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Hello Carole Ann,

Have you ever used a forthcoming vacation as a time to create a turning point in your life?

You decide it will be a mind spa of personal development books, Mediterranean salads and specially purchased life-planners brimming with new directions ready to action when the plane touches down in blighty.

But what we do forget is the holiday brain that kicks in. The numb skull deep delight of wanting to do very little. To slide from breakfast buffet to sun lounger, slither from pool to bar and then as it’s been such a taxing day a nice snooze in the afternoon.

Oh, the life enhancing joy of chilled white wine.

But here’s the thing, happy travellers, that’s just how it should be. Pulling the plug on life and just “being” is as rare as hair on a sumo wrestler’s bottie.  So literally give yourself a break on your break and take a deep dive into sublime surrender.

Just back from 10 days from my break on a tiny verdant island of Leros (no, me neither) in the middle of the azure Aegean sea here I share the wisdom that comes from creative loafing and why doing nothing is the new action holiday.

 🌞 You start to notice what your body is saying. Even pain has a lesson for us to learn from.

 🌞 When the noise calms down you start to hear the whispers of what you really want from life.

🌞 If you are in dread horror of returning this is your call to arms to look at what isn’t working and what needs changing

🌞 Everything is impermanent. The tides come in and they go out again. The sun rises, the stars sparkle; they are always up there. It has a way of putting life in perspective.

🌞 Sauntering becomes a meditative practice. Walking slower, taking in the surroundings one step at a time, noticing sounds (a donkey braying, a cockerel boasting, birds singing, distant cat fight) and allowing the need for urgency over take you. What is the rush anyway? Now? Ever?

🌞 Vitamin Sea as cure all. Allow the ocean to be your DPS and to carry away that which is not serving you. I also made a wish when we had the Taurus moon waded into the surf and sent it out into the ripples of sea that covers the planet; my emissary. Allowing trust and letting go of the need for control and certainty.

🌞 Trusting that we are going through a moment of time. Anything can change. There are infinite possibilities.

🌞 Notice what you cup is full of. Gratitude, resentment, anxiety, benevolence. What would spill over if you toppled it? Anger and frustration or peace and calm? What are you holding in your cup?

🌞 As much as you may fret and fuss over the shape of your body no one cares and it may be time to make peace with the beautiful and marvellous vessel that has carried you through your life. Wear a sunscreen but drop comparing.

🌞 Oh and last but not least, one margarita is never enough.

Thank you for indulging my holiday snaps. What do you learn from your holidays?

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About Carole Ann Rice

Carole Ann is an award winning journalist, media consultant and high profile coach, with over 20 years' coaching experience with private clients and major organisations such as the London School of Economics and Play England.

She co-wrote Start Your Dream Business and Find Your Dream Job which are available from Amazon.

She is the winner of 'Best Coach' in the Best Business Women's Awards 2017.

She is also MD of the Pure Coaching Academy which is an accredited (IIC&M) 8 week life coach training course where she trains people to become world class coaches. It includes an inclusive coaching manual which is the handbook of any new life coach when starting out.

As her website boldly states "not just another life coach".

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