Category: Articles

  • OnTheBeach: Squashing Your Vision With Practicality

    WARNING! There is a little swearing in this post, so if that’s not your cup of tea, stop reading now! 😀 I’ve been doing these lovely vision sessions lately with some gorgeous people, and one of the things I’ve noticed a LOT is that we spend a lot of time squashing our vision with practicality.…

  • OnTheBeach: Making Life Difficult With a Lack of Focus

    I became aware of something last week. I realised that I was trying to make about 16 financial goals happen at once. And guess what? It wasn’t working! I was not making ANY of them happen. Not one. And I was getting frustrated and irritable and arsey and fed up. Then I had an epiphany.…

  • OnTheBeach: When Your Heart Tempts You Away From The Herd

    OnTheBeach: When Your Heart Tempts You Away From The Herd

    There comes a point in the Hero’s Journey (also called life) where you go against the grain, upset the apple cart, stop following the herd and do something “different” (gasp). Maybe you go to Uni when none of your friends do, maybe you start doing courses in the evenings after work, maybe you run away…

  • OnTheBeach: Just for the Fun Of It

    I picked a Beach Card this week to go in my weekly newsletter, and got inspired to make this week’s article all about this card. This card always gets me thinking…how much fun do you have in your life? Do you even have time for fun after all the work and the chores and the…

  • 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!

    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…

  • 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…

  • OnTheBeach: Stop Thinking It’s You

    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.…