Its Okay to Be Selfish

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It is okay to put yourself first.

It is okay to say your tired and have someone else cook.

It is okay to sleep in and read, whilst your kids are playing with the other parent or with a friend, relative.

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We all need to recharge, go for a walk without your kids hanging onto your ankles.

We are all here to live a blissful life and life can become too much, so don’t feel bad if you need some time to yourself.

Forget the guilt and put a DO NOT DISTURB sign on the door whilst you write or chilling listening to a podcast and I like to often have time with the TV off and sit in silence as we all need to switch off. We are human and living beings, who need to step back, putting yourself first for once.

It okay to meet with friends rather than hoover the house and not chat on WhatsApp, but see them face to face.

I enjoy spending time with others but at the same time, I like my own company and going for a walk, grab a coffee and sit by the river or by a local pond and let my mind wonder and watching the world go by.

Learn a new skill. I have done courses at a community college and did a singing class, drama, but then got a job working at a holiday camp, so didn’t continue but was fun and done football coaching, courses on mental health and it is good to learn and grow your knowledge and you don’t have to tell the world, but be a personal project.

I like to take trips, with no real plan but just travelling on a bus or train listening to a audio book or music, looking in charity shop, not for entertainment but to see if I can find some items on my list of things I’d like to buy.

I like to eat out occasionally when my son is at school and my husband is at work.

Check out my new vlog of me going to Putney: https://youtu.be/xJ4-5dYDUAk

So be selfish and make the time yours and yours only, then once you’ve had some time to be with yourself then meet with others again and schedule some more down time.

This is part of my training I am doing for April 2025 because following these practices and loving my own company aswell is socialising, has helped to have a better relationship with myself and my life.

Please check out these two blogs written before for training. See the links below:

never too late

breaking-barriers

Many thanks for reading,

Carrie X

It’s Never Too Late

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Hello so if you didn’t read my previous blog then please check it out here: breaking-barriers

I am doing a new training programme which it is called Change Your Life.

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It is free and there will be videos aswell coming and is for April 2025, but you can do this training any time. It is not to make you feel pressured but do it when you have a chance as we all lead busy lives and take your time filling in the Worksheet.

So in this blog I want to talk about how It’s Never Too Late. As a kid I loved music and would listen to it everyday and daydream. When I left school I wanted to work on radio and it was my mum who suggested about working on hospital radio, but I had no idea how to go about it. Then last year I saw a banner outside Epsom Hospital about their radio station. I looked on the website and filled in the waiting list and was contacted by email to come to a recruitment evening and now a year later I now presenting on Sunday’s and have my own show. I am 47.

There is a lady that we met at St George’s hospital who is an MP for Tooting who also works in the hospital and she didn’t do well in her GCSE’s as she went to the same school as me. I went to a Westminster school and really wanted work in Medicine and so now she does both.

Never give up on your dreams and ambitions.

I remember saying to a colleague when working in a call center saying to him about following your dreams and now is a nurse at St George’s hospital. It is important to have ambition and what has helped me continue growing as a woman, sister, mum and daughter was my mum. She did a degree when she was in her 40’s/50’s and I admire that.

When doing parkrun there are people of different ages. You have children, teens, middle age and elderly and are as fit as anything and gone on to do 100 parkrun’s, when I have done my 4th and so its never too late.

In fact now I am in my 40’s have more confidence by living and finding out what my capabilities are and feel that I have gone through a tough time and now have a more drive, to follow my dreams, more than anything and glad I have had the jobs I’ve had, taking part in fundraising events and doing things I never imagined. There was no such thing as a blog, Youtube and social media.

Life can be a surprise and when I went to dancing school one of he teachers had a terrible accident which caused her to break her leg and quite seriously and took on dancing and it was through dancing she made a full recovery and became a dancing teacher and I will never forget her. So if there is something you want to do then you can. Believe in yourself, never give up and if you have stories of achieving your dreams, please share below in the comment section.

I will be doing Race For Life again on the Epsom Downs. Please check out my just giving page:

Here is my Worksheet which is free to download and print and will help you Change Your Life.

Many thanks for reading,

Carrie X

New Cheat Sheet for the Week: When Your Feeling Under the Weather

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As it is spring it can often mean we can get Hayfever which can lead to an infection. My son and myself suffer with Hayfever and my son has had it pretty bad and was breathing really heavily so had to seek medical help.

Just because it is Spring doesn’t mean your free from getting sick and so this new Cheat Sheet for the week, is Giving tips on what to do when your feeling under the weather.

These are free to download and print and post them every Monday.

I really hope that you find them useful.

Many thanks for reading,

Carrie X

Weekly Cheat Sheet: Where You Can SAVE Money

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Hello! I hope this week sees you well if you are off with your kids on holiday. If you are new to this site then welcome! Each Monday I post free printables to help you with various areas, when we take on so much. I began these through when I worked because I found them great to look at to give advice and help and wanted to do this too to help coach and see people getting there plans completed and achieved.

This weeks is all about Where You Can Save Money as money is tight at the moment. I watch a lot of financial videos to help me handle my money and do have a Youtube channel too, which is all about managing my money to help you manage yours. Check out this link: https://www.youtube.com/@financialliving

Here is this weeks Cheat Sheet:

This month I am doing some more training. Check out my last blog on this site: breaking-barriers

It will be free and will making videos and blogs if you are looking to Make Changes to your life and feel better about yourself and your life and will be writing another blog for the programme this week.

Many thanks for reading,

Carrie X

Breaking Barriers and The Fear of accomplishing

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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

Cheat Sheet: Holiday Ideas

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Hello! So tomorrow it is April Fools Day and means that we maybe fooled tomorrow. They bound to do them on TV. It also means it is the last week of school and it is the Easter Holidays.

Today is the last Cheat Sheet for March 2025 and so here are some ideas of what to do during the holidays.

These are free to download and print and post every Monday on this site. I have written two other blogs on my other sites: Getting Ready For Half Term: Places and plans for half term | The parenting adventures and my site Organise for the better: https://organize4thebetter.blogspot.com/2025/03/having-back-up-plan-for-those-unplanned.html

I also have a Vlog Channel, a channel on Finance and money and Educational Youtube Channel:

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

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

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

Many thanks for reading,

Carrie X

March Newsletter 2025

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Hey happy Tuesday! It is a new month coming to a close and we had some good days. World Book Day and International Women’s day and Pancake day and now we are heading towards Easter. So time for those Easter Egg Hunts.

I did some Self Development Training and have more planned for April.

These newsletter are free to download and print and of a events and projects coming up.

I hope you enjoy reading and I will be back with more in April. If you wanted to be notified of when I post on this site then please subscribe.

Many thanks for reading,

Carrie X

Weekly Cheat: Having a Reset. Making a Fresh Start

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Hello! It is the start of a new week and today I have been updating my google calendar and lists on Notion, getting tasks that are Overdue. This weeks Cheat Sheet is tips on Having a Fresh Start to having a Reset.

They are free to download and print. If you’d like to be notified of when I post on this site then you can do so my subscribing.

Many thanks for reading,

Carrie X

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

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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.

If you’d like to be notified of when I post on this site them please subscribe.
Many thank for reading,

Carrie X

This Weeks Cheat Sheet: 10 Tips on Decluttering

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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:

If you’d like to notified when I post a blog then you can subscribe and post these each week.

Many thanks,

Carrie X