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- [Lessons from Anger Management: The Strength of Commitment](https://rootedreinvention.com/anger-management-strength-of-commitment/) - I made a choice to help these people, to learn from them, but also to face my own anger in an open and safe space.
- [How to Improve Your Life Without Self-Discipline](https://rootedreinvention.com/self-discipline/) - Prioritising my time and energy between a sensible number of projects mixed with a strong motivation for the choice you’ve made is usually enough. No discipline required. Without the deep why, the solid foundation to hold us to our decisions, is often too hard.
- [Dealing with Criticisms: The New Year's Resolution](https://rootedreinvention.com/dealing-new-year-criticisms/) - I used to make New Year's Resolutions. Then I used to spend December reflecting and consolidating the year gone, ready to plan "thorough goals" for the new year. Then I stepped back, and chose a "Word for the Year" instead. Finally, I used a guiding word to 'theme' my goals for the year, broken into
- [4 Quick Fixes For When You Feel Completely On Edge | #47](https://rootedreinvention.com/47-on-edge/) - There are some things that we can control, and when we’re feeling super on edge, here are four tips to help manage the physical sensations. I made a download with the 4 sections which you can grab by signing up to my newsletter and downloading it from the Rooted Resource Library along with some other
- [How To Use Psychology for Life Project Success](https://rootedreinvention.com/how-to-succeed-life-project/) - For those who have taken a psychology class, you may have heard of something called “Miller’s Law” or just “the 7 (plus or minus 2) rule" about human nature. Today I'm going to apply this memory rule to those (big or little) life projects or self-development quests. Don’t worry if you hadn’t: I’d never heard
- [The Myth of Fresh Starts: How to Stay ‘On Track’](https://rootedreinvention.com/choice-fresh-starts-staying-on-track/) - There is a culture of wanting 'fresh starts', usually focusing on making new choices. Most of us have experienced ourselves, or someone we know saying "oh, well I'll start again tomorrow / next week / in the New Year" when that person has made a choice that does not fit in line with their overall
- [Happiness: The Truth about Self-help Tools](https://rootedreinvention.com/happiness-truth-training-tools/) - I began studying the psychology of my own experiences in 2004 with a book on Psycholinguistics and one on Neuro-Linguistic Programming. Since then, I’ve studied a bunch of qualifications, and have worked in social care, education, mental health and youth work fields. Yet, there are some ‘lessons’ you don’t fully comprehend until you’ve lived them.
- [Why Tracking your Progress is a Crucial Life-Skill](https://rootedreinvention.com/why-tracking-your-progress-is-a-crucial-life-skill/) - Progress in anything suggests that one of the key indicators of successful progression is tracking. Especially when looking at the number of day planners aimed at productivity or the neuroscience of habit formation. Almost like an obvious secret, having information on how things are going and what isn’t working is crucial to making the correct tweaks
- [Why Is Gratitude Such A Big Deal In The Self Help Realm?](https://rootedreinvention.com/why-is-gratitude-such-a-big-deal-in-self-help/) - When it comes to self development advice, we’re bombarded. One thread comments on the importance of setting actionable goals. Another strand emphasises the role of visualisation and acting ‘as if.’ A third route professes the strength behind gratitude and just letting things naturally form in their own way: finding the opportunities and just saying Yes.
