Update from Jacquelene...

Hello again,

1350 words approx, sorry I lost count .......
Short to medium read ... grab a coffee and snuggle up....

It's almost the end of another amazing week for me, thank you to all clients for your support and in the wonderful feeling of being able to continue to be of assistance to so many. 

I decided to wear no make up for this pic, it seems funny how we place so much society value on how women look rather than what they think and achieve. Besides, I don't think make up is entirely compulsory until men start wearing it and strutting some really awkwardly high Jimmy Choo's.  

Are you old enough?
18+.........

I thought I would take this chance to remind people that I don't ever consult for people under the age of 18 for readings. I can do healing for children with the parents present, at their request, with their written permission (from both legal guardians involved) But never readings for under 18s.
Sometimes parents may ask questions in their own reading for their benefit of relating better about their children and that is ok, but I have to stick to the ethics I work by and ascribe to. Once you are over 18, you are more than welcome to book. (It kind of follows that I am going to know if you lie about your age, thank you for those who are honest about being underage and who I turn away.)

Mercury Mercury Mercury
Back to the Future....... 

Mercury has been Retrograde and is going direct next week on the 1st / 2nd (depending on where in the world you are) so things should start moving ahead more easily. But on that date remember to be flexible about delays and sudden changes.

For those experiencing low energy just at the moment, take rest where needed but keep the focus on what is important, rather than just what you think you want. As what you want may change quite a bit over the next few days and weeks, as it no doubt for some has already begun to do so.

The shadow period of the Mercury Retrograde continues on til about 10 July, at which time you should find you can wrap up any loose ends far easier and undo any tangles. Between now and then, patience is the key...and may be coffee... Mercury goes retrograde three times a year for about three weeks at a time. I will have more on this topic on my website including dates coming up soon.  

How you can avoid feeling you need a holiday to get over your holiday
Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards......

For some people, often the ones who do too much, planning and packing for a holiday is a mission in itself. There's preparation work at work, and home, for the holiday before the holiday. Then there’s an entirely new mountain of mayhem when you get back that didn't even exist before you went away, and it’s a month’s worth… but you were only away for a week or two! This can be more stressful than work, and depending on how many family members you take on holidays, you can almost feel that returning to work is a holiday, despite returning to that mountain I spoke about a second ago… But there is a way to make the most out of your time out…and feel refreshed with less stress.

If you take an afternoon off, all to yourself!! No one will really notice the difference, except you!  You can, after taking little power pampers, feel like you have had a week away, and there’s even the advantage of no pile of processing when you get back. And voila!  It also costs less.

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Why not try out a salt bath, or relax at a hot mineral springs center if there is one near you?

May be a day away, night away somewhere YOU feel like going…
Or maybe, even just an hour or so, of receiving a pampering away from all noise and calamity. That can be even better than planning, packing, unpacking, and repacking on a holiday. Especially holidays involve you being the only one doing all the work.

Thought you couldn't have a holiday, or stressed about taking one? Problem solved, and you still have something fun to look forward to when at work in that day job whilst dreaming your dreams for the future. There's some ideas, I am sure you can come up with some of your own..

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On the purpose of success
Focus is only a thought away…

Successful people do a few things differently to people who dream but never achieve their ideas. The successful person doesn’t dwell on the success of others and hate them for it or allow the success of others to make them feel insecure. They might take a bit of notice of others, may even learn from them, but their focus is on their own goals, desires, and dreams. They are also generally realistic and work hard both in the dreaming of something and the doing of it. They are consistent and are onto and into the details, the practicalities, the realities and the boring parts like the books, accounting, and finance...Not just the wonderful dream they want. They are committed, they work out how to achieve something properly, then they apply themselves, and then they don’t give up.

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They aren’t the ones aiming to fly to the moon with a tank of helium and a carton of balloons attached to a couch. They are logical, rational, and honest with themselves, they adapt, they do what will help them be financially secure in order to be then in the best space to create and invent. They also don't blame personality clashes for a failure to relate. They work out how to work with people, who they can work with and they avoid working with people who don't want to work,. There's a healthy balance between innovation and initiative. If they have to keep a day job in the meantime, they don’t let that become their only focus, and become lost in the mundane. They don’t forget their dreams in the process. Instead, they use the day job to fund the project they are working on relentlessly and tirelessly at home, until that project takes off until they can’t afford the time off the project that has grown independent wings and taken flight.  

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I believe success has more of an internal measure than the outward. If you do what you believe in and in a way you can be happy, you will be able to sustain it far longer than doing what your heart just isn't into and what you don't have an aptitude and desire for. But if you don't love what you are doing and you can't change it right now, you can always find a way to make it fun if you choose to. You can focus on what good does come out of it, and bring more of that goodness your way...

You can study a hobby, course, or qualification outside of hours part time so you aren't bogged down in overtaxing your mind 24/7. Then you still have something to look forward to outside of working hours that reminds you that there is a life outside that you can be part of.

Even in the most mind-numbingly boring of tasks I had to do within otherwise interesting jobs in my past corporate career, I used to create my own entertainment. Of course no one else knew why I was so happy, upbeat, and looking a bit amused. And really, it probably was just as well… But hey, it worked! Something like that just could work for you too. The easiest way to be happy in what you are doing is to start being grateful that at least you have that job, you have your health, you are in a western society in 2014, with many amenities and opportunities, and to stop comparing yourself to others, stop envying what you THINK they have got... 

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Part of being content about where and who you are is in realizing that we all have challenges, and that its entirely possible you have no idea what it took for someone else to be where they are, what they are going through, and what else they have dealt with. We all have challenges in life, part of mastering yours is in not projecting onto others your perception of it somehow being easier for anyone else, and instead produce results and fun in your own life. 
It’s Something to consider :-)

I would like to leave you with a quote from Maya Angelou...
"Success is liking yourself,
Liking what you do
and liking how you do it."

And I honestly believe in that idea myself. 
I hope you all have a brilliant weekend
Lots of Love

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Jacquelene Close Moore