Relocation & Expat Coach

... you will be more disappointed ...

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” Mark Twain

What a fabulous quote and so true.  Sometimes we look back on our lives and we wonder what would have happened if ...?  What would happen if you were to look back and appreciate the things that you did do realising that you tried to achieve every one of your dreams and that you successfully achieved most of them?

Follow Mark Twain's advice ... sail away now!

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Insanity ...

'Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.' Albert Einstein.

Since moving to the island my workload hasn't reduced to the level that I thought that it would, so generally I am found in the office on a Saturday morning; but today ... I am doing something different.  There are parts of this island that I haven't yet seen and places that I haven't yet been to, so I'm off out to 'explore'.

This opportunity came because of my delayed flight from Lisbon this week - read more in Cormack's Capers  in Monday's publication of The Psychic Week - and I was sitting next to a delegate coming to attend an EU conference.  As she was planning to spend Saturday on the island, I offered to drive her around ... yesterday, she accepted my offer.  So rather than doing the same thing as I always do and not really thinking about the results, today I'm off out ...!  What am I expecting - yes something different!

'Don't know the weather, ...

... nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.'  Kin Hubbard

When I saw this quote today I suddenly realised that moving to a sub-tropical island, the subject of weather doesn't come up in the conversation as often as it did when I was living in mainland Europe.  So I started to wonder ... if I don't have the weather to talk about, how do I start a conversation with someone new?

Yes I could always say 'bright sunny day again today', but what would their response be - 'yes, well it always is on the island'.  Not a really great conversation opener then ...

It's interesting, but one of the things we in mainland Europe (as in other parts of the world) all take for granted is the face that we can talk about the weather.  So when you meet that new person for the first time - business environment, personal - it doesn't really matter where; if the weather is changeable at least you can talk about it; but where on average the weather is the same year round, how do you start a conversation?

One of the advantages of living on the West Coast of Madeira is that we have the most spectacular sunsets.  So I'm now wondering ... should this be what I start my conversations with rather than the weather? 

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In the infinity of life where I am,

In the infinity of life where I am,
all is perfect, whole, and complete.
Each one of us, myself included, experiences the richness
and fullness of life in ways that are meaningful to us.
I now look at the past with love and choose
to learn from my old experiences.
There is no right or wrong, nor good or bad.
The past is over and done.
There is only the experience of the moment.
I love myself for bringing myself
through this past into this present moment.
I share what and who I am,
for I know we are all one in Spirit.
All is well in my world.

Louise L. Hay - You Can Heal Your Life (pg230)

How we spend our days ...

"How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives." Annie Dillard

I found this very interesting quote and it made me start to think about how I spend my days.  When I first started my own company in 2000 I didn't really know where it was going to take me.  I was aware that I didn't want to be tied down to working Monday to Friday 9am-5pm, but I didn't really know what I want to do either.

The year 2000 saw me stay in the IT professional world and work through agencies rather than as an employee of a company.  Over the next year or so I found a new career - it wasn't the first change in my working life, so it didn't worry me that I was going to return to studying and 'start again'.  This was a career in coaching.  It was an interesting transition from working by the day for a client to working by the hour with a coaching client ... and it took me some time to really understand the change I had made to my working life.  Once I did, I realised it was all for the better. 

As you'll know from this blog that I've also now moved my home and working environments away from the UK to the island of Madeira (Portugal) and when I saw this quote this morning I realised that over the last 10 years I've gradually been moving to understand how I spend my days; and today I realised that this is now how I am spending each moment of my life.  What would have happened in my life if I had realised this in 2000 and started the realisation and change of how I spend my time with a more conscious approach, rather than the unconscious approach I seem to have taken. 

Now that I've had this realisation I know that there are things that I need to put into place to really know how I am spending my days, and once I've done this then I know I'll be spending my life in the way I select to.

How can I help you do the same for your life?

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