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I talk about success an building your life but we all have bad days but these blogs will are to help and support you, and making life a success

Can You Have the Perfect Day?

26 Thursday Mar 2026

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It is good when everything works out, your home, your work and you feel good inside and on the outside, but there are days where everything just crashes down. Example: I dropped some stuffing granules on the floor, my son, me and his dad have not been well and you wish you could turn the clock back.

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Now though I feel that it has been good to just chill and just spend time looking after my sons health and mine and that everything else can wait and it was good to not to have to set an alarm and today I was booking things for the Easter Holidays and had shopping being delivered and had a coffee, a drive and took a shower before my son was due to come home from school, so now I do feel resilient now when unexpected happens, with us being unwell and still not 100% but just taking it one day at time.

I love spending time brainstorming ideas for my content and having nice dinners to suit how we feel. I love pub grub and so we had pie, mash and mixed vegetables and it was so nice. It’s like a big hug on a plate and then had a Dairy Milk Yogurt. Not something we have all the time but now and again and it is good to just set my mind on today, but coming up with ideas to grow my blogs, vlogs and books and I took some time to format my book so it is ready to be published and so if it doesn’t go up this week it will be next week.

I feel now that no matter how much you try, your always going to have “One Of Those Days” so is it worth chucking the toys out the pram? It is good to have a cry. It does not mean your weak but I just find letting it all out can do wonders. I like to write in my journal, get some fresh air and be with nature.

You may find meditation helps, reading and listening to music. There are times I don’t want to cook but then I put on some Youtube and that gives me a push and it was such a nice dinner and so meals can be comforting. I love a good dinner and I like to have enjoyable and healthy dinners and make them fun.

Having a things in place that helps feel like, life is okay still, does wonders and distract the mood that we feel when we have a day that goes wrong and having a chat, popping round to a friends house and having a coffee. It’s simple things and doesn’t have to be anything that is strenuous, like listening to your mind and body and I love having a tidy up. When my son doesn’t want to go to school I find if I make him a breakfast he likes changes his mind and get ready without rushing and I like to take my time.

It is okay to say no. I loved it when I went clubbing but now I am and always been, a home body. No matter the day I will have a good evening and that is closing my laptop and watching the traitors at the moment and yesterday spent some time catching up on TV and it was good to just have that time away from the schedule.

So just have fun. It can make the day better and life is about experiences so why not go to the park now the days are getting lighter. Check out his blog: different experiences

Many thanks for reading,

Carrie X

Making Sense Of Certain Situations in Terms of Respecting and being Respected by others

15 Sunday Mar 2026

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If someone does upset you its not about sitting there and taking it. Hear what they have to say and remember people will see the world differently and part of being a human being and if you don’t agree then say what you want to say. I will say how I feel but if you want to privacy then do that, but never allow anyone to walk all over you.

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Respond without retaliation. So not being rude back, but give your point of view but allow the person to talk too. As soon as you jump in it can escalate into a heated argument and it doesn’t need to get that far and if they start getting personal then do speak up and if you need to move away then tell them. I said at one point that you shouldn’t walk away but now since then I disagree with that view. You have the right to walk away and why sit there and take it?

When someone doesn’t want you to sit with them. Leave them be. I remember when working at a holiday camp and there was one woman who sometimes I went to sit at her table she would move to another table and so I let her be and didn’t sit with her. People don’t always want to be around others and be left alone, so I respected that and if they want some time away, give them that space. Part of me was a bit offended but you can’t be to everyone’s taste and sat with people who wanted me to sit with them.

It can take a while to know someone. There have been times when people have not be my fan, but then through friends and people got to know me, then they will warmed towards me. I will say hello but often I will wait for them to talk to me first. There are people who will chat to everyone but for me it depends on how comfortable I feel around them. I have treated people as if they have a the plague but then once I have seen they are okay then been fine. I have learned to be the one who says hello first and not to wait, even if they ignore me.

Have boundaries. I like my space. I like to on my own sometimes. I love my son but often he will jump on me if he has when playing football and won not realising his own strength and so I will say we can hug but not to jump. At school I would hit and not in an aggressive way but intended to be friendly and it upset them and she told me she was happy about it and so stopped. Sometimes we can be unaware of our own behaviour even when it is meant to be friendly can make someone happy so still friends today and glad she pulled me up on it.

