Category Archive: Work

Thoughts about how to be successful, productive at work and maintain that elusive healthy work-life balance.

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Are We Ever Really Happy?

So the International Day of Happiness is the 20th of March this year. What does this mean exactly? Are we meant to force ourselves to be happy on this day? Is it a time to notice how miserable we are for the rest of the year? I jest but this day of celebration does bring up a lot of pertinent issues.

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February 28, 2023 Life, Work 0 Comments
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Stress, Who Me?

The uncanny thing about stress is that it is accumulative. It starts as little bubbles of anxiety, a feeling of overwhelm and left to its own devises it will grow exponentially unless we make a deliberate choice to ease it.

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March 5, 2022 Life, Work 0 Comments
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Tell me what you want, what you really, really want!

What about after lockdown? Have you thought about how you want your life to be? We now have more space to step back a little and enjoy thinking time about what we want to take forward, how we want to use our precious time once we are back, full on in the outside world again.

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July 28, 2020 Life, Work 0 Comments
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Are You A People Pleaser?

Are You A people Pleaser? You are not alone. Around 90% of the amazing women I have coached over the years have been people pleasers to a greater or lesser degree.

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May 2, 2019 Life, Work 0 Comments
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Are You Happy Yet?

When people are asked what they most want from life, the vast majority of us say that they want to be happy. However how many of us are living happy lives?

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March 14, 2019 Life, Work 0 Comments
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Living a Limitless Life

Question… What do Stephen Hawking, Paralympians and Nelson Mandela all have in common? Answer… They have all made the decision not to be limited by any physical, emotional or psychological restraints.

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November 1, 2017 Life, Work 0 Comments
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One Block at a Time Shakes your Very Foundation!

When I say the word bully, what immediately springs to mind? Is it the school playground? Do you think of it as a childhood thing that only rears it’s head in our developing years? Well, I’m about to burst your bubble, bullying is alive and well and shows up in our adult lives as well.

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October 22, 2017 Life, Relationships, Work 1 Comment
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Time to Come Out of Hiding…

What has prompted me to write a blog on confidence I wonder? Is it the fact that it comes up again and again with my coaching clients? Confidence is a common theme of our age, the lack of which, sees people being held back from showing their true potential and living their lives to the full.

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October 13, 2017 Life, Work 0 Comments
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Those Old Holiday Blues

It is that time of year when most of us will be returning form our summer breaks and after the holiday glow has left us we generally land with a bit of a bump. What can we do?

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August 26, 2017 Life, Work 2 Comments
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I want it and I want to do it Now!

Ever felt like you had to do something right now, immediately? A strong impulse to react to a an emotion in that precise instant?The classic situation is when you’ve split up from a lover and you get a sudden urge to ring them up and let them know exactly what you think of them!

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June 28, 2017 Life, Relationships, Work 0 Comments
"If you don’t make the time to work on creating the life you want, you’re eventually going to be forced to spend a LOT of time dealing with the life you don’t want."