Self-compassion is not about making excuses or avoiding responsibility. It is a practical coaching tool that helps you notice what you are feeling, normalise the human struggle, and nurture yourself with the next kind and useful step.
Year-end reflection doesn’t have to be exhausting. The most meaningful reviews are often the simplest ones. Skip the overwhelming lists and focus on a handful of questions that actually help you understand your year—and yourself—a little better. Not what you achieved, but what you learned.
The Year-End Review Questions That Actually Matter Read More »
Big goals are inspiring — but they can also feel overwhelming. This guide shows you how to break big goals into small steps, with science-backed strategies, real-life examples, and common pitfalls to avoid. Learn how small actions create momentum and lead to lasting success.
Breaking Big Goals Into Small Steps: The Key to Actually Achieving Them Read More »
Most goals fail because they’re not aligned with our core values. This guide explains what values are, why they matter, and how to uncover your own. Discover practical exercises and examples to set meaningful goals that stick — plus a free worksheet to guide you.
How to Find Your Core Values (and Why They Matter for Goal Setting) Read More »
SMART goals give structure, HEART goals give meaning. This guide explains both frameworks, with real-life examples, pros and cons, and how to combine them. Discover which approach suits you best — and grab the free worksheet to set goals you’ll actually achieve.
SMART vs HEART Goals: Which Framework Works Best for You? Read More »
What if the real block to your goals isn’t what you’re doing—but what you’re unconsciously believing? In this post, you’ll uncover the internal scripts shaping your results, then rewire them into empowering beliefs aligned with who you’re becoming. Includes a free worksheet to guide your shift.
What’s Holding You Back? How to Uncover and Transform the Beliefs Blocking Your Goals Read More »
As we enter a new calendar year many of us take the opportunity to review the past year and set some goals for the year ahead. The internet and social media are filled with offers of free and paid goal setting systems and courses and links to the newest planner or journaling method to assure success in keeping our new year’s resolutions this time even though we may have failed in the past.
The K.I.S.S. Method for Goal Setting Read More »
Yesterday I finally completed writing my 20 for 2020. This is a list of things I want to do in
As I sat down to write this I was thinking about what my word for 2020 was going to be,
My ‘Word’ for 2020 Read More »
I’m sure that I’m much busier today than I ever was but that doesn’t seem logical.
Is it all in the mind? Is it just my perspective from an older mind? Have I slowed down that much that I just feel busier these days?
Life feels busier the older I get Read More »
Imagine checking your mail and amongst the usual bills and advertising material finding a letter addressed to you written in very familiar handwriting, your own. But you have no recollection of ever addressing this particular envelope.
A letter from your future self Read More »
There is so much promise in this statement. It is so inspirational that not only can your goals be achieved, but in getting there, you’ll become a better person. And on reading it we know it’s true.
Helen Keller’s whole life is an inspiration to us all. This woman with so much going against her achieved so much. Much more in fact than the majority of ‘normal’ able-bodied people. She often spoke of how much she loved life and how grateful she was for her abilities. She firmly believed that helping others was man’s purpose in life and that service to others was the secret to lasting happiness.
As we’ve learned from the last post about The Think, Feel, Act Cycle, all situations or circumstances are totally neutral until we start to think about them and create judgements about them. If something about a circumstance brings up fear in us that will often be more about us than the actual circumstance.
There is nothing to fear except fear itself Read More »
The Think, Feel, Act Cycle is a framework that we can use to understand how and why we feel the way we do. And, it’s also a tool that we can use to change the way we think and act and be happier.
The Think-Feel-Act Cycle: How to Coach Yourself to Be Happier Read More »
Depression is when you’re feeling really down and that everything feels totally hopeless.
The good news is that depression can be overcome.
Natural ways to fight back when depression steals your happiness Read More »
I learned something fascinating this week. A fact that was both fascinating and empowering and also left me with a sense of relief. Negativity is not our fault. Our brains are wired to see the worst in any situation and prepare us to fight or flee. But we can train our brains to be positive instead.
Negativity Is Not Your Fault. Read More »
Yes, I believe you can. But, and there are quite a few buts, you can’t outright lie to your subconscious.
Can you change your life with positive affirmations? Read More »
12 weeks ago I sat down and wrote out my goals of what I wanted to have achieved by the end of June this year. Yesterday I sat down and reviewed those goals – sadly, I hadn’t achieved a single one.
Setting and reviewing my goals. Read More »
There is now definitive science that supports the idea that reading and saying positive statements, or affirmations, can help us to be happier.
The Science of Positive Affirmations. Read More »
