How are your new year’s resolutions going? Out the window yet? A few years ago I started thinking about different ways to join the ‘better me in January’ brigade and eventually I settled on the following list. It worked so well last year (and lasted well beyond January) that I thought I’d do it all […]
Ten ideas for a happier new year Read More
It’s been a year now since my last post on my health destiny but I sure do remember that lurgy. Oh boy. Had I experienced that now I’d more than certainly find myself in quarantine, or at the very least with some very dirty looks aimed in my direction. And how did my commitment to
Changing my health destiny: Part 5 (a break through) Read More
Are you a changemaker? Chances are if you’re an Australian, particularly a regional Australian you’d consider it ‘up yourself‘ to claim such title. Let me tell you right now. If there are people asking you questions about what to do, if you have a burning desire to make the world a better place, if your
A changemakers guide to wellbeing in times of change Read More
When I started my job in 2016 the office was 100kms away from my home. Each day I’d arrive home exhausted and when you’re a working parent going from a busy working day back into the home to commence that role it’s not good for anyone. The paradigm of work – having a job that
Could a remote office work for you? Read More
Why habit measurement is more important than SMART Goals Do you have a goal that hangs about, refusing to budge no matter how many good intentions you throw towards it? You know those goals… The ones you imagine would be nice to achieve, life changing or even critical to your ongoing life. These are the
Are your habits killing your goals? Read More
What are your plans for this holiday season? A bit of lying about? Or perhaps catching up on those things you can never quite get to during the year? Maybe you’re still working? Or perhaps you’re busy serving hoards of people who are doing the sitting around for you – otherwise known as children and
What’s your holiday project? Read More
There isn’t a person I’ve spoken with in the past six months who hasn’t made some comment about being busy. Busy at work, at home, in the garden, in the community, running around after family and sometimes busy doing all of the above (and more). Busy does not discriminate by age, occupation nor postcode. It
The Human Condition: Busy Read More
My darling middle child has always had a way with words. She’s almost 16 now. She’s worldly, she’s seen ‘stuff’ (so she tells me), she has a boyfriend (with whom time is carefully rationed during the mother’s watch) and she’s pretty sure she knows how most things work (except the washing machine which she has
Raising teen: still waving not quite drowning Read More
Another work trip. Another hotel. I’d been doing this for a long, long time and sitting within four walls en route to somewhere should have been a very ordinary occurrence. This time it was not. On this evening the walls became a prison, a prison which was bereft of the oxygen I needed so desperately
The Human Condition: Anxiety Read More
Do you remember that tickle in your tummy you got when you were a kid and something cool was just about to happen? Perhaps it was Christmas, Easter, the Tooth Fairy or maybe it was the sound of Mr Whippy approaching your street. And do you remember that feeling of exhilaration when somebody said YES,
It’s what you make it Read More