Do you want to have a "rich" life? Heres how, by using your imagination! ;P

WOOP WOOP!!! So my blog has been views nearly 16,000 times, thank you so much to everyone reading I am in awe at the feedback I get on a daily basis and feel completely humbled that so many of you enjoy reading my articles. I know your going to enjoy this post and this is going to get more views than any one before hehe well hears hoping! ;-)

People are constantly saying to me since I moved to London I am ‘doing really well for myself” in other words they have seen my Facebook status’s or heard from my friends I‘m loving London!;-) Being honest they are right but it is not down to me. The most amazing things have happened be since I moved here but I think whats dramatically changed is my life is my frame of mind and my imagination and they wouldn’t have if I had not been inspired and directed by some wonderful authors, mentors and relationships in my life. I am actually going to do a separate blog post on what books I have read that changed my life for all of you’s asking me how I’m inspired.

So the question do you want to have a "rich" life in every possible sense of the word rich? Well lets be real whats making you think you don't have a rich life as it is……..Its always too easy to look at Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and see everyone else’s life as amazing and your own as mediocre if not worse! But be honest, everyone has crap days, I mean days where you don’t feel great about how we look, or aren’t moving fast enough in our careers, life etc. everyone has things that don’t work out the way they want them to. I have days where I let the world change my opinion on my own life and almost make me think negatively but because I spend so much time learning about the human nature I have learned to pull myself back from it. You won’t here me or anyone else really expressing how annoyed we are or unimpressive our lives are, one certainly wouldn’t want to shout from the roof tops that they’ve had the crappiest day of there live and there is a reason for this which i'll explain now but just know everyone has problems no one has a storm free life but the wise ones learn to dance through them!;-)

Positive uplifting and enjoyable experiences raise your energy, vibrations and even your smile these experiences are key to a having a rich life :-) this is the reason people like to talk about the good things that happen to them whether thats the amazing food they just ate or the fact they have just won the Lotto. I will hold my hands up and say when something good happens to me I won’t shut up about it because I’m so bursting with excitement I want to scream to the world. Negative experiences or as we see them ‘negative” (when in actual fact they are not half the time) have the almost opposite effect on most people, causing us to just want to curl up in a ball and hide from the world. The issue here is if we become fixated on something such as a specific outcome and it doesn’t work out the way we expect it to we are disappointed. We have become so attached to this outcome we convince ourselves that its true and right that it occurs and when it doesn’t we are devastated, sound familiar? 

This is why expectations are bad, they lead us to put pressure on everything from situations to relationships and ourselves. Expectancy on the other hand is good for you. If you expect wonderful things to happen on a daily basis they will (trust me just try it), but if you expect a certain wonderful thing to happen i.e. you want to win the lotto and you don’t your probably going to be a little annoyed. Expectancy opens up the doors for a "rich" life, a new life full of enjoyment, one where wonderful things happen, it frees relationships and ourselves from having to life up to expectations. Let me give you an example if you have an expectation of a relationship or a job and it does not live up to this what happens? you will be disappointed once again right?The secret to having a rich life is to live with an expectancy of wonderful things happening all the time.

However if we change the way we think (which although it may seem difficult becomes easy with practice) and just go learn to go with flow i guarantee you will become much happier and have a “richer” life.

Look back on your life where were you 3 years ago? I myself was sitting in a kitchen in Athlone a little town in Ireland, I had just applied for a job as a manager in a Kurt Geiger store at the time I thought this would be the best thing that could happen to me I would be on more money, progressing in my career and get to move to a city. Needless to say I was upset when I didn’t get the position but i don’t even think the store opened in the end. About six months ago when I was performing work experience in my dream job I was basically handed the position of Kurt Kieger manager on a plate and guess what I didn’t want it! Not only was I on a higher wage than the position but something that had seemed like the ultimate goal in my life had become the furthest from what I wanted. My dreams and goals had progressed to like the much higher levels as my imagination expanded and I discovered new skills that I had let slide for a long time.

