What are the odds?
NZ Muse
by nzmuse
5M ago
    The odds that I would achieve a perfect score on the Australian / NZ English competition in intermediate school? The odds that I would have basically just the right amount of money to round off my RTW trip by the end of it? The odds that Spud would have severe cow’s milk protein intolerance (CMPI) yet tolerate goat’s milk fairly well? (The numbers for this are supposedly really low… but I wonder, how accurate can these stats really be, and how are they calculated?) And if we apply this thinking, we can wield and deploy it either way. Believing we can beat the odds. Time the mar ..read more
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It pays to … do your research and get the facts
NZ Muse
by nzmuse
6M ago
One memory I’ll always remember from back in school, shortly after moving to NZ. Way back when, we were given a maths problem, and we had to insert our own variables. In this case, the price of a hypothetical concert ticket. I was so naive. I literally had no idea what something like that cost. The teacher said to pick something realistic, not like $20. But I had no frame of reference myself – maybe movie tickets?! – and although I heard his comment, it just did not compute in my mind. I thought maybe I misheard the number he said. Anyway, I obviously chose an unrealistic price and ..read more
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Confessions: some facts about me that might surprise you
NZ Muse
by nzmuse
8M ago
  I am a Cancer. It absolutely sums up my personality. I am an ISFJ. Also eerily accurate. I am a dragon. Growing into this – I never at all identified with it, but I’m now stepping up into some of these traits. Especially in 2024, the year of the dragon. Over the past few years I’ve experienced and become an advocate for many body-based practices, methods, and modalities. I can personally vouch for somatic therapy, EFT tapping, hypnosis, and Emotion Codes. When you run up against the limit of what you can achieve working on the mental and cognitive level – just look over the wall ..read more
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Screw the shoulds
NZ Muse
by nzmuse
8M ago
  “You should’ve gone out with him when you had the chance.” So said my friend, back when we were awkward pre-teens trying to figure it all out. The gentle nerd with the soft eyes, big glasses and floppy hair was suddenly cool (I couldn’t work it out – why?) and she thought I’d missed the boat. But, no. As lovely as he was, I didn’t want the chance in the first place. You can’t fake something you’re not into. You can’t be swayed by what others think. You can’t go far if your heart’s not truly in it. Fuck the shoulds, the noise, the chatter, the buzz. Trust your Knowing, as Glennon Doyle ..read more
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The 2 vital ingredients for your next breakthrough
NZ Muse
by nzmuse
10M ago
  A word I’ve been using a lot lately is discernment. Honing our sense of judgement is such a crucial life skill. Discerning what we actually want and the best way to go about getting it. And going into 2024, I think I can boil that down to two things: Awareness – of who the hell you actually are; how you feel and react to people and situations Deliberation – and working toward showing up consciously every day of your life and being intentional about your actions (Throwback here to 2016 and the 2 things I learned that changed my life) When you know what you want, and you’re fully dedicat ..read more
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I’m entering my villain era. Bring it on
NZ Muse
by nzmuse
1y ago
  Have you ever worked with incredibly reactive people always on the brink of an emergency? How painful is that?! You just want to shake them and shout “Get a grip! Your failure to plan is not my problem!” I’ve been going through life like that. Reacting and panicking, getting caught up in other people’s drama. That was my MO for most of my life. Now I refuse to play that game. I operate from intention and intuition. Slow down. Ask why. Does this really need to be done? Why now? Who does it serve? What are the alternatives? What are the consequences? What are the desired outcomes? What a ..read more
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Weeding out money demons and financial weak spots at the root
NZ Muse
by nzmuse
1y ago
  Deconstructing your individual money story, your unique flavour of hangups and hurdles along with triumphs, is something you’re probably going to eventually come up against (if you haven’t already) and is the key to sustaining next-level success. Buuuuuut when we really get down to it… what does that mean? Let’s make it real, let’s get raw with some tangible examples as I walk you through some of my shit. My mistrust of cash I love money but actual physical cash? Not so much. I can probably trace this back to what I think might be my earliest money-related memory, in whi ..read more
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Where are you making do?
NZ Muse
by nzmuse
1y ago
I used to be great at making do. I didn’t make much, nor did I expect to. I got great at working with those constraints. Leaving that world behind, graduating into a new reality, was a slow burn. Picturing and projecting into the future. Figuring out where, if nothing much changed, things would be in a year, 2 years, 5 years and beyond. Deciding what I wanted to carry on and what I was ready to leave behind. Contemplating how that changed the picture. Letting myself dare to dream. Expand my horizons. Stretch the limits. Getting ready to shed, getting ready to step up. Letting ideas creep in ..read more
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One word I just can’t stand (and what I’m replacing it with)
NZ Muse
by nzmuse
1y ago
  One phrase that REALLY grates on my nerves is this: creating money. So too do creating clients, creating results, etc. Hello, cue brain scoffing… BUT you’re not literally printing/minting cash, are you? BUT you’re not literally bringing new humans into the world, are you? You’re not literally making cash out of thin air. You’re recirculating existing currency. Clients were already moving through the world; they just weren’t YOUR clients before. The resistance, at least for me, is strong. The instinctual, involuntary reaction, visceral. Maybe it’s semantics. Making money doesn’t elicit ..read more
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Getting more intentional about my belongings
NZ Muse
by nzmuse
1y ago
As a renter, I lived with a hodge podge of random furniture and belongings. I really couldn’t commit to anything, because I moved so frequently, and often had to upsize or downsize accordingly. Seven years after moving into my own home, I still very much live with a random assortment of things. And I’d like to be more intentional about what is in my home. I feel my family was very much in the ‘grab it if it’s free/cheap’ camp. Books, CDs, toys weren’t really carefully curated, more just whatever came our way or was on sale. Don’t get me wrong. I’m very grateful for all the freebies we’ve ..read more
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