Today I’m feeling grateful. I’m grateful to be alive. I may want to lose some weight, eat more healthily and exercise more often, but I’m well. I have a lovely husband and an amazing curious daughter. I still have both my parents, and my sister and niece are nearby. I have friends locally and all…
So here I am again. I decided to take up a blog challenge to write something for International Women’s Day (IWD), but wasn’t sure I’d have time. And then the day before IWD I had a conversation which led to me committing to write stuff again, just in a small way for now. So this…
It’s been a week or so of lurgy. That horrid cold that just won’t go away. Turns out it’s all over the place, from Cambridge to California to Qatar, according to my Facebook friends. Anyway, there are always a few glimmers of loveliness in a week. Here are this week’s ones… Toddler antics – putting…
I’ve been feeling a bit out of sorts this week. Then while looking back through some blog posts I remembered that I went through a phase of writing weekly gratitude posts. So I thought I would try that, to focus on the good things that have been going on. I had birthday wishes this week…
I was talking to a couple of friends last weekend about post-natal mental health. In particular how motherhood feels 6-8 months in, after the intense early phase is over. Two of the themes that came up in my conversation were comparisons and loneliness, both of which impact a new mum’s mental health, but for different…
A couple of years ago I went through a phase of posting regular “things I’m grateful for this week” posts. Now feels like a good time to do something similar again, while I have a slower pace of life and less time to write long blogs. So here are my favourite things this week: Sleep…
This week I went to see Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat Pray Love and Big Magic, being interviewed in London. I went with a group of about 15 other women, many of whom I’d met before, all of us connected in some way through Marianne Cantwell‘s courses. Liz was asked about her new book Big…
Come Blog With Me – Day 27 Sometimes it’s easy to forget all the good things we have. In the midst of the terrible things happening all over the world and minor crises at home or work, we lose sight of the bigger picture. But we do truly have so many things to be grateful…
It’s been a while since I wrote a post about gratitude. I got into a good weekly habit for a while, and it was nice to remember all the good things from the week gone by. Why did I stop? I’m not sure really. I wasn’t feeling especially cheerful, that was one reason. Which should…
Another week where I’m not feeling especially cheerful at the time of writing, so decided to write my gratitude post to see if I can change that, to remind myself of the good things that happened this week. Things I’m grateful for this week (big and small): Meeting like-minded self-employed people and having a nice…
I wasn’t feeling very grateful at all this week, due to a big work task I had to complete, with a few outside stresses. But my work was done at lunchtime today, nice and early for the weekend, so I was able to have a walk outside. This week’s gratitude for: Organised and helpful people…
After a week’s relaxation, my gratitude this week is for aeroplanes that take us to warm places, the sun shining in October, time to think, music to listen to, books to read and feeling sand between my toes.
A very busy intense week, working Sunday afternoon to Wednesday, 12+ hour days, and then tying up loose ends after the meeting. Inspiration I’ve been immersed in work this week with no time to read or interact online, so my inspiration has been limited to those around me. I realise that I’ve learned a lot…
Inspiration this week – Roger Hamilton and Wealth Dynamics (also known as Talent Dynamics). A conversation with a free range friend a few days ago reminded me of the “8 questions to ask yourself at the start of each day” that Roger Hamilton talks about here. And an email from a freelance colleague on a…
Inspiration It’s probably cheating to include something I did as being inspiring – but I think it shows what you can do when you set a goal, team up with others, and have the right people around you to help when needed. Last Saturday I did a 32 mile walk for charity as part of…
Last week I wrote about gratitude and inspiration, and committed to writing something weekly on this subject. Just a short post this week…… Gratitude The wildflowers I accidentally discovered while taking a shortcut I’d not taken in a while Being thanked and appreciated for work done Re-watching The West Wing via Sky Anytime – some…
Ever since I did the Screw Work Let’s Play 30 Day Challenge in 2012, I’ve done a “weekly checkin”. For a year this was posted in the private forum for the 30DC follow up programme. And then when I decided to leave the group, I kept the weekly checkin process as part of my week…