- [Reflection on the Year: Part I](https://rootedreinvention.com/reflection-on-the-year-part-i/) - In 2011, I began picking a word of the year. I’d researched it in 2009, and picked one for 2010. It felt good to have a way to turn from goals to a reflection at the end of the months. But 2011 was when it all came together for me. This gave a new approach
- [The Truth about Progress: Lapses and Relapses](https://rootedreinvention.com/the-truth-about-progress-lapses-and-relapses/) - Although I no longer support people specifically with their mental health, one of the key lessons I picked up from teaching cognitive therapy tools was the differentiation between a Lapse and a Relapse; which is a concept that applies to any form of progress we're looking to make. Let's begin with some definitions. These are
- [How to Make Time out of Transitions](https://rootedreinvention.com/how-to-make-time-out-of-transitions/) - One of the most common obstacles I hear from reinventors, is that of not having enough time. Now, to some extent, there may be a truth to how much free-time your specific situation allows you. You may be a carer or have two jobs in between meals and sleep: often the only pauses to breathe are
- [Reflection on the Year: Part II - My Goals](https://rootedreinvention.com/reflection-on-the-year-part-ii-goals/) - I spoke last time about how 2019 reduced me to a soup. Now that we’ve got that out of the way, I want to talk about my reinvention for 2020. We’re two weeks in, and things are plodding along at a steady (and manageable!) pace. My 2020 Goals Plan Essentially, I have 3 'life projects’
- [How to Learn from the Cat's Mistakes](https://rootedreinvention.com/learn-from-mistakes/) - Last week, Smoke fell off the garden fence. As far as I can tell, having heard the scuffle and physically carried him inside, he fell on his leg/hip and was scratched in the face by the neighbour’s cat. Whether this was one of his balance mistakes or he had been cornered, we'll likely never know.
- [Works in Progress](https://rootedreinvention.com/wip/) - We’re all works in progress. I don’t believe we’re ever truly ‘done’ with growing, with inventing ourselves or evolving our personalities. I’m not very good at giving up, and I’ve spent decades reinventing myself. I believe it’s okay to have different sides of ourselves, different costumes. My business is no different. What began in 2011
- [Why Change Is So Damn Hard](https://rootedreinvention.com/why-change-is-so-damn-hard/) - When we want to make a change, we essentially want to ‘learn’ something. Learning is considered a “permanent change in behaviour which occurs as a function of experience.” But there is a force working against us. Nope, not aliens. Nor Nazis. Nope, no Jedis here… In the human body there is a state called
- [The One Reason you Should Commit to Taking Baby Steps](https://rootedreinvention.com/reason-why-commit-baby-steps/) - If you know me, you'll know a favourite mantra of mine is that 'baby steps add up'. I don't tend to succeed if I try to go for big shifts. Some people get a sense of momentum from big changes. Personally, they exhaust me. So if you've tried the new year's resolution, the big “right
- [How To Talk *With* Your Fear](https://rootedreinvention.com/how-to-talk-with-your-fear/) - From gestalt therapy to just our own experience of keeping a diary as a kid… We instinctively know that writing can be helpful, that it can unlock something.
- [Secret Weapon #1: Ready Your Armour](https://rootedreinvention.com/secret-weapon-1-ready-your-armour/) - So many reinventions are driven by a need for a fresh start, for being more adult, for a new, different, better self. But my proposition is that we keep our core style and then expand on it, instead of starting from scratch. Partly, this is because as a teenager / young adult I continually tried
- [Harness Your History: Broken Glass](https://rootedreinvention.com/broken-glass/) - Last week I walked into the bathroom, with its mottled brown tiled floor, and my foot just walked into an empty pint glass. My husband had left it just inside the door; either from finishing a drink or putting a spider out: I never did ask him… But my foot nudged it, and it fell.
- [Word for 2020 -- Steadfast](https://rootedreinvention.com/word-for-2020-steadfast/) - Back in September, my business coach Michelle asked me to define how I wanted to feel, how I want people to feel after working with me. We spoke for a while, I did some reflection, but the very first word I came up with on that call was "steadfast." I wasn't quite sure how I
- [Secret Weapon #2: Systemise Your Sights](https://rootedreinvention.com/secret-weapon-2-systemise-your-sights/) - Like many driven reinventors, I can’t focus on just one goal for a year or two; each of my goals is a strand I don’t intend to ever ‘finish’ just something to keep levelling up.
