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August Newsletter 2025

20 Wednesday Aug 2025

Posted by Carries Blog Network in Autumn Reset, Books, Monthly Newsletter, Monthly posts, Planning for 2025, Summer Project

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Autumn 2025, monthly blog, my monthly newsletter, planning 2025, summer holidays

Hello! So it is that time again. I am sharing my monthly Newsletter for August 2025. I am sharing what I have been doing so far in the Summer Holidays and what is coming up within my content. And before that, Just to let you know, my book Mum&Me book 1, is available to for you to read. It is available in Kindle and Paperback: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BGSS7H9K

Please see my August Newsletter below:

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I will be posting my Last Blogs for my Life Coaching Programme, Summer Project 2024 and GET READY for my Autumn Reset. More to be confirmed.

I please check out my YouTube Channels. I will be posting more on these sites and will be taking a break from my Vlog channel, in October 2025.

https://www.youtube.com/@typicallondongal

https://www.youtube.com/@financialliving

https://www.youtube.com/@CarrieEducationalYoutube-ws4xp

Many thanks for reading,

Carrie X

Life Is Full of Lessons, Summer Project 2025

08 Friday Aug 2025

Posted by Carries Blog Network in Everyday living, Financial Living, having bad days, health and wellbeing, life coaching blog, Living, Personal Development, Planning for 2025, Summer Project, Weekly posts

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feeling defeated, life lessons, Not being in debt, Not shouting, switching off

It is August 2025 and the last month of this years Summer Project and the it is my Autumn Reset programme and so more to come.

In this blog I talk about How Life Is Full of Lessons.

Shouting: I have found by shouting has made matters worse when my son wouldn’t eat his food and one work place, there was a manager who screamed and shouted a lot and it just made you want to pack your bags and go. I am not saying that I am perfect, it can be the first thing you do but it has made matters worse. Go into another room, stay calm and with my son now, giving him two choices, as soon as I feel like shouting I will take breath and say “You got two choices and if you do not choose I will choose for you. Check out his video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQs5l6ojlOI&list=PL0AyektQNGDGF_ms_qIrBILXsIM_rTjp_&index=6 I give into my son when he begins to get annoyed and have a tantrum but you can’t please your kids all the time and staying calm and not shouting, has better results in your child see getting angry and kicking off leads to me make the choice and take my seriously. In shouting my son would laugh and it really got to me. Now I have stopped myself, it has had a better reaction.

Switch off: One Saturday I was seated on the sofa and every five minutes I was looking at my phone. This was driving me mad and so now I don’t have my phone always near me. I am not always on laptop and found sometimes, to do bits in silence. Like writing, cooking and having a drink.

Being out of debt: It feels so good not to be in debt. I do have a Youtube Channel dedicated to money. https://www.youtube.com/@financialliving I needed to rebuild my relationship with money. My spending was getting out of hand. I did have store cards, catalogue Accounts, overdrafts and an Amazon credit card. I was doing buy now pay later. Now out of debt my life has changed financially and monitor what comes in and what goes out. It feels so good to not to have so much “Money Stress” I call it and I do no spend days and use what I got.

Feeling defeated: Began Park run this year and it was good but wasn’t enjoying it. I was getting self conscious about being last. Since then I have been doing walks with my son, walking in the mornings when he was at school and this week did 30,000 steps. Now I feel ready to go back to doing Park run and even run part of it.

So what have you learned. What is now good in your life and how did you go about improving the way you feel about yourself and your life. Please leave a comment below. It is good to see your life changing for the better by what we have learned about areas in our lives.

Many thanks for reading,

Carrie X

Life Coaching Blog: Creative Planning

23 Wednesday Jul 2025

Posted by Carries Blog Network in Creating a vision, Everyday living, health and wellbeing, life coaching blog, Living, Personal Development, Planning for 2025, Summer Project, Weekly posts

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be inventive, being creative, journaling, life coaching blog, planning and organisation

I like to Plan a lot. It is something I have naturally done and was bread in me. People think because you are planning, that your organised. That is not the case. Its because I am disorganized I plan, I have forgotten when my son has had own clothes day, when he was doing a show at Christmas and not ordered his lunches for school, as he has school dinners, so I see it as a tool but also, a fun exercise.

I keep a written diary and use a Calendar on Notion and google Calendar and make sure I check my emails daily. It is good to have a nice diary or planner as it can feel like a chore but it doesn’t have to be.

I love journaling too and I like to design them so I can flick through and to remind myself of the main things I want to focus on.

I like using photos, images on line to create vision boards along with Pinterest and Canva, and mind maps.

It is great to get your kids involved too and designing and being creative.

Have a Family Planner that your kids can design and write on. Having a List for your children to complete where they can add stickers too once they have completed a task, adding a treat once they have done four things on their list.

