What would your future self do?
Ask yourself “If I was a successful author/blogger/runner, etc – what would I be doing now?”.
mindset shift
Stop taking things personally
When someone says something about you, it is all about their frame of mind and how they are feeling.
Visualising Success
When I first heard about Vision Boards (aka Dream boards), I thought “oh that’s nice but I don’t have magazines and glue sticks lying around and I have no intention of buying them”. I moved on.
What motivates you – or not?
As well as thinking about the goal and the steps you need to take; also think about what doesn’t motivate you.
How do you measure success?
Success should be aligned to your deepest values. Values are things like leadership, compassion, community, friendship, and kindness.
What’s stopping you?
What stops you achieving your goals? What are the reasons you don’t finish? What’s stopping you?
Let Go of the Guilt
In the words of Oprah – you can have it all, just not all at once
Does what you do reflect your values?
I have found, over the years, that once I am trying to do something that doesn’t fit with my values, then it becomes a chore and moves down my to do list – forever.
Putting off procrastination
The diet can start on Monday. Or after the holidays. Or once all the rubbish has been consumed in the house. Or until you have had chance to go shopping for some healthy alternatives?
What one thing can you do today?
What one thing could you do today to help you reach your goal?
Which Wolf do You Feed?
Today, I am sharing something I recently read, a story about an Indian man and a wolf – or two.
Speak kindly to yourself
We are our own worst enemy. We speak to ourselves in ways we would never speak to a good friend.
Remember to have fun
When did you last have fun? I don’t mean a day away, a week off or a visit to the local Comedy store. I mean the sort of fun that you can schedule into every day?
Car Journeys
After much laughter, it was obvious to the police office that a) we were in a car we were not familiar with, b) we were tourists and c) we thought he was very cute.
You are not everyone’s cup of tea
You are not for them and they are not for you. You are not their cup of tea and they are not yours.
The Happy Diary
It only takes 5 days and is not a diary you complete every evening, forever. You just do this for 5 days and then when you need a boost, you do it again.
Let’s Reshuffle the Cards
When everything is whirling around in your brain? When you’ve got a to do list that scares you? How do you clear your head to refocus?
The Five Second Rule
I have read soooooo many books and articles on productivity but they all work from the assumption that you are off the sofa and ready to do. I needed something that started with me on the sofa, thinking about doing but then procrastinating.
Practising What I Preach (aka time to get my sh*t together)
Motivational quotes, such as “she knew she could so she did” are all very lovely but how many of us actually read that and get motivated.
How many of us see that and think “oh how motivational, I must share that on Instagram”
You’re just lazy
I think I saw myself through her eyes. I was explaining about the difficulties and her response was “Debs, sorry love but I think you’re just lazy, there’s no excuse”
Chasing your own goals
Are you going to the gym because it helps you to reach your goal of being fit/running 5K or are you going to encourage a friend who won’t stick at it if you don’t push her? Are you running a group because your goal is to bring people together or do you do it because no one else will?
3 Tips to Part Ways with Procrastination
If, like me, you are a great list writer but not so great at doing; if you too are a Leader in Procrastination, then hopefully one of these will help you to part ways with procrastination.
Just Write it Down
I don’t know about you but I’m reaching that age when I forget why I walked into a room, what I’m looking for and yesterday, I even took the scenic route home – by scenic, I mean long and totally unnecessary! Summer Holiday Brain Mode: My brain is still in summer holiday mode. Summer holiday…
Poor choices – why do we make them?
I have tried every single diet plan there is. I know all about poor choices. I know all about what I should be doing. I know what I should be eating. So why am I not doing it?
To eat the cake or not eat the cake
Do you have conversations with yourself where you try to justify behaviour or talk yourself into doing something you know you shouldn’t? A chat where the voices in your head battle it out to win their own way?
Achieve your goals this year in six simple steps
If you have a goal in your head, this is just a wish or a desire. A wish does not give you the motivation to get up and do. Believe me, I have so many wishes. I wish I was slimmer, I wish I was fitter, I wish my garden looked like an advert for Home and Garden and not Beginners Guide to Gardening, etc.
Saying Goodbye to some friends in 2016
I have sat today and wrote down all I am proud of, all that has gone well for me and also who has nurtured and supported me throughout the year and finally what I am going to let go of in 2016.
Does failing make you a failure?
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Changing the plan, not the goal
What is normal? There is the thought that normal is just a setting on a washing machine or tumble drier, that no one has a normal life. Most of the time I subscribe to that thought. I can often be heard saying “but this is normal to us”, usually at the little things that really…
Are you gonna spend your day down in the dirt?
As I write this, it is the morning of Friday 8th March, 2015. The day after the General Election. The day we realised that we are highly likely to have a Conservative Government for the next five years. The day Esther McVey lost her seat The day Ed Timpson kept his seat The day Norman…