You are great, you are worth something, You are a prize. Don’t let anybody tell you differently, people may spit on you, shake you up, swear at you, they may even make your life a living hell. Just shift adjust and rise above it. The problems and the resistance are making you stronger and its giving you the resilience required to breakthrough into ur success. The pressure is on you because you are doing something right. Dont shut up, just keep reaching.

Copyright (2011) Nathaniel Peat

On the 20th of September City Hall played host to the „London Week of Peace Awards‟. The Mayor of London Boris Johnson hosted the event which awarded those who have done something outstanding for London. The event which runs annually is part of „The Peace Alliance‟ which is an independent charity that works to support communities across the UK, through; supporting safety initiatives, civic responsibility, and crime reduction projects.

Launched in 2001 - The ‘London week of peace’ is a week which seeks to “challenge all Londoners to make a positive change in their communities by engaging in a community safety agenda for London”. Londoners of all ages who have made a significant contribution to the safety of the capital - all have the chance to be a recipient of an award within the 10 award categories.
The recent rioting and community unrest has meant that there is now more of a need to champion London and those who show great civic responsibility. These awards are thought of as „for the people, by the people‟, and a chance for Londoners to nominate their friend, parent, sibling, teacher, student, community group and so on - for being positive role models who champion for a more peaceful London. After an overwhelming nomination from teachers, charity workers, police and pupils The Safety Box founder Nathaniel Peat was successful and was chosen to be the winner of the prestigious DREAM peace award by the judges.
Mayor Boris Johnson who hosted the event stated “There has never been a more timely moment for us to celebrate the unsung heroes who work tirelessly on behalf of Londoners.”
Prime Minister The Rt. Hon David Cameron further endorsed “I am delighted to send my best wishes to everyone involved in this years London Week of Peace, It is about people stepping up to the plate and playing their parts in improving the communities in which they live, and it has made a real difference.” Nathaniel has been an inspiration to many young people around London and generally in the UK, he has helped to relieve the concerns of young people, parents, governments and educational institutions. Through his social minded business The Safety Box, he has helped to motivate, inspire and steer youth away from underachievement, gang and knife culture and shown them that they are limitless in their potential. Nathaniel for 3 years Nathaniel selflessly put his pilot training on hold in 2005, to make a difference in London‟s communities. Through which he focussed his effort on impacting young people through PRU’s, YOTS, schools, colleges, universities, youth groups and YMCA‟s. In this time he and his company has impacted over 5000 young people and motivated countless adults by helping them to start businesses. He is without a doubt a strong spirit of London, his business and him as an individual has impacted thousands of people of all ages not only in London but as far as Scotland, Canada and even Jamaica.

Your heart is what is what you are really made of, make your heart right. Learn to lift people up not destroy them, learn to help others and try your absolute best to understand people. Develop patience, love more, give more, shine more… give people another chance to make things right. You are the master of your mind, do this and it will lead you to a happier, fuller and more successful life N. Peat (2010)

True courage is to fight on when all hope is lost and when you feel that the battle has been lost, but in the same light, true courage is having the strength and willingness to give up when something is not working. Remember there are many roads that lead to the same destination. People up your game, your success is waiting for you.

Copyright (2011) Nathaniel Peat

Breaking the cycle of depression

I was speaking with somebody close the other day and they relayed the story to me about how someone close to them had suffered with depression for many years, they proceeded to say that there is a clear difference between simply being low and actually being depressed. The advice they gave me was that someone who actually believes they are depressed should in fact first see a doctor. I did a little research on it myself and discovered a wealth of information, it is more serious than you think and I concur, if you are depressed please go and see a doctor.

Sometimes life will hit you at the lowest times you feel as though you want to sleep and never wake up. These dark places are horrible, but I tell you they will pass and they will disappear. Does it seem as though your happiness just depends upon everything in your life just being perfect?
Here’s some truth, your life will never ever be perfect, just the way you want it and if you think it will, then you will be unhappy for a very long time. Whatever you do you cannot allow your emotions to control your mind. It is so important to limit the symptoms you are experiencing if you are depressed. That doesn’t mean that you should deny the symptoms, all it means is that you set a time limit on how long you will cry and be upset.
If you feel like crying and wonder if you can stop, set a time limit on how long you will allow yourself to cry. Give yourself 3 minutes to cry and set the stop watch or the annoying alarm on your blackberry to shake you up out of the tears. If you find that you keep thinking about the hurt, the situation, the experience or the problem then write down some of those feelings. Then don’t linger on those feelings. You have to be able to balance the tears, sadness, hurt and pain without allowing it to swallow you up into the darkest and lowest places around.
When things don’t go our way it is natural to feel disappointed, it’s natural to feel like you want to cry, however it is not natural to become depressed. When you are depressed you do the worst things to the people you love the most. Very often with the people I have worked with they find themselves driving people away from them due to their despair. They cut off the relationships with the very people who care the most for them. It seems as though it’s you against the whole world.

