When I started my business I was acutely aware of how much someone’s life would change by developing self love and acceptance. All the internal angst that’s created from seeking approval from others is alleviated, the belief that you need to ‘perform’ to be loved gone and in it’s place an immense freedom of knowing you are in control of your life and how you feel. You don’t need to accept others criticism, you don’t need to do what people think you ‘should’, you can spend more time being present because you free up so much space in your mind with useless stuff that once only bogged you down. When I worked with individuals, once their confidence shifted so did their relationships. Better healthier relationships came in to play, ones rooted in being real, upfront, honest and appreciated for who you are. There was no denying, one person’s life changed sense an immense ripple through the lives of others.

When you write a book at some point you have to stop editing. Back in 2015 I wrote my first book. I edited it 27 times. I distinctly recall looking at my pizza in the oven and hoping it would cook quicker only to later realise that I’d never turned the oven on at all. Personal development is much like writing a book.

You can be a perfectionist and decide wholeheartedly that the work will never be over. And to be fair, if you foster the growth mindset the work doesn’t end but it’s how you edit your life in the personal development that reinforces empowering or devastating beliefs.

In January, I moved house. it was a full on experience of packing, unpacking, cleaning, sorting and organising across two places over several weeks. I do not like moving, but there’s a few things that I’ve learnt about life from my recent move that I wish to share with you. 

Self worth, self esteem, and self confidence are three concepts that are often used interchangeably, but they are actually distinct and important aspects of our mental and emotional health. Understanding the difference between these three concepts can help you build a healthier, more fulfilling life and confident life.

When an individual exudes self-confidence it is clear that they know their worth. In action, they do what matters to them most and they leave those things that aren’t behind; they have time because they know where their effort is best spent and they no longer people please or entertain other’s vision for their life before their own. Self-worth is the foundation of confidence.

You’ve probably heard people mention that to live a healthier, happier, more confident life you need to live by your values. But what is the benefit of this and why do people swear by it so much?

Do you wish you had greater self confidence? Many people can easily recognise where they feel confident and where they do not in their lives but how do you improve your confidence if you’ve never really felt successful in different areas of your life?

Confidence begins with self awareness, an understanding of who you are, what you do, why you are the way you are and your recognition that you can always find solutions to challenges and have done in the past.

You’ve entered a new year so surely you have new intentions for the following new, shiny 365 days right? Maybe not. For many people who maintain their confidence at positive levels a new year simply means continuing the great things from the previous year, dialling in on the intention and creating some small goals. How you start your year sets the tone for what is to come, so have you thrown the baby out with the bath water or have you started completely anew and what is best for you?

Every person on the planet is afraid of rejection, eager to avoid it at all costs yet some people still choose to self-reject. Why is that and how can you fix this?

Self-rejection is a really easy thing to achieve if you do not accept yourself. It begins by not acknowledging your successes, the positive choices you make and the growth that you have personally and professionally. It then moves on to denying what you know you deserve and settling for less. From here it leads to the frustration that others are increasingly rejecting you but the problem didn’t start with anyone but yourself.

On September 29 I brought my Golden Retriever puppy home and at first she was playful and super sleepy but recently she’s been going through a big bout of teething and she’s been restless, its taught me a lot about confidence, discomfort, feeling out of depth and how to cope.

October is Mental Health Awareness Month in Australia so I thought I’d share my journey with mental health to demonstrate the importance of the need for a perception shift in what mental health means. Like everything I talk to clients about its best to be raw and real to take full ownership of what is and how you can change it. So here is my very real account of how society influenced my attitude towards mental health and how developing my awareness changed everything.

The key to being magnetically confident is to develop your authenticity, because the more authentic you are the more likely it is that people are going to engage with you. People recognise something beautiful in authenticity- awareness, humility, self acceptance and honesty. They know that with an authentic person there is no second guessing, they can simply enjoy someone’s company without wondering about an agenda, who they really are or needing to impress them because they know the only way to impress someone is to truly be yourself. This eliminates stress, creating ease for those individuals the confident person engages with which makes them even more magnetic. So how do you develop the authenticity to draw people closer to you on a daily basis? Here are my 10 steps to Developing Authenticity.

Over the past 18 months we have had several lockdowns, we are used to this. These snap lockdowns (especially in the case of Queensland) still come as quite the surprise but we are not novices to how they operate. So how can we reduce the impact these lockdowns have on our mental health? Honour you in the lockdown.

We all have busy lives and the reality is that's not going to change so it's about accepting the fact that life will continue to be busy and we will continue saying, ‘wow time is flying, we are almost at December already’ until we learn to really live in the moment.

In our cars neutral just lets our car stay where it is, we don’t move forward or backwards, but it does allow our car to turn on without it going backwards. When life is tough, we need to put ourselves in neutral. Neutral gives us a place to operate with where we can go forward and to be honest, like a car, once we are here we are more likely to move forward than we are to go backwards.

How many times have you participated in exercise where you felt better afterwards? Many, right? This effect is proof that mental health is also physical. For generations we have spoken about mental health as if it’s a separate issue but it isn’t. Society knows that when we exercise we feel better, our mood is better, our productivity is better and our success is greater, so why don’t we treat our mental health as part of our physical health?

I have decided to begin a podcast! This is a very exciting time for me, I’m really looking forward to hearing & seeing what you will enjoy about it.

The impact of mindset begins on January 4 2021. It has been a process I’ve been working on since October 2020 when I realise there was no need for me to hold back on the 2021 goal and that I should just do it right now. I’m so pleased that I have because we just days away from you getting to experience the very first episode of the impact of mindset.

I recently asked on Facebook and Instagram whether or not a relationship means that you have got yourself sorted or whether it simply means you are in a relationship. The poll results were interesting for 2 reasons. Most people said that they believed being a relationship simply meant you were in a relationship but those that disagreed were men, they felt that a relationship indicated to them that they were doing something right, as if the relationship was serving as a kind of positive feedback loop. Read of to find out what we thought about this poll.