Wry Vita - Marion Ryan's personal blog - blog designer, business coach, lawyer of attraction and good-enough mum

Big Pants and Almond Slices

I had a lovely email from Bee of 50 Plus Life Design yesterday morning telling me I'd won their 'book of the month' competition.  Ironically it's called "Unbelievably Good Deals and Great Adventures that you Absolutely Can't Get Unless You're Over 50" so I'm afraid it's many great adventures I absolutely can't get for aeons and ages and at least 9 months anyway.

But you get what you focus on and I have been doing a lot of focussing on Life After 50 this year because I shall in fact pass that milestone in exactement 40 weeks today.  The main thrust of my focus has been on getting myself into great shape before the big 5-0h. 

Only last week I got a call from my gym, Curves asking me if I realised it was the guts of two months since I'd popped my lumpy little backside on their machines. 

If I'd recognised their number of course, I wouldn't have picked up but it was a fair cop and I went quietly. I figured two months on the run (contra-pun not intended) was more than I could have expected and it was time to complete my sentence, er membership.

Swanning Around

As I was leaving yesterday to go pick up J from school, I came back inside for my camera, knowing I'd find something I wanted to capture of that beautiful day. 

Sure enough, when I got to school with its lovely lake I saw that Mr and Mrs Swan had brought their babies out for their first paddle.  Aw. 

Boosting Your Energy with Grace Marshall

Coaching and website-design client, Grace Marshall, asked two good questions on the New Coach Business Network over the weekend.  Grace's niche is energy and self care and she asked:

• What's your biggest challenge or concern when it comes to self care?

• What are your personal energy boosting tips? Do you have a sure-fire recipe to feeling well nourished?

I didn't answer her immediately.  As it was the weekend I had to pretend that I wasn't (still) sitting in front of my laptop...  I mulled over the topic though as it's a useful one for someone like me, a person of extremes, who feels that if I put down the job and go and have fun I might just forget to come back and pick up the baton again.

So I will share that my biggest challenge seems to be that I don't have a compelling why for focussing on self care:  I'm happy, healthy, stress-free, haven't seen a doctor in years etc so it's all too easy to forget I need to take care of myself. 

But what I really want to share are my personal energy boosting tips.  Because I realise there are so many really and I want to remind myself of all the easy stuff I can and do do.  "Do do"?  Now that makes me laugh - and that's a great starting point for boosting energy, isn't it.