- [Being Damn Fine as a Work in Progress](https://rootedreinvention.com/damn-fine-work-progress/) - Delilah Dawson, whom I follow on twitter, had a set of tweets back in 2018 about being okay with emotional triggers and the thoughts which often follow them. On Being Okay She commented that when she is close to burnout, and does something which triggers her (certainly for me, triggers occur when I feel afraid,
- [What Is Enough? Permission to Change (Before We Hit Rock Bottom) | #46](https://rootedreinvention.com/46-enough-rock-bottom/) - June has been a hard month, and today I am asking ‘when is enough?’ I'm exploring why we can do the FODMAP diet to look for food intolerances but when it comes to our behaviour, we’re expected to only change things if everything is broken or at rock bottom - we need to have enough
- [Considering Our Emotional Responses | #37](https://rootedreinvention.com/37-emotional-responses/) - A month ago, my old best friend from my teens contacted me, and it’s been a grand month of reconnecting, learning who we both are now, over 15 years later, and reflecting on who we were and the paths we’ve taken. Since we were both teenagers back then, and have an interest in human psychology,
- [How We Define Brokenness Wrongly: The Pressure We Put On Ourselves | #56](https://rootedreinvention.com/56-pressure/) - My entire journey as a lifelong learner and soul searcher has been fuelled by feeling ‘broken’ and an innate pressure to try to 'fix' myself. Reading 'Untamed' by Glennon Doyle last year really hit me, and an article by Terri Cole a couple of months ago have been adding together in my brain as I
- [How To See Brokenness Through The Eyes of a Fearful Cat](https://rootedreinvention.com/fearful-cats/) - She said “It's so sad they're still fearful after all the love you've given them,” and I instantly shook my head. Because we all have a past, and it’s okay.
- [Secret Weapon #3: Consider Future You](https://rootedreinvention.com/secret-weapon-3-consider-future-you/) - As humans, we are somewhat separated from other animals by our ability to plan ahead, to use forward thinking. By the fact we understand the concept of the future. Yet, it's something we don't utilise enough. This is not a new idea. We worry, "what if X happens?" and "how will I make that work?"
- [Managing Overwhelm: It’s Not Everything At Once | #11](https://rootedreinvention.com/11-overwhelm-not-everything/) - Good Morning, Seekers. Today, I'm sharing a tool to help manage overwhelm that was shared by one of my life coaches, Leonie Dawson. She words it like this: “If ____ was out of the picture, how would you be feeling in your life right now?” I take this a step further and share how I've
- [Refuse To Be Categorised: An Interview with Leonie Dawson [Explicit] | #44](https://rootedreinvention.com/44-leonie-dawson-refuse-to-be-categorised/) - Today I’m interviewing the amazing, wondrous Leonie Dawson, complete with swearing. You have been warned! Want to see the unedited video of us chatting? Click Here. We spoke about: How we are animals (and zebras don’t base their worth on the width of their stripes) Leonie’s dad, a North Queensland sixth generation wild bushman cattle
- [Predicting Time: Excuses and Perception | #12](https://rootedreinvention.com/12-predicting-time/) - I can't believe it's November already. But here we are, trying to guess how long shit takes and predicting what's going to happen next. || PODCAST SUMMARY || We are told to reinvent ourselves by starting from scratch. But the roots of who you are already wait under the layers of ‘shoulds’ the world has given
- [Projects, NaNoWriMo, & Identity | #13](https://rootedreinvention.com/13-nanowrimo-2020/) - I can't believe it's November already. But here we are. Time for NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month. || PODCAST SUMMARY || We are told to reinvent ourselves by starting from scratch. But the roots of who you are already wait under the layers of ‘shoulds’ the world has given us. I said I wouldn’t do
