If you're still not sure what you want to be when you grow up, that's more than okay - it might be exactly where you’re meant to be right now. Instead of putting pressure on yourself to have everything figured out, embrace the unknown. See it as an exciting opportunity to reinvent, explore, and grow. Your career isn’t a destination, it’s a journey…and you’re in the driver’s seat!

For those looking to shape their future and make it their own, this is the perfect time to start considering your goals. Setting goals has been proven to be one of the most effective ways to bring your dreams to life, and there's plenty of research to back that up. But here’s the thing: how you go about setting your goals has a huge impact on your ability to actually achieve them.

Authenticity isn’t just empowering - it’s transformative. By showing up as your true self, you unlock confidence, creativity, deeper relationships, and more opportunities. You also create the inner peace and clarity needed to pursue a life and business that aligns with your values and purpose. In both life and business, authenticity is not a luxury - it’s a necessity.

So. It turns out, for the past four decades, I’ve become quite the expert in masking and successfully playing the character of a woman who has her sh#t together. On the outside, everything looked fine. For the most part, I had the composure of someone who knew exactly what she was doing. But underneath, I was struggling, even lying to the people I love the most. But a few years ago, the cracks in the mask began to show.

As a Coach the topic of VALUES rears its head surprisingly often.

 For businesses, they offer an ethos to communicate branding, ideals for staff to conduct themselves by.

For individuals, our principles can make up our North Star – a focal point as the world around us keeps changing.

What if I told you, your values are likely due for a change?

We've been sold the idea of the "well-balanced life" for far too long, and today, I’m calling BS on it. It reeks of privilege, and it’s high time we rethink it. Selling balance as the ultimate lifestyle goal places the burden on the individual to give equal attention to every aspect of their life, like it’s a simple, self-care fix that’ll give us the R&R we all deserve. But here’s the thing: we’re not always in control.

How often do you walk through life convinced that the way you see the world is the way the world is? Our brains are clever little creatures, always working overtime to interpret and simplify everything we encounter. But here’s the catch—our interpretation of the world is just that: an interpretation. It’s a map. Not the territory.

This concept comes from NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming), and it’s one of the most eye-opening truths I’ve encountered in my work.

For most of us, childhood feels like something that happened in the past—a time we either look back on with fond memories or, more commonly, with a bit of baggage. Whether you had a joyful, carefree childhood or faced struggles, there’s this belief that what happened when we were young is set in stone, that it’s a chapter we can’t rewrite.

But here's the game-changer: It’s not too late.