Another cartoon from Smile Your Way To Success!

Humour is one of the greatest environments in which you can learn some of your greatest lessons. So with the humour exuding from Richard’s cartoons and the seriousness of some of my writing that accompanies them, you will be supplied with a perfectly combined motivator that will be fixed in your mind and heart for many years to come.
Mentally and visually stimulated, you too will be challenged and equipped to be the very best that you were created to become.
Enjoy!
Peter Sinclair
http://www.motivationalmemo.com
“…where Quality Motivational Content is Paramount!”

When a prickle pierces a bare foot, all the body is concerned about at that moment is how to alleviate the pain that has just penetrated its space. Nothing else is important. A minor event has suddenly become a major and until that thorny prickle is removed, nothing else really matters. The best way to deal with such an event is to quickly remove the prickle and to continue on your way. Don’t stay there. Don’t stop. Refuse to be deterred by the interruption and continue to move forward in the pursuit of your dreams. Don’t be distracted from your plan. Move forward with confidence.

Cartoon – so you think you’re having a bad day!?

Hi,

Here’s the latest cartoon on my ‘Midweek Motivator’ newsletter…

If you think you’re having a bad day spare a thought for this guy…

If you want to subscribe to my free once a week cartoon motivator please go to the following web page…

http://www.cartoonstudio.co.uk/Pages/newsletter.html

Cartoon inspired by Mike Litman’s blog!

Just been on Mike Litman’s blog and he’s written a great piece….The Invisible Enemy Of Success

I’ve quickly amended an old cartoon to reflect it….

The BIGGEST room in the World!?

Hi,

We all know where the smallest room is – but what about the biggest room in the World?

I came a cross this quote somewhere on my travels through cyberspace, but can’t remember where now.

It inspired this cartoon…

New ‘Midweek Motivator’ cartoon newsletter!

Hi,

I’ve just started a new weekly cartoon called ‘Midweek Motivator’. It’s delivered free to your mailbox on a Wednesday. If you would like to subscribe go to the following page….

http://www.cartoonstudio.co.uk/Pages/newsletter.html

Here’s the cartoon on the first issue…

Golf motivation cartoons!

For years I wanted to start playing golf, but always thought that it would take up too much time to become any good at it. (If I do something I want to do it well!) Anyway, with squash and football/soccer getting a bit much for me at my age I’ve decided to take the plunge and start having lessons – which I’m finding very challenging. In the meantime I’ve been commissioned to illustrate some ‘golf confidence’ articles.(Is this a coincidence or what!?)

Here’s the first one I’ve illustrated for Gail Smirthwaite at http://www.confidencecaddie.com that appeared in Lady Golfer as a series of articles….

This month we are going to take a look at how goals create the ‘motivation’ in your life and how setting a goal BEFORE you go out and play golf will greatly impact on the results you will achieve.
In ‘The 7 Secrets of a Highly Successful Golfer’ every ‘secret’ helps to create awareness on how very important the role ‘good self-esteem’ plays in becoming a consistently confident person on and off the golf course. Motivation is very important to this process …how many times has your little voice said, ‘I always get to the fifteenth hole and feel really tired’, or ‘I just can’t seem to get motivated about anything especially my golf!’ – I am sure you can add to these?
In order for you to create the game of golf you would like to play, or indeed the life you would like to lead, you need to set goals; then fulfill your commitments to these goals and change the habits you have created that are stopping you from achieving what you really want to.
NB: Goals are dreams with a date attached!
I often ask the following question when I do a talk on this subject – ‘How many of you have set yourself the goal of lowering your handicap this year?’ Guess how many people in the audience put their hands up – yes nearly everyone?

Then I ask the next two questions; whether they had a similar goal the year before and how many actually achieved it. Again, many hands go up for the first part of the question but for the second part pretty much EVERY hand stays down.
Making goals is a peculiar emotional process that we humans engage in on a regular basis, however, what we tend to do is make the goal in our heads and then expect them to happen – we do nothing to change the habits that are preventing us from achieving them or create an achievable plan to get us there.
Einstein stated that the definition of insanity is ‘to keep doing what you have always done and expect a different result!’ How many of us are guilty of that one?
More importantly as the months go by and you have not achieved what you thought you would it serves as another nail in your coffin to lower your self-esteem. It allows that negative self-talk to kick in and tell you what a failure you are again!
Before you set your goals and work towards achieving them it is important to understand how your values and beliefs play such an important role in this process. No goal you make will truly give you proper fulfillment if it is not in line with what you value (Secret 2).
We are back to this word ‘desire’; you must really, truly desire the changes that you are looking for when you set yourself a goal. Let’s take the value of ‘success’, for instance, if this value means to you playing consistently well and taking your handicap down by two this season, then by thinking and believing it and by living it in every moment, you are more likely to succeed. REMEMBER you become what you think about most of the time!
NB: Also remember when setting goals they need to be yours, not other peoples or what you think you should be doing because those around you say so.
Often amateur golfers will come to me because they are not enjoying their game of golf anymore and cannot understand why. It sometimes turns out to be because they are putting unnecessary pressure on themselves because they have created a belief (Secret 3) that they should be playing golf to a certain standard. What they have often bought into is someone else’s values; someone else’s beliefs. This is why it is so IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND YOURSELF – to help create a real sense of self worth and inner confidence so that you can ENJOY the hobby the way you want to – not the way someone else believes you should!
So before you set about defining your GOALS make sure that they are in-line with YOUR VALUES otherwise you will set yourself up to fail again. To work further on your values and your goals download the relevant Work Books from the website www.playgreatgolf.co.uk and work through the exercises to establish your eight core values and their order of importance to you before setting your goals.

Cartoon Studio Becomes First Frozenheart Corporate Sponsor!

Hi, I’m Karl father to Emily who is my youngest daughter. Emily was born in the UK and taken by her American mother, Sheila, to the US when Emily was 11 months old. This blog is where I’m placing the media reports and evidence of the role of the US Department of State in abducting Emily to the US while obstructing justice for Emily and attempting to cover up misconduct of officials while Emily is denied medical treatment for her eye condition which will leave her blind.

Well the internet does work!

After an initial launch of the Frozenheart web site, a flurry of responses from around the world and from many people who have contacted me for the very first time.

Remember the primary aim initially is to establish a world wide network of accommodation for parents that is no cost for left behind parents traveling abroad to recovery their children.

An unexpected fringe benefit that is going to start taking centre stage is an email I received from Richard Duszczak of the Cartoon Studio Limited in the UK.

The Cartoon Studio have offered to become a corporate sponsor for Frozenheart and have kicked this off with £500 worth of free artwork and logo design and other support as well.

So, to Richard and his team at Cartoon Studio, I’d like to say thank you and I hope you are the first of many!

Now here’s an unashamed plug for those awfully decent chaps and chappettes at the Cartoon Studio:

For more information on Cartoon Studio Limited and how they can help your business with illustrations, logos and cartoon imagery contact them using the information below.

Cartoon Studio Limited
29 Lake View Avenue, Walton, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, UK S40 3DR
Tel: +44(0)1246 209034 Fax: +44(0)1246 209034
Email: rd@cartoonstudio.co.uk
Web: www.cartoonstudio.co.uk

I’ll keep you informed of how the logo was created – so please stay tooned!

Richard