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I live in Bristol, UK.
I have realised that September is one of my favourite if not my favourite months of the year.
Why?
English summers are not always the “best”. We seem to get odd nice days here and there amongst grey rainy days. There seems to be this expectation and “hype” that when the kids [...]
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The Beautiful Month of September
How Is Life Treating You?
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Hello all.
Apologies for the sporadic service, I have been busy establishing and running Studio Scratches. It is going very well.
The question I put to you today is NOT the usual “how is life treating you?”, but rather “how are you treating LIFE?”
Attitude is everything so go out there and give life a good [...]
Create!
Create, don’t compete!
Coincidence and Bikes Part 2
Following on from yesterdays post, here is some more news on how things are manifesting for Riparato Fixed Gear.
First some background info on Riparato:
Riparato Fixed Gear takes second hand bikes, converts and customises them to “fixed gear” (google it), before carrying out thorough restoration and design including custom respray and addition of shiny new custom [...]
Coincidence and bikes
I have recently been collaborating on my brothers business Riparato Fixed Gear Bikes.
A few evenings ago I had an idea concerning the business, the model and how he could develop it. I thought “I must remember to share that with him.”
I completely forgot about it until yesterday evening when I shared the idea with him. [...]
Believe
Your Job is to believe…
Out with the old, in with the new
As 2008 draws to a close, we often become reflective thinking about how the past year has gone, the highs, lows, things we want to change, things we might have done differently, things to be thankful for.
It is also a time of new resolutions, goal setting and continued dreams.
Personally I am making 2009 the year [...]
Self mastery it has to be!
Whatever skill you are undertaking to master, it requires self discipline, patience, persistence and determination. This is also the route to self mastery. You can use whatever you are doing as a means to develop yourself in all ways.
I have chosen the area of scratching because it speaks to my spirit and makes me happy. [...]
IMAGINE THE POSSIBILITIES!
Whenever your thinking goes off track; and by that I mean negative; simply STOP, and IMAGINE THE POSSIBILITIES.
Simple you may say. Yet powerful! Try it!
This is not make-believe - if you focus on the possibilities for long enough you will begin to see them coming true before your very eyes. And it is way more [...]
Belief
A little bit of belief goes a long way…
Keep on!