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How is your week going so far? I hope all is well, for me I've been super super busy. Hands full with baby and all, plus I'm back to work. As you have noticed I am indeed back but in a new, completely different but exciting direction. Since giving birth to my beautiful baby girl Zaana, I have found myself so completely obsessed with the hypnobirthing techniques that I was fortunate enough to use leading up to, during and even now after labour and birth. My experience is nothing short of a miracle and you have to hear it to believe it. I credit everything to God of course but also to the mindset training I did to ensure I had a calm, relaxing and positive birthing experience.

I had this question in my group recently from one of my amazing ladies and to be honest it LIT me up. It got me thinking, this was where I was 5-6 years ago in my life. I was stuck, confused and left wondering the same thing. I soon realised, just like my group member above, it was the FEAR that was holding me back form doing the things that I really wanted to do in my life.

Yesterday I was reminded yet again how living my life with total expectations of great things can make events and experiences to happen in my life with ease and absolutely no effort on my part but action and obedience.

Every time I experience something miraculous in my life, I stop and examine and most times I am extremely baffeled because there is no way these things are coincidences. They are just too precise and too much in the perfect time. It also needed me to act in that time without fear and worry but in total FAITH that it would be done.

This is the honest truth! Everyday I wake up, I wonder how can I help more women to live a happy and amazing life that they love.

 I have always loved my life because I was the one who was creating it, with the help of God ofcourse.

I don’t call myself a success coach because although I love to help women to succeed in life, it’s still so super vague. Like success in what area, career, life, travel?

But I would say is that I help women to Believe in themselves so that they can go out and create a life that they love and can be successful in.

I just completed my super packed and busy 3 days of training where I give you amazingly good points and action steps to help you to do just that.

After diving deeper into my own mindset growth and development. After reading and learning as much as I can about myself and what is really holding me back from doing the things that I desire in my life. I felt in my heart and spirit that it has a lot to do with my own self belief and self confidence.

Throughout my teenage years and early twenties I often felt a bit confused, lost and indecisive about life. I never knew exactly what I wanted, I didn’t feel called to do anything specific really at all.

I thought about my passions and the things that lit me up but I couldn't see those things being possible in my life because people who are from where I was from just didn’t do things like that.

It's September ladies and I am back. I took 2 weeks off during August because to be honest I needed it. So many things have been happening in my life over the past couple of months. I needed time to process, to enjoy and to be grateful for it all and now I am finally ready to share with the world. 

Everyday I wake up I ask myself the same things “how can I create more abundance, happiness and fulfilment in my life?”

Am I greedy to always want more?

I don’t think so because I feel like I deserve to have more.

I want to be able to be an energetic match for the things that I am available for.

These are my goals and my desires and because I have already worked through that whole feeling of ….

Ofcourse life is never a smooth ride, there are always ups and downs, to and fros, happiness and sadness. But unfortunately, for many people it may seem like they are always in the latter!

Downs, fros and sadness and honestly it breaks my heart when I see women’s lives being constantly bombarded by negativity. Seemingly depressed and unhappy with no way out of this deep dark suction that they seem to exist in.

Life is beautiful and wonderful, to be enjoyed and treasured, to be lived with purpose and happiness.That’s why when I saw the news this morning about the rise in young women self harming, almost brought me to tears. 

Yes, you heard that right lovely.

You ARE NOT meant to be living the perfect life. YOU ARE meant to live a fulfilled life.

Today I went swimming in my local gym’s pool. I realised that since I moved to the UK I hadn’t looked into the gym nearby as I’m not much of a gym fan and the area around here is so beautiful for walking and strolls. So why waste time inside of a building with boring equipment!

So my friend and I went for an early morning swim in the pool. While taking my leisurely laps to and from and when I say leisurely I mean a few strokes and rest because I am now a strong swimmer, plus I’m an asthmatic. But I love doing activities like these to exercise my lungs.

My clients are women  just like you and I but they recognised the way they were currently living their lives needed to be changed.

They wanted to find fulfilment and live a life of purpose and happiness.

The things there were doing were not making a difference and they knew that things needed to be changed. 

I know when we look around it seems like everyone is a life coach, helping women to live their best lives. But what does that really mean?

For me, my best life is the life I am living now. One filled with purpose, fulfilment and above all else happiness.

1 year ago I was working a job from 7-3 everyday. It was a great job and I felt really blessed but in all honesty I was just marking time. Showing up everyday, enjoying it yes but then going home and wondering what I had accomplished that day. Nothing much to be honest but another day down. We were living in Cyprus at the time and so I was living for the weekends to go exploring around the island. Getting out of the house, getting into the culture and meeting new people.

This is my new book title, like Eat, Pray and Love lol. No, I'm kidding, I write a blog posts every week because I actually like to write and share information. I love to motivate, support and inspire and although it may seem a bit useless in our recent times because people appear to be reading less and spending more time watching videos. I still love to share some golden nuggets every single week, straight into your inbox or weekly internet search.

Today I wanted to share my 3 framework to having a happy and successful life.

I am not an All or nothing kind of girl!!

Not at all, I am more a balanced, I can have everything kind of girl. I never believe in sacrificing one for another and so this is the attitude I take throughout my life. I CAN have my cake and eat it too, (I never really understood that cake phrase). I put this down to self love and acceptance. I love myself so much, that I know without a doubt, that I deserve everything that my little heart desires. From marrying the man of my dreams, traveling to places I have dreamt of and now living the life I desire.  

