Work-life balance can hugely impact our lives and be the cause of unease or stress. Pretty much everyone we know, and ourselves included, suffer from this imbalance.

But, do not despair, before overwhelm kicks in and we feel like we have lost control of our lives, there are quite a few things we can do and tips to recognize when to take action.

First, is important to understand that there is no rule for work-life balance, there is no right or wrong, whatever works for you is what you should do. We are all different and we have a different set of priorities, so first step is recognizing what is important to you and focus on what makes you happy and brings you joy.

Focusing on yourself and where you are right now will help you check in and assess what needs doing in order to achieve what you want, whether this is spending more time with family and friends or working smarter.

We all live a multi-faceted live and each life is different, so stay in your path, do not try living somebody else’s because that’s what you think you should do or what you see is done. What works for them, might not work for you.

Embrace your uniqueness, establish your priorities and define what you consider success / progress. You are in charge of your life and your wellbeing, make decisions that align with it.

Happy listening and balancing!

Often people have lots of dreams and desires about how they want to live their life but their energy levels get in the way and they don’t achieve what they would really love to achieve. Today we discuss how we lose energy and what we can do to create more energy.

If you are tired of feeling tired and wishing you had more energy; today’s podcast is for you!

You’ll discover there are lots of ways we can help ourselves:

-If we think or feel we don’t have enough energy we can affect ourselves spiritually, emotionally, mentally and physically as we start putting ourselves through bad lifestyle/habit choices

- If we don’t become aware of the cycle of bad energy we will continue to have low energy

- When we recognise our poor energy choices we can regain control and move forward to improving our energy

- We have to work with the reality of the situation- for example if we have children who are not sleeping through the night of course we will be tired or if we have any reason we haven't slept but we have a choice of how we manage being tired.

- We can work with our mind and body and put steps in place to work with the energy you have.

- Meditating even for a small amount of time when tired helps us to gain our energy back.

- Nutritious non-processed food gives you energy. If we go for a sugar fix the benefits are short lived; we actually end up feeling worse.

- Use the h.a.l.t theory to help you not use sugar to lift your energy.

H is are you hungry?

A is are you angry?

L is are you lonely?

T is are you tired?

It helps us think what we really need.

• Just stopping before we make choices helps us think what we really need.

• We waste energy when we are in a poor mental state.

• It will help if we look where our energy is going if we are losing energy because we are feeling fear, anger, resentment or guilt we need to try and manage these emotions

• Releasing negative emotions gives you positive energy back.

• Recent research states that people are happier when they have a positive outlook hence emotional resilience will help us not to drain our energy.

• Building a gratitude list shifts our energy because it helps us see the positive side

• Building on the good helps us bring positive energy to our life as we can see our life has lots of good in it.

• Feeling not good enough can drain our energy hence working on our self worth is important as it helps us make good choices

• Alcohol, processed food, lack of sleep, lack of movement all drains our energy

• The dictionary definition is the strength and vitality required to maintain physical and mental activity.

• Suffering depletes our energy keeping a positive mindset essential for good energy.

• We are a mind, body and soul. It helps if we consider what really resonates with our true nature so we can prioritise what we give our energy to. This feeds our soul and stops us giving away energy to the wrong things.

• Setting boundaries and saying no to things can help us not give our energy away to the wrong things.

• We can be people pleasers to feel good and then that can deplete our energy we need to be true to ourselves.

• Acknowledge what happens in those 24hrs don’t push ourselves to a point where we know we won’t be able to achieve, be aware but be realistic, make mindful decisions to help take the right action daily to give you energy.

• Set ourselves goals to work with our energy so it becomes a habit and what becomes habitual changes our life.

• Set ourselves time in the day to switch off although Social Media can be helpful but too much mindless swiping drains our energy. Switching off in the day is very important.

• Summing up focus on the positive not the negative, become aware of where we are losing energy and where we can get it back and be grateful and build on the good as that is one of the simplest ways to make us feel good.

Today we talk about the question:

Are your beliefs around money making you the culprit or the victim in your own personal or financial success? We will discuss abundant mindset vs scarcity mindset-you will be able to consider which one is your truth and where your money stories are inherited from. Furthermore, how that is affecting you now, your self-worth and gain the understanding that you are deserving of wealth.

