How Gratitude Can Change Your Life – The Power of a “Thank You”

At the age of 53, John Kralik discovered how gratitude can change your life. In his book 365 Thank You Notes – The Year a Simple Act of Daily Gratitude Changed My Life, Kralik explains that on December 22 2007 everything in his life seemed to be going wrong. At that time – his clients were not paying…

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5 Ways to Shift From Productive to Effective

One area I work with coaching clients is managing their energy. One part of that is looking at personal effectiveness and self-management. Inevitably within that conversation is a discussion around the difference between being productive and being effective. In this post, I will be discussing – What is Productive or Productiveness? What is Effectiveness? What is…

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Ready to Start to Break Up with Overwhelm?

Are you ready to start to break-up with overwhelm? Today’s journal entry is going to be exploring the topic of overwhelm, including – What is Overwhelm? What are the Causes of Overwhelm? How Can you Start to Break Up with Overwhelm? 5 Ways to increase Personal Effectiveness. Let’s get started..   What is Overwhelm? Have…

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What is Personal Effectiveness & Self-Management?

For me, an element of Whole-Hearted Living is personal effectiveness and self-management. Many of us know what personal effectiveness and self-management are, however have we mastered it? (without being perfect of course!). So, just so we are on the same page – Personal effectiveness means making use of all the resources (both personal and professional) you have at your…

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New Year’s Resolutions: 14 Ideas to Help Make Your New Year’s Resolutions Stick

As we are move towards the end of the year, the topic of New Year’s Resolutions starts to find its way back in to conversations. We begin to reflect on a year that was and look forward with enthusiasm and hope to a year of endless possibilities. I am not a fan of New Year’s resolutions,…

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There is Another Way to Live – The End of Suffering

A few years ago before my personal journey really started to take on a different tangent and I started seeing things with a beginner’s mind and allowed life to be as it is, I wanted to try and fix things, to control my life, not to feel any emotions, not to fail, get everything right,…

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Is Perfectionism Getting in the Way of Your Life?

Is Perfectionism Getting in the Way of Your Life? It was for me… Growing up and early in to my adult life, one thing I wanted was for everything to be perfect (yes, have all of the ducks in a row). I had a very strong inner critic and subsequently, I was quite fearful of…

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