Savvy 'n' Sassy

MY TOP 3 MANTRAS THAT I LIVE BY – HOW THEY CHANGED MY LIFE AND CAN CHANGE YOURS TOO! A couple of years ago I was having an incredibly tough time. I was sat in Harrods having afternoon tea just before Christmas and chatting to my lovely friend Debbie about people who had wronged me and how it was affecting me. And boy, was it affecting me! That day I realised what a true friend Debbie was. SHE TOLD ME LIKE IT WAS, AND I CAN’T THANK HER ENOUGH. Her straight talking helped me get rid of the demons that had haunted me for years, even decades and has since led me to a much healthier and happier life. So, what exactly what did she say that was so powerful I took it on board and changed my life? I have personalised the words so that when I repeat them they actually relate to me! Number 1 “Only I can be responsible for my own happiness” – admittedly this sounded a little weird at first, after all, we frequently look elsewhere for happiness. Whether it’s seeking pleasu...

Helloooooooo! I hope today’s blog finds you happy, healthy and focussing on the positive. Today I am writing about putting back gratitude into your attitude! A lesson I learned last week! Grat -i-tude ( noun) - being thankful, an expression of thanks. indebtedness, grateful, thanks, appreciation, recognition, acknowledgement, credit . Time passes, days pass, some far too quickly, some drag. All are just days. Or are they? There are some periods of 24 hours in the year that we give special names to …. Christmas Day, Yom Kippur, Diwali, Eid al- Fitr amongst many others and we celebrate these times with gusto. Think about all the effort we put into arranging and enjoying these days. I love celebration days, so why this year did I have so much trouble with another of those specially named days…. My Birthday? I guess it hadn’t helped that the week had been very emotional, albeit with a positive outcome eventually. It didn’t help that I was exhausted. It didn’t help that I...