Category: Articles
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My Word of the Year 2016…ALLOW
This, it appears, will be the year to allow… For the last few years, my word of the year has chosen me. In the past, I chose a word – something like fun, abundance, creativity, joy…something I wanted to activate in my life. But in recent years, a word has jumped out at me –…
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Celebrate 2015…and Merry Christmas!
If I were to ask you what you have accomplished in 2015, what would you say? Would you proudly list all your achievements, large and small? Would you need to think for a moment, then give a few big things that you have accomplished? Or would you instantly say ‘nothing’? Many people will say ‘nothing’.…
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Bewildered by all the Goal-Setting Tools? Find What Feels Good
Social media feeds are full to the brim right now with goal setting stuff for the New Year…all claiming that without their system you will never succeed. Ugh. Ok, confession time, I will be one of them (Create and Live Your Vision is how I do my yearly planning) but one thing you can guarantee…
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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.…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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 –…