I'm spending lots of time with my boys this summer mainly due to the unexpected closure of the nursery with its holiday club and have been listening to lots of music and here is one my son loves, not sure he understands the meaning of the words, I LOVE THEM and thought they're inspirational...enjoy your summer, if you can take some time out with your loved ones and switch off from your business DO IT!
If Today Was Your Last Day Lyrics - Nickleback
my best friend gave me the best advice
he said each day's a gift & not a given right
leave no stone unturned
leave your fears behind
& try to take the path less travelled by
that first step you take is the longest stride
if today was your last day
& tomorrow was too late
could you say goodbye to yesterday?
would you live each moment like your last?
leave old pictures in the past?
donate every dime you had?
if today was your last day
against the grain should be a way of life
what's worth the price is always worth the fight
every second counts 'cause
there's no second try
so live like you're never livin twice
don't take the free ride in your own life
if today was your last day
& tomorrow was too late
could you say goodbye to yesterday?
would you live each moment like your last?
leave old pictures in the past?
donate every dime you had?
would you call those friends you've never seen?
reminisce old memories?
would you forgive your enemies?
would you find that one your dreaming of?
swear up & down to God above
that you'll finally fall in love?
if today was your last day
if today was your last day
would you make it up by mending a broken heart
you know it's never too late
to shoot for the stars
regardless of who you are
so do whatever it takes
'cause you can't rewind
a moment in this life
let nothing stand in your way
cause the hands of time are never on your side
if today was your last day
& tomorrow was too late
could you say goodbye to yesterday?
would you live each moment like your last?
leave old pictures in the past?
donate every dime you had?
would you call those friends you've never seen?
reminisce old memories?
would you forgive your enemies?
would you find that one your dreaming of?
swear up & down to God above
that you'll finally fall in love?
if today was your last day
Tuesday, 27 July 2010
Monday, 5 July 2010
A Poem to Put Life into Perspective
I'm not sure of the origins of this poem seen it recently in a magazine so I'd thought I'd share it with you...
The Mayonnaise Jar and Coffee
When things in your life are almost too much to handle,
when 24 hours is just not enough, remember the mayonnaise jar,
and the coffee…..
A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items
in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly he picked up a
very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with
golf balls.
He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was.
So the professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them
into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles rolled into the
open areas between the golf balls. He then asked the students
again if the jar was full. They agreed it was.
The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the
Jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else. He asked once
More if the jar was full. The students responded with a unanimous
“YES”.
The professor then produced two cups of coffee from under the
table and poured the entire contents into the jar, effectively
filling the empty space between the sand. The students laughed.
“Now,” said the professor, as the laughter subsided, “I want you
to recognize that this jar represents you life. The golf balls are
the important things – your family, your children, your health,
your friends, and your favorite passions – things that if
everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would
still be full.
The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, your
House, and your car.
The sand is everything else – the small stuff. “If you put the
sand into the jar first,” he continued, “there is no room for the
pebbles or the golf balls.
The same goes for life. If you spend all your time and energy on
the small stuff, you will never have room for the things that are
important.
Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness.
Play with your children! Take time to get medical checkups.
Take your wife/husband/lover/friend out to dinner. Maybe even
play another 18. There is always time to clean the house and
fix the disposal.
Take care of the golf balls first, the things that really matter.
Set your priorities. The rest is just sand.”
One of the students raised her hand and enquired what the coffee
represented. The professor smiled. “I’m glad you asked. It just
goes to show you that no matter how full your life may seem, there
is always room for a couple cups of coffee with a friend.”
Please share this with your coffee friend …. I just did.
The Mayonnaise Jar and Coffee
When things in your life are almost too much to handle,
when 24 hours is just not enough, remember the mayonnaise jar,
and the coffee…..
A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items
in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly he picked up a
very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with
golf balls.
He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was.
So the professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them
into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles rolled into the
open areas between the golf balls. He then asked the students
again if the jar was full. They agreed it was.
The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the
Jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else. He asked once
More if the jar was full. The students responded with a unanimous
“YES”.
The professor then produced two cups of coffee from under the
table and poured the entire contents into the jar, effectively
filling the empty space between the sand. The students laughed.
