Category: Stress

The Block to Good Sleep and Motivation is The Same Culprit

Post author By cm_admin
Post date June 30, 2026
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Now, not everyone has sleep issues.

Well, not all the time.

But I am pretty sure that we have all, at times, struggled to get to sleep (and stay asleep), and perhaps woken up feel crappers.

And for some people, getting a bad night’s sleep, has become a full-time occupation.

Sadly too, a lot of the “solutions” offered by the medical cartel system, are pharmaceutical-based (meaning synthetic) which often come with some pretty dodgy side effects.

Therefore, I want to offer you a solution with no negative side effects, is easy to learn and do, costs you approximately $0, and takes about 8-mins.

Interested?

The other topic for today is when we lack energy, or what we might call “motivation“, and are not sure how to ramp it up, or get it back.

And no, the solution is not an extra hit of a double expresso.

The downside with using caffeine to power-up is that it just delays the mental crash, and doesn’t deal with any root cause issues.

It also becomes a bit of a crutch, where you get to the stage where you might lose your sh#t, if a decent coffee is not forth-coming, or heaven forbid, unavailable.

My preferred life strategy is to not depend on any crutches.

And have strategies which need no props at all.

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The Best Stress Management Tool In My Bag of Tricks

Post author By cm_admin
Post date June 9, 2026

There are a few very valid reasons why this tool is one of my favourite, and most effective.

They include:

It is really easy to learn (we are talking 5-10 mins and for ages 6+).
It is FREE.
It goes everywhere with you, all the time.
There are no props required.
It is really simple to do.

But most of all…IT WORKS!!!

Imagine a stress management tool like that.

Learning it and using it would have to be a “no-brainer”.

Well, it is for me.

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How to Become The Person Who Doesn’t Get Taken Advantage of

Post author By cm_admin
Post date December 9, 2025

The one thing we DO NOT want to do, when it comes to getting out of an emotional state of anger (or the likes) is to SUPPRESS our feelings of anger.

We might have been taught this growing up.

We might have even had parents who modelled the “stuff it down and hope it goes away” strategy; but I am here to tell you that is a super crappy strategy, which is sure to bite you on the butt at some point in the future.

And sometimes it bites HARD!!!

So, the first thing, not to do, is suppress your emotions.

Probably in the same sort of vein – though maybe not as harmful – are ignoring the feeling, distracting yourself from the feeling, or numbing it out.

Again, these are all pretty substandard strategies.

It (the icky emotion) might suck, but there is a lot of relevance to the saying “you need to feel to heal“.

Which leads me onto my next big no-no.

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Is Your Mindset Bias Leaning The Right Way?

Post author By cm_admin
Post date October 7, 2025

Once a month I will record a short 3-5 min video with a practical Tip, Tool, or Strategy. Today is the first edition, and is one of the most important (and simple) STRATEGIES that I teach all my private Coaching clients. It will improve your decision-making “RESULTS” by about 200%!

Enjoy.

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Mental Pushing And Pulling – Thanks To Our Biology

Post author By cm_admin
Post date May 17, 2024

Where to start?

How about with the name of the book I just finished reading, which shared pretty interesting insights. The book was called: ‘Why You’re Unhappy’ by Loretta Graziano Breuning, PhD.

I didn’t agree with everything she presented, but because she has a background in anthropology as well as psychology, it brought a nice perspective to her discussion on biology.

And the influence on our feelings and behaviours.

She spoke a lot about the individual roles of dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, endorphins and cortisol; and how they are primarily used for survival (and reproduction of genes), as with all mammals.

I have talked before about the ‘mid’ brain, also called the limbic brain or mammalian brain.

It has a number of functions including regulation and generation of our emotions, which obviously affects us moment-to-moment and day-to-day.

I found a few things in this book especially fascinating.

Particularly the author’s overarching message.

We are not – biologically – designed to be ‘happy’ all the time.

It is not only okay, but “normal” to feel our emotions go up and go down throughout our day and life in general.

I think that is a great point.

If we EXPECT to be happy, all the time, or think there is something “wrong” with us if we aren’t, then we may be fighting reality.

What I also found fascinating was…

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How is Your Patience Going? Want More?

Post author By cm_admin
Post date March 26, 2024

So…

How is your patience?

