SOUNDTRACK of yesterday afternoon: "WEEEEEEEEEE!!!" ALL the way down to the Thames! After an afternoon bounding around a National Trust house, one long climb up the valley and then a descent back to the river. All the way to the bottom. Expressing overflow of the pure joy, simple pleasure and inane fun that is riding fast down a really long hill. The kind of hill that makes you smile till if aches, laugh till it hurts, whoop till you are out of breath and wheezing. YESTERDAY (Saturday 31st August) my family took a train / bike tour of Berkshire to Basildon Park. When we left we suffered our way a little up the hills to the exit. The entry which you then swing around the park to is down by the River Thames. And so it was that we kicked off the top of the hill, lined on right side by walls and left side by trees and commenced the joy-full yelping and hooting and hollering all the way through the smooth bends of our descent. Both our boys, William in bike seat, Zach in a wrap, arms out squealing and yelling all the way. LET the joy come now, not when you hit twenty-thousand subscribers, not when you hit four million, not when your are Times best seller. EVERY single Times best selling author has sat down and written, for the love of writing. Because they have something to share, not because they wanted to be Times Bestseller. They had a passion to share what they saw in their mind, to give what was making them want to leap around and sing from the roof tops. Every bestselling book IS a song from the roof tops. Every success-full sale, painting, piano composition, ballet, theatre show IS a song from the roof tops, is YOUR song from the roof tops. LET your song be heard, let it ring out and echo and reverberate around the canyons of peoples lives and hearts. Only by being there in the moment, on your roof top can you share your joy, your passion, your verve. Your song, when sung truly by your-self from the keys of your keyboard, or the nib of your pen, or your violin strings, or the stage, movie show, presentation, where-ever, will swell to fill peoples lives. INSPIRE action in others by your persistent, positive, power-full action. Be passionate. Over-flow with passion for what you are sharing. Fountains overflow, without overflow a fountain has nothing. It is a pool of water, stagnating and diseased. (Dis-eased). Do not let dis-ease be your world, do not let your ideas stagnate and turn to dust or mould. Realise them now. Make them real. Really real. Make them stand out from the page, make them sing from the roof tops. EXPRESS your overflow. Do it now. Today. When else is there? I believe passionately that people need to overflow, people need to see the big skies, the sweeping arch of distant rivers and the curve of landscapes. It is in our nature to challenge ourselves by finding new ways to move across the landscape. That is the reason I adore being able to open new worlds to people as an outdoor sports instructor. I find few things greater than the joy of helping someone to realise their potential and discover their overflow. Your overflow comes from within, you can experience it anytime, even on the long hill climbs up to the start of the whooping descent! CLICK HERE to find out how. Thank you ACM Dancing with the Overflow
William and Vicki and Zach (out of shot) at Folk By The Oak, Hatfield.
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A poor excuse, really. Why do you climb the mountains? "Because it's there." WHEN we engage our-selves in the outdoors and throw our lives out there on the line what do we discover? What do we learn? We find that we are in dangerous places, trudging through waist deep snow, poking at slopes with avalanche probes, watching rivers pummel themselves into furious white patterns and watching storm clouds race across the landscape towards us as we turn and run from the peak. IS this danger embraced will-fully and actively Because It Is There? Are we risking our body and mind and our very existance just because a few hundred thousand years ago some rock shifted and shaped these hills and mounded up this rocks, or because the action of the water over the last million years happens to have created this gorge. So it happens to be 'There'. And so we go up it, or paddle down it. 'BECAUSE it's there' is not enough. WHAT is a more reasonable answer? Because I will soon not be here. In the eyes of the hills and the views of the eons of river creations you are insignificant, very insignificant, in fact, you are completely insignificant. Our lives are transient as the water, flashing past. The world watches from the banks as we dash by in a flurry. HUMANITY has the power to alter the course of rivers, to change the faces of mountains. We can change the landscape as much as we desire, given enough time and enough money. IN the end, the world wins out. The mountains that we blast with explosives, the rivers we dam with concrete, the shapes we lay in the land will last out beyond us. They will not last forever, neither too will the mountains and rivers, their longevity is, however, far superior. NEXT time you harness up and tie in to a rope to scale a cliff, or launch your boat onto a river. Remind your-self why you are there, out in the big wide world of dramatic and dangerous landscapes. Because, some day, you will not be. Some day it will be someone else pulling on those holds, and dodging into that eddy. Then smile, exhale and go get your fun. BECAUSE you are there! Thank you ENGAGE more deeply in your activities, unlock the power of your mind and learn the power-full tools within you with my FREE course in visualisation CLICK HERE for more details. Performance online courses, focused mental training to allow your to perform more positively and find success easier, CLICK HERE to find out more. Bespoke personal coaching courses out there in the world of paddle sports and rock climbing also available, CLICK HERE to find out more. ACM Positive Passionate Power-full Performance. The track to the mountains.
