Dare to Dream

Your Life, Your Choice

You wake up each morning with a great big smile :) 

What a glorious nights sleep, you think to yourself as you stretch and open your eyes. Feeling refreshed and ready for a wonderful new day filled with excitement, possibilities, the people you love and the things you enjoy. What glorious adventure and wonderful new things will you discover, experience, learn and enjoy today.

I hope I have described your typical morning.

That is how I choose to wake up and do most mornings, but there was a time however I was far from that. I'd go to bed usually over tired, with all of that days and life's chores, dramas, worries and events playing over and over in my mind. Each morning as I woke I'd open my eyes and stretch, then BAM! All of the worries would come flooding back "he said, she said, but, no, why me, I'll never, I can't, I'm not that lucky, it's too hard, too expensive" and so on. I went into each new day filled to the brim with yesterday's negativity, drama's, doubts, hopelessness, helplessness and fear!

If that sounds like you or maybe your somewhere in between I'd like to reassure you that it doesn't have to be. Awareness of how vital our thoughts are, how much of a role our mind, our thoughts play in our internal and external experience is definitely growing! The science behind this is indisputable. This Dare to Dream page was created to get the juices flowing! Time to put away what was, what's happened and what can never change and bring forth that brilliant, creative mind so you can wake up each morning with that great big smile and excitement for the brand new day ahead!

Joy is a choice, each morning you wake up... You choose

I choose Joy!

I began this mind shift years ago with the simplest of methods. No one ever said this had to be difficult, we often just believe or assume it will be. I printed up a large sign just as I've written it above "Joy is a choice, each morning you wake up you choose - I choose joy" and stuck it up on my wardrobe door. This was just my very first step, providing me with a constant big, bright visual reminder every morning, every night, every single time I went in my bedroom. Seeing that constant reminder helped me to consciously change my focus and acknowledge that I had a choice. I certainly didn't enjoy feeling like crap, feeling overwhelmed or miserable - it's exhausting! of-course I choose joy. From there the process of change began, a helpful new habit was created, starting with that initial statement, new awareness, concious choice and repetition.

The beauty of our minds is that they can be changed. Just because we've always believed something or always done something (that often doesn't serve us, it's just what we know, what we've always done) doesn't mean it's too late, too set or too ingrained. We must remember we learnt that once too. Now with awareness and for many of us the fact that we're older and more experienced, having years worth of practise - even if that includes unconsciously practising (ok doing, often robotically)  all the things that bring about what you don't want - we can now bring forth, using very simple tools and repetition the happiness and love that everyone seeks, everyone wants, everyone deserves. One step at a time.

As a Professional Counsellor, Life Coach and Author; I dream, I believe - each and every one of us can shed the things that keep us stagnate and bound in fear, and uncover the amazing ability, joy and brilliance that resides within. It's in you, in me, in all, just waiting to be set free to move us forward into the glorious life we were meant to live; authentically, consciously with joy and with love.

“Humans keep delving deeper to find the essence of love to heal fear, which requires

the clarity of self-knowledge” Deepak Chopra

Dare to Dream - Your Journey of a Lifetime

Awareness is the key, the starting point! we must meet ourselves, understand ourselves, know ourselves, be kind to ourselves and develop the relationship with the one person we can never hide from. The one person who can change your life: "YOU"


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