Accepting peoples faults and their different point of view. You can no matter how great you get on can get on each others nerves. Friendships came be turbulent but still be friends for ever. I like a friendships where you talk about everything and anything and not judged but still have a different point of view but it doesn’t have to be an end of the friendship. Its good to have people who are different around you. If they are constantly disagreeing or supporting someone in your group of friends on everything or purposely because they don’t want to undermine whenever you talk about then that is different. However we all have faults and when you can laugh about it then you know they have your back and you have theirs.

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Carrie X

Weekly Cheat Sheet: Getting The Best Out Of Life

09 Monday Mar 2026

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Hello! Welcome March.. I wonder how many is aware of Mothers day on Sunday? As I didn’t realise so it is time to get those flowers, perhaps a trip somewhere or a meal to celebrate our Mumma’s and Nanna’s for all we do.

So this cheat sheet is about Getting The Best Out of Life. I love my days now and the one thing I like to do is walk and when walking on the treadmill for example I play four songs and then finished. Since doing that it has helped me to focus and do between 15 to 18 minutes. I do have a blogsite where I share my fitness: Get Active Get Fit

So here is this weeks Cheat Sheet:

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There is a blank page for you to write down What things you’d like to implement each day to get The Best Out of Life.

These Cheat Sheets are free to download and print and are on different topics and I love doing them and I hope you enjoy reading them.

You can find all my cheat sheets on my Pinterest, X and Facebook:

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Many thanks for reading,

Carrie X

Life Doesn’t Have To Be Difficult

07 Saturday Mar 2026

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We put so much pressure on ourselves that we can often feel defeated and so why bother? In reading a Paul McKenna book he said “How would you feel if someone else did your idea?” like a book, a game or some kind of project and when we are envious, Mel Robbins has said that being envious is us feeling “There isn’t enough to go around” and I believe that.

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There is always going to be hurdles and have events that you can’t control so why not embrace those times and use it to become stronger and do the thing you want to do. Not hurting others but making a change to your life that makes you face the bad and the good. I feel I can feel destroyed if I get into to an argument and find it hard to deal with so I will put on a song or leave the room to calm me down and journal. I can rant and it is good like crying. It is a release and then I am fine.

Arguments don’t have to be difficult to handle and walking is also something I do to release tension and handling difficult times. I remember I didn’t go to work one day when one of my uncles died and needed to just keep walking and walked from Kingston to Richmond and I felt so much better. I felt it was what I needed to do and not something I have done before but I needed to be outside and not cooped up inside.

So if you having a hard time at the moment then listen to your body. How is your breathing. Is it fast or slow and is a great time to do a home project you have been putting off. I remember when the world cup in South Africa and my husband and I were living in Wimbledon and England were losing and in the end I ended up tidying out a draw and instantly felt better and yes okay if you not a football fan, I get that may make you yawn but using an example, to distract the mind when life is becoming difficult and the one thing I ask myself each day as my mind and body begins to get anxious is ask myself “What do I want to focus on today?”

February was about getting my son ready for school as he had been having one to one tutoring at the library whilst we were waiting for a placement and was praying, which can help and he was successful and that has been my focus, now it is to get my home in Epsom sorted out and moving. Then March is to get my next book I am writing finished and published.

Then will be planning for my next Life Coaching programme I do each year. My Summer Project on this blog site I do each year and there is more to be arranged and confirmed. I do this to help you have a better life to have a better year.

I will be creating videos on my Educational Youtube Channel and really looking forward to it and helping you feel good. With the what is going on with the world I feel a bit of TLC is needed.

Anyway so what do you want to focus on and even swimming is good for the mind something I am desperate to do. So as I write this blog have booked a swimming session as it has so many benefits and because of distance I get my steps in and so looking forward to it and get back into it.

No situation has to get sticky and can be the best thing. I am glad for example my Grandad Parkinson’s did get too bad and he left the world without being able to do anything, because he would not have liked it so even though it was traumatic and still able to hold his cigarette and he was never willing to give this up and he loved horse racing and was still able to walk before he left the world and I miss having my grandparents in my life but it was his time and I am glad he had lived to old age, but now he with his brothers and sisters as my grandparents were proper grandparents being the heart of the family. Yet seeing my Uncle after his stroke was heart breaking, so glad that he is no longer in pain as he felt the life he once had was taken away from him and so so sad. I know that he can now rest and be with my Uncle Charlie and again with nan and grandad.

