Category: Articles

  • OnTheBeach: Go With The Flow of Your Life

    How much do you go with the flow of your life? How much time do you spend paying attention to how you feel and honouring that? How often do you stop and acknowledge “aaah, the energy is ebbing, let me honour that“? If you are like most of us, you don’t. You instead actively go…

  • OnTheBeach: Add a Spoonful of Sugar to Your Life

    So, have you been setting your goals for the year? Making resolutions? Telling yourself that THIS is the year, this is YOUR year, the time is now to do all the things you haven’t done for the last 5 years? Hey, don’t get me wrong – you’ll get no criticism from me. I used to…

  • OnTheBeach: Are You Sensationalising Your Life?

    Imagine that you are writing the story of your life for a tabloid newspaper – what scandal, gossip and sensationalism can you come up with? How can you exaggerate the things that happen in your life? Are you on the brink of bankruptcy? Is the sky about to fall in? Don’t worry about the truth…

  • OnTheBeach: What Do You Really Want For Your Life?

    I am currently working on an e-workshop for the new year about Creating Your Vision For Your Life and to celebebrate its impending release, I’m doing a 4-blog series looking at each section of the workshop. Today, VISION. So, what do you really want for your life? I mean, what do you really, really, really…

  • OnTheBeach: A Deadline Is Not Supposed to Actually Kill You!

    OnTheBeach: A Deadline Is Not Supposed to Actually Kill You!

    On Friday last week I had a panic and an epiphany – the panic was thanks to two insomnia-fuelled ‘bad’ work days – bad as in I couldn’t concentrate or focus, didn’t get as much done as I had hoped to do, could see my deadlines slipping away, everything I did took at least twice…

  • OnTheBeach: Don’t Curse the Dark, Light a Lamp

    When I did my daily practice of Laughter in October 2012, I came across a video from Dr Madan Kataria, the founder of Laughter Yoga, in which he talked about the ancient Indian wisdom which says ‘don’t curse the dark, light a lamp’. Most of us have a tendency to curse the dark, to complain…

  • OnTheBeach: 100 Things You Love About You

    At the end of September, Allison Crow had a free Doodle Meditation event on Facebook – it was her Manifestation and Meditation with Markers Chakra Series. I love these doodle meditations – I love the colour, I love the chance to just doodle and draw and use coloured pens. And doing the course reminded me…

  • 10 Lessons From The Forevaaaaah Process of Getting My Book Out in The World

    10 Lessons From The Forevaaaaah Process of Getting My Book Out in The World

    As you may know, I’ve just released the print version of my book “Fall in Love With Life“. The process seemed to take forevaaaaaaaaaaaah…and this is the article I wrote 7 weeks into the editing process. Oh. My. God. This process is taking FOREVAAAAAAAAH. I finished the book on August 6th. And I haven’t even…

  • Hear Your Heart’s Whispers

    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!)

    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…