Do you remember playing ‘Simon Says’ as a young child? It’s widely recognised as a simple way to help young children with creativity, motor development, body awareness, sequencing skills, sportsmanship and self-regulation development. Plus, you have the added benefits of being able to play it anywhere, anytime with no need to lug around lots of equipment […]

At some point we all dream of leaving the ‘rat race’ behind us and sailing off into the sunset for a life that is stress free, relaxed and joyful. But is this even a reality with the way we live our lives? We often refer to our lives being part of it, but most of us […]

Since the beginning of time, when there’s a problem running wild around the world, a movement rises to provide a solution. It starts with a front runner who creates the first product, course, book or program. Then others add their expertise to the fray until there is so much noise that it’s hard to know where […]

Right before my life shattered into a million pieces, I remember thinking that it must be easier to just collapse, be given mind numbing drugs and go slouch on a couch in a clinic somewhere. I just needed a break. A break from life. A break from the pressure. A break from feeling like nothing was […]

After the year I had experienced, I needed something to lighten my days and bring a smile to my face. So, we adopted two adorable, 10-week old, black bundles of fur that we quickly referred to as our ‘House Panthers’. Like most things in nature and the animal kingdom, they brought immediate entertainment, love and laughter […]

It’s become normal – and something of a bragging point – to be able to point at how hard you’re working. It’s like we’ve confused being burnt out with being successful. The second we adopted social media as a staple in our lives, we also adopted a highly visible way of life. We find ourselves enmeshed […]

So many of us spent so much of 2020 desperately wishing that the 1st of January 2021 would hurry up and be with us. We were hit – and hit hard – but somehow we held onto the hope that 2021 would be better. Now, here we are … already one month of 2021 gone and […]

Every day is a battle between finding time and getting everything done. Some days it feels like you’re a magician, magicking things out of nowhere, moving through time that doesn’t exist, putting out spot fires, dealing with the demands of staff, customers, suppliers. It never ends. It’s stressful. More stressful than you could ever have imagined. […]

We’ve been taught for decades that being stressed is normal. There’s a perception that if you’re not stressed, then you’re not working hard enough, and the pressure is piled on for you to ‘lift your game’. If others around you are struggling under the weight of the things they need to deliver, but you’re sailing along […]

We live our lives lurching from mini-break to mini-break, from this holiday to the next. Life carries such an intensity now. We’re all exhausted, we’re all stressed. We know that it’s not good for us; we know we’re unwell. But we carry on anyway. All around us are messages for us to stop, to slow down. […]

We’ve all felt it. The external, invisible power that drives us to do things we don’t really want to, just ‘in case we miss out’. All it takes is a blink, and suddenly our lives are full of over stimulation and information overload. We’re bombarded with marketing messages that tell us all the things that are […]

Do you wish your life was simpler? Here’s what you need to know: Most of us have been taught that we have to push ourselves in order to be able to achieve anything significant. The old saying: ‘No pain – no gain’ has morphed into ‘No stress – no success’. We’re driven to achieve, to succeed […]

You can escape them too … but without all the hullabaloo. I used to be a corporate executive. I ticked the boxes I was supposed to tick, I climbed the ladder and I reached the pinnacle. I spent every day running around, looking after everyone else and making sure everyone was OK. During the day, I […]

The world always continues to turn. No matter what is happening, no matter what you do, no matter how integral to a process or system, job or outcome you think you are, it will turn whether you are there or not. That’s not easy to read, I know, but I’ve experienced it first hand. I spent […]

Life is tense right now. The world was thrown into chaos – en masse and without warning. Life was ‘normal’ … and then in the blink of an eye we were thrown into this void of uncertainty. A big, black, bottomless hole suddenly appeared in front of us – daring us to challenge it. We’re all […]

Uncertainty. It’s like a massive black void sitting right in front of us. It’s wide and gaping and terrifying. … What if we take a step in the wrong direction? … What will that mean? … How will it look? … What will people think? We’re so afraid to step out of line, to get things […]

Life. It’s messy, noisy and complex. It’s demanding, confusing and exhausting. It’s so easy to look around you and feel like you’re not keeping up – like everyone else is achieving and moving forwards and you’re stuck, sitting still or going round in circles. Sometimes, it feels like it might be easier to just give in […]

Life can change in the blink of an eye. One minute, you’re enmeshed in everything you have going on, rushing from one responsibility to the next and barely remembering to breathe, because you have that much on your plate. In the next moment, everything is shattered, you’re broken and you can’t stop crying. I knew I […]

Did we ever really know what ‘normal’ life was? Every day was full of noise and chaos, and we sped through everything without taking most of it in. We became unconscious about our actions, reactions and the impact that we were making – on both people around us and our planet. It was hard to breathe, […]

We all have hopes and dreams that we want to accomplish, but life often gets in the way. Over time we lose our focus and mediocrity sets in. One way to stop mediocrity is to quickly reflect on your reactions or the outcome of a situation. Was it what you wanted? If not, ask yourself, “what […]