Your brain is a magnificent piece of software designed to protect you, it wants to see risk, it wants to warn you of failures it’s go to is not ‘look at the possibilities’ this is why you need to choose to do this for yourself.

Life is full of possibilities but what if you see the possibility to fail instead of the possibility to succeed? It is going to make success a harder journey for you isn’t it? This is where the human mind is fascinating, it wants to protect us from risk, it wants to warn us that we mightn’t be accepted for the changes we make, it essentially wants us to play small. Here’s the thing: the mind isn’t a fortune teller so it actually doesn’t know what the real possibilities are.

Do you know you want support with something, but you don’t like asking for it? Do you feel that you are a burden to others? Needing to ask for help can make you feel inadequate. ‘I should know how to solve this myself’ may be some of the words cruising around in your head right now but here’s the thing…you aren’t meant to have all the answers and you certainly aren’t meant to do things on your own.

Control feels amazing doesn’t it? Control gives you certainty about what is going to happen in your life, it makes you feel safe and secure. It’s no surprise that spiralling out of control feels rubbish, scary and completely overwhelming but are you stuck on the rat wheel because you keep putting out the emotions that got you stuck and overwhelmed in the first place?

Responding to people who are kind, respectful and generous is easy but we aren’t always blessed with these kinds of people we are confronted by people with different values, attitudes and beliefs that challenge us. The conversations we have with these people can be downright rude and disrespectful so how do you respond to these people?

Stop thinking you have nothing to offer, start recognising how much you do.

At different stages of growth business owners can find themselves wondering, ‘How can I be of benefit to others, I’m not a superstar, I am just me, do I have enough to offer?’ It can paralyse you from moving forward. When you are a business owner you are going to second guess yourself, possibly at every stage of growth so you need to remember why you do what you do and how it helps others. To ensure that you help others in a positive way here are 10 tips I use from my own experience.

Recently I polled people about what they need to learn the most about developing confidence and they responded with, patience. Having the ability to accept or tolerate hurdles without becoming annoyed or anxious is an art but how does it help you build confidence? Here’s how.

Recently I read this book about stress that helped me to shift my perspective on the amount of stress in my life. I am always looking for ways to find more peace in life and work smarter not harder so this book was perfect. It required you to dive into your stress story so I want to help you do the same.

I see failures not opportunities- how do I change this?

Our human brain is designed to protect us from harm so we are constantly scanning the environment for risk. The more we can control our environment the easier it is for us to remain safe. Unfortunately, this also means that we don’t take healthy risks often enough because we are seeing failure or risk and not opportunities. So how do you change that?

Valentine’s Day is a great opportunity for you to show how much you love your significant other. It can be mind boggling and incredibly expensive if you aren’t sure where to start as there are so many advertising campaigns notifying you of ideas left, right and centre. So in this post I share my suggestions WITHOUT advertising so you don’t feel even more bombarded. Take a read and see what you think.

You’ve been fed a lie- relationships don’t just work they require work. Society has been showcasing to us through movies from Disney through to adult rom coms that relationships just work regardless of what happens in them. We walk into relationships with an ideal in our head of how it should be but it isn’t until we learn all about ourselves in the company of someone else that we realise relationships are hard work and completely worthwhile all at the same time.

As an adult do you ever catch yourself saying ‘I’ll just live vicariously through you’? Adults can become ok with simply witnessing fun instead of experiencing it, but it doesn’t mean that we are satisfied with the level of fun we have in our lives. Here’s 20 ways you can add more fun to your life and stop vicariously living through others.