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Celebrate your wins

18/01/2022 • Uncategorized • by Rena

In the water at Casuarina Beach

Celebrating your wins is an important step on the journey to achieving your goals.

Pausing to congratulate yourself for following through on your new habit or goal buoys your energy and enthusiasm, and keeps you going. Think how a sporting team is inspired by cheering from supporters.

Periodically taking time to notice how far you’ve come builds confidence. Reflect on your successes and mistakes, so you can apply lessons to new goals and challenges.

Celebrate with friends and colleagues, thank them for their help and support along the way – you may even inspire them to achieve their own goals.

A little self-promotion is good thing too. It shows you have confidence in yourself and other people may want to place their trust in you.

The more you celebrate, the more you have to celebrate!

A celebration can be as simple as a daily self-congratulation for taking action to achieve your goals or following through with new habits. Then choose bigger rewards or celebrations for bigger achievements.

Celebrate each kilo lost, each fear faced, improvements in speed or efficiency and watch your commitment to achieving improve.

Multitasking? Stop it!

13/09/2021 • Uncategorized • by Rena

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For a long time I considered myself an expert at multi-tasking. I often would be working on 3 or more tasks at the same time, thinking I was being productive. As a single mum and small business owner I figured multi-tasking the best way of getting everything done. Wrong!

It made me constantly stressed and tired. I made mistakes that I then beat myself up about, and, worst of all, I often over cooked or burnt dinner.

Then one day I read a list of “Zen things” and at the top of the list was “Do one thing at a time”. I started putting this into practice and discovered that I was much more efficient and productive, made less mistakes and produced better quality results (and meals). Admittedly, it took me a while to develop this new habit and even now I sometimes have to remind myself to stay focused, but it has been well worth the effort.

I did some research to find if other people had similar results and here’s what I found…. Read More…

Why falling off a bicycle was the best thing that happened to me

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The answer… It increased my confidence.

To give you some background… There is something about having your feet clipped into pedals that leaves you feeling quite precarious, and since buying my first set of ‘cleats’ a couple of years ago I have been working on getting past my fears around riding a bicycle. (Of course the riding part is fine, it’s the “what if I fall off” that causes the problem) So there I was at cycling training with my daughter. Yes, I am the ONLY adult training with kids, AND guess who’s the biggest scaredy cat! We were practising skills, specifically ‘track stands” where you are required to bring the bike to a halt and balance on the spot or at least balance while going very slow. I had watched the kids do it and now it was my turn. Read More…

Goal setting

30/09/2016 • Uncategorized • by Rena

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Why set goals?

Setting goals helps to give your life direction and purpose. It helps to organise your time and resources so you can create the life you want to live. They help you to focus your energy in a positive direction.

How do I get started?

A great first step to take in goal setting is to brain storm a list of what you would like to achieve. At this stage don’t think about what is possible or likely, just make a wish list.

Another of my favourite ways to find the goals to put your heart and soul into, is work out a picture of how you would like your life/lifestyle to look in 5 years’ time. Don’t get bogged down in the name of a specific location, but you can be very specific about; climate, style of home, social life, travel, employment, ability to regularly walk on the beach/bush/mountains. Make your picture as detailed and complete as possible. Read More…

Put those goals into action

30/09/2016 • Uncategorized • by Rena

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After your have written down your “S M A R T” goals. The next step and perhaps the most important step is to take action to make those dreams and goals a reality.

Take the first step

This may come as a surprise to you but motivation comes AFTER action, not before.

If you have been waiting to wake up one morning and feel motivated to get started, you are actually more likely to keep procrastinating. When you set a goal that challenges you, there will be some things that you may not enjoy doing. You will probably need to force yourself to do a little something to create the momentum to take the next step and the next. Read More…

We are like our mobile phones!?!

30/09/2016 • Uncategorized • by Rena

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When you buy a mobile phone it comes with default settings. Over time you download a variety of apps to help you to use the phone more efficiently. When something happens and your phone needs repair, it usually comes back with the default factory settings and you have to download all your favourite apps again.

The advantage is that now you know which apps are the most useful and you only download those, not bothering with the ones that you rarely or never use. You might also download a few new and different ones because you want to test them out and see if they will be helpful. So now you have a phone that is functioning even better than before.

Change

06/12/2015 • General wellbeing, Mental wellbeing • by Rena

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Temperance

My tarot “card of the day” yesterday was Temperance and part of its message was to remind me that when working on a project – to change a little, then step back and assess the results and to find balance before moving forward. This seemed to be good guidance for making changes and it occurred to me that I had already been using the same strategy for conquering fear. Read More…

Bike riding a lesson in courage

12/08/2014 • Mental wellbeing • by Rena

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A few weeks ago my beautiful daughter provided me with a perfect example of this definition of courage. Read More…

Running – What a mind game!

01/08/2014 • General wellbeing, Mental wellbeing • by Rena

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A couple of weeks ago I completed my first half marathon. For those who don’t know that’s 21kms of running or in my case jogging! Impressive huh! Let me tell you the actual running is much easier than the mental battle that goes along with it. Read More…

Goal setting – what inspires you?

16/09/2012 • General wellbeing • by Rena

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Many of us know the importance of setting goals. We have been told that people who set goals are more likely to achieve, but I speak to many people who say they don’t know how to set goals. They don’t know what they want to achieve. I guess that is why they don’t achieve as much as a goal setter because they simply don’t know where they are heading. Much like setting out in a car with no destination in mind, you end up doing a rather frustrating meander, that doesn’t really take you anywhere. A life without goals drags through day by day, not really achieving anything, or inspiring or motivating you. Does that sound familiar?