There are days that I can get so caught up in what I am not doing and forget about what I have achieved.

Has this happened to you?

We forget to focus on the amazing things that we have done.

We forget to look at the positive things in our lives.

We forget to say to ourselves, well done for today.

We can become so consumed by the negative thoughts that we have.

I have shared before that I work as a primary school Chaplain and I love my job.

I talk to a lot of students who may be focusing on the negatives, who feel that they cannot see a positive in their lives.

I always come back to-

Today I am Grateful for…………………….

I suggest that they have lovely journal that they can write in and a lovely pen.

I suggest to them to write down what they are grateful for today. They can do this just before they go to bed at night.

It can be the little things like-

I have a bed to sleep in

I have friends

I get to go to school and learn

I have a pet.

I need to remind myself as well sometimes that there are so many things that I can be grateful for.

A Challenge-

Buy you a lovely journal

Buy yourself a beautiful pen.

Every night before you go to bed write 5 things that you are grateful for.

Please share what you are grateful for today.

 

 

Lately I have been thinking about encouraging others.

Yes, this has been on my heart.

Yes, this has been on my heart for quite a long time.

It is something that I am passionate about.

This is something that I want to embrace every day.

How do you encourage others?

What do you do for others, I would love to hear from you?

Let’s encourage one another on this journey.

We are better when we are with others and encouraging other.

I will be relaunching my YouTube Channel which is – Tracey Buckley, would love for you to subscribe to it.

Stay tuned.

There is so much that I want to do with it.

My heart is so involved in encouraging others.

Let’s encourage and be there for one another.

Encourage others and be there for others.

By

Tracey Buckley

Random Acts of Kindness

Lately I have been thinking about Random Acts of Kindness.

I love this.

What does that mean for you?

For me it means ask, seek and knock.

What have you been asking, seeking and knocking for?

I would love to know how you have been blessing others?

You are a blessing to others.

For me on my heart lately I have been wanting to bless others.

I jut want to bless them without them even knowing.

I love this the surprise of encouraging others.

I have been wanting to encourage others and say yes you can do this.

How can we bless others and just surprise them?

How can we just be a blessing to others?

Random acts of kindness, what does that look like to you?

Let me know what you do.

I would love to hear what you have been doing.

What if we just blessed others without them, even knowing.?

What if we just blessed others for who they are? Without receiving anything?

What if we just blessed others because we care about them?

What if we blessed others because that is who we are, a person that blessed others?

So, let’s encourage and bless one another this week.

Love this.

 

 

 

 

There is something about taking a break and being on holidays.

I am on school holidays and I am so grateful for this time.

What do you like about holidays?

What do you do when you are on holidays?

I just love that I don’t have to set my alarm, it is such a freeing experience. No setting of the alarm for two weeks.

I love the space that I have to create.

Space to be creative is really important to me.

Space to create.

My heart for the last two weeks has been on singing and I really miss singing.

Is there something that you love that you have put on hold?

Is there something that makes your heart sing that you have stopped doing?

I can answer to both of these questions yes.

Why do we stop investing in the things that make us happy, that make us whole?

It is that we put other things in place of what we love?

It is because we don’t think that we are good enough?

I love the thought of what would we you do if you/I could not fail?

How would we approach what we love to do?

How would our lives be different?

I want to share something with you, I work as a primary school Chaplain and the children know that I love to sing and dance.

The children have said to me- your life is a musical.

What if we embraced our dream, our desires and what makes our heart smile?

What would our life be like?

How would our life look?

My challenge for the next few days is- to sing.

What will you do?

Be encouraged, you deserve a beautiful life.

Be brave.

Today Beautiful One,

Really wanted to share this with you.

Beautiful One

I have had this on my heart for awhile.

Do you need some encouragement?

Do you need prayer?

Do you need someone to just listen to you?

Do you need someone to just be there for you?

Do you need someone to encourage you?

Do you need to know that there is someone who values you?

Please message me, would love to hear from you.

Will share more soon.

 

There are those days where your heart feels heavy for others.

There are those days when you reflect on what you have heard.

There are those days where you wonder what is going on.

