As we drove through this beautiful wilderness, with its wide horizons that stretch the eyes and a freshness in the air to calm the soul, everyday work tensions dropped away, leaving space for silence and a quieting of the busy mind.

And then, slowly, new shoots of thinking began to emerge; creative thought and fresh ideas like seedlings germinating after a long winter.

Stress can silently creep into the body and take over the mind. Many of us can feel the effects of the months of intense pressure of lock-down with its relentless timetable of online working and underlying anxieties of illness and money.

Creativity cannot live in a stressed body, it needs calm. New, fresh thoughts and innovative ideas require space to bubble to the surface. If you read the great masters of innovation, they all tell stories of how their greatest ideas appeared in moments of calm.

This is why an early morning routine of exercise to release endorphins and remove physical tension in the body, followed by meditation to calm the mind is such a valuable daily tool. As stress falls away, gratitude and happiness increase.

As we come out of lock-down, re-evaluate our lives and reset our goals, is a great opportunity to return to these important routines of daily exercise, meditation and creative thinking. The future is not the same as the past and we will need to set new directions and new goals if we are to create a world that is a better version of the past.

Wishing you a wonderful week and the willpower to commit to a daily, destress routine that brings more gratitude, enhanced personal happiness and wonderfully creative ideas and innovative solutions!

Kind regards,

Catherine