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How To Become Your Best Self

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How To Become Your Best Self

I’m a big fan of affirmations and have been using them on and off for many years. I truly believe they have the power to change the way you think and therefore the way you act. They can also act as a gateway to the person you want to become. The version of yourself that you might consider to be your “best self”.

In practice this might look like the good habits you’re trying to introduce into your life as you simultaneously try to remove the bad habits.

Who Is Your Best Self?

I’ve recently introduced a new affirmation into my daily morning routine, as follows:

“I support my best self every day”

But then one morning as I habitually wrote the words, I thought, but what does that actually mean to me?! [Read more…] about How To Become Your Best Self

Successful People Have These 8 Characteristics – Do You?

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Successful People Have These 8 Characteristics – Do You?

You’ve got big plans for your future, or maybe you just want to make some changes for the better and need to make them stick.

But as we all know, change is hard, and making that change stick is even harder.

So what are the characteristics of people who seem to be able to achieve their goals and make those good changes stick?

Here a 8 Characteristics that successful people live by that you can emulate too. [Read more…] about Successful People Have These 8 Characteristics – Do You?

My Personal Goals for 2021

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My Personal Goals for 2021

I’ve been worrying about setting my personal goals for 2021. There’s no doubt that the events of 2020 and into 2021 have curtailed the things that any of us can do and with that, aspirations have also been clipped.

For any of you that have been following me over the years, you’ll know that my major goal for every year has been travelling and from 2015 to 2019 we have been lucky enough to visit some amazing places and have some awesome family getaways.

But of course, 2020 pretty much put paid to that…and who knows what will happen for the rest of 2021? Even as I write this, there is debate about overseas travel and whether that will be allowed to go ahead for anything other than essential purposes.

But…BUT! I’ve decided to take a stand against the uncertainty and put my plans together anyway. There are some things I can manage and control and a lot of other things that are outside my control, but there’s one thing I know for sure: setting no goals at all leads to lethargy, indolence and boredom. [Read more…] about My Personal Goals for 2021

Who Am I?

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Who Am I?

Where you are is a result of who you were. But where you go depends entirely on who you choose to be.

It took me a long time to understand that my results in life up until this point are a direct result of who I had become in the preceding years and months.

I remember reading words similar to the ones above and not getting it. I just didn’t understand that we ‘become’ someone else as time moves on, created and affected by the things we do, experience and learn.

What Does That Even Mean?

It’s strange, isn’t it, because we quite easily use phrases that actually articulate that we ‘get it’, even though, as with me, we may not. Here are a few of mine:

As you read through the rest of this post, consider how you would categorise your own examples…

• I am a wife, mother, daughter, sibling (easy)
• I am an accountant (fairly easy)
• I am a writer (difficult)
• I am a life coach (very difficult)

Even just taking these examples, I can tell you exactly how each has affected my results up until this point… [Read more…] about Who Am I?

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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The Quote Series: 5 Quotes To Inspire Your Future

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5 Quotes To Inspire Your Future

Having our future isn’t a given, although we all take for granted the idea that our lives will stretch out into the future, affording us the time, energy and resources to do the things we want to do ‘someday’. But it’s an often repeated cliché that the only time we really have is now.

But what does that really mean for us?

For me, being aware of my ‘now’ and how that, through my daily actions and lack of action, is creating my future produces an awareness of what I’m doing, and how it is leading me in one direction or another. And most importantly, is that direction the way I want to go?

With this in mind, I went in search of some quotes that would help us define and really live our ‘nows’ so that our futures become the space and reality we would like them to be. And, if our future turns out to be more terminal than we had anticipated, by living the message of these quotes, we will at the very least have lived a life that was worth celebrating.

Aubrey Hepburn

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

I love this eclectic mix of beliefs from Aubrey Hepburn. It reminds me to go with my own particular oddities and not to worry about what others think. It also reminds me that I can let go of the things that don’t serve me on any particular day, wake up tomorrow and start afresh. We all need this reminder sometimes.

For a bit of fun, I decided to rewrite Audrey’s quote using my own words. What do you think?

I believe in sky-blue. I believe that laughing is the best antidote to negativity. I believe in kissing, but I believe in hugging even more. I believe in being strong but that there is strength in vulnerability. I believe that there is power in the laughter of children. I believe that tomorrow is another day and miracles appear when you’re ready to see them.

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