20 Sunday Sep 2026
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09 Wednesday Sep 2026
It is good season because it is time to let things go, restart and for me is my favourite season as I plan projects, getting my home in order and getting my son ready for school and is a good time to complete and why I set up my autumn reset programme so we can finish tasks and I building up my health by exercising more and changing my eating habits with a few naughty foods, but try alternatives.
I love a soup and a roll and today by not buying so many processed foods and getting more whole foods, which has helped me spend less on my weeks shop. I am realising that it is good to have a mixture of things. It has helped me, watching those cooking on Instagram. It has helped me cook homemade meals and puddings again which can be good it all depends on what it is and I do feel better for it.
I suppose this may be the worst thing, but I like the dark mornings. I like to have time to read and since doing that I have felt so good and have list of things I’d like to do, like having a coffee up at Wimbledon Village, having a coffee in Gail’s and walking to Ashtead Village and have a coffee and so still do some walking and just good time to plan a countryfied walk and enjoying where I live.
There was a time where I’d find it hard getting up in the mornings but this morning I felt good and I like to get back wearing my tracksuit bottoms and where I have a bath, wear a T-Shirt and PJ bottoms but altering my wardrobe this autumn. I am getting rid of my current PJ’s as I prefer bottoms that have pockets and this is the same with shorts, tracksuit bottoms and Jeans.
It is good to have a clean up and I used to do Seasonal Clean ups on my Youtube channel, let me know if you want me to bring these back. The link to my Youtube channel is here: https://www.youtube.com/@Carriechalloner I like having a clear out and check out recent video I did about having a health reset this year: https://youtu.be/kWeigemntCs
Doing a meal plan even if it is a scrap piece of paper, what I tend to use. I am recycling a lot this year and saving bits of paper, I am having a quiet coffee or tea. This is in the morning and I do have some mugs I use in the Autumn. Check out this blog post: Taking The Time to Just Enjoy Your Coffee Inc. Weekly Cheat Sheet and seen some nice new mugs in Waitrose so going to take a trip and may buy and change up my mugs for Autumn as in some areas I like investing in new things for the home and it is good to start a fresh and that is what makes an autumn reset for me and lets do it together and perhaps set up a group. This may be for the future but let me know what you think? You can leave a comment below.
So lets enjoy and have those nice cosy drinks and food, along with a new mindset to get those tasks you’ve not managed to finish done.
Many thanks for reading,
Carrie X
21 Tuesday Oct 2025
Posted in Celebrating, Monthly Newsletter, Monthly posts, Planning for 2025, Printables
Hi Everyone! Not that far away now for Christmas and sorry if you aren’t ready but it is moving towards it and where I have to think of good gifts. I have a few birthdays coming up before hand so a busy time of year, It is also time for my Monthly Newsletter. Check it out below:
They are completely free to download and print. I love creating them and posting.
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Many thanks for reading,
Carrie X
03 Friday Oct 2025
For a while I had been getting up really early with no alarm, just relying on my body clock and not going back to bed because I’d end up having a nightmare and would feel overly tired.
Last week I was shattered and was even told I look tired and was feeling agitated and yet like as I start this blog, realised I can still read and do a bit of writing on my laptop, by not getting up super early. I would some mornings be wide awake, but by 2pm I’d feel wiped out.
I have changed my routine and still been awake early, but brush my teeth and just chill and the get up at 6am. So do successful people get up at 4am or is it a myth? A trend?
Not getting up a 4am I can still have my first cup of tea, read and be in bed and turn the light off and if I get a couple more hours of sleep, then I listen to my body and obey it.
Steven Bartlett doesn’t get up early. He never books appointments before 11am. I think it is choice and what each persons body, tells them if they are an Early Bird or a Night Owl. Yes my son is an early bird, but I want to stay in bed, then I will. It is what I feel like and what suits me as an individual.
I was going to bed early but I would be awake by midnight fighting with my tiredness, feeling wide awake taking ages to go back to sleep. So now I stay up between 9pm to 11pm and I find it works better for me.
