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You are multi-faceted, you are a cut above the rest and you radiate light! It’s your time to shine! Do things that bring you joy, find things that fulfil you, and create a life that let’s you shine like a diamond 🌺

This journey we call life can really sucks sometimes. It really can. And people who tell you otherwise are lying.

At one time or another we’ve all experienced disappointment, failure, fear and despair. We all know what it feels like to not get promotion we wanted, to have our heart broken, to be let down and to lose someone we cherished. It truly sucks.
And let’s admit it, when things don’t go our way, sometimes it feels REALLY good to wallow in our disappointment and misery. In a weird way, wallowing feels warm and comfortable. It’s a place we know. Like an old friend, it’s familiar and allows us to indulge ourselves. It understands us really well.
But let’s not fool ourselves, my friends.
You know what else misery does REALLY well? It starves our soul. It eats away at our spirit, our existence and our potential.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying that feeling miserable after a disappointing event is a bad thing, because it’s not. It’s normal. Allowing yourself to wallow for a while and feel (really FEEEEEEL) is an important part of healing. But what’s dangerous is allowing failure, fear and despair to infuse your entire being. The longer you allow this to happen, the harder it will be to get out of the funk. Put another way, the longer wallowing becomes your default position, the harder it is to press the restart button.
I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to live a life that’s devoid of joy and wonder and laughter!
So, what do you do next time you’re feeling as though life has dealt you a nasty blow? Start by asking yourself these questions:
1. What’s the silver lining in all this for me (trust me, there’s ALWAYS a silver lining!)?
2. What’s the lesson I need to learn?
3. What aspects of my life bring me joy?
4. What can I do to focus more on the joy in my life rather than the disappointment I’m feeling right now?
Whatever is you want in this life, believe me when I say, focusing on JOY and positivity rather than despair, stacks the odds in your favour towards you achieving your goals.
I can’t guarantee that you’ll never be disappointed, hurt or upset again, but I CAN guarantee that if you let misery ‘win’, the likelihood of achieving whatever you want in this life will dramatically decrease. There’re no ands, ifs, or buts about it. It’s simply the truth!
It’s not always easy to ‘turn a smile upside down’, but if you start looking for the hope, peace and joy in every situation, there’s a good chance disappointments that come your way in the future won’t feel so debilitating.
You deserve to live a life that’s full of everything that’s good, positive and fulfilling. So, don’t let set-backs define your life. Let joy guide your journey. Start today!

Ever had one if those days when your ‘To Do’ is a mile long, but for the life of you don’t know how to begin tackling it?

As the list grows, so too do our anxiety levels, and we start to feel overwhelmed. For working mums (I include stay-at-home-mums in this, because let’s face it, ALL mums are working mums!), this is especially true.

Let me start by saying this – you’re not alone. Feeling overwhelmed by the pressure we put ourselves is unfortunately becoming more and more common these days. Today, more than ever, we have more choices, more responsibilities, more meetings, more school functions, more washing/cleaning/ironing, more this and more that. I’m sure you’d agree, it’s exhausting!

As much as we’d like to achieve everything we want within a 24 hour cycle, sometimes it’s just not realistic. Of course, the difficulty with this is – the more we don’t do today, the more we have to do tomorrow and the next day and the next. Before we know it, our ‘To Do’ list is the size of Mt Vesuvius!

So what can you do when you start feeling overwhelmed by how much you need to achieve toda
y? Start by asking yourself these questions:
1. What’s on my ‘MUST Do’ list today, as opposed to my ‘To Do’ list?
2. Who says these tasks are important? (Me, my partner, my boss, society?)
3. What is it about saying ‘No’ that makes me feel guilty?

The best way to manage feelings of being overwhelmed is to start questioning your own assumptions. There’s always a difference between what you ‘should’ and what you ‘must’ do. The world’s not going to stop if you cut yourself a bit of slack. Be kind to yourself. Everything will get done.

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Some days we feel like Superwoman and other days, it’s a struggle to put one foot in front of the other. That’s just how life is sometimes and it’s
okay!

The key is to continually work at moving positively and progressively towards our professional goals. This can take a number of forms and can range from making a phone call we’ve been avoiding, to updating our CV, to chairing a big boardroom meeting! It doesn’t matter. Nor is one action more important than the other because, let’s face it, some days finding time to do even the ‘small things’ is just as difficult as it is to do the ‘big things’.

… So, ask yourself these questions – what have I done today and what will I do tomorrow to move closer to achieving my professional goals?

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