There are so many things to be said but this is not the time for them to be said so I will wait and hope they are not forgotten at Always Victoria. This has been a busy week-end with a constant stream of family visiting my mother which was so nice especially the little ones.

At last it is quiet, the Christmas tree is all so bright with the angel sitting on top looking down reminding me just how thankful I am of so many things and what Christmas means to me. It is a time for giving from the heart and not from a list. I have been asked what do I want many times and not just at Christmas and I can never give an answer. I want gifts that come from someones heart I never want someone to give me a gift because they feel they must give me something if someone knows me well enough to be giving me a gift then they know my heart well enough to please me.

I came in this life as a gift to my parents after they had struggled and tried for seven years to have children and from a very young age I realized that I was a gift to them but I was to give to others.

“I’d gone through life believing in the strength and competence of others; never in my own. Now, dazzled, I discovered that my capacities were real. It was like finding a fortune in the lining of an old coat.”

– Joan Mills

Take a moment to stop and think about what you give to the people and life around you. Don’t think about what you’re not doing right. Look instead at all you do that is a blessing.

Many of us continually beat ourselves up for not doing or being enough. But imagine for a moment that you are great just as you are. Feel the relief this brings! Now open to the possibility that this is not a daydream. It’s true! Believe it!

“People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.”

– Norman Vincent Peale

“We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.”

– Orison Swett Marden

Create a personal mission statement. Identify your vision, values, virtues, passions and meaning of life. Clarify your personality and soul purpose. Understand and align with your life purpose and watch your life change.

Christmas will come and go and a New Year will be here and this might be something you are interested in and something you will want to do in a New Year for you might want to be able to say Life Is Simply Good.