Confident Woman – Tips and Tactics to boost your confidence
We women have things that happen to us that can really affect our confidence in life. We age, our bodies change, people might start treating us differently and we might even face betrayal. Many women put their careers on hold to care for their children, and others might try and do it all as a…
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How To Make Sure You Always Finish What You Start
We are so used to instant gratification, that many people never learn the skill to finish what you start. Maybe it’s finishing that book you started reading or completing the DIY project that’s been gathering dust in the garage for 3 years, or finally clearing out the basement. When we talk about finishing what you…
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Morning Routine Method – Try these 5 Simple Steps
Most people will agree that having an effective morning routine method helps set a good foundation for your day. However, many people struggle to find a morning routine that works for them, and there is a good reason why that is. What works for me won’t necessarily work for you! We all have different life…
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How to change your life completely
Whether you want to change your life completely or simply improve it in certain areas like your relationship or career, for example, it is not an easy thing to do. If it was, we’d all walk around with everything we ever wanted. As it is, many of us walk around wishing things could change, we…
10 Beautiful Self-Love Affirmations With Picture Quotes
Doing self-love affirmations can improve your self-esteem, increase your self-confidence and improve your relationships. Affirmations are positive statements that we consciously repeat to ourselves. Doing self-love affirmations consistently and with intent, can change our mindset and attitude, which in turn can change our behavior. And therein lies the magic, for when we start behaving in…
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5 Simple Living Habits That Actually Reduce Stress and Anxiety
If you are alive in the world today, chances are that you experience stress. You might even wear your stress like a badge of honor. But let’s face it, stress and anxiety will cost you dearly. You pay the price in your relationships, your self-esteem and your overall sense of wellbeing. So, while stress might…
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Manage Stress: 4 Daily Habits to Cope with Stress
I don’t know one person who has not experienced stress at some point in their life. If we don’t manage that stress however, it can lead to all kinds of physical and mental problems. It’s well documented that constant exposure to stress causes fatigue, anxiety, decreased productivity, increased absenteeism and even depression. For most of…
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Why your life feels empty when you don’t have set intentions
The shrill sound of the alarm clock drills through your brain. You fumble for the snooze button, your only goal to recreate the dreamless nothingness you were rudely ripped out of. Of course, it doesn’t work, so you finally drag yourself out of bed, facing another day of the same without set intentions. You go…
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9 Good Habits to Improve Your Life
It’s part of our nature to want to improve our lives and the good habits we build are the cornerstone of designing a life we want. It’s one thing to think about changing and improving your life, quite another to take action. An easy mistake to make when we want to do things differently is…
Personal Values: Discover and Live by Your Core Values
Imagine that you are a navigator on the open sea. You are quite skilled at using the stars as your guide. You trust this huge expanse of light, which flickers and shows you where you are in relation to the world. Without the stars, you will drift aimlessly. You will go where the tides take…
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What is Intentional Living?
Do you ever find that you drive home, and when you get there, you can’t remember the road you drove? Or you leave the house and lock the door without thinking about it, only to wonder after you have left, if you did lock up? Many of our actions and behaviors are automated. This is…
5 Intentional Habits Which Have Improved My Life
The world looks different today than it did for our grandparents. Everything is speeding up, becoming more efficient and certainly much busier. And if we are not careful, it is so easy to get caught up in the rush and lose sight of what is truly important in our lives. When this happens we live…
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Simplify your Digital Life: Habits for Digital Minimalism
I’ve been working on a photo book project these past few weeks. It prompted me to finally take control and start to simplify my digital life. So.many.photos. They are in the cloud, on my smartphone, on my external hard drive, on my husband’s smartphone, and on our digital camera. And so many of them…
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Minimalist Lifestyle: A Beginners Guide on How to Get Started
It is ironic that I started my journey into a minimalist lifestyle as a result of moving into a bigger home. In this post, I want to talk about what made me decide to embrace minimalism, the benefits that I see from leading a simpler life and how you can get started with a…
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3 Ways to Stop Comparing Yourself to Others
Have you ever wondered if it is possible to stop comparing yourself to others? We start the comparison game at an early age and everyone does it. It is actually happening in my house right now thanks to our kids. Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING is compared. They push their noses right up to their…
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3 Steps to Break Bad Habits (and Replace Them with Good Ones)