What you will discover:

-Generally, there are two mindsets the scarcity mindset and the abundant mindset people fall into: Scarcity money mindset is thinking you are never going to have enough money and hence come from a place of lack. Abundant money mindset - Stephen Covey defined it as there is enough resources and successes for everyone.

- Money can be a taboo and scary subject and it is important to understand the relationship we have with money. It is important to explore, acknowledge and discuss money to live our best life otherwise we will continue to live in ignorance or denial.

- Thoughts and feelings towards money can dictate our entire lifestyle-impacting how we live day to day and our future success.

- We have money stories that are not always ours and they are difficult to recognise. They often are inherited from our upbringing, friends, society etc

- We can change our money script and this can change our trajectory but we must be aware first.

- It is good to look around at people that have made money from noting they have this abundant money mindset.

- Money needs a direction (focus) you need a budget and a financial plan you can’t ignore it and expect it to sort itself out. If you continue not to confront the issue the results will be the same- things won’t change.

- Sometimes you might need to get in debt and invest in a course or time to study something which will shift you forward; to make it possible for you to earn the money you want to earn to enable you to have the lifestyle you want.

- A powerful exercise to help you to understand your relationship with money is to take a meaningful amount for you out of the cashpoint. You go home and sit with it in your hands for 5mins and notice how it is making you feel (expect a lot of emotions). Start to talk to it and ask it anything you want. What is coming up for you? Ask yourself why are these emotions coming up? Then after write down the answers. You will start to realise the story you have around money and start to build a better script around money. Sitting with the money helps you reconnect with the money.

- Or you can also try personalising money. How does money look for you? Give it a “life’, an appearance and notice what feelings does that “person” bring to you.

But above it all, always remind yourself your money is your story, and you can shape it and shift it towards your goals and success. Comparison, negative self-talk…will only feed you scarcity mindset and keep you stuck where you are. Make small changes, take small steps and focus on what you can do and achieve.

Today we talk about the question:

How can we boost our efficiency? If you have heard yourself saying

I don’t have time for that

I wish the day had 48hrs

How do people get things done?...

If you are tired of hearing and saying those too; today’s podcast will be useful in giving you tips to be more efficient and do things you want to do.

What you will discover:

- Have a solution orientated mindset. Focus on what you CAN do.

- If you get annoyed with want you haven't done you are disabling your productivity-keep positive.

- Important to recognise there are lots of times in the day we could be utilising in a better way.

- Start with knowing exactly what you want to achieve and what you want your life to look like. Then you can prioritise what you want to spend your time doing.

- We all have 24hrs in the day, plan how to spend it to make the most of it. It is helpful if we break things down to manageable chunks.

- To help you learn to prioritise do THE BIG ROCKS IN THE JAR exercise. The big 5 rocks are what are most important to you and that is the focus of your time and energy. The sand are all the small things you do in your life to fit around your main priorities. It is good to draw this.

- It comes down to choice, doing the big things you don’t want to do first is helpful. This is what top performers do as it creates momentum, helps you feel like a winner and your day becomes more productive.

- Academic research shows that many people don’t focus on what is important to them and then your actions are not aligned with what you want to achieve and then that drains your energy.

- Ask yourself: Why am I focusing on the small stuff? What am I avoiding?

- Our main priorities can take more time and effort and this is maybe why people don’t focus on them.

- Effort can be a stretch and uncomfortable which is maybe why people go back to the sand (small easy insignificant jobs). Keeping us safe. But the safe life doesn't give us the best life.

- We can hack our biology to help us be more efficient-if we hack our biology we can achieve more. We can use our body to help us feel we can achieve anything.

- Create a daily routine of a Gratitude list, Nutritious breakfast, exercise to release the feel good hormones and swell the brain to help it be more focused and efficient. By eating nutritiously and exercising we are creating a natural positive energy state.

- When you are in a positive energy state you can be super efficient. When your energy drains again create more energy; rest for a bit by sitting in silence or meditating. Work with your body and mind.

- Our thought process in today's world means we are often in survival mode hence reactive instead of proactive this causes the same habits to play over and over. Helpful to shift your mindset from survival mode to success. How are you going to have a good day today? How do I want to feel at the end of this day?

- Don’t beat yourself up if you are finding it challenging, but do look at your diary so you are looking at the time opportunities.

- We need to acknowledge how our brains work, we work in a reward system. The reward will be the feeling if we get hard things done first.

