Tuesday, 16 August 2011

How to get a "healthy balance"



Think about the consequence before the action.
Everything in moderation.
Stand on the outside and look in to gain perspective.
Make one change at a time.
Enjoy simple pleasures.
Make decisions right for you by you.
Work to live don't live to work.
Slip off the wagon then jump back on without hesitation.
Move and think in equal amounts.
Get enough quality sleep.

Easy to write it all....Personal trainers are human too, that elusive balance is of course what keeps us in work but also what we yearn for us. In fact seeing it all day every day as people try and fit everything in, in the right amounts for them only compounds how rich the nirvana of a balanced, soul filled equilibrium can be.....

Tuesday, 2 August 2011

One of these days i'll get really annoyed ;)

Brighton and Hove city council

PO Box 4680

Worthing

BN119GR


25th July 2011


PCN: BH59169776

Served: 21/07/11 on vehicle MA02 XAX


Dear Sirs,

I am perplexed as to why after buying a valid ticket for my vehicle I returned within the period I had paid for to find a ticket on my car.

I can only assume it was because I had to weigh the ticket down with coins to prevent it from blowing off the dashboard.....a previous “offence” I have had to cough up for twice before after closing my door and the gust taking the ticket off the dash.

This time I believed I was acting cunningly after you rejected my contest on the last occasions even when I sent said blown ticket in to you for validation I am now at a loss of what to do without the sticky backs you used to supply.

I am sure the sticky backs probably save you a huge amount in the parking revenue empire you have built....however, taking additional revenue from these kinds of “offences” seems just about as unreasonable as the blood sucking housing benefit tenant you are supposed to be paying rent for in the flat I worked my balls off for yet now covered her rent for the 6th month on the trot.

I can assure you as a personal trainer I don’t earn enough money to pay for her, my own mortgage, these ridiculous parking charges I feed your meters with every time I pull up to a clients house throughout the day AND fees in these tickets you insist on issuing me for contraventions that seem to bypass any kind of personable filter you, your computer or your beautifully handpicked wardens could have implemented. Who by the way all seem to have skipped the class where you taught the value of integrity, communication and how to use a hairbrush.....or was that another cut you had to make.

I hope that this puts a smile on someone’s face today as I have enjoyed writing it, although for the £25 its going to cost me I would have preferred to say it to your face but your office has shut, another cut I suppose?

Cold heartedly right back at ya

Kirstin Ahmed