Love Your Life!

Ideas and tools to help you get the most out of – and put the most into – life.

PRODUCTIVITY BOOSTER: Learn to touch type (for free)

April 26, 2012
Old photo of Galli Curci (opera singer) at the typewriter

Want an easy productivity boost, to free up hours of your time? Up your typing skills! People often ask me how I have time to update so many social media pages, and assume it’s taken me hours, but in fact they’re usually just tiny, quick

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Stress Management, Motivation & Resilience: Free workbook! (HTML version)

April 24, 2012
Front Cover of Feel Better and Keep Moving Forward! Workbook

This post is a HTML version of this original, downloadable workbook (PDF file), which I created for a series of free, public workshops for Health In Mind. Please share this link with anyone you think could do with a bit of help in managing stress levels,

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Stress Management, Motivation & Resilience: Free workbook!

April 24, 2012
Front Cover: Feel Better & Keep Moving Forward! (Workbook) - Strategies and ideas on stress management, motivation and resilience by Tracy Dempsey

You may have seen over on the Soul Ambition events page that I’ve been doing some free public workshops via Health in Mind over the last while, on stress management, motivation and resilience. I’ve also done free webinars for www.learningpool.com on the same topics; I know

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Five on Friday (#5onFri) – April 20th 2012

April 20, 2012
Post-it showing heart around '5 on Fri'

Happy Friday, people! You may know from my blog post on using Twitter effectively that I don’t really do #FollowFriday, though I appreciate the thought when people take the time to do so! There are so many people I could mention in an #FF tweet,

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Before I die…

March 23, 2012
Photo of man dressed as pirate writing on a public wall that invites people to finish the sentence "Before I die..."

Today I stumbled upon a marvellous thing on one of my favourite websites, www.lostateminor.com – a public wall where people could share their “bucket list“; the things they want to do before they die. Last year, I came across and shared this blog post by

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Shorter snippets: Soul Ambition elsewhere on the web

March 10, 2012
YouTube logo

Most of my posts on here are pretty lengthy – detailed ‘how-to’ posts, descriptive travel stories and so on. But since you don’t always have time to read long posts, and I don’t have loads of time between clients and workshops to write lots of

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Can you read minds?

February 21, 2012
Derren Brown in classic

Think of a number, any number… I bet I know what it is! What’s that? You don’t believe in ‘mind reading’? I thought not; most people probably don’t. So why is it, then, that many of us assume we can do it? In our private

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Valentine’s Day: How to Survive It

February 9, 2012
Photo of calendar with red heart

February 14th. There are surely few dates in the calendar to cause such consternation amongst the general populace. Teenage angst can raise its floppy-fringed head to dent the confidence of the most secure single person and the day can be a minefield for new and

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Long-term job-hunters? How to stay motivated!

February 7, 2012
Smiling runners in Copenhagen marathon

Can’t seem to get a break in the current job market, despite your best efforts? Feeling demoralized and demotivated? Feel like you’ve been on a long road and no end is in sight? In difficult economic times, you can be doing everything right and still

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If You Need More Help…

September 14, 2011
Lifebuoy

Following on from the previous post on asking for help, if you are in a tough place right now, I’ve listed some websites below that may be of help to you with particular issues you’re facing – please do get in touch with them, even

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If You Need Something – Ask!

September 14, 2011
Help point on the platform at Kings Cross station London

If you need something – ASK. Don’t wait for someone to notice that you need help. Remember that others can choose to respond or not – so don’t get hung up on one particular person being the one you need to help you. Sometimes you’re

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Anam Mara, Part 2: Seaside

September 1, 2011
View of Trá Na Rossan beach from Atlantic Drive

In my last post, I blogged about Part 1 of my escape to a friend’s cottage in Donegal; a trip that was meant to be a time of writing and creating but came to be more about reading and gestating. This is the second post of

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Anam Mara, Part 1: Fireside

June 18, 2011
Anam Mara cottage, Donegal

In my last post, I blogged about my imminent escape to a cottage in Donegal, for a self-imposed creative retreat. There is a tv in the cottage, but I wasn’t going to be using it; and there’s no internet access. My plan was to bring

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Creative Retreat – Offline ’til 21/3!

March 10, 2011
View of Mulroy Bay, Downings, Co. Donegal

Well, after a really, really busy January and February giving various talks, training courses and residentials, along with some one-to-one coaching, I’m off on a creative retreat! My plan for Soul Ambition was always to develop lots of self-study courses people could use for their

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