“Now,” said the professor, as the laughter subsided, “I want you
to recognize that this jar represents you life. The golf balls are
the important things – your family, your children, your health,
your friends, and your favorite passions – things that if
everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would
still be full.
The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, your
House, and your car.
The sand is everything else – the small stuff. “If you put the
sand into the jar first,” he continued, “there is no room for the
pebbles or the golf balls.
The same goes for life. If you spend all your time and energy on
the small stuff, you will never have room for the things that are
important.
Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness.
Play with your children! Take time to get medical checkups.
Take your wife/husband/lover/friend out to dinner. Maybe even
play another 18. There is always time to clean the house and
fix the disposal.
Take care of the golf balls first, the things that really matter.
Set your priorities. The rest is just sand.”
One of the students raised her hand and enquired what the coffee
represented. The professor smiled. “I’m glad you asked. It just
goes to show you that no matter how full your life may seem, there
is always room for a couple cups of coffee with a friend.”
Please share this with your coffee friend …. I just did.
Tuesday, 15 June 2010
1 Great Tip to Motivate Yourself into Action
So you can't get motivated to do something how about this great tip:
I'm presuming you're sat down reading this either on your phone or at your pc/laptop or ipad so firstly stretch one of your arms straight up in the air, now try and stretch a little further go on you can do it. We can all stretch that little bit more so apply this method to what you're attempting to get done: stretch a little bit more and see what happens...and a little bonus inspirational quote for you from Henry Ford the man who upon achieving his first goal (of making his first $million) said "just a little more".
So be inspired today and every day to reach for a little bit more...
Caroline O'Neill creates life plans for people who are cash rich, but time poor. She will show you easy ways to help you with your busy work life to enable you to work smarter and therefore play smarter! Consultations, which are 3 hours long, start from £149.00 call Caroline on 0780 313 6023 or email her at caroline@carolineoneill.co.uk TODAY!
I'm presuming you're sat down reading this either on your phone or at your pc/laptop or ipad so firstly stretch one of your arms straight up in the air, now try and stretch a little further go on you can do it. We can all stretch that little bit more so apply this method to what you're attempting to get done: stretch a little bit more and see what happens...and a little bonus inspirational quote for you from Henry Ford the man who upon achieving his first goal (of making his first $million) said "just a little more".
So be inspired today and every day to reach for a little bit more...
Caroline O'Neill creates life plans for people who are cash rich, but time poor. She will show you easy ways to help you with your busy work life to enable you to work smarter and therefore play smarter! Consultations, which are 3 hours long, start from £149.00 call Caroline on 0780 313 6023 or email her at caroline@carolineoneill.co.uk TODAY!
Friday, 11 June 2010
47 Things To Do If You Don’t Like the World Cup 2010 and Football
Two weeks in to the World Cup 2010 and you still don't like footie/ Here are 47 things to do instead. Remember each game is 90 minutes plus some extra time in some cases so you have no excuses to get things done or enjoy the time to yourself.
Below is a list of things you can do instead, as ever, let me know how you get on:
1. Your family loves footie and you love socialising and hosting why not throw a BBQ or party? That way your family still gets to enjoy the footie and you get to do what you love. You then have an excuse to go in and out of the room where the footie is being watched and pop back to the kitchen/dining room/garden. I love planning and throwing a party. Get to know your neighbours or get all your friends to come to you saves having to make time after the World Cup has finished and spend all those precious weekends traipsing around the county/country.
2. If it’s sunny sunbathe. BIG IF…
3. Sort out the garage when there are lots of games on (e.g at the weekends). You will thank me next winter when you can park your car in there and spend 10 minutes extra time in bed as you don’t have to de-ice it!
4. Go on holiday there are some seriously good deals out there at the moment – take advantage of the fact that a lot of people like to stay in and watch the footie in the comfort of their own home.
5. Declutter a room whilst your family is watching footie in another room. Set a timer for 90 minutes see if you can win at your own game!
6. Have some ME TIME spend 90 minutes on your own. Bliss! Do absolutely nothing.
7. Sort out the loft! There will be no queues at the tip either!
8. Go to the beauticians/get your hair cut.
9. Go out and have a coffee somewhere.
10. Go to the cinema – you can guarantee there won’t be many there!
11. Each week decide on one room that you are going to declutter, spring clean and organise. By the end of the World Cup four rooms will be ready for Summer and you can spend the rest of it outside enjoying the holidays and weather.
