I have decided to document my goals / resolutions for 2011. This almost forces me to focus and reflect back on them later this year.

Personal:

• Lose Weight: I need to lose 8kgs and tone up.

Action Plan: I am going to see a dietician that a friend recommended, get a personal trainer and go to gym 4 times a week. I am also going to attend a yoga class once a week.

• Invest Time in Myself:

An hour in the morning to go to gym. Another hour to get ready: put make up on and do my hair.  I also want two hours when I get home to cook supper, bath and follow a proper skin care routine.

Action Plan: Plan the time and put it in my diary, don’t double book myself and get my work hours to fix in between my life.

• Treat myself: A facial, full body massage and pedicure every month.

Action Plan: Book it well in advance and put it in the diary + budget.

Business:

• GirlGuides.co.za

Take girlguides.co.za to the next level.

• Launching my other two business ideas.

*watch this space, I want to get back into retail*

• Start mentoring / helping with other people’s business ideas:

I am going to start with one hour a week free of charge for my time to help with business idea and planning etc to anyone that once help. So if you need help or an hour to just run things past someone I am your gal, email me, DM me and I will book you in the diary.

Social:

• Spend Time / Keep in Touch with Friends more:

Blocking out an hour each week to just send a short note to friends I miss, or having lunch / dinner with a friend each week.

• Blog more:

I love my blog, but I don’t have time to blog (or I don’t make time to blog or read enough for other blogger’s posts). I am putting aside time to read, write and comment at least three times a week.

• Meet more people off twitter:

I have met the most amazing people and have a whole new social circle from twitter. I am making a point of attending more tweetups and meeting more people from twitter.

I am hoping for two major items on my to-do list to be ticked off in the next three months this will really allow me to move forward with some new stuff that I want to complete.

Here is to 2011 being an awesome year!

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I am such a looker-forwarder that I hardly ever take the time to just – stop, look back and be grateful for what I have, achieved and been blessed with.

So I have decided to do a recap of the things I am grateful for in 2010:

• 2010 was *so* much better than 2009. I am happy and my life is not filled with a dark cloud anymore.
• I am in an amazing relationship with an awesome boyfriend who adores me and is definitely the love of my life.
• I am blessed with a fantastic consulting job.
• I bought myself a BMW and paid it off (a car I have always wanted).
• We moved into a nice bigger home and I am almost finished – redecorating it.
• Launched www.girlguides.co.za
• I gave up smoking.
• I meet some amazing people through twitter.
• I am happy.

I am looking forward to 2011, I know it is going to provide closure on a few issues still outstanding and be filled with new exciting happy moments.

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My life. Is *never* SIMPLE… why? Well this is the question I keep asking myself currently…

1. Maybe it is because I must try do 10 000 things at once……

2. Or because I feel I am not going to achieve the things I want to….

3. Maybe its cause I feel like I am getting OLD and the clock is ticking…

4. Or maybe I just can’t live a simple life….

When I was in therapy my therapist suggested that I take a year to not excel at anything, not take on anything, not take on new projects, not start anything new… to take a year to JUST BE!

This was such a foreign concept to me, everything in my core screamed against it.

And now. In the chaos of my life at the moment I long for a simple life.

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I really need some advice ladies!

I am exhausted; I have been up since 6am, was at work by 7am after only going to bed at probably 11pm last night due to a very long body corporate meeting, it is now 8pm and I am still working at home. This has been my life for the past two weeks.

Let me just give you a snap shot of my reality at the moment:

I have two weeks of work on my desk, that all needs to be done ASAP.  I recently decided to go back to working for myself and in the process I have decided to follow my passion and start a few projects I am extremely passionate about. I have managed to secure a full time contract which I work on by day and then I am trying to work on my other projects at night.

And to be very honest, I went to work today looking like an absolute mess, something I promised I was not going to do this year and I am not proud of at all! And by mess let me just give you a few of the details: my hair was pulled back and tied up very messily; I have black nail polish that is chipped on my finger nails, I wore jeans and flats to work today and I put no makeup on other a bit of base. I work in a very large corporate during the day and I actually felt crap about myself today, as the other ladies in the office walked in at 8am looking like they walked off a fashion shoot.

I don’t feel like I have time to go to gym, make a nice meal when I get home, lie in the bath and read a magazine or just relax at the moment.  My poor BF has been so neglected over the past week, I realised it today when I arrive home and did not even give him a kiss and ask how his day was! I can go on and on, but you get the picture, and I am sure a lot of you have been faced with a very similar situation.

I see people around me with so much more on their plate and they somehow make it work. I mean I don’t even have kids (I really want kids but when I have a day like today, I really don’t know how the working Mom’s do it).

So back to my question that I need help with – How do you do it?  Where you do find the time to do everything that needs to be done.

How do you:

• Arrive at work with you hair and makeup done and in an accessorised outfit?
• Find time to have a pedi, manicure, massage, facial etc on a regular basis?
• Get home and cook dinner and still finish off things that need to be done?
• Go to gym 3 to 5 times a week?
• Keep your handbag in order?
• Keep on top of your work load?
• Go to doctor and dentist appointments?
• Balance your social, work and personal life?
• Find time for just you and your partner in between everything that is happening?

Yes I have a million questions, but I really feel like I am missing out on some sort of secret here that a lot of women have discovered. They somehow manage to keep the wheels turning, with more on their plate than me, yet I feel like my wheels are about to come off at any stage…..

Please share your secrets with me?

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