When life gives you a lemon & knocks you down...

Sometimes life can’t get any BETTER, you’re on TOP OF THE WORLD, smiling from ear to ear, everything falls into place and it feels like we are becoming INVINCIBLE!!! It’s an awesome feeling to be high on life like that, moments and times of peak happiness! This is how I was feeling leading up to my little incident…Then comes the other times which can be very much less pleasant, sometimes even agonising...nothing seems to go right. We want to burst out in tears, come up with irrational ideas and sometimes completely abandon all hope and faith…this was my monday night whilst training at the gym, BANG, SNAP, CRACKLE POP… goes my ankle!

Life throws a lot of sh*t things at us and sometimes it’s not as easy as seems to just roll with the punches. Sometimes we can pick ourselves up no problem and move forward.. Other days it’s just not that simple.

'Think of yourself as a toy train. All toy trains de-rail now and then. Pick yourself up, dust yourself off and get back on track'. - unknown

We cant control everything that happens in the world…but what we can change, is how you feel about those things. Even if things are really bad, you can still be happy, you can still choose to smile, and you can choose to see it as a TEST, A LESSON that you have to get through for things to get better, improve or just simply teach us something.

Time is continuous and never stops, just as good things come and go, bad things will also come and go. So like me you got slapped in the face, you made some mistakes, things didn’t go the way you wanted them to go. Yeh It sucks. Sometimes it really sucks... But don’t let it keep you down!

Remember every day is a new one that is full of new possibilities and opportunities. Did you think, that the last thing that made you feel down was never going to end or go away… well did it? Yes! It did, and I bet you were you ok??? -  “This too shall pass.” - Eckhart Tolle

When I woke up this morning, I decided no more down in the dumps, I will get up and do whatever it takes to get back to that mountain I was so effortlessly climbing… I want to encourage you to do the same too, to keep going strong and keep looking at your goals and your results to stay focused on the path you were so brilliantly following before this little stumble, road block, snapped ankle, got in the way…always remember too that somewhere out there, there is someone far worse off than you..put into perspective how bad your situation or problem really is….

We have to make sure when we leave the house in the morning, to start the BRAND NEW day…we do it with a positive attitude and prepare ourselves mentally for all of the things that may try knock us off track..

“When life knocks you down you have two choices- stay down or get up.” - Tom Krause

Over time I have become a very true believer, that all things happen for a reason and that they happen exactly the way they are supposed to, when they are meant to. Guess remembering that helps remove the frustrating question of “why is this happening to me?” the question, that honestly, never really can be answered…

“Life will knock you to your knees and keep you there…if you let it.” –Rocky Balboa


When you get knocked down, you not only have to get back up again…

You need to learn from it and just be stronger next time around.

Try to look at the SUNNY (positive) side of every situation or lesson.

Think only the BEST thoughts, work only for the BEST, and expect only the BEST. 

Forget the mistakes of your past and focus on the greater ACHIEVEMENTS of your coming future. You cant change yesterday but you can definitely create today and tomorrow.. 

LIVE and BELIEVE that the whole world is on your side as long as you are living as the best person you can be. Life kicks you around sometimes. It knocks you down and it beats you up…. 

Remember we arent just survivors trudging through life, we are fighters and we are tougher than anything life throws our way…! 

You might also like to check out my past blog on "BEING GREAT, THE BEST YOU CAN BE.."

Great video that will motivate and pick you up instantaneously. - 

Be the best you could possibly be/video

be less afraid and let go of useless doubts...

“We must never assume that which is incapable of proof” -unknown

........You can never truly know someone else’s intentions.

When you have no proof, it’s a judgment call, you have a choice to either assume the best, feel good and grateful; or assume the worst and feel bad and suspicious.

“Make finding the good in others a priority.” -zig ziglar

I often doubt my instincts especially when I meet someone new, we all do it or have done it… I think I know what I want or how I should feel, act…but my mind decides to split and take sides, creating a continuous nagging sense of internal conflict over what I actually want or should do.

But as I go along, I slowly learn there really isn’t such a thing as wrong.. Every event, person, life experience has come for a reason and for us to learn a lesson of some description… we just need to simply ENJOY the ride and be less afraid... 

“knowing that the net may not always be there, but the fall will never be far enough to do any lasting damage.” –tiny buddah

Relationships aren't supposed to be hard, but we, as women, tend to overanalyze, be over-emotional, and make things complicated when they should be simple. We need to take lessons from other species.

The female animals are always pursued by the male of the species. That's how it's supposed to be. That's how the male mind works. They try to get what they want. So let them do all the work and you'll reap all the benefits!
Love & happiness, rebecca.n

Some quotes Id like to leave you with…

• Everyone makes mistakes. Forgive yourself as easily as you’d forgive someone else.

• You have no control over who loves you. You have every bit of control over whom you love.

• Today if you doubt yourself, remember: You are far more powerful than you think. You just need to believe it!!!