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Every year January 1 arrives and slaps you in the face with all kinds of promises, New year! New you!  But 2026 will be different, not because I’ve suddenly developed superhuman-like willpower or a taste for green smoothies, but because this entire year will be dedicated to finding small, sensible ways to make my life better.  As a middle-aged Australian woman who has already survived low-rise jeans, the Rachael haircut and the great eyebrow over-plucking of the early 2000s,

As you are all aware of by now, I’m on a personal mission to increase the quality of my life now that I’m in my mid-forties.  But before I make drastic changes...  ...I thought maybe I should focus on getting the one-percenters right.          Jordan Peterson said, “Your life isn’t margaritas on a beach in Jamaica, that happens now and again… You get those mundane things right, those things you do every day, you concentrate on them… These little things that are right in front

Does anyone else feel as though they haven’t quite achieved everything they were supposed to by now?  I thought I would have my life together by now.  I’m supposed to have a well-paying job that I love, the beautiful house, the doting husband, the high-achieving children and be well and truly living my happily ever after.  And yes, technically, I do have all of the above in one form or another, but am I actually living my best life?  Or am I living the life I was groomed to w

Having just turned 45, I find myself reflecting on my forties so far.  I can’t help but wonder when it became ok to accept the poor eyesight, the back pain, the weight gain, the saggy skin, the wrinkles, the cellulite, the grey hairs, the chin hairs, the peeing of my pants a little when I sneeze, cough or laugh…                 This is not what I signed up for.  I don’t want to simply get through this, merely surviving.  I want to thrive God damn it!     I realise I have been