I have a writing journal as love to write books, a daily one, gratitude journal and cooking.

You can create your own stickers and cut out words from a newspaper or magazine and books. I have been cutting out notes on my notebooks into my journal. I like to use colouring pens and washi tapes along with labels.

You can be a inventive as you like and can take no more than 10 minutes.

So get Creative and Get Planning.

Many thanks for reading,

Carrie X

July Newsletter 2025

22 Tuesday Jul 2025

Posted by Carries Blog Network in Celebrating, Monthly Newsletter, Monthly posts, Planning for 2025, Printables

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free printable, july2025, monthly post, Shows and concerts, Talking about TV

Please check out my Newsletter for July 2025 and talk about what I will be doing as my son is finishing this week for the Summer Holidays. I have been watching Live AID celebrating its 40 years and was hard to see Bob Geldof cry when watching documentary of the songs in the US and the UK and what lengths he had to go through to help those dying in Ethiopia.

Wimbledon Tennis, seeing Billy Idol and seeing The Rocky Horror show with Jason Donovan at Wimbledon Theatre.

I am still doing My Life Coaching programme, Summer Project 2025 check out my Pinterest: https://uk.pinterest.com/thetypicalLondongal/summer-project-2025/

Here is this months Newsletter:

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They are free to download and print and if you’d like to check out my blogs and newsletters on this site then please subscribe.

Many thanks for reading,

Carrie X

Weekly Cheat Sheet: Family Fun

14 Monday Jul 2025

Posted by Carries Blog Network in Cheat sheet, health and wellbeing, Living, Planning for 2025, Printables, Weekly posts

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Welcome all! If you are new then thank you for visiting this blog site, I post weekly on how to feel good about yourself and your life.

Each week I post a printable to help you have fun and enjoy your life.

This week it is almost, for the UK, the end of the school year and is the start to the summer holidays. Here are ideas to have some family fun.

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All the Cheat Sheets I post are free to download and print. You can subscribe to this site if you enjoy the content on this site and you will be notified if you do of when I post on this site.

At the moment I am doing my yearly Life Coaching Programme Summer Project to help you have a better Life and a better year and all content is free.

I also write a parenting blog so if you click here then you can read more of my blogs on there too: https://www.youtube.com/embed/RbXy5eStHmM

Many thanks for reading,

Carrie X

Weekly Cheat Sheet: Getting Organised

08 Tuesday Jul 2025

Posted by Carries Blog Network in Everyday living, Financial Living, health and wellbeing, Living, Planning for 2025, Positive Habits, Printables, productivity, Weekly posts

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Sorry I didn’t post on Monday I had to got the doctors and met up with my mum and step dad, but here is this weeks, it is tips on Getting Organised. I often write a blog all about Organisation: https://organize4thebetter.blogspot.com

I post my cheat sheet each week on various topics and I am not an organised person and because of that I have set up a routine where I will get jobs down, cleaning my home, remembering school dates and any appointments and don’t double book myself.

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These are free to download and print and if you’d like to know when I have posted on this site then you an do so my subscribing.

Many thanks for reading,

Carrie X

Life Coaching Blog: When Your Mind Says No

01 Tuesday Jul 2025

Posted by Carries Blog Network in Everyday living, health and wellbeing, life coaching blog, Personal Development, Planning for 2025, Positive Habits, Summer Project, Weekly posts

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If you are not wanting to meet with friends, then ask yourself, “Why?” and talk to that critic that’s in your mind. It will always be there. because its part of your brain protecting you but we have to push it away and meet with friends and if it doesn’t go well then noone can keep you there and it is your choice.

Will you feel left out?

Like you are missing out?

I would often feel like that a lot and I realise it was because I wouldn’t go with them and it was a personal attack, when seeing pictures on Facebook. Now I have realised, is that, no they’ve not sending me a message to say I was uninvited and often too caught up in seeing other people myself and when I did got out I would want to stay out all evening.

When I hear the word “NO” I feel like I am in a car stepping on the breaks all of sudden.

My mind is resisting right now. I want to clean the Freezer but its given me a dread feeling. What if I can’t get it clean? Should I film in a vlog? My mind is overactive and the doubt just seeps in and before I know it, that job does not get done as I weighing up the dos and don’ts.

I have my finances to go through. I feel my mind resistance in doing so and it drives me up the wall. So I am going to go through my finances, no matter what my mind is saying, but listen to my gut and know that once it is done this weekly task then that’s it updated, until next week.

It is up to me and what I want to get out of this day. I enjoyed yesterday writing whilst having the tennis on and watching a bit of Youtube. So lets see what I do next and yes if my mind says NO, then I listen to be my gut and ignore the self doubt and weighing up the Consequences.

It’s about get up and go.

Many thanks for reading,

Carrie X

Life Coaching blog: What do I want to improve on?