If you are anything like me, then at times it is crap.

I was just talking to my partner – Ferry – about ‘having patience’ the other night, as we transit between our farm and our ‘main’ house, waiting for the sale of our ‘main’ house, before we finish building our other ‘main’ house on our farm.

I don’t like mortgages, so I need to exercise the ‘patience’ to wait for the sale of our house, which is dragging on, and on and on…

So I have spent intimate time face-to-face with the thing called patience of late and I – as always – want to figure out how I can do it better.

At first I thought you can’t ‘force’ patience.

As in, you can’t DO stuff to make ‘more’ patience.

Because it is more about surrendering, letting go, and stepping back.

BUT…

Then I sat with and went deeper to understand patience from all angles and this is what I came up with.

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The Consequences of (Emotional) Junk in the Trunk

Post author By cm_admin
Post date May 2, 2023

This is probably one of the most important articles I have written for awhile.

It was inspired by another book I recently read (no surprises there) from Dr Sarno.

The book is called ‘The Divided Mind‘.

It delves into the relationship between the mind, body, emotions and their inter-relationship.

There was also a recent session with a client where I was showing on a whiteboard the consequences – in day-to-day living – if we have too much junk in the trunk.

Or what I am collectively calling suppressed and repressed emotions.

I won’t be writing too deeply into the psychological aspects, but we will go deep enough to make this practical for you.

However I feel I ought prefix that this is REALLY important stuff to know.

What you do with this knowing is then up to you.

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Are You Actually Looking at The Root Cause?

Post author By cm_admin
Post date January 17, 2023

Again…Happy New Year!!

Let’s make this the year of living even more consciously, so the steps we take, and the footprints we leave, are in harmony with life, which also brings a lightness of being to our souls.

One way I think we can do a better job of being conscious, is not getting too distracted by surface level stuff, but curiously looking deeper for the actual root causes.

Hands up if you got ‘sick’ in, or around, the Xmas period or New Year?

This article is inspired by the first two clients I spoke to this year, who told me they were crook with the mighty “flu”.

The great thing about discovering the root cause, is we can then utilize the most effective intervention to get the best possible sustainable and long-term result.

So let’s look at potential root causes in relation to us getting crook.

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Why Do We Rush and What’s The Cost?

Post author By cm_admin
Post date November 15, 2022

Is life a sacred journey for you?

If not, would you actually like it to be a more sacred experience, rather than a race on the hamster wheel?

These days in my business I am MUCH more interested in working with awesome humans people who want to focus more on EVOLUTION (as a whole being), rather than having a “6-figure” (plus) salary or business. Boring!

In the bigger picture, isn’t it more fulfilling to have a sacred life experience, as opposed to being part of a mob of mad racers scrambling for the finish line?

Or a race to amass the most impressive pile of possessions.

Now I am not saying we have to live like paupers to have a sacred life, but I am questioning (which is a good thing) the crazy rush to somewhere we are probably are not even sure we know, or even want.

So today, let’s talk about “What the frigging hell is the rush?!?!”

And the idea of a spiritual journey, as opposed to trying to get “there” quickly.

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How to Get Sh#t Done and Prepare for Curve Balls

Post author By cm_admin
Post date October 25, 2022

Most of my last 20+ years has been trying to figure out how I can make stuff happen (in my favour and with the least amount of energy) and how I can teach others what I have learned.

What works a little, a lot, or not at all.

Last week I talked about building up the Leader within us, and how being a greater leader is ESSENTIAL when it comes to optimizing our experience in life.

The other part of the optimizing-life-and-results-game is not only coming up with the great ideas and insights, but actually acting on them.

You, like me, probably know a lot of ‘great ideas’ people, who spend a lot of time marching on the spot and getting not much actually done.

Ideas are great, but it’s the execution of those ideas that brings them into being.

So…

How do we make sh#t happen, when it takes effort and energy (and sometimes we just don’t feel like doing it)?

Enter left of stage our inner WARRIOR.

Or to be more precise; enter from the very core of our gut, the part of us that gets stuff done…even when we don’t feel like it.

I believe all of us have a Warrior spirit within us.

Unfortunately, sometimes the Warrior needs more prodding and poking to ‘wake it up’.

It’s like our inner Warrior is still working off the after effects of an all-nighter and 3 bottles of red.