WHATS YOUR TIPPING POINT

It's a sad fact, but true.  We as humans more often will make decisions based on moving away from pain rather than moving towards pleasure.

I'm sure you can all recall a place in your life where you reached the "here and no further" point.  A tipping point in your life after which you got moving, got motivated and achieved something truly remarkable.

Memorygirl has written about her "71p and three nappies" moment - the moment when she realised that everything she had worked for had been wiped away in one swoop.  Her life truly changed in that moment.  But I truly believe that her true tipping point moment came when her Tax Credits were stopped with no notice and she was told they wouldn't be reinstated for several weeks.  Thats when she reached her "here and no further" point that go her truly moving.  Like a mother tiger protectig her cubs she swung into action and did something, anything that would keep food on the table.  That one point could be the tipping point that defines her whole future.

Very often these points are moments of great pain for us - moments we want to leave behind us as quickly as possible.  But I believe they should also be points in our live that should be honoured as the gifts from the universe that they truly are.

So your challenge this evening is to identify the most recent tipping point in your life, to write it down quickly and without emotionally dwelling on it too deeply,seal it in an envelope and address to yourself to opened with your other Christmas Eve 2011 letters.

Remember that point was in the past - and "now you know better you do better" - so no beating yourself up.  Instead celebrate the remarkable and strong person you are to have moved through that period of your life and into the place you inhabit now.

Mr Big