Lucy Newcombe

🎁MY SECRET GIFT ON VALENTINES DAY! 🎁

Happy Valentines from me and mine!

Valentines is a day for celebrations, but not in the way you may think…

In 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣2️⃣ we think of it in terms of buying cards, and beautiful flowers, having a romantic meal with a loved one etc…

Half of the population is single, yep that’s right it's a statistic that keeps on growing so perhaps we should consider growing with it… Opening up our minds to a new definition of love, a new way to celebrate Valentines.

Imagine if every adult in the world did one of 3 things…

1️⃣ Spent the day showing love to themselves (no not ma********ng!!) although that too can be very pleasant! However for the purposes of this post I am talking about self-care!
❓When was the last time you did anything loving for yourself❓

2️⃣Carry out just one random act of kindness, just one! It may just make someone's day!

3️⃣ Made a point of reaching out to 5 of your friends or relatives and say "Hi." Check in on how they were doing, even wishing them a happy valentines…grow those friendships.

All of these 3️⃣ things cost nothing, but are valued 'priceless' buy anyone's standards!

Happiness = Finding a sense of meaning beyond yourself and comes from growing or giving.

Drop a comment 👇🏼 & tag a single friend on this post...let them know you are thinking of them ❤️

My gift to you is love, more love and kindness in the world...imagine what that could bring... 😍😘😍

Imagine if you gave the same level of love, respect compassion and encouragement that you show to others to yourself...

You'd be unstoppable right?

has started a wave of positivity globally... It all starts with high fiving the most important person in your life, the one who is staring back at you in the mirror: YOURSELF.

If you struggle with self-doubt
If you're tired of that nagging critic in your head
If you're wildly successful but all you focus on is what's going wrong OR
If you're sick of watching everybody else get ahead while you sit on the couch with your dog

Then this habit is for you!!

Using science-backed wisdom this powerful habit is the starting point to increasing your self-belief so that you operate with the confidence that your goals and dreams demand.

The High 5 Habit is more than a simple, proven tool. It is a holistic approach to life that changes your attitude, your mindset, and your behavior. So be prepared to laugh, learn, and launch yourself into a more confident, happy, and fulfilling life by joining me and millions in the world each morning with the what do you have to lose?

If you only read one thing this month, read this 👇🏼 and at the end ask yourself honestly... What would you have done?

“ In Washington DC, at a Metro Station, on a cold January morning in 2007, a man with a violin played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time, approximately 2000 people went through the station, most of them on their way to work.

After about four minutes, a middle-aged man noticed that there was a musician playing. He slowed his pace and stopped for a few seconds, and then he hurried on to meet his schedule.

About four minutes later, the violinist received his first dollar. A woman threw money in the hat and, without stopping, continued to walk.

At six minutes, a young man leaned against the wall to listen to him, then looked at his watch and started to walk again.

At ten minutes, a three-year old boy stopped, but his mother tugged him along hurriedly. The kid stopped to look at the violinist again, but the mother pushed hard and the child continued to walk, turning his head the whole time. This action was repeated by several other children, but every parent - without exception - forced their children to move on quickly.

At forty-five minutes: The musician played continuously. Only six people stopped and listened for a short while. About twenty gave money but continued to walk at their normal pace. The man collected a total of $32.

After one hour:
He finished playing and silence took over. No one noticed and no one applauded. There was no recognition at all.

No one knew this, but the violinist was Joshua Bell, one of the greatest musicians in the world. He played one of the most intricate pieces ever written, with a violin worth $3.5 million dollars. Two days before, Joshua Bell sold-out a theater in Boston where the seats averaged $100 each to sit and listen to him play the same music.

This is a true story. Joshua Bell, playing incognito in the D.C. Metro Station, was organized by the Washington Post as part of a social experiment about perception, taste and people’s priorities.

This experiment raised several questions:

In a common-place environment, at an inappropriate hour, do we perceive beauty?

If so, do we stop to appreciate it?

Do we recognize talent in an unexpected context?

One possible conclusion reached from this experiment could be this:

If we do not have a moment to stop and listen to one of the best musicians in the world, playing some of the finest music ever written, with one of the most beautiful instruments ever made…

How many other things are we missing as we rush through life?”

The Love Rabbi-Yisroel Bernath

C’est La Vie💃🏽

Another bed head picture, this time sporting a gigantic cup of delicious coffee, ta for the soup bowl cup rsk and ktroast for your delicious coffee beans.
So I'm 4wks post-surgery now…The struggles real.
I’m keeping myself accountable each and every day to work towards my goal of banishing knee pain once and for all. I’m doing pretty much everything I have been told to facilitate recovery…so all crossed for the next Xray!

Being given the giant cup this mug with C’est La Vie onit, it made me think about what is in and out of our control.