- [When your To-Do List Achievements Make you Feel Guilty for Existing | #14](https://rootedreinvention.com/14-achievements-make-you-guilty/) - Welcome to another episode, where we look at fun things like feeling guilty for our very existence! ...Yeah, it's a fun one. || PODCAST SUMMARY || We are told to reinvent ourselves by starting from scratch. But the roots of who you are already wait under the layers of ‘shoulds’ the world has given us. #RambleAlert
- [Mental Energy As Currency | #22](https://rootedreinvention.com/22-currency/) - Note: Before I talk about energy as a currency, please note that this episode was recorded before last week’s events in the USA, and I want to acknowledge that this is not the first fortnight of 2021 most of us hoped for. This episode covers having multiple reasons “why” for a change, and how this
- [Why We Are All Creative (Without Trying To Be) | #24](https://rootedreinvention.com/24-creative/) - It’s okay to not be creative right now. And it’s okay to be upset about your lost creativity. Today, I’m discussing the frustration of not having our natural creativity, due to the high levels of stress we are under in this pandemic, even for those of us who have not personally been affected by the
- [Fighting the Achievement Expectation and Finding Delight | #28](https://rootedreinvention.com/28-fighting-achievement/) - The most common evidence-based treatment for low mood and low motivation focuses on refocusing on achievements. As a somewhat-perfectionist who grew up in an environment where academic and ‘on-paper’ achievements were highly valued, this treatment was not the right one for me, long-term. In the last few months I’ve been exploring ‘delight’, 'play’, and ‘joy’
- [Managing the Millennial Experience of Identity (A Mini-Rant) | #35](https://rootedreinvention.com/35-millennial-experience/) - As the 35th Episode of this podcast, I rant about how, as a millennial, many of us don’t have the luxury of a stable sense of identity. Ember’s bell can be heard throughout the beginning half and I decided to just share the rant as it is – high speed cat chases and all. We
- [3 Ways to Handle Emotional Whirlwinds | #39](https://rootedreinvention.com/39-emotional-whirlwinds/) - I’m not 100% well this week, and I've spent a lot of my free time being tossed around various whirlwinds. Today I’m in an angry spin about the political landscape in the UK right now. So today, let’s explore how to handle an emotional whirlwind in the moment, and my 3 main strategies for looking
- [Questions to Ask about Integrity When you’re Struggling | #40](https://rootedreinvention.com/40-integrity/) - This week I’m exploring ‘integrity’ and how this value can help us understand our decisions and how experimenting with tiny acts of integrity can aid us in living from our rooted self. || LINKS MENTIONED|| – Tiffany Han – Not sure where to start? Check out my Everything list. – Pulled to reinvent who you are but don’t
- [Truth vs Perceptions: We Don’t Always Achieve What We Expect To | #42](https://rootedreinvention.com/42-achieving-perceptions/) - I had so many plans for this weekend, to achieve everything, and of getting my to-do list done. I did all the “correct things” and yet, I didn’t even begin a lot of them. We’re officially now in June – 5 months into 2021, and it’s okay if you’re not where you expected yourself to
- [How Crafting Systems Helps With Our Mental Energy | #03](https://rootedreinvention.com/03-crafting-systems/) - Crafting systems which work for you
- [Stressful Day? Consider Tiny Gains | #06](https://rootedreinvention.com/06-tiny-gains/) - Happy Tuesday! In today's episode, I talk you through how I manage stress on long and tiring days; with a few mini habits to shift things towards the neutral / positive again. I'd had a long day. I could feel the anxiety under my skin, and I knew I had to do something. Time to
- [The Power of Asking What Works for You | #07](https://rootedreinvention.com/07-asking-what-works/) - Most self-help tools focus on teaching new concepts and skills, but half of the difficulty with reinvention of not understanding what we already know and do. Knowing that eating chocolate does this to my brain would enable me to make informed decisions.
