Issue 3

Change Your Life Magazine

Create the life you really want

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Contributors
Creative director and photographer Laura lives in Kent with her husband and daughter. She looks after all of the imagery in Psychologies magazine as well as photographing for it. Laura shot blacksmith Ashlee Donaldson for the My Life, My Way feature
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Change Your Life
Editor-in-Chief Suzy Walker Art Directors Lynne Lanning, Vanessa Grzywacz Creative Director Laura Doherty Production Editors Rebecca Smith, Leona Gerrard TigerBee Media, Commercial Director Nikki Peterson (020 3510 0849) nikki.peterson@tigerbeemedia.
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Love Your Work!
Editor-in-Chief Is it really possible to be successful and happy? Yes! We’ve interviewed the best career experts, coaches and psychologists to uncover how you can find career fulfilment. Be it reinventing your career or starting your own business, th
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Create Fulfilment
We spend more than a third of our lives at work – that’s 90,000 precious hours – so let’s make every second count. Anita Chaudhuri grills the experts about the steps we need to take to create careers we feel passionately about. Be inspired and create
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Build The Career You Really Want
Recently, I went for a walk with a dear friend. She’d just returned from holiday and was feeling blue about the prospect of work on Monday morning. My attempts to cheer her up weren’t exactly going down well. ‘It’s all right for you,’ she retorted. ‘
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What Stops You From Having Your Dream Job?
1 If you could get any support you wanted, you’d choose: ■ An assistant to free you up from mundane tasks ♥ A coach to help you focus and take risks ◆ A mentor who has achieved what you dream of doing ● A therapist to work on your self-belief 2 At ti
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“There Is Opportunity To Found Beauty Everywhere; You Just Need To Change The Way You Look For It”
Brighton-based artist Philippa Stanton works mostly from her garden shed; it is a cosy, cluttered creative space, with the earthy scent of wood and dried paint mixed with paper and fresh air wafting in from the garden outside. ‘I love tending to the
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Passion Project
How many of us have thought about turning our hobby into a side hustle that makes a little money and may even turn into a full-time job? Soap making, crafting, baking, writing – is it possible to make these things pay? And, with a full-time job, how
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It’s The Little Things
Humans are generally terrible at predicting what will make us happy. You may invest years of your life in getting rich, or finding the partner of your dreams – only to discover that the thrill lasts no longer than a couple of months. Or you relocate
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Reinvent Yourself
Are you thinking about a career change? For many of us, the pandemic has triggered a reappraisal of how we earn a living – our values may have altered or our jobs disappeared. This can be overwhelming, especially if we need to find a new direction qu
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How To Pivot To A New Future
There’s nothing quite like a pandemic to prompt people to rethink their lives. Everyone I know seems to be questioning their purpose or career path. For some, economic uncertainty has triggered a reappraisal of priorities. Others, faced with a drop i
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Transferable Skills Checklist
● Speaking effectively ● Writing clearly and concisely ● Listening attentively and objectively ● Negotiating ● Interviewing ● Forecasting and predicting ● Identifying problems and resources ● Gathering and extracting information ● Solving problems ●
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‘I Was Brave And Honest About What I Wanted’
I DECIDED TO MAKE a change when I turned 30. I’d fallen into recruitment for a global retailer but my passion was marketing and social media. Changing careers can be easier within the same company – when you’re already on the payroll, it’s easier to
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Three Exercises To Help You Change Direction
Understanding why you want or need change is key. To clarify this, list the five values that matter most to your working life. Core values could include: adventure, autonomy, challenge, creativity, fun, income, fulfilment, influence, security, freedo
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‘I Married My Skills With My Principles’
I WAS A PE TEACHER in a state school when I decided to set up an ethical cleaning business in 2012. I had spent 12 years in teaching, while simultaneously being involved in campaigning against human trafficking. I could see there was a way to empower
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What Stops You Changing Course?
1 You mainly want to pivot your life because: ♥ You’ re not happy with the way it is now ◆ You’ re not reaching your potential ● You feel stuck ■ You can’t stop thinking about it 2 For you, making decisions is often: ■ An overthinking nightmare ♥ Don
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“I Love Connecting With People And Helping Local Businesses”
Hero Brown, founder of website Muddy Stilettos, looks forward to her 20-minute commute to the office, as she says it creates a healthy divide between work and home. ‘I started the business working from home then, as it grew, there was a point when th
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Dream Big
