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Let’s make it happen
Enjoy your life to the full by connecting and communicating honestly and efficiently, with yourself and with others! This for me means being aware of who you are, what your purpose is and taking responsibility for making it happen.
My intention in this blog is to share with you facts, ideas, thoughts gleaned from my experience as accredited motivational life-coach and NLP practitioner, as editor, writer, presenter, from the books I read, courses I take and reflections on my personal experiences in my professional and private life.
Each week will bring a new theme we can ponder on with view to living a vibrant, meaningful and fantastic life! I welcome all comments and exchanges.
#letsmakeithappen
I dont care how much you know untill I know how much you care
Simple words really but painfully true...Especially regarding upbringing of children. We somehow take it for granted...
Are you communicating what you really mean?
One fact which really surprised me during my coaching studies was that communication is made up of 55% of body...
What you resist, persists….
I can't claim to having coined that sentence, but Carl Jung can and it is worth taking some time to realise the...
How to eat an elephant
Ever had those passages in life when everything just seems too much? One moment life was slow and you were eager for...
Putting first things first….
Well I had first hand experience of that these last 2 weeks...and all things considered didn't come out of it too bad!...
How would you live differently if you had been trapped down a mine shaft?
Watching the moving images of the rescued Chilean miners I was thinking how different their view of life will be....
Is your glass half empty or half full?
Both are correct, but which makes you feel better? When you wake up Sunday morning do you rejoice to have a full free...
Training our brain to see through the rain!
So, following up from where I left it last week and the idea that we can train our brain to look at the bright side of...
8 Steps to recognising and harnessing your motivation
In Spring last year, a friend nutritionist and I held a workshop on "Fit, Firm and Focussed" for the Summer which...
Insights
Passion & Purpose in Action
For me, life is a wonderful adventure to be lived fully, the ups and the downs, the exhilarating rushes forward and the agonizingly slow moments, embracing the periods of ecstatic happiness, as well as learning from the painful episodes, enjoying the funny and enduring the infuriating.
Let’s share thoughts and insights as we make sense of it, inspiring, supporting and motivating each other along the way.
Add to the grain of salt of a 50+ free spirit pondering on life: the good and the bad, the past and the present (while trying to live in the moment), love and marriage (or not), children, upbringing, career, the vagaries of life as expat partner and the quintessential search for our purpose, and all that lies in between.
#rise&shine
Timeless virtue 2: Follow your Purpose
Still based on Robin Sharma's book: "The Monk who sold his Ferrari", now that we have explored timeless virtue number...
Cultivate your garden
This metaphor is used in so many books! Being brought up in the French educational system, my first thought is...
Introducing Chakras
Now this is new stuff for me, a whole new world really but the book was recommended by someone whose opinion I respect...
The Glorious Power of Sharing
Well having just finished a fascinating book called: " Eastern Body, Western mind" I had decided to write about...
Detecting your legacy
This is the part where it all comes together: your roles and responsablities and what was important about them for...
Begin with the end in mind
This is one of the many valuable suggestions leading American coach Stephen Covey mentions in his best seller: " The 7...
Core values: what do you need to be happy?
Our values are our guiding principles and they measure the meaning that life holds for us. They are like a compass...
Defining where you are going
Oopps, I did it again and disappeared for a while! We went on a wonderful 4 week road trip through Poland, Lithuania,...
What matters most to you?
First of all, to those of you following me regularly: a big sorry for the long absence, it was a question of "First...