Category: Confidence
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How to have a difficult conversation without becoming a waffling mess
The lovely Ms Sheri Bomb requested I expand on the “How to have a Direct Conversation” post by talking about how to approach difficult or scary conversations to avoid turning into a waffling, babbling mess. Good question Sheri, good question! And a tricky one to answer because there are SO many variations of that kind of…
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Is bossy REALLY a dirty word?
Lots of conversation at the moment for a push to stop calling girls bossy. Beyoncé, the Scouts, everyone throwing their weight behind it. It’s a conversation I’ve had with my cousin Kylie actually. Her daughter, very similar to my niece Arleigh, is bossy. As in articulate, asks for what she wants and will continue to…
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How I learnt to cut my losses and move on
This week brought some unexpected changes in life. Changes that will see me once again taking the opportunity to work from home and blog. All. The. Time. Exciting news but when it came down to it, the entire process left that bittersweet after taste in my mouth. I hadn’t been ready and I had no…
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5 ways you can have it all in life
Most of us have given into the idea that we can’t really have it all at the same time. I’m okay with that to a certain degree but if you want to cram as much into your life as you can, do more for and with people, achieve your dreams, live well, exercise, entertain and…
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How to go slow to go fast {Confident You}
You know those days when you have a million things to do so you start rushing around then spill your breakfast on your shirt so have to rush to change and in the rush you snag your stockings or kick your toe and have to deal with that. It’s a rush, a panic, it’s…
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How to have a direct conversation {Confident You}
I like direct conversations. Ones that don’t mess around, get to the point and if there’s a request to make it gets made sooner rather than later. This post occurred to me as a good idea after writing one of the emails for the daily subscribers of the Living the Sweet Life Daily. Telling someone…
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That feeling you get
There’s this feeling you get when you finish a great workout with people you enjoy spending time with and the afternoon is bathed in this delicious warm light. It’s pretty special. It’s sort of tingly exhaustion that takes over your whole body. And yesterday, after much laughing and exercising, I had that feeling. I think…
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Compliments are weird.
Who doesn’t love compliments, right!? I do. I love when people compliment my style, my blog and me. All good. I love it. I joke often with wailing, needy tones to those who love me “love me, praise and validate meeeee”. And I’m only half kidding. Compliments make me happy and I try to give…
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Watch out that you don’t become too busy to have a life!
Oh, so you’re busy huh? Reeeeeally busy. I hear you. I worry when I hear people put busy before life. I worry for me when I make excuses for not keeping up with my commitments because I’m busy. Busy is one of those vague ideas of something. It really doesn’t exist. Busy is a lie,…
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Confident You: Body confidence, how do you do that?
It’s a tricky thing, writing this without sounding boastful or conceited or whatever the correct version of that is. So let’s just say for argument’s sake I’m not any of those things and I’m trying to help. Then we can move on and I can stop pussyfooting around it being awkward and say what there…
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