Practicing gratitude is one of the simplest, quickest, and most effective ways of transforming your life for good. It costs nothing but can bring you all that you want from life. Apart from giving you your material desires, it can enrich your life in so many other ways, from emotional well-being to healthier relationships to an overall feeling of satisfaction and abundance.

As a new year dawns, it is very tempting to start a list of resolutions that will often be abandoned halfway through the month. Let’s face it in the Northern hemisphere, when we are confronted with long cold days, very little sunshine, and are having to spend a large part of our time under artificial lighting, setting resolutions and sticking to them is destined to failure. It is the time of the year that our bodies crave carb-rich foods, chocolate, and the odd alcoholic drink. We don’t fancy going out into the cold to exercise and on top of all of that, we have the comedown from Christmas and New Year celebrations.

As we move into the final days of the year, many of us will start to set goals and resolutions for the coming year. Whether it is wanting to lose weight, get healthier, exercise more, get another job…..whatever it is, the New Year always seems like the ideal time to start a new chapter in your life.

As a life coach, a frequent question that clients ask is “ how can I find my passion in life?” This question causes many women concern. in the world that we live in today, many people find themselves living a life that they have no passion for which leaves them feeling empty, disillusioned, and hankering after something more.

There are occasions in life when we are apt to blame other people when we do not achieve goals that we have set, whether that be a job, promotion, or weight loss, we often look for all external excuses but don’t look to ourselves as the reason. When things don’t go our way, it is always easier to blame someone or something else but more often than not it can be our self-limiting beliefs that hold us back from achieving the things that we want from life.

As we move into the Autumn months, the changes are far greater this year than just the leaves falling from the trees or the crispness in the air first thing the morning. This Autumn is bringing with it many changes in the new post covid world. Nobody could have imagined as we saw at the start of a new decade in January, that it would be such a tumultuous year. The way we work, socialize, travel, eat and interact with each other has changed beyond recognition.

Over the last few years, the business of Life Coaching has started to get a lot of recognition. There are many influential coaches around such as Anthony Robbins who have really put the business of life coaching on the map. Many people though are still unaware of the benefits of having a life coach. If any of the benefits below resonate with you then life coaching is something that you should be looking at.

Life Coaching sessions are often about goal setting, helping the client achieve something that they want or need, whether that may be a new career, weight loss, giving up smoking, dealing with anxiety, or creating a better work/life balance.

Have you ever wondered if life is really meant to be perfect? We see perfection everywhere these days, on Facebook and Instagram, in films and magazines. We are constantly bombarded with celebrities who seem to live perfect lives and with friends and family on social media posts also seeming to live in some sort of perfect reality. There is so much reinforcement everywhere that it can often make our own lives seem mundane, hard, and anything other than perfect.

When most people think about what it is that they want most from their life, they often answer ….” to just be happy” as if this is a concept that is somehow difficult to obtain or is fleeting and only enters our lives on sporadic occasions, such as weddings, births, expensive purchases or holidays.

Self-care is something that is fundamentally important to us in life but it is, unfortunately, something that not enough people give any priority to in their lives. For many, the idea of self-care means thinking about yourself which can be taken as being selfish but this is not the case at all. Everybody needs to practice self-care in order to have a healthy mind and body and to be able to function well in their life and within their relationships.

“Where do you want to be in ten years’ time?” or “How do you see your life in ten years’ time?” I am sure at some time or other most people have been asked a variation of these questions. Maybe in a job interview, a relative quizzing you on where your life is going, a date with someone who is getting to know you. The situations may all be different but the meaning to the question is always going to be the same…..have you thought about where your life is heading and what it is going to look like in ten years’ time?

Do you find that you don’t have enough time in the day? Are you always behind on work tasks? Do you often feel overwhelmed by responsibilities and find that you have too much to do and everything seems to overrun so tasks are never completed successfully? If this is the case you will probably benefit from time management tips so that you can manage your time more effectively.