by Debbie | Jan 4, 2017 | Featured, GloWellness
Happy New Year to all of you lovely Glotime.tv followers – it is going to be a great year! How do I know? Because we are going to make it happen and ensure that we improve our approach and increase our chances of happiness beyond our new year’s resolutions.
I would like to begin by telling you about my own experiences over the years and how I came to become a successful life coach. You will be relieved to learn that I am not one of those ultra-confident, super poised life coaches. I also had a less than perfect approach to life, prone to negativity and occasional depression. But it was the support of a very good friend and the professional help of an incredible therapist who turned my life around. Both parties would say that I did this myself, as you have to be ready to make changes and it is a challenging process. But taking yourself out of your comfort zone is also rewarding, and I want to make sure you give it your best shot.
The first step is to identify the things you want to change. As soon as you write them down you are on the road to achieving your goals. A life coach friend who has been awarded an OBE for mentoring women in the workplace has experienced that the women who have a five year plan written down on paper have the most success, and nine times out of ten achieve all of them.
It may be you want to change career, lose weight, start your own business. Whatever your goals, write them down in a note book that is accessible to you and read them every day. When I began my process of life changes, I bought a beautiful note book from Paperchase http://www.paperchase.co.uk/stationery/notebooks with a colourful cover which I felt was the first step in taking charge of my life. It signified that I felt my life was worthy of an initial statement of quality and colour. It is the little things that signify your ability to change.
In a recent case of one of my clients, her ambition was to improve her life and finances as she was constantly struggling to pay the bills.
She had been doing a series of demoralising temp jobs which had diminished her confidence and left her feeling worthless and without ambition.
Within a month of writing down her life plan, she was offered a job in recruitment which completely transformed her life and she is now running her own recruitment franchise. Her money worries are also a distant memory.
It may seem like a small step to achieve such high ambitions, but small steps lead to big results, and if you stick with it, you can succeed in turning your life around.
I would like to help you to change your life for the better, and I look forward to taking you to the next stage. Watch this space and together we can achieve your goals.
by Olivia | Dec 19, 2016 | Featured, GloWellness
It seems that very few people can describe this powerful emotion of love. As Prince Charles famously said at his engagement to Lady Di when asked if they were in love ‘whatever love is’.
The truth was he knew exactly what love was – but was forbidden to say it as he was in love with someone else at the time, and later on rocked a nation and almost the monarchy to be with the woman he loved.
This was not the first time a similar event had occurred within our Royal Family. Indeed our very own King Edward VIII had fallen for Wallis Simpson who had been married twice, and as a result abdicated because of Royal protocol, even with the support and sympathy of the Nation behind him. But he ended his years with the woman he loved in exile in France.
Millions of people across the world fall in love every day, and yet we cannot see or touch ‘love’ which is extraordinary because it can make us go weak at the knees, perspire, lose our appetite or even our mind.
So what is this crazy little thing called love?
A very close friend of mine fell in love but it was unrequited and the affects were overwhelming. She was a dancer and when she went on tour to Germany, the emotional experience affected her so much that she completely lost her appetite for days, ending up in a hospital in Berlin. They ran a series of tests and could find nothing wrong with her – until a young sensitive doctor sat on her bed and asked her the million dollar question. Are you in love? Anna burst into tears and confessed that this was indeed the condition that was making her ill. But it was this realisation and the kind words of the young doctor that helped her to heal.
There is of course the love that we feel for a parent or offspring, or for even a pet. But I am talking about when you meet someone of that magically turns your life upside down, so that you have difficulty breathing.
The majority of us have experienced being ‘in love’ at some point or times in our life, sometimes the intensity of the feeling is so overwhelming that it will eclipse any other emotion. Sometimes it is appropriately placed, as with a young couple who intend to spend the rest of their lives together, and sometimes sustaining the feeling over a lifetime is another challenge.
But we are talking about now, and the intensity of love itself when it strikes. It is not surprising that most music, movies and poems are written about love, and so why is love so powerful, and why are we given this emotion which is in the end the most important thing of all.
We would like to hear your experiences of being in love, don’t worry we won’t share it with anyone – except our viewers of course!
Let us know at @glotimetv_ on Twitter and Facebook
by Jackie Brooks | Dec 15, 2016 | Featured, GloWellness
My friend Katie has always had a lot more dosh than me. Her parents were from old money which was evident when we were at school together and she went on to a high powered and highly paid career in advertising and ended up marrying an extremely wealthy man.
So what has this to do with Christmas you are asking. Well, over the years Katie and I have exchanged Christmas gifts, and I was always struggling to keep up with her fabulous presents of Tiffany bracelets or extravagant hampers, and had to start saving all year to get anywhere close to her gifts.
But it is only in recent years that we decided to come clean and stop the pressure all round, as she was running out of ideas for me as a creative struggling writer, and I out of cash to buy someone who had everything.
We took a tip from the Archbishop of Canterbury, although Katie is definitely not religious, and decided to donate any present money to a charity of our choice instead of indulging each other, and got a lot more fun and satisfaction as a result.
We discovered there are a number of charities who have gift cards for the festive season, and as charity is not just for Christmas, we went on to make a donation all year round. Perhaps this could also help you to decide which Charity is close to your heart for you to make an ongoing donation however small.
If you are on a super saver budget this year, there are some last minute tips and ideas for you to save money.
This is the last week for online ordering if you don’t want to pay over the odds for delivery, as this can add a lot onto your bill. There are also a number of super saver delivery websites which search for ways of getting you free or low payment orders and deliveries.
Check out www.moneysavingexpert.com which is a great website to check out offers across the board, and Martin Lewis of breakfast TV offers some sound advice on saving money in all areas of spending.
If you have left it late to buy your Christmas decorations House of Fraser are offering all of theirs half price, so you have made a good decision to delay this purchase. One thing for sure, this is money well spent as you can use them year after year.
Some stores have already begun their half price Christmas sale, for instance ASOS, Kurt Geiger and Miss Selfridge are a good place to begin looking for those early bargains and you will miss the Christmas rush as a result, both online and in the shops.
So give yourself a break and pull back on your spending, so that the New Year can really get off to a great start, and you may even be able to treat yourself with the money you have saved.
