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THERE IS NOBODY ELSE LIKE YOU

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ShineIt was my birthday this Saturday just past and I am the first to admit that I am a birthday princess and usually the first two weeks in May are also known as the Festival of Liska.

I love birthdays and firmly believe that they are an occasion to celebrate the unique individuals that we are and the gifts that only we can bring to the world. I encourage all around me to acknowledge their birth day when they came into the world.

The glittery parts of a birthday, the presents, messages, flowers, telephone calls are lots of fun but it’s the time you spend with yourself is the biggest present you can gift yourself on your birthday. [Read more…]

IMPERFECTION IS OKAY

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Yes I am back!

Happily refreshed by sunshine, holidays and lots of laughter and good times with friends and family.

While I have been silent out there in Social Media Land, my brain and heart have both been busily percolating lots of ideas. In, out, yes, no until yesterday, bobbing in the clear ocean waters at Balmoral Beach, I finally realized it doesn’t have to be perfect.

The swim was worth the traffic

The swim was worth the traffic

Imperfect is okay, actually it is more than okay, kind of perfect really!

If I waited until I had the perfect newsletter or the perfect printable to gift you, then I would miss out on learning new skills, making new friendships and a whole lot of joy along the way.

I realized that the gorgeous souls of The Stamp Collective are far more interested in exploring new ideas, asking questions and being inspired than they are in perfection.

Danielle La Porte, Leonie Dawson and Chris Brogan amongst numerous others talk about having a guiding word for the year rather than a goal. Danielle writes how you should pick four words that describe how you want to feel in her book The Desire Map.  Chris Brogan talks about four influencing words, for example Green might be your word and it would influence the food you ate, the way you considered your energy consumption or that you wanted to exercise outdoors that year.

Mine you ask?

ACTION and CHOICES.

I want the end of 2014 to look different to the end of 2013 so, for me, it comes down to those two words. Big scary, audacious words that mean embracing imperfection, just having a go, not worrying about what people will think and opening up to the surprises that I have no doubt will come along for the ride!

So The Stamp Collective blog will post weekly inspired by colour, travel, flowers, relationships, the choices we make, people being brave and sometimes even stamps. I will master MailChimp and Canva and there will newsletters and printables!

A fabulously imperfect place to talk, share or just be silent and listen.

So looking forward to being imperfect together!

Liska x

INTENTION

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Last week I wrote about the ‘compound interest’ effect of taking 10 or 20 seconds, each time you get in and out of bed, to place your feet on the floor and breathe. A simple practice to ground yourself.

I know what grounding means to me but thought I would do a quick whizz around The Google to see what else was out there and found these two short sentences which pretty much sum it up for me.

Being grounded means you are present in your life, not obsessed with the past or future.  It means you are checked in instead of checked out. 

(For the full post read on here http://www.erinpavlina.com/blog/2009/07/5-good-ways-to-ground-yourself/)

This week I want you to add ‘intention’ to the mix and see what happens.

When you place your feet on the floor hold an intention in you mind as you breathe in and out.

Set an intention for change.

  • To see joy instead of defiance in your child.
  • Abundance instead of scarcity.
  • Receiving instead of giving.
  • A pause before angry words.

This intention allows us to become conscious of our actions so that we can move towards our heart’s desires. In being aware of our actions we can choose how we respond. We start to become “checked in instead of checked out”.

In the definition that I have included below it is the last two points that are of interest to me because I believe that when we direct our minds we have the opportunity to heal our hearts.

IntentionWhat is your intention this week?

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Liska x