Memorygirls - Make Do and Mend

miggy

Excellent results, MG! Congrats to you and your students! You must all be delighted.
Frankie - love your sig quotations.

juliejim wrote: »

there's no way I'll ever fit in those again - I was that size pre-kids - and my DD is 8! So I am getting there I think!

Juliejim, I wouldn't say don't sort out the clothes as obviously fashions change, and what suits you can change too - but my DS is 14 and I have just lost the weight I gained around the time of his birth! Not all of it, but more than half, and it's stayed off for months with not a lot of effort. Getting rid of the weight took determination and lots of focus, but it stayed off okay. For me it was a combination of factors: realising I needed to rethink my normal eating and 'little treats' still equal added weight, being diagnosed and treated for hypothyroidism which had more recently caused alarming weight gain but had probably been around for some time, and finding a programme that worked for me - which for me happened to be the 'Biggest Loser' Wii game which includes calorie counting and raising the metabolic rate through exercise.
So don't assume the weight change is here to stay, but by all means get rid of grubby old bras!
Note to self - I need to start focussing again after a crisis threw me off balance. I am the slim person I see in my head - just need to get rid of some more wrapping!

miggy

Memory_Girl wrote: »

does prove to me that i've got something worth sharing though

Memorygirl

:T:TAbsolutely! :T:T:T

Memory_Girl

scrooge2008 wrote: »

Brilliant results regarding the students and house Memory Girl (see I believe you have done it already).

Were you using your Mind Mapping techniques on the students or Montessori, or both, or something completely different? You can keep me guessing if you want .

I am sure it wasn't conventional methods.

i was working with 3 students who were kids of friends of the family. They wanted to get great grades because they want to go on and do great things.

I taught them how the brain likes to remember. how mind-maps work with that and how to do them, how to speed read, how to set up a revison schedule and how to combine all the techniques of memory, mind-mapping, speed reading and study skills together so that they can now create huge "Memory Data-banks" of information thatthey can have at the tip of their tongue.

They learn something once and it stays remembered :rotfl:

................and thats the cleaned up version

memorygirl

FrankieM

Thanks for the welcome memorygirl. I certainly would like to join in. I've got lots of things that I'd like to get done but I'm away on holiday till the middle of the month so for now I'm going to be thinking it through and making a bit of a plan....

At this rate I may need to start my own diary...:)

nattypants

Memory_Girl wrote: »

A personal development friend of mine talks about releasing attachment.

acknowledge the present - house not selling

see clearly the desired outcome - the SOLD sign going up

see clearly the outcome that's best for the universe

- in my case that would be very clearly imagining the excitement as the family that buys my property will have on the day they walk through the doors on the day the house becomes theirs.

Spend the day focussing on attracting the perfect buyer - and then start packing because you know the house is really sold, you just haven't let go of it yet;)

Let us know when you manifest your hearts desire

Memorygirl

Wonderfully put MG...I was merely aiming for the visualisation of a "sold" sticker across my "for sale" sign....oh and the excited "offer" call from the solicitors;), however you have just provided me with the bigger picture. Thank you Thank you Thank you!!!

I def think the Universe sent YOU!

NP X

MrsMoo2U

Memory_Girl wrote: »

A personal development friend of mine talks about releasing attachment.

acknowledge the present - house not selling

see clearly the desired outcome - the SOLD sign going up

see clearly the outcome that's best for the universe

- in my case that would be very clearly imagining the excitement as the family that buys my property will have on the day they walk through the doors on the day the house becomes theirs.

I see them opening the door - stroking my lovely red paintwork, the door opens intoa spacious and calming hall, all light and bright.

MG, can I share my story about homemoving. I hope that you dont mind but I think it is relevant.

