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Essential Advice from a Mentor

Essential Advice from a Mentor In today’s fast-paced world, the majority of people silently struggle with many mental health problems. Because of the various wellness [...]

Keeping Your Values Front of Mind

Keeping Your Values Front of Mind In the fast-paced and ever-changing world we live in, it’s easy to lose sight of what truly matters to [...]

Access All Areas – In Conversation with Peta Hooke

Access All Areas – In Conversation with Peta Hooke In this episode of Access All Areas, I chat with Peta Hooke, host of the “I [...]

How to Create an Effective Routine for Success

How to Create an Effective Routine for Success Creating a well-designed routine is a powerful tool for achieving success in various aspects of life. Whether [...]

Building Resilience

Building Resilience Resilience is the ability to recover, adapt and overcome situations that have created stress, trauma or disorder in your life. Sometimes this is [...]

Create the person you want to be

Create the person you want to be Are you ready to transform your life and become the person you’ve always wanted to be? If you [...]

Access All Areas – In Conversation with Sean Howells

In this episode of Access All Areas I am in conversation with Sean Howells, Director of Social Model and Employment Advisor. Sean busts some of [...]

Access All Areas – In Conversation with Jo Colcott

In this episode of Access All Areas, I chat with Jo Colcott on her perspective of living with disabilty from a carer’s point of view. [...]

Access All Areas – In Conversation with Lynne Foreman

In this episode of Access All Areas I am in conversation with Lynne Foreman who talks about the practicality of living with a disability. Lynne [...]

Access All Areas – In Conversation with Skye Shannon

In this episode of Access All Areas I am in conversation with Skye Shannon who talks about living in country Australia with a disability. Skye [...]

Access All Areas – In Conversation with Michelle Mendes

In this episode of Access All Areas, I speak with Michelle Mendes who talks about living with Parkinson’s Disease. Michelle has joined Fight Parkinson’s to [...]

Laughter is the best medicine

Laughter is the best medicine We often say ‘Laughter is the best medicine’, and it really is a way to diffuse a situation or change [...]

When things don’t turn out the way you expect

When things don’t turn out the way you expect When things don’t turn out the way you expect, how do you react? You can make [...]

Compassion

Compassion How often do you show compassion for others? It’s easy to be judgemental, putting our values and beliefs onto others, but what about thinking [...]

Be Content

Be Content Take a moment to be content. Look at the things you have. Not necessarily the materials things but your relationships, your skills, your [...]

Pause and be mindful

Pause and be mindful Pause and be mindful for a moment. Think about the things going on around you. We often get caught up in [...]

Why????

Why???? Do you ask Why???? Do you question things? Do you have a sense of curiosity? Do you wonder why things are the way they [...]

Taking Responsibility

Taking Responsibility Are you taking responsibility for the things that happen in your life? Your actions, your thoughts, your reactions. You make the decisions about [...]

Listening

Listening How many times do you communicate well just by listening? Often we aren’t really present in the moment and listening to the person we [...]

Health and Vitality

Health and Vitality Are you looking after your health, vitality and energy? Make sure you are eating, drinking, exercising and sleeping properly to maintain your [...]

Gratitude

Being grateful for the things we do have is much more important than wondering about the things we don’t have. Show gratitude for the things [...]

Hope Requires Action

Hope What is the point of having hope if we don’t take any action to bring that will make it happen? As much as you [...]

Create a sense of direction

Create a sense of direction Having sense of direction helps us to create a pathway to follow to achieve our goals. Rather than wandering around [...]

Making Promises

Making Promises Promises. We all make them. Do we keep them? Are we sincere when we make the promises? If you make a promise, make [...]

Failure is learning

Failure is learning We do not really ever fail –  it is just learning. If you did not make mistakes or have situations that put [...]

Surround yourself with goodness

Surround yourself with goodness Focus on your strengths and surround yourself with goodness. Reflect on what you are able to contribute to the world that [...]

You do not need to be perfect

You do not need to be perfect You do not need to be perfect, in fact none of us are and never will be. What [...]

Be Yourself

Be Yourself Do you find yourself trying to keep up appearances, meeting others expectations and losing yourself in your focus on ‘doing’ and ‘being’ instead [...]

Time to step out of your comfort zone

Time to step out of your comfort zone Today it is time to step out of your comfort zone. To go that one step further [...]

What is holding you back?

What is holding you back? Be honest about what is holding you back. If you are not achieving your dreams, why not? Take a moment [...]

Reflect upon your successes

Reflect upon your successes Reflect upon your successes. What can you do today to keep you moving forward towards your goals? What have you done [...]

Committed to your best life

Committed to your best life How committed are you to make your life the best it can be? You will only get out what you [...]

It is what it is

It is what it is Once you realise “It is what it is” you also realise what can and can not be controlled. This is [...]

Look after yourself

Look after yourself Your primary role in life is to look after yourself. If you do not look after yourself you have no energy, health, [...]

Change your brain

Change your brain How often are you unconsciously doing the same things over and over? Get up, make your coffee, drive to work the same [...]

