'Failure' Makes You Stronger & MORE Determined!

A little inspiration & empowerment for anyone who's life went 'tits up' at some point.. A few years ago, I had a shop which I worked hard for & put my heart & soul into, I LOVED it, I was so proud of what I had a achieved. 
After 18 months, it all went pear shaped, through my own stupid choices at that time... I lost everything & more, spiralled into debt, lost my car, my shop, some treasured possessions, and even nearly lost our home. Downward spirals happen VERY fast!! I did wallow in self pity for a while, I manifested arthritis in my hands to hamper & blame myself even more, I felt like a failure and that I had let everyone down, everyone I loved. (tears while typing this lol) Then I learned about Law of Attraction, a little too late to recover my losses, but I learned how to face fear & pick myself back up again... and again.... and again, several business's I attempted failed, costing even more... money, heartache, pride.. 
Then one day, I met Susie Mitchell & Lynda Clarke, they told me about something called Juice Plus.. fruit & veg in capsules they told me!! Blimey, this sounds good, and even better, there was a business behind it!!!... if you have entrepreneur tendencies its hard to resist opportunities, Miles, my other half puts his head in his hands "what is she up to now, just another opportunity that I will have to pick up the pieces ... again" I could understand that, as he has done time & time again bless him. 
At the time, Susie had just achieved the position of Qualifying Marketing Director, WOW, I was in awe of this, sounded proper posh!! & she wanted ME in her business, with Lynda. OMG, It was only £65 to get started, I knew Miles wouldnt be impressed, but that he would support me anyway, so I took the plunge, with the lovely Lynda Clarke as my upline. 
And now, im reflecting (as you have probably guessed)... Its taken me 2 years, but after all the tough times & experiences I had to deal with, the fears, the failures, the ups & downs, the tears & frustrations, I stood up & dusted myself down, cleared out the negative crap in my mind, and am very proud to look back and see how far I have come, what I have achieved in the last 2 years, ive completely turned my life around, my arthritis has almost gone, thanks to the nutrition from our product, Im a Qualifying National Marketing Director with The Juice Plus Company for f**ks sake!!! With over 150 team members in my downlines, across UK, France, Spain, USA, Canada, Australia... ME, little Alison Hamlin-Hughes from Widnes. I have achieved this, who would have thought!! Why & how? because I learned to BELIEVE in myself, I learned how to HELP other people, I learned to SHARE my skills, I CARE about people, I took my power back, I have a brilliant team & amazing mentors. I hope that this little story will empower other people who feel that they have failed, to get back up, dust themselves down & turn their lives around too. If you want me to help you, just let me know... that is what I do!

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Do You Remember Being Made To Write 100 Lines in School?

I was thinking about this subject while on a very relaxing train journey just the other day. From all the learning and personal development I have been doing over the last couple of years, I am very aware of how powerful positive affirmations are. My main 'inspire-res' are Wayne Dyer & Louise hay when it comes to affirmation stuff, and I am so grateful to them for sharing their knowledge with me & the rest of the World.

Affirmations are powerful even if you just keep thinking them, but if you write them down they become even more powerful, it reiterates the thought, because you have focused enough to write the words down, and now you can see the words as well, read them out loud, and then you can hear them too, can you see why it is more powerful?

While I was thinking about the affirmations my mind wandered off to my school days, which were certainly not the best days of my life (another story there!!) going back to  junior school, I can remember on several occasions have to write 'lines' do you remeber them? If we were 'naughty' we had to write out 100 times, something along the lines of " I must not daydream" (as if that was naughty!!!!)(Ask Steven Spielberg lol)      "I must not speak unless spoken too"    A very old fashioned thing, BUT, it is what we got taught as kids in those days (Im only 50 by the way). The teacher probably meant for us not to speak  in the class room, but the words would always be remebered by the child, and they would have written it down (which means they have thought it & seen it) ONE HUNDRED times, can you just imagine how powerful that is? and the effect it would have on the child every time he or she wanted to say something or ask for something, those words would their in the subconsious.... stopping them speaking out (anyone with thyroid problems!!!!).

I started to think then, that if some kids had been given 100 lines, something like....

"I don't deserve....................... OMG How damaging would be!  When we say/see/hear something over and over like that, it becomes a belief, and that is the 'truth' that we live by forever, unless we become aware of it and begin to consciously change it.  Your conscious mind may not be aware these old negative affirmations any more , but your sub-conscious mind sure as hell is! And that is what led me to write this blog post..

Can you remember what '100 lines' you ever wrote at school?  Let me know, im very interested in any feedback here.

Thank heavens for therapies like EFT that we can use to reverse these limiting beliefs!

I hope this post inspires some of you to reflect on any limiting believes, or false premises you may have, and start to clear them away.... moving forwards

Don't forget to let me know what your '100 lines' where (if you have any of course!)

Bye for now ((((Smiles)))))

Alison x

Put Your Business In Your Suitcase & Travel ~ Woo Hoo

Ive not written this blog for a while, but felt inspired to revitalize it today and tell you all about my mega exciting plans.


Its great when you can 'put your business in your pocket' and take it traveling with you! The combination of my JuicePlus business and my Free Spirited nature allows me to do just that!


Exciting news today ~ I have just confirmed that I am DEFINITELY going to Arizona again this year. This time im really going to feel the heat as am going in peak season.... woooo hoooooo roll on sunshine & blue skies. cant wait to see my lovely family over there.
It will also be my son's 18th so we are planning a Road Trip to celebrate that... not sure where yet but we have a few ideas :) Starting in Phoenix...


Its easy to travel when you work from your laptop!! tFind out how you can join my team ....