They say it takes 21 days to form a habit. I had always wanted to be disciplined enough to meditate on a daily basis and for me this also had a spiritual benefit, but I had never been able to get into a regular rhythm of doing this. Lockdown gave me the perfect opportunity to trial developing this as habit. I found a number of things helped me: finding a regular time slot, first thing in the morning worked best for me identifying a quiet spot in the house using a timer to get

Last summer I made one of the most significant decisions of my life when I switched from full time work to part time self employment to give me the freedom to spend more time doing the things I enjoy doing and to achieve a better quality of life. I had been in a demanding full time job in a senior position as a single parent, having lost my partner some years before and and was more than ready to jump off what had become a relentless hamster wheel of balancing work and parent