Category: emotions
7 Reasons to Be Vulnerable
Have you ever felt really, really vulnerable in life? It’s an intimidating feeling right? What did you do when you experienced those feelings of vulnerability? Did you own them, or did you wrap them up in a façade of fake optimism? How many times have you said ‘I’m fine!”, when really deep down all you [...]
5 Ways to Reduce Anger
Most people experience anger in some shape or form from time to time. For some, it’s an explosive outburst and for others it’s more of an inward compression of negativity. However you personally express anger, be aware that it is doing you some harm and you would be better off without it. Today I’m going [...]
25 Simple Life Strategies for an Amazing 2013
HAPPY NEW YEAR readers! I hope as you’re reading this post you are looking forward to 2013 with anticipation, excitement and wonder at what might lie ahead. I certainly am. This year over 35,000 people have visited Simple Life Strategies and I’m super grateful to each and every one of you who has spent a [...]
How to Enjoy ‘Me Time’ Without Feeling Guilty
Recently one of my readers Kath, asked this question: “I was hoping for an insight in how to make personal time a priority without feeling guilty. I find family, work and starting up my own business eats all my waking hours and with an equally busy partner asking for “me” seems so hard!”. Great question [...]
How to be FEARLESS | Simple Life Strategy
All great people are fearless. Is it something they’re born with? Is it that they’re just not afraid of anything? Is it that they’re perfect and therefore have nothing to fear? Or is it that they have a better understanding of fear than most, and know how to deal with it? In my opinion – [...]
The Most Important Conversation You Will Ever Have | Simple Life Strategy
I’ve spent the best part of a decade researching the most effective, successful and happiest people on the planet and one of the most important themes that has cropped up time and time again is this: The importance of how you talk to yourself inside your own head I’ll put it another way – the [...]
How To Overcome Fear In One Step | Simple Life Strategy
“The only thing we have to fear is fear its-self” Franklin D Roosevelt Have feelings of fear ever stopped you from getting what you want? If the answer is yes then you’re not alone. Fear is one of the most common emotions that stops people from achieving their goals and keeps them working from a [...]
7 Tips To Avoid Bad Luck | Simple Life Strategy
When I was 24 I arrived in Australia looking for a job in Advertising. My intention was to migrate here for at least a few years. I had a one-way ticket. I had exactly 1 year’s experience and no visa. That’s right – I had already used up my working holiday visa when backpacking. This [...]
Taking Yourself Too Seriously? Lighten Up!
Yesterday I had one of those days where I took myself too seriously. No matter which way I turned, a challenge came hurtling at me from every direction. And I failed to see the funny side. And then out of nowhere, my fello kitty-loving friend Kat – sent me a website which helped me to [...]
In A Bad Mood? Interrupt It…| Simple Life Strategy
The other week I was in a bad mood and feeling a bit grumpy. So I dragged myself out of the house for a potter around Bondi. I knew I needed something, a change of scenery perhaps to pull me out of my mood. The thing was, I had no real reason to be grumpy. [...]