Breaking the cycle.

Do something, no matter how small the step is just do something else. Well don’t do everything… Take your mind off of it! It is through a change in a particular thing that break through that glass of depression and helps your sense of helplessness. Counselling one of my recent clients of recent almost every suggestion that I made to her resulted in a “I can’t”, “I want to but….” or many times “I don’t want to talk anymore, I am going to go…”
This thing is just a mental thing, it’s about us making a choice to not be depressed or making a decision to be depressed. Make the choice today your situation is not going to kill you. It is no where near as big as you think it is.
Start to self talk yourself better, instead of saying I’m so depressed, verbalise

“I am very happy and my body is lying to me.”

It is ok to be venerable with the ones that are closest to you.
Speak to your friends and allow them to see your vulnerability they normally will have ways that will help to take your mind off the situation. You can break the cycle of depression you have the ability to. There is a life full of endless possibilities awaiting you all you have to do is believe.

Learning from this situation

By learning from our past problems and hindrances we gain deep insights into paths that we really should try to avoid journeying along in the future. With the discipline we learn to exercise we do not make the same errors along similar paths. We go through transitions of feeling high and feeling low.
I remember back in 2006 I said something at the beginning of the year which was a promise to myself and caused me to change my mindset completely.

This is what I said….

I plan to feel good/high/inspired/motivated/energetic all the time! I am going to make a conscious choice to select a thought that will consciously activate a good feeling in me… even if it is a temporary feeling I am going to decide to activate the thinking until it resonates to a base feeling of emotion within me, my spiritual walk for me is where I find my strength and my joy, so for me it simply meant turning up the intensity of my spiritual walk.

Make a similar commitment to yourself today and write it down make a positive decision to break into your happiness despite your circumstances. Recognise the power of your mind and unlock its potential.

This day onwards, make it the best year you have had in your life thus far… be inspired to do things, be inspired to mentally move from where you are and go to the next level, both emotionally, physically and spiritually enriched. You know that you are under living your potential, its time to shake up and wake up and move forward!

Think about becoming that type of person you would love to meet right now and try to be that person. Don’t dwell on disappointments, detach yourself from the outcome of situations and focus upon having an uncompromising infinite source of patience.

You must try to maintain a strong healthy body and a sharp confident mind, so start to do some regular exercise (anything! Buy an exercise video/dvd) and keep on top of it don’t give up stay focused.
Don’t deprive your brain of stimuli, if you do that it will have a corresponding deficiency within your body and your actions. It’s only by regular use of the neuronal pathways that your mind stays remain strong and healthy, so think positive not negative.

Be BUSY doing things not BUSY doing nothing. There is a horrible word that begins with P and ends with N ——— ‘Procrastination’ you can’t soar high from being lazy.

Use your head and be happy!

SAY TODAY I AM NOT A SLAVE TO MY DEPRESSION!

BE HAPPY, YOU ARE A CHAMPION!

29 June 2010

Young Entrepreneurs challenge G20 leaders

Three young British entrepreneurs joined representatives from Enterprise UK and the Institute of Directors (IoD) in attending last week’s G20 Young Entrepreneur Summit in Toronto, Canada.

Hosted by the Canadian Youth Business Foundation (CYBF), the event was recognised by the Canadian government as an official G20 event. The UK delegation was keen to ensure that G20 leaders pay particular attention to the role that entrepreneurship can play in economies worldwide. They brought their experiences to the cross-country recommendations that were presented to Canadian Ministers, who formally submitted it to the G20 Leaders Summit.

Attendees also established the G20 Young Entrepreneurs Alliance, which will hold summits before every future G20 gathering. This will act as a continuous and influential voice for young entrepreneurs, feeding directly to the leaders of the G20 nations.

