[New] What Waters you?

As we enter a new year, I wonder how you are feeling?

By Julie New

With everything that has and is happening in the world right on our doorstep or indeed in the wider world it is ok to have dips in your energy levels. It’s ok to feel a bit sad or indeed lost in it all.

I joined the Herts Chamber of Commerce after being encouraged to do so by the team who had kindly asked me to deliver a talk to their original Women In Leadership Lunch. It was well received and at the end of it I gave everyone a pink rose to take home with them.

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In this short article I just wanted to share the message I shared then with that room full of women (and one man who was attending from Barclays if my memory serves be correctly). The message is simple. It’s that whatever is happening in your life right now you MUST remember to take the greatest care of YOU.

I call this ‘watering’. If you were a flower, herb, shrub, tree or indeed something else in the garden and you weren’t fully watered what would happen? Yes, you would begin to wilt, fade, and eventually die.

I now live in a beautiful cottage in South Bedfordshire and am getting to know the importance of watering my real garden. I am seeing the beauty of the growth from our hard work. It is the same with life. We MUST think about what we need physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.

And ensure we practice this on a daily basis.

I often work with people going through difficult and sometimes traumatic life change and remembering to do this can be tough, so I get them to remember and practice the simple phrase: ‘Eat, Sleep, breathe REPEAT’.

Maybe you could use this yourself and share it with those people you love and care about.

Happy Watering YOU in 2023 and beyond. For more information visit: www.julienew.co.uk