Inspiration for Tough Times: Ideas to Inspire, Uplift and Empower

By Nyomi Nadia

In a world where loss, sadness and uncertainty are all too widespread, Inspiration for Tough Times: Ideas to Inspire, Uplift and Empower is a fresh look at how you can navigate through the tough times, find peace of mind, and ultimately improve your life. Whether you're dealing with job loss, betrayal, or challenges at work or home, this book is your ideal guiding light to achieving a new and improved happier you.

Written in clear, concise, everyday language, this book is a holistic, practical and common sense guide to improve your mind and mood, be successful, let go of emotional pain and move on.

Nyomi Nadia draws upon inspiration from her personal experiences, studies and life-long commitment to health and nutrition, and from the wisdom and lives of others to provide the strategies you need to step forward with confidence and be a winner.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Nyomi Nadia
• Release date: Jan 27, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301829620

Nyomi Nadia

Nyomi Nadia is passionate about health, nutrition and happiness. Since childhood she has had allergies and food sensitivities, which have caused her various problems. In her pursuit of inner peace and better health, she explored the link between healthy eating and happiness – two cornerstones of good health. Her interests led her to complete a Bachelor of Science degree in nutrition, from Edith Cowan University, and a Master of Health Promotion, from Curtin University, in Perth, Australia, where she lives. Having been inspired by her studies, experiences, and the wisdom and lives of others, Nyomi started her website extrahappiness.com. Inspiration for Tough Times is a compilation of some of the articles from her website, along with bonus chapters that are the ideal guide for people at various stages of their lives. Nyomi has written health articles for various leading health organizations, including the National Heart Foundation of Australia (Western Australian Division), Curtin University and CalorieKing Australia. She has been quoted in health and happiness articles published in the Australian teen girls’ magazine Girlfriend, and the Australian women’s lifestyle magazine Cleo. Nyomi is also passionate about helping people through her public speaking. Her professional knowledge, experience and empathy have led her to become and an in-demand public speaker. She has spoken to community groups, students, professionals and others, for the National Heart Foundation of Australia (Western Australian Division), the Amanda Young Foundation, and the National Health Service (NHS) in the United Kingdom. Nyomi aims to boost the health and happiness of many people all over the world.

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Inspiration for Tough Times: Ideas to Inspire, Uplift and Empower

By Nyomi Nadia

Copyright 2013 Nyomi Nadia

Smashwords Edition

Acknowledgments

Thank you to my family and friends, especially my parents, John, Miriam and Delma, as well as past lecturers, teachers, colleagues and others who have all inspired me to write this book.

To you the reader, and my followers of extrahappiness.com, your happiness is my happiness.

Contents

How to Read This Book

Introduction

Chapter 1: Be Super Successful

Chapter 2: Feel Better Fast

Chapter 3: Positive Power Thoughts

Chapter 4: Imagine Your Way to Inner Peace

Chapter 5: Nature Has the Answers

Chapter 6: Amazing Faith – The Dog Making a Difference

Chapter 7: Workplace Tough Times

Chapter 8: Survive Betrayal by the One You Love

Chapter 9: Tips to Cope with Change

Chapter 10: Turn Tough Times Around

Chapter 11: Affirmations – Positive Sayings for Tough Times

Chapter 12: Let Go and Move On

Conclusion

About the Author

How to Read This Book

This book is a compilation of some of the articles that I’ve written for my website extrahappiness.com, plus some bonus articles. Each article is self-contained – like a short guide within a longer guide. As such, to understand this book, you don’t have to read it from start to finish. Just flip through to the topics that interest you, in any order.

Introduction

Tough times happen to everyone – rich and poor, young and old, guilty and innocent. Birth itself can be thought of as being the first tough time in our lives.

Being alive means we have an array of life experiences – from very hard times to amazingly good times. The ocean symbolizes life, and waves on the ocean symbolize life’s tough times. Wherever you are in the world, may you ride life’s waves and come out the other side stronger, wiser and better.

Chapter 1: Be Super Successful

Without a doubt, feeling successful at something in life is important for many people’s happiness. Success means different things to different people. Some might think it’s being rich; others might say it’s being the best at our job, or feeling like we do a good job at whatever we do.

One of the best definitions of success that I’ve read is by American physician and author George Sheehan. He said: Success means having the courage, the determination and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.

No matter what we are doing, or believe we should be doing, there are ways to help us become and stay successful. Here are my tips for long-lasting success.

Do what we enjoy

For long-term success, do something we enjoy. If we don’t enjoy what we do, we probably won’t stick at it long enough to become successful, we’ll dislike the journey along the way to succeeding, or our success will be short-term. If we love what we do, we can work on it day and night, and it doesn’t seem like work at all.

If we are unclear about what we enjoy, do we have a hobby or pastime that we can, in time, make a living from? Or think back to when we were younger. Was there something we had a passion for and were good at? Perhaps there is something that we’ve wanted to do for years, but have been putting-off.

I remember watching an interview once with Mick Jagger on TV. He said the Rolling Stones have enough money, so they don’t continue to tour the world playing together to make more money, they tour because they enjoy it. I thought: What a man – one of the greatest musicians of all time still enjoys what he does, and does an excellent job of it after more than 40 years.

Mick is not a one-off case. If we observe the most successful people in their field, doing what they love for the joy of it, and for the joy they bring to others – not simply for the money – is typical, not unusual.

Do things that benefit us and others

If we believe the sole purpose of work is to benefit ourselves, think more broadly. I believe that one of the key reasons each of us is alive is to serve others. By serve I mean help others – or animals, the environment… – through our talents, knowledge and skills. Help could also mean improve the quality of life, enhance or empower, to name just a few alternatives.

Think of success as an energy exchange – as we help others, we will be helped. It’s a win-win situation. Imagine the success energy, as I call it, doing a continuous loop from helping us, to helping others, then returning back to us, and so on. If we don’t establish this loop, the flow of energy isn’t created, so success is fleeting or not forthcoming.

Be ethical and have integrity

Being kind, honest and ethical brings good energy to us. Being ruthless, cruel and unethical brings negative energy to us. We cannot avoid the law of the Universe as we sow so shall we reap.

It might take years for the negativity to flow back to us, and it might not come from whoever we hurt, but, in time, we all reap the consequences of our actions. Even if we make millions or billions of dollars, our health, happiness, safety or peace-of-mind… will be compromised in some way if we do the wrong