Have you noticed how many podcasts, books and social media posts promise to make us millionaires in five simple steps? Five steps to financial freedom. Ten habits of successful people. The secret to achieving more in less time. As though life were a race to reach some predetermined destination. And money were the ultimate prize.…

I recently watched The Five-Star Weekend. No judgment please 😊 Now, I’ll admit, parts of it made me smile for all the wrong reasons. A beautiful house in Nantucket that somehow never seemed to need a dishwasher loading, a kitchen that remained spotless despite endless meals and, of course, a budget that appeared to have…

For most of my life, I have been seen as the strong one. The one who stays calm when things get difficult. The one who gets on with it. Friends and colleagues have often told me that stress never seems to affect me. “You just breathe through it,” they say. And perhaps, from the outside,…

My husband often laughs when I say I need a holiday. Not because he disagrees that I’m tired. But because, according to him, I don’t actually know the meaning of “relaxing” or “doing nothing.” And if I’m honest… he may have a point. Even away from work, I will find something to organise.Something to improve.Something…