Personal and Leadership Development

No: 494 - September 30, 2016

This story is about the Lollipop People. No, they're not characters from some Roald Dahl book, they're the people who help your children safely cross the road outside their school everyday! I see that Lollipop Men and Women in England are to get cameras installed in their Lollipops... the big signs that they hold up to stop the traffic. You could say that the Lollipop People are "goingPro"!

This new initiative is designed to video the behaviour of the motorists that the Lollipop People try to stop to enable the children safely cross the road - such is the behaviour of the modern motorist: as small children cross in safety, motorists have been screaming abuse at being delayed, leaping from their vehicles and physically threatening the Lollipop People. We really do live in an increasingly pathetic society.

But, as always, there are two sides to every story. Take, for example, the French Icepop Person we saw a few days ago (they don't have big Lollipops on sticks in France, just a paddle that they hold up!). This chap was standing on the roadside, holding his paddle between his legs. Parents and children were looking bemused either side of the road. Traffic on one side had stopped in an orderly line, whilst traffic on the other side was speeding over the crossing. What was our friend doing? Yes, you've guessed it, he was buried in his mobile 'phone!

	A Quick Tip
	EAT THE MOMENT!
	Everything we do, every moment of our lives, is an opportunity to experience and celebrate the moment - none more so than eating! Food can be seen as just fuel or it can be a wonderful opportunity to practice your all-important mindfulness. Eat simply to eat today... and fully enjoy the moment.

	WONDERBOY AND WONDERGIRL
	Your life today may be on overdrive - not enough hours in the day, too much to do and too little time in which to do it - we all live full lives. What you think about what you have to do and how equipped you are to do it will determine whether you do it well and successfully or whether you procrastinate, long-finger things, worry about not having them done and then feel guilty that they're not yet done. We do terrible things to our own heads, in our own heads. Which is easier: to do what we know we need to do or to put it off, worry that we’ve put it off and feel guilty? How much energy do you waste by putting things off? How much more pleased with yourself would you be if you just bloody what you know you can’t avoid doing? But, more to the point - if you simply did the needful, you’d give your own self-worth a boost; you’d enhance your own belief in your ability to get things done and, most importantly, you’d have loads of time to do bigger, better, more exciting things that would bring you to where you want to go in life. You’d become one of life’s winners “a wonderboy or wondergirl” because normal crazy people will always put off to tomorrow what they need to do today.

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