Quotes from attendees

Nathaniel Peat, the entrepreneur behind award winning business, The Safety Box said: ‘It was a great experience, I really feel as though my purpose was fulfilled by attending and voicing my views, protecting those that don’t have a voice. As strong nations we need Africa, India and Latin America the necessary tools to lift themselves out of poverty by inspiring entrepreneurial thinking, promoting creativity, and developing a limitless potential in the minds of the youth. This G20 was the beginning of a great movement’

Philip Kerr Managing Director of Innovas Consulting Ltd said: ‘It was a great experience to be involved in the inaugural G20 Young Entrepreneur Summit. The Summit was a huge success with nearly 200 delegates coming together from 20 countries to share their knowledge and experience. The Summit provided an excellent opportunity to make useful contacts with entrepreneurs in other countries. Several of these meetings now look set to lead to new trading opportunities for us in new markets, so the Summit was also very useful from a commercial perspective.’

Waqas Baggia, an award winning entrepreneur and co-founder of Kreative Iron commented: ‘It has been an honour to be at the forefront of entrepreneurship promotion and to contribute to global entrepreneurship strategy. Young entrepreneurs play a key role in economic development as they contribute fresh perspectives and develop innovative solutions to their respected industries.’

Alex Mitchell, IoD’s Head of Influencer Relations says: ‘The G20 Young Entrepreneur Summit highlighted the critical role that entrepreneurs play in our economies round the world, from job creation to solving some of the toughest challengers facing mankind. The UK has a rich heritage producing some of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs and inventions that have changed the world in which we live. We can and will play a leading role in supporting and enhancing global entrepreneurialism, ensuring the voice of the young entrepreneur is heard and listened to.’

Peter Grigg, Enterprise UK’s Head of Policy and Research says: ‘As we’ve heard from our Prime Minister, it’s essential that the G20 events are more than just talking shops. Young entrepreneurs and organisations that support them were able to agree on a pragmatic set of actions for G20 countries to implement that will support our future economies. The UK delegation was at the forefront of demonstrating how entrepreneurship can provide solutions to some of our deepest economic and social problems.’

The communiqué calls upon the governments of the G20 nations to both recognise that young entrepreneurs have the power to change their lives, their communities, their cultures and their countries and to support for the following five points:

Education and training - Our education systems have an essential role in enabling young entrepreneurs to acquire the knowledge and skills that they will need to succeed. Governments should encourage entrepreneurial education in our schools, colleges and universities and through non-traditional, community-based means.

Entrepreneurship culture - While entrepreneurship has transformed countless lives in all our countries, young people are often not aware of entrepreneurship as a possible career option. This is particularly the case with young women and those from marginalized groups. Some cultures also view business failure as shameful and not as a learning milestone that shapes and improves later entrepreneurial ventures. Examples of entrepreneurs who have overcome these and other challenges are powerful teachers and we encourage our governments to find ways to share these positive examples with young entrepreneurs.

Access to funding - Young entrepreneurs have great difficulty in gaining access to traditional sources of financing. Because they tend to have little experience and few assets, banks and other financial institutions tend to see them as too risky. And because they are starting from scratch, they are too small to be of interest to most angel investors and venture capitalists. Governments therefore should support alternative mechanisms and institutions that enable young entrepreneurs to access the capital they need.

Coordinated support - Young entrepreneurs do get help from a range of non-governmental organisations, private-sector initiatives, educational institutions and government agencies, but in many countries the resulting web of support is inefficient and inconsistent. Governments should encourage greater collaboration and cooperation among organisations across the public, private and non-profit sectors, both within our countries and across international boundaries.

Regulation and taxation - Founding a business is a daunting challenge for entrepreneurs in every country, but doubly so for young people. Complex regulations and administrative procedures, together with excessive taxation, can discourage young people from taking even the first step towards becoming an entrepreneur. Governments should reduce red tape and enact tax measures that will encourage young people to invest in new businesses and will help these businesses to grow.

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For further information please contact press@enterpriseuk.org or alex.mitchell@iod.com

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About the IoD

The Institute of Directors (IoD) is Europe’s largest membership organisation for business leaders. They have been representing senior level professionals since a Royal Charter in 1906, earning a trusted reputation as the business network for leadership.

The IoD supports its 44,000 members through 44 regional branches across the UK, and an international network that covers six continents. Its’ members are some of the most skilled and influential world leaders, from start-up entrepreneurs to directors in the public sector and CEOs of multinational organisations. www.iod.com

About Enterprise UK

Enterprise UK gives people the skills, confidence and ambition to be enterprising, through four programmes of work promoting enterprise for now and for the future, globally and locally.

It was founded as a campaigning organisation in 2004 by the British Chamber of Commerce, the Confederation of British Industry, the Institute of Directors and the Federation of Small Businesses. Back then their name was Enterprise Insight. It is primarily funded by the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS), and Peter Jones is Chair.

