by Susan Elford | Jan 15, 2020 | Career, Featured, Happiness, Highlight, Personal Leadership, Work / Life Balance
Here are the 5 Key Steps you need to take. When we first landed in New Zealand many years ago, for a six-month sabbatical away from our everyday, busy lives, I thought I’d died and gone to heaven. There was no busywork to keep me occupied, I would have time to connect...
by Susan Elford | Dec 11, 2019 | Business, Career, Featured, Happiness, Highlight, Work / Life Balance
How connection, rest and exercise can shift you from feeling burnt out to shining brightly “Oh Susan, you’re always so busy,” my mother says to me. I’ve heard this my whole life – usually from people who watch as I run circles around those who appear to have a calmer...
by Susan Elford | Oct 10, 2019 | Business, Career, Family, Featured, Happiness, Highlight, Success
Cultivating Community Builds Your Business, Builds your Career and Enhances Your Life A smiling face in the crowd, I stood back and watched my neighbours gather in celebration. Together, over a period of almost 10 years, my neighbours had worked together to envision,...
by Susan Elford | Sep 11, 2019 | Family, Featured, Happiness, Highlight, Personal Leadership
The Changing Landscapes of Our Lives It was a Facebook post that struck me. As the “Back to School” frenzy started and the requisite Back To School photos started being posted, one post showed a mother crying her eyes out as she dropped her baby off at Kindergarten...
by Susan Elford | Aug 7, 2019 | Family, Featured, Happiness, Highlight, Work / Life Balance
The Truth Behind My Struggle to Switch Off Do you find it hard to switch off? Even during holidays? Time slips like sand through my fingers. The tiny grains are barely discernible, like seconds in a year, yet somehow, when they all come together, they’re significant....
by Susan Elford | Jul 10, 2019 | Family, Featured, Happiness, Highlight, Personal Leadership
How Revelations From a 13-year-old Can Spark Your Own Newfound Freedom “What if I bought you a bus pass and you could go anywhere you wanted?” I asked my youngest on the second day of summer holidays. (I gave her the first day of summer holidays to laze around and...