If you have ever tried to break bad habits, you know what a challenge it can be. It is so easy to get into a bad routine or start a bad habit. It happens without you even thinking about it. Then when you try to change it, it feels like an impossible task. And don’t…
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Self-sabotaging: why we do it and how to stop
Self-sabotage is probably the ultimate bad habit. There are most likely more delicate ways to explain it, but the bottom line is this. When you sabotage yourself, you are not only your own worst enemy, but you are basically screwing yourself over. So you desperately want to get that report finished because it will…
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9 Habits of Happy People (it’s probably not what you think)
Even though this post is called 9 Habits of Happy People, I will be the first to tell you that being happy all the time is not possible. In addition, being happy all the time is not a good idea either! When we are happy the whole time, we won’t grow. We will be complacent…
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How to change bad habits (+ 49 bad habits which hold you back)
The thing that amazes me about bad habits is that they seem to develop so effortlessly. They usually start small. You give yourself one night a week “off” from tidying the kitchen after dinner. A few weeks later, it is easier to take a couple of nights off. Soon, your kitchen is a perpetual…
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Overcoming fear of failure – 3 simple ways
Many of us are afraid of failing, it is a normal part of human nature. But when you allow that fear to stop you from going after your goals, you need to have a little chat with yourself. Fear of failure can make you controlling, rigid and inflexible. You become blind to opportunities and possibilities…
How To Make Habits Stick: The Easiest Way To Start And Keep New Habits
If you have ever tried to start a new habit, you know you difficult it can be to make habits stick. The irony is, it can be so easy to fall into bad habits, but building good habits are often hard! Whether you want to improve your life, become more productive, or just start taking…
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3 Easy areas to declutter in a weekend
When you are surrounded by clutter it is easy to feel overwhelmed by the thought of decluttering. Where do you start? What do you tackle first? How do you even begin to organize yourself? So we try to ignore it instead, make neater piles and suppress our frustration. The fact is, decluttering is hard.…
Habits to help you feel happier even when you are anxious or sad
I don’t know when I first became aware of the black sad hole that exists inside me. It has been a constant companion to me for as long as I can remember. It has directed my life to a large extent and set me on the path to self-development and personal growth. Over the years…
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10 Daily Routine Ideas to make you Happier and Calmer
I like to think of myself as a free-spirited and spontaneous. But actually, over the years I’ve learned a few things. Number one, I don’t like surprises. Number two, I need my daily routines to keep me happy and calm. I have a few daily routines ideas that I want to share with you. You…
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How to Design the Best Morning Routine You Will Love
It is not difficult to find information on how to design your best morning routine. Just do a search online and you will see for yourself. The problem with following someone else’s best morning routine though is that we are all different. What works for me won’t necessarily work for you. I’ve tried a…
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31 Intentional Living Habits that will change your life
You know how sometimes your life runs away with you? It happens to all of us, we get caught up in everyday living. We get sucked into drama and tension, both at home and at work. The result is usually that we become reactive. Our responses are automatic, and we lose sight of our priorities.…
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Decluttering habit: a 4 step strategy to keep your home clutter-free
To declutter your home can be a daunting and overwhelming task for many. We become attached to our possessions, we are afraid to let them go. We get addicted to the thrill of buying things. As clutter slowly creeps up we become used to living in a fuller space until it reaches a point where…
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Simplify Your Life 101: How to start simplifying your life
Learning to simplify your life might just be the answer that you need if you are feeling overwhelmed and unhappy by your life. As I am learning more about simplifying my own life, I am learning that a simple life also means living a slower life. A life of more intention filled with conscious choices.…
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How I stay productive working from home
Working from home seems the dream right? No commute, no dress code, and no-one micromanaging you? But have you ever had one of those days where you could absolutely not get productive working from home, and you had absolutely nothing to show for your efforts, even though you were busy the whole time? And what…
Self-care habits to help you cope better with stress
Self-care is often looked at as pampering activities that focus on your physical wellbeing. Actually, all parts of us, be it physical, spiritual, emotional and mental needs good habits to better cope with stress. Stress has become a way of life for many of us. We glorify our “busyness” and wear our stressful hustle as…
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How to stop procrastinating and get productive
We all do it. Most of us are guilty of procrastinating. And we all have times where we wish to could stop procrastinating and putting things off. All too often when we know we need to get started on a task, we find something else to do instead. Getting started on, and then finishing our…
