Learning to ski as an adult
Can you learn to ski when you're adult? Yes, I'm proof of that having my first ski holiday in my early 40s. I didn't find it easy, there were many falls but also achievements such as completing my …
Cheering your progress and achievements November and December 2020
How were November and December for you? How was 2020 as a whole? It was certainly not the year I expected when I started these celebration posts. It has made me look at the posts differently because …
Cheering your progress and achievements September and October 2020
How were September and October for you? They were not great months for me. In fact, I've found them the hardest of the pandemic. I felt I went backwards in many of the routines and good habits I'd …
Cheering your progress and achievements August 2020
Did you make a big achievement in August or did you make continual progress on a large action? What did you start, progress or achieve in August?
Cheering your progress and achievements July 2020
Did you make a big achievement in July or did you make continual progress on a large action? What did you start, progress or achieve in July?
Cheering your progress and achievements June 2020
We’re half-way through the year. Even though it is probably not going as you expected, I’m sure you’re still achieving and progressing things, although perhaps in a different way. Did you make a big …
Cheering your progress and achievements May 2020
So we’re now done with Spring and heading into summer. The weather has been amazing here in the UK recently, so it feels strange we’ve moved into a cooler spell as June arrived. Did you …
Cheering your progress and achievements April 2020
How did you find April? I can’t believe we’re now in May. We’ve been able to focus on settling into the new way of life, that was all a rush in March. We’re developing our family routine.
Cheering your progress and achievements March 2020
How was March for you? It probably involved a lot of change. It certainly did for me as the UK went into lock down, so I’m now working at home every day and the children are doing their …
Cheering your progress and achievements February 2020
How was February for you? What are you most proud of? It has been a big month for me as I learnt to ski. Yes, for some reason I chose to learn to ski as an adult. This is definitely the thing …
Cheering your progress and achievements January 2020
"You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results.” James Clear, Atomic Habits. It is good to celebrate our progress and achievements, even when they're …
The wheel of life can help you have a great year
Are you feeling overwhelmed at the number of things you’d like to improve and worried you won’t or can’t improve. Instead of goals use the wheel of life to find your priority annual theme.
How to keep the holiday feeling when you return to work
Holidays are about relaxation, calm and freedom. Is it possible to keep that feeling when you return to work? These four steps will help you find holiday calm in your work day.
Picking a theme instead of New Year resolutions
I'm not a fan of having a new year resolution as I've found they rarely have a successful outcome. So this year I'm doing things differently and I'm working towards a long term goal. A goal that will …
Tell your time by Amy Lynn Andrews – book review
The book Tell your time* is about developing a schedule so you can complete the things you want to do. It’s a short book (which seems appropriate for a book about making the most of your time) …
Rethinking my task list – why do I want to do more?
There is so much I want to achieve that for years I’ve been working on becoming more productive. I’ve focused on do more, do more, do more. However, after several tired weeks when I …
The power of finding your keystone habit
March was a disappointment for me as I wrote just one blog post, so I’ve been thinking why, what happened? And I’ve realised it comes down to one thing – habit interruption, …
How’s the darktea brewing? #3
Not exactly a great start to these monthly reviews by missing two months. I’m still working on getting used to working full time and with a longer commute and unfortunately it is my blogger time …
Finding and deleting duplicate files
I’ve spent most of the last two weeks finding and deleting duplicate files. A rather tedious task and one that worries me as I think I may delete a non duplicate file by mistake. I have to admit …
How is the darktea brewing? #2
Seeing as we’re almost at the end of March it seems a bit late to be reviewing my progress in February. However, I don’t want to give up on these progress posts after just one month. …
How is the darktea brewing? #1
This is my new monthly progress post, but as I did progress posts for two years up to 2009 I wanted to call this something different and came up with something a little cheesy. Unlike my …
#blogitforward – food bank and text book donations
#blogitforward is based on the concept of Pay it forward, an idea I first came across through Bookcrossing; through the book Pay it forward* and the activity of Random Acts of Bookcrossing Kindness. …
BritMums Environment Round-up Editor
I’m very excited to announce that I’m the editor for the new BritMums Environment Round-up. This means I will be writing a monthly post for the BritMums site to showcase posts on …
My only new year resolution
I’ve written before about not being a big fan of making new year resolutions because I think it adds too much pressure and you are more likely to make successful changes if you set a resolution …