2017! What a year it's been!! So much has been achieved... but where has the time gone? The weeks have disappeared and flown by! I for one am so excited to be able to look back on the year and see what I've learned on this journey! My 7 goals for 2017 Aiming to hit 500,000 downloads of the Tough Girl Podcast Learning French - Signing up to Dulolingo & starting a french course Donating my hair to - Little Princess Trust Training as a Personal Trainer Mountain Leader Award Goin

It is pretty common that we have things in the back of our mind that we want to do. We want to lose weight but we are not willing to make the time to get to the gym. We want to write a certain number of blog posts per week but instead we are scrolling through Facebook. There are lots of things that distract us. The list goes on and on with things that we want versus what we actually end up doing. At the end of the day, discipline is so important because it is what we are givi

1. Get off your “but”: Don’t let your circumstances become an excuse. For example, “I would love to train for a half-marathon BUT ________.” 2. Don’t overthink it: Extensive planning can often be a fancy way to procrastinate. Instead, get started and you’ll figure out things along the way. 3. Chunk down your goals: In order to reach your goals, you just need to take the next action, then the next. When you think about your goals, break them down into bite-size chunks until yo

2016…. I honesty can’t believe what I’ve done and what I’ve achieved over the past 12 months. I have no idea how the time has passed, but here we are. Ready to close the book on 2016 and to start a fresh on the 1st January 2017. I hate New Year’s Eve with a passion, but I love the 1st of January. It’s fresh, it’s new, it’s an exciting time of the year. It’s the unknown. It’s filled with potential and it re-energies me. I love my life, I love what I do. I love Mondays, I love

Let's just get this out of the way - This is a massive GOAL!! A goal that scares me and excites me in equal measure. I have no idea if its possible. I don’t know if this will happen in the following year. But I do know I am going to work my hardest and do everything I can to make it happen. Just to put some numbers and context around the goal. I started the podcast in August 2015 with 4 episodes, since then, I have released over 80 episodes, and also expanded the podcast with

Where's this year gone?! I have no idea… it’s just flown by!! It’s now December almost the middle of December and Christmas is just around the corner followed by the New Year !!! For the past few years, I’ve been setting myself 20 goals each year. But I've struggled to complete them, so this year I’ve gone for a change and have decided to go after a smaller number of goals. 7 to be exact! It seemed to fit well with 2017. I will be revealing all 7 of my goals at the end of the

Ever since I started the Tough Girl Podcast back in August 2015 I’ve had this figure in my head. I knew I wanted to achieve this in downloads. I know its a BIG number. - its a HUGE number! I also don’t know how achievable it is or realistic it is to have this as a goal….But sometimes, you have to throw caution to the wind and aim really high. I have to go for it, I have to try. I need to believe I can make this happen and I’ll reach this number by the 31st December 2016…. To

You probably realise I love setting myself goals and challenges and I wanted to do the same with the Tough Girl Podcast. I am going to set 1 HUGE Goal and a few smaller, more achievable goals. My 1 HUGE goals is to go for 100,000 downloads and I would love to do this by 31st December 2015. However, I would need to be having approx 20,000 downloads each month! I do have to be a little realistic so instead I would like to get 100,000 downloads by the anniversary of the Tough Gi

No Booze No Bread 100 KG Dead lift 5 minute plank Complete the Marathon des Sables Write and publish a book about the MDS 100 public speaking engagements Healthy eating – 1 cheat day a week 6 pull ups Triathlon 3 Peaks Challenge Weight = 9 stone 5 2,000+ followers on Instagram No iphone or ipad at night in the bedroom Get a sponsor for Tough Girl Challenges New Laptop – iMac Pro/Air Walk everyday Blog 3x a week Join a running club Meet new people and network more #goals #20in

I’m 5’8 and weight on a good day around 10 stone 6 and on a bad day 10 stone 8. If you looked at me you’d never think I was fat, I look in proportion to my height. One of the benefits of being tall is you can carry more weight and get away with it. I would describe my body as a runner’s body. I have no muscle definition around my arms or waist. I have no upper body strength and struggle to do more than five push-ups. I’d like to think my legs are strong as I’ve done lots of r

As I’ve mentioned previously I worked in Banking for eight years in a job which for a while I really did enjoy. However, I woke up one day and decided this was not me. This was not how I wanted to spend my life. I was thirty two years old and I needed to do something different, something I was passionate and inspired about. I left my job in March 2013 and decided to have another gap year and do lots of traveling and take the time to think about what I wanted to do. I knew I w