Archive for the ‘Personal Development’ Category

Resolutions You Can Actually Realise

Monday, January 23rd, 2012

Goal setting is a valuable way to plan for your future, its direction and your happiness. Planned effectively, goals give you a purpose and a target to work towards, helping you realise the life you truly want to lead. At the start of a new year, we often set resolutions on the spur of the moment with insufficient thought about what it is we want to achieve or how we will go about doing so.

Here are some great tips to help you set the realistic goals you truly want to achieve and motivate you to make them a reality. (more…)

Ambitions, Dreams, Desires: How To Achieve Them All

Monday, January 9th, 2012

Life as a busy mum can often feel mundane, monotonous, overwhelming and exhausting. Wouldn’t it be great if you could do something for you: something that will inspire, motivate and fulfil you? Well, you can! Life is what you make it and here are some great ways to help you achieve your deepest desires and lifelong goals. (more…)

2012: It’s Time For You To Sparkle

Monday, January 2nd, 2012

Do you have aspirations for a better life?
Do you wonder where the real you went when you became a mum?
Do you need to find time for you?
How would achieving your greatest goals change your life?

So many mums feel trapped by their situation and view their lives as a constant cycle of kids, work, washing, cleaning and errands. Life can seem monotonous, tedious and without focus. Isn’t it time you took control and did something for you that would give you immense fulfilment, satisfaction and pleasure? (more…)

Find Time For You In The Festive Chaos

Monday, December 12th, 2011

The combination of cold winter weather, rushing around preparing for the Christmas festivities and fulfilling the needs of those around you can affect your health and wellbeing. Here are some great ideas that will help you to wind down so you can thoroughly enjoy the Christmas holidays. (more…)

Congratulations: You’re Fabulous!

Monday, November 28th, 2011

Congratulate yourself for everything you have accomplished in 2011! If you’re unsure why you deserve such praise, read on! (more…)

8 Goal Setting Rules

Monday, November 14th, 2011

November’s issue of Empower documented the achievements of two of our fantastic mums and what they believed to be their biggest accomplishments of 2011. We encourage you all to reflect on the goals or resolutions you made for 2011 and how they have been realised. It is just as important now to look ahead and start planning your goals for 2012. This is especially significant if you feel stuck in a rut, without direction or a general unhappiness about your life. Create a plan to get your life back on track by identifying and planning ways to achieve lifelong goals. Here are eight rules of goal planning to help you focus on achieving your innermost aspirations. (more…)

Clutter Vs Cash

Monday, October 24th, 2011

As busy mums, it is likely you’ve little time to address the issue of clutter in your home. We’re not talking about the odd messy room that you are continually tidying, it’s all the ‘stuff’ you hoard on shelves, in wardrobes, in the garage or in your attic. Have you ever considered how much money you could make by selling off unwanted or unused possessions? (more…)

Tips, Tricks & Truth With Myleene Klass

Tuesday, October 4th, 2011


Tracey Wall With Myleene Klass

Tracey Wall With Myleene Klass

Myleene Klass has teamed up with Yahoo! Lifestyle to talk tips, tricks and the truth behind parenting myths. Following on from her Sunday Times best selling book ‘My Bump And Me’, Myleene has created Bumps, Babies & Beyond, a 48-part series of short videos that bring together the views and experiences of experts and mums. (more…)

The Guilty Life Of A Busy Mum

Monday, June 27th, 2011

No matter how hard mums try to do the right things for their families, guilt always creeps into the mindset and creates negative thoughts, insecurities and unhappiness. Guilt, for mums who are trying to juggle many responsibilities, such as work, home, school runs, support and time for other family members and friends, can be all consuming. (more…)

Clear your home and your mind!

Tuesday, June 14th, 2011

Clutter is caused by the need to justify wastefulness. It is a collection of possessions that no longer serve a purpose in our daily lives but seem to take up valuable space. More times than not we think only of the physical impact that clutter has on our space. But it is the emotional impact of the clutter that makes it almost unbearable to deal with. (more…)