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.
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.
Hi All it is Monday once again and time for a new cheat sheet, which I post every Monday on this site and on my other site, https://theparentingadventurestipsandtricks.com and this week it is about Getting ready for the Autumn:
Yes I know we still got a few weeks but some countries and different parts of the UK have already gone back and started getting ready for Autumn and just to keep you in formed, on the 10th September my Autumn Reset Programme starts until the end of October.
To download these weekly printables it is free and can be shared.
It is good to just take my time to drink a cup of tea or coffee and gather myself to set the tone of the day and not rush. It is good to set up your day so you look forward to it, like a nice cool shower with a lovely shower cream you like, that makes you feel fresh and alive.
My choice is Radox, Nivea, Sanctuary Spa and just enjoy the water on my body, with a hair wash with Dove, head and shoulders and others I like to use different ones and do this each Sunday morning feeling properly awake, ready to take on the day and week ahead.
I do like a bath too but I save that for evening and good to have a lovely soak after a very hot day and just wind down after the eventful day to ensure I get a good nights sleep. I am been using Sanctuary Spa bath soak.
Then it is going through my plans for the day. I love planning and setting goals. I am going to set up some goals for the next season that is coming up (Autumn) and prepare for the next year of school, so my son is prepared to go back and completing my Life Coaching programme “Summer Project 2024” and if there something you liked that I have covered in this years (2024) life coaching programme, please give me your feedback of what you’d like me to talk about on this blog. You can leave a comment below.
The other thing is journaling. I love to journal and going to get back into scrapbooking, to store memories and get some pictures printed to help store them and creating more art and started to create my own prints as I am going to be doing up my room in Epsom and also going to use the shed, which we having work done. We are getting the roof of the shed redone and plan for my programme, Autumn Reset which I do each year and helps to get areas of my life completed, to start new projects and also complete another course. I have completed many as there are many things I want to do and create and continue to grow online and on the outside too, by making a difference for people.
It is important to have things set up so you can ensure that every gets done and you enjoy life.
We can get so bogged down with to do list and feel “Why?” can’t I do that another day? And so think about it, what do you want to do? What would make it easier? Perhaps you are thinking too much about it and thinking about the process, and that is putting you off.
One of habits to get bits done is to jot if down and what is the first step I need to do. Example: Cleaning my room. So I think about what one thing can I do write now that will help make it less painful? So I started clearing receipts and put them in a small folder. I then it charged it up and then went through what can I do next, and then found myself taking it all cleared and it took literally five minutes to do.
So take your time and clearing one thing is still getting it done.
I will spend my time each day checking my bank accounts and what has come out and gone in. Every Sunday I will go through what I spent in the week, and helps me to monitor what I buy and how it is spent as I do prefer spending cash and not debit.
just staying stop of things, gives me that piece of mind.
So go through your habits and what habits you want to implement in your life, and what is working in your life and what is not. Set your goals and what the outcome do you want. If you’d like this blog then please click, because it helps me see what subjects you like me to share and if you want to read more and be notified of my posts on this site then please subscribe.
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Yes it is August and the last month of summer and means that going back to school is on the horizon and here are some tips on getting your life together post holidays.
It is important to develop Habits that change the way you feel about life, example I will do bit of computer work in the morning then drink my tea in bed and enjoy the morning getting ready for the day and having a good nights sleep.
Sleep can dictate how we feel each day and its important that you can switch off and turn your devices off and allow yourself to read a book, watch a bit of TV and properly wind down. I don’t have a TV in my room so will watch something on my laptop but again limit it.
Then it is waking up and getting ready.
What steps could you take in the morning that you could change to make it better?
Just think about it. Now I am not saying I am perfect but now I make sure I give myself enough time so I can blend into the morning and take steps so my days are set out, and that I spend time getting my self and my son ready for the day, sorting myself out and go through what I need to get done.
How could you plan better?
I have begun using google calendar again and Notion to have help because I can update them wherever I am using the APPs. One Note is good and free but can get full and so using Notion which if you use the Personal format it is completely free.
I like to break my day up by taking a break from laptop during the day and has really made a huge difference as I was struggling to write and taking time away is important to rest the mind and why I like to break it up by doing my laundry, a bit of cleaning and watch TV or Youtube.
Planning my days has helped make sure I stay up to date with my sons schooling, any appointments I have and exercise. I love building up my steps by walking everyday, including using a treadmill and I do workouts with dumbells, and just having habits that has a good effect on my body, my mind and most important my health.
Just set it out and once you look at your routine and how you plan and why you can’t complete anything and miss appointments. It could be ADHD as adults can have it and that you are giving yourself too much to do each day and not breaking it down.
Are you having trouble trying to stick with good habits
Like I said I have and so if something not wrong that I need to find another way that makes me stick with it until I have found that works for me. I do like to bet up early because I always done so and so immune to it, but it not a necessary, Steven Bartlett doesn’t and doesn’t book any appointments before 11:30am so you may find that you are an night out, which I thought I was but no, but it what works for you that makes your life feel easier rather than a fight.
Change one habit at a time and some will come naturally like I like to be ready each day but 7:30am when my son goes to school or kids holiday club, this includes breakfast and taking my medication and set a time to get ready by.
At the weekends I like to stay in my night gear a little longer and watch a bit of morning TV because I have stopped watching a lot of TV as this can effect your mind and body and I get bored quickly so I will make sure that I am done all that I needed to do in the day by 2:30pm and then go if it is sunny sit in the sunshine.
So change habits not just for short term but that gives you a better wellbeing and feel happy about your life and where it is heading.
I know a lot of coaches and health experts say to get out of your comfort zone, and that is me included and have changed that mindset. I have begun to realise that this can often lead to stress and anxiety, and so from my own self I like to take it step by step, rather than jumping in with both feet and hating every minute of it.
There are many things I have wanted to do something that I never thought I could do and that is speak publicly to people and from watching others film their life, to help others I have three Youtube channels and now working on radio.
At school I was mocked when we had to play game, where we had to, for one minute talk about an object or subject and I was stuttering and wanted the earth to swallow me up and it made me for a while fearful of talking in front of the class and yet, as a young child performed in shows when I did tap and ballet had no fear and loved it.
When you grow from being a child into an adult your awareness increases of ourselves and begin to have feelings we have never had before and I was super shy at one point. I attended a drama school and was fearful, and I just froze and just sat there and didn’t know what to do and the teacher watching,f was really looking at me as if I poohed in the class and just wanted to run and not come back.
Yet I loved dancing and when I got to be in a school play again loved it and performed in assembly’s but when it came to speaking out I was a nervous wreck.
Doing Drama helped me and how I gained my confidence to talk in front of people and planning on what I was going to say and I was shy going to my first session of ballroom dancing and soon overcome my shyness and found the skill I was good at and it bought me out of shell and glad I took the chance and it was through a friend, and going with a friend can make it less daunting if you want to do something that you have always wanted to do, and can make it fun and take the fear away.
So never allow your fear to avoid chances because it can have a real positive effect to lead to other chances.
Everyone can build a castle 