Category: personal development

Thank You Old Year. Hello New Year. Be Intentional.

The start of a new year. I can’t remember a new year where I didn’t feel excited. Like there was some freshness in the air. A chance to hit the reset button of my life, or at least the reset button of my feelings and emotions. A childlike feeling of excitement that momentarily forgets about the challenges or difficulties of the outgoing season. Something curious about the fact that everyone in this massive world community is pondering over this transition into a new year, all at around the same time, and being a part of that. A part of something so much bigger than ourselves. All of this creates a build up and so many different emotions.

Well, how do you approach this special transition? Do you talk about resolutions or goals? Do you use the language of becoming new or renewed? Do you dread this time of the year and simply ‘opt-out’? Perhaps you make promises to yourself about changes you would like to make in your life? Perhaps your excitement transitions into guilt 8 weeks later when you realise your life hasn’t really begun to change in the way you intended?

Hmmmmm……….

I’ll share what I tend to do. Feel free to try it out if you like the sound of it.

Look over your shoulder and smile

Well, I like to start with looking back. Looking back at the old outgoing year. I like to see on paper what my highlights were and what I enjoyed about the year. I also like to see what big events or challenges or hurdles I had to overcome. Successfully or not so successfully, and just acknowledge them, good or bad. An exciting trip, an admission to hospital, a friendship that withered away. A delicious meal, designing my book cover, the feelings of bodily peace. The times you caught a glimpse of your true authentic character unfiltered, and the laughter you had from a nourishing friendship.

I jot these down with pencil on paper, preferably in little circles or squiggly shapes like clouds, and just get it all down, out of my head. This is fun, and the larger the piece of paper the better. I do like using my journal, but I run out of space so I prefer to use a larger sketch type pad that I keep tucked away for big creative moments like this.

Or if you’re not much of a writer, you could try going for a walk while recording yourself on your phone, saying all your highlights out loud. I did both this year and it was really fun, especially as my thoughts were rolling out faster than I could write! So later on when writing, I could use the audio to check I hadn’t forgotten anything.

Give space for acknowledgement

Then when you’re quite done giving acknowledgement to the outgoing year, start the process again for what you would like to see happen in your life for the new year.

Hello new year! What’s occurring?

This should be fun! Remember, if there are things you are afraid to say because you think there’s no point in wishing for it, then write it down! Don’t hold back. Sometimes it takes writing something down to bring it to life, and really admit it to yourself. Because I’ve done this a few times, I now know that you want to be as specific as you can. Also give things a deadline, like a date for when you want something to happen or to start taking shape.

This starts to take you into the territory of writing goals, which isn’t really what this post is about, so more on that another time. But this process is all about bringing clarity and focus and deliberate intention to what is important for your life. It’s about taking the time to give breathing space to your thoughts and to what’s in your heart. To really bring it to life and help you make real authentic decisions about what direction to take next, to get to where you would really like to be.

I’d love to hear how you get on.

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4 Top Ways To Get A Flat Stomach

Drumroll please! A topic that many of us love to hate………. loving our bodies sure, but also thinking about keeping a flat stomach and tackling that belly fat! In this video I share some interesting ways to get a flat stomach including the role of soluble fibre, probiotics, plant protein shakes and water. All good stuff!

4 Ways To Get A Flat Stomach

For me, keeping my body in balance, in homeostasis, is a key indicator to keeping healthy and feeling well. What I love about these 4 top ways, is that they are also good and healthy habits to adopt consistently for a balanced diet and lifestyle. Let’s keep the conversation going.

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Why Would A Professional Start A Side Business At Home

Have you ever thought…. well why on earth would a professional start a side business at home? Like… don’t you have enough going on already? Well, you’re not alone for thinking that. Of course, professionals are hard-working, but for many, there is more month than money or just not much breathing space. For others, taking a look at a projection for your pension can be a painfully rude awakening if it’s less than you were expecting; perhaps a desire to create a holiday pot of money, something different or something just for you. It’s great to have choices.