12. Go shopping – again a given the shops will be quiet especially when England are playing!
13. Weed and mow your garden.
14. Do something you’ve never done in your home town/city take a guided tour and find out something about where you live that you didn’t know.
15. If you’re single now is a good time to find that special person especially if you are looking for that someone else who has other interests than football. I guarantee that person will be at the gym, shopping, visiting a museum, having a coffee whilst the footie is on…let me know how you get on!
16. Go to the gym – bet there are a couple of treadmills free.
17. Purge your filing!
18. Go to the park.
19. Clean the car.
20. Sort out your finances!
21. Try a different leisure pursuit or sport: horse riding, surfing, rock climbing, mountain biking, etc
22. Do your accounts. Boy will you thank me in January 2011!
23. Plan the next 4 weeks to finish one unfinished project that has been hanging around for months.
24. Sort out your photos into albums or put them on to a digital frame.
25. Back your photos up!
26. Sort out your clothes – you only wear 20% of them 80% of the time anyway.
27. Do your ironing. Including the clothes languishing at the bottom of the pile!
28. Upload all those CDs on to your iPod.
29. Go for a swim – lanes will be empty - all the kids will be watching football!
30. Go for a run.
31. Visit an art gallery or museum you’ve always wanted to do.
32. Sort out the files on your PC, laptop.
33. Purge and answer your emails.
34. Purge your phone address book, Face book and Twitter. Think quality not quantity.
35. Paint that room that really needs decorating!
36. Plan the rest of the year – when and where you’re going on holiday, events, theatre, concerts etc.
37. Go for a walk.
38. Start reading that book you’ve been itching to start…or finish that book you’ve started!
39. Read your favourite magazine.
40. Go to the beach.
41. Write a business plan and take action – by the time the next World Cup comes around who knows who and where you’ll be…
42. Go to bed!
43. Go for a soak in the bath!
44. Watch a movie or DVD in another room, or catch up on your recorded programmes and films.
45. Hold an anti-football party/lunch or dinner. Join up with friends and family who don’t want to watch it.
46. Impress your family learn the rules of football and buy your favourite team’s top even if it isn’t their choice of team!
47. And finally, if all fails YOU CAN’T BEAT THEM JOIN IN enjoy the matches, stop worrying about the rules, names of the players, take in the atmosphere and try the beer! You might find you have some of the best times ever I did! ’98 was a wonderful summer of World football parties and pub meetups for me and I’ve been hooked ever since…
If you find yourself saying “I’ve haven’t got the time or I’ll do that tomorrow” and you need more ways to get motivated and into action then contact Caroline O’Neill, a life strategist with over 10 years’ experience running her own business, who will show you easy ways to find time to enjoy the nicer things in life. She can be contacted on 0780 313 6023 or email caroline@carolineoneill.co.uk. www.carolineoneill.co.uk contains a wealth of tips and hints to gain time, energy and money.
Below is a list of things you can do instead, as ever, let me know how you get on:
1. Your family loves footie and you love socialising and hosting why not throw a BBQ or party? That way your family still gets to enjoy the footie and you get to do what you love. You then have an excuse to go in and out of the room where the footie is being watched and pop back to the kitchen/dining room/garden. I love planning and throwing a party. Get to know your neighbours or get all your friends to come to you saves having to make time after the World Cup has finished and spend all those precious weekends traipsing around the county/country.
2. If it’s sunny sunbathe. BIG IF…
3. Sort out the garage when there are lots of games on (e.g at the weekends). You will thank me next winter when you can park your car in there and spend 10 minutes extra time in bed as you don’t have to de-ice it!
4. Go on holiday there are some seriously good deals out there at the moment – take advantage of the fact that a lot of people like to stay in and watch the footie in the comfort of their own home.
5. Declutter a room whilst your family is watching footie in another room. Set a timer for 90 minutes see if you can win at your own game!
6. Have some ME TIME spend 90 minutes on your own. Bliss! Do absolutely nothing.
7. Sort out the loft! There will be no queues at the tip either!
8. Go to the beauticians/get your hair cut.
9. Go out and have a coffee somewhere.
10. Go to the cinema – you can guarantee there won’t be many there!
11. Each week decide on one room that you are going to declutter, spring clean and organise. By the end of the World Cup four rooms will be ready for Summer and you can spend the rest of it outside enjoying the holidays and weather.
