Create Yourself - A Life You Love Kay Holdsworth

January is a tough month. You may have started the year feeling all hopeful & optimistic, only to find mid-January in a slump. I’m here to remind you that January sucks, full stop & it’s totally okay to not feel like doing cartwheels. You are seriously not alone. I’ve certainly had a case of the January blues I realised that I needed to cut myself some slack. My son has been poorly, the car has broken down twice & don’t get me started on the weather. It’s okay to feel a bit shitty. I’m treating January as a mini-warm up for 2024. If you’ve had a rough start it does not mean you are going to have a terrible 2024. In this podcast I share 6 reminders that will help if you’re like me & not feeling so great.

Oprah Winfrey reckons one of the reasons so many of us struggle is that we don’t know what we want? Do you know? I guess it makes sense. How can we create a life we love if we don’t know what will bring us meaning & joy? Getting clear on what want is the first step in creating a life that lights us up. This simple exercise will only take 10 minutes & but the end of it you will have a clear list of what you want from your life & work. Check out my website kayholdsworth.com for more practical activities for transformation & change.

The great thing about this Best Year Yet Exercise is it’s so simple. All you need is paper, pen & a spare 10 minutes. It’s the same process that businesses use to plan there next quarter or year. You can do this at anytime of year, it doesn’t have to be at the end of December or beginning of January. During the episode I share my own reflections, hopes & desires. If you enjoyed the episode please rate or review it, as that will help it reach more people. You can sign up to my weekly newsletter & find more practices & practical activities to create a life you love at kayholdsworth.com

In this two part episode we reflect on the past year, the highlights, the challenges & the learning. I give you three simple questions that act as 3 minute journal prompts. I share my own takeaways & reflections of 2023 & key valuable learning. It’s easy to miss out this important step, yet to move forward first it does help to sometimes look in the rear view mirror & take stock on where we have been. Next week I will be sharing three simple prompts to get clear on what you want in 2024. KayHoldsworth.com

I'm so excited about this podcast. 

Today I have the pleasure of having Becs Crosby join me. She is a real inspiration, having left her corporate job and city life to follow her dreams. 

Like many of us she had the idea of setting up her own business for over a decade but had pushed it aside… that was until December 2019 when her world fell apart.

Three months before the pandemic sent us all into lockdown Becs sadly lost her younger sister to cancer aged just 39. 

With her sister’s advice of ‘don’t sweat the small stuff’ ringing in her ears, Becs dared to follow her heart and make her dream a reality. 

She is a woman on a mission to spread kindness and create inclusive workplaces, where leaders are trusted and employees feel motivated to be productive and make their voices heard.

She runs team workshops and offers 1:1 coaching and consultancy for people managers and senior leaders who want to overcome their imposter syndrome to achieve results while gaining the respect and trust of their team. 

She talks about the many benefits of practicing kindness, at home and at work where acting kindly has been shown to be associated with increased effort, productivity and persistence, higher engagement, reduced burnout, and higher levels of initiative taking, creativity, and helping behaviours.



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Life isn’t always easy. We can lose ourselves along the way. I remember thinking, this is not the way my life was meant to turn out! Thankfully, that was not the end of my story. Neither does it have to be for you. We can find our spark again. In this episode I share 3 simple ways we can start to do this. kayholdsworth.com