So in 2009, I must admit I had days, weeks and months in which I was so depressed with my life and unhappy with my circumstances that I simply couldn’t wake up in the morning…. I have come to find that all I managed to do successfully in this period was waste time! I woke up this morning, this morning in 2010 at 6am after going to bed at 2am….. For some reason I feel inspired as I realised just how much of a difference it makes when you just pull yourself out of bed, WAKE UP and FEEL inspired!

Here are 10 Inspirational Reasons YOU should wake up in the morning….. Reach your potential and LIVE your life, do NOT merely exist!

1. You are ALIVE- Wake up because you are blessed with the GIFT of life and many who we would like to still be here to   enjoy life and share it with us have passed. (For example my grandmother, my sister, my next door neighbour) BE GRATEFUL for the blessing of life!

2. You have HOPE  – Even if things are not fabulous and you do not have everything your heart desires, make 2010 the year that you make your life better. Wake up because there is still HOPE for a better tomorrow and you can only find a better tomorrow if you take a STAND today!

3. CHANGE comes with the morning sunrise – Everyday is a new day, Everyday is the opportunity for a NEW beginning, its not only on Jan 1st that you should feel like you can make a change….That day is like any other, the sun rises and sets. MAKE EVERYDAY your Jan 1 and feel inspired every morning!

4. See what the world has to offer- Wake up so you can see what beauties and wonders the world has to offer. Go to a museum and appreciate Black Art that you have never seen before, Go outside and appreciate the seasons…… Just wake UP and OPEN your eyes …. Do something you have always wanted to do! For example a friend of mine recently decided that though she’s as petrified as can be she’s going to so a SKYDIVE…random but THAT’s what life is for, fun and to experience all the world has to OFFER!

5. Find Your Purpose  – Everyone is put on this earth for a reason, If you feel your life has no meaning….This is NOT a reason to lay in bed all day and waste your life….WAKE UP to FIND YOUR purpose, that in itself  IS a reason to get up!

6. Show those who LOVE you that YOU LOVE THEM too!If nothing else use your days to bring joy and laughter to those that love you…. You will find that this in itself brings you happiness and inspires you to be all that you can be…. Spread the LOVE! (ok that’s a bit corny but I’m in a really good mood so … *shrugs and smiles*)

7. To HELP others - If you don’t like your life FINE, but don’t waste it….At least go and use the HANDS, EYES, LEGS and MIND that you are GIFTED with to HELP OTHERS who may NOT have the same faculties and amenities that you HAVE!

8. To be able to look back and say I tried – I look back on some of my year and I am very disappointed in myself, disappointed that I can’t even say with any conviction that EVERYDAY I TRIED my best to get to where I want to be! This is NOT GOOD ENOUGH! When my grandfather when he asked me “Are you trying your best?” Like he did when he first got to England from Jamaica and had to work his fingers to the bone …….I couldn’t look in his eyes and tell him “Yes, Grandad I am trying my best” and that kind of broke my heart a little.

9. To LIVE your life instead of MERELY existing – LIVING your life means that every day you accomplish something, everyday you DO something that makes you feel good or helps another person….. otherwise you are simply EXISTING….and that is a waste of you blessing!

10. Because you are HEALTHY NOW - People take for granted the fact that they have good health, the fact that you can WALK and RUN and speak and DO ANYTHING is NOT a GIVEN! You WILL not always have your health and it’s funny that when people finally find a reason to LIVE they lose their CAPABILITY to do so….hit with a sudden illness or injured in a freak accident…..DON’T be one of the many people that look back and REALISE that you took your health for GRANTED!

Well that’s my inspiration to wake up and CHANGE my life this year and every year from NOW! I hope that if you were/are like I was ……struggling to wake up because NOTHING ever seems to go right….. I hope this helps you to WAKE UP each morning and DO a little more until you find YOUR HAPPINESS and ACCOMPLISH your goals!

GOOD MORNING WORLD!

xcx