12. Go shopping – again a given the shops will be quiet especially when England are playing!
13. Weed and mow your garden.
14. Do something you’ve never done in your home town/city take a guided tour and find out something about where you live that you didn’t know.
15. If you’re single now is a good time to find that special person especially if you are looking for that someone else who has other interests than football. I guarantee that person will be at the gym, shopping, visiting a museum, having a coffee whilst the footie is on…let me know how you get on!
16. Go to the gym – bet there are a couple of treadmills free.
17. Purge your filing!
18. Go to the park.
19. Clean the car.
20. Sort out your finances!
21. Try a different leisure pursuit or sport: horse riding, surfing, rock climbing, mountain biking, etc
22. Do your accounts. Boy will you thank me in January 2011!
23. Plan the next 4 weeks to finish one unfinished project that has been hanging around for months.
24. Sort out your photos into albums or put them on to a digital frame.
25. Back your photos up!
26. Sort out your clothes – you only wear 20% of them 80% of the time anyway.
27. Do your ironing. Including the clothes languishing at the bottom of the pile!
28. Upload all those CDs on to your iPod.
29. Go for a swim – lanes will be empty - all the kids will be watching football!
30. Go for a run.
31. Visit an art gallery or museum you’ve always wanted to do.
32. Sort out the files on your PC, laptop.
33. Purge and answer your emails.
34. Purge your phone address book, Face book and Twitter. Think quality not quantity.
35. Paint that room that really needs decorating!
36. Plan the rest of the year – when and where you’re going on holiday, events, theatre, concerts etc.
37. Go for a walk.
38. Start reading that book you’ve been itching to start…or finish that book you’ve started!
39. Read your favourite magazine.
40. Go to the beach.
41. Write a business plan and take action – by the time the next World Cup comes around who knows who and where you’ll be…
42. Go to bed!
43. Go for a soak in the bath!
44. Watch a movie or DVD in another room, or catch up on your recorded programmes and films.
45. Hold an anti-football party/lunch or dinner. Join up with friends and family who don’t want to watch it.
46. Impress your family learn the rules of football and buy your favourite team’s top even if it isn’t their choice of team!
47. And finally, if all fails YOU CAN’T BEAT THEM JOIN IN enjoy the matches, stop worrying about the rules, names of the players, take in the atmosphere and try the beer! You might find you have some of the best times ever I did! ’98 was a wonderful summer of World football parties and pub meetups for me and I’ve been hooked ever since…
If you find yourself saying “I’ve haven’t got the time or I’ll do that tomorrow” and you need more ways to get motivated and into action then contact Caroline O’Neill, a life strategist with over 10 years’ experience running her own business, who will show you easy ways to find time to enjoy the nicer things in life. She can be contacted on 0780 313 6023 or email caroline@carolineoneill.co.uk. www.carolineoneill.co.uk contains a wealth of tips and hints to gain time, energy and money.
Wednesday, 9 June 2010
Tips for Making Your Life More Organised and Productive
As I'm a fountain of knowledge of all things to do with organising here are more daily tips I tweeted yesterday:-
Tip 1 - Got a lot to do today? Set a timer for 30 mins & blast through individual tasks before the buzzer!
Tip 2 - Focus on the 3 areas you're good at delegate the rest to a VA, bookkeeper, cleaner etc.
Tip 3 - Motivate yourself into action by playing your favourite uplifting music!
Tip 4 - Spend 10 minutes at the end of your day to plan tomorrow and clear your desk too before you leave!
If you need help organising and sorting out your life so that you spend more time on leisure than work contact Caroline O'Neill on 0780 313 6023 for a free 30 minute consultation.
Tip 1 - Got a lot to do today? Set a timer for 30 mins & blast through individual tasks before the buzzer!
Tip 2 - Focus on the 3 areas you're good at delegate the rest to a VA, bookkeeper, cleaner etc.
Tip 3 - Motivate yourself into action by playing your favourite uplifting music!
Tip 4 - Spend 10 minutes at the end of your day to plan tomorrow and clear your desk too before you leave!
If you need help organising and sorting out your life so that you spend more time on leisure than work contact Caroline O'Neill on 0780 313 6023 for a free 30 minute consultation.
