Vocational
They say that when we really love our job it doesn’t seem like work at all! Whilst we may not all be able to say we love jumping up every morning to go to work, it is important that we feel challenged, encouraged and supported in our chosen vocation. Having a career that is meaningful and rewarding provides many benefits from social engagement, to intellectual growth. Of course, it also helps us pay the bills and gain a sense of independence and financial security too!
Self-Care is Valuable for Being YOUR Best
Self-care is valuable, perhaps not for the reasons you have heard before. No doubt, the simple thought of reading something about self-care makes you squirm and switch off. Don’t go yet! I want to talk about something that is super important. What if I said that self-care matters EVEN more […]
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Why we leave the house without lunch (and how to lunch like a pro!)
Dear busy, big hearted professionals (I’m talking to YOU!), Do you ever leave the house without lunch? I’m not talking about the time you forgot it (that’s annoying too though!), I’m talking about that time when you stupidly decided there was time to make eggs, mushrooms and hash browns for […]
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5 Ways to Make Your Goals Irresistible
Ever had goal fatigue? Ever set some goals and not followed through? Here are 5 ways to make your goals irresistible. It’s time to get out of the failure repeat cycle and create some wins! 1. Keep it simple, stupid! (KISS) I know that when you read that you totally […]
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Why we get Goal Setting Fatigue (and How to Avoid it)
Prefer to listen? Check out my podcast… Have you ever had goal setting fatigue? That feeling you get when you set a new goal (or 6!) and then haven’t been able to complete it? Its frustrating. It can be totally discouraging. It can end with throwing the whole concept of […]
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Applying 2020 Vision for 2021 Goal Setting
Happy New Year! There have been a number of social media posts floating around over the past few weeks, all with the same sentiment: ‘New Year, new goals…how cliché.’ It seems many of us have goal setting fatigue. Many of us don’t want to do the ‘set new goals for […]
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Healthy Holiday Habits For Life
Let’s dig in and look at some simple strategies for creating healthy holiday habits that you can adopt for life. Living A Bespectacled Life is all about long term, positive change. This kind of change takes time, so you won’t find a magical solution or well marketed empty promise about […]
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What is a Bespectacled Life? Living on purpose…
In short: A Bespectacled Life is the act of putting on your life-spectacles and clearly seeing the next step forward to positive lasting change. It’s a call to live life on purpose… There are three main parts to living a bespectacled life: Living well across all domains of health: WHOLEistic […]
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Its time to put down our phones!
Prefer to listen? Check out my podcast on this topic (or find it in Apple Podcasts) I think its time we learned how to put down our phones. A friend shared a bunch of art on Facebook that really caught my attention. One image particularly stood out- it was a […]
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How to Choose the ONE RIGHT Career
Do you know what you want to be when you grow up? For me, when I think back to Secondary school, I can remember enjoying Business Studies the most of all my subjects. This lead me to consider studying something in that field. However, one of my class mates had […]
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Kia Ora from New Zealand!
As I sit here typing at the computer writing this blog, I am very aware of how long in has been between visits. 2017 has passed and with it, we have reflected on the many memories made. Memories of flooding, grieving, waiting for test results, sitting bedside family after major […]
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Part 4: Putting it all Together
If your curious but can’t be bothered reading all the blogs in this series, this is your blog! It sums the other three up nicely! So…I have been harping on about these three concepts (Body, Garden, God), and my blog is categorised into these three concepts also. You […]
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