Health and Well-being Blog

  Do you take opportunities when they arise? During my life I have been offered lots of opportunities to learn develop myself. In my teens and twenties I turned a number of opportunities down. Why? Because of FEAR. Running away. Fear of commitment. Fear of responsibility.  When I came into my thirties, I began to wonder what had I done. I started to take think why had it happened and I took responsibility and went to college to develop the skills to allow me to gain confidence in the roles that I had been offered earlier in my life. Learning the skills would allow me to feel more confident if another opportunity arose. I became more confident, when using the skills in the workplace and that improvements began to happen in the workplace.  My learning continued to increase my skills in leadership and management and I eventually completed my level 5 in management. Feeling confident and happy with the skills that I were developing.  To allow me to continue to grow, I visualised having a me

  Change  This weeks been an interesting week and has been a lot about change. One thing about life is that the only thing that is constant in life is change.  How do you deal with change? For a long time I would struggle with change due to having FEAR of the unknown, not knowing how things where going to work out.  I now accept change and look for the silver lining. When your life changes and becomes challenging it is a time for growth to make us stronger.  You can choose to feel the overwhelm and FEAR of the change or you can accept it and decide how we are going to deal with the challenge.  Types of change There are two types of change: One that you are in control of and one that comes along and becomes a major challenge.  Being in control of change can be uncomfortable but when you take action and make decisions how you want your life to be, it can be exciting, liberating and leave you feeling fulfilled in life.   If you fail to take action and make changes to your life, we may exp

  How much do you value yourself or do others value you?   How much you value yourself can affect your life in so many ways. ·          It can affect how you behave while around others        I t can affect how others treat you. ·          It can affect how much money you believe you are worth.  Low Self Worth If you have a low self-worth around others, you may feel intimidated when in others presence, you will allow them to treat you in an unacceptable way this can be verbal, physical abuse. They may let you down due to work, services and other people so your left sitting around for them when they say that you are meeting. You can also struggle to ask for the value of money that you are worth, this may be in an employed role where you won’t go for promotion because you think you are not worthy or you won’t ask for a pay rise. If you are self-employed, you may struggle to charge a realistic price for your services and when this happens the people who use your services d

Expectations What are expectations? According to the Oxford dictionary  expectations are  a strong belief that something will happen or be the case.  Through your life, you will develop expectations of yourself, of others and situations in your life. Over the last few years, I have become very aware of how I place expectations on myself and on others. “If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.”  ― Sylvia Plath How do expectations affect my life? On myself, setting myself aims to do tasks, when I do this, I have to ask is the expectation of the result of the task I am doing realistic? Do I have the skills and resources to complete the task? Do I have the time to complete it? This as come in both my personal and business life. My personal life – it came about when I set myself the aim of improving my eating plan to allow me to become healthier, did I have the commitment to do it? Could I be consistent with the exercise, with the food I am eating. I have been