There are many things that are guaranteed in life, paying taxes, death & change are a few that spring to my mind.Not to mention the fears you'll face & overcome, fears that may last a life time.Love found with an open heart & love that seems to tear us apart , only to find an inner strength that we didn't know existed.The one thing that binds them together is change. If this is true? Why are we so resisent to change.Letting go of the old & embracing the new, it was Karl Jung who said what was once true in the morning of our lives will become a lie in the evening of our lives.There's another famous quote that goes as follows, "If you always do what you have always done you'll always get what you've always gotten" UnknownThis quote is so true & there are many different ways you can tap into the habit of adapting to change.Firstly become present to everything that is by focusing on your breath. Notice the changes throughout the day, changes in temperature, a light breeze & changes from da...

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There was a great headline in the Evening Standard a couple of weeks ago “101 things to do before we die, just one to go and we’re not even 30”.  It caught my eye – in the newspaper of the person sitting next to me on the tube and I was very happy that as she left, she left behind the newspaper so I could get a good read!    These two friends had made a list of challenges they promised to achieve over a lifetime.  And in the doing of them they got so inspired that they have done them all except one.  This list included joining football team, skydiving, going in a wind tunnel, training as a life guard, working on an organic bee farm, working on a conservation project, the list goes on and on.  One of the most intriguing ones was saying yes to everything for a month – I wonder how that worked out!   As of one of the girls said “there is nothing worse than regret, Sam and I swore we would make the most out of every minute of our lives.  Once we...

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Patterns are things that we do on a consistent basis and are done at an unconscious level.   Your patterns of thoughts, language and behaviour will determine the quality of your life and the results that you achieve.   Many of your patterns have come about from influences and experiences from your environment.   Hopefully the environments you have been exposed to have led you to develop healthy patterns.   Unfortunately though there may be patterns that you are following that may not be serving you well in your life.   It is critical to identify any patterns that are not serving you and to interrupt them.   If you are not experiencing the results that you want in various areas of your life an examination of the patterns creating these results is necessary. You will find that a pattern of thoughts, language or behaviour is not allowing you to experience what you desire. Continuing to follow these patterns will lead to the same results occurring ...

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I wrote on Facebook recently that when one door closes and another opens.  One of the comments was that not only was this true but many times the door that opens is, more often than not, a better door. This was certainly true for me a few weeks ago.  I live in Spain although the majority of my business is in the UK.   I run workshops, conduct Passion Test for Business Programs with individuals and companies and do quite a lot of networking in London.  To do this we have been hugely supported by a great friend who, for the past few years, has very generously opened the doors of his house to us whenever we needed to be in the UK.  Last week we heard that this was no longer possible and so it was time for us to say a huge thank you to our friend, and find a new London “home”.  My mind went into overdrive and I totally forgot that when one door closes another (often bigger and better) one opens.  I started to fret about how we were going to be able...

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For the last 20 years I have read many times that it is very important to have a vision for whatever you want in your life.  Perhaps you’ve heard the same – without vision there is no way you can work out your pathway to your destination.   Over the years I have worked with my clients on creating a personal vision – what they would like to have their life look and feel like when they have brought everything into balance.  It is always much easier to work out the steps you need to take, when you know where you are going.   There are many ways you can do this – at the end of the personal Passion Test we ask all our participants to create a vision board – pictures and sentences that represent their top five passions.  I have created a vision book, a similar idea as the vision board but something more portable.   Only last week when I was chatting to a friend about a new focus for my work she said  “take the morning off and do a new vision board for...

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As the saying goes “If you fail to plan you plan to fail”.   The question I would like to ask of you is “Are you investing some time in planning each week?”   Planning helps to set you up for success. So many times people fail to achieve what they want in life due to an absence or lack of adequate planning.   Planning is a worthwhile investment of your time. It is important to make time for it. A small amount of time spent planning can assist you in being more effective with your time and can help you to achieve better outcomes in your life.   Planning helps you to become the creator of your life. It allows you to come up with deliberate strategies/approaches to achieve the outcomes that you want. Your life only happens once so give yourself the time to plan how you want to live and experience it.   Planning keeps you focused on what actions you need to be taking. It provides you with a step by step guide to follow.   Planning can help yo...

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The quality of your life will depend on the choices that you make.   The results that you are receiving in the different areas of your life will be the accumulation of the day to day choices that you are making in those areas. If you are not achieving the results that you want in particular areas reflect on your past and current choices and ask yourself “Am I making the right choices and do I need to commit to making some different choices?”   Some of the important choices you may want to think about are:   How you spend your time;   Who you decide to have relationships with;   How you manage your money;   How you treat yourself;   Your attitude in life;   Being truthful; and   How you respond to events in life.   Your choices will steer the direction that your life takes.   It is therefore important that you think carefully about the choices that you are...

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I don’t now about you but life has become very busy since the beginning of this year.  It has felt like time has speeded up, rather whirlwind-like.  Many people I have spoken with recently have felt the same, some kind of shift happening, rather like the brakes being taken off. And that is all great!  However I also began to see in myself that I was wanting to short cut things to make up time and ‘get things done”.  Yep, that old potato, the “get things done”.  Now it is all well and good to get things done, but not if it is to the expense of other things like being really present in my work and not getting impatient. I also noticed that I was getting frustrated with the amount of time I needed to take on certain tasks on the computer.  Important tasks that will pay dividends in the future.  I caught myself resenting the time it took away from my “work”.  Whoa!  And that’s the catch.  What do you consider work and what is just ‘stuff ...

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How good does it feel to get everything done on a to-do list? It feels like you have accomplished something good whether you're at work or at home. You're getting stuff done and you're making progress. The question is, how important are the things on the to-do list. Siimon Reynolds, one Australia's top Entrepreneurs believes in keeping things simple. He starts his day focusing on an area of importance and writes down a top 10 list of things that need to be done. Focusing on the top three, Siimon will delegate the rest. For me personally, I will start my day with a top five and focus on three, starting with the most important and only moving onto the next one when the first task has been completed. This helps you to stay focused and gets you into the habit of finishing things that you start. Delegating minor tasks is another way to get things done. A client of mine has a successful internet business and is a sole parent of two children 9 & 11 years old. Every Thursday afternoon i...

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Keep on Going. Ok, so we’ve all heard the phrase “when the going gets tough, the tough get going!” or maybe “when life gives you lemons make lemonade!”  Or even “don’t worry when the rug gets pulled from under your feet – learn to dance on a shifting carpet!”    What a collection of clichés! All of these sayings are kind of saying the same thing – keep on moving forward and let the challenges be the fuel for that movement.  Where are you in your life right now?  Are things moving as you want or maybe you getting disheartened, feeling everything is slowing down so much that maybe it feels like you are not moving at all?  I recently had a huge disappointment.  Something that I thought was going to be a large part of my work for at least the next ten years didn’t work out.  For a variety of reasons it wasn’t the ‘fit’ I thought I was.  For a few days I had a good old wallow in poor me until I realised that this was one of ‘those’ lem...

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