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Are you always helping others at the cost of your own well-being? Are you the helpful person who always say yes and can’t say no, are you the one who always says “yeah sure, I can help”! Or are you constantly striving to add value to other people, but sometimes you find yourself compromising your own needs, your own well-being, your own sanity, your own agenda and your own life? Or sometimes you are just working and working and working and you neglect your own self-care, you stop making time for your own routines and you feel like you’re blending those boundaries too much between life and work and relationships and where you start to lose yourself a little bit in the mix. 

First off – don’t worry, it happens to all of us at some point because if you are someone who likes to serve and help others and you’re a giver, you have high degrees of compassion and kindness wanting to serve and give to others is a great compelling need and...

We should never lose hope. The fact that you have a single breath in your body, and you are alive at this moment is hope. Wanting an outcome that makes your life better in some way is hope.  Envisioning a better future motivates us to take the steps to make it happen – this is hope. It's so easy right now in the current pandemic when all we see and hear are sad stories there is a sense of darkness, negative media coverage or maybe you have a series of bad days or a series of bad weeks or your lucky break isn’t coming or you don’t sense that progress. Look that’s part of life there’s going to be so many struggles and disappointments, challenges, setbacks, dark days and part of sustaining and making through all that is maintaining hope.

Look around you at the emptier streets, those wearing masks, taking huge precautions, those who are risking their lives on the front line in many sectors showing care, love and courage – yes times are difficult...

5 Tips to Build Resilience - How to Bounce back after setbacks

How do we stay resilient in today's current climate? How do we bounce back from a setback? It’s no secret that there’s a growing “mental health” crisis occurring right now. Rates of anxiety and depression are at all-time highs. Stress levels are through the roof and what’s worse, people are starting to experience anxiety disorders and depression at younger and younger ages.  I show you how to build resilience in this episode. Join 100's of others who watched this video to learn how to build more resilience and bounce back after setbacks.

Experts are saying that we are becoming less psychologically resilient as a culture as our constant pursuit of “happiness” or “constant positivity” or need for “applause in everything we do”, has made us be more fragile and...

5 Tips to Kick Bad Habits

Are you struggling to kick bad habits? Do you even know where to start? Or maybe you know what it is you need to kick but you still find yourself doing it. Bad habits can be anything from staying up too late at night, surfing the internet or scrolling through social media too much during the day; or maybe it’s smoking, overeating junk food or drinking too much. Or maybe it is constantly showing up late to work, appointments, or social events with friends. Whatever your bad habit is, just know you are not alone. Watch the 5 tips to kick bad habits here.

We all have bad habits that we are all trying to change. Bad habits are time consuming, can be destructive, can hinder your health, and can prevent you from achieving your goals... But the good news is these learned patterns can be replaced and I show you how in this week’s episode on 5 tips to kick bad habits. Join 100's of others who...

5 Tips to Work From Home More Effectively

{{first_name}}, are you struggling with working from home distractions or not able to create the outputs or make the progress that you really want? Or maybe you have gradually started back to work in the office under the rules but you find you are not as productive as you want to be and still feel isolated, then join 100's of other leaders who watched this video. 

In this episode we are talking about working from home, effectively productively and joyously. I know some of you have been working from home for the first time, some are more experienced at working from home, others are now back and forth in a hybrid type office, home situation. Some of you love it, some of you hate it, some of you struggle with it others are thriving with it. No matter where you are on the scale of love-hate working from home, a lot of these tips will resonate with you – most of which are common sense, but not...

There's a lot of uncertainty in the air right now. Today’s pace of change is unlike anything we’ve ever seen. Psychologists refer to this as a VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous) world. Some of you may be thinking... Will I have a job in six months? Will this pandemic go away? Will we have enough money? When will I have peace of mind again? What if my new boss and I don't get along? Will my kids be ok?

Dealing with the uncertainties of life can cause stress and anxiety and in today’s episode I am giving you 5 tips to deal with uncertainty and better prepare ourselves to thrive in these circumstances.

Because demands on us are changing every day, the behaviours that carried us through yesterday are not necessarily what will help us tomorrow.  This means those of us who reflect, are open and quick to learn from experiences and move forward, remain calm in times of difficulty and resist the temptation to be defensive and get sucked...

Have you ever felt that you've had a busy day but not so productive? Or maybe you haven't stopped to take a breath all day but still struggle to put your head on the pillow at night satisfied that you got what you needed done? I hear you... With all that's going on right now, 

We are guilty of information overload, exhaustion from webexes / zooms / "Teams" meetings, the constant distraction beeps of the different communication mediums and expectations to always be available and meeting the higher expectations  of us ...

Some of you maybe working from home, trying to balance home life and work life, some of you are still in the office with not many people facing extreme unpredicted complexities never seen before,  some of you are on furlough or some of you may even be looking for jobs right now. Whatever your current state these five tips will help you focus more so you can feel more productive at the end of the day. So first things first is to give yourself the...