As well as a team around me and doing more of what I love and am good at, I also wanted to boost my fitness, so am taking steps towards getting much fitter again. I have had a session with a trainer, been weighed and measured, and now have a new programme to work through.

It has given me a bit of a boost as well as finding events that I can join in with – a 5km in March which will be about right for training (as long as the snow holds off!).

What have you been procrastinating about? I speak to lots of nurses who want to make changes and don’t seem to know where to start. If you have achieved something before that you want to have another go at then you can use the same strategy as before – whether that is working with someone, going to a particular place, reading and research, joining a club or anything else then start to re-do what you did before for the same results.

If you are trying something new, then find someone who has got the same results that you want and see how they did it. It is like following a recipe – if someone else has done it then maybe you can do it too by doing the same thing.

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What are your intentions for this year? When I reviewed my 2009 I looked at what was going well and what I wanted to change and one of the things that came across strongly was ‘team’.

I am very good at some aspects of happynurses and not so good at others. I need a team of people around me to take on the roles I am not so good at to free up my time to focus on speaking, coaching, writing and creating new things.

At the end of last year I met a woman who has been helping me to arrange events and this has totally transformed the way I am planning the business and what I can do, as I know that creating the talks and doing them is what I am good at, not the organizing and tech parts.

What do you do well, that you would like to do more of, and what would you like to do less of? This can be at home as well as work. We can, as nurses, think we have to be good at everything but we can also ask for help. A team that has a variety of people with different strengths and skills is vital.

We have also found this in the pub quiz as last week there were 5 of us instead of 2 and we had a broader range of knowledge.

Who do you want on your team, happynurses?

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This week has been one of highs and lows. I have been coaching my nursing clients and helping them to transition into roles they love and teaching them how to feel confident in interviews.

They have been following the schedule as laid out in the previous blogs last month and doing really well. We also work with them when they have started their job to help them settle in and address any challenges they have at this time.

If you are looking for a new nursing job then follow the same programme or ask for our free e-book which gives you lots of detail to help you to work through the stages to get to where you really want to be.

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I have been developing a lot of my ideas for happynurses recently and looking back at some of my old notebooks. I love notebooks as a way of organising my thoughts and thinking of new ideas, writing goals and planning my action each week. It is amazing to me, still, how effective this tool is. One notebook and a pen and I can create all sorts of things, and so can you!

Many of my coaching clients are now in the routine of weekly planning – and this includes everything, not just ‘chores’ or work activities, but also social and family fun, items just for them and times to catch up with old friends. If you are a stressed out nurse and would like some real clarity – try this yourself!

Once a week (I like Sunday afternoon/evening) sit down with a notebook and set some goals for what you would like to achieve in all areas of your life. Then work our small actions you can take this week to make it happen – just the first, smallest step!

Happynurses started with an idea, then one article, a blog post, a client and now look where we are…!

We had a great week last week, meeting nurses and giving out the 'life balance' booklet at the RCN Congress. Hello to everyone we met there!

The booklet has one of my favourite tools in it, along with some simple tips and techniques to help nurses to create better balance in life. We can often spend time waiting for 'someone else' to fix things for us, or sort our lives out, or rescue us from boredom, but the truth is - we have to take responsibility and do it for ourselves.

Don't wait for someone else to do it for you, take charge and take some action towards a life you really want!

Think about what it is you really want for yourself and your life and start to make it happen - it's up to you!

Keep taking small steps, happynurses!

I have also been thinking back to this time last year when my life and health were very different. This month I have run 5km five times despite having the goal of only running it once, at a race-for-life event. Last year I had undiagnosed coeliac disease with anaemia and felt terrible. I had about 3 hours energy a day, and that was if I pushed myself really hard. I was often in bed by 8pm after spending all afternoon on the sofa incapable of thought or activity.

The price of having to eat a gluten-free diet has been worth it - to feel the way I do now. I also decided to give up drinking alcohol as it made me feel so rough, and I drink mainly herbal tea and my energy levels have rocketed.

Happynurses is now on the cusp of developing into something huge - we have 1000 on the email list, I have 9 coaching clients, an NHS Trust interested in working with me, one franchisee who will become a happynurses coach in her area and the most amazing team, most of whom I didn't even know 6 months ago, never mind a year ago. We are gearing up for massive PR once the site is ready and my book is launched in June.

What have you done in the last 12 months, or is your life 'much the same' - same challenges, moans, job you don't really like, or have you taken action to move on? I would love to hear from you. If you need some help, get a coach - seriously - it will transform your life forever, guaranteed!

Get going, happynurses and this time next year - who knows?!

It was the first time Johnnie and I had trained together and only the 4th time we had spent any time together (and the first workshop I had ever run...!) but it was easy, fun, relaxed and flowed like a dream. We are a truly wonderful partnership.....

This is the result of me listening to my intuition when I had a strong message to contact Johnnie, and then having the courage to follow through on my feelings. Listen to yours, happynurses - it will make all the difference!

Be in tune with YOUR feelings, happynurses!

Last week we held our 'pilot' coaching course for 7 participants and the results were beyond our expectations by about 1,000,000%!

Seven people arrived on Wednesday and seven 'different' people left on Friday after a transformation in their lives and thoughts. Wonderful!

The next course is this month - from 27th to the 29th of March, then early June. This will be the best coaching seminar you have ever attended and we guarantee fun, learning, transformation and ongoing motivation. If you choose the advanced course you will also get 12 weeks of coaching to ensure you keep the actions going after the course.

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Be transformed, happynurses!