For a very long time, I cared a LOT about what other people thought about me. I cared what they thought about how I did in school, how I looked, how I spoke, how I acted in a group, what my beliefs were… the list goes on. Don’t get me wrong, it still comes up […]
This Valentine’s Day (though applicable any day), we delve into how to be satisfied with your here and now, to know you’re enough and that you can both strive and be satisfied!
If you’ve ever said to yourself, I can’t do ‘x’ because of ‘y’, or I’m not ‘z’ enough, then you, my friend, have imposed a limiting belief on yourself. A limiting belief, in its simplest form, is a belief that you hold which limits the actions that you take. For example, you might worry that […]
Some people make achieving their goals look super simple, right? I mean, there are people who make a goal and seem to knock it out of the park, whereas you tell yourself you’re going to go for a swim at 6 am and hit snooze until it’s too late, am I right? Or are we […]
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way. Viktor E. Frankl If you haven’t heard of Viktor Frankl, he was a survivor of Auschwitz, a psychiatrist and a neurologist, who went […]
Do you regularly experience stress in your life, be it physical or psychological? I’m guessing you said yes, only because I play the odds. According to the American Psychological Association, in 2017, their annual stress research findings showed that 77% of individuals regularly experience physical symptoms of stress (think lack of sleep, muscle tension, IBS, […]
A few months ago when I was working with a client, we were talking about her big dream: she wanted to start her own business. We all have a big dream: our own business, writing a book, a creative endeavour, running a marathon, getting ‘that’ job, buying our first house, having children… whatever your dream may […]
Have you ever had a box arrive from Amazon and you’ve forgotten what you even ordered in the first place? Ever started a bag of chips, then suddenly found yourself at the bottom of it? Have you ever started scrolling social media, then looked up at it was 45 minutes later? Have you ever found […]
“Suck it up.” “Brush it off.” “Move on.” “Get over it.” These are phrases that we’re told all too often and quickly when we undergo a failure, big or small. It’s partly because we’re uncomfortable with discomfort, so we want to get back to that “happy” place as soon as possible. You see this a […]
The very first skills lab where I was coached by a fellow student, one of the go-to questions we always ask is “what would having that do for you?” It’s usually in response to a discussion about a goal you have, a want, a desire that you’re trying to fulfill. What would having that do […]