We know that some things happen in our lives that are simply out of our control. Whether it is an illness or injury, the loss of someone, the pandemic; no one can control it.

There are also things that happen that you are solely responsible for this can be positive things, like disciplined with my physio to heal, to offer the old lady on the bus a seat, perhaps pay forward a gesture of kindness to someone in need, or your response to any other situation you can think of; even be something that you have chosen to do in the past that you are ashamed of, and wish you could take back, but you can’t. If this happens all of that stress, pain, and resentment that results from doing something you regret can be a heavy burden. Even though you can’t change your past to make the present better, you can make a change to make a better future.

When you notice a “C’est la vie moment” first accept it for what it is. Accept that the moment and the result of the moment is outside of your control. Next, you must choose your response, what actions do you take, what words do you speak, what choices do you make. Every C’est la vie moment happens for a reason (even if that reason is never understood), so as opposed to stressing, worrying, and trying to change the outcome of the moment or trying to change the moment itself look inward and try to act in a way that shows consciousness and start to control yourself.

Align yourself to the moment. Implement conscious actions,and simply try to look at it as every C’est La Vie moment as an opportunity for personal growth,and opportunity to raise the level of your own awareness
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C’est La Vie!
Another bed head picture, this time sporting a gigantic cup of delicious coffee, ta for the soup bowl cup and for your delicious coffee beans.
So I am 4 weeks post-surgery now… The struggles real. But I’m keeping myself accountable each and every day to work towards my goal of banishing knee pain once and for all. I’m doing pretty much everything I have been told to facilitate recovery…so all crossed for the next Xray! Being given the giant cup this mug with C’est La Vie onit, it made me think about what is in and out of our control.
We know that some things happen in our lives that are simply out of our control. Whether it is an illness or injury, the loss of someone, the pandemic; no one can control it. There are also things that happen that you are solely responsible for this can be positive things, like disciplined with my physio to heal, to offer the old lady on the bus a seat, perhaps pay forward a gesture of kindness to someone in need, or your response to any other situation you can think of; even be something that you have chosen to do in the past that you are ashamed of, and wish you could take back, but you can’t. If this happens all of that stress, pain, and resentment that results from doing something you regret can be a heavy burden. Even though you can’t change your past to make the present better, you can make a change to make a better future.
When you notice a “C’est la vie moment” first accept it for what it is. Accept that the moment and the result of the moment is outside of your control. Next, you must choose your response, what actions do you take, what words do you speak, what choices do you make. Every C’est la vie moment happens for a reason (even if that reason is never understood), so as opposed to stressing, worrying, and trying to change the outcome of the moment or trying to change the moment itself look inward and try to act in a way that shows consciousness and start to control yourself.
Align yourself to the moment. Implement conscious actions,and simply try to look at it as every C’est La Vie moment as an opportunity for personal growth,and opportunity to raise the level of your own awareness

My current post leg surgery look!

Sorry for the lack of posts, just wanted to let you know I can't walk without crutches yet but I'm alive. 😊

After years and years of training through the pain of a desecrated meniscus and 2 unsuccessful keyhole surgeries, I finally found a surgeon who could offer a new option, an Osteotomy. From the initial consultation to the surgery was only 8 days, which of course led to abit of panic, running around trying to organise things.

An Osteotomy is basically a fairly large open surgery in which my femur (thigh bone) had to be sorn into 2 to have a gap in the shape of a tiny door stop put into it. Following this a metal plate which had to be screwed into the bone to reinforce the bone to allow for healing!

Sorry to any squirmish people reading!!

Anyway, the surgery was successful and now I am back at home recovering. All hail the Hong Kong Public Health Service!!! I have to say I can’t fault the service I was provided (apart from the congee for breakfast that is!!)

The recovery is super long – anywhere from 6-12 months, with at least 3 Months on crutches (brilliant that I live at the top of a lot of steps on Lamma Island hey?)

As a Results Coach it got me thinking about the effects of injury on my own mental wellness, I mean after all I am pretty much stuck at home (in a step avoidance mission), with only my dogs, occasional Dog Walker and Cleaner to keep me company during the day awaiting the return of my lovely Rinske Kuiper in the evenings!

So, I’ve put together some tips that I’m personally practicing to aid / speed my recovery.

The first step in actively managing your recovery from injury / illness is understanding what to expect.
From the time of the injury / illness to the return of normality, it is common to experience a variety of feelings. From the initial shock and anxiety to the fear of reoccurrence.
You may go through periods of depression and grief for lost goals to outright denial of any problem. Your confused and unhappy feelings are a normal response to an abnormal situation (being ill or injured is not a "normal" situation for a motivated healthy person or athlete!). So, don’t try to hide or suppress your feelings. The sooner you let them out, the sooner you can leave them behind and get on with the important work of healing and recovery.

