Your place of inspiration

So where is it… where is the place that your head feels clear, your shoulders feel lighter and your whole world comes into sharp focus? It might be the hills where the wind races past your ears or perhaps beside the sea where sound of the water fills the air....

Favourite things…

It’s half term this week and so today I had a precious 90 minutes alone with my eldest son whilst (his younger brother was at nursery and) we waited for his holiday club to start. It was wonderful. Absolutely brilliant… we made, we played and we laughed. I...

Goals Goals Goals

… what are yours right now? Write them down, even if it’s just one, write it down. Now look at what you’ve written and, if there’s more than one take each one in turn, transport yourself forward to the time when you’ve achieved your...

The Paralympics…

… are here! It’s time to support our country, celebrate all that the athletes have achieved (just to get to the games) and cheer them on to achieve more goals (or golds) during the games. Can I also suggest that we all turn around and take a look at...

Wear sunscreen…..

The sun has got his hat on here today and it reminded me of this…. it might be a bit old now, but it definitely has some good words for us all Ladies and Gentlemen of the class of ’99 If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The...

"I don’t have time"… or do you?

You do have time, we all have time and it’s exactly the same amount; 24 hours in a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year…. …but what’s different is how we choose to use that time…. and it is a choice. You could choose not to go to eat or sleep,...

Explore, notice, enjoy ….

Do you remember what it was like to open a present when you were little (I mean very little, before you decided that the only thing that mattered when you were given a present was how fast the paper could be torn off)? Do you remember all the new and interesting...

If at first you don’t succeed….

Have you ever had the priviledge of watching  little person learn to walk? Have you watched them pull themselves up on a sofa, look around and slowly let go with one hand then the other and then… thud… onto their bottom! Then before you know it, up they go...

An extra day…

  So here it is, 29th Februrary… of course to most of us it’s just another Wednesday, but I think it’s worthy of special note; we haven’t had an ‘extra day’ for four years and it’ll be four years until we get...

Nearly one month down…

… can you believe January is nearly over for another year? Someone commented to me yesterday that they are happy January on its way out, but I’m the opposite… I love January; January is  the starting line for the whole year, it’s the perfect...