Last weekend was a big deal for my family, a VERY big deal! Tessa, my niece was in her school production of Matilda and she played Matilda!! Once a year her school, Penrhos College, puts on a spectacular show and having seen quite a few of them over the years, I must say they really do rival what…
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Hard choices: easy life. Easy choices: hard life. I’m curious to know what you think when you hear this quote! I suspect you’re probably not thinking “Awesome Kate. Hard choices? Bring it ON because I just LOVE dealing with hard choices!!”. How great would it be if the quote said “Easy choices: easy life” instead? It’s…
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Everyone is talking about meditation these days. It feels like it is the not-so-new, latest thing. In fact, it’s been around for the last 5000 years so it’s not very new at all. At Headspace, they define meditation as both a practice rooted in ancient history and a topic of modern science – which is a great way…
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Even though we all grow up to become adults, at our core we are still the child we were all the way back when. In the world of psychology it has been said that we are 80 per cent formed by the time we reach eight years old – this includes our beliefs, values, self-esteem…
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Last night I watched a great program called Australian Story. It is broadcast on the ABC and is an “award winning documentary series with no narrator and no agendas”. It tells the stories of extraordinary Australians – both famous and not – and is always a fascinating watch. I hadn’t actually watched the show for quite some time but…
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Lately, I have really been dropping the ball. I have not been consistent with things in my life and business that I KNOW are good for me, Facebook lives, writing my blogs, exercising, going to bed at the time my body needs and so on. There is a part of me that thinks “Don’t worry…
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Tomorrow marks eight years since my Mum left the planet. After a vicious, yet brief fight with cancer she passed away on 19th April 2011. It is a day that will always be marked with a sense of sadness for me. It seems unbelievable to me that so much time has passed since then. On…
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Yes, I can hear the collective gasp from here! And I acknowledge that it’s a pretty bold statement. Yet I believe it to be completely true. Let me start by clarifying what I mean when I say selfishness. I don’t mean the “stuff everyone else, it’s all about me and what I want” type of selfishness.…
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“Get down get down – or I’ll blow your head off!!! Do what I say and you won’t get hurt!” That’s kind of how I imagine a hijacking situation to go. There is some crazed man (bit sexist I know, but the majority of hijackers are indeed men) wielding a gun, yelling threats, getting everyone…
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I was talking with my beautiful friend this morning about a work-related decision she made a few weeks ago. She was feeling torn. Even though the decision she made was 100% right for her and she was deep down really pleased with it, she was concerned what an ex-colleague would think. She went on to…
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