Hey guys love you to have a listen at my latest guest podcast with How to Rewrite your stars Carla is an inspirational, motivational speaker and author on all things Happiness. Carla has been spreading her message around the world that 'Happiness is a Conscious Choice', and we can all 'Say Yes to Life'. She helps to empower people to live with purpose, smile every day, and amplify their happiness, joy, and abundance with everyone they encounter. Carla wants to help you claim

Time with Yourself.. So now we've really started diving in and you should have discovered what really makes you smile and fills your joy tank and what makes your happy hormones jump with glee. You should have also built up some awareness of what is not bringing you joy, resulting in the dimming of your light. This is the pleasurable and fun part. This is where we get to dive into being the master, the manager and director of your day. Looking at scheduling our daily routine s

Can we just let go, learn to accept ourselves, and others for who we are? A little affirmation that I like to often say, when doing the above exercises is: I accept and release all judgements I have made on myself or _____________________ Instead, I choose to act with love, kindness and compassion. Thank You. #love #abundance #joy #happiness #laughter #fun #sayyestolife #smile #findyourhappy

Make a list of the people who you would like to forgive, love and let go. This often is also ourselves. Often the biggest obstacles holding us back from forging forward in our lives is forgiving the people from our past. The ex-boyfriends, school friends, teachers, parents, who may have hurt us along our path. I’m not religious but I do love some of the messages in the bible especially this one on forgiveness. You, Lord, are forgiving and good, abounding in love to all who ca

Make a list of the expectations that you feel, you and others may have placed on you. I felt for a long time that so many of my family members expected me to meet a partner, get married and have a baby. No judgement to anyone that has done this but it's like we perceive this as the normal thing to do. It just at the time didn't feel like that was the path or journey for me. It didn’t feel right. Deep in my heart I wanted to travel, work and get to know myself, as I felt lost

The way I like to approach being hurt by another is by practicing crystal clear communication, being open and honest, expressing how I feel. ‘Hey you know Sally. I really do not like the way that you did not return my call last night, I felt a bit rejected and hurt. I understand you must have forgotten. I just wanted to let you know how it made me feel.’ This method allows an open conversation and for both parties to share views and then fingers crossed moving on from the sit

We have to somehow learn to trust in the universe, trust in ourselves and believe that everything turns out for the best. Trust in the process because we cannot control everything. Yes, most of us are control freaks, me included, but we just can’t control everything. No one likes surrounding themselves in the company of a control freak. When you think about a person that has attributes, qualities and values in their personality that you are drawn, attracted and charmed by and

What does letting go even mean? Are you the person that runs around with so much baggage and burdens? Things that you are still holding on to from what happened to you as a child, or what your ex-partner said? Possibly holding onto the fact that maybe you did not get invited to your friend’s wedding. Do you hold onto memories of the past so heavily that they start to weigh you down and you find yourself thinking about these circumstances and stories on repeat throughout your

I challenge you to go through your diary, what could you eradicate out of your schedule so that you are not so busy, because believe me busy is boring. Exercise Quiz for busyness. When people ask you, ‘How are you, what do you say?’ - Awesome. I am great, I've just been so busy lately, how are you? - Good thanks just super busy, the day just seems to get away from me. Goes so fast. - Busy but great thanks. Take the time to dive deep and check in with your choice of language.

It can be really hard to set some serious boundaries. Something that I find helps me indicate and sense if the task or function is going to bring me joy or not, is taking a moment long enough to pause and feel my breath. Let my body tell me how it makes me feel. Our bodies are always telling us the answer but often we are so busy keeping ourselves busy that we don't listen or hear what our bodies are guiding us to do. Often if the idea excites me, straight away my breath and

Are you that person that is always telling yourself and others that you are super busy? Are you rushing from one appointment to the next and you just find that each day goes so amazingly fast and you feel like you don’t even have time to have a lunch break, let alone do anything for yourself? When you run into a friend is this how your conversation starts? ‘Hey, how are you? How is your week going?’ Oh, man I’m great, I’ve just been so busy.’ It’s like every one of us is sayi

Another awesome interview to tune into from the Wellness Pie podcast whilst going about your day Carla Maree Simpson is a sought-after happiness coach, author, entrepreneur, yoga instructor, podcast host, and professional speaker who is on a mission to help people live a happier life. Through life experience, she has learned that happiness isn’t guaranteed but it is something we can consciously choose and create if we are taught the right tools. She is all about helping peop

My friend Sarah was having some problems setting her own boundaries and she was finding herself crippled with anxiety for the sole reason of doing so much for others that she felt she had no time for herself and was getting run down. I worked with Sarah and we created a resentment thermometer. We decided to use this every time we had to make a decision. The resentment thermometer is based on the level of resentment that the action, choice or decision is going to give you. Thi

Growing up in our society most of us are taught that it is polite to say, ‘Yes’, to help others out when they ask. I totally believe it is awesome to offer a hand to someone else but this does not have to be all the time. In fact, definitely not, if it’s going to be having a negative effect on how much love and joy you are bringing into your day. This expectation and ‘disease to please’ is becoming a huge problem in our everyday lives. It is scientifically proven that anger a

Your Turn- Take out your journal and what I would love you to do is go through your typical week and pinpoint the times, appointments and patterns that you are doing things for others and if you really asked yourself honestly, you would rather not be doing them. You then need to go through your weekly schedule and set your own personal boundaries, limits and rules. Some of my own personal boundaries that I set and continue to adapt, and change are: o No PHONE calls when I get

In your journal start to brainstorm and do some journaling on why you find it hard to say, ‘No’, what are you afraid of? I realise this is not just a challenge that I or some of us face, but one that many people go through every day. It’s a heavy burden to carry because with the urge to say, ‘Yes’ also comes a lack of self-confidence, self-value, time and self-respect. We realise we spend the day living in a mad rush trying to do so much for others, often feeling stressed and

No matter what is going on in our lives we have the choice to choose a different perspective. To get agitated or remain calm. To smile or to frown (it is all a choice). I get that this can be challenging, but the reality is we can’t blame anyone else for what is going on in our lives and we definitely can’t blame them for how you feel about what is going on. Well you can, but that means you are choosing to be the victim. Who wants to be a victim? Not me and I'm guessing not y

Once upon a time, I was like most of us who was living a pretty good life. I grew up in an awesome family in NSW, Australia. I call it a magic country as it’s just so beautiful. I’m the youngest of 4 and have 3 older brothers. This as a young girl taught me to stand up for myself. If I didn’t stand up for me who else would? My brothers gave me my fair share of fights, arguments and brother/sister yelling matches. I have the most beautiful parents; both always showed me love a