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  • OnTheBeach: Don’t Wait For Burnout To Hit

    Last week I talked about taking recovery time when you needed it which seemed to hit a chord with many of you, this week I want to take the subject even further and talk about avoiding BURNOUT! You see, despite having 2 days off last week, I still ended the week feeling exhausted, and by…

  • Recovery Time Is Not Just For Operations and Little Old Ladies!

    I like to make a joke that I am a little old lady (and have been since the age of about 25!) and I need my nap time, rest time and recovery time. In my late twenties I was diagnosed with chronic fatigue, and I thought that was why I needed so much recovery time…

  • Getting Back Into A Routine After Life Has Turned Upside Down

    Life has a habit of turning upside down every now and again. You’re going along, cheerfully whistling your way through life and BOSH! Your hard drive dies. Or BOSH! You are made redundant. Or BOSH! Illness strikes you or a loved one. And life goes pear-shaped.    As you know (only too well,…

  • When Plan A Doesn’t Work

    One of my all-time favourite sayings is “when plan A doesn’t work, remember there’s another 25 letters to go”. As you know, I’ve had some traumas of late with technology. Plan A was to try recovering my data myself. It failed. Plan B was for a friend of mine to take out the hard drive…

  • Dreams To Reality Podcast: Acclimatize Yourself To Your Big Dream

    You’ve found out what your big dream is…now what? Aaaaargh! Don’t worry! Relax. Take the time to acclimatize yourself to your big dream. Give yourself a chance to get used to it, sniff around it, feel how you feel about it, ruminate, consider, and ponder. To listen to this week’s podcast, click here: Acclimatize Yourself…

  • OnTheBeach: Keep Your Stuff Safe

    Picture, for a moment, the scene: The Blue Screen Of Death Pops up, your computer switches itself off…and WON’T SWITCH BACK ON. Imagine the horror of realising that ALL your photos, e-mails, documents, videos, music is inaccessible. All the programs you use are gone. All your bookmarks in your internet browser are gone. Including the…

  • August Daily Practice: Let Yourself Off The Hook

    During my trip to Tenerife, I had such expectations of myself that I would do loads of work, and loads of yoga, and loads of meditation, and loads of other stuff that I would do if I was perfect. After 3 weeks of trying and failing to live up to my own impossible expectations I…

  • Podcast: What’s Wrong With Me?

    If you ever think “what’s wrong with me?”, I want you to know there is nothing wrong with you! You’re just asking the wrong question. The question you want to ask is “what do I need to learn, clear or do?” Maybe you’re missing a vital part of the puzzle – the mortar that holds…

  • OnTheBeach: Stop Thinking It’s You

    Have you ever had this experience? You find a new ‘system’ for success/making money/time management/dieting or whatever…and you try it and it doesn’t work? So you perhaps try again and it still doesn’t work. So you blame yourself for being lazy, good for nothing, stupid, having no willpower, being in the wrong somehow and everyhow.…

  • Podcast: Keeping Yourself In Peak State and Your Big Dream

    There is a natural ebb to your flow – staying in Peak State ALL the time is not natural. In order to stay in Peak State as much as possible, you need rest time. Sometimes it’s not a natural ebb, but something getting in the way of your Peak State. I recommend the 3 Pillars:…