Inspired Insights are my little inspirations to help you live a happy life.
Habits 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 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:
Read MoreA big part of our Spring Cleaning process is the act of getting rid of unnecessary clutter. We pack away our winter woollies and bring out our shorts and hats. We roll away our heaters and bring out the fans. We clean out our kitchen cupboards of the chocolate treats and replace them with some healthier, greener options to start shedding the winter weight. Some of us are also cutting out our unhealthy relationships and replacing them with new connections. So, for the most part, we aren’t really clearing the clutter. We are just replacing it. As motivated as we are to get rid of the old, we are even more motivated to replace them! Because generally speaking, the majority of us humans are really uneasy with empty spaces; regardless of whether it is in our cupboards, on our bookshelves, in our schedules or in our minds. Spaces are uncomfortable. Gaps are awkward.
Read MoreEver hear people talk about Work-Life balance? Just about every other day right? I realise this topic is a bit sensitive and that I should probably approach it with as much care as one would when telling a child the truth about the well-intended magical story (i.e. big fat lie) of the tooth fairy. The truth is that this well-intended, never achievable mythical state called Work-Life Balance is the tooth fairy of adulthood. It doesn’t exist!
Read MoreToday I’m sharing part of a conversation I had with one of my very talented friends, Melanie Patterson. She is from the Equanimity Project and is a wellness specialist. I was specifically interested in how we could use our sense of smell to:
uplift us
motivate us
help us relax
help with our digestion
If what we expect out of ourselves is extremely out of reach, we will never get past it to do the extraordinary. It’s the hamster in the wheel scenario. When we look at our environments, we might even notice that we hold our loved ones to unrealistic expectations also, especially our children. So can they ever exceed our expectations? Wouldn’t it be amazing for them to know they can?
Read MoreIs your emotional balance thrown way off where your children are concerned? Can the words kids and peace of mind even fall into the same sentence let alone exist in the same space of time?
It's so hard to separate our children’s emotions and their experience from ours. It almost makes us feel guilty to not share the same emotions - how can we have a good day when our child hasn't?
Read MoreIt’s important that when we are looking at living our best lives, that we try to make simple changes first. It is very hard to make big shifts straight away and even worse, they are hard to sustain. Small consistent changes have the best impacts on our daily moods and offer the best progression towards our ultimate goals.
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