Tryfan from behind Ogwen Cottage, Snowdonia, North Wales. In our house we like to try things. Really crazy things, things that push us out of our comfort zone, out of our safety zone, things that push the envelope, that make people stop, look aghast and ask "Why would you...?" and "but how do you...?" We kicked off in earnest around the start of the year when Vicki went vegan for a month. The best comment I received in response to this was "oh, that's HARD!" It really is, what it also does is open up windows on the amount of 'things' put into our food. This led me to drop sugar for a month, coming to an end officially on August 31st. I'll celebrate with a cake or something suitably ironic! Meanwhile, I'm not there yet, so the search continues. It has meant skipping out on a few sweets and cakes at work. Though I also took in my own varieties of sugar free flapjack (honey and / or maple syrup, job done!) Also had the odd slip up, like ordering a pint of shandy and then taking a mouthful before realising lemonade probably has sugar in. Whoops. I strive not for perfect, but for progress. How is not eating sugar progress? It is not the sugar we EAT that I am offended by, or - in joining the vegan meals regularly, the meat and dairy and eggs. I love eating meat, it is a reasonable thing for humans to do. And eggs too. (Milk is another problem.) However, it is the sugar and the meat and the dairy and the egg that we CONSUME that I am avoiding. What's the difference between eating and consuming? Consuming is mind-less. Eating is involved and activity and conscious. When we spread sugar laden pickles, or condiments over our meals, not aware of all the hidden sugar based fillers. Or we chomp into a sandwich with dairy and sugar replete throughout for all the added sponginess and extra (fast) rising power that this gives the bread. What we are doing is consuming filler food. It is cheap, it is not necessarily good for the animals involved, the farmers growing it, the land grown on it, or the planet when we have to ship it all a god-thousand miles before it hits the plate. I challenged myself this weekend to a wheat-free weekend, mostly successful, rice and oats were the order of the weekend. Fantastic food all buried in vegetables and salad. Meanwhile, the sugar free episode continues. And it isn't continuing for-ever-ever. It is on going till I choose to stop it. Sugar free (and dairy reduced) life is easier to do when you first drop the finest of all filler food: chocolate. Special thanks to Jason Vale for that one. Vale talks about drug foods, as the next step on from 'junk food'. Drug foods being those chock full of sugars, caffeine, alcohol. Drug foods create a mental state that they cannot maintain and in fact the body actively seeks to reduce in an attempt to restore equilibrium. Sugar causes a spike in blood sugar, resulting in a release of insulin, and a subsequent drop of blood sugar, resulting in - hurray! - a craving for sugar. I dropped coffee and caffeinated tea early this year. The result, I can feel my body is has more steady energy. It no longer needs, requests, or begs for a blast of mental or physical energy. More efficient supply of energy and burning of what resources we have within us and not looking for quick-fix-drug-fillers feels like a far better way to live. It takes 28 days to form a new habit, so, take a challenge. What could you easily drop for 30 days? It's not so long as it first sounds. Once you are through the first three days it gets easier, then pass week one and you're on it. Go at it, give it a go! What is the very worst that can happen? You will continue just the way you are! Thank you, ACM Positive Passionate Power-full Performance. Dare to step through. The Moon GateChinese Gardens, Sydney, Australia. Down the way from Darling Harbour, great Dim Sum and Green Tea and the oasis of calm in the city. A fine day meandering and exploring No, you are wrong. It is ok to fail. I encourage it. I whole heartedly embrace the principle of failing. To be creative you have to fail. And that’s ok. GOOD, now I’ve cleared that up, what is holding you back? You really are afraid of failing. What will happen when you create and put it out there and then fail? DO you know how old I will be when I succeed? SAME age as you will be if you continue to fail to create. Fail to dare to fail. (#) ACCEPT the process of artistic failure; accept the process of indulgent failure. Throw all your effort into your next possible failure. Release your judgement, before you being, before one brush stroke lands, or one letter hits the pain-fully white page, or the first note frees itself from the string. Accept the possibility. Then release