The benefits of living life ‘in the moment’

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Coach Cathy Dean, Managing Director of Colour In Your Thinking, explains why is it is so important to pay full attention to the here and now. I used to be someone who could never live in the moment. Wherever I was, whatever I was doing, I would always have at least half my mind somewhere else, thinking about [...]

Look after yourself & rediscover your mojo!

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Need to take control of your diet, health & fitness levels? Mum of 2 Wendy Powell is the founder of No More Excuses and creator of the MuTu System, the revolutionary approach to tackling your mummy tummy. Here she shares her tips for rediscovering your mojo simply by looking after number one! I blogged recently on [...]

How being ‘Life Curious’ can lead to fulfilment & success

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At MTB we are big fans of Psychologies magazine, and so we were very interested to hear that they have teamed up with Dr Todd Kashdan to reveal that living a curious life could be the secret to life fulfilment and success. Psychologies has also revealed that curiosity is a trait that as adults we often [...]

Freebie Friday – Win a Bachs Emotional Eating Kit

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For this weeks Freebie Friday we have teamed up with Nelsons, the UK’s leading manufacturer of natural healthcare products, to give away 10 of their NEW Bach Emotional Eating Kits. The Bach Emotional Eating Kit is a set of three 10ml flower essences to give a helping hand with diet and healthy living regimes. It is the first [...]

Top Tips for a Good Nights Sleep

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When you become a parent your relationship with sleep changes for ever. Add to the mix the added stress of running a business around a family, and it can be all too easy to end up burning the candle at both ends, and sacrificing sleep in favour of ticking off a neverending To Do list. [...]

Too Many Balls

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No, this is not, as you might think, a post moaning about the World Cup and all the football on TV at the moment. It’s about all the metaphorical ‘balls’ we try and keep in the air at any one time – kids, home, business, family, friends and ourselves. Nor is this a post that [...]

Thought for Thursday #15

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Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away Anon Tweet This Post

Thought for Thursday #14

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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. Mark Twain Tweet This Post

“It’s all about YOU!” Daily Challenge

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This week we are setting you a Daily Challenge – to spend ½ hour every day doing something you enjoy and which relaxes you.  Schedule it in if you need to and add it to your To Do list. Just make sure you do something that isn’t about the home, the business or your family – [...]

Thought for Thursday #13

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Courage does not always roar. Sometimes, it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow”. Maryanne Radanbacher Tweet This Post

Thought for Thursday #12

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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. [...]

Thought for Thursday #11

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If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.  Mary Engelbreit Tweet This Post

Thought for Thursday #10

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Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves, to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today. Stewart B. Johnson Tweet This Post

Thought for Thursday #9

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“You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being – not because anybody says so, not because you’re successful, not because you make a lot of money — but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason.”   Wayne Dyer Tweet This Post

Thought for Thursday #8

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The word “impossible”   is black. “I can” is like   a flame of gold. Catherine Cookson (1906-1998) from Plainer Still Tweet This Post

Thought for Thursday #7

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“….if a window opens and the prospect pleases, float through it; that window may never open again.” Mirabel Osler from ‘In The Eye of the Garden’ Tweet This Post