33  Fall asleep in school

34  Tell people what they have just heard you say about them

35  Repeatedly kick the back of the seat in front of you because you can

36  Wear costumes in public on any day of the week

37  Build sofa forts

38  Cry when someone else receives a present

39  Need a plaster for an invisible scratch (and get one!)

40  Announce that bowel movement in a loud voice

So there we have it 40 things that we adults cannot do that children can get away almost daily.

Thank you for taking the time to read this post and I will be back again soon

DAve

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About Dave   I am a personal development coach; a therapist; speaker; and  radio presenter.  A number of years ago I founded my coaching practice and although it has gone through various incarnations the core of Altered Image Coaching has always remained the same to help and encourage people to live their best lives.  

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Wanting More......

        WANTING                                                         MORE.....

Hi it's Dave and today I thought I would bring the life coach within me into the spotlight to talk a little bit about the concept of how you can take charge of your own life.

I have a friend who once said to me that she was feeling really down because (and this is a statement I have used as a title for a book in the past) "It's My Life But Someone Else Leads It!"

What she did not know at the time, was that the girl standing in front of me was the sum total of all the choices that she had made in her life up until that day.  I said to her that the challenge was this "anything that is not working in your life should be looked at closely" and I suggested that she asked herself "Can I grow with this and in this situation?"

I felt that she was suffering something called "Deficiency Motivation" because I had often heard her saying "I don't like where I am" and "I don't like what I have done" and "I can't do this well" the result of this thinking was that it was challenging her personal and even business development.

The natural outcome of "Deficiency Motivation" is to make an assumption that something is wrong and then to attempt to fix it - however the reality is that you will never be able to "fix it".  You will always find that you are always trying to be somewhere else or doing something different but the logical outcome is that you start to suffer with something called Wanting More!

As an example of this let us consider that you want to have a bank balance of  £100,000 (or $) and so you set that as your goal and then work very hard towards getting that sum of money.  It is a struggle and you constantly deny yourself things along the way.  

Eventually you reach your goal and you have your 100,000 (£ or $) in the bank.  Over the years this aim has been your life, it is all you know, it has become who you are BUT once you get there you find that it is not enough!

A no limit person never operates from a place of deficiency or lack and they never say "I don't have enough"

In truth you are never going to get enough because quite simply - you are enough already!

So what of my friend?...........she adapted her thinking, changed her patterns and is now running a successful and profitable business working from home and is very happy with both her life and the work that she is doing.

DAve x

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About Dave   I am a personal development coach; a therapist; speaker; and  radio presenter.  A number of years ago I founded The Blue Sky Company to enable me to develop my work in more ways.  In addition I am also a therapist and my therapy work includes music therapy; crystal therapy, Reiki and I am working towards a Diploma in Mindfulness.

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I Feel Very Honoured!

All I can say is WOW!

Last Friday (21st August) I had the great pleasure of meeting a lady whose work I have admired for a great many years.   She is a great motivator, and amazing speaker and a fiesty redhead.

Nicky and Dave at Brundle's, Woolacombe

Nicky Pattinson (the lady concerned), her sister and I went to Brundle's Restaurant in Woolacombe and had a lovely brunch, plenty of spirited conversation and a thoroughly pleasant hour and a half.  We chatted about all sorts of things and discovered quite a lot of common ground.

So much has been said about Nicky that I doubt that there is anything original I could say about her.  

She is an Advanced Business Connection expert, an event speaker and more recently a "zoomer"

Her list of clients makes fascinating reading, from leading supermarket brands to high end perfume retailers, from hotel chains to gift stores and motor part retailers.

So for her to suggest that we met for coffee (which ended up as a Breakfast Brunch) actually made my flabber be gasted (ie flabbergasted)

To learn more about this amazing lady visit her website www.nickypattinson.com

Thank you for reading, all the very best

DAve x

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The (slightly) larger 2020 Workbook is now available!

To order a copy of the workbook please navigate to the Shopping Page

Business Developer / Coach Emma Kersey said this about the 2018 Workbook

"Sorry I didn't get round to fully utilizing the e-book but please know that just reading it helped massively........... just needed a push and the book did that so thank you"

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About Dave   I am a personal development coach; a therapist; speaker; and  radio presenter.  A number of years ago I founded The Blue Sky Company to enable me to develop my work in more ways.  In addition I am also a therapist and my therapy work includes music therapy; crystal therapy, Reiki and I am working towards a Diploma in Mindfulness.

If you would like to know more about my therapy work etc, then please email me.

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So please spread the word about the blog, the tribe etc. to your friends and family and I hope to see you as a member of our "Tribe" soon.

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LET THE MUSIC PLAY!

Thursday 2nd July 2020

Hi everyone this post is written from a personal standpoint

I know that the current situation is adversely affecting many people around the World.  

