When I was younger I had notebooks. I’m talking 11-12 kind of age. Not quite a teenager, more a teenager in training. In those notebooks I would plan out the next major life overhaul I was about to make based on whatever article I had been reading in a magazine that week. Bear in mind

I have become a bit of a cheerleader for practice of meditation over the last few years. Mindfulness and Meditation have become buzz words, but many people still misunderstand what they really are. Recently I was reading an article with the click baity headline “I meditated every day for 30 days, and here’s what happened”.

There’s that famous saying: Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. I’m sure we’ve all heard that before. But there are times when insanity starts to feel like doing the same thing over and over and expecting the same results. I’m sure we’ve all hit plateaus in our lives.

Sometimes I wonder what changed in my life. For a good 35 years I considered that I basically had no will power when faced with a packet of crisps, or when faced with the choice between going to the gym, or, er, not going to the gym. Doing anything else, other than going to the

We all know about SMART goal setting, right? They have to be [alert type=green ]Specific Measurable Achievable Realistic Timely[/alert] Yeah, that’s awesome, and once we set those goals, we work on our “process goals”. We tell ourselves that if we just do this, and this, and this on a regular basis then within 6 months

Well, here we are, in a whole new world. There’s been a few changes around here over the last few days. If you follow my Retro Chick Facebook page you might have seen this post explaining why. If not, then this is the post that explains why I’m saying goodbye to Retro Chick, and what’s

Team sports is a whole new thing to me. I mean, they made me play Netball and Hockey at school, but I was never part of a team. I just tolerated it for the length of a PE lesson until I could escape. It wasn’t until I was 34 that I discovered Roller Derby, and

Do you have a to do list? I do, I have to have one these days or everything just falls out of the gap between my ears. What’s on yours today? Today mine includes boring regular Monday things like write this blog post, and some VA work. It also includes some self care things like

I’ve always been a pretty organised person. By which I don’t mean that I have a tidy desk, or colour coded files. Because that’s definitely not true. Just that I’ve always known what needs to be done. I know how much money I have in the bank, what bills need to be paid and when,