Is Your School Leaver Better Suited to Work, Study or a Gap Year?
Image: David & Allie/DeathToStockPhoto Helping your teenager make the big decision about what to do after graduating from high school means you are taking on yet another important role in their life. You’ve helped your child along the way and through many of those important childhood milestones to now helping them take their first steps into […]
Mother Guilt
Image: Allie Lehman/DeathStockPhoto Many of us come into motherhood with certain expectations of how a mother should be. Perhaps we’ve modelled this from our mothers or from the magazines, television and movies we saw growing up. Just as we grow into our role as a mother, and our child grows in our belly, we begin making […]
Say No With Confidence
Image: Movie 6/Death To Stock For generations, women have been programmed to be more accommodating and say yes whether we want to or not. We have demands made on our time, our finances, and energy. We feel a certain obligation to say yes because as women we want to be polite, nice, and helpful to […]
How To Start A Successful Home Business
Over the past few years, I’ve seen a growing trend in mothers longing to leave the corporate world and start a home business to create a better work-life balance for themselves. What’s the advantage of starting a home business? Besides spending more time with the family, running your own small business can be very […]
Finding Your Work Life Balance In 2015
Image: CanStockPhoto As a Life Balance Coach, I feel it’s important to walk the walk and talk the talk. It’s 2pm on a sunday afternoon, the sun is shining and I can hear the neighbour’s kids laughing, but I’m sitting at my desk typing to you. What do you think of me now? I’d understand […]
Work-Life Balance Wisdom For Working Mums
Image by PinkPig/CanStockPhoto Without a doubt, being a mum can be “the most rewarding” choice you will ever make, but it’s tough work. It’s because we do more in our roles than just mothering. We are chauffeurs, chefs, nurses, events co-ordinators, cleaners, finance officers, mediators, teachers, nutritionists, monster terminators, storytellers, and good friends. So to […]
Balancing Motherhood & The Entrepreneur (Guest Blogger Kym Mulcahy)
Image: CanStockPhoto I’ve always loved keeping my life full. I still do. Only now I am much more thoughtful and selective with what I fill it with. Before I had my baby my life was a never-ending chorus of “busy.” Insatiably social. Marvellously manic. Full and fabulously frantic. And I LOVED having it that way […]
Multitasking Madness In The Office
Image by CanStockPhoto A lot has changed in the last thirty years. I remember back in the 80’s when Madonna’s song, Material Girl highlighted excessive consumerism. Today, according to Seth Godin, we are living in an ADHD world where focusing on one task at a time is almost impossible. What doesn’t help is a lifestyle […]
Should I leave my job?
If you are in a job that sucks all the joy out of your day then chances are you can be feeling tired, demotivated and plain miserable. Hating your job can literally throw you off balance in terms of your health, relationships and wellbeing. When I work with clients looking to career transition, I invite […]
