How I moved through my fear
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Fear can hold us back from creating the life we want. Here I share a story about how I moved through a big fear that was preventing me taking the next step.
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My multiple 'career changes' (and how you can avoid this)
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It was 7 years ago that I first googled 'changing careers’.
I hadn't known what I wanted to do after University so I took a gap year, temping in Canada. It was a whirl. An adventure. And then 4 of my close friends got engaged and started getting mortgages and sending out wedding invitations and I took fright. I needed to get a proper job. Settle down. Stop messing around.
Read MoreHow to say no (with a suitcase)
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Image my own.
It makes it easier to part with possessions when you know that you have to carry them up four floors because the Italian apartment you’re staying in has no lift. I’d shed more since I arrived in Italy, giving away what I knew I didn’t need. Carrying books around for 3 months, on numerous train journeys does beg the internal question: How much do I really want these?
Read MoreHow giving stuff away helped me feel free
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Image by Jeff Sheldon
This time last year, whilst still in my job, I realised how much my home environment had an effect on how I felt. I lived in a beautiful, spacious flat in one of the most desirable areas of London, but my ‘stuff' was closing in on me.
Have you ever wanted to be Mary Poppins: just click your fingers and it all go away?
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