Our ideas are seeds, it is up to us to cultivate them.
So many of our ideas are discarded. Often we find reasons to discard them whether it be time or fears, regardless of whether we really want to explore that idea. This blog reframes ideas about seeds to help us more consciously choose what ideas we want to cultivate based on knowing what they need to grow and how we want them to be. In reframing ideas as seeds we are reminded that it is up to us to choose the seeds we want to plant as much as it is the ones we discard.
What if the answer is not the outcome, the outcome is only the product of the journey we follow?
We often convince ourselves that things will be better in the future. When I’ve done this, when I’ve achieved that. Yet, when we get there, the answer we’re looking for isn’t there. This blog explores how we can find the answer as much in the pursuit of something we want as in attaining it. We explore how we can reframe the journey to ensure that, regardless of the outcome, the process is just as valuable as what we sought all along.
What can my Year 7 art lesson teach me about finding perspective to focus on what matters on a daily basis?
Perspective helps us refocus on what matters. The problem with perspective is it an be hard to find. When we think about drawing perspective we can see way we can create perspective day to day and ensure we are focusing on what is important to us. This blog explores how we can create the conditions for perspective, to focus on what really matters for us.
How can our relationship to time contribute to the life we want to live?
How we spend our time and how we feel about time - our relationship with time - can highlight how we live our lives compared to how we want our lives to be. This blog explores how we can use this awareness to reframe our relationship to time to choose how we want it to be and how we want to give our time to be who we want to be and live the lives we want to live.
What can movie quicksand tell us about getting unstuck?
So often when we’re stuck we get even more stuck trying to get unstuck. Like those scenes in the movies when a character is stuck in quicksand and only sinks deeper as they struggle to get out, our approach to feeling stuck in life can often be the same. However, just like in the movies, the approach to getting unstuck can also be similar. This blog explores an alternative approach for when we’re stuck, one that means however stuck we are we don’t miss out nor neglect the rest of life.
A wonderful life isn’t just from things going our way
Our plans and goals - what we want - so often blur our approach to achieving the what. While plans are important and the New year is an opportunity to reset and refresh our direction, in exploring one of the most well known Christmas films, this blog looks at the importance of how we approach life alongside working towards and getting what we want. In fact regardless of the outcome, the how can often be the thing that matters most.
The empowering practice of cultivating awareness
Awareness, provides a clarity in what can otherwise feel like chaos. With that awareness we are empowered to respond to the moment rather than react. This blog explores how we can develop our awareness and how cultivating a practice of acceptance, finding perspective and living self-compassionately can contributes to a more consistent awareness, an awareness that empowers us in the moment.
‘It’s not you, it’s me’. How the less obvious relationships in our life can have the biggest impact.
Often the relationships we’re least conscious of can most shape how we live our life. This blog poses questions to explore what our relationship is to ourselves, to work, and to the life we want to live to highlight how clarifying what relationships we want in these areas can help us clarify and move towards the life we want.
What if inspiration is actually so abundant we miss it more often than we benefit from it?
Where does inspiration come from and how can I find it? This blog explores the range of ways inspiration can find us and what we can do to create the conditions to more easily find inspiration in life.
How we can reframe our expectations to better equip ourselves to achieve what we want? Or, what has Barack Obama got to do with achieving what we want in life?
So often we forget the challenges we navigate daily while we also work towards achieving our goals and aspirations. This blog explores how putting all we do to achieve what we want into the context of adapting to daily life can better set us up to navigate the inevitable challenges we face each day.
New Year, same you, new approach
On average a New Year’s resolution is kept for one month. This blog explores 6 approaches to making New Year’s resolutions that contribute to the life and year we want.
Reframing routine to get us to where we want to be
So often we live by or follow routines without recognising why they exist or how they serve us. Instead we can get stuck in these routines, focusing on fulfilling the routine rather than how the routine is contributing to the life we want to lead. This blog explores how we can review and reframe routines to create routines that best serve us to live the life we want to live.
What gets in the way of us being the leaders of our lives?
When we think of leading it is easy to forget that leading is part of life, that we are all leaders. This blog tackles some of the thoughts and expectations that can get in the way and that ultimately whether we lead or not is our choice.
If not now when? The challenge of taking responsibility for our lives in each moment.
So often we set our minds to where we want to be and what we want to become we lost sight of how we can live the life we truly want now. By recognising our responsibility to us we can live the life we want now and recognise our worthiness to continue to pursue that life fully and the possibilities that brings.
8 things I’ve learnt about how to take the first steps to doing something we’ve wanted to try but never quite been able to from an 8-week blogging challenge
So often the hardest part of pursuing what we want is starting. This blog unpicks how an 8 week challenge revealed ways we can jump start the journey to pursuing what we’ve always wanted to do but never managed to start and how to begin.
Once upon a time I was worthy. How to empower ourselves through the stories we tell ourselves.
Stories are part of life. They help us make sense of the world around us and our experience. However, sometimes the stories we tell ourselves can get in the way of us being our best. This blog explores how we can become aware of self-limiting stories and ways to cultivate more empowering stories so that we can be the creators of our stories and not simply passive characters in self-fulfilling narratives.
Overcoming the uncertainty that comes with seeking what we really want
Often the fear of what might happen when we pursue what we want, the uncertainty, can stop us even reaching for what we want. This vulnerability can mean we not only miss out on what we want but on being and sharing our best with the world. This blog explores how we can overcome that fear of uncertainty to follow our heart by recognising our ability to navigate uncertainty, by reframing the situation and by tapping in to our innate worthiness.
The power of proactivity: small, conscious steps to create big changes
Often what we want and how we can achieve it can feel overwhelming. It can feel difficult to know where to start or seeing others who have what we want or are pursuing what we want it is easy to think they are just better than us or know something we don’t.
In fact creating what we want may not be as difficult as we first thought. This blog looks at how through small, conscious, and consistent actions, we can bridge the gap between where we want to be and where we are and how to start that process.
Pursuing purpose: How to uncover what we really want (and navigate all the doubts and uncertainty that come with it)
This blog explores the power of purpose, it’s unique nature and steps we can take to uncover what our purpose is. Then, what can we do to overcome the doubts that can be created from pursuing our unique purpose.
What is fulfilling our potential and where do we start?
So often we talk about fulfilling potential but rarely do we consider what that means.
This blog explores the impact of seeing potential as being our best. From this starting point we ask what we can do to be our best and recognise that often we already have all we need to be our best but that often the hardest part is simply being.