- [Recognising Your Progress in the Spiral | #08](https://rootedreinvention.com/08-spiral/) - Welcome to the spiral, where things are not always as they seem... In today's episode, I talk about the 'spiral' and how I frame those times when we're having a bit of a down time, a lapse in our progress or feel we're back to 'square-one.' || PODCAST SUMMARY || We are told to reinvent
- [Looking for Mind Hacks? Half-Arse It! | #09](https://rootedreinvention.com/09-hacks/) - Happy Tuesday! This month seems to be moving a bit faster forward that September did, but that's fine with me. Either way, it's time to share one of my favourite hacks for getting things done. In today's episode, I began trying to debunk myths about the "right" way to change your habits or improve your
- [The Myth of “The Right Path is Easy” | #02](https://rootedreinvention.com/02-right-path/) - Hai there. Welcome back to the Rooted Reinvention podcast, where we're looking at the myth of there being one true, right path for this journey through life! || PODCAST SUMMARY || Today's episode focuses on being curious about what we've been subconsciously taught can help us make progress despite our own sense of resistance
- [On Obligations and Picking Priorities | #15](https://rootedreinvention.com/15-obligations-priorities/) - Welcome to today's episode. How did we even get here? Today I'm discussing how to focus on priorities and choosing between our various responsibilities and obligations, as well as what makes this so difficult to do. || PODCAST SUMMARY || We are told to reinvent ourselves by starting from scratch. But the roots of who
- [The Truth about Resistance (NaNoWriMo) | #16](https://rootedreinvention.com/16-nanowrimo-resistance/) - With one month left of 2020, and I find myself pondering creativity, resistance, national novel writing month, and my pressure to ‘complete’ achievements. Sorry if you don’t care about creative writing, I talk about it a lot today! Nanowrimo has taught me about resistance every single year. || LINKS MENTIONED|| -Want my free emails on
- [Reinventing Your Perspective With Your Focus | #17](https://rootedreinvention.com/17-perspective-narrative-crafting/) - We made it to the second week of December. Well done us. I’m sharing a technique around ‘Narrative Crafting’ as reinvention is often internal, and in hindsight, this is us choosing where we focus our attention, and the impact of doing this on our lives. I also talk about my “yellow moment” exercise and how
- [Habits are Habitual: What to do for Successful Resolutions | #18](https://rootedreinvention.com/18-habitual-habits/) - Self help and productivity advice focuses a lot on making our thoughts and actions habitual. I have a real issue with the 21-days-to-change-a-habit myth and I talk about that today, along with the first 3 steps to creating resolutions for 2021 that actually work for you, and will help avoid overwhelm and that grand sense
- [On Planning and Envisioning for the New Year | #19](https://rootedreinvention.com/19-envisioning/) - It turns out envisioning is a real word. Who knew? As we reach toward the end of the year, I talk about the importance of (and touch on some of the science around) crafting a life vision and designing how you’d like your life to be to boost your sense of clear direction and motivation.
- [Feeling Agitated? It’s Okay To Let Your Dragon Out | #10](https://rootedreinvention.com/10-feeling-agitated/) - We are ten episodes in. Hai. Double digits. In this week's episode, I get agitated about how anger is treated... Beginning with a chat about how we are taught not to be angry and the issues with this, and ending with three 'getting started' tips for moving anger forward (and out of your body). || PODCAST
- [Sometimes The Struggle Is The Process | #20](https://rootedreinvention.com/20-struggle-process/) - It's the final episode of 2020. And I'm focusing on what things feel hard, how much we struggle as humans, when the path feels 'wrong' and when we don't know if this is the 'right' decision. || LINKS MENTIONED|| -Want my free emails on reinventing your 2021? -Episode 16 - The Truth about Resistance (NaNoWriMo)
- [My Word of the Year for 2021 | #21](https://rootedreinvention.com/my-word-of-the-year-for-2021-21/) - This week, Ember and I explore my experience of setting a word-of-the-year (sometimes shortened to WOTY) since 2009, and Ember even shares her word of the year out loud during the episode. I list a few ways I'll be using my word to shape specific goals and invite you to share your words with me
