January 8th, 2010
You can set yourself up to be your best, every day, with some simple daily habits. Devise your own personal list of ten daily habits that you can make a regular part of your day so you can be your best. Include all the things that you know make you feel great. And, it doesn’t have to be intense or boring, include some fun things. The secret to this is making these daily habits your own. Choose things that are important to you and that are going to make you feel good. Don’t make it too difficult for yourself, or set yourself up for more pressure. Your aim is to make life better for yourself, not worse!
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December 10th, 2009
It’s that time of the year when things get busy: everyone is trying to get things finished before the end of the year, there are social functions, school functions and general Christmas festivities to fit in, plus there’s the shopping and general preparations for what is arguably the most prominent event on our annual calendar – Christmas. So when things go wrong at this time of year, it can easily be the straw that breaks the camel’s back and send a normally sane person into a complete meltdown.
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December 8th, 2009
Many clients come to me in despair with problems and issues that actually belong to other people – partners, children, friends, family members, work colleagues. Often they’ve tried to get these people to change their offending behaviour and failed. And therein lies the problem. We can’t change other people, nor do we have any right to. People will change if and when they want to and not a moment sooner.
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September 15th, 2009
Having moved north from the Mainland five years ago, I’ve struggled a bit to find a sense of belonging living here in central Auckland, a place to put down some roots and feel a sense of home and community. However I found this recently, when my six year old daughter came a cropper in the school playground and smashed her elbow. Samantha’s always been a bit of a dare devil stuntwoman. I swear she was a monkey in a former life, so it was only really a matter of time before she pushed the boundaries too far and learned what her physical limits are. Even so, no parent likes getting a call from school saying “can you get here immediately to accompany your child in the ambulance”, and if you’re in the middle of a business meeting and you have deadlines looming that suddenly can’t be met, it all adds to the stress.
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August 25th, 2009
Most of the time, this working Mum manages to keep most of the balls in the air, the important ones anyway, in regard to keeping the balance between keeping my business afloat and being a good Mum to my darling six year old, Samantha. Every now and then though, you get thrown a curve ball that could just send you over the edge. One such curve ball came today in the form of the Junior School Flower Show. Sounds innocent enough, but for a working parent who doesn’t have the preparation time factored in, this could spell a complete family melt down.
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