So sitting on the tube the other day I was thinking I have my dream job, I am living in London and starting to write for a magazine aswell as my own personal book. I have progressed a long way from that situation and I am much better off then if it had worked out. I  couldn’t help but smile, thinking there was no need for me to even spend time been annoyed about that silly job because the universe , god, my higher self whatever you call it had bigger plans for me they obviously know your abilities way more than we do ourselves This got me thinking why has my life changed so much? The answer……...my imagination! 

So lets start

Wherever you are NOW, right this second, it doesn’t matter!!!!!!!!!You can start to live life in a certain way that will change everything in your life. You will become rich in ways you never even expected things just come to you and show up even when you don’t need them.You just need to start believing and dreaming that using that wonderful imagination of yours. 

Stop letting society put a roof over your head say f*ck it in a good way when things don’t work out and move on. Believe you are on the path to success, towards more of your dreams and goals get yourself ready everyday to achieve and appreciate everything you have while your doing it. Right now make it your duty to work your best to you ability in your role, whatever that maybe, in work, in relationships and in every situation in life. Once you fill your roles and give your life 100%, life will give you openings if you want them and have your eye opens to every possibility you will see them then its just about have the courage to go with it.

Society makes us believe the IMAGINATION is something stupid, something we associate with children making up stories they are a princess or ninja. But its not. It is certainly not something to be laughed at check out this study...

A study by Erin M Shckell  and Lionel G Standing in Bishops University 2007

They conducted a study about strengthening certain muscles . They selected student many of them who played sports, tested there muscle strength and then divided them into three groups

Group 1 - told to do nothing.

Group 2 - went to the gym three times a week and preformed prescribed exercises to increase there muscle strength.

Group 3 - Given cd's of the exercises and told to sit comfortably imagine theory were doing the exercise.

After 3 weeks these were the results........

Group 1 - no change.

Group 2 - muscle strength increased by 28%

Group 3 - muscle strength increased by an amazing 24%

How much more proof do we need?

Children its not they have it right! without your imagination you can get dragged into the believe money is hard earned and it is hard to get anywhere in your life.This is just WRONG.

There are people who have “rich” lives! I for one can say I feel rich and my life is only going to get better because it is full of new beginnings. Start believing and seeing see yourself living the life of your dreams now driving an amazing car (but not fixating on what type exactly we’ve disused how that goes). The best expectancy you could have would be to be having a wonderful life, being really happy in your job whatever that is,happy amazing relationships and time to enjoy them thats been rich everything else follows this.

You can of course have an expectancy that you will have an abundant lifestyle with possibly a Porshe or Lambogini out front but don’t fixate on it either you must never get disheartened if it doesn’t happen this will only bring you ten steps back keep moving forward little by little and  look back only to remind yourself how far you’ve come work in the present, NOW, this minute give life everything you have. Start to create a rich life now sit down for 10 minutes and think of everything your grateful for, you’ll start to feel happy now imagine yourself in the future extremely happy ten times do this for 5 minutes every day and what your life change 

Il re-read  this in a year when I’m driving the car of my dreams possibly a white range rover but I won’t be disappointed I its not ;-)

Hope you inspired 

Loves Annie

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If your lonely, you are not alone!

If your lonely, you are not alone!

So firstly I want to say a huge thank you for everyone reading my blog with nearly 12,000 views now I’m still in shock. Never in my wildest dreams did I think my blog would be such a success but on that note my friend actually give me a great idea to add some variation to it, she suggested I have guest bloggers on! So thats exactly what I’m going to do, if you would like me to share you post or an article you’ve written just comment below or private message me and l will share it!

I began writing this blog last night after several discussions with my friends about loneliness and am finishing it off this evening after an amazing catch up with one of my closest friends. She lives on the other side of the world and yet after just a few minutes chatting to her I feel so incredibly happy this just proves that surrounding yourself with positive people creates even more positivity.

So first of all I want to say that loneliness every human being feels at some point in their life and that it is not a sign of weakness it is a feeling and no feeling could ever be a sign of weakness. 

