Rasheda Khatun, philanthropist, public speaker and life planner, was not always celebrating her life, but something made her change.

RASHEDA KHATUN’S PASSION FOR celebrating life derives from her experience of facing death. She has experienced first-hand the gift of life and now lives each moment with joy. It is her daily mission to motivate everyone else to do the same.

Wake up with me every morning and join me in my 6 essential steps to having an incredible day!

1) Stretch your body from head to toe. Circulate your head round 10X one way and then the other. Move your shoulders up and down and around 10X. Stretch your arms up and reach for the sky, stretching your rib cage on each side. Move your hips round in a circle, 10X in one direction and then 10X in the other. Join your knees together and make a little circle whilst bending your knees – do it 10X. Keep your legs straight and let your body fall forward. Reach for your toes and keep bouncing forward giving the back of your legs a good old stretch.

A beautiful friend of mine passed away last night. She journeyed with cancer for 5 years. Each year as we donated at the Celebration Of Life Charity ball to help cancer patients with medical care and support, I did so with all those friends battling it out in mind. In hope that somehow I’m contributing to their lives too.

I write this in memory of Kerry Aldridge, always full of smiles, laughter and joy. How we ever got any work done together, I don’t know ;-)