I have been feeling guilty everyday for about 2 weeks for not posting on my blog. I have had so many thoughts that I wanted to get on paper to inspire you. I have been running around like a headless chook with barely a moment to myself. I have been gagging to write. I have SO much to say right now! Thing is, I am still running about with my pants on my head (ref MZ!!) and I will be for several weeks. The madness isn’t about to die down anytime soon. So, I have decided to share short, sweet thoughts with you over the coming weeks. Not my usual essays….!

Today’s thought was ‘I am I can do anything Katie’.

When I was about 10, my teachers called my parents into school to discuss some problems they were having with me. I was petrified! I was a very self conscious, anxious little thing so this terrified me. Turns out, my maths was not going well and they were trying to come up with a solution to help me. I was sat on a step outside the teacher’s office, almost wetting my pants with nerves. My parents eventually emerged from the room with beaming smiles of re-assurance. My dad took my hand – I will never forget the feeling of his enormous ‘builders’ hands gripping my delicate little fingers – and he said, ‘You are ‘I can do anything Katie’’.

I have never forgotten it. A few years later, I topped my maths class.

So, on days like today, when I am up to my eye balls with huge decisions to make, enormously long ‘to do’ lists and the cold from hell, I remember those words. I can do anything.

So can you!