Tips, tricks and ponderings to help train your brain
Actually, we don’t need to talk. You need to talk. To yourself. To your inner team, tribe, gaggle, or whatever you would like to call them. We all have multiple traits, often polar opposite. I can be fierce, brave and probably quite scary but at the same time, there’s a little person inside me quaking in her […]
The Slow Puncture If you have ever owned a bike or a vehicle, you will have known the joys of a slow puncture. The ‘is it, isn’t it’ question when you walk by then just when you need to dash off somewhere the blessed thing is flat. Sometimes you may just keep topping the tyre […]
So, you may think it odd that a personal development coach is writing a guide about how to wallow. We are all about looking on the bright side, living your best life, greeting every obstacle with a smile and a plan, aren’t we? Well not this one. This coach not only condones wallowing; I encourage […]
A few days ago I shared with you the fact that, like many of you, I was finding life a bit of a struggle. So much has changed lately that it makes your head spin if you let it. So why the cute photo of sleeping animals? I will tell you why. Animals are not […]
Reality hit home over the weekend. The likelihood of me being able to carry out any of my ‘hands on’ work this year is very slim irrespective of my ongoing injury. Restrictions are lifting but social distancing remains for goodness knows how long. I fully confess to turning inwards, having an ‘oh sh*t’ moment (a […]
Speak Your Mind How many times have you been told to do this? Or maybe wished you had? But have you ever considered that everything that has been stored away in that gigantic filing system in your head may not actually be truthful? From the moment we pop into this world (OK, doing you Mums […]
Energy I’m not talking about the sort that powers your lights or keeps the TV on, but your personal energy. Now, I fully admit to being the most fact-biased, unfluffy person going but this energy malarky, well, it has got me hooked. I posted the other day about willpower, and shared the lovely question ‘where […]
If in doubt, do nowt. Before I go any further I feel I should explain that ‘nowt’ means nothing. I know it is a northern term so thought I had better clarify 🙂 So, I used to use that saying myself when trying to make decisions. I used to advise others that if you aren’t […]
May 2020. Life has probably changed a lot for many of you over recent months. Some of that change may have been good for you. Some heart-breaking. Some stressful. You may have dealt with it well or struggled. My life changed dramatically in Nov 2019 when I got injured and couldn’t work. You could say […]
I am sitting here reading some literature on our Energy Anatomy and I came across a lovely phrase in relation to willpower. Now willpower to most is the ability to stick to something, or not eat the entire tray of chocolate fudge in the fridge (yup, guilty as charged on that one). However the phrase, […]