Jacqui is currently Living Life Her Way, travelling around the world with her daughter.
"Life's not meant to be one long coping strategy - it can be as fantastic as you choose to make it. Whether it's in business or your personal life, I believe the greatest rewards come when you decide to be true to yourself, and to really live your life, your way.."
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“Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
January 20th, 2010
Jane Lucas – BJ’s Health & Fitness Centres Ltd
Jane started her career as a farmer’s wife teaching a few local ladies aerobics in the country. Thirteen years later she’s recognised as a successful businesswoman, owning and operating three health & fitness centres in the Nelson / Marlborough region.
January 20th, 2010
There is actually a big difference between having a great lifestyle and a great life – but the two can easily become confused.
“Lifestyle” refers to things we buy to decorate our lives. Through our lifestyle choices we can buy an identity through brands. We can define how other people perceive us, so it can be a way of gaining acceptance and approval from them. A common term for this is “keeping up with the Joneses”. We want to control what people think of us and it can be tempting to do this through making sure we have the right “things” in order to be regarded in a certain way.
Your “life” on the other hand, is what you lead when you know what is important to you and you let that control your behaviour. Your life is made up of your choices and actions. Through our “life” we can create our own self esteem and pride through being true to our selves.
January 8th, 2010
Are you suffering from overwhelm? Do you ever wish the world would stop so you can get off? Do you feel like your life is just one never-ending circle? It might be time to simplify.
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!
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.
December 9th, 2009
This project started back in 1999 through my own frustrations as a newly self-employed writer. After completing a journalism course by correspondence I’d decided I didn’t want to go and work for a newspaper or a magazine - I wanted to freelance. This seemed easy enough and I was sure it was the answer to my dreams of freedom. I started writing and soon I had a few regular contracts and I was surviving, but only just. The hardest part was not the writing but the business side of it - knowing what to charge for my work, getting agreements from people, sorting out taxes and accounting procedures. I bluffed my way through blindly for months not wanting to ask anybody for help for fear of confirming to them that I really didnít know what I was doing!
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.
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.
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.
