Sorry there was no cheat sheet last week, my son was off from school with a Chest Infection, but all better now. These Cheat Sheets are free to download and print and I post them every Monday. This weeks one is al about Staying Safe in your home. Today watching the news, a charger that was bought from Amazon exploded in a families home, causing a fire and I have had accidents in the home, like playing about on the stairs and fell down them.
It is so easily done and now we are heading for the colder season, we will be relying on electric appliances, spending longer days indoors, cleaning our home for the autumn and so wanted so lets all keep ourselves and our homes safe.
So today I had a tidy up. I tidied my clothes and going through my clothes for the laundry that is in the guest room in Epsom and is one area of my home in Epsom, that I want to do a makeover on have begun to decide where I am going to start first.
This morning I completed another chapter of my book series that I want to work on to complete the first draft during this yearly reset that I do each year and the other area that I want to add is in my sons bedroom. At the moment he has a TV unit that has pictures on it, but also stores some of his clothes so my son can find what he wants to wear and an outfit when not in school, without difficulty. Room and spaces to me have to be functional. Like example having my sons clothes set up each day do when he comes from school can go to his room and change, without having search around and is there waiting for him.
His uniform is kept in his built in closet in his bedroom and also want to organize his books.
You will find when doing a reset and changing spaces, that there are other areas that crop up and needs work on and want my sons room to be suitable for my son, to have some easy access for him to find his clothes and pick them up and with books too.
His toys are downstairs in a cupboard and has easy access, and sorting out the shed found some toys that he has rediscovered and the shed will eventually be where I will be crafting at the moment not practical as it will be cold in there and so may need to put these plans on hold but I can still sort it all out and so yes so many obstacles but means I can focus on finding a secondary school for my son. One area I am sorting and work on my book and complete my counselling course.
So there are jobs that I have been putting off and made excuses but I am done with that habit and I want a room which is clutter free and is nest not just a room, so no matter I can still declutter and so second week going to make some changes that I know can be done and have less to sort out, once the shed is ready to be used as a craft room.
I am someone who likes to plan, but have to rein myself in, to remind myself to focus on each day and what I can do today. My son been ill has reminded me to do that.
So focus on one thing you can do today that will help you tomorrow, like having time to make a nice cooked breakfast to begin your day, before doing your reset tasks.
Today my focus was to take care of my son, by making sure he has his antibiotics, he was going to go back to School tomorrow, but due to the antibiotics he has been taking, has an upset tummy and so will start to sort out the guest room and the shed I want to clean up, as it has been refurbished with a new roof and doors, is once my son returns to school which I hope is next week, to be cleaned up, so I can take my craft products, out of the guest room, to be moved into the shed.
When my son has been at home this week I have worked on my book and this morning I was awake early and got up to work on it with other tasks and been struggling to get up early the last few days and once my son is okay can do more and so if you want to join me in this yearly reset programme and you don’t miss a post please subscribe.
So I will see what tomorrow brings and if I can continue to work on the different areas of my life, to organize and work towards their completion, then I will and see how my son is, so he is well again and then I can do more to complete the projects I want to get done, for this years Autumn reset.
Please share your first week if you have joined me and lets cheer each other along as we add our wellbeing and for me it is all about, having the life I dream of, which is to teach and help others as much as I can, by developing my projects to make sure they are helpful and that you love being part of my community I am building to help others live their dreams.
Live you life and believe that what you dream of is possible.
So it is week 1 and I have laid out what areas I want to work on for this years Autumn Reset, using my printable (please check out my blog: autumn 2024 and it is free to download).
To get started I wrote down What I want to focus on?
In asking this and looking at my list I can workout, what is truly is important to me and what will once the most important tasks are completed, like booking my son to see the dentist, will then give me room to work on the next items that I would like to complete, example: I want to work on my next book, of my book series I am putting together, and complete the first draft.
This week has been challenging because my son has been off school due to a Chest Infection and so been working on my book, and today contacted the dentist and just focusing a few areas at a time, can really help to work on the next part on the print out, breaking it down.
