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    Acknowledge your wins and celebrate them!

    13th December 2022 / Comments Off on Acknowledge your wins and celebrate them!

    Here we are at the end of another year! Before you start thinking about New Year’s resolutions or goal setting, take a moment to look back, reflect on how this year has been and consider what you are taking away from it.  In the process of doing this, it is important to recognise the successes you have had, to acknowledge the effort and positive decisions you have made, to take the time to give yourself a well-earned pat on the back, and express gratitude to those who have supported you along the way.  Read on to find out why you should make a habit of celebrating your wins, not just…

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    Louisa

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  • Career Development,  Personal Development,  Wellbeing

    Make your day work for you!

    24th October 2022 / Comments Off on Make your day work for you!

    Sometimes it seems like we are at the mercy of the day’s events! We might start off with the best of intentions, that we are going to have a highly productive day, breeze through our tasks and bask in that wonderful feeling of satisfaction and accomplishment by the end of it…. Yet we find ourselves having to sort out an array of issues that pop out of nowhere and just seem to get sidetracked and distracted throughout the day. By the time we manage to put our feet up, we realise that we have done very little of what we actually needed (or wanted) to do! While we are not…

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  • Journaling,  Personal Development

    Time for your mid-year check-in! How to review your goals and keep yourself on track

    22nd June 2022 / Comments Off on Time for your mid-year check-in! How to review your goals and keep yourself on track

    Remember those goals that you set back in January when you were full of that ‘New Year, New You’ enthusiasm? Well, hopefully you do! How are you doing now that we are six months into the year? Taking the time to do a mid-year review of your goals will give you a chance to check that whatever you are working towards is still relevant and right for you. Even though you might really want to make some changes in your life it is so easy to get distracted and completely sidetracked. If you have lost track of your ‘why’ then reviewing your goals will remind you of the reason you set out…

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  • Book Reviews,  Career Development,  Personal Development,  Wellbeing

    How can thinking like a monk improve your life and career?

    25th January 2022 / Comments Off on How can thinking like a monk improve your life and career?

    Review of Think Like a Monk: Train your mind for peace and purpose every day by Jay Shetty (2020, Thorsons, 352 pages) As I have been aiming to create more ‘zen’ in my life through daily meditation and mindfulness, I have become increasingly curious about the underlying philosophy behind such practices. This is why I was initially drawn to Jay Shetty’s book, Think Like a Monk*, which promises to teach us how to move away from the preoccupied, fearful and ego-driven ‘monkey mind’ and to step into the monk mindset which, in contrast, is calm, focused, purposeful and service-driven. *Disclosure: If you buy books linked to my site, I may…

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  • Career Development,  Coaching Skills,  Personal Development

    Getting back to business after the school holidays

    10th September 2021 / Comments Off on Getting back to business after the school holidays

    The beginning of the autumn term has always had me raring to go, with renewed enthusiasm to tackle whatever the rest of the year has in store.  I put this down to the many years that I have spent studying and working in education (a new academic year = a new start) and fond memories of moving onto the next stage of my life, catching up with friends again, brand new stationery, and the textbooks that were brimming with information that I had not yet explored.  Plus I’m an absolute sucker for crispy golden leaves, brisk walks in the cold, cosy jumpers and a huge steaming mug of hot chocolate…

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  • Journaling,  Personal Development,  Wellbeing

    Kickstart your yearly review and find your focus for the year ahead

    12th January 2021 / Comments Off on Kickstart your yearly review and find your focus for the year ahead

    After reluctantly emerging from my Christmas cocoon, and finding out that another lengthy period of lockdown loomed ahead, I made the decision to pause and take stock of the last 12 months. I wanted to extract any useful ‘life lessons’ that I could from what was such a challenging time (for many different reasons), to ponder ‘What next?’ and start the year with renewed focus and something positive to work towards as lockdown continued. If, like me, you love putting pen to paper and taking time out to journal (or just really want to give it a try) then I have packed this post full of questions that will prompt…

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  • Book Reviews

    My Top Takeaways from You are a Badass by Jen Sincero

    11th May 2020 / Comments Off on My Top Takeaways from You are a Badass by Jen Sincero

    Review of You are a Badass: How to stop doubting your greatness and start living an awesome life by Jen Sincero (2016, John Murray Learning, 256 pages) Because I enjoy reading motivational, personal development books, especially the ones that make you feel like you can be anything you want to be, I picked up a copy of You are a Badass*.  Through this book, the author, Jen Sincero, delivers a pep talk to her readers, outlining how they can become more successful by addressing their limiting beliefs and personal barriers head on, clarifying their goals, and using the concept of manifestation to bring whatever it is that they want into…

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  • Career Development,  Coaching Skills,  Personal Development

    Beat procrastination and start accomplishing your goals

    6th February 2020 / Comments Off on Beat procrastination and start accomplishing your goals

    Just a few thoughts that run through my mind when I am tackling my task list for the week: I don’t mean to boast but I have become quite skilful in the art of putting things off! At times my goals just don’t seem like a big enough priority (I just know I want to achieve them someday…) or they are taking me out of my comfort zone, requiring that extra bit of effort and confidence on my part.  If you can relate to this then read on to discover what I found out when I attended a session on ‘How to overcome procrastination and boost productivity in order to…

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  • Personal Development

    Finding Purpose, Achieving Clarity and Exploring Opportunities

    31st January 2020 / 2 Comments

    My day at a Possibility Retreat Note: This post contains no sponsored material or affiliate links and is based on my own opinions, views and experiences of carrying out the personal development activity described below.  Ever since I had heard about Pete Mosley’s work as a writer, speaker and coach who champions introverts I was intrigued to find out what kind of guidance he could provide to me, a self-confessed introvert, who, as far back as I can remember, has always struggled to be heard and has found self-promotion and networking all very daunting.  When Pete announced that he was delivering a Possibility Retreat in Manchester I did not hesitate…

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  • Coaching Skills

    Ten Tips For Maintaining Progress Towards Your Goals

    24th January 2020 / Comments Off on Ten Tips For Maintaining Progress Towards Your Goals

    The beginning of a new year is typically a time when we start setting out our very best intentions for the year ahead (and beyond).  You may have even set some challenging, life altering goals and are on your journey to accomplishing them.  You really want to keep up the good work but then…life happens! Those routine tasks or chores get in the way, other things seem to take a greater priority or, at the end of a hard day’s graft, you just want to put your feet up and lose yourself in a bingeing session of TV and tasty snacks (you are only human after all and those TV…

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