No sugar, no grains, no dairy, no legumes, no alcohol. Oh my goodness, I’m feeling another NOvember coming on and I’m not really sure I’m strong enough for this! Oh and no baked goods… not even if it’s made with Whole30 compliant foods. If you’ve never heard of the Whole30 program, the basic outline is that … Read more
Meditation for Entrepreneurs Ugh. I’ve been struggling with the meditation recently. Probably for the last two months actually. I’ve continued to get out of bed early and work on this and another blog (mainly the other one, in case you couldn’t tell :-O) but have been feeling so much resistance to meditating. I’ve been getting … Read more
There are times (many times actually) where I find articles or posts online that just grab me. They take me in by their photo, intrigue me with their headline, plonk me on my butt by their opening sentence… and leave me spluttering in awe by their concluding paragraph. James Clear is one of those people. (Except his … Read more
Best self improvement books – oh no, self improvement/personal development is such a huge topic! I’m afraid I may have bitten off more than I can chew? Most ‘best of’ book lists in this genre will include the requisite ‘As a Man Thinketh’, ’The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People’, ‘The Magic of Thinking Big’ … Read more
Lately I’ve been talking a bit about tiny habits, and how they were my revelation of 2016. I’ve always wanted to build good habits in my life but the struggle of implementing them and making them stick was real. One of those habits I felt I needed to implement, was how to have a good morning … Read more
How long do New Year’s resolutions last? It’s an odd question, because you’d think that the resolutions would last for the whole year. That’s what we’d all like to think. But we know it isn’t true. We all know that there’s a (really) good chance that most people, including ourselves, will have either abandoned or … Read more
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” I remember when I first saw this quote because it encompassed exactly what I was learning and discovering about habits or routines. It was this quote that made me realise the everything in my life is due to the habits that … Read more
I was on the hunt for the best personal development podcasts this week. You see, I finally got on the iPhone wagon. While I’ve always been interested in the iPhone, I’ve never been interested enough to a) buy the phone myself b) sign up to a contract for two years or whatever (I prefer prepay), … Read more
It’s when I can’t decide whether I want to lie on the couch and drink wine or eat chocolate* that I turn to self improvement quotes to pull me out of my funk. Because really, if that’s all I want to do, it’s because I’m in a funk and I want to avoid my responsibilities … Read more
At the end of October I wrote a post about how I was going to give up sugar and wheat for the month of November, to see if either of those things had an influence on my ability to focus, concentrate and be productive. So I set myself the challenge of having no sugar and … Read more