Starting the week right

Miss B in bed without complete meltdown drama - check Dinner made for tomorrow night so all I have to do is reheat - sure is Clothes in bathroom ready for morning - yes ma'am Meditation both AM and PM - completed Christmas lists started - yup 500 words contributed to current manuscript - that would be affirmative …

Continue reading Starting the week right

Best laid plans

How on earth do they know???? Miss A was up at 4am, Miss B followed suit at 5.15am! By the time 5.30am rolled around we were all pretty much up with no chance of kicking off Operation Find Mumma Time to Meditate. Do you ever have plans to start a new habit only to be …

Continue reading Best laid plans

Making time

Today was the last day of our success without stress program, the workplace training that I've been undertaking these past two months. Dressed in trackies we arrived at our room and began the session by saluting the sun with some yoga (creating flashbacks of a time about 15 years ago when I went to an advanced yoga class by …

Continue reading Making time

I feel good

You know what?  I think this meditation thing is working.  I've just come from a 20 minute session and just emerged from the shower and for the first time in a very very long time I'm feeling really good. And I had to have a chuckle because I immediately thought of this post that I wrote back …

Continue reading I feel good

Restoring the energy

Today I learnt how to meditate.  I've mentioned that I've been doing this success without stress program and as it so happens, a part of this program is meditation.  I have been avoiding this training for four years as the thought of meditation doesn't inspire me at all.  Having tried once in the past, I …

Continue reading Restoring the energy

Tin foil hats (or my journey towards mindfulness)

I recall having a lightbulb moment when sitting in my Buyer Behaviour 101 class back in my undergraduate uni days. My marketing lecturer began talking about the coincidences that occur during the decision making phase before a customer makes a purchase.  After listening to her explain, I remember thinking - OMG, this happens to me ALL. THE. TIME.  Here …

Continue reading Tin foil hats (or my journey towards mindfulness)