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What is water?

May 20, 2013
20 May 2013

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Some of you might have noticed that for the past 2 weeks there’s been radio silence from my side. I took an unexpected hiatus from blogging.

I paused.

Stepped back.

It had started to become something I felt I should do, was obliged to do, had to do…

So rather than plodding on and chucking out stuff simply because I said I would, I took some space. Silence. I allowed myself to consider quitting blogging altogether, I talked to friends and mentors about it, I sat with it a while.

This is how I always do things. When they start to stagnate. Start to irritate. I don’t just keep plodding along. I remember…

I have choice.

To change things when they no longer work for me.

And by giving myself space, giving myself permission to jack it all in if I wanted to, new ideas grew. A way of blogging that got me excited again.

So here is how I’m changing my blogging game.

Rather than blogging every Tuesday, as I have steadfastly done for the past 2 years, I am going to write to you guys, just like I do my friends: when I have something to share that has inspired me.

And I I’d like to kick that off today with this video, sent to me just now by my friend Bexy…let it inspire your Friday like it just inspired mine.

THIS IS WATER – By David Foster Wallace from The Glossary on Vimeo.

So it’s goodbye from Juicy Tuesdays, but not goodbye from me!

x Selina

ps Don’t worry, I’ll still stick to once a week (more or less…)

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Getting back in the creative zone after time off…

May 7, 2013
07 May 2013

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I’m not going to lie to you, after 3 days of being totally unplugged (it’s been a bank holiday here in the UK) I’m taking a while to get back into the swing of things today.

But learning how to switch ourselves back on after a well-earned rest, is one of the most important things creatives, entrepreneurs and anyone that’s out there to make things happen, can learn to do. We need to know that if we take some time out to dip into full relax mode to charge the batteries, that when we get back to it we can pick up the pace again.

For me, getting back into the zone and fired up always involves feeding up on inspiration to get the creative juices flowing. It’s the start of the whole creative journey of making things happen. I used to feel guilty about these lazy days of browsing through TED talks, going for a wander outside, pottering through Pinterest, but it’s an essential part of my creative process.

So, if like me you’re re-engaging with your work today then join me in cutting yourself some slack. Kick back, open up, absorb, be inspired until you’re ready. To leap into action and go make sh*t happen.

Here’s my Pinterest Inspiration board of videos and quotes that I dip into when I want to get inspired. Let me know if you have any suggestions of videos to watch to add to my Inspiration Board. Leave them in the comments below.

x Selina

 

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How to use your personality ‘type’ to help you shape your career to fit YOU

April 30, 2013
30 Apr 2013

Ok, so having done the personality test last week (I loved how many of you were cynical to start out with and then were blown away – good isn’t it?) this week we’re going to look at how to use your results to get you really tapping into your potential and I share with you a little secret about success. One which I know you’re going to love because it gives you permission to do what you really want to be doing…

Listen in here.

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How to flood your brain with dopamine in 21 days…without drugs

April 8, 2013
08 Apr 2013

This week I’ve got a TED talk for you to feast your eyes and ears on. It’s as funny as it is fine food for thought. It’s just over 10 minutes but give yourself an extra 5 after watching it to apply it to you and how positively your brain is wired and what you can do practically to change that…

Watch the video over here on Made in the Moment and leave your comments: https://www.facebook.com/MadeInTheMoment

For me it got me recognising how, while I am a pretty positive person, my absolute obsession with problem-solving actually has my brain hard-wired to pick out what isn’t working so well – in my life, in your life, in society as a whole – to give me a fresh new puzzle to feast on every second of every day. So while I might have a positive outlook on life, my

day to day thoughts are mainly focused on the negative.

Oh.

But according to Shaun Achor from Harvard University, it’s all OK. You can totally rewire your brain in 21 days to become more positive and it floods your brain with dopamine which sounds delicious. As a result your brain will work more optimistically and more successfully.
So, as outlined in his TED talk, here is how to

Rewire your bring in 21 days to be more positive:

(this has been shamelessly lifted word for word from http://www.commongroundspeakerseries.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Shawn-Achor.pdf)

1.  Make gratitude a life habit: Each day jot down three specific things that you are grateful for and fully explain why each is important to you.

2.  Keep a gratitude journal:Concentrate on meaningful experiences and write down as many positive details as you can remember. Research has proven that keeping a journal

for six weeks can create new positive neural tracts, decrease stress and even reduce the need for medication.

3. Exercise: It improves motivation, reduces stress and increases feelings of mastery and engagement. Exercise has been proven to increase one’s IQ for two hours after the

activity ends.

4. Meditate:In a hectic world of multitasking and information overload, meditation trains our brain to do one thing at a time. Even a few simple moments of daily focus can have

enormous benefits, such as taking your hands off the computer keyboard for two minutes each day and breathing deeply.

5. Perform conscious acts of kindness: Altruism has been proven to decrease stress and significantly enhance mental health. Achor makes it a practice to start his day by praising someone in a short email. He says community service projects help families develop greater happiness and achieve more success.

* try out headspace – they are great, particularly if you’re one of those people that doesn’t think they can sit still long enough to meditate: http://www.getsomeheadspace.com

Much love,

Selina

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Get Your Morning Dance On…the movement has begun

April 1, 2013
01 Apr 2013

Dancing in the Serengeti from Selina on Vimeo.

Remember a few weeks back when I introduced my Morning Dance video and invited people to send me videos of them doing their own Morning Dance?

So my friend Andrew did.

My friend Andrew is an incredible photographer (it’s not just me that thinks that, they give him awards for it – check him out http://www.andrewscriven.co.uk/), so there he was in the Serengeti doing a shoot and I got this email message from him when he returned with a movie file attached: Dancing in the Serengeti.

I was literally without words….A.MAZING.

I slammed open a tumblr account. Named it ‘Get Your Morning Dance On’.

And that was it. Movement started. This thing is going to go viral. My friend Bexy says.

And even if it doesn’t, it is so much fun doing it.

Watch Andrew’s amazing Morning Dance in the Serengeti over here on the new Get Your Morning Dance On tumblr site: http://getyourmorningdanceon.tumblr.com/ and don’t miss the first vid on there if you haven’t seen it. Andrew’s is the second one down.

Thank you Andrew!

Next step on this project? To invite all my friends – and that includes you guys – to shoot Morning Dance videos all over the world. I’m going to keep posting them and montaging the hell out of them.

Why? Because when you start the day dancing it into shape, no holding back, wild unabandoned dancing…it just does something to you. Watch and see.
Then get your morning dance on and get sending me videos of it! I’m itching to make a bigger, better GYMDO video!

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