Design your day
After a busy and high-intensity week, I decided I needed a day to myself doing nothing. And I did just that on Saturday. I didn’t do anything! I didn’t even leave the house. I lazed around on the couch and…
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Decisions
You Can’t or You Won’t?
Let’s get honest here. There are things you won’t do. There are things that I won’t do. But, how often do we disguise our “I won’t” by “I can’t”? What do I mean? Well, it can be anything. Years ago,…
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We are smart – but just too comfortable
We are a lot smarter than we think we are. Seriously. We already know what we need to do. We know what foods we should and shouldn’t eat to maintain a healthy weight. We know how much exercise we should…
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Admirably purposeful, determined and unwavering
The New Year is just days away and for many of us, our thoughts and conversations turn more and more towards our New Year’s Resolutions. But are they truly resolutions, or just simply wish lists? There’s a big difference. The…
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The salad or the squid?
Have you ever had the experience where, when out to dinner with friends, there’s been someone who could not make up their mind about what to order? You went around the entire table just to give that one person a…
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Inside Out
Many of us believe that until everything is as we think it should be we can’t be happy. Not fully happy anyway. We all have our favourite I’ll be happy when… statements. I’ll be happy when… I get that job…
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You can’t steer a parked car
I was listening to a podcast last night where a caller had rung in to ask the presenter what job she should go for, given her age and her previous experience. I laughed at the answer – not because it…
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What it means to forgive
Forgiveness is for our own benefit, not the for the benefit of the person who has done us wrong. It is also a choice. A decision. An action. It doesn’t just ‘simply happen’. To paraphrase a popular quote: “To hold…
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Your future is your responsibility
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. – Alice Walker. There is a story about two brothers. The boys had lost their mother when they were quite young and were brought up…
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Aren’t you tired of hearing excuses?
How often do we catch-up with friends or family members who complain about their current circumstances? Their conversation will be about how difficult life is, the way other people are treating them, what everyone else is doing wrong, or how…
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