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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Vicki
31/8/2013 10:18:53 pm
Thank you for capturing such a beautiful moment in our day yesterday. Such a great metaphor for success in life too - cycling up those big hills was painful!! Hard work but secretly fun - seeing how hard I could push myself. And keeping on moving forward even if it wasn't as perfectly as I'd like (walking rather than riding) at times. I also learnt new skills as I went along too. And then the top - amazing views and gaining momentum going faster and faster down the hill! It was a bit scary but mostly it felt exhilarating, exciting, adventurous and worth all the hard work and sweat!
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