It’s been a week of new beginnings. After months of talking and planning, followed by months of waiting, our extension build has finally started. I can’t tell you how happy this makes me. I don’t think I’d realised how heavy it had been weighing on my mind in recent weeks. It felt as though our lives were on hold because we knew the build would be starting at some point soon but without a confirmed start date we didn’t have anything fixed to work towards. But now it’s all systems go and our builder Richard and his team haven’t wasted any time getting stuck in. It’s so exciting getting home from work each day to discover what’s changed, arrived, disappeared, been revealed, ended up in the skip.

Now, anyone who knows me will tell you that I am somewhat fond of things being neat, tidy and ORGANISED. And that’s putting it politely. So, imagine my delight at discovering that Richard is a man after my own heart. Honestly, you’ve never seen such a neat and tidy building site. He even puts stuff in the skip neatly. He did this.

Ok so the build got started but that’s not the only new beginning for me this week. I attended a course about Emotional Intelligence and it included an hour’s one to one personal coaching. OMG what an experience. The coach was incredibly inspiring and through a few simple exercises she was able to help me see with amazing clarity what’s important to me and what I need to be truly happy and fulfilled. In work, in life, in everything. It’s filled my head with ideas and has given me a new determination to strive towards what I really want. Have you ever had life coaching or anything like this that has been really life changing? If so I would love to hear about it.