Welcome
How Can I Help You Today?
I believe that helping people to catalyse themselves into actions that benefit and support their growth is really important work. What a catalyst does is provide the conditions that will support you to identify what needs to change and then give you the tools to help you achieve it.
As a coach, writer and speaker I focus on three areas: health, personal development and creativity. You can work on just one, or all of them, but the truth is that they are all linked so that improve one, and you improve the others.
Enjoying better health frees you to explore your creativity. Fulfilling your potential by exploring personal development will reduce your stress levels, and therefore your health will improve. Being creative is known to reduce stress and improve problem solving and by allowing yourself the freedom to enjoy your talents you are working at the deepest level of self discovery.
I have experienced many ways to improve the quality of my own life and that of countless others through study and experience. My aim is to help you to achieve lasting change by being your partner in ‘catalysing’ you into action.
Here you will find free resources, tools and books to support you in all three vital areas. Please explore, and enjoy, and I am always happy to answer any questions you may have.
AnnA
Latest Catalyst Blog Posts
Below are my latest blogs on health, creativity and personal development and to view the full archive click here
Creativity
Why Creativity Isn’t Just About Being Creative
I If I had a pound for everyone who has told me they are not creative then I would be a rich woman. I usually smile and say ‘why not’ because what they usually mean is that they are not Creative with a capital C. That means they don’t write poetry or compose music or paint a masterpiece.
Probably not, but they are deluding themselves if they think that they don’t apply creative skills to all areas of their life. After what is creativity but the drawing together of random ideas and thoughts to produce a final result?
The most successful business people I know are highly creative as they have that much-vaunted ability to ‘think outside the box.’ Or what about your relationships? If you want them to be successful then rigid thinking, inflexibility and lack of imagination are not going to get you very far. Why am I telling you this? So you can start the New Year believing that you are a creative being and how you express it is your business.
My friends Steve and Vicky just came back from South Africa where they snapped the picture above outside a bar. Now in case you can’t see it clearly it says: Husband Day Care Centre. Need time to relax? Need time to yourself? Want to go shopping? Leave your husband with us. We look after him for you. You only pay for his drinks.
Well if that isn’t a creative approach to increasing your business I don’t know what is – anyone want the franchise?!
Health
New Year New You With Pilates
I have never got quite ‘got’ Pilates though I have had a few goes at it in local classes and once on a cruise. I know how enthusiastic people are about it so when I was sent Lynne Robinson’s Pilates Core Workout I felt this was last chance saloon.
She is certainly an expert in the field and even that august body The Times calls her The Queen of Pilates which is a lot to live up to. She sees Pilates as a mind and body conditioning programme that teaches you to be in control of your body. Hopefully you will then become more aware of how you are using it and more aware of your posture, breathing and movement.
It is in the area of core training, or Centring, that it certainly has been most successful and Lynne Robinson works with a wide range of elite athletes, including the England cricket team and GB Olympic rowers. I admit that put me off, being neither elite nor anything vaguely resembling an athlete, but Pilates The Core Workout is clear, straightforward and an excellent introduction for beginners with …..
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Personal Development
Resisting Your Soul – Who Me?
Nick Williams is not your average guru – he doesn’t look, or importantly, act the part. What he does do is gently and with compassion and humour authentically inspire people to show up for their own lives and play big by helping them move beyond their fears.
His particular area of expertise is in helping people bring passion and spirituality to business so if you have ever wanted to be your own boss but somehow haven’t got round to it – then his new book has your name on it. One of his previous books, The Work We Were Born To Do, helped many of us give up work that didn’t feed our souls and identify what our real purpose was in being here.
His new book is Resisting the Soul – a Handbook for Inspired Entrepreneurs – and it is a call to everyone who has felt held back but longing to follow your inspiration and make the vision of the higher self you truly are become a reality. If you are ready to explore your full spiritual and creative potential in the area of entrepreneurship then this is your blueprint. Oh, and if one of your complaints is not enough time then the 101 bite sized suggestions for overcoming resistance knocks that excuse on the head. The suggestions come in five sections or keys and if you are in a hurry then key 4, the tool kit, gets you under way but you do realize that is another form of resistance too?
He shows you how to move from the life you are currently living to the one you are meant to live by overcoming resistance and procrastination. In simple punchy headlines he helps us understand what resistance is, how it operates, what purpose it seeks, and how to get beyond it. And he doesn’t claim that he doesn’t still get caught in that web of resistance himself but what he does do is share the key strategy that works for him, and can for you too.
My only complaint is I wish the type were bigger as it is not physically an easy read but as the 101 pieces are short, and prefaced with inspirational quotes, it is worth persevering – perhaps my resistance could be overcome with a magnifying glass?
Resisting Your Soul is a Handbook for Inspired Entrepreneurs at £9.99
