This is as much a rule as a tip; Journey with a buddy! When you are truly committed to
living your best life and want to live each day as if it were you last, you need support.
There will be days, even weeks when you become overwhelmed and want to run for the hills as oppose to take action towards your dream. You will start to procrastinate, finding ‘other’ things to do that free you from creating.
Find a buddy!
Having someone who is committed to making changes in their own life or who, at the very least, wants to support you on your journey of change, is critical. Why? They can check in on your progress and encourage you to ‘take action’!
Top tips for finding the right buddy:
- Trust: This has to be top of the list. This is someone who you are going to share your dreams with, your desired life outcomes
- Supportive: They need to be supportive and not judgemental. Even if you ‘slip up’ the buddy needs to help you get back on track and not be the ‘I told you so’ voice
- Accountable: Your buddy helps you to be accountable, no blaming someone or something else for what hasn’t been done
- Fun: Someone with a sense of fun. Life creation might be challenging but it should also be fun!
Outside of that, your buddy needs to be willing to give you 15-20 minutes of their time each week, or fortnight to talk through where you are. The frequency is up to you and it can be face to face or over the phone. You don’t have to be ‘best friends’ either, it is more important that they have a similar mindset or understand you want to live life differently and want to help you.
Journey With Your Buddy!
A buddy will be the person who encourages you to hold yourself accountable for all the things you say you are going to do. They won’t judge you but they will challenge you because they too want you to be the best you, you can be.
Live Blissfully,
YvonneB
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A catalyst for change, Yvonne Bignall is a breath of fresh air in the extraordinary way she helps women 50+ to reconnect with life & their innate power through radical self-care, guilt-free!
She supports, encourages, and inspires women to prioritise their health, one bitesize action at a time. Her work is challenging as it navigates through difficult conversations, listening & observing how women’s health issues have been:
❊ Undermined
❊ Under-resourced &
❊ Swept under the carpet
She helps women to recognise & unpack old scripts that still (sadly enough) tell them that their value derives from their level of caregiving of others, their output. The truth is it is the input, the ability to resource self, which provides women with the energy required to realise their true potential.
Along with her team, she explores the thoughts, behaviour & habits, often born out of guilt, gender expectations, and reinforced narratives, with curiosity (not judgment), discarding the unhelpful, whilst reclaiming innate power through the creation of new patterns, restoring a sense of self, outside of societal expectations. In her opinion, this allows women to:
✔ Develop an elevated level of self-awareness
✔ Build / rebuild their confidence & self-belief
✔ Value all of who they are and invest time in who they want to be at their best
A self-care warrior, an encourager & inspirer, Yvonne is today an award-winning Women’s Health Advocate, Published Author, and an International Presenter. She is also a Radio Show Host and a Podcaster.
Yvonne is focused on building a community of women, www.PermissionToThrive.online, who are ready to reclaim their right to self-care, guilt-free, and who prioritise their health without apology, role-modeling behaviour & habits that inform generations to come of their true value.
She also advocates for self-care over burnout in the workplace, delivering practical webinars in the corporate space. In her own words, “It is time for employees to prioritise their wellbeing. How will they deliver their best work without it?”
One of her favourite quotes comes from Eleanor Brown, ‘Rest and self-care are so important. When you take time to replenish your spirit, it allows you to serve others from the overflow. You cannot serve from an empty vessel’
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