I think we all know ONE ‘Down in the Dumps Daisy’! Let me share her story with you:
Daisy is a plump woman in her late 40’s. She has strawberry blond hair and blue eyes, with a well worn face. She isn’t athletic in any way, but she does like walking. She feels a bit frumpy in the way that she dresses and she doesn’t care about her appearance anymore because well, no-one's bothered!
She lives in a little 3 bed house in a small town, where the bank and post office staff know her by name. Her husband has a good, well paid job but is away quite a lot. Daisy works as a part time colleague at the local Supermarket. She often feels quite lonely because although she knows a lot of people, she doesn’t have many close friends.
She doesn’t go out very much, but she does love her garden and she likes to paint in acrylics (even though she doesn’t think she is that good at it). She has two children –boys, and they have both left home, one to go to university to study drama (which is a sore subject at home because his dad thinks it’s pointless and will not lead to a proper job) and the other one to work in Australia (he has a good job, like his dad, so he gets all the attention which Daisy does her best to even out a bit), she misses them terribly and since she isn’t that good with technology, she is a bit worried about using things like Facebook to keep in touch.
She is worried about the recession and how it is affecting her husband’s mood. He is always grouchy these days and he takes it out on her – nothing physical, just bad moods which last all over the weekend, so the time they spend together isn’t much fun. Money isn’t a problem, they have enough to get by and pay all their bills, but she worries in case he is made redundant – because having spent all their savings on getting the children settled and through university, they have no savings to fall back on.
Daisy feels that somehow, all the hopes and dreams she once had in her 20’s and 30’s have passed her by, she has lost her zest for life - she doesn’t know exactly what it is that is missing but she knows that something is.
She doesn’t have much to look forward to, although she and her husband plan for holidays, when the time comes to book, he can never get the time off work and then he ends up using up all his holiday in the winter when she doesn’t feel like going away. That is another cause for arguments between them as a couple. They do love each other in a comfortable kind of way. They’ve been together for so long it would be unthinkable to be with anyone else. No-one understands her like he does.
On a day to day basis, Daisy feels: restricted, chained in, hemmed in, frumpy, past it, nothing to show for being on this earth, dull, sad, bored by the hum drum routine, frustrated, she has nothing to look forward to, she puts up and shuts up, she doesn’t like who she has become, but she doesn’t know how to make changes, and even if she did, she would be too scared to take action. She is too afraid to become a Daring Daisy.
Does any of this sound familiar?
So, who exactly is this Daring Daisy?
Daisy has been on a Daisy Breakthrough Day and she looks forward to waking up – every single day, no matter what the weather. Daisy has a strong sense of direction in her life; she has the intention to see the positive side of things, even when life isn’t going her way. She feels good about herself and she is comfortable in her own skin even if it is a bit wrinkly.
She knows that she is special simply because she is unique, and that the work she does really makes a difference, she makes people feel happy just by smiling and taking a genuine interest in them.
She knows that having time to herself is very important, because she sometimes just needs to have some clear space to think ... away from her normal life but surrounded by other women who are in a similar position to her... it’s her support network now. So she makes sure that she has some regular special time away with her Daring Daisy buddies.
She is strong in her intent to change things when they aren’t working, she doesn’t sit back and watch as life pass her by anymore, instead, she is an active and joyful participant. She has lifted herself from a ‘hum drum existence’, to ‘wow, watch out world, here I come’. She has been shown a better way of living. She is confident and understands that change is always possible, because she is the maker of her own fabulous future.
So... what ONE person do you know who might want to make some changes?
Are you searching for a fresh start?
Then I invite you to Turn Your POWER Switch On with my Daisy Breakthrough Day!
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