Month: December 2016

New Year, new me, new you

The end of a year, a propensity for pondering the next – let’s see now… a handsome rich lover? 60% pay rise? unlimited world travel? (a spot on the comedy circuit?) Yep! It’s time to revisit the bucket list. To tick off the year’s conquests (interior makeover, explore Croatia, celebrate pesky big 60 in Paris, nail social media branding expertise), and add more for the coming year (learn the Flute, conquer the French language, learn to write code).

It’s also time to think about a few simple lifestyle enhancements for the coming year; shared of course for that’s what the blog’s all about. Enhancing our lifestyles. Did a spot of sleuthing across the mags and bloggers and curated my top 10. This will be our year of ‘Be’s’…

  • Be radiant: Buy one new nourishing skin care product to combat long dehydrating summer months, refresh and rejuvenate – our complexions will thank us
  • Be bright: Book a rapid teeth whitening session with our dentist or invest in a whitening kit – bright white smiles strip years off our faces
  • Be bold: A new red lipstick – ever so french and perfect for setting off that gleaming smile – a Cosmetician to help select the right shade for our complexion of course
  • Be nourished: Shift the focus from weight and calories to health and nutrition – out with empty white carbs, in with nourishing, nutrient-dense real whole foods
  • Be energised: No such thing as ‘no time’. Make time for exercise, from simple 15 minutes quickies to something more substantial, our bodies will thank us

  • Be stimulated: Keep the brain active with apps like Lumosity for brain stimulation, Babble for languages, Ted Talks and Pod Casts for intellectual enhancement

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Throwing shade on the tyranny of ‘always’

“Telling ourselves the story of “always + undesired outcome” wreaks havoc, not just on our ability to succeed, but on our lives. We begin to see failure and pain as a matter of fate. We stop believing a successful outcome is possible. That disbelief in possibility leads to inaction, which in turn seals the inevitability of our past becoming our future.” So says Jonathan Fields and he’s absolutely right. Have caught myself doing exactly that on more than one occasion and I bet you have too.

Wearing my career transition expert hat I often hear my candidates exclaiming ‘I always freeze in interviews’, ‘I always get rejected’, I always…(insert any number of negative job search fears) and no matter how much encouragement I invest in helping them reframe such statements, there are times when I realise they are simply mired in what Jonathan describes as ‘false negative absolutes’.

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