- It all goes back to feelings - we want to feel good. Once we do the action then we will feel better. We need to commit to the actions to feel better. We will rarely feel like going for a run in the cold and rain but if you remember the feeling you will get after the action you will do it.

- Look at things in your life that you have to do and consider how you can do them more time efficiently in alignment with your main priorities.

- Investing some time wisely can mean a better tomorrow. It can be hard but we will reap the rewards.

- Finally remember to work with your body and energy levels, commit to daily action (small steps) towards your main priorities and plan for a better life ahead.

What obstacles are getting in your way? What do you think is holding you back?

Today we talk about the question:

Do limiting beliefs hold us back? We discuss that we all have an inner critic that was there in Primitive times to keep us safe (from an attack, from a bear for example). We dig deeper into limiting beliefs and give tried and tested tools that help people overcome them.

What are and where do limiting beliefs come from?:

- Limiting beliefs are something you believe to be true about yourself.

- Limiting beliefs hold you back from making progress and keep you stuck

- Limiting beliefs come from society, education, family, friends and experiences

- Limiting beliefs come from our filtered perception

- What our brains tell us isn’t necessarily true

- Faulty logic causes our inner critic to get louder

- Naming your inner critic helps you dissociate from it

- Limiting beliefs can be; I am not very smart or funny, my brother is the successful one, money is easy hard to come by and easy to lose

- Inner voice tells you what you could or should do and even judges others

- We all have limiting beliefs because our primitive brain is their to keep us safe it thinks it is warning you of the dangers

- To overcome your limiting beliefs the first step is to become aware you are having them and the negative effect they are having on your life -

You can manage limiting beliefs by using the following tools:

Talking to family and friends that know you

Looking back in your past for evidence that proves your inner critic wrong.

Guided meditation twice a day can help you reprogram yourself at a deeper level. Sitting in Silence helps you to connect with your true nature/essence to overcome the learned limiting beliefs.

Journaling is a great tool to help you become aware of what patterns of behaviour you have and what is helping you or not helping you, Also can help you see what you are grateful for.

Using Motivational videos helps you grow the mindset anything is possible.

Answering powerful questions help you unpack your thinking.

- Limiting beliefs if not careful become your identity.

- We can think about what we want to become and reprogram our belief system if it is not serving us and it is not in line with our values.

- The brain is malleable, it can be changed this can be seen on MRI scans showing new neural pathways being made.

- We can achieve anything when we lose hope we lose our dreams,

- Limiting beliefs can work the other way. If you think you can achieve anything you won’t ask for help when needed

- Children make sense of the world by sharing their feelings.

- It is a choice if you let limiting beliefs hold you back

- Eckhart Tolle who wrote the Power of Now said, ‘Don’t block your inner critic , acknowledge, listen to it, take the learning and move on from it.

- If our thoughts are not in line with our core values we have to consider if they are not our beliefs.

- Thoughts don’t define you they are not reality

- Be patient if you have had 40yrs of being programmed to think a certain way the reprogramming won’t happen overnight.

- If we take time and effort to reprogram our thoughts we can use our new thoughts to support who we want to be in the world.

Today we talk about the question: Do goals actually work?

We discuss that everyone is unique and what works for one person when setting goals doesn’t necessarily work for another person. We talk about the the research that frighteningly explains that most people fail their goals and why we think this.

What you will discover:

● Goals can be achieved but the journey is different for everyone

● Goals need to be broken down into achievable steps

● Goals need self awareness

● We need to be honest with ourselves when setting goals so we can truly own it

● Visualising and getting quiet with ourselves helps us connect to our true self which helps us set a meaningful goal

● Before a goal is made we need to be clear ​why​ we want to achieve this goal

● If we are honest and clear about our why we are more likely to stick to our goal when it gets difficult

● Goals will get uncomfortable as we are pushing ourselves out our comfort zone to achieve something we haven’t achieved before

● We want quick fixes; a goal takes effort, time patience but is worth the commitment

● Goals need to made a priority as they take time to reach

● We need to get comfortable with the uncomfortable or familiar with the unfamiliar. Humans seek pleasure not pain

● When circumstances change or problems rear their ugly head don’t give up and use

excuses reevaluate with the new circumstances and workout how we can still move towards our goal

● Goals need commitment