As I looked at my seedlings I realised I'd forgotten something very simply about success. That is that I needed to keep focused on ALL the criteria for success because I'd been focusing on watering them and failed to realise I was ignoring another equally important criteria. My name is Alison Smith and for 25 […]
If you're struggling with work life balance then have a listen to see if it's the words you're using to describe your goal that's the real problem - because as soon as you stop setting up work to compete with every other element of your life you will find it easier to find the balance […]
Are you stuck? Don't know what to do? Are you struggling with overwhelm? Have you already tried more traditional problem-solving techniques? Have you even thrown logical thinking at it? and still come up blank? If you're open to trying something a little different, then do read on - you may be surprised with what ideas […]
If you've had a goal and keep finding yourself off course and failing to achieve it then stopping one of the 6 things you should stop doing might help. When I took a goal I had on a Landscaping Your Life (LYL) walk recently I identified 16 reasons why we fail to achieve our goals, […]
The patterns the sand made as the wind blew across the beach at St Andrews, Fife, Scotland were mesmerizing yesterday and, as I look at them here, very calming too. Pattern recognition allows you to reduce the overwhelm in your life. Instead of noticing every single detail instead you notice the patterns before you. Pattern […]
The challenge back in 2015 was set by Visual Verse and was to use one picture, and to write less than 500 words in less than an hour. On Mothering Sunday here in the UK here's what I wrote then about mother earth using a collage I'd recently developed as its inspiration. The Earth cried the day […]
Down to earth, and yet up to the sky.Grounded, and inspirational too.Holding tight to the moment, whilst also stretching into the future. Do we really need to see the wood for the trees?Perhaps it’s about seeing the trees for the wood,or seeing the sky for the trees,or trees for the sky.Being the tree? Or sky?or […]