If the past few months have shown us anything, it’s that the world can do business online as never before. If there was ever a time to learn the skills to build a thriving digital business or side hustle, it’s now. In this section, we talk to pioneer
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Create A Successful Online Business
The changing face of enterprise and trade means more and more business is taking place online. With the right mindset, hard work and commitment, the experts believe now is the optimum time to learn the skills to build a business. Carrie Green, founde
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How To Be Confident In Front Of The Camera
Video content on Facebook or Instagram is a great marketing tool for business owners. But your heart may sink at the thought of being on camera and it can trigger insecurities and feelings of not being good enough. ● If you don’t like being on camera
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‘There’s No Time Like The Present For A Start-up’
MY ONLINE COMPANY, lemonadedolls.com, is not just about underwear. Our customers get pants delivered every month and, in so doing, join an online community of like-minded, badass women. We embrace positive social change and individuality. After spend
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Record Your Own Podcast To Boost Your Business
HERE’S WHAT YOU’LL need to do to get started, then use your podcast as a tool to grow your business::b> ● PREPARATION: Consider the purpose of your podcast. Are you starting a business or growing an audience? Decide what your podcast will be about, a
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‘Tap Into People’s Needs And Listen To Them’
IN 2014, I QUIT MY JOB IN BANKING to start my own bank. Every other industry had responded to new technology and changed, but banking was still the same boring banking. I felt passionately that there was space for a new bank that was technology drive
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This Is How You Do It
Q How can I build the confidence to start my own business when I’m full of self-doubt? This is an unavoidable fact: ‘Confidence starts with you,’ says Estelle Keeber, an expert on social media growth and founder of the Mums in Business Association. ‘
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Women To Follow
Gaelle Berruel is a motivational speaker, mentor, wellbeing expert and ambassador for ‘Psychologies’. After 10 years in banking, she started her wellness consultancy, A Rockstar Mindset, to help women dispel overwhelm, master wellbeing and a positive
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What Do You Need To Take The Leap?
1 When you daydream about a different life, you: ♥ Keep it to yourself, but wish you could talk about it ◆ Run through all the reasons it can’t happen ● Tell yourself you’ll do it one day when you have time ■ Tell yourself to feel grateful for what y
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“I Want To Pay Homage To My Ancestors. I Work As Traditionally As Possible And People Value That”
Ashlee Donaldson has fond memories of childhood holidays spent travelling around the UK in her family’s campervan and visiting events for blacksmiths. ‘We’d all pile into the van and my dad would spend the day in the forge with the other blacksmiths.
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Toxic Shock
Bullying is one of most potent forms of control that one person can use against another. The aim is to make the victim feel inferior, with the perpetrator in the superior position. It comes in many guises, from ‘banter’ to physical aggression, and ca
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Empower Yourself
● One of the key challenges when it comes to bullying is that the actions against you seem personal and you feel all alone. Bullying takes various forms, including verbal attacks, social exclusion and silent treatment. Author Peg Streep speaks about
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Be Assertive
Assertive behaviour is when you make a stand for your rights in a way that does not violate another person’s rights, say the authors. Try these techniques: Avoid I win/you lose. This world view assumes that we live in a hostile place and the way to s
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Find Balance
Owing to the pandemic and modern technology, more of us are working from home than ever. But now that the novelty’s worn off, many homeworkers are struggling with the new normal. In this section, we reveal adaptations you can make to your space and m
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The Homeworking Happiness Solution
The benefits of working from home are obvious – from the gloriously brief two-minute commute from bed to desk to being able to whip up a loaf of banana bread or put on a wash between Zoom calls. But, for many people, working from home has entered a n
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Make Working From Home Work For You
‘Use “stackable functions” – a term from permaculture that describes getting more value out of a single activity. For example, if you take the children to school every day, you could walk part of the way, which would give you family connection, time
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What Will Help You Enjoy Remote Working?
1 You work best when: ♥ You have something to look forward to ◆ You’ re collaborating with like-minded people ● You’ve got enough time to do things properly ■ You’ve got the right environment 2 For you, meaningful work involves: ■ Doing what you’re g
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“Each Moment Is An Opportunity To Make A Fresh Start”
PEMA CHÖDRÖN Pema Chödrön is our favourite wise woman.Beloved Buddhist teacher, author, nun and mother, she has inspired millions of people around the world who have been touched by her example and message of practising peace in these turbulent times