your judgement. And go create. IF there is failure, so be it. YOU can step up and create again. Nothing is saying that failure is the end. Failure is not the end. Failure is the beginning of better beginnings. LETTING your-self fail is intensely liberating. It allows you to realise the truth, the truth that you can fail, you can get up, you can begin again. You must begin again. Never mind what the Crowd say, you are not in this to please every-one. Nothing ever can. The most printed book in history is fervently ignored by most people in the world. The Bible. To try to involve and please every-one is the ultimate in ironic notions. Nothing will ever please every-one. Aiming at this will be guaranteed to fail, you will always not please someone. And therefore you will have failed. INSTEAD focus on who you want to reach. Who do you want to connect to? What do you want to tell your people? How do you want to let your work affect their life? What can you do to add value to their life? ONCE you are connecting with people in ways that you believe in and spreading your truth then you will not fail. You cannot fail. Even when you only reach one person. That is success. Honour that success. Then do it again. Go create. Dare to fail. Thank you ACM Positive Passionate Power-full Performance (#: Paraphrased from Julia Cameron’s seminal creative textbook (bible) The Artist’s Way. Free excerpts available on App Store for iPhone, check out the intro and some of the work book, then launch into it. Cameron says: ““Do you know how old I’ll be when I can play the piano/act/paint/write a decent play?” Yes... the same age you will be if you don’t. So let’s start.” Page 30, The Artist’s Way, 1994, Souvenir Press Ltd.) Hoping the rock doesn't move! The Cantilever, The Glyders, Snowdonia, North Wales. WHO is winning? Fear or creative abundance? Fear is death. Death is not the end. From death you can re-birth. You must re-birth. It is your duty to. When you are creative your are birthing your ideas for the world. Your ideas and intuition are correct, your projects catch fire, go viral, spread, get shared, get tweeted and liked and talked about. Sometimes your ideas are just as good and your writing just as pure, your spirit just as true, and they fall flat. Is that what you are afraid of? Is that why you are not creating? Creating today, right now, your best work. EVERY piece your create is your best work. Each piece you create has the power to change the world. Every word you speak will change the world, given the right pattern of events to follow it. Any seed can grow, given the correct amount light, water, nutrients. WHAT makes you think you are any different to any-one else? WHAT is it that made Miles Davis and Louis Armstrong and Frank Sinatra success-full, yet you cannot be. Why Picasso and Renoir and Cézanne and Monet. What is different between you and William Shakespeare, Walt Whitman, JRR Tolkien and JK Rowling? SIMPLY put, why not you? What are you holding back on? Fear? Fear of what? Of having to explain it? WHAT if you had to explain to the world why you didn’t do it. What if Da Vinci had to explain why he burned the Mona Lisa? If Galileo had to explain why he hid the telescope? If Pasteur and Darwin and Fleming had hidden their creative masterworks away for fear of having to explain it to the world. For fear of having to stand up and say, “Yes, I did that, it was me.” FACED with the adversity of fear we are each and all inclined to take the easy road. To shrug off the difficulties and dangers of success and fame, the potential of humiliation and ridicule and defamation. THE world is filled with people who took the easy road, people no one has heard of, people no one recognises in the street. You walk past them every day. DO not be one of them any-more. Create. Connect. Expand. “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” Robert Frost. 'The Road Not Taken.' BE the road less travelled by. Make all the difference. It is never too late. Thank you ACM Positive Passionate Power-full Performance Footprints in a summer storm.
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Tower Bridge Reflections, London, England.
WHERE are you succeeding? What did you do over the weekend, yesterday, last week, last month, year? Moreover, what did you do well? Success is found finding success. Success is every-where. Success is enjoying the search.
"Holding hands." Small but perfectly formed. You too are perfect. Just the way you are. Let your success shine.
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AuthorAndy Clubley-Moore: joyful outdoor sports activist, writer, father, husband. Lover of life, activity, success and barefoot living. |