While Valentine’s Day is well known for the day you’re meant to receive gifts from the person who loves you, it’s also a day to remember the importance of self-love. Because without loving yourself, no gifts or cards from someone else will fill the void created by the absence of love for yourself.

Take the pressure off yourself about New Years resolutions. You don't have to set resolutions or goals. Instead, focus on how you want to feel and your vision for the year ahead.
 

Increasingly there's talk about the need for diversity, for different voices to be represented and heard. It's not a new thing but it's certainly dominating discussions in organisations at leadership and board levels. And it's not just a topic for the workplace either. We each have a unique combination of skills, qualities, experiences and passions but are you confident being the real you and expressing your diverse voice?

Some of you will be super excited and already have plans for Christmas Day, presents, menus and everything else that goes with your Christmas sorted. But for others, Christmas isn't an easy time.  It's time to allow yourself permission to be honest about how you feel about Christmas.

Negative self-talk, that inner critic, mean voice, or whatever you call it can run rife! But it doesn't have to. Having a strategy to put in place when you start to spiral downward will help turn things around so you can move forward well.

There are lessons to learn but we don't always notice them, and that means opportunities to grow pass us by. But it doesn't need to be like that, there's something you can do each day.