New Year, New Start

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Like everyone, we’ve been making New Year’s resolutions. To kick-start the blog this year, here are Helen’s hopes and goals for 2011. Most people will have made some New Year Resolutions – some may have already started, some may have been broken already and some may be waiting until the start of next week to [...]

How to Hang onto Your Sanity at Christmas & Have a Great Time!

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In this post Joyce Campbell, NLP trainer, success coach and author of How To Get Off Your Backside And Live Your Life has put together some common ‘Christmas Stress’ scenarios, and ideas for dealing with them without resorting to knocking back the cooking sherry in the kitchen before midday! 1. Last year your family seriously [...]

Delving deeper into your whole self

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This is the first in a 4-part series of blogs written by Kate Griffiths, founder of Wholeself Leadership and online support community Minerva’s Mind, looking at how being true to your ‘whole self’ – i.e. mind, body and spirit – can make for a happier and more fulfilling life. Back in September I led a very [...]

Is Your Home Office A Pain in the Back?

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Being your own boss has its perks, but there may be some unexpected downsides. If you’ve set up your home office on the cheap – or if you don’t have a dedicated workspace – your working environment might actually be damaging for your back. More and more people are experiencing back trouble every year. This [...]

Singing the SAD Blues – Practical Advice on How to Stay Bright This Winter

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For increasing numbers of us, Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is a spectre on the horizon – if it has not caught up with us already. Many people already suffer from SAD – which is a strong varient of the ‘Winter Blues’ – and it is this time of year that its effects can be most [...]

The benefits of living life ‘in the moment’

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Coach Cathy Dean, Managing Director of Colour In Your Thinking, explains why is it is so important to pay full attention to the here and now. I used to be someone who could never live in the moment. Wherever I was, whatever I was doing, I would always have at least half my mind somewhere else, thinking about [...]

Look after yourself & rediscover your mojo!

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Need to take control of your diet, health & fitness levels? Mum of 2 Wendy Powell is the founder of No More Excuses and creator of the MuTu System, the revolutionary approach to tackling your mummy tummy. Here she shares her tips for rediscovering your mojo simply by looking after number one! I blogged recently on [...]

When life hands you lemons…..

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When life hands you lemons you have a choice. You can, as they say, make lemonade, or, you can cut the lemons in half and squeeze the juice in life’s eyes! We all react differently. Personally I have a problem with any revenge based action. I usually freefall into despair for a while and then [...]

Too Many Balls

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No, this is not, as you might think, a post moaning about the World Cup and all the football on TV at the moment. It’s about all the metaphorical ‘balls’ we try and keep in the air at any one time – kids, home, business, family, friends and ourselves. Nor is this a post that [...]

Thought for Thursday #15

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Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away Anon Tweet This Post

Thought for Thursday #14

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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. Mark Twain Tweet This Post

“It’s all about YOU!” Daily Challenge

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This week we are setting you a Daily Challenge – to spend ½ hour every day doing something you enjoy and which relaxes you.  Schedule it in if you need to and add it to your To Do list. Just make sure you do something that isn’t about the home, the business or your family – [...]

Thought for Thursday #13

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Courage does not always roar. Sometimes, it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow”. Maryanne Radanbacher Tweet This Post

Thought for Thursday #11

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If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.  Mary Engelbreit Tweet This Post

Thought for Thursday #4

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I see this day as a positive new beginning. (It’s never too late to have a new beginning.) Today and tomorrow can be very different from yesterday if you can let go of yesterday and focus on today. Look for things to feel good about, and watch how everything in your life will unfold to [...]

Thought for Thursday #1

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My future isn’t about my past (Life is only about NOW) Nothing that has ever happened has anything to do with now, unless, in my now, I continue to think and speak about it. Fresh new thoughts give me a fresh new experience. Taken from The Teachings of Abraham Well-Being Cards by Esther & Jerry [...]