Category: Inspiration & Lifestyle
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Why Meditation isn’t about Relaxation
I have become a bit of a cheerleader for practice of meditation over the last few years. Mindfulness and Meditation have become buzz words, but many people still misunderstand what they really are. Recently I was reading an article with the click baity headline “I meditated every day for 30 days, and here’s what happened”.…
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5 Practical Ways to Hit Your Reset Button
There’s that famous saying: Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. I’m sure we’ve all heard that before. But there are times when insanity starts to feel like doing the same thing over and over and expecting the same results. I’m sure we’ve all hit plateaus in our lives.…
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How I Learned to Stop Relying on Will Power
Sometimes I wonder what changed in my life. For a good 35 years I considered that I basically had no will power when faced with a packet of crisps, or when faced with the choice between going to the gym, or, er, not going to the gym. Doing anything else, other than going to the…
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Why Goal Setting is Pointless
We all know about SMART goal setting, right? They have to be [alert type=green ]Specific Measurable Achievable Realistic Timely[/alert] Yeah, that’s awesome, and once we set those goals, we work on our “process goals”. We tell ourselves that if we just do this, and this, and this on a regular basis then within 6 months…
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All Change (Farewell to Retro Chick)
Well, here we are, in a whole new world. There’s been a few changes around here over the last few days. If you follow my Retro Chick Facebook page you might have seen this post explaining why. If not, then this is the post that explains why I’m saying goodbye to Retro Chick, and what’s…
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Things I Learned Playing a Team Sport
Team sports is a whole new thing to me. I mean, they made me play Netball and Hockey at school, but I was never part of a team. I just tolerated it for the length of a PE lesson until I could escape. It wasn’t until I was 34 that I discovered Roller Derby, and…
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Important Things to Do Today
Do you have a to do list? I do, I have to have one these days or everything just falls out of the gap between my ears. What’s on yours today? Today mine includes boring regular Monday things like write this blog post, and some VA work. It also includes some self care things like…
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Organising my Life (And some printable planner pages)
I’ve always been a pretty organised person. By which I don’t mean that I have a tidy desk, or colour coded files. Because that’s definitely not true. Just that I’ve always known what needs to be done. I know how much money I have in the bank, what bills need to be paid and when,…
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4 Practical Changes I’m Making in May (and 1 Fluffy One)
So April was a little stressy. I had a lot on, and I neglected to do that thing that I used to call “looking after yourself” but these days we call “self care”. I actually quite like the term “self care”. Looking after yourself sounds a little bit “Hey, it’s all about ME, ME, ME”.…