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You know how you get out into nature and just feel your nerves unwind and you instantly less jangly?
Did you know that research suggests that just 20-30mins in nature can help to reduce cortisol levels?
Our busy, stressful lives often mean we have a buttload of Adrenalin and cortisol swimming in our veins and frankly, it’s pretty average for our health.

Getting out in nature soothes our nervous system and has the added health benefits of reducing anxiety, depression, increasing blood flow and improving cardiovascular health.
We should be doing it daily, but often it’s not possible. Or not our priority at least.
We drove 1.5hrs out of Sydney to Minnamurra Rainforest to chase a waterfall and suck up all this good juju and reset for another week. I’m aiming on little resets regularly with big nature hits a couple of times a month.
Does nature reset your brain space too?

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Make the space.
Allow all of the good and the bad, and the sad and the rad wash over you.
When it feels like you’re falling apart, imagine you’re just getting ready to rebuild stronger, better and more glorious than before.

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Let me tell you a story about a boy who hated homework.
The very mention of the word began the drama. There was resistance, tears, yelling, storming out and running away.
And that was just from me.
I despaired because we have nine more years of school and it doesn’t get less intense from here.
After two hours of tears and butting heads last week, I had a flash of genius (if I do say so myself). I went in to his room, where he lay wrung out and emotional on the bed.
“Do you want to play a game that might help us feel better?” I asked.
He complied, eager to stop feeling so poo.
I proceeded to use a rapid change technique that I use with clients who want to change a negative thought pattern or behaviour.
It took under ten minutes.
It was even kind of fun.
He calmed down and I suggested we just go to bed and call the day done. We could think about school work after a big sleep.
We were both totally over each other after such a freakin’ palaver but I also wanted a big sleep to help his brain integrate the work.
I walked back five minutes later and he was up at his desk, quietly doing the homework. “Can you help me, please?” he asked.
We got it done.
The following morning, same.
He sat at his desk, politely asked me to join him, and got it done.
This whole week.
Same.
ANGELS SANG HALLELUJAH IN MY EARS.
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Now, is this solved for the rest of his school career? No idea. But I definitely saw an enormous change this week.
If I need to do it every week for the next nine years I’m down with that because it eases the pain of something in our lives.
If these tools can help a nine year old boy’s mindset about a task he hates, imagine what it can do for a grown ass human who is eager for change.
Change how you view exercise.
Change your boozing habits.
Change how you view yourself.
Change how you feel about your past.
Change your attitude to money.
Change how much you resist something you know you need to do.
What do you need to do that you don’t want to do?
If you want to know more, chat to D Man.
He’s at his desk. Doing his homework.
Or PM me.

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Two years ago I was successful freelance writer but I wasn’t happy. I felt like there had to be more to my life and I couldn’t put my finger on it.
I took time out to try to work out how to find contentment, make myself feel more satisfied, find true happiness within myself and not rely on external things to make me feel good.
I read books, I researched, I spoke with psychologists, and therapists, coaches and sex therapists to get a deeper understanding of humans and what makes us feel fulfilled, happy and purposeful.
I decided to create Your Good Life before I really knew what it was going to be.
I just knew I needed to do something.
Then my Dad got sick and it changed everything but now I see the blessings I got from that experience.
Not only did I have this humbling and incredible human experience with one half of the pair of where I came from, but so much more.
I learned I needed to be humble.
I learned I needed to learn more and constantly.
I learned what I am capable of.
That experience propelled me towards the study I did in NLP, hypnotherapy and Positive Psychology Coaching.
Would I have needed up there without that experience?
We will never know but it would at least have taken longer.
Be compassionate with yourself no matter where you are right now. Being human can be tough.
And dig deep to find the lessons that are waiting for you so you can move through and go to the next level of your life.
Being a successful human isn’t about riches, fame, fortune and likes.
A successful human is one who learns from their life, loves wholeheartedly and strives to be a little bit better today than they were yesterday.
This is my wish for you.
I’m so excited that soon I’ll be announcing something special to help you do that. ✨✨✨

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When you look for the good stuff, instead of focusing on the shit bits, you start to see more good stuff.
You become a magnet for more good stuff and before you know it.... ✨✨✨
If you think this is hippy, mung bean, airy fairy stuff, do some reading into positive psychology.
Those science-y clever clogs’ can’t all be wrong.

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Your emotional baggage is not a golden ticket to be a dick... no matter you’ve experienced, seen, done or been through, you do not have the right to be a self-centred, self absorbed dick. That is a choice.
That’s the basis of magnificent riff in today's Your Good Life newsletter that winged straight into my Dear Ones' (mostly family- let’s face it) inboxes.
If you're not subscribed to catch my weekly ponderings, then you should totally do that now by clicking the link in comments to read this sweet rant on the blog and an option to jump aboard the Your Good Life news train will appear like freakin’ magic.
Then you can be sure never to miss gems like this, with practical tips on how not to be a dick.
Even if you don’t want the newsletter, do read for some cracking advice.

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