Did You Ever Find Yourself Lost in a Reaction?
Did You Ever Find Yourself Lost in a Reaction? Have you ever found yourself in the middle of a reaction, words spilling out, heart racing, only to look back later and wonder, What just happened? Maybe it was a sharp email fired off too quickly, a tense conversation that escalated before you could stop it, […]
Drowning in Tasks? How to Reclaim Your Time.
Finding Balance Beyond the To-Do List: How I Stopped Chasing and Started Allowing There was a time when my to-do list ruled my life. I’d wake up already feeling behind, mentally stacking up tasks before my feet even hit the floor. My mind raced with thoughts like, If I don’t do this, if I […]
Toxic Productivity & Why We Get Caught in the Trap
Toxic productivity can be described as the need to be productive all the time. Living our lives by ‘to-do’ lists, and constantly looking to have more, by doing more, so they can feel more. It is a red flag, that quite often leads to burnout. In my coaching practice, I have worked with 100’s of […]
Have you placed your needs on your Christmas list?
I have had an unhealthy relationship with Christmas for as long as I can remember. You see, I have always aspired to feel what it appears they feel in the Hallmark movies i.e. ” the magic”, but somehow it has never worked out that way for me. I think this is because for many years, […]
Work-Life Balance – Are You Willing To Negotiate Your Needs?
I was in the petrol station last week and I saw something that I had not seen for a while…. a long queue of people at the deli counter. Looking around me, I could see people in their cars eating their lunch, people queuing at petrol pumps and a long queue of cars waiting to […]
Work-Life Balance – concept or reality?
I have been struggling a lot lately with the concept of “Work-Life Balance”. Don’t get me wrong, I am all for creating balance in my life, in fact balance, is a value of mine. However, the term ‘Work-Life Balance’ has started to irk me, because I immediately feel like one area of my life is […]
Do Less, Have More
If there is one thing we all experienced this year, it was change…. uncomfortable, unexpected, unwanted and in some cases traumatic. As I look back to this time last year, I think to myself “little did we know what was coming”, 2020 definitely forced us to slow down physically, but does that mean we allowed ourselves […]
Think Positive | Feel Positive | Be Positive
I have to admit I have been struggling the past few days. The old patterns have been trying to creep back in, the negative self-talk has got louder; “look at what you haven’t achieved”, “there is something wrong with you”, “you need to push yourself, do more, be more”, “you are not enough”. YEP, thats pretty much been the chatter in my head […]
Top Tips to Overcome Procrastination
If like me, you take hours, days and sometimes even months to complete a task (I procrastinated on filling out an application form,to access funding for this website, for over 6 months), then hopefully these tops tips will help you to develop your own motivational and successful strategy. There are many reasons why we procrastinate. […]
The Truth Behind The Smile
I came across this photo recently, it was Easter 2015 , and I was spending the long weekend at the coast with close friends. From the outside I looked calm and happy but the inside told a very different story. I was a complete shell of my authentic myself. The smile you see here is […]