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You CAN change your circumstances!
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You CAN change your circumstances!

Feeling frustrated? Wondering when it gets to feel better, to feel easy, to feel fun?

Wondering when all this graft, and faith and patience and grit will come good, and you'll reap the rewards.

I want to you to hear today, you CAN change your circumstances, you can have your dream life and you absolutely should not give up and settle for 'good enough'.

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Are you guilty of falling into the ‘When I’ future trap? 🧐
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Are you guilty of falling into the ‘When I’ future trap? 🧐

Are you guilty of falling into the ‘When I’ future trap? 🧐

If this is you, you might say things like:

• When I’ve got X amount in the bank I’ll outsource that task I hate

• When things are a bit more stable I’ll book that holiday

• When I’ve lost a bit of weight I’ll buy new clothes

• I’ll make self-care a priority when things are less busy at work

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Mountains & mild peril – 5 business lessons from Striding Edge
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Mountains & mild peril – 5 business lessons from Striding Edge

Mountains & mild peril – 5 business lessons from Striding Edge

On Friday, for my 40th birthday, my husband Ant whisked me away to the Lakes to climb a snowy Helvellyn, via Striding Edge.

He thought I’d appreciate knowing ‘I’ve still got it’ at the age of 40.

If you don’t know it, Striding Edge is about 1 1/2 km of narrow Grade 1 scramble, with sheer drops either side into the valley below. On Friday it was covered in ice and snow.

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