- [How to Manage What If Thoughts (What If I Mess It Up?) | #23](https://rootedreinvention.com/23-what-if/) - Today we look at “what if?” anxiety thoughts, focusing on those “is this what I want?” and “what if I fail?” questions. We ask more questions but also look at how to consider failures as being part of the road to success. || LINKS MENTIONED|| - The Super Mario Effect - Tricking Your Brain into
- [The Third Way: Goodbye Either/Or, Hello “And” | #26](https://rootedreinvention.com/26-third-way/) - Welcome to the myth of either/or. There is a third way. It’s not that other things need 100% of our time and energy or we shut them out – it may be a 45-second hug, offering 5 minutes to see what your children want to show you, and then they move on and you move
- [Experiments in Daily Living – My February Routine | #27](https://rootedreinvention.com/27-experiment-routines/) - We’re 6 weeks into 2021. This is the time we fall back into an old routine rather than whatever goals we often set for ourselves in January. it’s important not to ignore the impact of the past 12 months on how we experience things (and how this may affect our perceptions moving forward too). I
- [The Importance of Learning for Fun (& 2 Lessons I Learnt) | #29](https://rootedreinvention.com/29-learning-fun/) - I mentioned last week that I’ve been exploring my wild delight, that natural sense of joy… and that one of the things I explored was SkilllShare. I took an art class on there and found myself joining the dots for using those lessons for things outside of just art: including learning how to colour in
- [Saying Yes and Saying No Are Kind Of The Same | #30](https://rootedreinvention.com/30-yes-and-no/) - I view energy like a battery being charged and drained. One of the first steps in my free roadmap is actually to consider how your energy levels change throughout the day. I had the idea of starting a community forum space a decade ago, and it’s taken a bit of to and fro before I
- [Courage, Comfort Zones, & Mixed Feelings | #33](https://rootedreinvention.com/33-comfort-zones/) - Here in the UK, lockdown is beginning to ease, and it’s raising some thoughts about comfort, courage, and anxieties. Beyond that, about how it is to be human, and to have mixed emotions about our life. || LINKS MENTIONED|| - Not sure where to start? Check out my Everything list. - Struggle to finish your projects and know
- [Humans Aren’t Meant to Find Life ‘Easy’ | #34](https://rootedreinvention.com/34-find-life-easy/) - We’ve had storytelling in our DNA for millennia, and there are some key teachings I want to discuss today. There is a core truth that life is difficult but worth it. It’s not meant to be easy. || LINKS MENTIONED|| - The Video Game Lessons Inspiration Image - Want my free tips on reinventing yourself
- [What Pavlov’s Dogs Can Teach Us About The NLP Power of 'Anchoring' | #43](https://rootedreinvention.com/43-nlp-anchoring/) - You may have heard of Pavlov’s Dog Experiment, and this tells us about how the brain works. It also explains the concept of 'anchoring.' I discovered Neuro Linguistic Programming as a child and apparently I’ve been accidentally using this technique for decades. Today I share how you can use this superpower of the mind-body connection.
- [How Pausing Helps When We Don't Have the Right Answer | #45](https://rootedreinvention.com/45-pausing-right-answer/) - This month has been a difficult one in my life, and thus today I’ve got a short episode about the importance of pausing. This may look like taking a break, caring for our seeds as they grow roots under the surface, and a reminder that things feeling uncomfortable are a sign you’re growing as a
- [The One Question To Ask When Making a Life Change | #48](https://rootedreinvention.com/48-magic-question/) - We're all looking for that one question to ask that will solve all of life's problems, right? One of the techniques I’m trained in is called the Solution-Focused Approach, and has a bunch of questions designed to help us see the possibilities and potential ahead depending on our choices now. There are 3 basic questions
- [Stop Panicking! How to Handle Anxiety in the Moment | #53](https://rootedreinvention.com/53-stop-panicking/) - Last night Ember didn’t come home, and I found myself going down the unwanted paths of ‘what if something bad has happened’ in my mind. Panicking and feelings of anxiety can really take over when we're in that moment, but there are things we can do to manage those experiences. This became a ‘part
- [Silent To-Do Lists Are Stealing Our Energy and Time | #51](https://rootedreinvention.com/51-silent-todos/) - The ‘silent’ to-do list items are often unconscious and thus hard to manage, or notice the true influence of. Here’s my take on it, with a few tips to consider. || LINKS MENTIONED|| – The Minimal Mom Youtube Video – Finishing Projects (for those who start everything) Ecourse (£49) – How to Train Your Brain