So the first thing I need to do about the Dentist is to contact them to arrange an appointment, then go to the appointment. I split my tasks up that I want to complete. I split the up in Home, Work and Play. So booking the dentist is under home, working on my book, goes under work and not really got anything under play but this could be fitness, meeting with friends once a week, trying out different restaurants in London for example, and gives you the outcome you want.
It is all about what will give you joy and building the life you want, being the person you want to become.
So lets work together and please share what areas/tasks you want to complete for the Autumn Reset. You can leave a comment below.
I have begun to feel in first page of what I want to complete and then will be deciding what are the main things for me to do, and what can be completed on another time and will go through my Notion of my goals and plans for 2024 and 2025 and what is top priority.
So what is a reset?
It is where you pull yourself back and restart and the Academic year is when I like to get things complete before the following year and make way for other projects I want to do and get back into planning and sorting things out for the rest of the year. This is what it for me means and get back into the school routine and set new goals and help build my habits to organise my life and means decluttering and changing your food, home and routine for the autumn season, ready for the winter.
So I have begun making a list and this week was challenging as my son was home from school with a Chest Infection and so if you can’t join in straight away then please don’t worry you can start when it is a good time for you, I just wanted to help you as I do a reset each year and found it helpful and hope you do too.
You don’t have to fill in all of the printable but as you start and begin to get those tasks completed and use the pages where I have put week 1 to decide where you’d like to begin and reflect on each week and log what you have done so far and spend time go through what would be the easiest to ones where you feel may need more time on. This is where it is good to use the page of printable of breaking your tasks up once you have decided on the areas/tasks are mostly important to you to complete.
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Hi All it is now Autumn and this means this is the beginning of my yearly programme, my Autumn Reset which is all about getting the things I have been working on completed and give advice as I am doing this reset starting tomorrow, 10th September to then end of October.
I have like my Summer Project Life Coaching programme, I have created a free printable and is completely free to download and use.
This will help you go through areas of your life you want to complete, example I want to complete the first draft of my second book Mum&Me which is a series and if you’d like to check this out then please check out Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mum-Me-Gucci-Tits-Virtue/dp/B0BGNF4LNF
So go through what tasks you want and go through what of the outcome, breaking tasks down and what your vision of the things you want to finish and managing your time so you can complete them and so join me and will be blogging and filming for the programme om my vlog channel: https://www.youtube.com/@typicallondongal
I have created an area for you to reflect each week as you join me in resetting your life and if you like to share what you want to complete and please provide feedback, then please do so. You can do so by the comments section below.
Yes it is now Autumn and that means school is back on. Does that feel you with dread?
This would be me, but now, now I am more present in mind, have had the best summer I have had so far in my life and had some really good days out, had time for myself too and really been a lot of fun.
If there was one thing you would like to do in the summer, then jot it down, and save it.
This is a picture of my son stroking a cat we often see in Southpark Gardens in Wimbledon and perfect good to play in all year round.
Altering habits has helped, like not stopping in as I was having two days indoors, but I actually found that this left me feeling restless and feel better, when I have been out. i was anxious about taking Henry Swimming, because it was a different gym, but was really good fun and having time to watch a series on the TV and taking breaks from my laptop and not being near my phone all of the time, helped.
It is the end of my Summer Project 2024 programme and on the 10th of September is when my Autumn Reset will begin, getting parts of my life sorted out and projects finished, like my book that I am having proof read is done, a first draft of another book done and I have been doing a Counselling course and will be completing and sorting out my room in Epsom, and when the shed is finished in the garden will give it a good clean and give it a bit of make over and use it for my crafting as I want to get back into scrapbooking again and other crafting products I want to do.
I really hope you all had good summer and you enjoyed the holidays and we may still have good weather as sometimes summer can last a lot longer, we hope, as I have loved being in shorts and not having to wear so much to keep warm.
