This week we're taking a look at Life Design Tools - from Monday Check-ins, to Planners, to Getting Things Done systems that can all help us to stay on track with our dreams and goals for 2024. Have a listen in to this week's Pep-Talk and then choose one to try from the Life Design Tools Menu below!

This is a topic I’ve been thinking about a lot lately. I don’t know if it’s the pandemic or a symptom of getting older or a combination of the two, but a lot of my friends and clients are finding themselves at an age where they thought their life would be a certain way…and it’s not.

So how do you navigate the disappointment of a big dream not working out. And how do you move forward from there?

Well that is the topic of this week’s Pep-Talk.

In a world that tells us that we should follow the rules, be obedient workers and put the needs of others before our own, it IS a rebellious act to choose your own path in life and choose to make your own happiness and wellbeing a top priority. So let’s get rebellious!

Last week marked a year since I launched Project You. It can be so easy to be focused on ‘what next?’, particularly when you’re running a business, but it is SO important to mark milestones and use them as a chance to celebrate, reflect and learn. And so I decided to do my reflections out-loud and record it for today’s Pep-Talk, because I have learnt some really valuable lessons over this past year and wanted to share them with you.

Despite the general mess of our economic and political situation (certainly here in the UK) and the rising cost of living, on an individual level there seem to be more and more people talking about they feel they are stepping into a new chapter in life and they are excited about it.

And so that has inspired today's Pep-Talk where I pose the question: what if life after the pandemic were even better than the life you were living before?

Today’s Monday Pep-talk is recorded from my favourite summer spot: my hammock! It felt like an appropriate spot as we officially step into Summer here in the Northern Hemisphere and inspired today’s episode about BALANCE. Balance can often be a controversial topic these days but I’m a big believer that it’s an important part of designing a life you love.

It can be hard when you have a clear vision of the life you want to be living and you’re putting in time and effort to create that life for yourself, but you haven’t got there yet. How do you handle the feelings of overwhelm, frustration or disappointment when you compare the life you’re living today to the dream life you are making every effort to head towards?

Well that is the topic of today’s Pep-Talk!

Carrying on from last week’s Monday Pep-Talk, all about dreaming and how to exercise that dream muscle, in this week’s Pep-Talk I take a look at what STOPS us from dreaming.

Tune in and see if there are any areas of your life where you might have been stopping yourself from dreaming and let's see what opens up when you start to identify and let go of limiting beliefs and narratives that might be getting in your way

Learning the practical art of dreaming and turning your dreams into reality is at the heart of designing a life you love and this Monday Pep-Talk is designed to get you starting to unlock any dreams of yours that may have been hiding in the shadows and seeing the very real magic we all have of being able to make our own dreams come true.

If you ever find the weight of daily responsibilities, never-ending to-do lists and general adulting gets too much from time to time, then this Pep-Talk is for you. It's all about the importance of treating yourself to moments where you get to be totally free of all of your responsibilities.

How often do you properly check-in with yourself? On a daily basis, weekly basis, every few months?

Checking-in with yourself is an essential part of designing a life you love and yet, I have to admit, sometimes I fall out of the practice of doing it as much as I need to and forget to do it when I’m feeling in a funk.

And so, in today’s episode, I talk about the power of checking in with yourself and the different ways we can do it.

We can so often think we have to wait for permission to be able to do what we want to do or be who we want to be. But that is absolutely not the case.

And so THAT is the topic of today’s Pep-Talk!

Getting clear on what you want to fill your life with and the dreams you want to go after is one half of designing a life you love. The second half is actually DOING it.

So learning what helps you to overcome your own sabotaging efforts and make sure you DO the things in your Life Design plan are what this Pep-Talk are all about.

PROJECTS are a big part of designing a life you love. I’ve been designing my life one project at a time for over a decade now. They are THE most powerful way I know of turning your dreams into reality.

And so today I wanted to dive into the topic of projects and how to use them to turn your dreams and ideas into reality and design a life you love.

while I LOVE to dream and always encourage people to take their dreams seriously, I don’t believe that we always have to dream BIG to design lives we love. In fact sometimes the pressure to do so can get in the way of us going after what will really make us feel happy and fulfilled in life.

Dr Tilean is a chartered psychologist (and my former coach) and she is THE QUEEN at helping people step out of their self-limiting narratives and fully into their power, particularly when it comes to abundance, money and fully living your dreams.

And so THAT is why I wanted to bring her onto Club You as a special guest expert.

We dive deep into the topics of Abundance, Money Mindsets, Upper Limiting and how to get out of our own way and step back into your power.