LIFE – A CONSTANT CLASSROOM

LIFE SEEMS TO BE A CONSTANT CLASSROOM. EVERYTHING IN LIFE COMES TO YOU AS A TEACHER.

EACH MOMENT SEEMS TO HAVE AT LEAST ONE LESSON FOR YOU TO LEARN.
EACH OF THOSE MOMENTS,
YOU HAVE ENOUGH TIME TO APPLY WHAT YOU LEARN.

PAY ATTENTION.
LEARN QUICKLY.

~ ALAN IAN ATKINSON
Writer, Author, Storyteller

YOUR MIND IS YOUR BELIEVER

YOUR MIND WILL BELIEVE WHAT YOU TELL IT.
TELL IT THAT YOU ARE THANKFUL FOR WHAT YOU HAVE.

TELL IT YOU ARE SMART AND AMBITIOUS,
THAT YOU ARE ALMOST THERE IN ACHIEVING
ALL THAT YOU SET OUT TO DO.

TELL YOUR MIND THAT YOU ARE FEARLESS AND BRAVE IN ENSURING THAT YOU DO ACHIEVE ALL THAT
YOU SET OUT TO DO.

~ ALAN IAN ATKINSON
Writer, Author, Storyteller

FATHER – A PRIVILEGE AND HONOUR

An awe-amazing start of Father’s Day – with family. I remember the first day I became a father – What a privilege and honour it was then…and is still now…even more…

With family. Always the greatest!

A sparkle from the colours.

Here’s wishing my father, my brothers, brothers-in-law, all fathers in the family, and all fathers (including my classmates and schoolmates from school)

HAPPY FATHER’S DAY!

A RECOGNITION THAT IS WORTH IT’S RECOGNITION.

FLEETING MOMENTS

HAVE YOU EVER BEEN IN THOSE MOMENTS,
FLEETING MOMENTS;
WHEN SOMEONE OR SOMETHING MADE YOU SMILE

HAVE YOU EVER WISHED YOU COULD HAVE CAPTURED THAT MOMENT?
THAT SPLITTING MOMENT
WHEN THE WORLD STOPPED AND YOU WERE MESMERISED BY JOY?
A GRATEFUL HEART.

A GRATEFUL HEART ATTRACTS
PEACE, JOY, CLARITY AND CONNECTION.
THEN, YOU REALISE THAT FLEETING MOMENT WILL NOT COME BACK…PROBABLY.
HOWEVER, THAT GOODNESS THAT IT HOLDS…
SHARE IT WITH OTHERS. WHO KNOWS?
SMILES WILL REPLACE SADNESS.

~ ALAN IAN ATKINSON
Writer, Author, Storyteller

MAKE EVERY MOMENT COUNT

MAKE TODAY COUNT.

BETTER STILL, MAKE EVERY MOMENT COUNT.

LIFE IN ITSELF, IS SO, SO WONDERFUL.
WE HAVE YET TO BEGIN TO GRASP
WHAT IT HAS TO OFFER.

SO, DECIDE TO HELP MAKE IT COUNT,
FOR OURSELVES AND
FOR THE PEOPLE AROUND US.

~ ALAN IAN ATKINSON
Writer, Author, Storyteller

BE YOURSELF NO MATTER WHAT

HAVE YOU TRIED BEING YOURSELF? I MEAN JUST BEING YOU?
WHEN YOU REALLY THINK OF IT, MOST PEOPLE TRY TO BE SOMEONE ELSE THEY AREN’T NOW.

PERHAPS, TO
PORTRAY A BETTER VERSION OF THEMSELVES.
THAT IN ITSELF IS GOOD.
WE HAVE TO STRIVE TOWARDS THAT.

HOWEVER, NEVER LOSE THE PERSON YOU ARE.
BE YOURSELF NO MATTER WHAT.
THERE WILL BE SOME WHO ADORE YOU AND
SOME WHO WILL HATE EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU.
BUT WHO CARES?

ARE YOU WILLING TO TAKE THAT RISK?
IT’S YOUR LIFE.
MAKE THE MOST OF IT.
LIVE LIFE TO THE FULLEST.

~ ALAN IAN ATKINSON
Writer, Author, Storyteller