Category: Articles

  • Your Creative Joy

    As you will know if you follow this blog closely (and if you do, I thank you!), on a Wednesday I answer a journal prompt from Jamie Ridler of Jamie Ridler Studios. I also listen to Jamie’s weekly podcast on creative living. Jamie is my favourite resource for awakening creativity, and since I came across…

  • Feeling Like A Fraud

    Feeling Like A Fraud

    A couple of people this week have been expressing their admiration, respect and appreciation for me. I accepted the compliments with grace as I always try to – I feel that deflecting a compliment is like throwing a gift back in someone’s face and telling them they’re wrong when they’re trying to be nice. However,…

  • Deprivation Motivation

    Deprivation Motivation

    Happy New Year to you! May 2011 bring you love, luck, laughter, joy, success, health and wealth in all areas! I hope you are fully recovered from the over-indulgences of the festive season and ripe and ready for a New Year of possibility and fun! Perhaps you’ve decided to start the year by creating some…

  • OnTheBeach – The Gift of Life

    Over the past few years, the frailty and fragility of life has been brought home to me at this time of year – my uncle passed away at the end of October, the following year one of my friends lost her fight for life at the end of November. And with Christmas and my birthday…

  • Flip it on its Head

    Apologies for being late with my newsletter article this week – I was busy yesterday being exceedingly grumpy! Partly hormonal, partly because I cannot bear the cold, the snow, basically I don’t like winter! As far as I’m concerned, bears have the right idea hibernating for the winter. One of my ambitions in life is…

  • Who Owns the Room?

    How are you on this fine November day? I am sitting in front of my new super light – it’s an early birthday present to help me to stop getting the hump just because it’s winter, it’s dark, it’s cold…ugh, roll on spring! Anyway, I decided we needed an article to remind us all of…

  • Finish the Year with a HOORAH!

    After a week back at work, I am still not really back into the swing of things! I’m still a bit slow, laid-back and relaxed about ‘getting stuff done’! It’ll still be there tomorrow. To be honest, the changing weather patterns and daylight also encourage me to chill out a bit too – I’m convinced…

  • OnTheBeach – Don’t Tell Me I Suck

    I get really cross with ‘experts’ starting off from the position that I’m wrong, despite them knowing nothing about me at all. It may come as a surprise to some of these people that we are all unique and there are a thousand ways to succeed. Until they get it, I won’t be listening to…

  • Setting Yourself Up For Success

    So this week I was interviewed by Deb Sturgess of Create Your Now virtual conference on the subject of ‘setting yourself up for success’ – it was fabulous! We had such a laugh, and I enjoyed converting another group of people to the virtues of treasuring yourself. Today’s article explores this a little more, but…

  • Thinking Big, Dreaming Big

    Here’s the last post from the Wire blog: So, Carrie asked me to do a blog post for you guys on “Thinking Big” and “Keeping Moving Towards Your Big Dreams”. These two subjects are really close to my heart as they are the reason I am a coach! One of my favourite things in the…