Hattie Hasan

To explain, picture this..
Imagine the brain is working like a movie on a spool showing at an old time picture house.
There are a certain number of frames per second running by the lens.
If you've ever wondered why time is perceived as it is, then wonder no more.

In my twenties I was involved in a motorcycle accident where I was thrown off the bike and went somersaulting over the boot of a car.
It happened in slow motion.
To the people at the side of the road, I guess it happened in a split second.

However, I can recall flying through the air.
I remember having time to think, 'I've got to tuck my head in and roll'.
I even had time to actually, do the things I'd thought about.
As a result, I rolled off the boot of the car and suffered no physical injury at all.

The adrenalin that was released at the time of impact served to speed up my 'frames per second', making me experience the event in apparent slow motion.

Since, deciding that Stopcocks will be the 'fastest growing women's plumbing company in the UK, time has felt so slow.
The calendar tells me it's only been five weeks, but my brain feels like it's been an age.

Time for me to take stock.
What have I done to make the dream a reality?
First, I have identified the dream.
The plumbing company,
The Global Water Management,
There is a third goal which is actually a by product of the other two.

Every girl wishing to be a plumber in the future can be a Stopcocks plumber.
I have communicated with the universe about the things I need and those things have shown themselves to me.
I have believed and lived, the dream and every day have been rewarded.
I thank so many people, and so many things for their part in this great adventure.

I call out to women plumbers, who believe, as I do that their very existence IS making a difference to the world.
Let us start the work, and leave it as a legacy for our children.
It has begun.
The Time is Now!

I met an extraordinarily 'good' young woman yesterday.

She had found me in her search to become a plumber and she came for an interview.

I felt her integrity straight away. She was so full of respect and love for her family.

As she spoke about her dreams for her future and that of her family I saw a strength in her that impressed me so much that I offered her a place in our company with open arms.
She is only 18, she hasn't started her plumbing training yet.
She has all the quality and all the integrity, and total commitment to her passion and purpose, I could possibly have hoped for.

I have met so many 'good' people over the past few weeks.

I met a couple who, instead of asking for wedding gifts, requested a collection be made to have a reservoir built in an Indian village. They were so successful in their collection that a bore hole was also funded to enable that village to have water all year round.
I have the fortune to be an honorary member of their family. Hi guys! You know who you are.

The number of 'good' people that I have come into contact with in the last few weeks since beginning my journey into business has been truly awesome.
Everytime I focus my thoughts towards what I need next, the person, or the resource shows itself to me.

I can hardly get over how exciting and how wonderful this whole journey is becoming for me.

The reality of "Stopcocks" the Fastest growing Women's Plumbing Company in the UK is beginning to take shape.

A bien tot...

Water, that ever changing,ever moving substance. The very same substance that through it's cycles formed the atmosphere in which life could begin.

If only David Attenborough could've been there to give us the blow by blow (or should that be flow by flow?), in his brilliant hushed tones. It would be a few million years before people arrived. Until then, water ruled. To the first forms of microscopic life, I guess water felt as vast as the universe does to us. Ever present and never ending.

The amount of water that was created all those millions of years ago is, incredibly, the SAME amount that exists today!

All that water we drink, or wash in, or hide under an umbrella to avoid has been here before. It's seen it all, done it all and if it could, it would've bought the T-shirt.

I imagine a single drop of water has travelled more miles than all the human race put together.

I would like to think that the water I am drinking today was once falling in the Himalayas, or once part of the ice that melted across the Bering Straits.

Perhaps it was, and perhaps it also passed through the gullets of dinosaurs, and along the body of a blue whale. I can dream can't I?

In some way it seems a shame to trap this fantastic element in closed central heating systems. The consolation is I suppose that it still gets to move around albeit a very boring journey. No wonder it breaks out at any opportunity and runs under your floor boards.

The saddest sight has to be stagnant water. Water that has no movement, water that has no life.

This has got to be the most unnatural thing of all.

Sadly, there are places where water has no life. Where the life in it has been destroyed by chemicals, put there by people.

Global Water Management aims to work out how the effects of pollution can be reversed.

WATER IS LIFE.

As children we don't have these filters. Infants are constantly exploring the world through the senses alone. What does it look like, feel like, smell like, taste like?

As we grow and are able to utter sounds they fascinate us. We want to make them again and again.

Children experience moments as they happen. A child can easily be distracted from pain after they've grazed their knee. They can just as easily be focused upon it depending on the reaction shown by those around them.

How is this possible? A pain is a pain right?
Sure, a pain is a pain, and then it's gone. It's our memory of it and our focus upon it that keeps it alive.

How comes a memory or a smell can bring up things that are long in the past?

We store so much in our unconscious mind that can be invoked in a split second. It's gone, it doesn't REALLY exist, yet we can feel the same emotion as if we are re-living all over again.

There is a syndrome, false limb syndrome. The arm/leg aches, or itches, yet there is no arm/leg.
The unconscious mind has been hard wired to believe the limb is there. When the limb is gone the unconscious doesn't 'know' this.

The unconscious mind does not distinguish between the real, imagined, made up or remembered.

Now, you may think this is a hopeless situation.

In fact, it is a very hope-full situation indeed. It means that we can re-train, or re-program our unconscious to believe something else is true.

The fact is, it takes just 21 days to re-wire a pathway in the brain.
A person with certain 'brain damage' can re-learn to say speak, or walk, or recognize numbers. The brain re-configures it's neural net to make this possible. But only if the individual wants it to happen.

Without the will, there is no way.

When we first learn a new skill, like walking, riding a bike, driving a car. We use all our senses to concentrate on that task. As we do it more and more, it becomes automatic. We no longer need to 'think' about it. Our neural pathways have been re-wired. Or should I say we have re-wired it.

Sound crazy? Maybe, but try it.

Be present. Experience life through your senses. Enjoy every thing you see, hear, feel, taste and smell. Notice that when you do this, you not only take in more of what is around you, but also, as you take notice of your emotional state too, you'll find that in those moments of being 'present' you are not thinking about your problems. Now, do this every day. Do it all the time. Do it constantly for 21 days.
While you are doing this you're living in 'appreciation'.
We live in a world full of beauty.
We may have grown up, but the beauty is still here.

I PROMISE you, as you start to live in appreciation, and you start to re-wire your unconscious mind to form this as your new habit, your life will change in ways that you couldn't imagine.
With all your senses alive and active, you'll notice when it does.

21 days to begin to change your life.

Personally... I'm on day 15.