Category Archives: Personal development

Spring Clean Your Mind

  Spring into action! This is the perfect time of year to get yourself motivated and de-clutter your house and your mind. Spring really is about new beginnings, new projects and new impetus. Here are 5 ways you can kick-start … Continue reading

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Free yourself from debt. Stop accumulating!

Happy New Year! Perhaps the most important question you can ask yourself at the beginning of this new year is this one: “What does freedom mean to me?” How much ‘stuff’ have you collected over the years? Are you paying … Continue reading

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Happy Bastille Day! Liberté! Egalité! Fraternité!

Liberté! Egalité! Fraternité! The clarion call by supporters of the French Republique – and the only thing most of us Anglo Saxons remember from our French history classes – is A Very Important Day in France. For on this very … Continue reading

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Is it Love or Infatuation?

Are you suffering from kd. lang’s ‘constant craving’ ? Spending half your life checking your inbox/Android/iPhone… digits poised in eager anticipation? Aware that your focus is magnetically pulled to the object of your desire every few minutes? Worried that a … Continue reading

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Achieving a healthy work-life Balance

Work-Life Balance. Such a well-worn phrase it’s almost become a cliché. But what does it mean, exactly? And is it actually achievable? In our world of human doings who’ve (either by design or necessity) forgotten they are human beings, it’s … Continue reading

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Japan Tsunami – how it affects us all

Like everyone else the past two weeks, I’ve been watching the news reports of the earthquake and ensuing tsunami in Japan with increasing horror and great sadness. Indelible images etched on my mind – of unimaginable suffering mixed with stories … Continue reading

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15 Questions to Unleash Your Creativity

As regular readers will know, I am a big fan of the writer, playwright and all-round creative maestro, Julia Cameron. In her seminal work, The Artist’s Way, she takes readers through an inspiring 12-week programme to identify creative blocks and … Continue reading

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The Benefits of Being Visible

Being visible in life, for me, means showing up. It means being fully present with the people I love, the people I work with, my clients, and with people who I don’t know but still interact with daily. It means … Continue reading

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The Power of Vulnerability

After watching – and being incredibly inspired – by Brene Brown’s excellent TED talk on love and belonging, The Power of Vulnerability, I felt it was an important subject to discuss. Since childhood we’ve been programmed that strength is all … Continue reading

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