- [Why Our Motivation to Change is Missing Willingness | #55](https://rootedreinvention.com/55-motivation-willingness/) - I’ve been really diving into ACT theories this month, and one aspect that really got me reflecting on my work as a life coach and wellbeing practitioner is that of being willing to go through the sucky parts of life to reach the more aligned sections. Today, that’s what we dive into. || LINKS MENTIONED||
- [Introducing The Podcast - Personal Reinvention with Roots | #01](https://rootedreinvention.com/01-reinvention-podcast/) - Hai there. Welcome to the Rooted Reinvention podcast! || PODCAST SUMMARY || In this intro episode you'll hear Katy-Rose talk about what a Rooted Reinvention is, why it matters, and introduce a little science of motivation to begin the journey. || SHOW NOTES || Free Guide to Reinventing your Path You Need To Stop Silencing
- [Lessons in Being a Scientist from CBT | #04](https://rootedreinvention.com/04-being-a-cbt-scientist/) - Happy Tuesday! Episode 4 is here with a tip for managing 'failure' by redefining our perception of who we are & what is 'useful.' || PODCAST SUMMARY || We are told to reinvent ourselves by starting from scratch. But the roots of who you are already wait under the layers of ‘shoulds’ the world has
- [You Don't Want a “New You” | #05](https://rootedreinvention.com/05-want-new-you/) - Happy Tuesday! In today's episode, I talk about the myth of wanting a "new you" including my thoughts on how to reinvent yourself without that Eat-Pray-Love approach. We not only take this common theory and question it, but provide some alternative ideas for managing personal development too. We are told all kinds of things, but
- [Burnout: Pacing in The Boom and Bust Cycle | #25](https://rootedreinvention.com/25-burnout-pacing/) - Inspired by the experience of a friend setting herself up to make a lot of different changes all at one time, I talk today about transitions and pacing yourself, including New Year’s Resolutions, and how to avoid Burnout when setting new goals for ourselves. || LINKS MENTIONED|| - Free Self Care Checklist Download - 5
- [Life is Allowed to be Hard, Without Being “Wrong” | #31](https://rootedreinvention.com/31-life-is-hard/) - Life is not easy, and it’s not meant to be. And sometimes the best person to help is someone climbing their own mountain. We all have a narrator inside our heads, we all get stuck in inertia, and we all have hard feelings. You don’t need to like it, to change it, or to pressure
- [The Problem With 'I'll Be Ready When' | #32](https://rootedreinvention.com/32-ready-when/) - I spoke with someone this weekend about the pull of “I’m not ready yet” and how we block ourselves off from progress by saying to ourselves “I’ll be ready when X happens.” I explore this pull and where it comes from, and also how it doesn’t serve us… as well as what I do to
- [Our Inner Stories: Knowledge Alone is Not Enough | #36](https://rootedreinvention.com/36-knowledge/) - Our experiences are neutral; it’s the stories we tell about them which causes us to feel positively or negatively toward them. I share a few tips from a book I recently read, and talk about despite being an ‘expert’ in some aspects ( according to some people), I’m still human, and knowing the right thing
- [Experimenting with Perfectionism & Productivity | #38](https://rootedreinvention.com/38-experimenting/) - Happy May. April was a month of experimenting around my productivity and perfectionism, and I must say I was surprised with my results, and let’s just say, I have no idea what I’ll be doing in May. If you’ve ever wondered what reflecting on an experiment is like “in real life” this is at least
- [How To Finish All Your Life Projects Using Psychology | #41](https://rootedreinvention.com/41-finish-projects/) - I’ve had 3 separate conversations about how I manage my ‘life-projects’ and having all the different interests I do. Today, I share one of the foundations to my success: the rule of “7.” If you want to know more about Miller’s Law, my Finish What You Start (For Once) ecourse, or how you can reinvent
- [How to Craft a Life Balance that Makes Damn Sense | #49](https://rootedreinvention.com/49-life-balance/) - Life Balance is one of those highly-valued aspects some people claim doesn’t even exist. After all, how is it even possible to ‘balance’ everything? Food, work, sleep, play, health, family, friends, creative pursuits and that pull of that potential best self… It’s overwhelming. The word ‘balance’ itself doesn’t just refer to things which are
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