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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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Overcome Resistance and Improve Your Time Management

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Overcome Resistance and Improve Your Time Management

What do you think of when you hear the words “time management”? Do you think of writing out lists, or booking appointments into your diary in an effort to feel more organised, or maybe it makes you feel overwhelmed because you have so much to do?

On the other hand, perhaps you have time management licked! Maybe you’re a ninja and get through your tasks and appointments with a smile on your face and dinner on the table!

This post is for people who find themselves overwhelmed or baffled by the idea of time management. For whatever reason, managing your time has become a daily effort, one in which you feel that you fall short, even though you seem to be busy all day.

The effort of trying to keep on top of your workload is wearing you down and tending to your own needs has become a distant memory. [Read more…] about Overcome Resistance and Improve Your Time Management

How To Get Your Life Together

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How To Get Your Life Together

Do you often moan to yourself or others that you need to get your life together? You feel like you’re in a constant state of overwhelm, you feel disorganised, turning up late for meetings or missing deadlines and important personal dates?

Your family have long since given up on the idea that you’ll be ready on time and you often seem to run out of milk!

Added to that, the laundry has taken on a life of its own and there are piles of paperwork stuffed in draws that have yet to be opened!

And that wouldn’t be so bad if you felt on top of things at work, but your disorganised ways have also flooded into your workspace and you have unfinished projects and looming deadlines that are threatening to push you over the edge!

Argh!! Stop the merrygoround! I want to get off! [Read more…] about How To Get Your Life Together

How To Persevere: 8 Lessons I’ve Learned

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How To Persevere: 8 Lessons I’ve Learned

I want this blog to be practical. In other words, I want to provide actionable steps to help you (and me!) persevere until we get what we want. Until our goals are achieved. Until our accomplishments can be deemed a success.

But in order to achieve that, we must know how to persevere. It’s easy enough to talk about it, but can be a challenge to maintain.

Perseverance is the art of hanging on in there when you want to give up. Or in other words, how to be stubborn in the pursuit of your goals!

So what can you actually do that will amount to perseverance? [Read more…] about How To Persevere: 8 Lessons I’ve Learned

Start Your Own Good Habits List

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Start Your Own Good Habits List

What good habit would you like to begin this month?

Our daily decisions and habits have a huge impact upon both our levels of happiness and success.
Shawn Actor

Quite often when we think of habits, we tend to think of our ‘bad’ habits and our hope, intention or struggles that one day we will be able to give them up. But, whilst it’s useful to think of giving up our bad habits, I also believe it’s more enjoyable to instil good habits, which may eventually squeeze out the bad habits.

Cultivate Good Habits

So, looking at things this way, instead of forcing or depriving yourself, instead, actively cultivate a good habit you’d like to develop and ignore your bad habit. Of course, the bad habit will crop up, it’s inevitable, since by definition it’s something that you often do without even realising that you’re doing it. But, over time, the aim would be to supersede the old bad habit with something more enjoyable, meaningful or healthy.

So how about starting your own Good Habits List? Try to make the list positively focused, aimed at the ‘good’ things you’re going to do. [Read more…] about Start Your Own Good Habits List

How To Start a Bullet Journal

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How To Start A Bullet Journal

I’ve been using a bullet journal for nearly a year, and frankly it’s my constant companion! It’s pretty and useful, fits to my needs and is so versatile. However, I’ve recently been asked what it’s all about so I’ve put together this how to start a bullet journal post to help you decide if using a bullet journal is for you (I think it is!).

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If you just want to get started, then the items below will give you everything you need to get going!  Includes the Leuchtturm bullet journal (in berry), a set of fineliner pens, 30 rolls of washi tape and writing/drawing stencils (also doubles as a ruler). [Read more…] about How To Start a Bullet Journal