When I was 20 I got married and we bought a house together. The marriage lasted 12 months (another story for another time) and I wanted to walk away from the house. The family we had bought it from had been very happy there, so much so that their daughter cried on the day they moved out. I was miserable there but I always believed that is should be a happy family home. A couple came to look at the house and put in an offer. Then OH was greedy and would not accept the offer but I really saw them living there so wished with all my might that something would happen to help them move in. Several weeks later I realised that I could afford to buy a house on my own. One which I had hankered after when I was a teenager was on the market so I arranged to view. When I got there I was shocked to discover that the family who wanted my house owned this very house that I really wanted. Needless to say we worked something out between us to make sure that they got the house that they wanted, and I got the house I wanted and we all won. I lived in that house for 13 years and loved it. By then I was married again. I wanted to move to a house with a garden (if I could have picked up the house and moved it I would have) Once again, I visualised a young couple or single person coming to view and buying my house and being happy there. Within an hour of putting it on the market I sold it to a young couple who had lost several houses. 10 years later they still live there and are as happy as I was. I then set about finding my dream home. Now as a young girl of 14 I had done a geography project for my GCSE and as part of the project i wrote about a village close to where I lived. I had done a survey there and one particular house was just so lovely. I remember the man opening the door and me just standing looking in and seeing stairs in a hallway. Not a lot you might think but coming from a council house with little space this really impressed me. As I walked away from that house I said to my friend that one day I was going to live in that house. I always kept that dream and when people asked me what my dream house was I described that house. Would you believe that on the day I sold my house that one came onto the market and I bought it and moved in within 6 weeks. I was very happy there. When I got divorced (ok a second time) I insisted on keeping that house. I fought to keep it and I scrimped and saved to afford it.
Two years later I had the opportunity to move to Wales, a place I have loved since little and to live near to the sea which again has always been a dream. I decided to keep my house for security. This was fine for several months but one day I woke up and thought "this house needs to be loved again not left empty" I wanted to have somebody living in it that would love it as much as me. I began to think about a lodger because then I wouldnt have to let go. Then another LBM when one day I thought it was ridiculous and I needed to let go of it, move on and buy an investment property in Wales close to where I live. The very next day the mechanic who used to do my car contacted me to say that his friends daughter really wanted to buy a house in my road and would I be considering selling it anytime soon. If so could she have the chance to look at it. So I took a deep breath and let her look. I could see her living there immediately and so I sold it to her. I got what I wanted for it (albeit less than the market value) and she got it for what she could afford (albeit stretching) and we are both very happy in our new homes.

Sorry for the hijack but I just wanted to confirm that when you let go of the dream and move onto the next dream then the universe certainly opens up doors for you.

scrooge2008

Thanks Memory Girl,

My DS had a severe communication disorder when he was younger and at 5 couldn't answer a simple question like "What is your name?" or string more than three words together.

I read Napoleon Hill's book, which is very like 'The Secret', because he had a son with a similar, severe disability, and wouldn't give up hope.

Anyway, I used methods that were not available in Britain at the time, "Audiblox and Earobics and I taught my son to read using a system for dyslexics that involves all the senses.

Although, I was totally obsessive about it for a couple of years, it paid off and he is now an extraordinary young lad, who is up there with his peers.

I think the techniques you refer to will really help him as he moves into senior school, I have read Tony Buzan, 'Use Your Head', and thought it was excellent, but I would love to read your book. Could you PM me details.

Thanks xxx.

dfw844

Hi everyone,

Had a busy few weeks so not been around much, but just caught up. Glad DS had a great birthday!

I love the Montessori principles you explained. I think things like stairgates are a con. The 'baby' industry makes you scared about something, then conveniently sells you a solution to quell that fear. And they get enough people to buy it, that it becomes the norm, and if you don't have one, you are 'endangering' your child, thereby feeding the original fear (which is only solved by buying their product). That's my take on it anyway. I don't really believe in all these child-proofing products. It's common sense, you don't need to BUY something to acheive it. Don't keep an open bottle of bleach in a bottom cupboard, and it won't be necessary to stop the doors from opening in the first place.

My current pet-hate is all things anti-bacterial. The supermarket is desperate to sell you anti-bac soap, handwash, floor cleaner, everything. And you know what they are selling in the next aisle? Bacterial yoghurts to replenish what we've killed!

I only use all-green cleaning methods in our house (in fact no bleach, so that wouldn't ever be a problem) and we are all healthy as the next person. And in the meantime we have less impact on our friends who live in the waterways and delicate eco-systems.

I will get off my soap box now. I suppose I'm in trouble for framing that all so negatively, but I see the SOLUTION as us all living more happily with less stuff (plastic stairgates, cupboard locks etc), and having less impact on the natural environment as well.

Oh, and as for the gloss-work on the windowsill. I left it a full 2 days, not 3. I put a plant pot on there and lifted it off a few hours later. It did seem to 'stick' but it hasn't left a mark at all. Anyway, I put it back on. It was only a very thin coat, and it seems to be fine.

nattypants

cherisong wrote: »

MG, can I share my story about homemoving. I hope that you dont mind but I think it is relevant.

Sorry for the hijack but I just wanted to confirm that when you let go of the dream and move onto the next dream then the universe certainly opens up doors for you.

What a perfect example of serendipity cherisong - y'know both you and memory girl :Ahave made me more focused in the last few hours than I have felt in the last 4 weeks.

In all honesty, I was starting to stress slightly:o......the flat's only been on the market for 6 weeks, however I was getting worried that me and the kids would lose out on a house we viewed which is pretty darned perfect!

Trust and believe....trust and believe....trust and believe.

Thank you
NP X

Helen105

Hi MG
Sounds like you've had a good couple of days, well done to all your proteges!
I like your visualisation techniques for your house, I have just applied them to mine which has really shown how much I have to do but it is inspiring in a way.