It is best known for running the Make Your Mark campaign, which encourages enterprising activity amongst young people, and co-founding Global Entrepreneurship Week (16-22 November), a worldwide movement of entrepreneurial people. www.enterpriseuk.org

About The Canadian Youth Business Foundation (CYBF)

The Canadian Youth Business Foundation (CYBF) is the „go to‟ place for youth entrepreneurship. As a national charity, they are dedicated to growing Canada’s economy one young entrepreneur at a time. They look at character not collateral, when providing youth, age 18-34, with pre-launch coaching, business resources, start-up financing and mentoring, to help them launch and sustain a successful.
entrepreneurial business. www.cybf.ca.

Next week I will be representing the UK along with 2 other young entrepreneurs at The G20 Youth Entrepreneur summit 2010. It was a great honour to even be considered for such an enormous meeting of Global leaders, presidents, prime ministers, executives and entrepreneurs. As I always say it’s not about affluence its about influence.

G20 Leaders of worlds most powerful nations.

For me the main purpose of my attendance is to create a voice for unheard individuals, for me its about protecting those that don’t have a voice, in Africa, India, Latin America, and other poor countries internationally. I strongly believe that as strong nations we need to give them the necessary tools to lift themselves out of poverty (not charity, not hand outs in terms of money) but more a focus to inspire entrepreneurial thinking, promote creativity, and develop a limitless potential in the minds of the young people. I have seen children in India begging for food when they approach you at the airport, I have been to parts of Africa where people are born into poverty but yet still are survivors being so entrepreneurial and driven to succeed.

Like William Kamkwamba, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8yKFVPOD6o&feature=related from Malawi who transformed his village by building electric windmills at the age of 14 after reading a book and copying the pictures all he did was have a dream of bringing electricity and running water to his village.

William Kamkwamba from Malawi, Africa created a windmill at age 14

He pursued his dream and activated belief that it could be done. Within the communities of the world we have so many young people that have the drive, determination and fearlessness to go out there and get it.

If we can give developing countries support to build enterprise and offer them skills to build up their nation, this will in turn help to develop future markets for all countries and will become key drivers of world economic growth, hence helping them to lift themselves out of poverty.

We can help to rebuild global prosperity if we act with a common sense of purpose, persistence and optimism. Now is the time that we should begin to pull together commercial businesses, charities, NGO’s and government. We are all citizens of the globe and we need to come together to reshape business to reflect values broader than simply the freedom of capital. Human progression is about much more than the rise or fall of countries national incomes. It is about creating an environment in which people can develop their full potential, move away from dependency on the system, lead productive lives, and develop creativity in accordance with their needs and interests.

This thing isn’t about money, this thing is about real people, living their lives to the fullest and restoring hope, belief and joy, its not money that is the wealth of a nation, its people. If we started to invest in people instead of banks imagine what we could achieve. Opportunity is all that people need. Human moral standards have diminished, people are focussed on the wrong things, they have become selfish, self centred and lovers of money. Its about time we began to invest in others and help broken nations instead of bleeding them of all their resources.

I encourage you to get involved in local councils and get to know the leadership with your areas, find out what is happening in politics, you have a voice, begin to use it. This is really a great opportunity and I pray I represent well.

The G20 was established in 1999, in the wake of the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis, to bring together the leaders of major advanced and emerging economies to stabilize the global financial market. Prime Ministers, Presidents, Business people and Entrepreneurs from the following G20 countries will be in attendance:

Member countries of the G20 include:
Argentina
Australia
Brazil
Canada
China
European Union
France
Germany
India
Indonesia
Italy
Japan
Mexico
Russia
Saudi Arabia
South Africa
Republic of Korea
Turkey
United Kingdom
United States

About G20 Summit

The G20 is a forum for international cooperation and consultation on financial and government matters. It studies, reviews, and promotes discussion among key industrial and emerging market countries of policy issues and seeks to address issues that go beyond the responsibilities of any one organization.
Heads of states of G20 members meet biannually at the G20 Summit, next taking place in Toronto, Canada on June 26–27, 2010.

From June 20-22, 2010, entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial experts from the G20 nations will gather to work towards creating a more entrepreneurial world. Young entrepreneurs are essential to global economic growth. These innovative young business owners will help lead the world’s marketplace to recovery and create the jobs necessary for communities everywhere to grow and flourish, both today and in the future.

