The Canal Path Knows What You Need
The Canal Path Knows What You Need
Waterways are deeply calming to the nervous system....💙
Moving alongside water helps thoughts flow, too 🚶♀️➡️ 🚶➡️
No pressure, no pace - just presence 💚
I love living 5 minutes from the wildlife corridor of the canals near me - daily pleasure, mindfulness and enjoying time for a PAUSE...
Learn more about using the power of the PAUSE in your FREE step-by-step guide to find clarity and a path forward
- a taster of my powerful 4P Framework, a tried-and-tested strategy that can help you navigate life's challenges, big or small, with confidence and calm...
Email anne.brookes@canalsidecoach.app to receive your simple and friendly Guide to the 4P Framework that has helped countless people just like you.
🌿 Nature is therapy - pair it with coaching for deeper clarity
Coaching can guide the way - for personalised professional coaching, Book a Wraparound session with me
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DIY Life Coaching: READ my Ebook
DIY Life Coaching with the 4P Framework
DIY Life Coaching: WATCH my microlearning videos on the Canalside Life Coach
on the Canalside Life Coach YouTube Channel
IMAGE: A small canalboat with colourful flowerpots on top moves towards a lock, there are willows drooping into the water on one side and a grassy towpath on the other. It is calm and relaxing.
Green Spaces, Blue Skies, Better Moods
Green Spaces, Blue Skies, Better Moods
Green and blue tones in nature calm the visual cortex
Light movement boosts serotonin and endorphins ⤴️
Outdoor air supports better sleep and clearer thinking
PAUSE with a Nature boost - even a 10-minute break outdoors shifts your energy 🔋
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Learn more about using the power of the PAUSE in your FREE step-by-step guide to find clarity and a path forward
- a taster of my powerful 4P Framework, a tried-and-tested strategy that can help you navigate life's challenges, big or small, with confidence and calm...
Email anne.brookes@canalsidecoach.app to receive your simple and friendly Guide to the 4P Framework that has helped countless people just like you.
🌿 Nature is therapy - pair it with coaching for deeper clarity
Coaching can guide the way - for personalised professional coaching, Book a Wraparound session with me
🟨
DIY Life Coaching: READ my Ebook
DIY Life Coaching with the 4P Framework
DIY Life Coaching: WATCH my microlearning videos on the Canalside Life Coach
on the Canalside Life Coach YouTube Channel
IMAGE: Piet van de Wiel pixabay.com
The power of the PAUSE
The power of the PAUSE
Pause with a Nature boost
Finding Yourself Where the Wild Things Are 🌾
Ever feel like you’ve lost track of you?
Nature mirrors back who you are - resilient, evolving 🦋
Slowing down outside helps you hear your inner voice.....
That voice is still there. Let’s listen to it.
Rediscover yourself in the stillness of nature...
Email anne.brookes@canalsidecoach.app to learn more about using the power of the PAUSE in your FREE step-by-step guide to find clarity and a path forward
- a taster of my powerful 4P Framework, a tried-and-tested strategy that can help you navigate life's challenges, big or small, with confidence and calm...
Email anne.brookes@canalsidecoach.app to receive your simple and friendly Guide to the 4P Framework that has helped countless people just like you.
💚
Coaching can guide the way - for personalised professional coaching, Book a Wraparound session with me
🟨
DIY Life Coaching: READ my Ebook
DIY Life Coaching with the 4P Framework
DIY Life Coaching: WATCH my microlearning videos on the Canalside Life Coach
on the Canalside Life Coach YouTube Channel
Email anne.brookes@canalsidecoach.app to receive your simple and friendly Guide to the 4P Framework that has helped countless people just like you.
Feeling overwhelmed by work-life balance?
Feeling overwhelmed by work-life balance?
Written/Human authored by Anne Brookes
How can you balance it all?
Or can we call it "worklife"? I playfully put the words together because anything that happens in life, we have to work for it or towards it...think of it as where you focus your energy.
So paid work is just an aspect of your whole life. We have unpaid work that is "the rest of our life".
How do you think about your "worklife"?
Do you value the unpaid aspects?
Do you identify solely as the job you do that is paid?
There is a significant part of the world's activities exploding with the idea that only your job matters - is this true? Do you consider other things in your life to matter?
How can you balance it all?
HAVE A LOOK AT THIS 1 minute video Balancing Life and Work from my YouTube channel @canlasidelifecoach
If you need a nudge and guide, I'm here to help:Find out more about me
Working from home or running a business at home with deadlines to meet: how to stay well (physically and mentally)
Working from home or running a business at home with deadlines to meet: how to stay well (physically and mentally)
written by Anne Brookes, Canalside Life Coach
Make time for yourself when you have a busy schedule
🟡 try to have at least one day or two half days when you do something FUN and relaxing in a very different way from the business activities. You need to recharge the batteries
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🟦 have a clear mandate that your health is the number one priority – if you are ill or tired mentally, you will have diminishing returns on concentration, focus and energy – you must invest in yourself first
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Techniques for combating loneliness and that feeling of doing it all alone
🔴 use co-working spaces one day a week/fortnight/month, however it fits your calendar. Find one that suits your style – it needs to be welcoming, with like-minded people who will be positive and respectful of your need to balance work with in-person connections.
Then wait for friendships to begin to flourish as you share highs and lows of everyday life
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🟩 co-work ONLINE with a “buddy” – put a shoutout on LinkedIn or your prefered platform - there are many people in the same situation.
A "coffee chat" online first establishes that you feel comfortable and can agree parameters about how you use your time together - best to be upfront about possible interuptions or whether you like music in the background....really basic ground rules so that there are no disappointments.
As an example - have a quick chat about how you are for 10 minutes. Then have bursts of concentrated work for the rhythm of time that works for you on that day, as well as agreed slots of time to check in with each other
Have a break and have a drink
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then it's back to focused work when refreshed - and often this is a useful discipline to learn - your buddy will keep you from being distracted.
After your session time, feed back to each other and share the reality. You may feel frustrated, the other person could have cracked a problem and that gives you a boost – sharing the pains and the gains helps it become less negative and personal if you've had a bad day!
Unleash the positive impact of nature AND microbreaks
🟡 getting outside for light and air! Wherever you are, and if you can, engage with green space/nature in some way
🔺🔻 microbreaks – getting up from a desk and physically moving
Resources
✴️ My YouTube playlist Coping skills for well-being: https://www.youtube.com/@canalsidelifecoach/playlists
My Guide to Dealing with stress
📖 Read this article on 7 types of rest
▶️ Watch my 1 minute video Balancing Life and Work on my YouTube channel - please subscribe, thank you :) 🌹
🔴 Use Pomodoro as a time management technique
🏃♂️➡️ Microbreak resource: https://www.linkedin.com/company/breakthru-immersive-microbreaks
I contributed to an article "Wellbeing tips for small business owners and lone workers"
Published: 04 June 2025 on the BGWM website