Here are 6 Life Hacks to aid recovery from illness or injury:

1. Maintain a positive outlook
Easy to say right? But seriously list in your mind all the positives, the wisdom of the experience, all the pluses of recovering well.

2. Goal Set
Yes, you want to get well, but also you need to plan to be well. The long-term goal is obvious, but what is helpful is realistic, daily short-term goals that will help you through the recovery period.
Keep records of the goals and your achievements, just like you would if you were trying to lose weight, or give up smoking etc. It is an easy to track progress, which in turn can help to keep up your morale and fighting spirit when things are tough.

3. Positive self-talk
You cannot change the fact that you have been injured or become ill, but you can control your thoughts about the situation and your recovery. Positively self-talking about your circumstances and recovery does not mean you are denying the hard times. It means you are actively choosing to overcome them. Negative, self-pitying or self-blaming thoughts cause distress which interferes with the healing process.

4. Visualization
Positive images of healing, and visualization of being fully recovered, have been proven to help speed up recovery from injury and illness.
While you are having treatment or doing any rehabilitation exercise, visualize the ill or injured part of your body gaining strength and recovering.
Visualization is used successfully by so many to aid in recovery, performance, personal development, don’t be the person who overlooks it!

5. Support
Talk to people that you know will give you support - your family, friends, teammates, the doctor or physiotherapist, therapist or coach.
Research has shown that injured or ill people who have very supportive family and friends have less distress and recover more quickly.

6. Getting back to normal
It is natural to have some worries when you first start back at work, or training after an injury / illness. To overcome this try preparing mentally for the return to your version of normal long before you take the first step.
From the start of your recovery, regularly visualize yourself, confidently and calmly getting ready for your normal, performing well and consistently, the manager or the PT praising your efforts.

Nobody needs to go through recovery and recouperation alone, if you want some help with implementing these life hacks into the recovery process drop me a message, give me a call or text. Results coaching helps people no matter where they are right now work towards where they want to be. 😊

Having the power to choose really is having the power to change!!

I woke up this morning and for no reason felt a little low, maybe it's that time in the month, maybe it was the unpleasant dream I had, maybe it was just my brain... Who knows🤷‍♀️ bottom line, I didn't want to play today, least of all head back into a gym for the first time in a while.

Our power to choose is really a massive gift, and by harnessing that power I got myself to the gym 🏋️‍♀️; and as a result I've gone on to have a productive day 💪🏽.

🧨 Woohoo!! Today I won 🧨

👉 but the power to choose can also be our biggest roadblock to living the lives we lives we love.

Although we have been given this huge gift, we don’t always give it the appreciation it deserves.
Sometimes, we actually have a chronic habit of making bad choices—choices that keep us separate from our greatness, our purpose and our happiness. Choices that render us unable to make real, lasting changes in our lives.

We become frozen, stuck and prohibited from creating our masterpieces.

It’s easy to get caught up in this trap, and it’s even easier to create excuses to justify why we can’t seem to change. Although on a rational level, we may think we really want to change, we really want that relationship, that job and that book deal—the reality is that change can be scary for most of us. 😱

When fear is in the mix, our default choice is often to play it safe and not change. We decide not to take chances so that we don’t get hurt, disappointed or rejected.

While this can be chalked up to the part of our 🧠 that is just trying to protect us, there are times when we need to get through a bit of discomfort in order to change and get to the next “level” in our lives.📈

Remember you have the power to change, you just have to make a choice to do it!

One persons rubbish is another persons art.... It's a matter of perspective.

👓🕶️What filters or lens are you choosing to view the universe, your small world and self? Are you wearing Ray-Ban sunglasses, corrective eyewear such as eyeglasses, contacts or bifocal lens?
🌲🌳 You mean you can’t see the forest for the trees?

This analogy tells us what you choose to look through will determine what you enlarge and minimize in your situation. If you look at things, circumstances and situations in your life one at a time, you might not realize they go together to create your personal journey and memoirs.

👣 Oftentimes, when we are too close and too connected to a situation, especially dealing with ourselves and our families, we need to step back and get a clearer perspective.

🦮We can’t see the real issue at hand because we are too close and too familiar with it, thus focusing on one specific problem or detail, and failing to see the overall view or situation and growth of the person.

🙈 I can’t tell you how often I’ve been guilty of not seeing the big picture.

👉 Perspective is powerful! If you don’t like the way something looks, simply change your point of view. When we examine our world, “we do not describe what we see, but we see what we describe.” We see life not as it is, but as we are. Life is purely a matter of perspective.

❓Are you in tuned with the rhythm of life and the vibrations of the Earth?

〰️According to the principle of vibration, nothing rests; everything moves, and everything vibrates. Everything is in motion.