Category Archives: Everyday living

Breaking Barriers and The Fear of accomplishing

04 Friday Apr 2025

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Last Saturday completing 5KM doing Parkrun. I kept thinking about it but too the plunge and now really enjoy even though I get nervous every time.

This is part a series of blogs to Help you make changes to your life and will be for the Month of April on this website along with some videos on my Educational Youtube channel.

Here is the first blog.

Every Friday when I know I am going to be doing Parkrun on Saturday, I get the usual anxious feelings in my stomach. It is nerves and find it hard to think of anything else, until I have done it. It is breaking a barrier of what I know is challenging but know by doing the Parkrun I am going to feel on top of the world.

As a kid I remember watching Samantha Fox she was a page three girl, who poised topless on in the Sun Newspaper everyday. She had already been singing but got the page three girl job, only to cross the barrier once again and her debut single “Touch Me” was released in 1986 and was a success.

Kylie Minogue had sung as a kid but was firstly known for her acting and then became a pop sensation and both Samantha Fox and Kylie Minogue have had brilliant careers, in music. Gary Lineker who was a brilliant Striker for clubs and England, being part of the famous, 1990 World Cup squad, now is known from his presenting on Match Of the Day and now going to be leaving. Many may not remember his goals for Tottenham, playing for Barcelona and playing for England.

I went from hating P.E at school when we had to do running and took part in the Great North Run and made me change my mindset of seeing what I could accomplish if I crossed a barrier that I never entered my brain to do, a half marathon?

Have faith in yourself and yes your fear can contribute you in not crossing a barrier, because of what if this happened and that? You will never know unless you get up and give it a try. If you find it is not for you and noone got hurt then that is fine. You have to challenge yourself to see what you are capable of and think “What if it is a success?”. Give it a try.

I love Strictly Come Dancing. Watching Chris McCausland dance and he was amazing and Rose Ayling-Ellis. Not saying that because of their disability, but the fact that they didn’t restrict themselves and opened our eyes to “Its anybody’s competition” not matter of what, may be a barrier to some but them not and having self belief.

So break a barrier and see what you can do and accomplish. It’s never too late and will be writing a blog on this too.

Many thanks for reading,

Carrie X

Weekly Cheat Sheet: Ten Ways To Help You Feel about Yourself and Your life

17 Monday Mar 2025

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Hello and welcome! It is a new Week and means it is time for a new Cheat Sheet. These are free to download and print. I post them every Monday. This week is all about Ten Ways To Help You Feel about Yourself and Your life.

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Many thank for reading,

Carrie X

This Weeks Cheat Sheet: 10 Tips on Decluttering

10 Monday Mar 2025

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Hello and welcome! It is a new week and time for a new Cheat Sheet. This one is on decluttering. Inspired by Weekend of doing just that. Did this on Saturday and Sunday and it feels such a weight on my shoulders. It good to go through and make changes to have a spring clean and disown what we no longer need in our lives.

These Cheat Sheets are completely free and can be downloaded.

Here are 10 Tips on on Decluttering:

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Many thanks,

Carrie X

I love Working on a blank page

07 Friday Mar 2025

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I love to use a journal for different purposes and having a blank or journal for me to do that. The first thing I like to do is think about each day. I set goals and decide what I want to focus on. I am designing a journal at the moment. I am using it to junk journal. I also use it to store photos and special memories. I have designed one for my son. I have been meaning to print off photos and write down what we did. He can keep it forever. Journaling helps me think about the good times I have had, not just about the bad days.

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I love to journal and try to do it each day. Even just a paragraph can be enough. Sometimes I list things I want to do and places I’d like to go. This includes where my son would like to do and have one for my fitness too. Some want to stick to one. There are no real rules just write what’s in your head.

Anything you’re excited about or things you are looking forward to. Some may want to put in a vision board or mood board. Jamie Oliver does a journal about his garden and did a show about it. There are so many things you can put down and keep track of where you are in life.

There is bullet journaling and some make handmade journals. Its just about how is it going to serve you.

I like to see a blank page and write what is in my heart and mind.

I have always kept a diary/journal since a kid and not kept them all as it helps me to forget about the things that were in my mind in the passed, what I didn’t want to hold on to. I journal to make sense of things that I am finding hard to consume and things I have learned from books, TV and online training videos. I do have a educational Channel please check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/@CarrieEducationalYoutube-ws4xp

Many thanks for reading,

Carrie X

Weekly Cheat Sheet: Going Through Your Finances

24 Monday Feb 2025

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Hello and happy Monday! How was your half term? Did you go on holiday or had days out? My son went to a holiday club and my son got his hair cut with his dad as he has few free ones to use.

I thought this Cheat Sheet should be about Finance as this can cause us anxiety when it comes to school holidays as if you are like me a tight budget I have to plan ahead and because my son loves his holiday club at last minute was able to book him to go another day.

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These are free to download and print off. If you’d like to be informed of when I post on this site then please subscribe and I do have a Youtube channel called Financial Living where I post videos about how manage my money to help you manage yours.

Have a good week and many thanks for reading,

Carrie X

Weekly Cheat Sheet: Get Your Life Together

17 Monday Feb 2025

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Hello it is Monday once more and time for a new free printable of tips on Getting your life together that you may find useful and simple but effective.

