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How To Prepare And Set Meaningful Goals For 2019

January 8, 2019 By Karen Main 1 Comment

Prepare

Last week I shared my simple Year In Review questions, that I use to harvest my learnings from the previous 12 months and kick off a celebration of my growth and achievements. Hopefully you carved out time to reflect on your year gone by too. Now its time to switch our focus forward, stirring up […]

Filed Under: Growth and Learning, What matters most Tagged With: effectiveness, goals, Growth

How to ease up on your dreams to get more of what you want

September 7, 2018 By Karen Main Leave a Comment

Lifestyle

The alarm sounds, 4.40am!  My feet gingerly hit the floor and I quietly move through the darkness to the bathroom. I shower quickly, apply a full face of makeup, tie my hair in a neat ponytail and wiggle my way into a pair of stockings.  I take a moment to marvel at what’s now my […]

Filed Under: Growth and Learning, Purpose and Meaning, What matters most Tagged With: courage, dream, dreams, effectiveness, goals, happiness, unexpected

Why you want to start with the good, the bad and the wacky ideas

May 25, 2018 By Karen Main Leave a Comment

ideas

So you’ve been in this pattern for a while. Too long really. Its sort of a rut, No it is a rut. I’ve been there…. Had those days when you’re tired of living the same story. Moments when you know its time for a change. A good change. Here’s where you get two options… 1. Keep […]

Filed Under: Growth and Learning, Intuitive Feelings, Outside your Comfort Zone Tagged With: future, goal setting, goals, idea, ideas

The secret to getting ahead in life, and its not what you think

May 11, 2018 By Karen Main Leave a Comment

Life

“I hate chin ups, but I want to do them.” she declared. “You’ve got to be super strong” I chirped in remembering the many times I tried. “That’s the added frustration,” she announced. “My trainer says I’ve got the strength now, and I know I’m strong.  What I don’t have is enough aggression.” Oh! This […]

Filed Under: Growth and Learning, Purpose and Meaning, Self Care Tagged With: challenge, change, courage, dreams, goals

The simple and effective solution for endless worrying

March 23, 2018 By Karen Main 2 Comments

Karen Main

I woke up one day, 19 years ago, unable to open my jaw fully. To fill you in, my life that year was a busy whirrrrr!!!  I’d been promoted to my dream job, had a 45 minute commute to work and was putting in ten-hour days.  Plus, I was getting married and had my control […]

Filed Under: Growth and Learning, Self Care Tagged With: ease, rest, worry, worrying

How to make the right decision and overcome any doubt

March 9, 2018 By Karen Main Leave a Comment

doubt

I read the text “I need your advice ASAP?  Can we chat PLEASE!”  A frantic plea for help from my friend who was wrestling with a BIG decision.  A career decision. After 12 years in the same job she’d been offered a new role and didn’t know what to do. I knew she wasn’t happy and […]

Filed Under: Growth and Learning, Purpose and Meaning, What matters most Tagged With: action, decision, self doubt

How to change your motivation for a greater result

March 2, 2018 By Karen Main Leave a Comment

Motivation

For more than a year now I’ve been re-assessing how I want to work within my business. After we moved I no longer had consulting rooms, a steady flow of word-of-mouth clients and a community who knew and supported my in person events. Instead I was a stranger in a new city, lacking my usual […]

Filed Under: Growth and Learning, Purpose and Meaning, What matters most Tagged With: business, goals, Growth, motivation

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Karen Main is a Life Leadership Coach for people who are ready to make a change in their lives.
Through her coaching, workshops and speaking gigs she’s here to help you design a life you love — while making it all feel like a celebration.
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