Do you let your attitude predict outcomes?

Do you let your attitude predict outcomes? How often do you let your attitude and emotions predict the outcome of your day or a situation? [...]

Have to. Are you doing things out of guilt or obligation?

Have to. Are you doing things out of guilt or obligation? How often do you find yourself doing something you do not really want to [...]

Stop Doubting Yourself

Stop Doubting Yourself Stop blowing things our of proportion. It is time to stop doubting yourself and holding yourself back from achieving your dreams. It [...]

Stop comparing yourself to others

Stop Comparing Yourself to Others Stop comparing yourself to others. Life is yours to live the way you desire. The grass is not always going [...]

What are your core values?

What are your core values? Think about your core values. Trust, honesty, kindness, forgiveness, sharing, humility, charity and the list may go on. What are [...]

Negative Self Talk

Negative Self Talk Negative self talk will only pull us down. Be conscious of the voice in your head telling you that you are not [...]

Why Do I Need A Coach?

Why Do I Need A Coach? Many people ask themselves, ‘Why do I need a coach?’ and think that having a coach is for a [...]

Springtime Means It’s Time For A Spring Clean

Springtime Means It’s Time For A Spring Clean Yes  –  the days are getting warmer, the nights are growing shorter. The birds are singing as [...]

The key to keeping motivated

The key to keeping motivated Many of us take on a challenge or start something new and then find ourselves losing motivation. What is the [...]

Let go of the past

Let go of the past The past is behind you. It can not be changed. Let go of the past and look to the future [...]

Winter Solstice Full Moon –  The Cold Moon

Winter Solstice Full Moon –  The Cold Moon This week we are celebrating both the Winter Solstice  –  the shortest daylight hours in one day [...]

The New Moon Solar Eclipse in Gemini

The New Moon Solar Eclipse in Gemini – What does it mean?   The new moon solar eclipse in Gemini, what does this mean for [...]

The Dark Moon Phase. What it means for you.

The Dark Moon Phase. What it means for you. Right now we are in a Dark Moon phase. This is a wonderful time to relax, [...]

How to break bad habits

How to break bad habits We all have those things we are doing that we wish we could change, or the habits that we know [...]

What if I asked myself What If?

What if I asked myself What if? Take a moment to think ‘What if asked myself What if?’ and start to think how you can [...]

Making changes to reactions and behaviours

We have the ability to change our thoughts to react in a different way to situations that we experience.  This can be easier said than [...]

Yarra Valley FM Radio Interview

Been busy with community presentations. My interview at Yarra Valley FM was a great conversation with the presenter Bruce Argyle. We spoke about setting goals [...]

Overcoming Adversity – How To Bounce Back

How to bounce back from adversity We all face adversity from time to time. How you react is often the difference between taking it in [...]

Commonly Asked Interview Questions

Commonly Asked Interview Questions Congratulations! You have scored the Interview and read my Top Ten Tips for Interview Success. It is time to put together [...]

Top Ten Interview Tips for landing your dream job

Top 10 Interview Tips for landing your dream job Great! You scored the interview. Now What? Here are my top 10 tips to turning that [...]

Top Ten Resume Writing Tips to Land You The Job

Top Ten Resume Writing Tips to Land You The Job How do you get your resume to the top of the call back list for [...]

Diversity and Inclusion – Tips on how to make a difference

Diversity and Inclusion – Tips on how to make a difference Diversity and Inclusion are such an important part of our working and personal lives. [...]

Taking control of worry

Taking control of worry Worry, feeling anxious or having a little self doubt are perfectly normal. We all feel those butterflies in our tummy before [...]

Guest Speaker at Rotary Club of Keilor

Guest Speaker at Rotary Club of Keilor Lots of fun presenting via Zoom to Rotary Club of Keilor. Looking forward to meeting you all in [...]

Guest speaker for Kew Rotary

Guest speaker for Kew Rotary Thank you to Rotary Club of Kew to speak at their first formal meeting for 2021. It was lovely to [...]

Six tips for getting a good night’s sleep

Six tips for getting a good night’s sleep Often we are waking up feeling just as tired as we were when we went to bed. [...]

Mind Body Connection

Mind Body Connection Your thoughts are in your mind and your feelings are in your body. So how do we get that mind body connection [...]

Stop Letting Fear Hold You Back

Stop Letting Fear Hold You Back Is Fear holding you back from achieving your dreams? How often have you thought to yourself that you would [...]

Can I Be Empathetic While Looking After Myself?

Can I Be Empathetic While Looking After Myself? How can we be Empathetic to others and give them a helping hand when times are tough [...]

How Do I Boost My Self Confidence?

How Do I Boost My Self Confidence? How do you view yourself? How do you think others view you? Having good self-esteem is something that [...]

What Does Love Mean To You?

What does the word love mean for you? Maybe it evokes the typical red heart, cupid arrow shooting character Valentine’s Day like rituals we have [...]

Appearance: Does my inside match my outside?

Appearance: Does my inside match my outside? Many of us spend hours and much of our hard earned money on creating our appearance the way [...]