I'm an Elf not a terrorist!

Ramblings of a redhead. 

I decided to go to work today dressed as an elf. I'm not totally mad, it's less then a week before xmas.

I noticed something on the way from home to London Euston. People stare at you if you are dressed as an elf. Some smile, some look away with either a grin or a look of sheer horror and some look at you with utter disgust.

A couple of men stopped me for a chat. firstly, a 60 odd year old to tell me that i look like i should be playing for celtic FC. Then another guy on the train to tell me I should take the hat off and "wear it later". i'm not sure what he meant by this as I would neither be wearing this outfit later nor seeing him.

The main thing that stood out to me, not that people were having an opinion but the fact it was such a shock. WE'RE IN LONDON! one of the most multi-cultural, multi-racial, fashion forward cities in the world. every day we walk past something or someone that is 'different' and we dont bat an eyelid. yet, a relatively normal (Ha! i just refered to myself as normal) girl dresses up as an elf at christmas and its like shes just got on the London Underground with TNT strapped to her chest. people act weird.

Much Love
Until next time

Miss Make It Happen

Don't stop learning. Mental fitness is just as important as physical.

I'm all for learning something new. I love learning about new topics, I watch the news to see whats happening and I love to tinker with things, to find out how they work. I would love to learn a new language but I just don't seem to have the cognitive ability. But I can re-wire the house and build a wall, thanks to an electrical engineering apprenticeship at Fords and my Grandad. 

I had a trip to Wales planned a while ago, so imagine my excitement when my friend emailed me to say that we have tickets to The Hay Festival! Hay Festival is a festival of Literature and the Arts. It welcomes all ages and learning abilities and is a a wonderful place to be and learn new things. My friend, as a surprise, had booked us in to see a number of talks including; Literature, Business, Science and Media

I left the festival with an aching body and a mind full of new information, questions and ideas. I recommend you google it and try and get to the next festival in 2015.

I'm not one for new years resolutions. If I want to change something, I'll do it now not wait to the beginning of the next year. I've been having a think about my strengths recently and i've decided that even though i'm very good at a number of things, I can still improve. So, i've undertaken a few new refresher courses to help in my personal life and work. I've also decided that after my holiday in January, I will be learning to code. This will, I hope, be fun for me, will help me with projects and will also benefit my clients. Learning new things makes me happy and because the learning carries me in to the future, I look forward to that too.

I challenge you to learn something new this week.

Until next time,

Keep smiling

Dee

Miss Make It Happen

www.MissMakeItHappen.co.uk

We've made a mistake, lets go back...

I was talking to a good friend of mine tonight and the conversation wandered in to science and space. Not literally, because we'd both be dead, but you get the point.

We began to ponder weither or not there is an end to space and what is beyond it. As you'll have learnt at school, space is a vacuum. a big bunch of nothing. This lead to me pointing out that maybe all the laws of nature could be wrong.

Bare with me, I have a business related point at the end!

Think about it for a minute.. Every law of nature, weither it be scientific, physical, natural etc have been determined and interprited by man. Sir Isaac Newton was chilling out under a tree one day and an apple fell on his head, after a bit of thinking, and a few experiments he came up with Newtons Law of Universal Gravitation. Brilliant! We have an answer for why stuff bonks us on the head... dig around a bit deeper and we understand (Thanks to Sir Newton) that the moon is involved, acceleration and velocity join in and there's a whole gravity party going on, on planet earth.

This is obviously just a small part of the laws of nature. This happened in the 1600's, before most of us were born and a little after the dinosaurs died out.

My point is, we've moved on... a lot! Look at how long we thought the world was flat! then we discovered it wasn't and all sorts of new and wonderful things happened! So wouldn't it be smart if we questioned all these laws? I believe we are powerful beyond our imaginations and we're dumbing ourselves down because we accept other peoples interpritation to a discovery because it's worked for 400 or so years.

So my business point... Because it's worked for the last 4 decades doesnt meant that it is right for your business now and taking your business forward. We need to challenge what we know and change the norm in order to push forward in to the new and exciting. It's going to be scary, we'll mess up, we'll make mistakes, but thats how Newton became a legend and how, 100's of years after his death i'm writing about some dude being hit on the head with an apple.  GO QUESTION STUFF!!

Big thanks to my friend Sam for the great conversation and helping to write this blog. Sam is a VA, you should check her out at www.sharpva.co.uk - she has the MMIH seal of approval :)

Until next time
keep smiling
Miss Make It Happen
www.MissMakeItHappen.co.uk