Thought for Today !

Sometimes you need to listen and not give advice.  

Many people ask me questions about all kinds of things and some seek advice and guidance but today i'd like to ask you all to remember to listen.  When your friend wants to ask your advice about something are they just wanting you to agree with their decided opinion?  Is your work colleague relating an experience or asking for advice on how they should have handled it?  

We can sometimes get too drawn into the situation of offering our advice when it isn't needed.  Be there for all who need you but engage in the conversation by listening to their real needs.  

Are you practising listening ?

Steps to help :

• Focus on what the individual is saying, give them your full attention.
• Listen to and identify the words they are using.
• Do they pause for you to answer?

If they are just getting something off their chest, the steps below may help you.

• Give positive feedback and steer them away from negative words/phrases.
• Help them see your side/other side of the conversation.
• Ask them clarifying questions.
• Be helpful and positive in your guidance.  

Inner Joy

Some people search their whole lives for happiness.  They move from relationship to relationship, never feeling truly fulfilled or loved.  They will put it down to having had a hard childhood, or being unloved as a child, a difficult adolescence, or choosing the wrong partners.  There are many such stories and i'm sure you're all very familiar with them either through friends, family or the good old information box ; the television.

However, we all actually have exactly what we need to make us happy.
Have you stopped recently and observed your life, your family, your home, your pets, your children, your world ?

To find joy in a fleeting moment is an awesome experience.
You can find your awesome moment, but to do so you first have to stop and look around ---
What will you see ?
What will you find ?
What will you experience ?
Will you find your inner joy ?

I would love to hear your stories on finding the Joy in your life.
Click on 'comment' below to leave your message.  Remember your words may help others to appreciate and understand similar events in their lives.  Blessings Cora xx