There are those days where you wonder, what can I do?

There are those days where you say, how can I help you?

There are those days where you say to others, I am here for you.

There are those days where you reach out to others.

There are those days, where we are reminded that we are in a community.

There are those days that you want to wipe away tears from those that have lost something.

There are those days where you just sit with someone who is in pain and say to them, I am here for you.

There are those days where you want to say to others there is no judgement here, this is a safe place.

There are those days that feel difficult and hard.

There are those days that together we are stronger, together we have support, together we care.

There are those days when you say, all I have is in my hand.

It may mean so much to someone that you are just there for them, just them.

It may mean so much to someone to just love on them and accept them as they are.

It may mean so much to someone that you notice them, that you acknowledge them.

It may mean so much to someone to say that you value them.

It may mean so much to someone that you have reached out to them.

It may mean so much to someone that you are just there, that you are just there to hold the space for them.

This week just be there for someone.

This week just be there.

 

This year I have had on my heart that I don’t want to repeat what I did last year. I don’t want this year to be a copy of last year, I really don’t.

I want this year to be different, I want this year to be one where I will embrace this new season.

Yes, I am really excited about this.

I want to have opportunities to look forward to. I want this year to be different, I want to take risks, healthy risk, I want to expand my world. I want to be able to embrace the creativity in my life. I want to make a difference.

I love my role as a primary school Chaplain. If you have been following my blog you will know this. I love what I am able to do in the school community. I love being available to help, to listen and to care for others. I love and embrace community.

This year I am planning some personal development workshops, I am really excited about.

I feel that there is a season where it is really important to invest in what you are passionate about.

Are you in this season of investing in what you are passionate about?

I would love to hear what you are doing?

Let’s encourage one another.

I am going to share more about the personal development workshops that I will be attending.

 

 

 

Today was my first full week back at work, I work as a primary school chaplain. I love, love, love my job.

I am so blessed to be at two amazing schools, that are so invested in the life of the students.

I really wanted to encourage all the teachers and staff that went back to school this week.

I want to say to you that you inspire me.

I want to say that I see all the extra hours that you do.

I want to say that I notice how much you invest in the students.

I want to say how much you give.

I want to say how invested you are.

I want to say I notice the hours and hours that you do.

I want to say how early you are at school before the students are there.

I want to say that I notice that you will be at school long after the students have left for the day.

I want to say I notice that you are at school on the weekends.

I see the sacrifices that you make.

I see how committed you are.

Be encouraged.

You are making a difference.

I love what you do.

 

 

 

 

 

On Sunday I went with my sister to her work, she is an amazing woman that is the CEO of Water Ski Australia.

We went to her open day which was so much fun, this was on the Perth river.

We have such a beautiful river in Perth called the Swan River.

I had decided that I would go water skiing.

Yes!

Now let me share somethings with you (insert venerable moment) that I am a little bit afraid of-

• If I am swimming, I really need to see the bottom of the water
• I don’t like jelly fish, I really don’t
• If anything touches my leg, I might let out a very loud scream
• I am not a very good swimmer.

Well there you go.

But I wanted to face my fear and I wanted to have some fun and an adventure.

So, I booked in for a have a go session and my sister went out on the boat with me.

Oh, my goodness, let me just say that it is really such a physical sport.

The instructors I had were so amazing, kind and especially patient.

I practised in the boat first and then had to put on my skies and jump into the water.

Yes, I did that.

Then it was time to swim towards the bar on the side of the boat.

I think that water skies have a mind of their own and they just were not co-operating with me.

I had to use my strength to make my way towards the bar and yes, I made it.

I did make it.

I had to just not think about the jellyfish and I really didn’t see any.

I think that I was focusing on wanting to get up on the skis, which I achieved.

 

What is something that you have been wanting to do?

I think that the funniest part of the day was me trying to get back into the boat.

I am so grateful for my sister pulling up by my life jacket, to get back into the boat.

There are times that you have to rely on others.

 

2019 for me is to be an adventure, to get out of my comfort zone and say yes to new things.

What is your 2019 looking like?

Would love to hear?

Will share more soon.