Category: Articles

  • Are you ‘Little Miss I Can’t’ or Mr Impossible?

    My favourite Mr Men character when I was little (and now) is Mr Impossible – who does impossible things. All the time. I love it when people do preposterous things – I love it when they break free of impossibility and just do it anyway. Because so many of us decide that something is inconceivable…

  • OnTheBeach: Don’t Wake the Sleeping Lion!

    I like to talk to my clients in imagery. Images make sense out of things that normal words and sentences make complicated…like the image of a sleeping lion. You know that if you wake a sleeping lion, you’re likely to get your head bitten off. If you wake the lion, he will roar. And that’s…

  • OnTheBeach: 10 Tips For Getting Through to Christmas Without Losing All Your Marbles

    OnTheBeach: 10 Tips For Getting Through to Christmas Without Losing All Your Marbles

    So, today I felt like that character in Ice Age – you know the one who is always chasing the acorn and being really stressed out and hyperventilatey? Scrat. That was me! And I had to text a couple of friends to arrange stuff…and they were kinda the same too…and I’m guessing that we’re not…

  • OnTheBeach: Exceed Your Own Expectations

    Early last week I was watching one of my favourite films (again) – Invictus – the story of Nelson Mandela and the South African Rugby team and the rugby world cup. It’s a wonderfully inspiring film. One of the lines caught my imagination “We must all exceed our own expectations” – and I decided to…

  • OnTheBeach: 14 Lessons From Ye Meltdowne

    OnTheBeach: 14 Lessons From Ye Meltdowne

    Oh joy! Rapture! I am no longer cuddling rock bottom! Phew. It’s been an interesting time, lemme tell ya. Ok, I’ll be honest, it frigging sucked! Meltdowns do suck. I wouldn’t wish them on my worst enemy. But, once they’re over, and the goldfish memory starts to kick in and erase the pain and awfulness…

  • OnTheBeach: Not a Good Time To Make Life-Changing Decisions

    OnTheBeach: Not a Good Time To Make Life-Changing Decisions

    So, how are you feeling right now? Are you loving life? Are you full of beans and joie de vivre? Or have the winter blues set in deeply for you? I have spoken to quite a few people in the last few weeks who are in crisis mode – either they’re having their bi-yearly meltdown…

  • OnTheBeach: 12 Lessons a ‘Bounce to the Music’ Goal Can Teach You

    So, we’re another week closer to my gig week – and a week further into my bouncing training. (if you missed this last week, next week I am going to 2 gigs and I want to be fit enough to bounce along to songs without collapsing in a gasping heap, clutching my calves in agony…and…

  • OnTheBeach: Get Your Defribrilator Out, It’s Time To Resurrect Your 2013 Goals!

    I remembered a goal for 2013 this week…that I’d totally forgotten about. In March I went to see the Stereophonics in concert, and realised that I had got so unfit that I could no longer bounce along to my favourite tracks without gasping for oxygen and burning calves…so I set the goal to be fit…

  • OnTheBeach: The Worst Excuse for Not Moving Forward With Your Big Dream

    If you listen to my Dreams to Reality Podcast, you’ll know that I’ve done a lot of podcasts this year about the things that hold you back from getting your Big Dream. There’s one podcast I haven’t done (yet) though…but it is something that holds many of us back. I haven’t done it before. (with…

  • OnTheBeach: Permission To Have Low Energy

    OnTheBeach: Permission To Have Low Energy

    So, if you’ve been reading this weekly offering of mine for any length of time, you will know that I talk A LOT about energy. About the ebbs and flows of energy, about embracing the ebbs (HA!), about honouring my energy. Rule 7 of my life rules for 2013 was “Work with my energy”. Sigh.…