Follow the feel of whatever is interesting, writes Louise Thompson.

Life coach Louise Thompson explains how to find your passion.

Today, third and fourth Cs around boundaries Consequences and Choices.

Boundaries are an area pretty much everyone can benefit from a tune-up.

What are boundaries? It's a question I am asked with cunning regularity.

Four last tips to get you working with more concentration and focus.

Here are two more techniques on overcoming procrastination at work.

Two more tips from life coach Louise Thompson on boosting your productivity.

Today we are looking at decluttering as a direct productivity booster.

Louise Thompson has her first tip in her new productivity series for work/life balance.

OPINION: Can you drink the odd mojito and still be someone who nourishes your wellbeing?

Every problem gives us an opportunity to work out our feelgoodry perspective.

Let's take a moment today to stop and look around at what brings us joy.

How can we dial down how concerned we are with other people judging us?

Five quick tips to boost your wellbeing as the cold weather draws in.

OPINION: Give it up Dianne and try a new way.

OPINION: Unfair things happen every day, but disputing them holds us in the trauma.

Discipline is about choosing when there is a choice to be made.

Five ways to gracefully decline and give good no.

The stories we tell ourselves have the capacity to destroy our peace of mind.

Life coach Louise Thompson wants to help others see what she can see in them.

OPINION: Sometimes using your intuition leads to blow-your-socks-off stories.

Opinion: As much as you get joy from loving others, I bet you get depleted too.

"If you think that life is a never ending struggle then that's what it's going to be."

Five instant mood shifters for when you are in a funk.

OPINION: There is nothing that can more quickly burst your bubble over a splendid plan you are cooking up than worrying about what everyone else will think.

OPINION: The lesson in these tales is that we tend to take score way too early, writes Louise Thompson.

You know that thing you are wresting with, that just sort of won't happen no matter how hard you try? Finding a new partner. Landing

OPINION: Defining our reality though a lens of either optimism or pessimism is a choice we all get to make over and over again each day. How do we want to approach the world?

When you believe in people they rise to meet, and often to exceed, your expectations.

COMMENT: For a happy life we need a strong Happiness Muscle. A resilient muscle that doesn't tire easily, and can be recruited in all sorts of situations, writes Louise Thompson.

COMMENT: Once you have decided what you want in 2017 ask yourself what you are prepared to give up to get it, writes Louise Thompson.

When we are stuck on the hamster wheel of doing, doing, doing, it can be hard to get the bigger picture we need to see what's truly working for us and what's not.

The thing with the luxurious long summer break is that we sink into it and feel so good that we forget how life rolls the rest of the year.

2016 - what a year it has been! We said goodbye to Bowie, Prince and Ali. We said hello to Auckland's Real Housewives, Brexit and

Life has never been busier. But if a relationship is truly important and of value, we will find a way to make time and make it work.

Five more strategies on cultivating resilience and how to bend not break when going through a tough time.

Learning how to boost our resiliency equips us to better ride the inevitable waves of adversity that life throws at us.

How about we stop with the waiting? If we are not mindful, happiness can be deferred for so many good, and not so good, reasons.

As your friendly neighbourhood Life Coach, I am often asked how to "let go". How to let go of past hurt. Betrayal. Abandonment. Lack

Before you decide to resign from your job, think about resigning from some of the aspects of the role that are making you unhappy.

One of the great pleasures of my job is seeing smart, courageous people leave the jobs that have been sucking at their souls, or that

Are you one of life's givers? It's not wrong to take once in a while so, here are two golden rules that givers need to bear in mind so they don't burn out.

Last week we dipped into the uncomfortable but all-too-familiar sensation of life envy. That "grass is greener, why is it so easy

Louise Thompson explains how easy it is to find yourself coveting other people's lives. And shares some top tips for being grateful for your own.

We all know people who "eat clean" and are impressively diligent with the preparation of each meal, but who are routinely miserable, or stressed to the max.

COMMENT: At some point there comes a time where we have to believe in and back our own levels of capability that we can move to a new situation.

What is it that allows some people to harness their passion, to follow it almost effortlessly, yet it's such a struggle for many others?

Four things you need to know when contemplating big, bold, brave new moves.

Here are two more strategies which combine with the six strategies from previous weeks.

Here are three more strategies to combine with last week's to help you take control and create a morning routine that will help you start your day right.

You know how sometimes the day can just start off all wrong, and then go rapidly downhill from there?

When I first moved here from the UK I didn't get the bring-a-plate thing. Not only did I not get it, I hated it, writes Louise Thompson.

There. Is. No. "Arrived". Arrived is a destination that does not exist.

Debunking the myth that happy people are naturally lucky and stuff magically goes their way.

Here's a thing that happy people know, whether they consciously know they know it or not: they know that happiness is an entirely subjective reality.

Happy people are committed to being happy and successful, and less happy people are generally only interested in being happy. The difference is massive.

We spend a lot of time here talking about how to be happy, and what happy people think and do to be happy, writes Louise Thompson.

This week I would like you to do an Integrity Inventory with your good and gorgeous self. It's simple but it's not easy.