Are you ready?
1To not just skim read through the articles, but to actually do the activities and exercises? To explore, play and experiment? Are you ready to…. read more.
Zumba Classes
2I teach Zumba Classes nearly every night of the week. Dance has always been my hobby and I absolutely love it. ZUMBA IS GREAT FUN, if you haven’t tried it, why not? What have you got to…. read more.
On the right track?
3Answer the following questions and work out your score. Once you’ve done that you can then read the guidance points, for advice on taking your career in the right direction…. read more.
About Me
4I qualified as a teacher (PGCE) in 2003, teaching for a couple of years, before working as a one-to-one Personal Adviser for Connexions for the next three years. I am a fully qualified…. read more.
“Be a Queen” By Oprah Winfrey
This is a speech made by Oprah Winfrey….BE A QUEEN. We are all queens, and I don’t mean that in the gay sense! Be a queen. Dare to be different. Be a pioneer. Be a leader. Be the kind of woman who in the face of diversity will continue to embrace life and walk fearlessly toward challenge. Take it on! …
Read More7 Reasons Why People Procrastinate
1. FEAR….plain and simple! 2. We seek perfection. We want things to be just so, just right. By wanting things to be perfect we put way too much pressure on ourselves. This pressure, instead of motivating and spurring us on, is actually paralysing. This is probably what writers are experiencing when they talk about writers block. 3. Feeling and worries around not …
Read MoreThe Top Ten things that People Procrastinate Over
Exercising 2. Cleaning 3. Cleaning out closets, drawers, and other cluttered spaces 4. Losing weight 5. Sorting out finances, tax returns & book keeping 6. Keeping up with reading related to work 7. Writing letters (personal correspondence, not work-related) 8. Investing/saving for the future 9. Making home repairs or …
Read More7 Ways to Stop Procrastinating
1. Do the hardest or least appealing task first. For me this is often tasks which have something to do with finances, like tax returns or book keeping! I wonder what the top tasks are that people procrastinate over? Anything that has too much detail. That can be a future blog post?! 2.Write a to-do list. Keep it manageable with …
Read MoreHistory of International Women’s Day
International Women’s Day has been observed since in the early 1900′s, a time of great expansion and turbulence in the industrialized world that saw booming population growth and the rise of radical ideologies. 1908 Great unrest and critical debate was occurring amongst women. Women’s oppression and inequality was spurring women to become more vocal and active in campaigning for change. …
Read MoreRecommended Spiritual Books
BRILLIANT BOOKS ~ Recommended By Nicola from The Orange Tree One Day – David Nicholls. Amazing modern story that follows two teenagers (Emma and Dex) from university through to their 40’s. Beautifully written. The Book Thief – The story is set during the Second World War, it is of a little girl who steals books as a way of …
Read MoreThe Life of a Creative Artist
Elaine Barrow Creative Art Facilitator What creativity means to me For me creativity is about how I live my life and express myself each day. We can express ourselves creatively in the everyday things we take for granted, like the clothes we choose to wear and the meals we create. I really couldn’t imagine a life without creativity. This might …
Read MoreA Biography of Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath Writer & Poet Born to middle class parents in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, Sylvia Plath published her first poem when she was eight. Sensitive, intelligent, compelled toward perfection in everything she attempted, she was, on the surface, a model daughter, popular in school, earning straight A’s, winning the best prizes. By the time she entered Smith College on a …
Read MoreCan do or Can’t do? That is the question
If I asked you to tell me what makes life worth living – in a single word – what would your answer be? The more I think about it, the more convinced I am that what makes life worth living can be summed up in a single word. That word is – “You!” Here is what I mean. Harry …
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