Thought for the week...

'There is no exercise better for the heart, than reaching down and lifting someone else up'.

Anonymous

It never ceases to humble me to understand and appreciate the depth and quality of some of the people I have in my life. I am so grateful. People who come from all walks of life, but have one common thread - a genuine heart.

Being able to see people for who they are, as a person, an equal being, enables people to achieve relationships of true meaning.

In life, it doesn't matter who you are, what position you hold in society or how much money you have or don't - at some time or another we will all face adversity, toil, trouble and we will all at sometime need the help of people we trust. If you have no real friendships, if they are all superficial, how does this place you when you really need them?

You can only give what you have got to give. If you do not love yourself, how can you truly love another? If you do not hold yourself in esteem how can you hold another in esteem? How can you be trusted in, if you have never trusted? How can you expect to be afforded integrity, if you have none? And how, can you expect to help someone else fulfill their dreams, if you have not fulfilled your own? Simple stuff. You cannot give what you do not have.

We are all human beings, we all have the same essential needs to be loved and to give love. And, we will all get back what we put out there.

Reaching out and helping other people both professionally and personally has enabled me to understand the depth of significance that holding onto my own dreams has had - and meant - for other people. Quite simply if I had have given up on my own dreams, there would be some wonderful opportunities now been realised, that would not have happened. And that is really humbling for anyone, from any angle.

If reaching down to help someone else means you help them to fulfill a dream - I assure you, hanging on to your own dreams, is too - because often this is the very vehicle that enables the process in the first place. And if by the very nature of you hanging onto yours means for someone else they realise theirs, its worth it, every obstacle, every challenge.

Never give up, ever.

Leah xo