25 Wednesday Jun 2025

Posted by Carries Blog Network in Everyday living, having bad days, health and wellbeing, life coaching blog, Living, Personal Development, Planning for 2025, Summer Project, Weekly posts

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building your life, health and wellbeing, improving your life, looking after yourself, Self development

So with your worksheets I had created in this blog, here The Beginning of My Summer Project 2025 jot down. on Page 7, of what you want to improve. I am always trying to improve my skills and knowledge to help me with my writing, by watching other writers who have been successful and doing short courses online.

It could be to improve your fitness, your communication with others, having more time off and just clear your mind and then go through each one you’ve written down and start taking action.

I am still that girl who has clothes at the bottom of my bed, forgot to pick up something from the shops and gets lost quite a bit. So I will spend time to fold my clothes each day and each week and its having good systems set up. Managing Your Life With Different Systems for better Productivity. I will make sure I have a shopping list at hand and I have preplanned directions.

There is always in my book, room for improvement. When working on radio which I do on Sundays 4to6pm for Epsom Hospital Radio. Being doing this for about a year and still learning and improving my radio skills, to make sure I ask my Manager if I am unsure about something and listen to my colleagues shows to help improve my show and improving my Youtube videos. Check out my Channels:

https://www.youtube.com/@typicallondongal

https://www.youtube.com/@financialliving

https://www.youtube.com/@CarrieEducationalYoutube-ws4xp

So whatever it is jot it down and go back What You Want to Focus on and the most on Page 7 to highlight what is most important to you.

I am also creating videos for this Life Coaching Programme, Summer Project 2025 and so check out above, Carries Educational Youtube Channel.

Many thanks for reading,

Carrie X

Weekly Cheat Sheet: Having A Simple Schedule

23 Monday Jun 2025

Posted by Carries Blog Network in Cheat sheet, Everyday living, having bad days, health and wellbeing, Living, Planning for 2025, Printables, Weekly posts

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free printable, getting life together, having a simple schedule, planning and scheduling, weekly cheat sheet

Hello and welcome! I hope you are okay and adapting to the weather. This is being written in June 2025 where (I’m on the UK) we have had a massive heatwave. It is nice to see the sun but the heat has been getting too much. If that annoys you and should be grateful with nice weather, then Sorry and you can skip this bit in this blog if you want to.

So this weeks Cheat Sheet is about Having A Simple Schedule. I like to plan my days, weeks and months, and so developed a system whereby I do things on a selective day, time and write down my plans as well using google calendar and Notion, so they stay in my head.

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These are free to download and print. If you’d like to be notified when I post on this blog then you can, just select subscribe with no cost and just helps me build my content and be some kind of support to you so you have a life where you aren’t stressing. I have always been super stressed but would wear me down so doing Simple Systems when it comes to planning and scheduling, has made me less stressed and enjoy each day.

Many thanks for reading,

Carrie X

Life Coaching Programme Summer Project 2025 Changing Your Image From my Own Experience

20 Friday Jun 2025

Posted by Carries Blog Network in health and wellbeing, life coaching blog, life coaching video, Living, Personal care, Personal Development, Planning for 2025, Positive Habits, Summer Project, Weekly posts

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Body Image, health and wellbeing, helping my insecurities, My Mental Health Battle, self care and development

It has been a life of regret, struggles and low self belief. I had no respect for myself and would avoid looking in the mirror. Check out this video about Changing your Image:

life Coaching Video for my Summer Project programme about Changing Your image

I go through the issues I had and doing things to get over those feelings and feel good about myself.

It has taken many years, learning and understanding to accept myself and proud of the person I have become but do need to recover certain relationships as often it is the inside the person that matters and not calling someone a name and hitting out to the people that I love and who love me back and recovering from a Mental Health diagnosis, psychosis and having terrible anxiety.

I kept feeling the worst and forgiving myself, check out this blog and feeling good about myself: https://buildingselfconfidencetud.blogspot.com/2025/06/be-your-own-bestfriend.html

Things that were happening to me growing into a woman I found tough, being an early developer and felt out of control as my body changed and so my insecurities grew.

Life has a way of hitting you in the face and making you feel lost. I lost myself for a while, battling with my Mental Health, but from the knocks that life makes, where you fall of the rails to make you stronger and feel I do have courage and resilience to not to allow my inner critic get me down and spending time with the right people who do really do love me, has made me see that I Iook fine and the right shape for my height and body.

I blamed others for the way I felt and I had to take responsibility that noone is to blame I just needed to get a hold of myself and stop worrying what I don’t have but what I do have.

It has been a rollercoaster but I now know how to stop it and make an effort to help me to feel good about myself. I hated my teeth, my boobs and my stomach.

So I please enjoy the video and please subscribe if you’d like to be notified of when I post on this site and my educational Youtube Channel.

Many thanks for reading,

Carrie X

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