The Subconscious Expert: Mindset, Identity Work & Embodied Leadership for Ambitious Women

Self-Determination is freedom, being in complete and total control of your reality. With self-determination you are the ultimate authority in your own life, decided what your values and beliefs are, and then acting in total accordance with them. You make the rules to your own reality   Let’s Get Clear on Your Values What are your top 5 values in your life? Out of those 5 – what would be your NUMBE...

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you! - Dr. Seuss There is no other person in this world like you. You deserve to be loved not only by those around you but by the most important person in your life — YOU.  Practicing self-love can be challenging for many of us, especially in times when we face serious challenges. Self-love is so much more than tr...

Not only does it simply feel good to believe in yourself, self-belief also brings about other desirable benefits. You will be glad to know that no one is born without self-belief, all of our topics this week are LEARNT behaviours. How good is that! Self-belief has to do with how much a person believes in themselves. It encompasses the belief in your values, skills, knowledge, and abilities. Self-b...

Low self-esteem is unfortunately a self-fulling prophecy. The worse you feel about who you are and what you do, the less motivation you'll have to do what it takes to build your self-esteem. From there it's easy to spiral down into a cycle of negative and circular thinking, we end up creating a constant cycle of negative beliefs, not taking action, not seeing results which in turn proves our negat...

“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default ” — J.K. Rowling What if we lived in a world where we not only pushed past our FEAR of failure? What if we embraced it as a way of learning and developing ourselves? So, how can we get rid of this fear of failure, learn from our fai...

1. Recognise that impatience has arrived. This may not be easy at first. When things aren’t going our way (for example, we’re stuck in traffic), we tend to think that the cause of our impatience is external to us (outside of our control). But, of course, the cause is what’s going on in our own minds, that is, our response to whatever problem we’re facing. So start by setting the intention to watch...

There’s a certain stigma attached to selfish behaviour, but a new study suggests that putting your own needs before others needn’t be as bad as you first think… In the traditional sense of the word, there is a difference between being centred on yourself and being “selfish”. While many of us constantly reflect about ourselves and our position in the world, we aren’t typically ruthlessly going arou...

“Joy comes to us in moments – ordinary moments. We risk missing out on joy when we get too busy chasing down the extraordinary” – Brené Brown Firstly, write down your worries.  If an anxious thought or worry comes into your head during the day, make a brief note of it. Ask yourself how you could solve this worry and write three things you could do to solve it. Perhaps give yourself a deadline or a...

There is NO time like the present to EMBRACE CHANGE.  It has been a rocky start to 2020 with LOTS of change world wide.  Change is scary, whether it’s big or small it generally comes with uncertainty and a fear of the unknown. Even when change is exciting, there is generally some feeling of fear.  In today’s society, almost everyone is dealing with some form of change and probably on a daily basis...

“The grass is greener where you water it” My 4 ways to STOP comparison: TASK 1 : BECOME AWARE OF, AND WRITE DOWN YOUR TRIGGERS. Is the only time you start comparing your life to other people’s when you scroll through social media? I know it’s a massive issue for me, but not the only one.  There could be other circumstances in your life, for example, a certain person who constantly brags about this...

"It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you are not" – Dennis Waitley The definition of Imposter Syndrome is the persistent inability to believe that one's success is deserved or has been legitimately achieved as a result of one's own efforts or skills. We can definitely link imposter syndrome to other feelings of self-doubt – fear of success, fear of failure or self-sabotage...

'𝐄𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐰𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐫, 𝐰𝐞 𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐡, 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠.’ How often do you doubt yourself and your abilities? Does it hold you back from doing what you have always wanted to do? Often a lack of self-belief stops us from feeling confident in our abilities. Feeling less confident in turn, stops us from living the life we should. Self-confidence is not shallow. It’s a deep...