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  • Fall In Love With Life Glossary

    So, when I was putting the finishing touches to my book, I realised that there are some British-isms in there, some Brummie-isms, and basically some words and phrases that the world at large may not understand at all. It felt like a step too far to put a glossary in the book, but I thought…

  • Hear Your Heart’s Whispers

    Your heart is always whispering to you. It sends you messages of love and joy and possibility and yearning, and the more you ignore it, the more it hurts. You cannot fall in love with your life if you ignore your heart completely. Your heart wants to be heard. It wants you to know how…

  • Laugh Easily and Often (and for no good reason!)

    Do you remember when you were a kid and you would start laughing with your friends…then someone would say ‘what are you laughing at?’ and the laughter would redouble…because you didn’t know what you were laughing at, you were just laughing. For no good reason. Which makes the puzzled person standing opposite you, asking what…

  • What To Do When Your Brain Is Fried

    Last week I had a wonderful creative week, I was totally in the flow, I was feeling good, inspired, excited about my work, loving life, getting to the end of this phase of my book (the 2nd draft read-through and 1st edit)…and because I was so busy galloping towards the finish line, I forgot to…

  • Put Your Friends At The Top Of Your Priority List

    You gotta have friends.  More than that, you gotta make time to see and speak to those friends.  Friends make you laugh, allow you to vent your frustrations, they support, encourage and celebrate your successes, and they bring the best out in you.  If that’s not worth making the time for, I don’t know what…

  • Put On Your Sparkly, Rainbow Coloured Glasses and See The Wonder In The World

    There’s beauty all around.  Can you see it?  Yeah, on a drizzly grey cold miserable day it’s tough to see the wonder in anything, but look anyway.  Make the effort to see the magical, the wondrous, the beauty around you.  It’s in people, in animals, in the natural world, even in the man-made world.  Stop…

  • Slowing Down To Speed Up

    My car is very unforgiving. If you’re in too high a gear for the speed or gradient, the power goes, completely. You can have your foot flat to the floor and it will be as if 90% of the power to the engine is just not available. It tells me, very clearly that I am…

  • How To Wake Up Loving Life

    Let me be clear – I am NOT a morning person – I am not naturally chipper and chirpy before I’ve been awake for an hour or so, but I do know that how you’re woken up makes a big difference to how you feel. One of my biggest rants in life is about the…

  • You’re Not A Hippo, So Stop Wallowing

    A Hippo may love to wallow in mud, but you my dear, are not a hippo…and you do not need to wallow in things that are getting you down, situations that are pissing you off, or relationship issues where someone is being an asshat. It’s ok to have a bit of a rant or process…

  • Guest Post: All Your Goals Can Fit, Just Go For It

    I have a treat for you today – a guest post from the lovely Kendra Kantor, whose story showss that dreams can take you in all sorts of wonderful directions if you let them. A few years ago, I was a young girl who had lost her dream in life I had just dropped out…