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Learn how to write your best-selling book in 2017

It’s that time of year when I start looking at what I’ve achieved in the past 12 months and looking to what I want to create in the next year. I’ve done quite well this year in that I’ve written almost 50,000 of my novel. (Wooohooooo!) A big thank you to the tribe at The Big Writing Club, who have ...

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3 Book deal for our Big Writing Clubber Andy Shepherd

We were celebrating last night on a live VIP call with our very own home-grown talent Andy Shepherd who joined the Big Writing Club in 2012. She has got her first three book deal for her children’s series The Boy Who Grew Dragons, The Boy Who Lived With Dragons and the third book The Boy Who Flew With Dragons, which ...

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Coming back after rejection

I recently had the pleasure of being interviewed by Joanna Pieters for the Creative Life Show. We talk about ‘coming back after rejection’ and I share my story of how my first book went disastrously wrong, and how my inner critic scuppered what seemed the opportunity of a lifetime, and how it nearly led to me giving up writing and coaching. ...

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Be Happy while you work

“Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.” John Lubbock Last month on our monthly upgrade programme, we were upgrading our relationships – mostly by using that most under-used and under-valued skill of listening. Our challenge was to listen to one person every day and really ‘hear’ what they were saying. As a coach, you’d think it would ...

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How To Travel The World, Eat Fantastic Food and Get Paid For It

Tonight, we start the new writing year at the Big Writing Club – our online writing club where you can learn how to earn money from writing, be inspired to write every day and make your writing dreams a reality. Is the Big Writing Club for you? -Do you want to learn how to write and get published? – Do ...

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“Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.” Norman Vincent Peale

At Big Leap this month, we’ve just been finishing up our ‘Upgrade Your Finances’ month. With some time off this Summer, I have had some space to ponder upon my relationship with money. My favourite book on this subject is Emotional Currency by Kate Levinson. It’s a brilliant guide to building a healthy relationship with money. I found writing the ...

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Why the power of habits will transform your life.

Habits. I love them. Well, the good ones anyway. Learning about habits via Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit has been a revelation. And for this month on the Life Upgrade programme, where we have been focusing on improving our well-being and health habits, it’s been life changing. The key to exercising regularly, losing weight, raising a happy ...

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Stop talking, start listening

What a month! I am so glad I have been focusing on Self Care in June as our second month of the Upgrade programme. It’s really helped me keep calm, during this month of upheaval and uncertainty.  I’ve been trying to stay aware of my thoughts and what I’m making the Referendum result mean. If I choose to believe that ...

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Upgrading and surrendering

In May, I started the Upgrade Life Programme and in month one, we’re de-cluttering. I’m sitting here with a beautifully clear desk – and because it was my birthday month my lovely friend bought me a ‘Suzy’s novel’ notebook in bright pink. As I’m about to start 90 days to write a book with my Big Writing Club – it’s ...

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18 things I wish I’d known at 18

It’s my birthday today. May the fourth be with you. I’m 48. 30 years since my 18th birthday. Here are some of the things I wish I’d known when I was 18. 1. ‘This too shall pass’ Learn to embrace the good, bad and ugly parts of your day and let it go. Let ‘This too shall pass’ be your ...

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