Inspiring New Year Message from Helen

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Hello Lovely Ann

Please pass on my love and gratitude to everyone who’s been supporting me over the last few months and let them know that my spirits are continually boosted by the messages they send.

Quick update is that I had my second chemo on 14th Dec. My intentions for the course are that “I receive the healing gift of chemotherapy with love and gratitude” & secondly that “It’s going to be a breeze”.  Such a different attitude to 5 years ago – its been amazing how the work I’ve been doing (with the help of some exceptional therapists) has given me such strong self belief.  The medics now tell me I have multiple tumours in both lungs as well as infected lymph nodes in my neck & around my trachea, and that the chemo course will be 6 months, with a scan to check progress half way through.  This was a bit of a surprise as we’d previously been told only 3 months.  I’ve told them this treatment is going to work so well I simply won’t be needing the second 3 months (besides I have a mountain to climb in June!).  I’m not sure they believe me.  That doesn’t matter really, because I believe me.  I’ve been feeling pretty good so far, and see myself as a well, healthy person with an amazing future ahead of me.

I wish everyone a happy, healthy & fun-filled 2010.

With love, as always

Helen

Helen is blogging again – read about her adventures at http://helencrowe.net/

(Helen had bowel cancer 5 years ago and last year made a trip to Peru to raise funds for the Bowel Cancer charity. On her return she was diagnosed with a brain tumour which was successfully removed in October. If you’d like to send Helen a message (even if you don’t know her – its OK) and don’t have her details, please just ask me or leave a message here or on her own blog http://helencrowe.net/)

If you weren’t afraid of failure

Michael Markham is a remarkable man. Abandoned by his mother and brought up in Barnardo’s home, he was fostered by a family he didn’t like and became disruptive, ending up in Borstal and finally given the option of joining the army or going to prison.

Some years later when he was faced with accepting that he would be out of work because the company he worked for was bankrupt, he alone of all the employees decided to save the business. When I asked him what made him think he could buy and run a company he told me that it wasn’t so much a belief that he could do it as a lack of fear about what would happen if he didn’t. He has experienced having nothing and survived.

So, as he wasn’t afraid of failing, he just went ahead and did it. He turned Stanair Industrial Doors into a multi-million pound enterprise and along the way, learned what he needed to learn to make it work at each stage of development.

Henry Ford famously said “Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you’re right” This is because the sub-conscious mind accepts what it is told whether those beliefs are useful to us or not.

Why do so many people wait until they face ruin before they decide to become successful? Maybe it’s because when they have nothing to lose, as in Michael’s case, the fear of failure is no longer significant. “I can’t” becomes “I will” and the belief is strong enough.

What would you attempt if you absolutely knew you couldn’t fail?

Next Inspired Networking event, June 17th Master the Principles of Success with Sanjay Shah, details here.

Just wanted to thank you for a great evening on Wednesday, I really enjoyed it and have got the other dates in my diary ready! Julia Brooks www.contacts4business.com