As you may have read, I just recently completed my first half marathon – 21.1km. If you had said to me last year or even the start of this year I would run a half marathon I would have laughed heartily. Up until January this year I had never ran past 10km and would usually [...]

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Some of my expectations for this year have just not turned out at all the way I imagined. The biggest on being I imagined I would have more time to blog, now that I only have one little one at home and he attends kinder a couple of times a week. I spoke briefly about [...]

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Today’s guest post is from Laney at Crash Test Mummy. This year with the guest posts on the blog I have sought to compliment the posts I write, with posts from others who have different experiences to me and expertise in areas that I don’t have. I have been asked a number of times to [...]

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I have written before on the blog about how I have it hard to say no when things are asked of me. I have become much better at it since I wrote that post last year. Something which has really helped me do this, has been to reframe my decision and taking the emphasis of [...]

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Over the last couple of years I have written a post on how I am finding family life, now that our family is complete. The previous posts have been: Late 2009 – Does It Really Get Harder?????. I contemplate comments from other parents with older kids who suggest that it actually gets harder as the [...]

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The start of each month is the time I take a look at how I am progressing with my goals for this year. Posting a regular monthly review actually really helps me stick to the discipline of reflecting on how I have used my time, assess decisions I have made and work on ways to [...]

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