This past weekend I was taken aback by the lack of self love that most women have for themselves. We live in a society who wants to tell us what to believe, how to look, what to say and who to be. No one can tell you this but yourself, because you were created to be the best version of YOU. Not anyone else or who anyone else wants you to be. As an enthusiastic traveller I can attest to the times when life have threatened to pull me under. Under its strains and stresses and living up to other people's expectations. I had to find out WHO I AM and had the courage to walk in that knowledge. I am a child of God and I am walking in power and miracles every single day with his help and I am walking in FAVOUR.

In honour of the ending of the first half of 2018, I wanted to start this month off by introducing my 5 day WAKE UP CHALLENGE over in the fb group. 

Ever since I was a little girl I have always wanted to have my own business, work for myself and help other women in some way or form. As I started to explore my love for travel I realised that I wanted to help women to find happiness and love through travel. My main driver in life is happiness, therefore, whatever decision and actions I take in my life is driven from that 1 need, to be happy. Sure enough that's exactly the life I have created for myself without me even being aware of actively seeking it. It was done totally subconsciously and the divine grace of God and I couldn't be happier. 

Goal achievement is major in our lives because without goal setting, then we have nothing to work towards and to achieve. The key to a great life and creating a life that you love is getting super CLEAR on what that life looks like for you. Maybe it's to have a better work/life balance, have a better career, meet that dreamy spouse or to travel more, but whatever that dream life looks like you have got to define it for yourself. The second step after defining it is figuring out how you would be achieving it. This is where goal setting comes in, you can try to create the life you want but without breaking it down into goals, honey you may be walking a never ending treadmill. So here are 6 ways that you can ensure that your goals can and will become achievable:

Everyone who is shouting living your dream life is EASY is not telling you the whole truth.

It gets easier after a while but achieving it is NOT!

Let me give you a little lesson on stepping out of comfort zones.

When we are in our comfort zones everything is easy and effortless. It flows from us because we are already accustomed to this way of life. This is our normal standards in life but whenever you decide to step out into something different there WILL be massive amount of resistance.

As you know I absolutely love to travel but to me travel is not a means of escape from a life that is stressful and overwhelming. Infact, its quite the opposite, I see travel as my reward for my hard work and perseverance in what situation I may have found myself in, which we know in life is very frequent.

Amazing article for sustainable travel by GUEST BLOGGER DEVI…

Anytime I travel (particularly to somewhere new), I love bringing back presents for friends/family. I also scout out items for myself/my household to remind me of the trip. As you might have guessed, I love having a global flair to my home and wardrobe. Keeping an eye out for unique products when I’m traveling is the perfect way to do that. That said, my personal philosophy is “fewer, but better.” I want to make sure that whatever I keep in my home is something that I truly value. Things that I find valuable are items that bring back great memories and have meaning not only to me, but also to the people who make them.

Today I woke up and the first thing I wanted to do was to stay in bed, pull the covers over my face and push the world way. I was thinking about my goals for the future and I was feeling flooded, overwhelmed and just tired. I wasn't as excited anymore and it made me think. Achieving goals and dream in our lives is not going to be happy everyday, it's not going to be great everyday and sadly it's not going to be easy everyday especially to begin with. I believe with all my heart that it will get better and this is why I keep pushing on everyday but for now, there are definite ups and downs.

In our lives, there are so many things waiting to take priority. Our jobs, our husbands, our kids and now your desire to travel more. You just don’t know why, but you keep craving travel and you just need it in your life. You understand the importance of it because it’s something that you love, you used to do it before. You understand it helps you to relax, to unwind, to create balance and you love the secret feeling of being FREE.

The doors are now OPEN for the Zanur Fearless Travellers Membership Community.

In this membership community not only are you able to plan and have unforgettable traveling experiences, you are able to travel more and most of all you get to transform your thinking and your actions every day to create the FIRST class life your desire for yourself. Stepping out of your comfort zone and deciding to really and truly live your life to the fullest. 

On Saturday morning I woke up and started actively seeking a particular feeling, it was a feeling that was a part of who I was for a long time. But I realized over the past few months I hadn't noticed it anymore.

It was the first feeling I would feel as I wake up every day. 

It’s difficult to explain but it was like I had something to do. 

My mind would race, “what did I have to do?”

J and I usually spend Easter at home, me trying to make hot cross buns. Sometimes failing miserably but I always enjoy trying. Eating fish and just taking the long holiday to relax. I usually avoid traveling during Bank Holidays as it's always extra busy and expensive but due to the moon and the vernal equinox, Easter fell on Passover, which was also near to my birthday on 26th March. I obviously had to do something as it's my birthday and I always do something special on my birthday. Last year I celebrated my 30th in Jerusalem, Isreal. My most unforgettably amazing trip to date and the year before that we celebrated in Amsterdam, Netherlands and further to that we were in Berlin, Germany. 

In our modern world, we are surrounded by so many distractions. From television to mobile phones and of course work and personal life. As women, we are stretched even thinner and we have so many roles to play in our homes and communities. From mothers, daughters, friends, church member and the list goes on. The days start to morph into one and we become downright grumpy, withdrawn and even depressed. I know this would be even more real when we are not doing the things every day that brings us joy and happiness. It's hard to push on doing things because we feel we must or for other reasons such as money and survival.