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Home & Family
Blog posts and book extracts for creatives balancing home and family demands.
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5 ways your home can nurture creativity
Did you know that your home can nurture creativity? Here are 5 ways you can harness the power of your home to become a creative support system >
Have a Scarlett O’Hara Moment: Think about it tomorrow…
Discover this simple technique for reducing anxiety and overwhelm – inspired by one of literature’s greatest heroines.
The Creative Power of Whim and Fancy
When we harness the creative power of whim and fancy, there’s less need for discipline, force or will power. Here’s how to do it >
Celebrate: A habit for life…not just for Christmas.
Are you tapping into the many benefits of a Celebration Habit? Here’s how this joyful practice can be great for your health, wealth & happiness, at any time of year.
When procrastination is good
A simple reframe to help you consider procrastination in a positive new light. Bonus side effects include more time in your schedule and more peace in your soul.
The Law of Least Effort: Easy is good.
A short story from my kitchen garden to inspire you to remember the Law of Least Effort, and how making it easy can be highly productive.
Getting creative with domestic chores
For creatives with homes to keep; here are some ways you can get creative with domestic chores and access your genius mind amid the mundane housework >
Oh, to be happy at home…
SUCCESS & LIFE BY DESIGNBook Extract from Housework Blues“To be happy at home is the result of all ambition.” Samuel JohnsonThe benefits of being happy at home (Extract from Housework Blues - A Survival Guide) Throughout this book, I've tried to convince you of...
Creative decluttering for wooing windfalls
SUCCESS & LIFE BY DESIGNA fun and potentially lucrative tip to support your creative adventures... • • • What’s the biggest obstacle between you and the creative life you dream of? For many of my clients and readers, lack of resources is the one thing they claim...
Domestic Goddess In Training – Apron
Cotton twill apron with pockets
Available to buy on cafepress.com
Getting creative with life’s dramas
SUCCESS & LIFE BY DESIGN Today I have a little story for you - how I got creative and turned a frustrating mini-drama into a very happy ending... Creativity: a tool for life As you may know, I am obsessed with the creative process - how...
Up. The antidote to down.
RePost from my first blog: Make Peace with Housework - for any creatives with a house to keep... • • • With apologies to Shakespeare: Housework is neither good nor bad, but feeling makes it so. When housework blues are a problem, the source of our angst is not the...
Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui (Book Review)
A short review of Cut Your Clutter by Karen Kingston + how these inspiring feng shui tips and insights motivated one undomestic goddess to get moving mopwards >
Success is messy
How to enjoy more success on the home front if you’re an Undomestic Creative. (Like me.)
The dark side of kindness
Kindness, charity, generosity - all virtues. All good things to aim for, in a bid to be a valuable and worthy (and likeable) member of the human race. But is it possible to overdo it? Can we give too much? However much we may resist it, the female of the species is...
Housework? Give me strength.
I recently took the Strengthsfinder test. (I'm planning a little reinvention.... watch this space!) I don't know if you've heard of Strengthsfinder but if you're at all interested in discovering why you are the way you are and why you do the things you do, I highly...
