I'm not going to assume I know how YOU are feeling this past week - and Yes, I am referring to the US Election. 💔 However this is a safe space and I always share my heart and MY heart, is a little broken. 💔 And yet, (as I shared on Insta) I need to drag back some HOPE. In the same way I always do as a vegan living in a non-vegan world. So... When a man who “leads” with Hate, Greed, Arrogance, Ignorance, Lies and a mind-blowing heart-breaking Lack of Empathy is voted into power - AGAIN.... Then it means those of us who value LOVE, Compassion, Co-operation, Kindness, Truth and Integrity MUST step up and shine our lights of love. As the wise beyond his years River Phoenix would have said: “Run to the rescue with love, and peace will follow.” 💫 Part 2: Enjoying The Journey. 💫 Whether your journey is health related, business related or perhaps it's about doing all you can to create a vegan world... it will likely take longer than you would love and regardless, it is vital to prioritise enjoying the process. Every. Single. Day. Right now, I feel it's even more important to focus on injecting JOY into our every single day. Here's how I'm doing it, and I'm using a filter of Stop, Start, Continue which I often turn to to help me focus my thoughts. ⏰ Stop: Short-changing myself on time. Rushing is UN-fun. It also means I miss out on those incidental unimportant little (important!) things. Like, casual conversations with gym members or colleagues. Or sitting looking at the stars with my morning coffee and the cats milling around me. Or taking longer with my morning meditation because, today I am feeling it and I want to just sit for longer. ✅ Start: Being even more intentional with my focus and energy. Because what you focus on expands. And energy is contagious. I recently heard the advice, to be generous with your energy. I love that. Our hearts have a frequency and people can feel it. Maybe that is the "open-heartedness" I find to be so rare and so attractive.

A little over a week into the Plant Positive Jumpstart it's a great time to Evaluate and then Refine your healthy habits. An opportunity to: 1. Fix what is not working.
 2. Celebrate what is. 3. Where needed - Lower the bar to raise your chance of success. A few examples: 1. When I first became vegan I made perfect green smoothies by washing all my organic veg, adding minimal fruit and ruining it all with (disgusting) Spirulina. => it was too much effort! I swapped (#3. lowered the bar!) to frozen veg + fruit, ditched the Spirulina completely and used a plant-based protein powder. Faster. Cheaper. More enjoyable. 2. What you focus on expands, so let it be your WINS - celebrate them! Perhaps using up your leftover broccoli stems and "past it's best" spinach in a batch of dairy free pesto. Or making triple the amount of dinner you need and freezing it for future meals. Even, that low value snack you avoided today and the edamame you chose instead (I'm in a serious edamame phase currently!) 3. Lower the bar, by aiming for a shorter walk instead of NO walk. Or, one processed vegan burger with ALL the mixed veg and fresh salad instead of 2 burgers and fries. Even, aiming for 60 seconds of meditating or journaling if longer feels daunting. ✅ Is there anywhere YOU need to lower the bar to raise your chance of success? ✅ Ok, the GIF is the OPPOSITE of lowering the bar for your success however it's too good NOT to share!

Today's theme #MondayMotivation, and on my mind is some advice from entrepreneur Alex Hormozi that he shared in relation to business, however ABSOLUTELY it relates to health. Alex states to succeed you need: 🦁 The COURAGE to start (his word was balls, I like courage) 🧠 The BRAINS to learn. 💚 The HEART to never give up. To elaborate as I see it... 1. In health, you need the Courage to really commit. Wishy, washy, half-hearted won't cut it. It will likely ALSO eat away at your belief in yourself when you don't come through for you. Bonus points? Sharing your commitment with the people closest to you "should" elicit their support / understanding and also, it will help hold you accountable to more than simply yourself. 2. The Brains means recognising when something isn't working and adjusting accordingly. I absolutely DO NOT mean bouncing from one approach to the next. I do mean learning from mistakes or times you're set yourself up to lose the discipline game. 3. If you are taking the right actions, consistently you WILL see results. However, sadly they likely won't be in the fast timeframe you would most love. This means you must have the Heart to stick with it, as long as it takes and ALSO, to consciously focus on the good - the joy of the journey - the small wins, so that you can stick with it AS LONG AS IT TAKES! 😀 What small or big (!) wins do you have to share?

To know how to make the most of the next 30 Days, check out this post: Again, if you missed yesterdays post, my intention? For as many of us as possible to create a powerful habit - aligned with a more Plant Positive lifestyle - that we will continue beyond this 30 Days, and build other impactful habits around. Today's theme #WednesdayWeighIn and.... Overwhelm is lazy thinking! For those of us that set pretty big intentions for the next 30 days maybe overwhelm has reared it's ugly head already? I used to believe, if I could only manage my time better, then I could “get it all done.” I also did overwhelm well. It is really quite easy to excel at overwhelm. You simply think of everything you need to get done with a special focus on what you can not control. Add in a dash of starting this task, then switching to that, and now dwelling on ALL those you are yet to start, and it is amazing how busy you can feel. How overwhelmed – without actually achieving anything! Stated this way, it is easy to see that overwhelm is really just lazy thinking and frenzied yet indiscriminate action taking. The alternative is to: ✅ First - Admit you will never get it all done. ✅ Second - Have the focus and clarity of thought to choose what is most important – to Prioritise – and the discipline to act according to those priorities. Now, here's the third part which I am focusing on right now... ✅ To be really ON / focused / productive / disciplined, you also must schedule really OFF time. Schedule "unscheduled / free time"! ✅ - That might look like one afternoon (or a couple of hours) a week with NO commitments. - It might be a precious evening routine of only stuff you love (reading, journalling, even - I'll admit it, watching "Those who kill" on sbsondemand!) and NO cheeky little email or social media checking in bed. - It might be an afternoon walk in nature, even 10 minutes counts.

What is your ONE most important daily action for 30 Days this October Plant Positive Jumpstart? Considerations for your daily action: - This is about skill acquisition as well as results. What skills are worth building? - What is something that will have a compounding positive impact on your life? - What is the upside, if it goes really well? - What is the downside, is there even one - besides a little time?