26 Monday Jan 2026
Posted in Cheat sheet, Everyday living, having bad days, Planning 2026, Printables, Weekly posts
Hello! So you still deciding on your goals for 2026. This Weeks Cheat Sheet is to help you. If it is your lifestyle, like if you not sleeping well, sorting out the home, better health and shopping habits.
I do these each week and are free to download and print. If you’d like to see more then please subscribe and you will be alerted when I post on this site and I do a monthly newsletter aswell check it this months: January Newsletter 2026
Many thanks,
Carrie X
22 Thursday Jan 2026
Posted in Celebrating, Creating a vision, Living, Monthly posts, new year, Planning 2026, Printables, Reflecting
Hello and Welcome! It is that time again for a new Newsletter and setting those goals for 2026. I post these each month and are free to download and print.
This year I am going to be a lot more organised and sort out my home and I have chosen my word for 2026 “Grow” and so that is what I am going to do. I want to see my blogs, books and videos grow by working on these three things along with my radio show I do on Epsom Hospital Radio and also my learning.
Soon it will be February and I am not one who celebrates Valentines Day but Easter and already stores are selling Easter Eggs. I am going through a declutter and moving so, many changes but I have decided that I am going to embrace them, especially when it something you can’t control.
Many thanks for reading,
Carrie X
20 Tuesday Jan 2026
Posted in Everyday living, health and wellbeing, Living, Planning 2026, Weekly posts
It is time to declutter and say goodbye. There have been many Youtubers who are doing videos on decluttering and organising videos at the moment and I too have been decluttering. Soon we will be moving. I have been filming some decluttering I have done and planned too do more. I am currently sorting out my bedroom and my sons, along with the Living room and the kitchen. I like to get things in order as I can be messy. Check out this vlog: https://youtu.be/c8ECaPgezp8
I am not always one to fold clothes and then wonder while I am mentally insane. My mum is like Mary Poppins she can turn a unmade bed into a masterpiece. To me it is a pain in the backside because I still end up with creases and the Mattress protector won’t stay in place and feel like abandoning it as soon as I start and a lot of swearing starts to come out of my mouth.
I will begin to pull my hair out that one of my Aunties cats used to do as I try to keep things in order but it never works out that way.
So the first thing is what is getting on your nerves?
If there is something that is really bugging you then it is a good place to start. So for me I bought some new pillows because mine have gone out of shape and I like to regularly change them and then will wash and replace my bedding again and eventually I will get a new set.
Then what areas do you like?
Embrace these areas and take photos and create an album so you can see what is working and what is not.
I exposed my mess in a Vlog I ( just linked it above) showed my corner unit in my bedroom. It is a hindrance but I like my bedside. I will be putting shelves up for my books and going to tackle my corner unit and get it in order. It is on my list so it won’t be a hindrance anymore. WHAT i AM TELLING MYSELF ANYWAY!
Do an area at a time.
So you may say, Monday I will sort out the kitchen and do a draw. Then once that is done then move to the bedroom.
So this week my plan is to, sort out the top of my closet. I see what I can let go of and what I want to keep. What will be useful and will not.
Then following week I will sort out another bag. I find it to overwhelming to do it all in one go and so I like to do it in steps. At the weekend I sorted out books as I am moving soon. I live in Epsom and Wimbledon and so will be moving to somewhere new, no longer in Wimbledon and so it is really being set on what books I want to read or let of the books I am not going to read.
When it is blistery outside it is nice with a cup of tea or coffee and get rid of what has no longer has place in your life anymore.
I like to have the heating on and I know some may be too scared and why not help a friend or relative have a declutter. Have a bit of a party with Bacon Sandwiches and tea allround or some tea and biscuits.
Why can’t it be a joint effort and gonna go through my sons books again as he has moved up a step now, with his books along with toys that have parts missing, ready for his new toys and games.
I have a new addition to my home in Epsom. A printer and my son is eager for me to set it up. We are also planning to have a cat. Yes we are and I am kind of looking forward to finding one that is suitable but means we have to be extra vigilant with what we have and not leaving bits of food on the floor.
It has been good and there is more change but I feel good about it, come with me on this journey.
Many thanks for reading,
Carrie X
12 Monday Jan 2026
Hello! How are you getting on this year so far. It is weird knowing that a couple weeks ago was now last year. It is hard to keep up but just live and I hope you are okay?
So if you are new then I share a cheat sheet to help you feel good about yourself and on how to make life better. I from experience have found life a struggle but let me tell you it can change its just doing one change day which is a course I am developing and why I break it up and so just one thing is still getting jobs done and not draining your energy so you burn out.
Here are Ten Things to Write in your journal to get more out of your life.
So there will be more to come. These weekly Printables are free to download and print and if you’d like to read more of my content then you can subscribe and I also have Youtube Channels and Blog sites so check out these links below:
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Many thanks for reading,
Carrie X
08 Thursday Jan 2026
It is dark and gloomy today and I pray that those affected by the weather are okay and stay safe.