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How to start practicing self-care daily
It’s been a hectic week for you. You feel drained and exhausted. You’d love to just curl up with a book but you. have. no. time. It feels as if everyone needs something from you and the truth is, you only have so much to give. When your life looks like this, self-care is the…
3 ways to increase your productivity
We all get times when we are feeling unproductive. Wouldn’t it be great if you could just snap your fingers and get some certain ways to increase our productivity? When you are feeling that slump but there are still things to be done, you have a find a way to get moving. Productivity is…
Change Your Mindset to Improve Your Week | How To Have A Good Week Even If You Hate Mondays
Most people don’t like their jobs and wish they could be doing something else. That kind of thinking doesn’t help you. You are actually in control of your life much more than you think. A victim mindset keeps you hostage and makes everything that happens to you seem so much worse. Change how you think…
How To Stop Comparing Yourself To Others – 3 Easy Steps
The quickest way to feeling bad about yourself is by comparing yourself to others. You break down your self-esteem and will always feel like second best. Comparing yourself to others usually happens subconsciously, most of the time you don’t even realize that you are doing it. However, you always ended feeling bad because the comparison…
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Help with BIG decisions – make better decisions in everyday life
We literally make 1000’s of decisions every day. In this video, I talk about how you can improve the decisions you make in everyday life. Watch the video here https://youtu.be/l_ffV2_AJOo Firstly, we talk about how to overcome the fear of making a mistake when you have to decide on small things like going to a…
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5 Tips to Live Your Best Life Now
I share my top 5 tips on how to get the most of your life. You only have one life now, don’t waste it – make it count! https://youtu.be/iEGE7SOyi58 Watch video here 5 Tips for making the most out of your life 1. Sort yourself out Develop your self-awareness to get rid of the emotional…
Personal Core Values – Why it’s Important To Live By Them
Your personal core values help you live on purpose. Your values already operate in your subconscious mind. Even though you might not be consciously aware of them, they are already at play. Your personal core values drive your behavior, they influence your actions and they predict how you show up in this world. Your personal…
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How To Deal With Your Inner Critic
Once, when I was a kid I ate almost a whole plate of cookies at a birthday party. One of the older children made a remark to his friends about my appetite, which I overheard. I was totally embarrassed and it seemed that his voice got stuck in my head. For many years afterward, I…
Stop clutter from overwhelming your brain and manage your life better
Your brain works best when it’s not overly stressed. Learn how clutter can overwhelm you and how to make the mental shift to managing your life better. To create space in your life for something new, you need to literally make space both physically and mentally. By clearing clutter and learning some new behaviors, you…
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Make the switch from external motivation to internal motivation
Being internally motivated plays a big role in your success and general satisfaction with the quality of your life. Those who are externally motivated typically depend on external events and things to make them feel happier. On the other hand, internally motivated people tend to have an inner drive and they can thrive, even if…
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Build your confidence – take bigger risks
Many people seem to believe that confidence is something that we are born with. Truth is, confidence is not something that is static and fixed. Instead, confidence has to do with our belief about our ability to succeed at something. So, our thoughts and our actions largely determine how confident we are. It gives…
Build Your Super Powers: Vision Boards
This is part 2 of my Total Empowerment series. Read part 1 here. If you’ve seen the Secret you might have this idea that a vision board or dream board is something that you make, then when you wake up in the morning your Ferrari will be the driveway and you have your dream job.…
Build Your Super Powers: Anchoring
This is part 1 in my Build Your Super Power Series: Helpful Tools you can use Right Now. These are different tools and strategies which I teach my clients, and which I use myself too. You can find part 2 here. The first tool I want to tell you about is Anchoring. We create automatic…
What To Do When You are Feeling Self-Conscious – Improve Your Social Skills
Have you ever felt awkward during a conversation with someone that you meet for the first time? I know I have. That feeling of self-consciousness where you can think of absolutely nothing to say. And your amygdala is sending out stress signals causing you to blank out to the point where you can’t even…
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EFT Tapping and Healing Physical Wounds
I guess this is sort of a case study and personal experience that I had with using EFT Tapping for healing physical wounds. A few years ago my husband cut off the tip of his right index finger. It happened while he was cutting meat with the electrical slicer. Well, it wasn’t really cut…
5 Things to help you cope with change
It is said that some of the biggest stressors are when something changes in our lives. And many times it feels like we need to use all our resources to try and cope with this change. That is why getting married, getting divorced, starting a family or a new job, or moving house is a…