These are free to download and print.

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Many thanks and have good week ahead.

Carrie X

Self Development: Making Life Changes

13 Thursday Feb 2025

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This is something I ask in my printable. Check out the first blog I wrote sharing the printable for this Self Development training I am doing for the Month of February. https://everyonecanbuildacastle.com/2025/02/03/self-development-training-begins/

Here is my first Video for this training and talk about Self Neglect. Not getting dressed, not brushing your teeth and it is not saying that your doing anything wrong, I am writing about myself when I would become depressed, I didn’t do those things, knowing that if I did I would feel better and so I had to get out of bed and live.

Life is full of a challenges and I have learned to take in the feelings, then think what can I do that will help me through those thoughts and listen to the positive side of the brain. Life is full of influences, like when we watch the news and hear of another stabbing and it has made me more determined to not allow it stop me from embracing my city, which is London and thinking of he good things. There is always going to be good and bad, but having a good breakfast, reading and listening to podcast can help me not to be affected but enjoy life as you don’t know when its going to end, and so I watch things that bring me joy not sadness and why I started fundraising for good causes.

I share my challenges I faced and not being happy about myself and my life. I felt like my life was boring when actually that is not true. I had a good childhood I just struggled because of not feeling good enough at school. Now see that I had a good holidays and did dancing. I had proper grandparents, relatives and friendships that have lasted so long.

I began to make Life Changes, getting fit and active and not dwelling on things that have gone wrong, but what I learned from those mistakes and not allow anxiety to control my life.

I will be making another video next week. These videos will be on this site forever and if you want to be notified when post on this site to subscribe.

Many thanks for reading,

Carrie X

Introduction To My Self Development Training

04 Tuesday Feb 2025

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Hello! Please check my blog where I posted a printable for this training: Self development

So there will be three videos for this training. Please check my video where I share details of what you can use, for the 3 sections of this training. So in this training we will cover for example: What is Self Development, Suffering with anxiety, then section 2, Changing my financial choices, an area I have had to work on and planning, example: Setting up your day.

Here is the introduction to this training:

This training is completely free and please give me feedback or ask any questions training. You can write into the comment section below blog to do so.

I am someone who has battled through life dealing with insecurities, not feeling good enough. I would be so critical of myself and so I had to make changes, especially as I grew into adulthood. I thought that by then would feel better about myself but no and they grew even bigger. I feel better once I finished school, which for a while it did. I liked working. Yet had some not so nice jobs and was fired by some of them an lost my confidence.

I have become fed up of allowing those time to bully me. I knew to move forward in my life I had to feel better about myself and my life.

Then I hit rock bottom when I thought that there was someone being hurt, but there was other things going on too. I was finding motherhood hard, felt isolated and had this inner fear that I had never felt before. I went to hospital and found that I was hearing voices and diagnosed with Psychosis and got home help. I began to feel like I had no energy to do anything. It was like being on a wheel that I couldn’t get off from. I spent time in a mental health hospital and recovered and wanted to help others with their mental health and wellbeing. It can feel you are in a dark place with no light.

I want you to love who you are and not be so unkind or resentful of yourself and start living and living beyond your needs. Life doesn’t have to be a battle, but be the best it could ever be, by making changes in the different areas and changing your mindset.

I hope you find this training helpful and share your story, if you have have found life hard and support one another.

Many thanks,

Carrie X

Self Development Training Begins

03 Monday Feb 2025

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It is a new week and today my Self Development training begins. I will be filming for my Educational Youtube Channel and I am really looking forward to it and hope it will help follow your dreams and have a life you love.

For me Self Development is simple. Change what you are not happy with. Go through the passed but in a way where your not dwelling but learning. Learning what you have done that turned out to be the best thing you have ever did, so far in your life and what didn’t work out. What is holding you back.

It can be that you failed your driving test. So the first thing is to reflect what happened. Was you driving too fast, you stopped when you shouldn’t have or your nerves distracted you. I made a mistake yesterday where I was playing a song on my radio show and accidentally turned it off but it was okay as I rectified it, reflected well I know that I was rushing and needed to take my time, but the rest of the show went according to plan. Your going to slip up, that’s life. The worst thing to do is allowing it to dominate. Not moving on.

I have created a free Printable which you can download and will give you the details of what the training will be covering.

I will be posting three videos for this training each week and can use it not just for February but throughout your life.

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It will be three sections and a conclusion. What you will need, which is basically your time, if you want to write things down and a drink whilst you watch and listen to my training for this Self Development training and please if you want to give me your feedback, then please do.

Many thanks for reading,

Carrie X

Weekly Cheat Sheet: Ten ways to declutter

27 Monday Jan 2025

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Last week, my son wasn’t well. I didn’t get a chance to do one then. So, here is a new one. I really enjoy creating these and this one Ten Ways to declutter.

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These are free to download and print and if wish to share with others then please do so.

Have a good week. I still have one more post for my Programme Winter Wellness to help you have a good winter. In February, I will be doing some Self Development training. It will also be free and will include blogs and videos.

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Many thanks for reading,

Carrie X