Inspired Insights are my little inspirations to help you live a happy life.
Coaching isn’t for everyone and from those who do jump into the coaching journey, only a handful will reap its full benefits. There’s a simple reason for this:
Read MoreIf you can’t see yourself making the necessary changes FOREVER, it probably won’t work for you for very long.
I was SO happy being dragged around by LIFE. I had worked so hard to train LIFE! I put processes and systems in place for my work and for my family life to allow for routines and clients to lead me from task to task. I could go to bed feeling tired, wake up energised to grab the end of that leash and start running behind my healthy, happy, bouncy, LIFE.
Read MoreHabits dictate the results we see in our lives. It shapes our realities. So it serves us well to pay attention to the everyday habits and see how we can shift it to achieve better results. Seeing the positive or the silver lining in situations is something we must train ourselves to do.
Read MoreHave you ever experienced heartbreak? When you were a child, did you lose your favourite toy or were you hurt by your best friend? As you got older, maybe you were hurt by your first love or felt misunderstood by your parents? More recently, maybe you have experienced the loss of someone close to you or experienced rejection. When a relationship ends for whatever reason or we experience sadness or pain, we describe it as a ‘broken heart’. Well, here is something interesting to think about…what if it isn't really your heart that breaks? What if the thing that you break is in fact, your ego?
Read MoreThe holiday season is upon us! It’s an exciting time. Lots of colour, time of giving and a time for connection! However, are you also slightly dreading the end of year family gatherings? Do you wonder how you will survive and conserve your patience while trying to connect with certain members of your family? Here are some strategies to ensure your next gathering is full of meaning and positive connections.
Read More“I am dumb” - 10-year-old boy
“It will never work” - 32-year-old employee
“They always leave in the end” - 45-year-old divorcee
“I will probably do it. Maybe definitely” - 74-year-old President
Can you see the power of the above statements? They are so much more than some words strung together. While reading them, you may have thought about instances or imagined the people behind the quotes you read (although the last one was an easy one)! These words communicate so much more than a sentence, they are an indication into the belief systems of the people saying them.
Read MoreI saw this cartoon by Darío Castillejos on social media and it really resonated with me. The timing was perfect as I was wrapping up a week which was full of non-stop chatter, coaching and discussions reflective of what this picture depicts, which is this confronting question:
“are your expectations of yourself limiting the potentials of others?
Read MoreKris Carr recounts the time in her life she found out she had stage 4 cancer at the age of 31. She discusses how she would eat to stay slim for her job. This intention led her to develop an unhealthy relationship to food, as she was constantly trying to “shrink” herself. She says her focus was about staying slim instead of eating to “nourish my body, nourish my mind, nourish my dreams”. This made me wonder, which areas of my life am I shrinking and nourishing?
Read MoreOver the course of three days this week, I had the pleasure of delivering a series of leadership seminars to over one hundred children, aged 11 and 12, across Australia. It was an awesome opportunity that I thoroughly enjoyed. The focus of my discussion was to introduce ways to manage extreme emotions, especially nerves. At the start of one my workshops, we were getting to know each other a little more and I asked what time everyone had woken up that day. One sweet little 11 year old from Victoria volunteered that she woke up early, as she normally gets up at around 5:30am. Willingly! I was so surprised and curious, I asked her what wakes her up so early. She said no-one wakes her up and she doesn’t have any musical instruments to practise or any sports to play so early. She just does it because she likes to “reflect” at that time.
Read MoreLife for just about everyone has taken a dramatic turn this year, wouldn’t you say? The world has essentially shut down for a spell, as we were forced to wear masks and disinfect our hands so frequently that they feel like sandpaper! All of a sudden, we are thinking hard about the need to go out of the house, to stock up on necessities and spend time with loved ones for far longer a period of time than we signed up for.
Of course, with these changes, we are bound to go through emotional ups and downs. There are days where we will manage our emotions well, and days where it’s not so well. In my sessions I find myself addressing the following question a lot, however it seems to have been amplified by the current times:
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