I bet there are lot of people wanting Winter to be over. I hear it and not going to say “Oh think positively” if you can’t get your car out of the snow and you can’t go to work to earn your living, then how can you? Nature can have its evil side and so wish you all the best and hope that they have some way of contacting others. The feelings of people being stranded makes me want to wave a wand to get rid of the storms we have but you can’t so I will pray for you and those who you may know are stuck and they get help.
Going out it seemed okay and went for us here in Surrey a coffee and the darkness is making me feel cozy and grateful for what I have and feel different. There are things I’d like to do, I just fear housework. I am making sure Henry does some learning. He has two schools interested and so feel that some good things are on the horizon, but gonna see before I get my hopes up or look too far ahead of myself and live at a steady, slower pace.
Where is your mind at?
I think it is a natural to feel extra hungry or tired because we as humans need day light and when there is lack of it we feel like doing nothing and its okay to do that. Your not doing anything wrong and often we feel we are.
We still today as I write this blog, went out for a coffee and picked up a few things and Henry did some learning and I feel I being told subconsciously that not to worry about clearing out a bag, which in the end completing this blog did. Its okay to focus on my son and getting a place in a school, rather and housework as I received a call about Henry having an assessment. He has two next week and feel my prayers are being answered.
My sentence for me this year is “Wait and See” and not get impatient that things are taking their time. Sometimes life can be like that and with my son and school is taking my mind off on it being cold. I do find it hard to exercise when it is cold and move at all.
It is just focus on one thing at a time and day.
Many thanks for reading,
Carrie X
05 Monday Jan 2026
Posted in Cheat sheet, Living, new year, Planning for 2025, Printables, Weekly posts
Happy New Year! Check out my Resource Library which I will be updating. It has many different printables: Resource Library.
This weeks Cheat Sheet is ideas in Setting goals. I am not made really any new ones. I am working on being more organised, with my homes. I live with my husband and Son and with my Mum and Step dad.
I still decluttering and tidying different places, but that is it really. I have created visions boards and I have room ideas as I have been working on changing it. I am more changing my focus. I am not going to have many commitments for myself and focus on my son, homes and walks. Along with more radio shows and visiting many different places.
I loved that last year and want more of that. I loved our lodge we stayed in and this year we are going to the Isle of wight and Edinburgh. Visiting Windsor was good fun, so on this years wish list, is to go to St Albans, Guildford and Crystal Palace by train or bus and doing trips throughout the year.
So here is this weeks Cheat Sheet:
These are free to download and print and do them on a weekly basis, except bank holidays.
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Many thanks for reading,
Carrie X
02 Friday Jan 2026
Yes set goals, manifest, create a Vision board and get a new diary or planner, but what is around you right now? I have gotten in a place where I am okay by how it is now. I have clothes, my son, my homes and my writing and at this moment, I love all these things.
So I am open to what 2026 brings and just let life be more present and leave part of my life to fate and yes I believe in God. There are changes and transitions, as I am moving, as I live partly with my mum and step dad but with my husband and son too, and they are the things I am focused on now.
There is still a lot to learn and going to do more courses as I love doing that. I loved my reading and completed 20 books this year and my challenge for 2026 is 21 books. I will be updating site, My Books and Stories.
I am watching a Video by Carter Sullivan on Youtube and is on the same mindset as me and that is to see what happens in 2026. Its a relief to me and letting go off the girl who feels I have to map it out all the time and mind maps are good, but you don’t have to set up your whole year but where your are now.
So January it is getting back in to learning mode, for me working on my book called When Mothers Are Real and setting up my watch for measuring my steps and sorting out the home.
I have begun No Spend January and set up my planner which I plan to film and it doesn’t mean I can’t spend anything. Its only essentials and stock up on them so I don’t need to go and buy. It means doing a spending plan and what is not a priority.
It is about self control and be intentional.
If you’d like more about me then I do have a Vlog Channel if you’d like to visit: https://www.youtube.com/@typicallondongal
Happy New Year
Many thanks for reading,
Carrie X
01 Thursday Jan 2026
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feeling better about yourself, good feelings, having regrets in the year, letting go of the past, Self development
I have regretted things. I have really punished myself over them. Life is about moving on and going as the times goes and letting things go: Autumn Reset Day 5: Letting things go If there is a photo that makes you unhappy delete it. If there is a piece of clothing or furniture that makes you quiver and upset you then addressing your feelings can help aswell as letting them go.
There are certain songs that can trigger it and so I will play a song that makes me happy or change the thought because of that song. Listen with fresh ears and the same with films or certain TV.
Time is not going to wait and as humans we grow from our mistakes. I have said the wrong thing. Can I turn back and correct? Not I can’t.
Life is full of lessons and we need to forgive ourselves and stop obsessing. If you can imagine being constantly being hit on the head or anywhere with a mallet how would it feel? It would get on your nerves and that is what regrets do.
It is up to you to of how you want to keep pestering yourself. Cut yourself some slack. You can’t fix what’s gone and so why should you? Will the person you have a regret about or an incident that happened involving someone, be restless about the regret you have? Do they still talk to you?
