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  • Are You Using Your Sanity Toolkit This Holiday Season?

    Holidays are coming, holidays are coming…and the lead up to the holidays is full of that insane energy of excitement plus too much to do plus pressure of making this year awesome plus (in the Northern Hemisphere anyway) the energy of winter encouraging hibernation just at the time you need to be DOING on speed.…

  • Build Yourself Up, Don’t Tear Yourself Down

    I was talking to a client the other day who’d had a good meeting with a new client, they were happy the client had got a lot from it, they had enjoyed it…but then they started second-guessing, undermining and taking away from themselves. Yeah it might have gone well, but they should have gone deeper,…

  • Moving From Anxious Jelly on a Plane to Being a More Confident Traveller

    Here’s something you may not know about me: now and again I get quite bad anxiety. Not “can’t leave the house, too terrified” anxiety, more “the plane will crash, bad things will happen” anxiety. By nature, I’m not really an anxious person, so when these thoughts come, they tend to kick my ass because I’m…

  • Learn To Trust Yourself

    Someone asked me the other day what my best advice would be for anyone starting their own business. After ‘persevere your ass off’ came ‘learn to trust yourself’. And actually, this is the most important thing you can learn to do. You do have to persevere to get anywhere…but this is a lot easier and…

  • Breathe, Slow Down, Unclench, Relax, Let Go of the Reins

    Last week I was getting myself into a super-tizzy. The same super-tizzy I swore last year I’d never do again after nearly sending myself into a nervous breakdown over self-imposed deadlines. But this time was a little different…this time there was an awareness that this path does not lead to good places – it’s stressful,…

  • Getting Smacked in the Face by the Giving Up Thought

    Have you ever had ‘the Giving Up Thought’? You know, that thought where you have been chasing your dreams forever and you get deflated like a popped balloon for some reason and just want to give up and forget that you ever wanted more from your life? The ‘Giving Up Thought’ makes you want to…

  • When You’re Finished, But Not Quite Finished

    So, I finished the project I’ve been working on for the last …oh, months! Yay! Well, you’d think it’d be ‘yay’…but actually it’s “yay! I’m finished…except for these last few bits. Bugger”. That’s the thing that pisses me off about being finished…you’re never quite finished. I mean, there’s an end point you work towards –…

  • Love Your Life, Even When It’s ‘Boring’

    I’ve been reading “The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tale of Fred, the Vampire Accountant” (it’s just as good as it sounds)…a story about a boring accountant who was turned into a vampire. He ‘wakes up’ not turned into the glamourous, Hollywood vampire, but himself still…only with a strong aversion to sunlight and silver. It got…

  • Finishing a Project Takes Time Whether You Like it or Not

    I had a bit of a smackdown from my soul last week. Every day I check in with mind, body, heart and soul in my morning pages to see what my inner wisdom is sharing with me. Last week I had been moaning about the fact that the final bit of my Create a Life…

  • Are You “Too Busy” For a Self-Care Day?

    I realised last week I had not taken my self-care days in September. (Because I didn’t have one before July, I’m trying to make up for it by having a couple a month). So in the last couple of days of the month, I’ve squeezed in a long, lazy lunch with friends and an appointment…