Author: Claire George
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Headspace…you will not defeat me…
If you haven’t already seen it, there is this great little app called “headspace” which has step by step guided meditations (or as they say…”a gym membership for your mind”). It has little videos to help explain things and is a great app for getting started…plus you can download the first 10 session for free,…
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I don’t think my brain has an off button…
Rightio…here is goes…task number one on my list to awesomeness (see here if you missed that one)… SLOW DOWN My life is always flying at such a frantic pace. There is always something happening or something that needs to get done. Productivity is my friend. My husband is the same, so we are a bad…
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My top ten list to awesomeness…
OK team…. here it is… after my post last week, I have scoured my resources on well being, work life balance etc etc and I have netted down that advice into…. MY TOP TEN LIST TO ACHIEVE WORK and LIFE AWESOMENESS 1) SLOW DOWN– Whether it be a 40min meditation session with calming oils and…
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Time for positive action…
I was listening to my husband moaning about something…yet again…at the weekend and I was thinking, when are you going to actually DO something about this, instead of just whinging about it. And then….BAM…it hit me… POT calling the KETTLE black I have become one of those people. Those people that complain that their life…
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Nothing to prove, nothing to hide
I’m feeling sooo much better than I was last week when I was…well…a little broken (mental note: the challenging days are typically just that..a “day”..you just have to hang in there until the ride starts going down again). Infact, I’m feeling so much better, that I was starting to regret writing that blog post. It…
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It takes a village…
Today I am broken. The straw has broken the camels back. I am curled up in a ball on my bed, hiding from the children, sobbing into my pillow. How did I get here? You know, it was just one of those days when it all went bad. Those days which are funny when someone…
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Working Mum’s…well…we kick butt!
I loved this article “Working Mothers are the most productive in the workplace”… I mean, I always kinda knew this, but so nice to hear that maybe some research backs it up! As much as I constantly beat myself up, for not doing a better job of juggling all the million and one priorities that…
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Run away stress…
It’s early (very early) Saturday morning, I can feel the sun heating my back and there is a cool breeze lightly touching my skin. My ipod is softly playing my favourite tunes…I’m sucking in big beautiful deep breaths of fresh of air…and I feel….exhilarated… Wind back the clock 6 hrs…here’s me…lying in the dark…WIDE AWAKE, …
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Daylights savings…I don’t like you very much right now…
Why, oh why, do we have daylight savings? As parents, we all dread the shifting of the clocks…just as we have our children in lovely bedtime and morning routines, we have to shift it around again and hope they don’t notice. I’ve heard the advice that you should start shifting the clock 10min’s at a…
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Time to plug in for a re-charge…
Recently I’ve been on a massive work high. Oh boy does it feel good to do work which you find interesting and inspiring. It is like a high without drugs. Over the last few weeks, I have been totally 100% consumed in work. As I mentioned last week, I have been away on a trip…