I do feel life has a purpose and feel no matter what is thrown at you, you can come out of the other side thriving and glad that my Uncle Tony spent his last days being near his daughter and grand children. I am glad my grandad and nan got through the world wars and then got to experience cable TV and my Nan loved buying from QVC and died where she was born. I know some people may not believe me, but I feel that the way my nan died, my grandad was waiting for her and God was looking after her for all she did for her family and was her time to properly put her feet up.

So life can still be good and work for you and does not have to be difficult.

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Many thanks for reading,

Carrie X

Have Faith in Your life and the People within it

06 Friday Mar 2026

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I think we discredit ourselves when people stop contacting us or someone has jumped in front of you and they feel more worthy that you and you are like “What about me?” “Why do bad things happen to me” like Ross in Friends and not everyone is going to be your bright light and I feel that life tests you, because some people you meet can be challenging and to see what type of people do we want in our life.

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It can take a while when someone has been unkind to you to get over the hurt. They may feel you owe them something. You don’t owe anybody anything it is up to you, but keep the faith within you. Once you start having faith about yourself then you’ll find that its mumbo jumbo to you and that there are people who have your back. Why should we allow people who are unkind to upset your day? Everyone is allowed to live and its not about having the best life. I feel that is unrealistic as life comes with hurdles but that life can be fun and to now it is about being authentic.

Not everyone is going to be your friend and I am okay with that now.

It is good to have people in your life that think differently to you because I feel it opens up a good conversation and help build our own opinion or sometimes we like to listen to others problems to not give an opinion but a lending ear even if you don’t have an answer just to listen to others, the more you build trust as long as it is a two way street and if you have people who are the same as you then it can be boring. When people in your life has a different point of view it doesn’t mean you have to ignore each other but you see them of who they are and this is the same and the same. I like that I have different type of people in my life and I love the people I met at Butlins because we had to put up with eachother. We had to stand on our own two feet and many were rebuilding their lives and doing something that was different to the every 9 to 5 job. Many were in the forces prior to working there and some had a tough time at home and so was a kind of escape from that.

I loved being part of a group and when there are people who care about your safety then you realise that the world is full good people, no matter how some are mean, are good and most people are genuine. With what is going on in the world it can make us cross and not see anyone but we have to keep on living and get the best out of life and get out into outside world and I feel those that do bad things, disrupt our lives and gives me more reason to respect my self and no I am not playing God, I want people to feel good about them selves and not to give up and there is another side of the world that is good and that this is just be a blip.

I would always get fed up when shopping and had been laughed at when trying on clothes so I decided that I wasn’t going to do that anymore feeling already self conscious from the beginning and I avoided changing rooms but then I was like “No I will try it on” and let those supposedly friends snigger. It made me realise that laughing behind someone’s back didn’t suit me and how I’d feel if that was me. I am lucky now though, having a good settled life and with people who truly love me and it as far as I am concerned has to be a two way street when it comes to being with people and having faith in yourself and others.

I hope this blog helps you and I do content each week and have more. Check out Pinterest, X and Facebook along with my vlog channel which I share pars of my life on and you can subscribe to this blog and follow me on social media and subscribe on my Youtube channel. See the links below:

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Carrie X

Creating A Mind Map

21 Saturday Feb 2026

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If you have plans but you are not sure where to start I’d recommend doing a Mind Map. I do this a lot. It helps with overwhelm and lay out what you want to focus on and building by creating steps to allow it to grow and build whatever that is that you want to see “GROW” my word for this year (2026) and so I have created a printable for you use and I hope you find it helpful.

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This is free to download and print and will be creating more. You can find my printables on my Resource Library and on my Pinterest which has all my blogs and printables, such as my Weekly Cheat Sheets and Monthly Newsletter, as I have many and I create each week and printables for my yearly programmes.

I’d recommend for you to subscribe on here and on my Pinterest to be notified of when I post and I post each week.

I love to spread my blogs, books and videos. You can share them too. I have a Vlog channel and share more of my life and would be great for you to subscribe there too.

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Its a bit like doing a family tree. So you can do from yourself. So Carrie, I write blogs, Books and youtube. I want to publish another book, I am a mum, and need to get Henry ready and settled in his new school, I want to grow my blogs and do some new training on my Educational Youtube channel.

