Category: Blog posts

  • Podcast: What Your Favourite Olympian Can Teach You About Your Big Dream

    Were you as inspired as I was by this year’s Olympic Games? I was so inspired by the commitment, the courage, the tenacity, the determination, the dedication, the hard work…and their humility! I had so many favourite Olympians I couldn’t even name them all – Mo Farah, Oscar Pestorius, Jess Ennis, Victoria Pendleton, Katherine Grainger,…

  • Announcing the September Daily Practice: Feel How You Feel

    This practice, may, at first look, seem a bit of an odd one. After all, how can you feel anything other than what you feel? But so often, we do not allow ourselves to feel how we feel – either because the emotion is a ‘bad’ one, or because there’s no point feeling joyful because…

  • August Daily Practice Wrap Up: Farting Around

    So how have you got on with this month’s practice of Farting Around? Have you struggled to Fart Around? Have you embraced the practice wholeheartedly, Farting Around with wild abandon? I have been mixed with this practice – some days I’ve been happy to Fart Around with ease…and some days I’ve been glad of the…

  • Control the Controllable

    It’s another Olympic Inspired Post! Sorry, I’ll get over the Olympics soon…honest. I have been fascinated by the interviews with the Olympic athletes. Their stories are often inspirational, they have a great mindset, and they have a lot of great wisdom that translates into ‘ordinary’ life. Here’s another one: Control the Controllable How often do…

  • Follow Your Instincts

    How many times have you not followed your instincts and realised with hindsight that you really should have done? We’ve all been there haven’t we, our inner wisdom is gently whispering ‘do this’, and we let fear, logic, or over-thinking stop us. Take my monthly newsletter for example. I know that a change needs to…

  • Bitch-Slapping Versus Back-Slapping

    So when was the last time you praised yourself? When did you last shout about your achievements? When did you last give yourself a big slap on the back for a job or a life well done? Seriously, when was the last time? And when was the last time you gave yourself grief for getting…

  • You Should Do This Challenge

    What should you be doing? Instead of reading this? Instead of relaxing? Instead of having a nice weekend? Instead of enjoying your life? Possible answers: working; doing chores; visiting family; making things happen. “Should” really is a cruel word. It manages to make you feel guilty, lazy, unsuccessful, and bad about yourself in just 6…

  • Olympic Gold in Baby Steps

    Olympic Gold in Baby Steps

    You may have heard about the success of the British Cycling Team this Olympics. If not, they got 7 track cycling gold medals. Pretty good, eh? So good, that the talk from the rest of the world was ‘how are they doing it’ with the implication that GB cycling had some kind of magic advantage…

  • Whose Idea Was Growing Up, Maturing, Getting Serious?

    At what point did you stop being silly? At what age did you lose your sense of the ridiculous? When did the absurd, bizarre and comic become less important than your responsibilities and duties? When did you Grow Up, Mature, Get Serious? Can you pinpoint the age you were when you stopped laughing so much?…

  • Do You Believe In You?

    In an interview I watched over the course of the Olympics, one of the coaches was asked what the most important factor was in the success of these athletes.                     Belief He said that you could see the athletes who didn’t believe they could do it…