What works for you
Yes I have heard theories about if you go to bed early you wake up earlier but like I have said, my body and mind likes to sleep when I feel actually tired enough and I like to spend time doing a bit of writing in the early evening and then watch some TV and that is what works for me.
When some people do night shifts they still have to sleep and one of my uncles did that for years and so it is what suits a persons lifestyle. They still need to eat and stay hydrated, stay clean and have some winding down time.
So if you want to get up at 4am and it suits you, great, if not then do what works for you. You are your own boss and your choice, going on your lifestyle and what helps you to sleep well, to function well.
Many thanks for reading,
Carrie X
19 Friday Sep 2025
Posted in Autumn Reset, health and wellbeing, new year, Yearly Reset
Hello! If you are new here then each year in September I do a Autumn Reset. I go through a number of items to complete, to kick start the change of, a new season, to help kick start the new Academic year and started doing this two years ago. I have done a printable to help you, please click here: Autumn Reset Worksheet 2025
I was going through what I do each day and I find filling up my mind, can get a bit tiresome and so I avoid these when doing a Reset:
It is good to not wear yourself down. It is good to have a few things done, its not about how many things you can do. It is about the result post Autumn Reset.
Go through how it has made you feel, e.g. Completing an Essay, completing a room makeover, cleaned your entire house or like me, completed a draft of a book you are writing.
A recap is good to address your feelings whether good or bad, measuring your progress. I talk about doing a Mind Map, because it is motivating and it directs you.
Then going through, example: You’ve written a paragraph of the Essay. How many words does it have to be? When is the deadline? To get my book finished I know if I use my Mornings and evenings, where I know I have a good amount of time to write, even if it is for 10 minutes, I will complete the revised first draft to then start editing. My aim is to write,’ 40,000 words and I am doing some training to help me.
You may discover areas of difficulty. That is fine. There are plenty of free sources. I have a Education YouTube channel myself: https://www.youtube.com/@CarrieEducationalYoutube-ws4xp and there are TED Talks, Youtube University and even LinkedIn have free courses and I have done courses via OfCourse: https://www.ofcourse.co.uk/ and check out, Skill share.: https://www.skillshare.com/en
If you are joining me and you have tips on getting the projects completed, for this years Autumn Reset, then please share in the comments section below.
You can subscribe to this site for free and you will be notified every time I post, on this site and do many different programmes on this site, like The Summer Project which has ended, but will be back in 2026 and to come my Winter Wellness.
I do have a new book out. It is called Mum&Me and is available via Kindle and Paperback: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mum-Me-Gucci-Tits-Virtue/dp/B0BGNF4LNF
I also have a vlog channel. I am taking a break so will be back with vlogs in October: https://www.youtube.com/@typicallondongal
I have have a YouTube Channel where I talk about Money and Finance: https://www.youtube.com/@financialliving
Many thanks for reading,
Carrie X
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15 Monday Sep 2025
I was finding it tricky to film for my other Youtube Channels, but in the week I filmed for my channel Financial Living and listening to Henry Winkler when he did a interview once on the TV, said, “If you really want something or do something, you’ll always find a way”.
Yet if you find that you need to hold off from completing one of the areas you wanted to finish, then fine. You can add projects too, I decided because I knew it wouldn’t take long, wanted to go through my emails, to clear it out, so I as part of my Autumn Reset when through my email, get rid of spam. I do subscribe to different things, but before you know it, I’ve ended up having a thousand of emails and it can get out of control. You may find that to complete some tasks, you have to do other tasks. Life is full of challenges and so other things will crop up.
I have also been doing some training to help complete my next book. My son has not got a Secondary School Placement and I love my son, but he wants to go to Secondary school and it has been a real mission. In the meantime I am home schooling and so had to put some bits on hold.
It means adjusting because to my son, I am mum and not a teacher and why when he is at school he gets more out of being in a different environment. We are going out a lot which is a good thing and he goes to clubs at the weekend and because I do a radio show on Sunday’s have to commute and setting time to plan my show ready for Sunday.
