Autumn Reset: Reflecting on my life 2024 the beginning of a new reset to get tasks completed and my hopes

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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.

I have written a few posts about the Summer holidays: https://mydailythougthsandfeelings.blogspot.com/2024/07/enjoying-summer-holidays-2024.html

https://mydailythougthsandfeelings.blogspot.com/2024/08/enjoying-summer-holidays-2024.html

https://mydailythougthsandfeelings.blogspot.com/2024/08/unplanned-walk-summer-holidays-2024.html

I have vlogged too, which will be published soon, on my vlog Youtube Channel, Typical London Gal Carrie Holmes

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.

Many thanks for reading,

Carrie X

Life Coaching: Having it all, coming to the end of the Summer Project 2024.

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It is now the last week and if you haven’t checked out my videos then here is the link for you to check them out: https://www.youtube.com/@CarrieEducationalYoutube-ws4xp

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.

Many thanks for reading,

Carrie X

Cheat Sheet: Planning Meal time

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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.

These are completely free to download and print. I post every Monday.

Many thanks for your time,

Carrie X

Life Coaching: Those who have made a difference in the world AND made a big impact to people’s lives

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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.

Photo by Magda Ehlers on Pexels.com

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.

If you’d like to share who was your biggest impact in your life. Please share you story if you wish and please subscribe to help grow this site and keep creating content that helps you.

Many thanks for reading,

Carrie X

Weekly Cheat Sheet: Getting it All done

Hello so some families have already gone back to school and means its coming up to all systems go again getting our kids ready for school and ourselves.

I give tip on how to Get it all done and systems that will help you not rush and everyone knows in your home of what is happening in the week.

I post these weekly, every Monday and are free to download and so you don’t miss them subscribe and you can share if you wish.

Many thanks for your visit to this blog site

Carrie X

Monthly Newsletter August 2024

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That time again, where has the time gone!

The Summer Holiday are coming to an end, got a few weeks left and is time to get ready for a new season and soon it will be my Autumn Reset.

Here is this months Newsletter:

These are free to download and I post them each month and please share.

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Many thanks for reading,

Carrie X

Life Coaching: Being Your Authentic Self, what does it mean?

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I told this bit of advise from a lady who is on Youtube and sent her a message on her channel as I am now presenting on Epsom Hospital Radio, and I was a bit unsure of how to take on this opportunity. As I naturally do, out of habit, question myself, and so asked her for advise and she said to be my Authentic self. This for me means be who you are and not what others want you to be.

This is me in a rare selfie and has helped me be Authentic and be thankful for who I am.

Never be someone your not and be honest, and true to yourself and grow, but remember who you are and what you can bring to the table. Take each show as it comes and see what happens, and stop jumping in with both feet and take my time, so I don’t put too much pressure on myself and enjoy the experience, and be open to honest feedback by the person training me, and I have loved it.

Going to be hosting show on Sunday 4 to 6 so if you want to listen if you are in the UK then please listen and will be some real good chill out music and is a dream job.

In learning, as you do each day, I feel that you have to admit to yourself of when I’ve been wrong about things and I did in a video for my Life coaching programme, about, Its okay to not to always be right, https://youtu.be/VZ69j6csoXA and that planning ahead is me, but owning loads is not and that I am changing again, you go through changes in body and mind and been learning to love myself, of what I am about and yes I have done wrong, so not perfect but am a giver and why connecting with others.

There was a time where I loathed my life and wished I had a different story to tell, but actually my life has been good and stopped feeling sorry for myself getting on with life and focusing of what I have in my life, not what I don’t.

Please check out my new Life Coaching video: https://youtu.be/XuAkkcN-Pwo

Life can be good if you allow it. It is not always full of doom and gloom, but it also okay to feel different motions to manage them so they don’t stop you from living a happy life.

Many thanks for reading,

Carrie X

My Weekly Cheat Sheets: Getting ready for the Autumn

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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.

Many thanks for reading,

Carrie X

Life Coaching: Happy Habits that I like to do each day, week and changing seasons

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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.

Have no spend days, please check out my youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@financialliving

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.
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Carrie X

Weekly Cheat Sheet: Post Holiday list for School and home

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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.

These Cheat Sheets I do every Monday and on this site and my parenting site: https://theparentingadventurestipsandtricks.wordpress.com

They are completely free to download and print, and please share.

Many thanks for reading,

Carrie X