The inaugural G20 Young Entrepreneur Summit is an opportunity to celebrate the successes of young entrepreneurs, to identify the challenges that face them, and to bring the importance of youth enterprise to the attention of the G20 leaders. This global alliance of leading entrepreneurship organizations from G20 nations will provide a voice for young business owners from all around the world, as well as the international audience to hear it.

The intention of this innovative convergence is to establish the Young Entrepreneur Summit as an annual event that, moving forward, that will be held in conjunction with all future official G20 Summits.

Faith is the most powerful thing you can have, never loose hope, never loose hope. Breakthrough is so near. Keep reaching, keep shining and never give up.

It’s funny how much hurt we can cause people we really value, in a moment of misunderstanding it can tear down a lifetime or even a short time of friendship. We constantly read and hear that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we rarely see that we should forgive our friends and family…

Sometimes we allow the slightest and most trivial things to get in the way of our joy.

Forgiveness is like freeing up and putting to better use the energy once consumed by holding grudges, harbouring resentments, and nursing unhealed wounds. It is rediscovering the strengths we always had and relocating our limitless capacity to understand and accept other people and ourselves. That is such a great power to have.

It’s crazy, we expect humans to be perfect, and when they behave in a way that does not fit our idea of being perfect we get upset. An ‘imperfect being’ will make mistakes, it is bound to happen. So we should endeavour to understand the concept that because we are ‘imperfect people’ we WILL make mistakes’ hence we will be prepared for when the mistake happens and because of our understanding it will be easier to forgive.

Our pride is the thing that gets in the way of forgiveness, it is far better to be humble than proud. Pride will never allow you to forget and pride without forgiveness is hate.

Forgiveness with humility is love.

Be a forgiving person, we progress through stages of being held by hate in order to get to a free state of forgiveness.

Hate is a chain that will eat you from inside out, let go of it and develop the process of learning how to forgive. Start with the smallest things first so that you can build up resilience to hate.

For example:

If somebody cuts you up on the road, try your hardest not to shout, and think to yourself; “maybe they are in an unfamiliar area and are following a GPS which made them react to the GPS instruction”.

This way you have forgiven without them even having to say sorry. You are applying understanding.

Try your hardest not to harbour bad feelings think about why you feel the way you do and then find a way to learn something from it and move on from there.

The emotional pain

Probably the hardest thing to deal with when we are speaking about forgiveness is the emotional pain attached to it. Emotional pain actually becomes physical pain, you feel it in the depths of your belly and sometimes it can be so deep that it stops you from even wanting to eat. The key thing most people will say is to not think about it, take your mind off it, don’t worry about it.

I say to try to go deeper into it. Face the challenge, experience the pain, cry through it, make friends with it, come to terms with it and then become free of it. The more familiar it becomes to you, the less impact it will have on you. If something or someone is causing you grief let them go in your mind. How you feel is unavoidable, its is far better for you to challenge it and fight the emotion than for you to be afraid of it.

You have a great deal of emotional power when you can learn how to delve into your pain as opposed to being frightened of it. It will be hard at first, but the road to healing will make it get easier and easier if you have the right attitude.

Get on with you.

Affirm positive statements daily and say things like; “I am stronger than my pain, I am the master of my own freedom, I am the master of my own peace.”

Choose to manifest the positive things in life and you will make your life a much happier place I leave you with a poem I found in a book.

“Nothing worth doing is completed in our own lifetime; therefore, we are saved by hope.

Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history;

therefore, we are saved by faith.

Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone. Therefore, we are saved by love.

No virtuous act is quite a virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or enemy as from our own; therefore, we are saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness.”

Learn to forgive build up a resilience to hate and free your mind!

If the people who control the present control the past, and the pepole who control the past control the future, this means that for all of us, the present is the most powerful moment in time. The present determines what memories we will bring to mind from the past thereby influencing all future events. Therefore, the present time in which we live is pregnant with possibilities…

Use the present time to your advantage, dont procrastinate, use every spare moment you have to focus on goals and aims feed your mind with the right type of knowledge found in the word and get connected, use it as a philosophical base to build upon. ..

Your philosophy determines your thought pattern;
Your thought pattern determines your attitude;
Your attitude determines your behaviour pattern; and your behaviour pattern determines your actions..
All of your actions are derived from your thought patterns, which are influenced by what you beleive to be true - your philosophy..

Be great.. its what you have been called to be..

My philosophy is you can only get better, try harder and achieve more..
Your creative potential is already in you.. Just reach for it people!

Nate