So I hope you enjoy this tool and there will be more coming.

Many thanks for reading,

Carrie X

What Are You Feeding Your Brain?

17 Tuesday Feb 2026

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I have found that we are always consuming, we scroll on Pinterest and look at Instagram and shop. With Social media it can take over our day and when we watch a haul we instantly want to go out shopping and buy items from TikTok but we then see we didn’t need those items. We can compare ourselves and our lives and I am not being a hypocrite as I do use it, but I am careful what I watch and what I put out there into the world.

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I am now vigilant it what I am feeding my brain with, because we can be easy be influenced and I am guilty of that.

Also are we listening to gossip? I remember working in a call centre and there would be people talking unkindly about other staff, celebrities, reading magazines and it could really make us feel uncomfortable and I was told I was no good at my job so decided to just not listen to it. As long as I believed in myself that was all that mattered.

I was there to work and didn’t always socialise, because I didn’t want to be surrounded by people who were going to talk about you the next day.

“what you put out there in the world is what you will receive”.

It is also bad news. I do watch the news but not all the time as I find it depressing and don’t watch anything too gory, but like a drama and I don’t watch soaps because I can be quite disturbed by them and rather watch a concert, Days in a life Video, writing tips and love being part of the writing community by watching those who have self published, getting tips and ideas, life coaching or a good podcast.

Also what we read. I am reading a book about the punk rock era and of a guy trying to make it and forming a band based up North, Liverpool and the music scene around that time. I find certain songs really can affect my feelings. Not because they are bad but because the song reminds me of a tragic time, like Never Walk Alone, I remember the Hillsborough Disaster and I just find it so heart wrenching because of the words and so I play certain songs that helps with my feelings unless it is for a book I am writing.

The diet culture. I have had an eating disorder, had really bad anxiety and body dysmorphia as I hated myself a lot as a child and teenager, because of the way I looked and I would be really upset. I avoided mirrors and changing rooms. Now though I love my body, my hair and skin. I like to exercise, learning what my body can do and am skilled. I can dance, write and a good imagination and creative.

So spend some time writing down the things you are feeding your brain and workout, what is effecting you and getting you down and what are the good things you are consuming?

It can take time but you mindset can change and work for you and not against you.

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Carrie X

Weekly Cheat Sheet: Different Ways to Organise

16 Monday Feb 2026

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Hello and welcome to another Monday. If you are new then each week I post a Cheat Sheet on various things and this week it is: Different Ways to Organise. I do a blog specifically about Organisation if you’d like to check it out:

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Here is the Cheat Sheet:

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These are free to download and print and here are some others:

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Many thanks for reading,

Carrie X

Celebrating The Small Things! My weekly Cheat Sheet

09 Monday Feb 2026

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You look at a windowsill in your home and it is cluttered so you tidy it up and now you have a a bit more structure. Your child gets a certificate for learning at school. I manage to cook a meal, never cook before. These are the small things that can make a big difference in how we see ourself and our life.

This weeks Cheat Sheet is all about the Daily things I like to do on a daily basis that sets up my day. The small wins are just as good as the small ones. Today I tidied up and get clothes out of my son for the day. Have my two cups of tea I like to have in the mornings and later will get a take away coffee.

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It can be the hardest the times when you have nothing set up to feel good about yourself and your life. It is all about living in the moment and like I did another Radio show yesterday after feeling so nervous and it was good and so tip# Go through what you have done each day.

It is a better feeling that you have taken on action, a step towards the bigger tasks like at the weekend, I went through my clothes and it is good to let things go, to focus on each day and I don’t need a new outfit all the time and rather book things to do. At half term I am taking my son to a show and take him to the Cat Cafe in London and like booking days out for my son.

Tip# Write down what you enjoy.

Tip# Get a bag and start to go through a draw and at the weekend as I had so many clothes, told my mum to get rid of anything in the draws I was using, away. I am moving so no longer going to live in Wimbledon, this is a huge change and means really getting my head down and do more things to move towards the bigger things I want to do and decide on what is important to me now and what is not. Making one change can make a huge different. Check this blog: Making one change

Many thanks for reading,

Carrie X

Weekly Cheat Sheet Things To Change 2026

26 Monday Jan 2026

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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

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Many thanks,

Carrie X