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Morning Inspiration - Time For Reflection


Hello
Hope you had an amazing summer!
We had many great moments that no doubt will turn into precious memories. We share our travels via Instagram, love for you to join us. I am saying ‘we’ because my daughter is very much part of the creative process, as you will see. We made a pact to ‘enjoy the little things’ and we did, keeping costs to a minimal. It's so liberating to stripped back in life and realise truly what matters. We literally get so inspired by everything and anything from the beauty of nature, to awesome displays.
As I pondered on my first post back, I came across this window display with some very fitting words, at this particular time of the year:
 
Enjoy!

KIMI
 
I was pretty burned out just before the summer, so was looking forward to having a staycation with my daughter. The break worked wonders as we were able to take our time to smell the flowers, as the saying goes. I particularly loved the artsy moments with the face paint and balloon art, turned into great visuals for messages of inspiration. As we head into the last quarter of 2016, it led me to reflect on the year so far.
Working smarter and not harder was the main thing that came to light. I do believe in balance and longer hours doesn’t necessarily equals productivity. However, life has a habit of creeping up and all those little things starts to add up.  The long school holidays, forced me to have time out. It was clear to me that I needed to leverage my time better and stream line my schedule to ensure maximum benefit or impact.
The value of taking the time out to reflect is often underestimated and undervalued. In my humble opinion it minimises the chances of being burn out and therefore improving the quality of work and life. I read that for the brain to be working at its optimal level, it must have sufficient rest. Whilst this may be common sense, many of us including myself neglect this due to the pressures of life.

I scaled back on some commitments, focusing on quality rather than quantity. I also applied the same principle to my biggest time eaters such as social media and making regular time for housekeeping. Looking after my spiritual self, for me it’s having daily protected time with God. From experience when we are balanced in body, spirit, mind and soul everything falls into place.
I wanted to close with the following thought- Life is at a much faster pace than ever before, it’s difficult but not impossible to take time out to reflect and evaluate as to whether our ways are really the best ways? From experience, if I am not at peace it means I am not at ease with life and my body is telling me that something is out of sync or it’s not coping through my stressors.

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Best wishes
KIMI

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