I have been using my mornings and in the afternoons. Me and son like to ride on trains and buses, or walking various bus routes. I use that time, when travelling to think about my book, my blogs and chill watching a bit of quizzes in the afternoon. Parenting is a job. I can’t split myself in half so if somethings have to hold. Do things at your own pace and just one change a day, is still getting tasks done.
If you didn’t know I have a new book out it is called Mum&Me. It is available from Amazon, by Kindle and Paperback: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BGNF4LNF
I also have a Vlog Channel. Taking some time off but I will be filming again in October and share my home life as a mum, writer, coach and Radio presenter: https://www.youtube.com/@typicallondongal
Many thanks for reading,
Carrie X
09 Tuesday Sep 2025
Doing a Autumn Reset, helps to Reshape everything. If you have tasks that are unfinished and tasks that you’ve not had a chance to do, because of the school holidays then now is the right time and focus on few things and what is the most important to you right now.
If you are having a make over in your home then why not invite friends or family over to help. As a kid whenever we decorated, our home, one of my cousins would help.
Once you go through the items that you want to complete but, like if you decide that the colour paint you wanted has changed, then change it and get a paint chart. One of mine is filming for my other channels. So going to arrange filming in another room.
Perhaps do some filming outside the home and want to improve them.
If there are items that you not able to change or work on, then fine you can go back to it at another time.
I go through what I can do rather than what I can’t do and go through what is the first steps can I take to change the areas of my life that isn’t working and often you may find that you have to start over again.
If it is relationship and your not seeing enough of each other, set a day aside one a month or once a week to go out. A change of environment can do wonders. My husband and I would book a day before Christmas and go to the Southbank, as they often have stalls, then visit Borough Market and have some Winter Cider or Mulled Wine.
Or you want to see a member of your family more often. Find their contact details and make the effort to call them and send a text to ask if they can chat and it is simple tasks that can really help get your juices flowing, to do such tasks, as we can get so stuck with life that we forget the things that can really help you get back on track if you feel your not socialising enough.
I tried many ways to do regularly exercise after I had my son. I started to get up early whilst my husband and son was a sleep and work out. Now I workout in the afternoons and often my son will join me, this is a great time to set some Autumn Goals to help with doing an Autumn Reset. I found that it is the right time and do about 5 to 10 minutes. Not everyday, but twice a week or so.
Once you set it out you find it is easy to Reshape and the one thing I find useful is doing a Mind map. I do this often and it really helps make sure I am on the right path, to finally get projects finished.
Have a schedule, be flexible if other things crop up and why not do a family reset if you want to use the Autumn Reset to spend more time with your kids. So get back into having a weekly family meal and now the schools are opened it means homework, so create if you join me in doing an Autumn reset, do a homework plan so that it is done on time and not rushed and have a family meeting to go through planning with your kids, of getting homework completed.
There are no rules to it and you can start at the beginning of Autumn or during. Ir is up to you and if it helps you, keep a diary or a journal to reflect on how it is going and if you finding something difficult and adjust as you do This year’s Autumn Reset.
I glad for your feedback and if you have tips on doing a Autumn Reset then please share. You can write in the comment section below. You can subscribe if you want to be notified when I post on this site and will never miss one.
If you missed my first post then click here: Autumn Reset
I also have a book out. It is called Mum&Me on Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BGSS7H9K
Many thanks for reading,
Carrie X
01 Monday Sep 2025
Welcome it is time for my AUTUMN RESET and been so looking forward to it.
It is time to get those projects finished, setting up for the next season and taking time out.
I won’t be vlogging my reset and focus on my other two Channels, which is part of what I want to do for this Autumn reset. I will do have vlogs to upload from Summer and then I will be taking a month off once those vlogs go out.
My other Two Youtube Channels:
Financial Living: https://www.youtube.com/@financialliving
Educational Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@CarrieEducationalYoutube-ws4xp
I do have a printable. It is free to download and print and to help you if you want to join me in this RESET.
I will working on a Book I am writing, completing my Son and I’s room and doing a declutter and been doing this during the summer but want to complete it and have more space.
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I still get likes from my previous Autumn Resets and it is great to kick start the Autumn.
Many thanks for reading,
Carrie X