What is it that is bugging you? Write it down. I when my son was doing some tutoring, went through my fears and past worries and why they were bugging me and it just made me come to my senses of it all and felt ten times better. I have begun to realise that somethings are meant to be, because that is how we learn about relationships, good communication, living better and building our inner self to be the better person you are and reinvent yourself and start a fresh.
No being rude to someone is not good, but I wonder how bothered they are and teaches to stop regretting and just learn. Think of all the good things you have done and how is your life now? So stop regretting and start living.
I do have Youtube channels so if you want to check these out then here are the links:
https://www.youtube.com/@typicallondongal
https://www.youtube.com/@financialliving
(128) Carries Education Youtube Channel – YouTube
Many thanks for reading,
Carrie X
31 Wednesday Dec 2025
I was fired by an employee back in 2008 and it really affected my confidence. I couldn’t wait for #Christmas to have a break. The people where I worked, was so rude that I wondered if they would be that rude to their family? Snapping whilst on the phone as I would be doing what a company should do, give Good Customer Service and they hated it. The guy who ran the company, was awful.
There was no morale and when I reported the bullying to him he blamed it on me and yet it all the people who were there, were all really unpleasant and so going back after Christmas and start of a new year I was fired. I feel they did the right thing, because I didn’t walk out, which some would have done and so I am glad he did fire me now because then it made me decide my next path and did some temping for a bit, but was ready to go back home and my time living near the south coast was coming to an end.
So if it is too much then don’t let yourself feel as though you have to take it. There are organisations you can call for help and then I found job in Kingston and yes there were not very nice people there but I became resilient and they ended up leaving and I ended up being in a good team and so take action. It may be fate, meaning that its time to change and that can be the thing we fear the most, of what to do next so we can often feel that we have to stay. No, if it is stressing you out then leave and get support and life is about chapters ending to welcome new beginnings.
One person who was having issues in a job and she rang me unexpectedly because she felt she was being bullied and sometimes you don’t want to be rescued, or for someone to resolve it for you, its about able to speak to someone to make sense of it. So talk to someone. Also you have a right to leave and say that you are not happy and if things don’t change you will leave and it is okay to confront. I would not advise to do it without support for your own safety and not their word against yours, but ask for a chat and if you can have someone there with you.
I have come across many walks of life and met different kinds of people and those that carry out the bullying are actually the one that is vulnerable and perhaps they need help. I am not saying they should be getting sympathy, but that often it is not about you but about them and the using you as a verbal punchbag and so should be reported for their own sake.
I hope that helps you and as we head into a new year I wish you a Happy New year and if you like to read more of my blogs on this site then you can subscribe.
I do have a Vlog channel. Here is the link: (70) Typical London Gal Carrie Holmes – YouTube
Many thanks for reading,
Carrie X
31 Wednesday Dec 2025
See above a blog I wrote in 2018 and still relevant because as there is always obstacles but I have learned to deal with them and not allow them to stop me in achieving my goals and dreams. I do a radio show and we have a new system to play music. I have found it challenging but rather than avoid, faced it head on and I know if I keep using it, the less of a hurdle it will become and challenges are there to help you.
Life has a way of keeping you on your toes and so allow the hurdles or doubts that come into your mind, and life and what you want to do. Do you want the voice of doubt bug you? Are you going to quit?
Quitting is fine, but if it ends up as a regret then take some time to reflect and does it excite you? Mel Robbins says that anxiety and excitement is the same thing. I love my show, I just finding the nerves overwhelming but I know this is what I was meant to do along with writing blogs, books and creating videos. I care so much and want to create my blogs, videos and show to help those. The Radio show is for my local hospital as it is a hospital radio station and I get so much joy.
What does a new year mean to you?
Is there something that gives you a burst of excitement?
I am going to see Bon Jovi once again. Yes it could end up being cancelled, I may become ill, but what ifs are just that. What if it all turns out alright? My son is going to a potential school option and finally get a placement. I have chosen to have less commitments for myself in 2026 to spend my time visiting different places I’d like to take my son to and want to explore more and continue what we did the year we are leaving and yes trains can have disruptions and the buses haven’t been reliable but we have got to where we wanted to be and plan less to do more.
Twenty twenty five has been a good year. Okay my son got sick at the beginning but we still had the meal we wanted afterwards, because he was taken to hospital and Henry was fine, he didn’t have a meltdown and just chilled until we could go home and just a bump in the road. Life will have bumps and as much as we don’t want our kids to be sick, their intolerances and immune system need to develop and so, he wasn’t fazed by it and so I am not.
When we went to the Polka theatre a lot and one of the shows we ended up getting drenched. The Radio event I did for the first time, leading to Christmas in 2025 finished early because of the weather and had issues with music and the choir shows, but we carried on and I enjoyed it and was a good experience and didn’t allow my nerves to talk me out of it.
So face the obstacle but don’t allow them to continue to grow, my word for 2026 and if you fall, get back up again and carry on.
I have written another blog about the Inner Critic on one of my other sites: https://buildingselfconfidencetud.blogspot.com/2020/07/learning-to-love-yourself-instead-of.html
Many thanks for reading,
Carrie X
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