Do the scary thing….The rewards are so much greater than doing the comfortable, easy thing. What is it that you do when you’re avoiding something that you know is important to do to achieve a goal you’d love, that’s a bit scary? My default is tidying, getting...

Crafting Your Reality: The Journey of imagination To create something you want in your life, first you have to imagine it. Sounds simple, right? Yet the power of imagination extends far beyond planning the next dinner or holiday. It's a force that shapes our reality,...

Samuel Beckett said “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” What are you going to fail at today? Are you going to fail at communicating your message or fail to speak at all? Are you going to fail to do what’s really important to you,...

We think we need certain conditions to be in place (or gone!) before we can have what we want.  It’s not the truth. We can create what we want despite all sorts of apparent obstacles being in the way. But what are those obstacles? I used to believe all sorts of things...

  Do you feel like you’re not getting what you’d love in your life? It’s time to have a look at your intentions, as they hold the key. We get what we intend to get. It may not feel like that’s true, but so often we are not clear about our intentions, so we’re not...

This painting has a story attached to it, as so many of our possessions do. My daughter bought it in a community house at an auction that was raising funds for refugees and asylum seekers. She was 15 and spent $320 to be the winning bidder. It hung over her bed...

 It takes two to tango. I have heard that often in response to the challenges of trying to communicate or work with someone who wasn’t receptive to the efforts made. It can be understandable in these situations to give up, and either settle for a less than fulfilling...

A new client has been reading my blogs and asked about one I wrote a few weeks ago -  Your focus creates your reality   She asked for examples to help explain it, because “If I was creating it, why would I be making the crappy things happen in my life”.   So, an...

Why is it that we can set ourselves goals we’d love to achieve, and yet fail to take the steps to make them happen? We have an idea of what we’d like to create, and even how we can begin to move towards it. And yet we don’t. Why is that? It’s because we choose comfort...

Here in Australia, today marks the first day of winter. In many parts of Australia winter is nothing like the winters of the northern hemisphere. We hardly have snow, and ice skating is something that happens in ice skating rinks! But as the days become shorter and...