Tips for Making Your Life More Organised and Productive
Last night I decided to tweet out 4 tips to help my followers become more productive and organised and therefore SAVE TIME! If you missed them in the Twitterverse here they are again:-
Tip 1 - only put 3 things a day on your "to do" list. Once you've completed these 3 start over...
Tip 2 - take 10 minutes at the end of your work day and plan tomorrow. Tell me tomorrow night how great your day was.
Tip 3 - Decide what you're wearing tomorrow before you go to bed and in the morning you can have 5 more minutes' sleep! Do this for your children too...
Tip 4 - set the table for breakfast now and have another 5 mins in bed in the morning!
Caroline O'Neill is a life strategist who aims to help you save time, gain more energy and money. Contact Caroline on 0780 313 6023 if you want to be back in control of your life and spend more time on the things you really want to be doing!
Tip 1 - only put 3 things a day on your "to do" list. Once you've completed these 3 start over...
Tip 2 - take 10 minutes at the end of your work day and plan tomorrow. Tell me tomorrow night how great your day was.
Tip 3 - Decide what you're wearing tomorrow before you go to bed and in the morning you can have 5 more minutes' sleep! Do this for your children too...
Tip 4 - set the table for breakfast now and have another 5 mins in bed in the morning!
Caroline O'Neill is a life strategist who aims to help you save time, gain more energy and money. Contact Caroline on 0780 313 6023 if you want to be back in control of your life and spend more time on the things you really want to be doing!
Friday, 28 May 2010
5 Tips for a Fantastic Bank Holiday Weekend!
It's Friday hooray and a 3 day weekend ahead of us! Here are my top 5 tips for home workers and the self-employed to make for a fabulous Bank Holiday weekend:-
1. Stop working tonight - set yourself some boundaries. If you were an employee for a company they wouldn't be asking you in over the weekend unless they paid you "double bubble" so why work in your own office this weekend?
2. Physically close your workspace down, be it closing your laptop, shutting your desk bureau, chucking all the papers in to a pile and shoving into a cupboard, switching your PC off (OK I'll let you have your CrackBerrys and iPhones etc), shut your office door and walk away until Tuesday morning. You will get distracted if you see your office papers, PC etc.
3. Plan next week this afternoon - the best business people all plan ahead on a Friday then switch off and enjoy the weekend.
4. Recharge your batteries this weekend, do what you love (go out walking, socialising, gardening, to the gym etc) or do what you have been wanting to get finished in your home for a while. Rememeber we are switching off and recharging.
5. Knock off early - YOU'RE THE BOSS, you deserve it! I am - in fact I'm having a half day and going to spend the weekend enjoying an evening at Sex and the City, a school reunion on Saturday and a day at the local fair on Monday with my family (www.richmond.org.uk). What are you going to do that you love?
Hard to do - send me an email to Caroline@carolineoneil.co.uk or tweet me if you struggle with this over the weekend. I promise to reply but I'm not taking phone calls as it's my weekend off!
1. Stop working tonight - set yourself some boundaries. If you were an employee for a company they wouldn't be asking you in over the weekend unless they paid you "double bubble" so why work in your own office this weekend?
2. Physically close your workspace down, be it closing your laptop, shutting your desk bureau, chucking all the papers in to a pile and shoving into a cupboard, switching your PC off (OK I'll let you have your CrackBerrys and iPhones etc), shut your office door and walk away until Tuesday morning. You will get distracted if you see your office papers, PC etc.
3. Plan next week this afternoon - the best business people all plan ahead on a Friday then switch off and enjoy the weekend.
4. Recharge your batteries this weekend, do what you love (go out walking, socialising, gardening, to the gym etc) or do what you have been wanting to get finished in your home for a while. Rememeber we are switching off and recharging.
5. Knock off early - YOU'RE THE BOSS, you deserve it! I am - in fact I'm having a half day and going to spend the weekend enjoying an evening at Sex and the City, a school reunion on Saturday and a day at the local fair on Monday with my family (www.richmond.org.uk). What are you going to do that you love?
Hard to do - send me an email to Caroline@carolineoneil.co.uk or tweet me if you struggle with this over the weekend. I promise to reply but I'm not taking phone calls as it's my weekend off!
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