We're all ordinary people!

"Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well"

- Jim Rohn

Well congratulations to all those readers reading this in the UK. If you are reading this then you survived what was supposed to have been the worst storm in years. Unfortunately, the storm never really hit quite as we imagined.

We had be warned all weekend of this awful storm, St Jude, coming our way only to be hit by a couple of fallen trees and a few leaves clogging up the drains. Not exactly the sort of thing seen in the Wizard of Oz really, although that's what I was expecting this morning.

Truth is, the storm was nowhere near as bad as the media had built it up to be. I'm happy it didn't happen after all, however there's still that part of me that likes to think "What if?"

It's funny how often in life there comes those times when stories or events that happen to us, get completely blown out of proportion. Those Chinese whisper moments in life when something happens which is not very important, and yet with a bit of exaggeration it becomes the most life changing moment to ever happen.

I used to love playing Chinese whispers as a child. More often than not I would just make up what I had heard just to make the outcome that much funnier. Or even those moments in high school when there's a small bust up at dinner time and yet, with a bit of imagination and gossip around the school, by the end of the school day World War 2 had apparently taken place. There's something about us that's not happy with just ordinary. And that's not such a bad thing.

In life we could all find times to make life a little less ordinary. Ok, so it doesn't mean making things up or twisting the truth, but there are things we can all do to make our lives a little less ordinary and a bit more extraordinary. The storm wasn't anything as we had expected. It was just an ordinary storm that had been blown up. But how much more fun was the expectation of a monster storm coming? How many of us woke up this morning a little bit disappointed that there weren't cows in the garden and trees stopping us getting to work? I personally think the media blowing up the storm was great. It made life a little less ordinary.

Usually I end with a further thought on what I have been talking about. But I think this video from Virgin Atlantic is a much better way to sum up this blog. Their slogan is "Fly in the face of ordinary".




Whatever you have planned today, tomorrow or this week, remember: You can make life as extraordinary as you want!

So why not?

Bywyd sydd yn byw! - Just living life!

RM