What IS work/life balance and is it REALLY what we want? In today’s episode I am unpacking the concept of work/life balance and exploring the concept of work/life harmony as a natural and intentional way of living. I will unpack the five key pillars of work/life harmony and inspire you to begin thinking about how these pillars fit into your life too.

Key Takeaways

• How work/life harmony differs to work/life balance
• What the five key pillars of work/life harmony are
• Highlights
• How our roles as women has changed from previous generations & the implications of this
• How I nearly fell into the trap of wanting work/life balance
• The most DANGEROUS word we can use in our everyday lives
• How harmony differs to balance
• How being present...

Welcome to the very first episode of The Time Creator Podcast.

I am so excited that you're here, experiencing this journey with me. In this brief, introductory episode, you'll learn about the vision I have for the podcast as well as what to expect as a listener.

Key Takeaways

• What to expect from The Time Creator Podcast
• Inspiration to chase your big dream and make it a reality
• Highlights
• The excuses I had as to why I couldn’t launch this podcast
• Why I decided to just do it
• My big message for your big dreams
• Creating work/life harmony
• My mantra
• My journey thus far
• Does anyone ever nail time management and productivity?
• What you need to know about me
• Where to find me on Instagram to see behind the scenes & farm life

Links...

Did you know that there’s a little word that hangs around us all day long and waits for opportune moments to pounce on us and derail us from our true focus?

Yep.

Not only is this word opportunistic… it can also be really conflicting. In this episode, hear all about the one word that is causing us to live the least best version of ourselves.

Key Takeaways

• What the word is and why it’s so dangerous
• Highlights
• What the word is
• Is this word a voice of reason?
• How you get distracted and derailed by this word
• Four ways to stop should-ing all over ourselves

To celebrate International Women's Day 2019 I approached some of the most inspirational women in my life and network, to give their advice on how women can create their best lives.

I'm nobody important in the big, big world. In fact, I felt so small and insignificant in the grand scheme of things that I was almost too intimidated to reach out to some of the incredibly successful people on my wish list. My biggest fear was that they would not respond to me at all... and although some didn't, I feel so grateful and honoured that so many did take the time to respond and contribute their ideas to this important discussion. ... Every woman being empowered to create her best life.

Below are the tips and advice from these amazing women and role...

Ever feel like you’ve been busy all day yet nothing of true importance has ever been accomplished?

There’s always stuff to do and there’s always those random, incidental tasks that pop up every micro second that need our attention.

Or do they?

Not everything is urgent or important. Yet we tend to make life that way.

Here’s what I’m going to do. I’m going to create an analogy for you about a campfire. Aka your big dream. It’s your big goal. The big ambition. The thing you’re working towards.

Your end result is a raging campfire. One that you need to keep burning to keep you warm and enable you to cook and feed yourself. You need that fire to burn even if you’re away from the...

OMG I did something AMAZING! I wanted to tell you all about it #BecauseSharing...

Recently, my husband had a lady come to speak to his school staff about mental health and in particular, about how we will never complete all of the tasks on our to-do list.

Like, never. Ever. WTF? I know, it's kind of depressing to realise this.

Even though (deep down) we know this, we continue to beat ourselves up about never finishing 'all the things'. WHYYYY???

Do you know that 80% of the things we accomplish in our day, never existed on our to-do list in the first place? Yep! Crazy hey!!?? They're the things that we do incidentally, or opportunistically or sometimes urgently, due to timing, urgency or something going wrong.

So instead of working SOLELY...

There's been a lot of talk out there in my newsfeed and communities recently about PURPOSE.

People trying to find it. People trying to change it.

I’ve seen questions like:

• Do you know your purpose?
• Why don't you know your purpose?
• Is your purpose different to your why?
• Do you know your why?

These are all great questions. Even greater for the people who believe they have found their purpose or who can explain in detail what it is. They get up every morning and show up, make a difference and enjoy their lives. If someone asks them what their purpose is, then they can concisely tell it like it is.

But what about the people who don’t know what their purpose is? What about those people?

I fear that there are so many amazing...

To hear the updated content related to this blog, listen to my podcast episode! How to Say No with Confidence.

Life is tough as a people pleaser. Having to say no is one of the most unnatural things to do because at the heart of everything, we want to help and support others in our lives. Sometimes though, it's just not possible or realistic for us to do so.

Often we say yes to people out of obligation, fear of disappointing or simply because we feel we should. At times we let other people's agendas and priorities railroad our own just to avoid feeling these things. It's like we would rather say yes to someone else rather than to ourselves {#ouch} and let's be frank (because you know I love Frank) when we say yes to someone else when we...

Prior to having children, meal planning wasn't a thing. It worked really well for us to just decide what we were going to have for dinner on the day, at dinner time. If we felt like something in particular, it was quick and easy to just pop out and pick up a couple of things or just get take away delivered. If we didn't feel like dinner, we could just snack from the fridge.

Oh those were the days!

Two kids, a daily two hour commute for work and a move to the country later, we have found that without a meal plan, we can’t survive. Not only are we absolutely exhausted after work each day, the kids are too, and by the time we get to 6pm we need to be eating and getting ready for the bedtime routine. Without knowing ahead of time what...

For most women, running a business is quite a personal journey. We tend to apply strategies to our sales, marketing and communication that are very heart-centered and although we run our businesses to make money, we also run them because they light us up in some way. It gives us joy. It brings excitement and fulfilment beyond the dollars themselves.

We ride the highs. But when we fall, we fall hard. And to be honest, we are pretty hard on ourselves when that (inevitably) happens. There’s a lot of humility in falling hard. It’s bloody tough when we become disheartened in our business. Perhaps something hasn’t gone to plan or we didn’t succeed as gloriously as we thought we would at something. Feeling disheartened...