Last week I met a friend of a friend who is eight-and-a-half months pregnant and radiant.

It won't be any surprise to anyone who knows me well that I recently found out I need glasses for driving.

Once you have identified which fear is driving your procrastination, pick a strategy.

Limiting beliefs busted? Check. Goals defined? Check. Action steps diarised? Check. This ideal life thing is easy, right?

As we set stretch goals for ourselves and start to move forward towards our best life there is a powerful energy that helps us build momentum.

What do you do when you are loving the new you that is emerging with your new shiny life and, well, some of your nearest and dearest, they don’t love the new you?

Time to get specific this week.

Looking back last week at the whole of our lives from the perspective of our older selves is valuable as it connects us to our spiritual fuel and our values.

When we are creating a conscious programme of change and self-development in our lives it's helpful to look from two different perspectives.

I hope your vision for what you want for yourself is coming together! Over the coming weeks we are going to refine it and start subtly evolving it from dreams into goals.

Want to know something interesting? A spooky number of clients come to see me when they have a big birthday coming up.

Creating a delicious vision of the future is a really interesting, fun process; but some struggle to find the thing that is “their thing’’.

This is a fun exercise. It's also super-powerful. I used to get surprised when clients did this and amazing stuff started to magically happen and appear in their lives.

Last week we analysed the whyfores of what is working in your life.

We are building on the life satisfaction wheel that you filled in last week, looking at the 8 key areas of life.

This is hands-down one of the most common reasons I see that people are unhappy. That they are tolerating something crappy in their life. Crappy exploitative relationship with co-worker. Crappy loveless marriage.

It’s been a crazy busy couple of months as I race to get my book finished by the deadline.

Figure out what you are not letting go of. An old rejection that niggles away at the back of your mind. Make a note and then know that maybe you will never know why, and that's okay.

There is a new game sweeping the nation. Have you heard of it? Almost everyone is playing. It can be addictive and fun to start with, but over the long term players report rampant dissatisfaction, absence of joy and a low gratitude count.

Do any of these sound familiar? I have to stay in this job or we won't be able to make the mortgage, I have no choice. I have no choice but to go to see Mum again this evening.

How do you recognise the way beliefs drive your life?

This new series expands on the foundation of the 10 happiness principles we covered in the happiness audit. It’s called habits of happiness and it’s a natural next step from the principles we have already discussed.

Here is your recap of what we have learned in our 12- part happiness audit so you can check in and see where you are.

Oh, how to cover THIS in a few hundred words?! Practising emotional honesty is a real biggie, and one of the most common barriers to happiness there is.

Learning to live more of our life in the moment is a life-changing secret of happiness.

It's your job, not someone else's, to move towards what makes you happy.

A common trait that all happy, energetic people have in common is that they know their strengths and they play to them. They are also honest about their weaknesses and they delegate, hire or just plain cut out of life the stuff they are not so good at.