Images of places visited in the Summer of 2024 and places I have visited and walks
So I have had a really good summer, by doing some wonderful things and I think it is having more positivity, and one of my dreams from when I left school back in 1996, was working on a radio by working for a hospital radio and it has happened and I love it.
I am doing courses that I have wanted to do and feel that my life is taking shape and to continue to follow my dreams, and yes there have been bumps on the road, but that is part of how we can have a different outlook on life, by pushing forward and not allowing those bumps, stop me, from having a good day now and have been less stressed over it.
There was a time I just didn’t want to be alive and felt my life was boring and I had become a different version of myself, someone who didn’t want to get out of bed and go out. I was sleeping through most of the day and needed help.
I got the help, from spending time in hospital and it helped me get back on my feet and back to feeling good about my life and now I have cleared my debt, gone for long walks again and exercising, taking my son swimming, finding my son a good school that met his needs better and having fun with my son, and with family and writing books. I have one that is being proof read and working on a series called Mum&Me, and working on book 2 and got other books I am writing and reading a lot.
So you can change your life into a more positive one, no matter what hurdles you face?
Absolutely and being in my 40’s my love of life has grown and have so many things I am loving, like seeing my son ride his bike, going to pubs and having some food, enjoying what I have in my life and not focussing on what I don’t have and that life is about, how you make it and what it means to you.
Please check out Pinterest where you will find my videos, blogs and resources for this years Summer Project 2024. Please give me some feedback and what blogs you liked and what you’d like to blog and film about in next years, in 2025. You can leave a comment below.
Sorry that this is late but we went to a park to meet up with my brother and friends for a Picnic, and ran out of time this morning. This weeks cheat sheet is about planning meal time as I plan each week as will back making dinners as my son starts school next week and so these tips will help you get back into cooking meals after the summer of picnics and eating out.
If we didn’t have a Queen, we would have never had a King and now we have a King, he now will be head of the monarch and it has been a massive adjustment and I bet that he feels that too. It is not the title but the thing they do that has a massive impact and the Queen did that.
She had problems of her own, but she always showed up. You have Nelson Mandela who was imprisoned and became a figure head and helped stop black people being used as slaves and being mistreated and became a leader of his country and did so much to improve lives.
When I talk about Nelson Mandela, I think about Bob Geldof who used his talent of music to make a difference to those in Africa that were starving and created Band Aid, with it still to this day the song “Do they know it’s Christmas time” is still being played at Christmas and there have been different versions since then, but as far as I am concerned you can’t beat the original song. It sends a real message that we, including myself have taken special days and events for granted and there are many people who don’t because we still have people trying to have a normal life but because of money they aren’t able to.
Then there are children and Michael Jackson for example who were iconic because of his status in the music industry, that his music made a difference and with many being written by himself and still being played, long passed his life and his family lives. He was star from a child and he didn’t know anything else. Then there were the Spice Girls who became iconic, because they achieved success that beat male bands out of the air and still today they make an impact. Victoria Beckham, is now a fashion designer and Emma Bunton has been working on radio and helped the girl bands and that it okay to be a woman in music, and did get in touch with young girls and I remember when they became iconic, because I was living in a housing estate at the time a couple of girls upstairs were singing and copying the dance that they did to “Wannabe” and still today their music lives on.
I think it is because it takes people out of their lives for four to five minutes and helps them get through their lives. Music to me has had a massive impact and it takes me back to certain times and addresses how I am feeling. Sports like football helps you switch off from your life and that is how Paul Gascoigne became a famous because him crying made everyone else feel it, when we lost against West Germany in 1990. We saw them as human beings, which we can often forget and got in touch with people’s hearts. It boosted the football in England as we were so close in getting to the final and then the Premiership came to light and this changed the view on football and the leagues had all been shuffled and been changed.
Those who make such a impact has made us all wish to do the same and inspired us to be somebody by making a difference.
My grandparents and parents have been a massive impact on my life as it made me stand on my own two feet and that I do have a good effect support around me and grateful, rather than thinking of what I didn’t have, and embrace life now thinking of those who have helped me grow and will continue to do so.
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