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How you can be of benefit to others

Stop thinking you have nothing to offer, start recognising how much you do.

At different stages of growth business owners can find themselves wondering, ‘How can I be of benefit to others, I’m not a superstar, I am just me, do I have enough to offer?’ It can paralyse you from moving forward. When you are a business owner you are going to second guess yourself, possibly at every stage of growth so you need to remember why you do what you do and how it helps others. To ensure that you help others in a positive way here are 10 tips I use from my own experience.

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Patience Please!

Recently I polled people about what they need to learn the most about developing confidence and they responded with, patience. Having the ability to accept or tolerate hurdles without becoming annoyed or anxious is an art but how does it help you build confidence? Here’s how.

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How to handle stress

Recently I read this book about stress that helped me to shift my perspective on the amount of stress in my life. I am always looking for ways to find more peace in life and work smarter not harder so this book was perfect. It required you to dive into your stress story so I want to help you do the same.

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How to see opportunities not failures

I see failures not opportunities- how do I change this?

Our human brain is designed to protect us from harm so we are constantly scanning the environment for risk. The more we can control our environment the easier it is for us to remain safe. Unfortunately, this also means that we don’t take healthy risks often enough because we are seeing failure or risk and not opportunities. So how do you change that?

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Valentine's Day Gift Ideas

Valentine’s Day is a great opportunity for you to show how much you love your significant other. It can be mind boggling and incredibly expensive if you aren’t sure where to start as there are so many advertising campaigns notifying you of ideas left, right and centre. So in this post I share my suggestions WITHOUT advertising so you don’t feel even more bombarded. Take a read and see what you think.

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how relationships work

You’ve been fed a lie- relationships don’t just work they require work. Society has been showcasing to us through movies from Disney through to adult rom coms that relationships just work regardless of what happens in them. We walk into relationships with an ideal in our head of how it should be but it isn’t until we learn all about ourselves in the company of someone else that we realise relationships are hard work and completely worthwhile all at the same time.

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Vicariously living through someone else’s fun

As an adult do you ever catch yourself saying ‘I’ll just live vicariously through you’? Adults can become ok with simply witnessing fun instead of experiencing it, but it doesn’t mean that we are satisfied with the level of fun we have in our lives. Here’s 20 ways you can add more fun to your life and stop vicariously living through others.

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How parenting teaches you that life isn't a KPI

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.

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Why serving others first ruins your relationships

When people start turning up for themselves, guess what happens? Other people turn up for them! It's this really crazy notion that we grew up with thinking that we can't put ourselves first, so we start serving other people which is really noble, but we often do it at the cost of our own health, our relationship with ourselves and our happiness. We often never ask ourselves what do I want? Do I actually even want to be here right now? Where do I sit on my priority list?

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52 episodes of The Impact of Mindset have aired! WOOHOO!

Magnetic Confidence has hit another milestone. The Impact of Mindset has now hit 52 episodes! An entire year of interviewing people, sharing my raw and real messages about how your mindset impacts you and how you can improve it. I’m so proud of how the podcast has gone and I’m looking forward to seeing more people fall in love with it over time. To celebrate this moment I want to pause and enjoy the highlights of the past year.

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What is your journey with mental health?

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.

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Make the first move

When you get stuck in life the best advice you can ever get is to make the first move. Often, we wait for perfect conditions, we wait for our emotions to be completely changed to something happier, but we ignore the benefit of finding something that can impact our mindset way sooner than we would think.

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How to develop authenticity

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.

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Life is about to change

I am so excited to share with you that I am starting a family. On September 28 I will finally get a puppy I have wanted for 18 months. It has been a long wait, but it has come together perfectly. To be completely honest I am quite emotional about it all.

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Habit Coaching has landed!

Your habits are the foundation of building confidence. Confidence is built on our mindset and our ability to feel competent at what we do. Every day we habitually do tasks, some that help us and some that hinder us. When we master the art of habits we can increase our results in our life, improving our health, happiness and success. The more habits we conquer the more confidence we feel because each of these habits require consistency and commitment. You aren’t going to feel like always doing the things that are important to you, it will require grit. What I’ve established is that my clients typically have a mixture of helpful and unhelpful habits. I wanted to enable them to achieve greater success to reach higher levels of performance and health so I created Habit Coaching.

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The hotel that became my second home

In 2020 I moved to Toowoomba, I started full time teaching again while running a business and I loved the choice I made to move but something was missing- I missed being in Brisbane, the friends I had made, the events I could go to and the networking I did regularly. My Sunday salsa nights had spoilt me, my regular meetups too so I found myself trekking down to Brisbane on the regular. In this time I found my second home- the Swissbelhotel and boy do I miss it.

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Why you should honour yourself in a COVID lockdown

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.

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