In this video, I share a bit of my story as a professional who started a side business with tips and highlights for any other professionals considering starting something for themselves.

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3 Little Known Ways To Remove Toxins From Your Body

3 Little Known Ways To Remove Toxins From The Body

I think it’s more important now more than ever to develop our understanding of what toxins can do to our bodies, the disease caused when we can’t eliminate them from our bodies, and what we can do to maintain a healthier internal environment with more homeostasis, or balance. Here are a few tips to get you started that I have found helpful and am excited to share.

Help your body eliminate toxins with the power of lemon water, the alkalinity of Aloe Vera, and stop adding toxins to your body by using a deodorant without aluminium salts. I explain more in the video – small but very effective ways we can all start to get eliminate toxins from our bodies.

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Create A Weekly Plan You Can Be Proud Of

How do you prepare for the week ahead? It’s an easy step to overlook in the busyness of everything else, of the doing! Sometimes it feels like you can’t spare the time it takes to do the plan, as that in itself is time you could be spending on your business or living your life! I hear you. But there are good reasons to set aside time to get this done and you may surprise yourself by opening up a whole different side to you!

Here are a few ideas to get you going.

Create a weekly plan you can be proud of!

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5 Questions To Craft Your Life Vision

There are so many great webinars and learning materials out there on how to create your life vision. Maybe after this period many people are calling the ‘Great Reset’, you feel you have changed, or your life has changed, or perhaps you just have a fresh outlook on life. It may be a good time to look again.

What a great way to start framing your life vision with these questions taken from the amazing author and success coach Brendon Burchard. I love his work and his mission. I got excited about these questions and just had to share. Enjoy!

If you’re into journalling like me, you’ll find these questions a very rich source of introspection and helpful in discerning your way forward in life. I had a revealing experience, which actually was so rich that I had to take a break and come back to it a few times.

5 Questions To Craft Your Life Vision – by Brendon Burchard

What Vegan Foods Have Protein?

What no meat???

So I became a vegan in September 2020, and it’s been a great 5 months so far. I think my body has adjusted to a plant-based eating pattern without too many dramas, or longings for fish or seafood.

It has been interesting learning to re-educate myself as to what could be more go-to sources of protein now that fish, meat, chicken and eggs are off the table.

In this video I share my excitement at discovering that there is a plethora of protein sources in vegan friendly food.

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Are you a newbie vegan like me? More established on your vegan journey? I’d love to hear from you!

6 Signs You May Have Burnout

Have you been listening to your body?

Do you ever wonder whether your body is giving you all the signs and alarm bells but maybe you’ve not seen or heard them because you’re just not paying attention? You’re too busy?

Speaking for my fellow Entrepreneurs, I think it’s fair to say that in our quest to produce value and content for our audience and customers, in addition to our existing commitments, we’re not always the best at taking time out, or listening to our bodies and having some ‘non-work’ time to just stop, be still and switch off.

Would that be fair to say?

Sometimes we’re forced to stop and listen to our bodies due to illness, and then it’s like we have a valid reason to take some time off right?

Yeah, that used to be me. Waiting until my body forces me to stop before I do anything. Now I try to be more responsive to my body, but also making time for self-care. I am a work in progress!

On this video, I share ‘6 Signs You May Have Burnout’, as a way to start the conversation and get us all thinking what we can do ( or do less of) to avoid reaching that awful point of ‘Burnout’.

6 Signs You May Have Burnout www.tessafyffe.com

Do A Kicking Facebook Live in 4 Steps

So you’d like to start doing Facebook Live videos but don’t know where to start? Well this video is for you!

So you see other people doing Facebook Lives and would love to have a go, but you really have no idea what you’re doing? Well this video is for you!

Do A Kicking Facebook Live in 4 Easy Steps!

Check out my video blog to find out a simple structure for your Facebook Lives, so you can get started, build your confidence and start to get your message out there like a professional!