However there is one aspect of it that directly affects me and many of my friends and colleagues around the world so I feel that the time has come to lend my voice to that of the others and call for a review of a policy that has impacted severely on many of the people involved in the ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY.

HOW CAN THIS BE?

For some reason we are not deemed relevant when it comes to support from Central / Local Government despite a direct question being asked of the Chancellor of The Exchequer in open Parliament at the beginning of the Coronavirus situation in the UK.

The Chancellor was asked whether a company supplying power generators to the event industry would come under the scope of the guidelines and be eligible for support by way of rate relief.  The response was quite simple "Yes they would be eligible!"

I know that several local authorities have chosen to ignore that comment and refused to support businesses trading within their areas - by using many varied excuses such as "you don't have a dedicated showroom" or "you are not open to the public" or simply "you do not meet the criteria set down"

Now we have seen in the past 24 hours announcements that 2 large theatres are about to close their doors.  One of the reasons given is that the Social Distancing regulations mean that opening is simply not a viable option and without being able to open there is no income.

And just today I have seen the following 

"Live music alone added £4.5bn to the economy in 2019 and supported 210,000 jobs across the UK.

Up to 50% of the live music workforce is facing unemployment bringing with it a catastrophic loss of skills.

The arenas are set to lose approximately 5 million visitors as a direct result of Covid 19.

Music festivals in the UK support around 85,000 jobs and with the summer effectively cancelled most of these events are facing collapse and the people looking at unemployment.

So this one section of the entertainment industry alone could see about 300,000 people claiming off the state".

How much is this all going to cost unless something is done to breathe life back into our event industry?

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About Dave   I am a personal development coach; a therapist; speaker; and  radio presenter.  A number of years ago I founded The Blue Sky Company to enable me to develop my work in more ways.  In addition I am also a therapist and my therapy work includes music therapy; crystal therapy, Reiki and I am working towards a Diploma in Mindfulness.

If you would like to know more about my therapy work etc, then please email me.

If you would like to join our Facebook group just follow the link below to the Under Blue Skies page. The page is home to a group of like - minded people (affectionately knows as "the tribe").

By way of a thank you for their continued support Tribe Members regularly receive exclusive content that I do not post anywhere else.  The page also provides advanced information about forthcoming projects and events.

So please spread the word about the blog, the tribe etc. to your friends and family and I hope to see you as a member of our "Tribe" soon.

Under Blue Skies Private group · 27 members Join Group This group aims to concentrate primarily on Personal Change although at times there may be elements of Business Change or a cross over point somewhere...

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Have a fantastic day, live a life of Passion and Power.

And above all

Don't Predict The Future - CREATE IT!

The Oak Seed Project - This month's topic is "Putting Yourself First"

Following last month's request for Project Ambassadors 

I thought I would begin 

as I mean to go on and invite readers 

to comment on the following topic 

PUTTING

         YOURSELF 

                       FIRST!    

If, like I did a number of years ago, you work in a job where you work long hours and where there can at times, be incredible pressures on you to get certain projects delivered within specific parameters such as client satisfaction, time constraints, budgetary limitations.

The more I worked the less happy I was with my job, I felt that I was swimming in treacle and that the rewards never matched the effort that I was putting in.  I was heading towards depression and my wife had noticed and finally said something to me about her concerns.

However I poo-pooed her comments at first, but as time went by I became more and more wrapped up in what I was doing and spent more time at the office than I ever did with her. 

Eventually something hit me like bullet 

 I HAD TO ESCAPE!!!

And so I quite literally ran for the hills!  While she was at work I wrote a short note telling her that I loved her, I packed a few things in a bag, picked up my guitar and drove off into the sunset looking for purple spaceships.

Those 2 nights were the worst nights of my life, I cried and drank, I cried again, I drank some more and eventually headed into a tear and alcohol fueled oblivion.

When I finally made my way home, I was very unsure of what the reception would be, but I knew that I had to face it if my marriage was to stand any chance of survival.

Hours and hours of talking followed and eventually the decision was reached that I would tender my resignation on the grounds that I was no longer able to cope with the stresses of that work environment.

And so that, as they say, was then and after a long crawl back to a better and happier life this is now! 

I am older, maybe wiser (at least I hope I am) and much more together.  I am working as a coach / therapist, I have written and published several books and more besides.  All of this has come about because I took the decision (alongside and encouraged by my wife) to put myself first.

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So now over to you - please comment below with your own stories so that we can start building the monthly discussions that The Oak Seed Project is going to be all about.

Here is the first of the "on topic" videos etc. for discussion during the month.

Have a fantastic month.

DAve x

PS - we are still on the lookout for Project Ambassadors, so if you would like to know a little more please read our earlier post and if the idea appeals to you

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