Self Care Sunday

I’m suggesting to clients that self care is as important as brushing your teeth and we include a strategy as part of any business, career, relationship or parenting program. Don’t let yourself get to burn out before you make the choice to look after yourself. The quality of your work and ability to be present mindfully in life will greatly increase if you are gentle, kind and loving with yourself.

Here are some tips to help you begin a self care Sunday ritual or ceremony:

1. Lie on your back and watch the clouds go by.
2. Goof around for a bit, make time for play several times throughout the day.
3. Get out of your comfort zone, talk to a stranger, give someone an unsolicited compliment, try something new.
4. Enjoy a meal with a group of friends, talking, eating and sharing something pleasurable is a great way to increase your positive emotions.
5. Be creative, make something.
6. Plant something in your garden, get your...

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Autumn has arrived, and we’re at the beginning of a transition. It is still warm in Melbourne, but soon we’ll see the changes in colour, falling of leaves, night-time coming earlier and the temperature getting notably cooler. With all this natural change that sets in every year it’s a wise time to reflect if there are some things you might like to shed so you can grow in other ways. The art of holding on and letting go is very personal but we all experience some form of this birth and death cycle regularly, some of us mindfully. If you’re in doubt what to hold and what to let go, ask how does it serve you or others? Is it actually making a difference or is my narrative just been the ‘go to’ for so long it’s become a habit? Narratives are the stories in your mind that you identify with and it’s freedom to know you get to choose, the more space you have in your mind the more creative freedom it allows you. Many things we do in reaction to a...

Love is what we all seek in some form or another, the desire of love makes us strive to go forth and the giving of it to ourselves and others is what makes us feel fulfilled. In love we feel whole and content. It is the hope and promise of love in your life that you are seeking and also have available within. In mindfulness practice we can access this wellspring of love we all have, now.

In love you’re nourished, you are home.

In mindfulness we call this loving state compassion and it begins with cultivating it for ones self, if you can foster compassion for yourself you begin to feel a gentle and genuine sense of belonging and acceptance with the present moment. Its a warm, loving safe space that protects you from the edges of life and perception has a lot to do with it. Because the edges and troubles can still be there but when you’re being compassionate they are softer and more easier to navigate.

3 ways to develop more compassion...

Mindfulness like all new skills needs to be practiced to achieve the benefits, with 5 Mindful Hacks for the next 24 hours you have no excuses not to try. I began meditating in my early 20s and at different stages of my life I have dedicated more time, but the more commitment I give to my practice the greater my experiences and overall life. The practice is the teacher. To start your practice you might want to try to integrate these 5 coaching Mindfulness hacks over the next 24 hours to help you sustain your choice to practice mindfulness more. Trust me when I say mindfulness can be life changing, it’s the weekend and a great time to get started. 1. Set us a space in your home that is light, peaceful and accessible. I like it to be somewhere open that reminds me daily to practice. Its a corner in my lounge room with cushions, a bean bag and some candles and oil burner and the whole family is welcome to use it. Its right by a window that pours lovely natural light in. 2. While ...

New Years Resolutions usually get said when you’re drunk and forgotten when sober but New Year goals and strategies can make a significant difference to your year and that’s why I developed a coach approach activity planner that can help you make and achieve your goals just like I do in my private sessions.

The 2016 New Year Goal Coaching Planner is a PDF document with coaching activities to set goals for the New Year. With 9 pages of information, tips and tools the 2016 New Year Goal Coaching Planner invites you to buddy up with a friend and set major goals in seven categories of life, then break it down into five smaller actionable strategies in a coach-like approach. The 2016 New Year Goal Coaching Planner comes with an agreement to help you be accountable and a framework for achieving your goals. Join the Melbourne Coach Hub here SIGN UP to receive the 2016 New Year Goal Coaching Planner FREE plus a bonus $50 Coaching Credit toward an introductory session...

Seeing the best in yourself requires you to be authentic. Being a good leader begins with the relationship you have with yourself. Holding yourself accountable to an honourable character and making the conscious choice to do better. A leader looks for the good in people and shines light on them, building them up and good leadership begins with leading yourself. The only way to do that is to take a good within yourself and accept who you are, flaws and all. No one is perfect, we all have a dark side and done things we might not be proud of, sometimes unintentionally and sometimes purposefully out of anger but getting bogged down in the ugly parts of yourself starts to control you and perpetuate them. Despite these parts existing in us all we can rise above these limitations and when you do mess up don’t let it bring you down. Amazing things can happen when you start to accept all of yourself and not avoid the truth; authenticity attracts real connections. When you do accep...

By the time it takes you to sit and drink a relaxing cup of tea today you can create an action plan for the next seven days of success, drinking tea allows you to get into a reflective and mindful space for this activity. Let’s drink to your success.
Using dot points in you iPhone Notes app or Calendar app (with alerts for specific times and days), try a little coaching tool I use every week to keep me on track with building my business and family life. SMART GOALS include specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and timeframes elements making each goal an actionable plan for your week ahead. The goals all lead toward a larger vision that captures your strengths and values and if you discover a way to make each goal an enjoyable activity you have found the key to motivation, tapping into positive emotion driving you with hope toward the future. A good mixture of must dos (obligations), self care and creative goals that build upon your existing reality and allo...

I am currently working on some high level plans for budgeting, managing my finance and cash flow forecasting.
Simply, I am clarifying my spending, investment and contribution habits both personally and in business so I become more aware of my attitudes, behaviours and able to tweak accordingly based on my core values. I am also setting some intentions for growth in 2016 to increase my net worth. By projecting the types of results I want financially in my future and trying to adjust my attitudes about money now I am connecting to my desired outcome, having a good imagination helps and the best part is Im doing work I love so the experiences that will increase my cash-flow will also give me the chance to grow my character positively. Working with a coach on your personal beliefs about money gives you a greater space for introspection and clarity but you must be able to be vulnerable allowing for uncertainty and creativity to emerge. Interested? ...

Have you taken the time to ponder on your virtues and faults, to look at your thoughts and feelings and those of others around you also. Doing so will help you asses the decisions you have made in life and how they impact you and those you share life with.
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