Gorman In Motion - life's thoughts 🧐, trials 🙌and travels ✈️

This is heard so many times - I'll start in the New Year - new me and all that. Firstly, to have a plan to start more positive changes can only be commended, let's not take away from that! But here's the thing that I find helps better...instead of just saying new year, new me...why not say new me now? Start now. That's the change in thinking we have to try make. Things don't need to be these elaborate plans with fine details - yes they can come with time but initially - just start! Whatever that is! Do you want to be more active? Well, start with a walk around your block. Do you want to change jobs? Start by updating your CV and signing up for job alerts. Do you want to start to journal? Start by getting a pen and paper and writing your thoughts. This can be applied to anything! None of us know what's around the corner. So by saying we will wait for something is allowing us to be open to the possibility of that time never arriving. Who knows what roadblock may a...

This might be a bit of an unpopular title, but let's think about it. If we don't face failures, we don't have the chance to be down or have to find that 'uncomfortable' and to see how we can make our way back up. When we face the failures, we will get to see how strong we are to deal with them and what support we have around us. Let's take a sport for example - there are many times we will often fail and different ways we can react. We can say, okay, it's not for me, let's move on - and give up and not try. Another way we can react is to say okay, what happened to lead us to failure, what can we do to get us out of it and maybe not be in the same situation. To become more proficient and successful at something is aided by engaging with more successful people in the area we are failing at. Along with this, it takes commitment by ourselves. If we want something, we have to work at it. We have to think what does it take to be able to succeed. Do I need to g...

Putting yourself out there can feel like the most daunting thing in the world 🗺😰 But then you have to think...is it better to try and fail, then not to try at all? It's easy to be a spectator of others and always think how good it would be to do what they are doing or be where they are. How fulfilling and rewarding would it be to have tried something and seen some success, no matter how small?! Remember, the mini wins need to be celebrated too! 👏 There is always going to be outside noise and opinions being thrown but it's how we accept them that matters. It's filter time for things like that - take what matters, take what helps and take it from those who have genuine concern and support without hidden agendas. When putting yourself out there and trying something, always remember too, to keep a look out for those who are willing to support and give a helping hand. This may not seem like much at the time or it may seem like something that won't work but again - at leas...

Sometimes rejection feels like it's happening with so many things for us and all at once. 🤯 We may have lost a job or not been successful in one we were trying for - rejected; we may have lost connection with friends or a relationship - rejected. These are big things in our daily lives - family, friends, relationships, careers and can affect us so much if they are not succeeding in a way we would like them to. 😞 Having rejection in them can bring us down so much and make us think of other aspects of our lives and see the negatives there too - it can become a vicious cycle of negative thoughts. But what is this going to do for us? Nothing. Being down about them is not going to reverse the rejection, but only take away from the time on our journey to what positives are going to be in their place.  It is other people and things that deliver the news of the rejection and put us on that roundabout, but the great thing is that we have the ability to jump off it and go to find the next ...