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How To Choose Goals That Are Right For You

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How To Choose Goals That Are Right For you

Have you ever sat down, pen in hand, blank sheet of paper in front of you with the intention of coming up with some goals for yourself only to find your mind goes blank?

Or, have lots of ideas come to you, but when you wrote them down, you just didn’t feel any real enthusiasm for them, or worse they felt so out of reach that you immediately rejected them as impossible?

Having a goal or many goals is about feeling some kind of dissatisfaction about where you are in life now. It’s about wanting change, even if you’re not sure what that change could look like.

Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses and start making changes.
Roy T. Bennett

It’s nigh on impossible to predict the future, but choosing goals is about taking a leap into this unknown land and placing a stake in that future ground anyway.

It’s about being honest enough with yourself to know that whilst your current situation might look acceptable to someone else, it doesn’t mean that you have to stay in that place. [Read more…] about How To Choose Goals That Are Right For You

My Self-Sabotaging Behaviours

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My Self-Sabotaging Behaviours – Do You Recognise Any of These Too?

Today I’m going to talk about my self-sabotaging behaviours and specifically my personal experiences with self-sabotage which are many and varied.

If, like me you have a desire to achieve more in your life by setting goals for the things you want to have, do and be, but then you fail to achieve some or all of the things you know in your heart you’re capable of, then you will probably recognise some of these self-sabotage tactics at work in your life too.

Of course, I don’t have all the answers (if I did, I wouldn’t be writing this blog post!) but I hope that by surfacing my own self-sabotage demons that it will help you identify where and how you could be self-sabotaging and then come up with a plan that will help you move forward. [Read more…] about My Self-Sabotaging Behaviours

5 Ways To Improve Your Life

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5 Ways To Improve Your Life

As I pondered whether to write about ways to improve your life, I was hesitant, because of course, the subject is huge! So big in fact, that if you google it, you’ll returns billions of results!!

That’s a lot of people out there trying to find ways to improve their lives.

The chances are, that like me, you are one of them. And why wouldn’t you be? Who doesn’t want more fun and fulfilment in their lives?

But that still left me with the question of what exactly to write about, so in the end I plumped for 5 things that, if I were asked, would be things I’d like to improve in my life. Frankly, it was an easy place to start.

I haven’t written these things in any particular order, because there is no particular order as to how they apply to you or me. I’m also mindful of the fact that as you improve one area of your life, it will spill over into other areas and you will be drawn to make further improvements in other aspects of your life.

So, as you read through the list, just pick out the one that appeals to you the most and get to work. Don’t overthink it, don’t analyse or reflect for too long. Just pick an action and get moving…that’s how things change. [Read more…] about 5 Ways To Improve Your Life

How To Make Yourself Do Something Even When You Don’t Want To

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How To Make Yourself Do Something Even When You Don’t Want To

This is a backwards post.  It’s also a raw and honest post that lets you into the weird workings of my brain on an off day.

But, to make the post at least sort of sensible, and, hopefully useful too, the lessons are listed first.  You’ll see why when you start reading!

(You can also choose to ignore the Case Study and still have a useful and short list of lessons!) [Read more…] about How To Make Yourself Do Something Even When You Don’t Want To

Why Travelling Is One of My Most Important Goals

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Why Travelling Is One Of My Most Important Goals

If you’ve checked in on any of my goal updates, then you couldn’t help but notice that travelling is always part of the plan for my year.

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
Saint Augustine

When my husband and I were younger and before the children arrived, we travelled often. Sometimes we’d just jump in the car and drive somewhere without any real plan of where we were going or what we were going to do. We just let the road decide our destination and the adventure would unfold.

But, three children later, jobs and responsibilities took a toll on our spontaneous adventuring and we slipped into the annual family holiday routine. These too were happy times.

But somewhere as the children were growing into adults, we had forgotten what it was like to travel as a couple, but that all changed late in 2014 when a birthday trip to Bristol led to a throw away comment about a 12-Cities Challenge, which re-awakened our love of travelling. [Read more…] about Why Travelling Is One of My Most Important Goals

Ditch Your Excuses If You Want To Make Progress

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Ditch Your Excuses If You Want To Make Progress

I have loads of reasons for not achieving what I want in any given day, month or week. In fact, some of my reasons have been with me for years.

What about you? What reasons do you have for being exactly where you are now?

Of course, I’ve written that a little tongue-in-cheek, because my reasons, and probably yours too are excuses.

If so and so would have given me the right opportunity, or if this person would have encouraged me – I could have made a million excuses on why I wasn’t playing in the NFL. You have no more excuses… what do you do from now until your opportunity presents itself? It’s all up to you.
Kurt Warner

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