Tag: stress
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Tension won’t help get it done
Update on the editing project: I’m onto phase 3 – the edit of the paperback. Without going into too much detail, any changes to this document have the potential to cause mayhem in the formatting. To give you a sense of how I normally work on this phase picture tears, rage, bewilderment, blind fury and…
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Obstacle Busting: Biting Off More Than You Can Chew
If you’re anything like me, you tend to think you can take on way more than is physically possible for any human who wants to keep her sanity. It’s a new global disease – busyness is an epidemic; having it all is something we’re all trying to chase. Unfortunately having it all can mean relentless…
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When Your Castle in the Air is Left in Ruins
Sometimes something happens that seems to take the legs from under you, sends a hurricane through the beautiful dream castle in the air that you’re building and leaves it in ruins on the ground. It may be a failure, a disappointment…or even just the memory of something that didn’t work out as you wanted it…
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Let Go of What’s Causing You Stress
Last week, almost every coaching call I had touched on the same theme – stress, and letting go of what is stressing us out. Because a lot of the stuff that stresses us out is just life. In life, people do stuff we don’t want them to do, deals fall through, shit happens! And the…
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Are You Using Your Sanity Toolkit This Holiday Season?
Holidays are coming, holidays are coming…and the lead up to the holidays is full of that insane energy of excitement plus too much to do plus pressure of making this year awesome plus (in the Northern Hemisphere anyway) the energy of winter encouraging hibernation just at the time you need to be DOING on speed.…
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Breathe, Slow Down, Unclench, Relax, Let Go of the Reins
Last week I was getting myself into a super-tizzy. The same super-tizzy I swore last year I’d never do again after nearly sending myself into a nervous breakdown over self-imposed deadlines. But this time was a little different…this time there was an awareness that this path does not lead to good places – it’s stressful,…
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Are You “Too Busy” For a Self-Care Day?
I realised last week I had not taken my self-care days in September. (Because I didn’t have one before July, I’m trying to make up for it by having a couple a month). So in the last couple of days of the month, I’ve squeezed in a long, lazy lunch with friends and an appointment…
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My Word for 2015…PEACE!
Honestly, I would never have expected my word for the year next year to be PEACE. I am not a particularly ‘peaceful’ person – I’m lively and bubbly and full of ideas and I’m busy. Busy doing, creating, enjoying, building a fabulous life. But the more I think about it, the more I know that…
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If Your Bladder is Full, Go To The Toilet
There’s a conversation I have with clients fairly often about seeing the signs and using them as a reminder. Like when your bladder is full, you go to the toilet. When your fuel guage is low, you go to the garage. There is no bargaining with the bladder and the fuel tank…you might keep them…