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5 Money Habits to Build Wealth in Your 30s and 40s Feb 28, 2024

Our habits create our reality.  What are habits though?

They are repeated behaviours that have engrained a neural pathway in our brains, so that we think the thought, or do the activity without being consciously aware of it.

Habits are a powerful tool to help us be more effective, and to live more...

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What We Pay Attention To Improves Feb 21, 2024

Have you ever noticed that where our attention goes gets the best results?  Be it our relationships, our health, our business, and our money!

Imagine if you ignored your friends, or your kids or your partner or your clients.  Those relationships would all deteriorate pretty quickly.

Your relations...

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Why Money Feels So Hard Feb 14, 2024

Money brings up all sorts of emotions in us - overwhelm, fear, shame, guilt, anger, confusion.

Wouldn't it be great if instead of these emotions, it make us feel - joy, excitement, determined, clear, confident.

How then, do you shift from one end of the scale to the other?

1. Challenging Your Bel...

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Life, Finances and Alcohol Feb 07, 2024

Alcohol is something that has varying degrees of impact in the lives of nearly all of us.  I met Emma Gilmour from Hope Rising through a mastermind group we are both in, and we instantly connected.  The work she does and the journey she has been on is incredible.  To find out more, you can listen to...

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How I Got from There to Here Jan 31, 2024

Time is something that passes, whether we like it or not.  Often, we are motivated to do something because of a trigger - something has happened to make us pay attention or take action.

A lot of what we do in life is pretty random, which makes time seem to pass faster.  Before we know it, 10 years ...

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In case you need to refocus already (like me) Jan 24, 2024

How is your 2024 going so far?

If you're like me, it started out smoothly enough, and then started to falter a bit.  Not because I wasn't clear on the things I wanted the year to bring, or what I needed to do.

I got sick, and my energy just disappeared.

I'm not used to not having energy.  Even wh...

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Plan for an Awesome 2024! Dec 20, 2023

The beginning of a new year is often when we make resolutions and plans for the year ahead.
Quite often these don’t survive the first month of the year, and there are a few reasons that could be the cause:

  • There are just too many resolutions and it’s overwhelming to keep track of them, let alone a
  • ...
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Money Mind Fuel Dec 06, 2023

While the words "Money Mind Fuel" might seem a bit abstract, the concept behind it is simple - do you give your mind the right fuel to make sure that your money mindset is helping you, rather than hindering you?

What do I mean by fuel you might be thinking?  Well, good thing you asked.  There are 5...

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Raising Your Money Energy Nov 29, 2023

Everything is energy.  Energy is neither good nor bad, it just "is".  The meaning we assign to the energy can be "positive" or "negative".  Money is very emotive, so the feelings we have are strong drivers for how money shows up in our life - personal and business.

Being "in flow" and at ease is so...

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Inspiring Holiday Reading Nov 22, 2023

Reading is something I love to do, and yet I don't get nearly as much time as I would like to do it.  I started off this year with a reading list, where I broke down how many pages I would need to read of each book to get through everything.

A slight snag - I kept finding out about and buying more ...

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Christmas Planning Ideas christmas money christmas planning Nov 15, 2023

Christmas is less than 6 weeks away, so now is the time to start thinking about what sort of Christmas you want to have, rather than it creeping up on you and the mad dash to the shops begins!

The main expenses at Christmas are:

  1. Presents
  2. Food.

Presents are nice, but very often they end up ju...

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Life Admin Hacks Nov 08, 2023

Being an adult can often feel just plain hard - especially as a woman, a mum and a business owner.  There is SO much to do.  Life Admin is also something we don't really acknowledge to the fullest extent of its impact.  

We realise there is housework, taking care of the kids, taking care of parents...

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