What is this - The Healing Broker?

You cannot separate the various compartments of your life, no matter how hard you try. This is a time of great change and most people have been affected financially by the downturn in one way or another - from the highest paid individuals having to return parts of their pension pot down to the lowest paid losing their jobs and possibly their homes.

My purpose on this blog is to help guide you through these fast changing times with updates and help in specific financial areas, but mainly and most importantly on how you can come through it successfully. Everything is cyclical - everything! And nothing lasts forever, good or bad, and that includes Bank Rates, Property Prices, your Winning Team or Losing Streak.

Stress makes smart people stupid!

The underlying message in all that I write, today and future, is that you are in charge of your thoughts and your reactions to your outside world. Your health is the most important thing in your life but because most of us are born with good health and it is free, we don't value it until something goes wrong.

Science is proving now that stress causes many illnesses and dis-ease. So what can you do in these stressful times?

First thing is to face what the problems are and write them down.

Take an A4 sheet, fold it in half or draw a line down the middle, top to bottom, and on the left hand side list the items that worry you and cause concern.
On the right hand list all the things you are grateful for - no matter how small.

So for example a friend of mine complained that she hated her job, hated the people, hated the office but didn't want to leave because she was unsure if she would find anything else easily.

So I asked her to do the above excercise with me:-
Question 1 - Are you paid?
answer: Yes
Q. do you like that?
A. Yes
Write it down!
Q. Is it close to home?
A.Yes
Q Do you like that?
A . Yes
Write it down

and so on, she found there were about 30 things she liked about the job when originally she said she hated everything.
3 or 4 weeks later we met up and the first thing she said was that it was extremely interesting how the people in her office had changed and how nice they were and how much better her job was! Of course, they and it hadn't changed but she had changed how she viewed things.
This sounds simplistic but then, that's what the best things are, simple!

So before you go to bed tonight, do the above excercise and add 5 things that you achieved today - no matter how small or how trivial someone else may view them.
and before you go to sleep, feel appreciation for the people you know and care for and your own unique 5 achievements