On the second-to-last day of blogging in a row, I thought it would be fun to have a look back on my favourite blog posts of the last two years (because let’s face it, when you post every day, not every post is going to be a banger, but that also means there are occassionally some gems).

Here are 13 of my favourites:

You Actually Sell Croissants
About how to market your business

How to Overcome Self-Doubt
About building trust with yourself

The Last Minute
About keeping going until the very end

How to Hustle
About taking action from abundance vs lack

Outwork Chance
About guaranteeing success

The Points System
About how to sell something

Consistency is only ONE of the keys
About consistency on social media

Good Girls Don’t Make Money
About the unexplained importance of money

Ambitious Women Change The World
About why I’m so ambitious

What If We Showed Up Like Every Day Was The Last Day?
About giving it your all

You’ve Got Everything You Need to Hit Your Goal
About starting now

Showing Up No Matter What
About committing to your goals

Action Works Like Money
About compounding interest

After doing hundreds and hundreds of coaching sessions, I discovered that there are four main areas that stop people from taking action:

1. Not having a clear goal

2. Not having a simple plan

3. Not scheduling their actions

4. Having unhelpful thoughts

So I made a flowchart. Enjoy!

I felt myself running out of energy this evening.

But then I remembered the most helpful rule about energy: Even if you’ve only got 30% to give, give 100% of that 30%.

So instead of opting out entirely, I'm here, giving 100% of my 30%.

Some helpful thoughts I had this evening:

“Okay, I don’t have the capacity to go crazy with it right now. What could I do to move closer to my July goals anyway?”

And I found small, impactful ways to move forward, by reposting something I had written a while ago.

So the moral of the story is: Give it everything you’ve got, no matter how much you’ve got.

I saw this photo and immediately could relate.

Sometimes, all you want to do is stay snuggled in a blanket and feel blah.

(Blah is an official emotion, you know the feeling, right?).

But I’ve decide I will still always show up for my commitments.

It doesn’t mean I won’t take a break, or relax a bit first, or do a meditation or let out the BLAH feeling first.

It just means that by the end of the day, no matter how I’m feeling, all of my commitments get done.

Today is one of those days.

HOLD UP. We gotta talk about this phrase “Don’t get your hopes up.”

You don’t want me to feel a good emotion in case there’s a bad emotion coming?

That’s like saying, don’t enjoy the ride in case the destination sucks.

Whaaaaaat?!

When you don’t let yourself get your hopes up, you’re literally STEALING joy from yourself.

The anticipation of achieving a goal is almost always THE BEST BIT!

When you achieve it, you’ll probably celebrate for 5 minutes and want to set a new goal anyway. So enjoy the ride. Get your hopes up.

Plus, here’s what I think about you: I think you’re strong enough to handle the disappointment of not achieving your money goal, or of getting rejected by a job, or of not winning a competition.

I think you can handle it.

Get your hopes up, have an amazing time anticipating the wonderful joy ahead of you – and then if you don’t achieve it, at least you’ll have had fun along the way.

Getting your hopes up is a beautiful thing. Gift it to yourself and others!

It doesn’t have to be a new week, or a new year or a birthday – you can decide to make a giant change, right now.

Everything can change because in this exact moment, you decide it’s going to change.

That’s how I became a runner. 

It was a random Tuesday of no real significance. 

I just had a lightning bolt moment of “I’m sick of thinking about running – I’m deciding RIGHT NOW, I’m doing this.” 

And then I ran nearly single day that entire summer.

One day, when you’re ultra successful and you’re being interviewed about your incredible success, they’ll ask “How did it all begin?”

And you’ll say “I just made a decision one day.” 

That day could be today.

Decide right now to do the thing you’ve been putting off.

Sometimes it really is that simple.

What if fate is just waiting for you to make the first move?

When was the last time you felt on point?

Like you could take on ANYTHING?

Like the world was your oyster?

What were you thinking then? What were you doing?

What if you thought and did those things today?

There might never be a sign or a magic mirror on the wall that tells you THIS IS THE WAY to making money/building followers/getting the book deal.

I was full-on waiting for that sign for two years.

I had no clients.

No Facebook group.

No blog posts.

No sales.

I was waiting for a prince in the shape of a marketing plan to come and save me.

