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  • Obstacle Busting: Don’t Know What to Do

    This one feels like the Mount Everest of obstacles, because when you don’t know, you don’t know…but it’s actually one of the easiest obstacles to get over, because all you need to do is find out what to do. Simple, eh? It’s not always that easy, I know that, but thanks to the internet, it’s…

  • Obstacle Busting: A Personal Earthquake or Seismic Change in Your Life

    Sometimes life throws a grenade into your world, causing everything to shift and change. Something happens that stops you in your tracks, distracts you, takes up all your time and attention, and all the work you’ve done on your dreams sits in a corner gathering dust. It happens to us all. Life is unpredictable and…

  • Obstacle Busting: Energy and Health Issues

    There are times in most of our lives when our health and energy become a problem – to the point that it gets in the way of us having the most magnificent life possible. Those damn bodies of ours, right? Er, no. Listen, your body is the machine that gets it all done, so taking…

  • Obstacle Busting: Getting on a Negative Train of Thought

    Have you ever noticed the destinations of your trains of thought? Are they positive trains that make you feel good about yourself and your life? Or are they negative trains of thought that lead you directly to The Land of I Suck? For example, when you start on the train of thought: “This chapter isn’t…

  • Obstacle Busting: Life Getting in the Way

    You know what it’s like – there’s so much to do, you’re so very busy and important. Week after week after week you find you ran out of time to do anything with anything…and 3 weeks later you have zero recollection of what you were doing in all that ‘very important busy work’. How on…

  • Obstacle Busting: Never Getting Started and Not Taking Action

    Aah, the joys of a dream, what fun to imagine living on that beach, writing that book, creating that business, moving to the farm in the country. Such fun to imagine what we want in life…but then, turning the romantic ideal into reality…suddenly it feels like work. Or we don’t know what to do. Or…

  • Obstacle Busting: No Time

    It’s time for another chapter from the book “Obstacle Busting” that I’m currently working on editing. This one’s another one that’s come up a lot from the lovely people who’ve been sharing what obstacles are in the way of them creating a life they love – no time. Oh boy, if I had a pound…

  • Obstacle Busting: Fear

    For the next few weeks, I’ll be sharing chapters from my new book (while I’m feverishly working on the final drafts, edits, formatting, promotion and all that guff!). I’ve been asking what’s getting in the way of you creating the life you want to live so I can share the most relevant chapters and help…

  • Do You Fight or Fold in the Face of Adversity

    Watching wimbledon the other week, a commentator said the difference between the great and the good was the ability to fight back in the face of adversity. Some players, at 2 sets down against the greatest players in the world will drop their heads, lose belief…and that final set will be a walkover. Some players,…

  • All Credit to Those Who Show Up For Life

    So, did you watch Wimbledon this year? Here in the UK, we have the number one ranked male player in the world, Andy Murray, who unfortunately due to injury, was not able to progress past the quarter finals this year. And as usual, the keyboard critics jumped in – he didn’t try, he’s a shit…