It never rains, It Pours.

Life is hard.

You'll be plodding along one minute and the next thing you know 3 family/friends have died, you get bitten by a spider, and you're forced to go to the gym, you lose your only pair of contact lenses and the hospital want to 'Keep an eye on that'.  Oh! and I have no kitchen or bathroom due to building works at my house. Its been a busy fortnight.

All in all, i'm a pretty positive and strong person. I try not to get bothered by much and I'm great at keeping a cool head in stressful situations. This last fortnight has been different. I'd had enough, given up and wanted to be left alone.

Over the last couple of weeks i've realised a few things -
1) I'm not as hard as I make out
2) I value company just as much as I value alone time
3) Crying helps
4) No one lives forever
5) It's ok to take time out when you need it.

When all of the above happened in quick succession it was hard to cope. what do I focus on? How can I be positive and sad? What's the point?
I'll be lying if I said I took it on the chin and carried on. Half the time I did, The other half I hid under a blanket on the sofa and watched Disney movies or some random tear -jerker.

The point to this rambling pity party for one is -

Life will throw you curve balls. Stand strong, focus and hit that M*ther F*cker out of the park.
Just do it when you're ready.

I'm lucky to have a second to none support network, the ones that knew what was going on were amazing. They left me alone but dropped in from time to time with a little wave, a story, a random picture of their dinner or just a nudge. (Thank you Guys and Girls - You know who you are xx)

So, if life is throwing you multiple curve balls at the minute and you think you can't cope, Just give yourself a break, hide behind a blanket and come back fighting when you are ready.

You've got this - YOU CAN DO IT.

Much Love
Dee
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London - The Greatest City In The World.

There - I've said it. London is the greatest city on Earth.

I've lived in London all my life and I love it. I live in greater (east) London so I still get the buzz but i'm far enough out so i get some trees and grass scattered around me. I'm about 13 miles from the centre.

It came to my attention a couple of years ago that even though i like to travel abroad and all over the UK, i was still a tourist in my own city. So now I spend more time looking around and seeing London for it really is.

At the weekend it was my friends birthday. We decided that we'd wait until the Monday and have a day out. We went to a great little cafe in West London for Afternoon Tea and Fizz. It was a great start to the day. If you fancy afternoon tea at the Urban Meadow Cafe click HERE. Great selection of tea, cakes and sandwiches.

Next up we decided to take a walk through the park. As we entered the gate we came across the Santander Hire Bikes - AKA Boris Bikes. Neither of us had been on a bike since we were kids so we decided to give it a go. For £2 you get full 24 hour access. Neither of us are gym bunnies but we really enjoyed it and 6 miles later we were in SE.London ready for our evening entertainment. I was rather impressed that i didn't get squashed by a bus although there was a moment that I lost my cool with a Ferrari.

Just up the road from Borough there is a little shop that opens up out back to the most wonderful cinema EVER! Click HERE to learn more about Roxy Bar and Screen. you start off in a bar and then through some thick red, velvet curtains you're taken to the main cinema room. Instead of chairs there are rows on sofas and instead of popcorn you are served dinner (3 yummy courses in our case) direct to your lap. They only show one film per night so check them out before you.

We biked back to Tower of London after the film and just as we were crossing the big junction, my knee gave way. A re-occuring injury decided to raise its ugly head. game over on the bike front but still a great day all in all.

If you're ever in London, please make sure you stop and look around. Don't seek out the main attractions, look in to the back streets and that's where you'll find the real gems.

Much Love
Dee
Miss Make It Happen

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
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It Feels Like I've Known You Forever...

Two things happened to me yesterday that really stood out.

Firstly, I met up with an old friend who I haven't spoken to for over a year. We'd had a falling out some time back and we were meeting to build bridges. When I saw him, it felt like the past had never happened. We were meant to be friends and be involved in each others lives. Life is too short to hold grudges and keep people in the dog house. Turns out we'd been absent from each others lives during a massive turning point for both of us. If we had stayed friends would we have helped each other or been a hindrance, who knows? The important point is we were now talking again. Unfortunately, we only had about 90 minutes to catch up but in that time I couldn't help stare at my friend. His smile, his animated hand gestures, his passion for his work. He'd been through a lot and he was now happy. In fact, we were both happy. It didn't matter what happened in the past, My friend was happy and that's the important part. I'm happy for him. (Lots of 'Happy' in those last few sentences, did you pick up on that?)
If you are holding a grudge against an old friend, ask yourself this - If they died tomorrow, would you feel sad / miss them? If the answer is yes, pick up the phone and make amends. My friendship was salvaged because I received a text message that simply said 'I Miss You'. Do something today, before it's too late.

Secondly, I had a dinner booked. 2 of the people I knew and had previously met before, and the 3rd I had only ever spoken to on social media. We'd talked a lot and got to know each other but I was somewhat surprised how natural our friendship was after meeting for the first time. It was as if we'd known each other for years. Never underestimate the importance of building relationships over social media.Not everyone is a keyboard warrior / stalker / rapist. It really takes the awkwardness out of initial meetings!

Until Next Time,
Much Love

Miss Make It Happen

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