(“Princess! Here is the magic pill that will solve everything. Sorry to keep you waiting for years, traffic was a nightmare.”)

I didn’t start creating clients or growing my group or blogging until I decided that I am my own magic pill.

I started building success when I decided that whatever way I chose was going to work, as long as I committed to it 100% and stopped changing my plan every 5 minutes.

Because here’s the thing about success:

There is never a right decision.

There’s only the decision that you make right.

You know exactly what you need to do.

Do it.

I'm learning to observe my experience of goal getting as a neutral pattern.

Instead of freaking out when nothing is going right, I'm able to observe my brain and think “Oh this bit. This is the bit where I feel like giving up. I always go through this bit. It's just one of the steps for success.”

Stay with the process. Don't panic. You'll pass through this level soon.

Note to my past self.

Here's why you're not making progress towards your dream:

You’re fluffing.

Talking without really saying anyting.

Taking action without really doing anything.

Your entire to-do list is total rubbish.

It’s just stuff that makes you feel important.

• Designing logos.

• Editing fonts.

• Perfecting your message.

• Re-planning your launch. Again.

Stuff that seems legitimate but is actually holding you back.

It’s procrastination in disguise.

Cut it out. All of it.

Because if you’re honest with yourself, you know what you actually need to do today.

It’s not the thing you want to do.

Do it anyway.

Your future self will thank you.

(Thank you.)

What would you tell your past self?

I want girls to know that they are enough.

And that they can stand up for what they believe in. 

And that they can talk about money.

And that they can want big things.

And that they can be ambitious as hell.

And that none of those things make her wrong or bad.

They just make her one of the ones who are changing the world.

In honour of International Women’s Day AND my Grandmother’s birthday, today I’m reposting this, one of my favourite posts on my blog:

Sometimes people ask me why I am such an ambitious woman. 

Why do I need to go after impossible dreams? Why not just be satisfied with the way things are?

And I'm like, GIRL. We need to talk.

You and I are some of the first women in history – and still in the world today – to have the freedom to even TRY to fulfill our potential.

And that is only because we are standing on the shoulders of generations of women who fought for us to have the opportunities we have. 

My heart breaks at the thought of all the women with brilliant ideas and dreams who never got a chance to attempt them.

Thanks to ambitious women fighting for our rights – to vote, to go to school, to have bank accounts, to have reproductive choices – you and I have the chance to go after our dreams.

Ambitious women changed the world for us.

And now it's our turn to be an example of what is possible for the next generation of women.

I will never, ever, apologise for being ambitious.

I owe it to my grandmother.

Energy stored in an object due to it’s position is Potential Energy.

Energy that a moving object has due to its motion is Kinetic Energy.

Every person in this world has the Potential Energy to hit their goals within them.

The key it to turn it into Kinetic Energy, and actually get it moving.

Don’t let yourself be unrealised potential.

What are you doing today to move closer to your goal?

However much effort you expect it to take to hit your goal, 10x it.

If you think you need to talk to 5 people a day – find a way to talk to 50.

If you think you need to get 10 people in your Facebook Group each day, find a way to get 100.

If you think you need to write 200 words of your book a day – imagine what would shift if you committed to 2000 words a day.

The beauty of increasing your effort is that nothing else needs to change.

No one needs to give you permission.

You don’t need to wait for anything.

You have total control.

No matter how crazy the outside world gets, you always have the power to put in 1000% effort.

And it doesn’t have to mean putting in more time or hustling yourself into the ground.

You can win or lose a game of tennis in the same 90 minutes.

You can write 100 words or 1000 words in the same 60 minutes.

You can send the same email to 5 people or 50 people in 10 minutes.

I learned this lesson because of the wild ride that 2020 threw at us all.

I didn’t have a choice but to put in 10x more effort than ever before. Not 2x. Not a bit more. 10x more.

• I went down to the mall and asked strangers to subscribe to my YouTube channel.

• I posted in over 250 other Facebook groups.

• When I first started my Facebook group, I’m not kidding when I say I spent 3 hours a day, every single day for a month to grow it to 500 members. (I’ve got the excel spreadsheet of my effort if y’all want to see!).

I started believing in my ability to control my own results. Because I control my effort.

How will you put in 10x more effort for your goal this week?