Wikipedia describes it as:

Loneliness is a complex and usually unpleasant emotional response to isolation or lack of companionship. Loneliness typically includes anxious feelings about a lack of connectedness or communality with other beings, both in the present and extending into the future. As such, loneliness can be felt even when surrounded by other people. The causes of loneliness are varied and include social, mental or emotional factors.

Research has shown that loneliness is widely prevalent throughout society among people in marriages, relationships, families and successful careers.^[1] It has been a long explored theme in the literature of human beings since classical antiquity. Loneliness has also been described as social pain — a psychological mechanism meant to alert an individual of isolation and motivate him/her to seek social connections.^[2]

A feeling or emotion is simply what you are feeling so never apologise for it, if you are actually acknowledging them and expressing your feelings this is a sign of strength, don’t fear what people may think! Simply be who you are and say what you are feeling, the right people will always be there for you. If you can honestly say you have not felt loneliness at any stage in your life then your are simply blessed (and I want to hear how haha).

For some people this feeling of loneliness is an actual constant feeling. I spent the last few hours thinking about this because a few weeks ago I had a horrible experience which being honest have become non - existent in my life. I was in a situation where someone was so rude to me I literally had to walk away from them.

Now normally being me I have always had quite a strong character, do not ask me where I got it from, I’d say the experience of bullying in school which I’m sure we've all had, is one reason. But they do say these episodes make you who you are and I definitely know it did, it thought me to let peoples negatives words slide of me. 

Since moving to London this has become a useful skill and it really is the only way to remain happy and positive. So l would consider myself even stronger in character now, I have no problem being open and honest as I’m really comfortable in who I am. But for some reason on this occasion this person being so rude really had a huge impact on me, looking back I think it was because I have not been in such a negative environment in a very a long time. Normally other peoples opinions or attitudes don’t influence me in a any way at all it is simply "water of a ducks back". I believe in positivity and being kind so if something or someone is not, that then it doesn’t serve me and I ignore it. But this negativity was so strong it consumed me and the following day I still couldn’t forget it, I woke up feeling strange, unmotivated and sad, I felt like I didn’t want to do to anything. I almost didn’t get out of bed. 

I had to think why am I feeling this way of course I knew straight away it was from this negative experience and that person being so rude to me. I reluctantly got of of bed, thinking maybe if I made myself my favourite breakfast that might cheer me up, but it didn’t. So I thought ok I will have a shower and get dressed up that will definitely work, but it didn’t either. After some retail therapy and trying to call some of my friends for a catch up to which I got voicemail messages I felt even more lonely.

I couldn't understand why I felt so alone, I have so many friends and a huge supportive family but thats exactly how I felt, completely alone. I knew I needed to do something drastic to change how I was feeling. So as i was walking along the street I began thinking what can I do to get out of this slump and then it hit me. Eureeeeekka. I’m always reading about it, I’ve researched it, wrote about it and went to speeches about but had completely forgotten.

I had forgotten I was created to be loved!!!! I had forgotten for nearly a whole day that I am loved.

Each and every single one of us was created to be loved and whether we know or not I’m telling you now you are! Please take some comfort in this fact alone. You do not need to have  a million friends in fact you could have none, no family, not even one single human being who cares about you but you are still loved. Whatever you call this power who loves you God, the universe, allah, the supreme self, the light, the higher power or even if you believe in nothing fortunately for us it is not a choice we were created for this purpose so believe me YOU ARE! 

This is something you can learn really through just really thinking about it meditating on it and really feeling the love.

If it helps think of the love you feel from your friendships and try and imagine that but ten times stronger and unceasing even if you did something horrendous a really horrible thing this would still not stop this flow of love towards you.That is because in is unconditional. Doing this alone will help you realise you are whole by yourself, you do not need any one to add to you, YOU are whole and loved completely in mind body and soul. This can sometimes be a struggle for everyone form all paths to understand as society almost always suggests otherwise but I dare you just try and sit quietly for a few minutes feel it, focus on your heart and the warmt in it and you will know it to be true.

I hope you feel inspired

Loves Annie xxx