Last weekend was spent doing the time warp with four incredible women, Shaz, Fran, Ros and Shelley who I had known since I was eight years old. Grade three was when I met them. I was the new Pommy girl who was eager to find some friends. After being teased about my Brownie outfit, my poor […]
What the…! Who said you shouldn’t follow your passion, this is insane. Everything I have heard, read or shared about happiness has been along the party line of following your passion. AND now Elizabeth Gilbert author of Big Magic urges her readers to “forget about passion.” This instantly caught my attention because I am the
Last weekend I presented a happiness talk called ‘Building your happiness bank’ to 160 people at a one-day conference. It was so wonderful to have the opportunity to remind people that happiness is not something they have to chase. It’s already there deep inside them, just waiting to be nurtured. Many people think that they
Shaping your environment to create the right headspace is a vital key to losing weight. Over the past couple of years I have fashioned an environment that has been anything but conducive to supporting a healthy lifestyle. Working seven days a week sustaining two jobs has been mentally and physically draining. Spending two hours
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I never thought I would see the day when I was officially classed as overweight, but it’s here! I weigh 8kg more that I did two years ago and my waist circumference is 83cm. A healthy waist circumference is 80cm for a female. Anything over that is an indicator that the level of internal fat
Sadly last week one of my favourite authors, Dr Wayne Dyer passed away. Wayne held a special spot in my heart because his book REAL MAGIC was the first book I ever read on spirituality. The book even found it’s way to me in a magical way. It was left by my front door with
Last week, my husband and I moved from a four bedroom home to a two bedroom unit. I was so excited. I love moving homes, it gives me chance to organize and sort, which is kind of like watching a pig in mud! So I started to organize and sort and as moving day loomed
Often we can set ourselves up for a fall, over rate things and have a totally unrealistic outlook on life. We want things to be so perfect that we get disappointed and discouraged if they don’t meet our high expectations. Friendships and marriages are often the ‘perfect’ example of this. If we don’t have a realistic view
This week’s blog is more of a pondering blog. I have no definitive answers to some of the questions I am about to pose to you but I would love your input. I had an unusual experience on one of my morning walks just recently that left me unsettled and questioning some of my new
On Monday 23rd June 2014 I sat down to write the first letter of a 365 day letter writing project called Project Happy Letter. On Monday 22 June 2015 I posted happy letter 365 and completed an amazing year of letter writing. At the time I had no idea of the impact that handwritten letters could have
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